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 Unbundling: How DEXs Finally Cracked the CEX Moat in 2026
DEX spot volume hit 21% of CEX volume and perp DEXs cleared 10% of the $7.24T futures market in early 2026. The structural unlocks — chain abstraction, intent-based execution, and on-chain liquidity depth — are reshaping where crypto liquidity lives.
DoorDash Goes Onchain: Why the Tempo Stablecoin Deal Is the Moment Gig Pay Left the Banking Rails
DoorDash's April 21, 2026 partnership with Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain commits a public consumer brand to stablecoin payouts across 40+ countries — the opening shot of gig pay leaving traditional banking rails.
ERC-8220 and the Immutable Seal: Ethereum's Missing Layer for On-Chain AI Governance
ERC-8220 proposes an immutable seal binding AI agents to their model weights, training data, and inference policy — the missing governance layer of the agentic Ethereum stack.
FASB Cracks Open the Door for Stablecoins as 'Cash': The April 15, 2026 Decision Reshaping Corporate Treasuries
FASB's April 15, 2026 vote on stablecoin cash-equivalent classification could reshape Fortune 500 balance sheets, unlocking corporate treasury demand tied to GENIUS Act-compliant issuers.
FastBridge Collapses the 7-Day L2 Exit: Curve's LayerZero Rail for crvUSD
Curve's FastBridge uses LayerZero messaging and a vault-and-mint design to compress crvUSD transfers from Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fraxtal to Ethereum into roughly 15 minutes — sidestepping the 7-day challenge window and reshaping L2 withdrawal UX.
GENIUS Act Gets Real: April 2026 NPRMs Redraw the US Stablecoin Map
April 2026's Treasury, FDIC, and OCC rulemakings turn the GENIUS Act into binding US stablecoin law — here is what the $10B threshold, yield prohibition, and July 18 deadline mean for Circle, Tether, and every issuer still racing to register.
Harvard, CalPERS, Goldman: Inside the Q1 2026 13F Filings That Exposed Crypto's Quiet Institutional Takeover
Q1 2026 13F filings show Harvard raised its IBIT stake 257%, Goldman disclosed $108M in Solana ETFs, and CalPERS is debating direct Bitcoin exposure — all while retail capitulated into a 47% drawdown.
Hong Kong Just Opened 24/7 Trading for Regulated Funds on Crypto Exchanges
Hong Kong's SFC authorized 24/7 secondary trading of tokenized money market funds on licensed crypto exchanges — the first major jurisdiction to give retail investors a round-the-clock tokenization framework backed by regulated stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
InfoFi's Reckoning: How One API Ban Reshaped Crypto's Trillion-Dollar Bet on Information
InfoFi was supposed to be crypto's next trillion-dollar category. Then X killed the API. Three months later, prediction markets clear $25B/month, Grass passes 3M nodes, and the survivors look like real businesses.