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Prediction Market Apps Compared: Fees, Liquidity and Settlement
The best prediction market apps are the ones whose fee math, settlement rules, and market types fit what you actually want to trade. Here is how to compare them.
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x402 vs L402: Two Ways to Pay Over HTTP 402
x402 and L402 both turn the dormant HTTP 402 status code into a working payment layer, but they settle on different rails and assume different worlds. Here is what actually separates them.
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Perp Funding Rate: The Fee That Anchors Crypto
The perp funding rate is the small, recurring payment that keeps a perpetual futures contract tethered to the real market price. Here is who pays it, how it is calculated, and why it matters far beyond crypto trading desks.
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Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure: How the Stack Works
Stablecoin payment infrastructure is a stack: issuance, wallets, settlement rails, on/off ramps, and reconciliation. Here is what each layer does and where the money actually settles.
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Blockchain Data Quality Standards for Datasets
A dataset can be fast, complete-looking, and still wrong. Here are the five guarantees onchain data has to make, and the tests a buyer can run to verify them.
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Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoins: Reading Collateral Onchain
Crypto-collateralized stablecoins hold more collateral than the tokens they issue, and every part of that buffer is visible onchain if you know which fields to read.
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How to Trade on PredictIt and Kalshi
A step-by-step walk through opening an account and placing a contract on PredictIt and Kalshi, including how settlement works, what the fees cost you, and why the two platforms sit under different rules.
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Paxos Stablecoin Minting and Redemption, Onchain
A step-by-step walk through Paxos minting and redemption: what the issuer does off-chain, what appears on the blockchain, and how to trace each mint and burn.
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What Backs a Commodity-Backed Stablecoin?
A commodity-backed stablecoin represents a claim on a physical asset, usually gold held in a vault. Here is what actually sits behind the token, how to verify it, and why redeeming gold works nothing like redeeming a dollar.
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Regulating Exotic Prediction Market Products
The most interesting prediction market contracts are the ones regulators have not clearly claimed. Here is where oversight ends and the gray zone begins.
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Payment Finality: Onchain vs Traditional Rails
On traditional rails, a payment can look settled and still reverse days later. Onchain, finality is a property of the ledger itself. Here is what that means for a treasury reporting cash as settled.
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Onchain Cash Management for Corporate Treasury
Onchain cash management moves corporate treasury from batch cutoffs to continuous settlement. The gap that trips teams up is the challenge of proving where the money is at any moment.