Thought Leaders – Securities.io

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 EnforcementEurope just drew a line in the sand, and roughly 2,700 crypto companies found themselves on the wrong...

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 a...

July 22, 2026

By Vugar Usi Zade, CEO, MEXC

Quality Over Everything: How to Buy U.S. Stocks When Money Isn’t Cheap

By Vugar Usi Zade, CEO, MEXC

The U.S. equity market keeps offering opportunities, yet the terms of engagement have hardened since the era of cheap money faded. Broad index exposure and a...

July 20, 2026

By Sergei Berezhnoy, CRO, Brokerpilot

Why the Market Is Moving Toward AI-Driven Toxic Flow Detection — and Why Nobody’s Quite There Yet

By Sergei Berezhnoy, CRO, Brokerpilot

Talk to enough brokers at industry events and one topic keeps coming up: a handful of accounts are quietly bleeding the book, and nobody’s quite sure...

July 17, 2026

By Davide Pizzo, Backend & AI Engineer, Brickken

The Agentic Stack Has Four Layers. Most Deployments Are Missing Three

By Davide Pizzo, Backend & AI Engineer, Brickken

Identity, reputation, mandate, and payment need to live on-chain. In many production deployments, they still do not, and that is an architectural problem, not a compliance...

July 13, 2026

By Mihail B., Founder, Sweepbase

Self-Custody Doesn’t Save You From Bank Risk. It Just Hides It Better

By Mihail B., Founder, Sweepbase

Self-custody is supposed to be the point where you stop trusting a third party. Your keys, your coins, nothing standing between you and your money except...

July 1, 2026

By Tommy Li, Co-Founder & CFO, Native

The Hidden Tax on Every Cross-Border Dollar

By Tommy Li, Co-Founder & CFO, Native

Anyone with a phone can send a dollar to the other side of the world in under a second, for less than a cent. Yet a...

June 24, 2026

By Anthony Yeung, CCO, CoinCover

Regulation Without Genuine Operational Resilience Could Risk Stalling Digital Asset Adoption

By Anthony Yeung, CCO, CoinCover

With the Senate Banking Committee advancing the CLARITY Act and individual states continuing to introduce their own digital asset legislation, digital asset regulations are gaining momentum...

June 19, 2026

By Valery Barmin, CPO, Paybis

“Zero Fees” in Crypto Is a Myth, and Users Are Losing Trust

By Valery Barmin, CPO, Paybis

Something happened when crypto platforms discovered that the phrase “zero fees” could drive sign-ups. The phrase stuck, spread, and eventually became one of the most repeated...

June 17, 2026

By Vugar Usi Zade, CEO, MEXC

In Crypto, the Trade Is Free. Everything That Matters Is Not.

By Vugar Usi Zade, CEO, MEXC

Crypto won the race to zero. In crypto, the trade costs nothing. Everything that matters costs plenty. In early October 2019, Charles Schwab cut its stock-trading...