The future of vaults: neobanks and invisible DeFi

The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit stablecoins and receive up to 8% APY, directly within the exchange interface they already used for trading. No seed phrases. No gas management. No […]

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Crypto walked so banks could run

The following is a guest post and opinion from Ben Nadareski, Co-founder & CEO of Solstice . Institutions were never going to arrive in crypto the way crypto wanted them to. No stampede into governance tokens. No CFO proudly announcing that idle treasury had been rotated into volatile assets. No pension fund committee suddenly speaking […]

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Guest Post: Chemistry & the Students from Elsewhere

The Friday before spring break, the handful of students who haven’t cut out early or taken off for Eid are sharing some of their favorite new words gleaned from their independent reading: black hole, sound barrier, bookies, puppets, dime, wrist, Wyoming, information. We talk about what each of these mean, write sentences, consider what new […]

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Rent a human: The day bots started hiring us

The following is a guest post and opinion from Laura Estefania, Founder and CEO of Conquista PR. From Automation to Orchestration Bots are creating a new economy. And for the first time, it is not about replacing humans, but organizing them. The rise of AI agents has moved quietly from novelty to structure. What we […]

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DeFi needs a metric for protected capital

The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora. Stablecoins have become a meaningful settlement layer, lending markets continue to expand, and tokenized real-world assets keep growing. Visa said global stablecoin transaction volume rose from more than $3.5 trillion in 2023 to more than $5.5 trillion in 2024. That […]

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Liquid crypto funds have a DeFi problem nobody talks about

The following is a guest post and guest post from Thomas Pratter, Founder and CEO at Renesis. Liquid crypto funds are having a moment. The number of actively managed vehicles keeps growing, DeFi strategies are gaining legitimacy, and regulatory clarity is slowly catching up. Institutional allocators are paying closer attention than ever. But behind the […]

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Tokenized equities approach $1B as institutional rails emerge

The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora. A year ago, tokenized equities barely registered as an asset class. Today, the market is approaching $1 billion—a nearly 30x increase—and December 2025 may have delivered the regulatory clarity needed for institutional adoption to accelerate. What changed? Three things: a […]

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