Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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ERC-8211 Explained: The Ethereum Standard Teaching AI Agents to Think Before They Transact
Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation published ERC-8211 on April 6, 2026 — a smart batching standard that lets AI agents read live chain state, enforce safety constraints, and execute multi-step DeFi strategies in a single atomic transaction.
Ethereum Glamsterdam: The Upgrade That Could End Four Years of ETH Underperformance
Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting May/June 2026) introduces enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation and Block-Level Access Lists to cut MEV extraction by 70% and unlock parallel transaction execution — arriving as the ETH/BTC ratio shows its first meaningful recovery in four years.
FASB ASC 350-60 Meets Its First Bear Market: How Fair Value Accounting Is Reshaping Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries
FASB ASC 350-60 forced Strategy to report a $14.46B unrealized Bitcoin loss in Q1 2026 — the first real stress test of fair value crypto accounting. Here's how the new standard is filtering corporate treasuries into survivors, the stressed, and the endangered.
The End of Non-Bank Stablecoins? HKMA Grants Asia's First Regulated Issuer Licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint
Hong Kong's HKMA awarded its first stablecoin issuer licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial on April 10, 2026 — selecting just two from 36 applicants and creating the world's first bank-grade, government-licensed stablecoins on public blockchain. Here's what the selection criteria reveal and why the joint-venture model may become the global template.
Monad Mainnet Is Live — But Does 10,000 TPS Still Matter When Base Owns 46% of L2 DeFi TVL?
Monad's public mainnet launched with 10,000 TPS and 400ms blocks, proving parallel EVM works at scale. But with Base commanding $4.1B TVL at 2-second blocks, the real question is whether raw throughput ever drives market share more than distribution.
Operation Atlantic: How Coinbase, the Secret Service, and the NCA Froze $12M in Stolen Crypto in One Week
Operation Atlantic united Coinbase, the US Secret Service, and the UK NCA to freeze $12M in stolen crypto and identify 20,000 victims across 30 countries in a single week — marking a shift from reactive investigation to real-time blockchain crime intervention.
Polymarket vs the Polls: Why Prediction Markets Are Crushing Pollsters — and What That Means for Democracy
Prediction markets outperformed traditional polls across 14 major elections in 2025-2026, with Polymarket and Kalshi generating over $40 billion in volume. Here's how financialized forecasting works, why regulators are split, and what it means for democracy.
PumpSwap's $16B Volume Explosion: How Pump.fun's Native AMM Broke Raydium's Solana DEX Monopoly in 90 Days
Pump.fun's native AMM PumpSwap surged from $1.5B to $16B in monthly trading volume in three months, overtaking Raydium through vertical integration, zero-fee token graduation, and creator revenue sharing.
Pyth Data Marketplace Goes Live: Six TradFi Giants Bring Institutional Data On-Chain
Pyth Network launched its Data Marketplace with Fidelity, Euronext, Tradeweb, and three other TradFi institutions publishing proprietary market data on-chain — a structural shift that could reshape the $30 billion financial data industry and redefine oracle networks from price feeds to full data infrastructure.