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When Crypto Regulation Became an Election Issue (The Real Story)

A 2024 soundbite — that the SEC chair could 'cost Biden the election' over crypto — hid a genuinely important, non-partisan question: rules vs regulation-by-lawsuit. The substance behind the drama, and how it actually resolved.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Web3

Ethena, USDe & ENA Explained: The Synthetic Dollar & Its Tokenomics

Ethena's USDe looks like a stablecoin but works nothing like one — it's a synthetic dollar held to its peg by hedging, not cash. How it works, why it's riskier, and what ENA's vesting drama is about.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Web3

Arthur Hayes's Bitcoin 'Debasement' Thesis, Explained (Not Advice)

Arthur Hayes argues you should buy Bitcoin dips and hold to protect against currency debasement. A neutral, no-hype explainer of what he actually argues — and why to treat it as one strong opinion, not a green light.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Web3

Bitcoin Runes & the Asia-Institutional Thesis: Did It Play Out?

Runes ate 90% of Bitcoin's fees at launch, then crashed. Could Asian institutional money revive it? What Runes are, the boom-bust, and the honest scorecard on the revival thesis.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Web3

De-Dollarization & On-Chain Settlement: The Honest Version (2026)

'The dollar is finished' makes a great headline and a shaky fact. What's actually being built — China's mBridge and SWIFT's own blockchain ledger — and why the de-dollarization story is real as tech, overstated as prophecy.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Tokenized Treasuries Explained: Wall Street Goes On-Chain (2026)

US government debt as blockchain tokens went from curiosity to a ~$15B market led by BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Ondo. What tokenized Treasuries are, why institutions want them, and the honest caveats.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Stablecoins Explained: The $300B Digital Dollar (2026)

Stablecoins are the boring, useful backbone of crypto — a ~$300B market of private digital dollars, now regulated by the GENIUS Act. What they are, USDT vs USDC, the new rules, and how they differ from a CBDC.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Digital Money, Explained: Stablecoins, CBDCs & Tokenized Assets (2026)

Money and assets are going on-chain in four lanes at once — private stablecoins, state CBDCs, tokenized Treasuries, and rebuilt settlement rails. The honest umbrella guide, minus the moon-talk.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 9 min

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Web3

China's Digital Yuan and mBridge: The CBDC Story, Explained (2026)

China built the world's most advanced central bank digital currency and a cross-border rail that could route around the dollar. A hype-free explainer on the e-CNY, mBridge, and why the 'BRICS beats SWIFT' headline needs an asterisk.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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Real-World Asset Tokenization, Explained: Where US Rules Stand in 2026

Putting bonds, property and funds on a blockchain stopped being a pitch and became infrastructure. A plain-English map of what RWA tokenization is, why Congress is studying it, and the legal risks that actually matter.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

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bitcoin erased three months of losses in one week — and it's still 30% below its record high

BTC crossed $80,000 for the first time since May on a Treasury bond-buyback surprise and a Trump-Coinbase meeting — but the rally hasn't undone a brutal year.

Aliteq Team · Aug 25 · 6 min

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your 'safest' Bitcoin wallet had a broken lock since 2021 — and hackers just found it

A five-year-old firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets let attackers drain $116 million in Bitcoin this summer — and if you generated a seed on one between 2021 and July 2026, your coins might still be exposed.

Aliteq Team · Aug 16 · 7 min

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this ransomware gang can't be shut down the normal way — their servers live on the blockchain now

DeadLock skips throwaway domains entirely. Its victim chat and leak blog run on Polygon smart contracts, and Microsoft says that's exactly why takedown notices don't work on it anymore.

Aliteq Team · Aug 15 · 7 min

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someone tested 85 crypto wallets for privacy leaks. MetaMask knows about its leak and just… isn't fixing it

researchers found wallets still tracking your address after you hit 'revoke,' plus cross-site leaks in most of the ones they tested. nearly everyone patched fast. MetaMask basically shrugged.

Aliteq Team · Jul 18 · 6 min

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the malware that drained $220K in crypto wasn't a sketchy download — it was published on Steam

eight real games, real Steam store pages, real players — and crypto-draining malware baked right in. the FBI only caught the guy thanks to a trail of Uber Eats gift cards. here's the playbook, and the defense.

Aliteq Team · Jul 17 · 5 min

Web3

17 huge banks just went live on a blockchain. and no, it's got nothing to do with crypto

HSBC, UBS, Citi and 14 others are now moving 'tokenized deposits' on a Swift-built ledger. it's not a coin, it's not public, and it might quietly matter more than any crypto headline this year.

Aliteq Team · Jul 16 · 6 min