Thought Leaders – Securities.io

September 25, 2026

Digital Dirham, Tokenised Deposits and Stablecoins: The Coming Competition for GCC Settlement Rails

The UAE’s Digital Dirham strategy is now part of a much broader transformation of the country’s financial infrastructure. CBDC development forms part of the Central Bank...

September 24, 2026

By Pascal Podvin, Co-Founder & CRO, nSure.ai

Modern Fraud Has Outgrown the Old Decision Model

By Pascal Podvin, Co-Founder & CRO, nSure.ai

Research from the UK Cryptoasset Business Council estimates that UK banks have blocked or delayed roughly 40% of payments headed to crypto exchanges. One exchange alone...

September 17, 2026

By Ogdn Ames, Founder & CEO, Ames Investment Systems

64.2% of Day Traders Lost Money — A Fruit-Fly-Inspired Machine Beat Them, but the Market Still Won

By Ogdn Ames, Founder & CEO, Ames Investment Systems

Historical studies show most day traders struggle after costs. A system inspired by fruit-fly neural wiring brought discipline and repeatability – but still trailed buy-and-hold in...

September 15, 2026

By Vladimir Tikhomirov, Co-Founder, Algebra

The Tokenized RWA Race Is Moving From Issuance to Infrastructure

By Vladimir Tikhomirov, Co-Founder, Algebra

The number of tokenized RWA holders is constantly growing, but that doesn’t mean we have a functional market just yet. We can see as much reflected...

September 10, 2026

By Teymour Farman-Farmaian, Co-founder & CEO, Higlobe

The Stablecoin Market Is Splitting in Two. Circle Is Winning the Half That Matters.

By Teymour Farman-Farmaian, Co-founder & CEO, Higlobe

For years, “stablecoin market share” meant one number: how many dollars a company had in coins outstanding. By that number, Tether’s USDT is still the giant,...

September 8, 2026

By Gleb Morgachev, Head of Engineering at Product Science and a co-creator of Gonka

Intelligence Has Become Infrastructure. The Question Now Is Who Gets to Own It

By Gleb Morgachev, Head of Engineering at Product Science and a co-creator of Gonka

Every era inherits infrastructure whose ownership settles arguments about power for decades, from railway gauges to electrical grids to undersea cables. Artificial intelligence took this position...

September 3, 2026

By Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder & CEO, Cap

The GENIUS Act’s Missed Deadline is a Preview of a Bigger Problem

By Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder & CEO, Cap

The Missed Statutory Deadline July 18, 2026 came and went quietly, but it was supposed to mark a milestone in how the United States regulates digital...

August 31, 2026

By Anndy Lian

The Payment Rail Banks Cannot Ignore – Stablecoins

By Anndy Lian

Most people misunderstand stablecoins entirely. When the average person hears the word cryptocurrency, they immediately picture wild price swings and speculative bets. These specific assets completely...

August 11, 2026

By Armand Didier, Head of Product, Aurora Labs

Crypto’s Retention Problem Starts at Deposits

By Armand Didier, Head of Product, Aurora Labs

Crypto apps pay heavily for every new user. Acquisition in Web3 costs between $500 and $700 per head, and that amount only pays off after the...

August 10, 2026

By David Riudor, CEO & Co-founder, GenLayer Foundation

Everyone Is Investing in Agentic Commerce. Without Machine-Speed Dispute Resolution, It’s Doomed.

By David Riudor, CEO & Co-founder, GenLayer Foundation

Last month, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in Amazon v. Perplexity – the first federal case asking which authority wins when a...

August 7, 2026

By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder & Group CEO, WeFi

Stablecoins Are Outgrowing Crypto’s Trading-First Era

By Maksym Sakharov, Co-Founder & Group CEO, WeFi

The crypto market has lost $2 trillion since last October. However, over the same period, the combined number of USDT and USDC holders grew by more...

August 3, 2026

By Konstantins Vasilenko, Co-Founder & CBDO, Paybis

Regulators Missed the GENIUS Act Deadline, and That’s an Opportunity

By Konstantins Vasilenko, Co-Founder & CBDO, Paybis

On July 18, 2026, exactly one year after the GENIUS Act was signed, the agencies responsible for turning it into working rules quietly let their deadline...

July 31, 2026

By Anndy Lian

MiCA Was Supposed to Bring Clarity. Instead, It Brought a Reckoning With Scale.

By Anndy Lian

The End of Grandfathering: MiCA Enters Full Operational Enforcement Europe just drew a line in the sand, and roughly 2,700 crypto companies found themselves on the...

July 29, 2026

By Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-Founder, RedStone

Your Tokenized Stock Is as Good as Your Data Plumbing

By Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-Founder, RedStone

Credit where it’s due: Few companies walk their talk the way Securitize did with its recent NYSE public listing. The company is in the business of...

July 24, 2026

By Dean Nolan, Strategic Advisor, Payments & Industry Engagement, Finzly

The TCH Tokenized Deposit Network Won’t Be the Last One

By Dean Nolan, Strategic Advisor, Payments & Industry Engagement, Finzly

Last month, the country’s biggest banks gave their answer to stablecoins. JPMorgan, Bank of America , Citigroup and Wells Fargo, among others, said they would build...