A weekly research-driven brief tracking how onchain systems actually work — focused on structure, adoption, and what lasts beyond the hype.
Broadridge's live onchain proxy voting, Securitize's TRON integration, Injective's USDC settlement upgrade, and Janus Henderson's tokenized credit products all arrived this week. TradFi is adopting the full Open Money stack because the economics and verifiability are now superior.
Base's February 2026 departure from Optimism's OP Stack, followed by its March 31 strategy roadmap doubling down on tokenized markets and stablecoin payments, is the clearest signal yet that sovereignty, not shared governance, is the structural winner.
This week, five developments in roughly 96 hours confirmed that Open Money's coordination layer — governance tooling, onchain identity, protocol decision-making — is entering the same structural inflection the settlement layer went through in 2024.
Wall Street meets DeFi — and both change. BlackRock, SocGen, and Nasdaq move onto public blockchains as Across moves toward corporate governance. A new hybrid model is emerging, reshaping who controls finance and how value flows.
Onchain yield may be DeFi’s killer use case. As stablecoins bring dollars onchain, lending, staking, and tokenized real-world assets are turning that liquidity into programmable returns. The result: global, self-custodial capital markets.
AI agents are starting to get wallets. Autonomous agents may soon be able to buy services, pay APIs, and route transactions without human mediation. That shift could turn the internet into a network where software not only thinks and acts, but also buys and sells.