Blog category: Crypto banking

Our latest report, "Stablecoin Networks: Demystifying Blockchains," provides a comprehensive analysis of the nine leading blockchain networks powering stablecoin payments, including Ethereum, TRON, Polygon, Solana, BASE, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, Stellar, and the Lightning Network.

The integration of traditional banking infrastructure with blockchain technology has created stablecoin payments orchestration, an unprecedented opportunity for enhancing cross-border payments through improved efficiency, reduced costs, and faster settlement times.

The digital asset liquidity landscape has evolved beyond traditional market-making paradigms, necessitating a new taxonomy that reflects the complexity and adaptive nature of the digital asset ecosystem. Our team has constructed a market map that illustrates how modern LPs operate across multiple layers simultaneously, enabling a better understanding of market structure and competitive dynamics.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have gained significant popularity and adoption in recent years. As the crypto market is growing, regulators around the world have been grappling with the challenge of effectively overseeing this emerging asset class.

Full disclosure: this isn’t yet another blog post about the banking sorry saga which started in the US with the closure of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature and a few more regional banks; and it isn’t a story about how the UK Government quickly stepped in to ensure HSBC rescued SVB’s UK business and the UK fintech sector for a modest £1.

Despite the over-glorification of decentralized finance and web3, the reality is much more prosaic. Money has always been and will remain a means of exchange of value, whatever form it may take.