Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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The Great Miner Pivot: Why Public Bitcoin Miners Dumped 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026 to Become AI Companies
A record 32,000+ BTC liquidation in Q1 2026 marks the transformation of public Bitcoin miners — Core Scientific, Hut 8, IREN, TeraWulf, Riot — into AI infrastructure companies, with over $70B in HPC contracts redrawing both miner economics and Bitcoin's hashrate geography.
PYUSD Quietly Hits $4.5B: How PayPal's Stablecoin Proved Distribution Beats Technology
PayPal's PYUSD crossed $4.5B in April 2026 to become the fourth-largest stablecoin — built without DeFi yields, airdrops, or crypto-native distribution. Here's why distribution beats technology in the $320B stablecoin market.
Solana's Kora Signing Node Is the Quiet UX Pivot That Could Reset the Consumer Crypto Race
Solana's new Kora fee relayer ships native gasless transactions and SPL-token fee payment — closing the last-mile onboarding gap that let Base and Abstract dominate consumer crypto UX.
Two Stablecoin Worlds: Why $27 Trillion Is Still Just 1% of Global Payments
Stablecoins now move $27T a year yet still represent just 1% of global payments. The reason is two markets, not one — and the firms that pick a side will own the next phase of cross-border payments.
Strategy's $2.54B Bitcoin Bet: Saylor's Preferred-Equity Machine Just Passed BlackRock
Strategy's April 2026 purchase of 34,164 BTC for $2.54 billion pushed holdings past BlackRock's IBIT ETF. A breakdown of the STRC preferred-equity machine that financed it and why institutional Bitcoin demand just crossed a structural threshold.
Crypto Valley's $728M Year: How a Swiss Town of 30,000 Captured Half of Europe's Blockchain VC
Switzerland's Crypto Valley raised $728M in 2025 — 47% of all European blockchain VC — anchored by TON's $400M round and Sygnum's unicorn raise. Here's how Zug locked in the lead.
The People's Wallet Gambit: Tether's $184B Pivot From Stablecoin Plumbing to Consumer Fintech
Tether launched tether.wallet on April 14, 2026 — a self-custodial consumer app for USDT, USAT, XAUT, and Bitcoin that disintermediates exchanges and positions the $184B issuer as bank-replacement infrastructure for emerging markets and AI agents.
$606M in 18 Days: Why Upgrade-Introduced Bugs Are DeFi's New Top Attack Vector
April 2026's $606M in DeFi losses were not caused by classic smart-contract bugs. They came from routine protocol upgrades that silently broke prior audit assumptions — a new attack class the industry is unprepared for.
Virtuals Protocol + BitRobot: When AI Agents Start Paying Robots
Virtuals Protocol's Q1 2026 integration with BitRobot Network wires 17,000 on-chain AI agents into physical robotic infrastructure, turning agent-to-machine commerce from thought experiment into production system.