Category: Blockchain

a16z Crypto Shares Enterprise Blockchain Sales Playbook for Founders

Jessie A Ellis Mar 23, 2026 04:23 Andreessen Horowitz reveals why technically superior blockchain products fail in enterprise sales and how founders can win by treating institutional constraints as design inputs. Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm has published a blunt assessment of why blockchain founders keep losing enterprise deals: they’re selling the wrong thing to the wrong people. The venture firm’s latest guidance, released March 22, argues that enterprises don’t buy superior technology. They buy “the least disruptive path to progress.” For crypto…

WisdomTree and Glassnode Push Blockchain Analysis Beyond Price Charts

Tony Kim Mar 17, 2026 15:20 New framework from WisdomTree and Glassnode treats blockchains as economic systems, using transaction fees and hashrate as valuation metrics for institutional investors. Asset manager WisdomTree and analytics firm Glassnode have released a joint framework repositioning blockchain networks as analyzable economic systems rather than speculative asset classes—a shift aimed squarely at institutional investors still struggling to value digital assets. The core argument: transaction fees, hashrate, and stablecoin flows provide price-independent metrics for assessing network health. Think of…

Blockchain Drives Fast Payout Innovation in U.S. Online Casinos

News Publisher Mar 13, 2026 13:22 Online casino withdrawal processes have traditionally been slow, with players experiencing delays in accessing their funds.   For most of the internet era, online casino withdrawals followed a familiar pattern. Players would request a payout, the operator would review the transaction and the funds would eventually move through banking networks before landing in the player’s account days later. The system worked, but it rarely felt fast. That gap between expectation and reality has become more noticeable…

CFTC Chair Backs Blockchain-Powered Prediction Markets Despite Pushback

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig has voiced support for prediction markets paired with blockchain technology, claiming they could become powerful tools for discovering truth. Speaking at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, on Monday, Selig argued that prediction markets, also known as event contracts, can provide valuable signals about future events when participants put money behind their views, describing well-functioning markets as “truth machines.” “When participants express views on future events — and back those views with capital — they create accountability,…

China’s ‘50x’ blockchain boost, Alibaba-linked AI mines Bitcoin: Asia Express

Everything that happened in crypto news in Asia over the past seven days: Asia Express. Jump to 1. China shows off new blockchain acceleration tech 2. Rogue AI agent linked to Alibaba attempts to mine Bitcoin 3. People’s Bank of China vows “high pressure” crypto crackdown 4. South Korean crypto giants may face ownership shake-up 5. South Korea considers Basel’s crypto framework for stablecoins 6. Japan’s “Iron Lady” denies connection to Solana memecoin 7. Japanese messaging giant launches stablecoin wallet 8. PVARA officially appointed crypto sheriff of Pakistan China shows…

Blockchain.com Expands Crypto Trading Platform to Ghana

Crypto brokerage company Blockchain.com is expanding into Ghana as part of a broader push to grow its presence across Africa, following rapid user growth in Nigeria over the past year. The company said it plans to offer Ghanaian users access to its trading platform as it builds out regional infrastructure and explores additional African markets. The expansion follows strong growth in Nigeria, where the company launched retail operations last year and reported more than a 700% increase in brokerage transaction volume. According to the company, the most traded assets on its platform in the country have…

Amina Becomes First Regulated Bank on EU’s Blockchain Securities Platform

Amina, a Swiss-regulated crypto bank, has joined a blockchain-based settlement platform for tokenized securities operating under the European Union’s DLT pilot regime, marking another step toward integrating digital asset infrastructure with traditional capital markets. The Zug, Switzerland-based company announced Monday that it has become a listing sponsor on the EU-regulated platform 21X, making Amina the venue’s first fully regulated bank participant. Amina said the move will allow it to support companies issuing tokenized securities on 21X through its partnership with Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based company that provides technology for creating and…

RWAs Will Run on Two Blockchain Rails, Says Redstone Co-Founder

Institutional adoption of real-world assets (RWAs) is splitting between public and permissioned networks, exposing a divide between the liquidity advantages of blockchains like Ethereum and the privacy demands driving systems such as Canton Network. The divergence is becoming more pronounced as tokenized assets gain traction among major asset managers. Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of blockchain oracle provider RedStone, said product development is likely to occur on public blockchains, while permissioned systems are better suited for institutional processes that require confidentiality. “There are some operations between institutions that simply have to stay…

US National Cyber Strategy Pledges Support For Crypto And Blockchain

Crypto industry executives are combing through US President Donald Trump’s National Cyber Strategy after it was released on Friday, searching for hints about what it could signal for government support of the crypto industry. “Crypto and blockchain are explicitly named as technologies to be ‘protected and secured.’ This is a first for any US cybersecurity strategy,” Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research Alex Thorn said in an X post on Friday. Crypto and blockchain were mentioned once in the six-page report: “We will build secure technologies and supply chains that…

Dune Launches MCP Server Giving AI Agents Access to 100+ Blockchain Datasets

Luisa Crawford Mar 03, 2026 20:40 Dune’s new MCP Server lets AI agents query blockchain data across 100+ chains using natural language, eliminating manual SQL work for traders and analysts. Dune Analytics has released its MCP Server, a tool that connects AI agents directly to the platform’s data warehouse spanning more than 100 indexed blockchains. The integration lets users query everything from stablecoin flows to DEX volumes through natural language prompts rather than writing SQL manually. The server works with Claude, ChatGPT,…