Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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China's Supreme Court Is Building a Crypto Legal Framework — Here's What It Means for $60B in Digital Assets
China's Supreme Court has placed virtual currency on its 2026 judicial agenda alongside securities and private equity. With $60B in crypto-linked cases, new civil case categories, and Shanghai's enforcement guidelines, China is building systematic crypto jurisprudence — even as it maintains its trading ban.
Decentralized Perpetual Futures Just Crossed $1.2 Trillion in Monthly Volume — What Happens When DEXs Eat Wall Street?
Decentralized perpetual futures DEXs now handle 26% of global crypto derivatives volume at $1.2T monthly. Hyperliquid leads with 70% market share and $640M annualized revenue. Explore the structural migration from CEX to DEX derivatives and why Delphi Digital says perp DEXs will eat TradFi.
The 2% Haircut That Changes Everything: How the GENIUS Act Turned Stablecoins Into Institutional Balance-Sheet Assets
The SEC's 2% haircut for permitted payment stablecoins lets broker-dealers count 98% of holdings toward net capital — transforming stablecoins from regulatory liabilities into institutional balance-sheet assets. Explore the GENIUS Act framework, OCC rulemaking, and what this means for Wall Street.
Gnosis Pay and the Ethereum Economic Zone: How a Visa Card and a ZK Rollup Are Building Ethereum's Parallel Financial System
Gnosis and Zisk launch the Ethereum Economic Zone — a ZK-powered rollup framework co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation — while Gnosis Pay's self-custodial Visa card already settles on-chain across 151 countries. Explore how real-time ZK proving, synchronous L2 composability, and $18B in crypto card volume are converging to build Ethereum's parallel financial system.
Jane Street vs. Terraform Labs: The $40 Billion Lawsuit That Could Rewrite the Rules for Crypto Market Makers
Terraform Labs' bankruptcy administrator is suing Jane Street for insider trading that allegedly accelerated the $40 billion Terra-LUNA collapse. The landmark lawsuit could reshape how market makers operate in crypto.
KlarnaUSD on Tempo: How a $80B BNPL Giant Is Weaponizing Stablecoins to Kill Cross-Border Fees
Klarna launches KlarnaUSD on Stripe's Tempo blockchain to slash $120B in annual cross-border fees. Explore how the BNPL giant's bank-issued stablecoin, Tempo's dedicated payment lanes, and the Machine Payments Protocol are reshaping fintech-crypto convergence in 2026.
Monad Mainnet Is Live: How a 10,000 TPS Parallel EVM Chain Rewrites the Layer-1 Playbook
Monad's mainnet launch delivers 10,000 TPS and sub-second finality while maintaining full EVM bytecode compatibility. Explore the parallel execution architecture, MON tokenomics, ecosystem growth to $150M+ TVL, and how Monad competes with Solana and MegaETH in the high-performance blockchain race.
MoonPay's Open Wallet Standard: Building the Universal Financial Layer for AI Agents
MoonPay's Open Wallet Standard (OWS) unifies how AI agents hold funds, sign transactions, and operate across eight blockchain families — backed by PayPal, Ethereum Foundation, and Solana Foundation. Here's why it matters for the 340,000+ agent wallets already on-chain.
Quantum Apocalypse Timeline for Web3: Which Blockchains Survive Q-Day?
Quantum computers threaten to break blockchain cryptography by 2035. Explore the Q-Day timeline, which chains are preparing (Ethereum, Bitcoin, Algorand, Solana), NIST post-quantum standards, and what builders and investors should do now.