FXC Intelligence and Allium partnered on a first-of-its-kind report measuring stablecoins' share of the cross-border payments market, built on Allium's Real-World Payments data covering ~2.1 billion transactions.
Traditional stock markets have a consolidated tape and a national best bid and offer. Tokenized equities do not yet. Here is what that reference layer does, why it exists, and what building it onchain requires.
Alex Chen, first data scientist at Ondo Finance, on running a data function for one of the fastest-growing tokenized asset protocols — and why he buys his data infrastructure instead of building it. Ondo Finance is a leading tokenized RWA issuer with over $2B in onchain market value across its
Tokenized securities live across many blockchains with different contract addresses and no common key. Here is how identifiers solve that, from ISIN and CUSIP to onchain-native standards like DASID.
A plain-English guide to digital asset identifiers: what they are, why contract addresses fall short, and how emerging standards give onchain assets a canonical name.
Traditional markets run on plumbing most people never see: CUSIP, DTCC, the consolidated tape, custody rules. Here is what those functions do, and what their onchain equivalents look like today.
Bitwise cited Allium as the primary onchain data source in its inaugural Q3 2026 Staking Report, credited across 30+ charts covering six proof-of-stake networks.
Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, on making the institutional case for building on Stellar — and why independent research convinces banks in a way a network's own numbers can't. Stellar is a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for financial services, and one of the oldest networks in
A contract address points to one deployment on one chain. A digital asset identifier names the asset across all of them. Here is how the two differ and why it matters for onchain finance.
A single wallet address doesn't tell you much on its own. It could belong to an exchange, a market maker, a DeFi protocol's treasury, or one person moving their own funds between accounts. And while a block explorer will show you the transaction, it won'
Max Zevin, Managing Director and Partner in BCG's Payments and Fintech practice, on building a stablecoin segmentation methodology from scratch — and what it shows the world's largest financial institutions about where the market is heading. BCG's Payments and Fintech practice works with clients across
Blockchain data providers translate the raw, chaotic output of public ledgers into structured data that institutions, developers, and researchers can trust. Here is how they work and why the category is growing.