The latest conflict involving Iran has produced an unexpected proving ground for financial infrastructure, and an unlikely winner has emerged.
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Why machine-to-machine payments are the new electricity for the digital age
Annabelle Huang’s CoinDesk opinion piece explores why machine-to-machine payments are becoming the backbone of the digital economy and automated transactions.
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TL;DR From Annabelle Huang’s Deep Dive
Annabelle Huang explains how Altius delivers giga-scale execution through VM-agnostic design, instruction-level parallelism, and sharded, memory-first state
Why Blockchain Forces a Choice Between Privacy and Compliance
Blockchain privacy and compliance don't have to conflict. Here is why most chains force the trade-off and how purpose-built architecture solves both.
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Why Stablecoins Just Hit $320 Billion While the Rest of Crypto Fell 20%
Explore why stablecoins reached a $320 billion market cap while crypto fell 20%, driven by institutional adoption, payment infrastructure, and global settlement
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Stop Asking About TPS: Why Peak TPS Is a Misleading Metric
Blockchain TPS claims are misleading. Learn what institutions actually measure: throughput, latency, fee stability, and finality.
Why Building a High-Performance Blockchain Is Harder Than It Looks
Learn why building high-performance blockchain infrastructure is complex, from scalability and consensus to security, costs, and enterprise readiness.
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Scaling EVM Execution: Benchmarks from the Altius Tech Stack
Altius demonstrates 2–3× higher gas throughput than Geth and the OP Stack using reproducible Ethereum and Base Mainnet benchmarks.
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When Every I/O Counts: How Altius Found and Started Optimizing Reth’s Database Performance
We found and fixed redundant DB reads in Paradigm’s Reth, reducing I/O ops by up to 80%. Here’s how we did it — and what it unlocks for EVM scalability.