In a coffee shop in Austin, a developer can deploy a financial app that a stranger in another state uses an hour...
Write a few lines of code, send them to a network of thousands of computers, and watch them turn into a financial...
Most people meet Ethereum as a coin price on a screen. The more interesting part sits underneath: Ethereum is a computer that...
A flight gets cancelled, and somewhere a passenger waits on hold to argue about a refund. Now imagine the refund firing the...
Sign a paper contract and it sits in a drawer, waiting for a human to remember it exists. A smart contract does...
A Chicago commodities trader settled a $40 million corn deal in 2026 not through a clearing house but through a smart contract...
A US trade finance team that used to send a paper letter of credit by FedEx now ships a 40-line smart contract...
On a Tuesday morning in March 2026, a US Treasury operations desk processed a 50 million dollar money-market fund subscription that settled...
Smart contracts in U.S. financial use have moved past the early-cycle exuberance and into a more constrained but more durable position. The...
Over the past several years, the Web3 industry has experienced extraordinary growth. Blockchain technology has expanded far beyond early cryptocurrency use cases...
A US regional bank’s chief technology officer recently described blockchain education inside her organisation this way: “Most of my senior team can...
In October 2023, JPMorgan’s blockchain-based platform Onyx processed $1 billion in tokenised transactions in a single day. BlackRock launched its first tokenised...
SWIFT, the messaging network that connects 11,000 financial institutions across 200 countries, processed 12.4 billion messages in 2023. For over 50 years,...
In January 2024, BlackRock filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF, and within three months the fund attracted over $17 billion in assets....
In September 2023, Visa published the results of a year-long experiment: every USDC settlement transaction processed through its stablecoin pilot was visible...
On 15 September 2022, Ethereum completed the Merge, switching its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and reducing the network’s energy consumption...
In March 2024, BlackRock launched BUIDL, a tokenised US Treasury money market fund, on the Ethereum blockchain. Within six months, the fund...
In February 2016, hackers sent fraudulent SWIFT messages from Bangladesh Bank’s terminal and successfully transferred $81 million to accounts in the Philippines....
In October 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore completed the first live cross-currency transaction on Project Guardian, a decentralised financial infrastructure pilot...