Have You Paid Through Mercuryo Without Knowing It? Arthur Firstov Explains
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Anita Little
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November 4, 2026
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Many people who have bought crypto inside a wallet app have used Mercuryo without ever seeing its name. The “buy crypto” button looks like part of the wallet. Behind it, a separate company handles the identity checks, the fraud screening, the licences and the movement of money. That hidden layer is the business Mercuryo has built, and according to one of its senior executives, it is where much of the payments industry is heading as stablecoins move from trading into everyday use.
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Can One Person Change Cardano? Intersect’s Jack Briggs Explains
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Anita Little
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November 4, 2026
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Most blockchains change slowly. Upgrades can take years of debate, and the people who hold the tokens rarely get a direct say. Cardano has taken a different route. Its community now proposes and votes on changes on-chain, and one organisation sits in the middle of that process, helping ideas turn into decisions.
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What Does It Take to Build Crypto Rails Banks Trust? Aquanow’s Andy Leung Explains
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Anita Little
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November 4, 2026
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Interview
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Banks do not want to build a crypto desk from scratch. They want someone else to handle the wallets, the compliance and the settlement, to banking standards. That is the business Aquanow has built since 2018, and one of its co-founders says the biggest lesson was that good technology alone does not win the deal.
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When Does Crypto Become Just Finance? Wachsman’s David Answers
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Anita Little
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November 3, 2026
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Interview
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In early 2014, David Wachsman thought Bitcoin was a scam. Two nights of arguing with the head of a New York Bitcoin exchange changed his mind. About a year later, he started what he describes as the first communications firm built for the Bitcoin industry. Twelve years on, his question is no longer whether crypto works. It is when crypto stops being a separate industry and becomes simply part of finance.
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Built in Eight Weeks: Can Vibrez Make Shared Moments Last?
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Anita Little
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November 3, 2026
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Interview
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Think about the last time you watched a big match, a concert or a DJ set on your phone. You probably scrolled through the comments and watched the stream. But did it feel like you were in the room with other people? For Christophe Dhaisne, Head of Product at Vibrez, the honest answer for most people is no. That gap, he argues, is what a new kind of social network should close.
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Why Are Global Payments Still So Hard? Anyflo’s Lola Oyelayo-Pearson Explains
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Anita Little
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November 3, 2026
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Stablecoins can move money around the world in seconds. Yet for most businesses, paying a supplier or contractor in another country is still slow, costly and hard to explain to an accountant. According to one founder, the problem is not the technology. It is the missing layer between blockchains and the way ordinary businesses work.
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Will AI Agents Become Finance’s New Interface? OKX’s Lennix Explains
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Anita Little
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October 31, 2026
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Interview
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For more than a decade, crypto exchanges have competed on the screen. Faster apps, cleaner charts, fewer taps to place a trade. According to one of OKX’s longest-serving executives, that contest is about to change. The next big user of a crypto exchange may not be a person at all – it may be a fleet of AI agents acting on that person’s behalf.
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In Studio, Not On Stage: When Shift Happens’ Kevin Follonier on Why He Never Networks
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Anita Little
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September 30, 2026
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The Blockopedia caught up with Kevin Follonier, founder of When Shift Happens, in person at Bitcoin Asia 2026 in Hong Kong, just a day after Kevin sat down with CZ for an interview on the conference’s main stage. The Blockopedia’s Co-founder Mohammad Ahmad Khan sat with Kevin to talk about how a media company built almost entirely without conferences, networking …
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LBank’s Kaia Wong on Why Culture, Not Just Listings, Is Becoming an Exchange’s Real Moat
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Anita Little
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September 28, 2026
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In this episode of The Blockopedia podcast, LBank VP of Marketing and Partnerships Kaia Wong sat down with The Blockopedia co founder Mohammad Ahmad Khan to talk about scaling a global exchange to 55 million users across 210 countries, why LBank partnered with Pudgy Penguins and Nobody Sausage, and what actually separates an early listing from a reckless one.
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From Gorakhpur to Global Compliance: TransFi’s Payaswani Shukla on Why Speed Doesn’t Mean Less Oversight
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Anita Little
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September 28, 2026
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In this episode of The Blockopedia podcast, TransFi VP of Risk and Compliance Payaswani Shukla sat down with The Blockopedia’s co-founder Mohammad Ahmad Khan to talk about building compliance infrastructure across 70 plus countries, why stablecoin payments raise the compliance bar rather than lower it, and what young professionals need to focus on to build a career in crypto compliance.
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