The Peptide Trade: A $164 Billion Market, a Regulatory Thaw, and a Setup Crypto Investors Will Recognize
The last time markets watched a category go from grey-market chemistry set to institutional asset class, it was crypto. The setup was familiar: heavy retail adoption, a sprawling offshore supply chain, an aggressive Biden-era enforcement posture, and a single regulatory event — the spot Bitcoin ETF approvals — that re-priced everything overnight. That arc may be repeating itself in an unlikely place: peptides.
BNC Research: Consortium governance and the future of globalization
This year the UN faces a funding crisis as the post-Bretton Woods governance system reaches its limits in the digital globalized economy, leaving a gap on the direction of globalization. Digital currencies are the globalization of money and corporations are starting to put their weight behind blockchain consortia.
Bitcoin invoicing for international trade
Notwithstanding legal and regulatory issues - that would require further consideration outside the scope of this discussion - it is plausible that Bitcoin the system could be used by domestic firms in emerging economies to make payment on international supplier invoices - i.e payment on imports denominated in an international currency.