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1606, 2026
Book Review: “The New Intersection of Money – Where TradFi and DeFi Converge”

|16 Jun 2026|News|

The New Intersection of Money: Where TradFi and DeFi Converge arrives at exactly the right moment. As stablecoins, tokenised assets and blockchain-based payment rails move steadily into mainstream finance, the book offers a clear and accessible guide to how banks, regulators and DeFi builders are beginning to meet. It is a timely, thoughtful read — though its focus on stablecoins and TradFi adoption leaves room for a bigger argument: that on-chain finance is not just better banking plumbing, but a deeper rethink of ownership, access and value.

1606, 2026
Cherry Servers – Building Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure

|16 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

Lili Hellriegel is head of enterprise solutions at Cherry Servers, a Lithuania-based bare metal cloud provider that pitches itself as a sovereign, Web3-friendly alternative to the US hyperscalers. Before joining Cherry, Lili was head of infrastructure at staking firm Blockdaemon, where she built out data center partnerships, network architecture and the server specs behind validation workloads — work that left her unusually fluent in what crypto teams actually need from their infrastructure.

1506, 2026
UFC Hits the White House As Trump Announces Iran Peace Deal

|15 Jun 2026|News|

Peace with Iran, a cage fight on the White House lawn, a storm front, and an integrity scare all ran through the same place: the prediction markets. The biggest repricing of all arrived off-market, as a letter from the Commerce Department. For a crypto publication, the markets are the story.