Real Estate RWA On-Chain — Forecasts vs. Reality: A Market Reality Check
$440M vs. ~$10B: A reality check on tokenized real estate — and why most of the market remains invisible despite blockchain transparency.
DeFi
Web3 Real Estate: A Blueprint for Actual Liquidity?
Tokenization promised to unlock liquidity in real estate — but most platforms still fall short. Oceanpoint, Blocksquare’s new architecture, offers a modular design that separates governance, liquidity, and marketplaces. Could this be the blueprint for real-world trading of tokenized property?
First time in history, a crypto mixer put on the U.S. Sanction list to freeze the flow of stolen crypto in the DeFi space – How effective is it?
Why care? In March the Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge was hacked and $625 million stolen, supposedly by North-Korean cyber criminals. What is special of the crypto-hack this time? Its scale, one of the biggest in history, its malicious actors, a Nation-backed criminal cyber group (Lazarus), and particularly its novel means of enforcement. In this short
Ethereum & Co. – General-purpose blockchains are more than just payment systems; Markus Hammer in MoreThanDigital
How general-purpose blockchains and other powerful smart-contract platforms are taking the market by storm. Bitcoin is blockchain, but blockchain is not Bitcoin. Today, hundreds of standalone blockchain systems exist, the most powerful besides Bitcoin is Ethereum. As the first general-purpose blockchain, it goes far beyond Bitcoin’s readiness for use as a payment system, virtually single-handedly
The Monsters I created or: Defi under increased regulatory pressure – Markus Hammer in Cointelegraph
Regulators are desperately trying to tame the “monster” Cefi and incumbent financial industry created itself back in 2008 – We remember Financial Crisis > Bitcoin > Ethereum > Smartcontracts > Defi > DAO > … After CFTC s Dan Berkovitz, SEC’s Hester Pierce and others before, this time it is SEC Chair Gensler to call