@alchemistaster

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Inside Standard: The Crypto Project Trying to Build a "Central Bank" That Runs on Code, Not People

A new protocol called Standard is pitching itself as something unusual even by crypto's ambitious standards: a "sovereign onchain central bank." No board of governors, no interest rate committee, no …

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Stackers: The NFT That Buys You Real Stock, One Hour at a Time

There's a new kind of NFT collection making noise on Robinhood's new blockchain, and it works nothing like the JPEG projects most people picture when they hear the word "NFT." It's called Stackers, an…

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Quotrons: The Vintage Stock Ticker Reborn as an On-Chain "Print Machine"

Quotrons (the X account is @quotrons404, the collection is called "QUOTRONS404" on marketplaces) is a set of 4,444 digital collectibles living on Robinhood Chain. The project's own description sums u…

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Meet Mancer: The Robinhood Chain's Bid for Its Own Jupiter

If you've spent any time in crypto over the last few years, you've probably heard people talk about Jupiter, the tool on Solana that lets you swap one token for another without hunting around for the …

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Wall Street, Onchain: Inside Bourse's Bid to Make Tokenized Markets Legible

Somewhere between the rise of tokenized stocks and the perpetual fog of on chain data lies a gap most crypto traders have learned to live with. You can buy a tokenized share of Nvidia or Tesla on cha…

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The Launchpad That Puts the Rulebook Onchain: Inside Programmable

The pitch in one sentence

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The Pool That Learned New Tricks: Inside Uniswap V4's Hooks

For most of its life, a Uniswap liquidity pool has done exactly one thing, in exactly one way. You put two tokens in. A fixed formula decides the price. A fixed fee gets charged. Trade after trade, po…

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Clock In: Inside StonkBrokers, the NFT Project Paying Its Holders in Stock

Every few years, crypto produces a project that tries to smash two unrelated worlds together and see what sticks. In 2021 it was NFTs plus gaming. In 2023 it was memecoins plus AI chatbots. In the sum…

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LONG Story Short: Inside the Crypto Platform Trying to Make "Tokenized Markets Valuable Again"

There's a peculiar sentence written across the homepage of a crypto startup called Long.xyz: "Making tokenized markets valuable again." It reads like a slogan for a political campaign, not a piece of …

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Paid in Stock: The Strange Logic of "The Index"

Somewhere in the two weeks since Robinhood switched on its own blockchain, a small, anonymous project quietly staked out a claim to one of the stranger ideas the tokenized-stock era has produced. It c…

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Pumpcade: Turning the Group Chat Into a Betting Floor

There's a particular kind of crypto product that only makes sense once you've spent too many hours in a livestream chat watching thousands of strangers spam emojis at a streamer who just said somethin…

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Sport.fun: The Onchain Fantasy League That Turned Athletes Into Tickers

There's a particular kind of crypto product that only makes sense once you stop asking "why would anyone do this?" and start asking "why hasn't anyone done this sooner?" Sport.fun is one of those pr…

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