Press & News
Originally published in CoinDesk on October 16, 2025, by Sam Reynolds (edited by Oliver Knight). Visa released a whitepaper rebranding decentralized finance as "onchain finance" and positioning itself as the infrastructure backbone for institutional lending in the space. Rather than issuing tokens or funding loans directly, Visa aims
Press & News
Originally published in Bloomberg on October 16, 2025. Bloomberg profiles Hyperliquid, the onchain derivatives exchange that has grown to handle billions of dollars in trading volume, examining how it operates and the outsized role it has come to play in crypto markets. Read the full article →
Press & News
Originally published in Ledger Insights on October 16, 2025. Ledger Insights reviews Visa's report on stablecoin-based DeFi lending, noting how smart contracts enable automatic collateral liquidation and reduce counterparty risk versus traditional banking. The piece flags a tension in Visa's own framing: while positioning itself
Customers & Partners
Stablecoins are evolving from a payments tool into the foundation of onchain credit markets. In collaboration with Visa, Allium is excited to share our new whitepaper, “Stablecoins Beyond Payments: The Onchain Lending Opportunity.” The report explores how programmable, transparent, and global lending markets are emerging onchain powered by stablecoins. Read
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Citigroup’s Institute for Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS) released its September 2025 report, “Stablecoins 2030: Web3 to Wall Street,” marking one of the most comprehensive institutional analyses of on-chain money to date. The report underscores how stablecoins have evolved from crypto utilities to core components of global financial
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Today, Allium was featured as one of Business Insider's 49 Most Promising Fintech Startups! It's a collection of startups that are building up the notion that money isn't a coin, currency, or credit card. That's form, not function, & its identity is
Insights
This article was originally published in Financial Columnist. You can find the original post on their website here." This article is adapted from a presentation delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in April, 2025, where Ethan Chan (CEO, Allium) shared insights on the state of on-
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In a new collaboration between teams within the digital asset space, a whitepaper exploring granular stablecoin activity and what it means for the outlook for the industry has been published. Allium has partnered with VISA to create the methodology that powers the schemas and metrics used to lay the foundation
Press & News
Over the past few months, three widely read institutional reports—by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), OCBC Global Markets Research, and Standard Chartered—have leaned on Visa On-Chain Analytics powered by Allium to separate signal from noise in stablecoin activity. The result is a clearer view of where stablecoins are
Research
Originally published by OCBC Global Markets Research (FX Thoughts) on July 24, 2025. This OCBC research report surveys the stablecoin landscape as the market approaches ~US$268 billion in capitalization, with 2024 transaction volumes estimated between US$5.5 trillion (Visa, Allium) and US$26.1 trillion (BCG) depending on
Customers & Partners
It was great to be featured on Confluent's "Life Is But A Stream" podcast, where I had the chance to dive deep into how we're building Allium's real-time blockchain data infrastructure. As co-founder and CEO, I've been leading
Product
Our team added support for seventeen additional chains (including XRPL, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin), upgrades to three of our real-time API endpoints, and new additions to our docs (including a changelog, a chain-endpoint lookup, and guided product tours). Increased chain support 17 new chains: Babylon, Bitcoin Cash, Celestia, Codex,