DeFi

India’s announced rupee‑pegged Arc token built with Polygon and Anq marks a milestone in regulated digital assets — it forces a fresh look at custody, pegging models, and on‑chain compliance. This analysis unpacks architecture options, why Polygon was chosen, implications for MATIC and partner chains, and how Arc fits into a MiCA‑shaped global mosaic.

This report analyzes the rise of wallet-native perpetual DEXs using Safepal’s integration with Hyperliquid as a case study, covering UX, liquidity, custody tradeoffs, token dynamics, on‑chain expectations, and regulatory risks. It’s written for product managers, DeFi builders, and sophisticated retail traders evaluating on‑wallet trading.

Recent headlines suggest Bitcoin has slipped into bearish territory, but ETF flows and short rebounds complicate the picture. This deep dive weighs on-chain signals, institutional flows, and vocal market forecasts to lay out practical positioning options for the next 3–12 months.

Late‑2025 stablecoin infrastructure is shifting: Circle’s xReserve pushes native USDC issuance across chains while USDT’s market share has climbed above 6%, reshaping liquidity and settlement choices for treasuries and DeFi builders.

A balanced look at XRP’s recent large transfers, proposals for native staking, and persistent price resistance. This analysis weighs on-chain signals against whether staking or institutional demand can lift XRP near-term.

Kenya’s Virtual Assets Service Providers Act has taken effect, yet Bitcoin ATMs are already appearing in malls and shopping centres — often without licensed operators. This investigation explores where these kiosks are, the enforcement and AML risks, and how regulators and entrepreneurs can bridge the compliance gap without choking access.

Multiple issuers — including 21Shares, Fidelity and Bitwise — are racing to launch Solana spot ETFs. This explainer examines how new regulated SOL vehicles will change liquidity, staking economics, validator dynamics and institutional allocation across Layer‑1s.

Zcash has staged a surprising comeback, with ZEC’s market-cap surge bringing it close to Cardano’s top-10 slot. This feature examines price action, concentrated institutional accumulation, regulatory pressures, and on-chain signals that will determine whether privacy coins can thrive under compliance demands.

The XRP Ledger is moving toward native staking and richer programmability; this analysis evaluates the technical proposals, tokenomics shifts, ETF-era dynamics, and adoption challenges for developers and investors. We synthesize engineering commentary from RippleX and market context to judge whether staking could meaningfully change XRPL’s competitive position.

Filecoin’s Onchain Cloud promises verifiable storage and programmable payments as primitives for Web3 apps, aiming to displace centralized object stores for certain workloads. This piece breaks down the product, integrations with ENS and Monad, comparisons with AWS/GCP, developer experience, use cases and likely FIL token impacts.