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What Rails Can’t Solve

From the Fault Line No.2

Aug 13 • See Eun

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July 2026

Is the Stablecoin Neobank in the Room With Us?

What stablecoin neobanks actually control, and where durable value accrues in Africa’s financial stack.

Jul 23 • Ryan, The Protean and LAVA

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How to be a Geographic Decentralisation Maxi

And make a tidy profit from local stablecoins while at it

Jul 8 • cryptowanderer

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June 2026

What Is Tokenisation Actually Good For?

Most of what you're being sold about tokenization is snake oil. Here's the version we'd actually invest in — and what it looks like in Africa.

Jun 3 • cryptowanderer

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May 2026

Onchain Derivatives, Insurance for Stablecoin Flows, The High Price of Validating Online, Indigenous Banking Primitives

From the Fault Line No.1

May 14 • See Eun

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The Stablecoin Stack in Africa, Criss-cross Competition, Stripe Treasury, Hyperliquid + Kalshi + US Agricultural Industry, Hyperbridge Hack

From the Fault Line No.0

May 5 • See Eun

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Liquidity, Leverage, and the Price of Risk

How Ledig Helps Emerging Market Businesses Hedge FX Risk At Affordable and Transparent Rates

May 4 • cryptowanderer

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March 2026

How to Manufacture a Local Stablecoin

A field guide to building touchable money

Mar 16 • Seventeen Tabs

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February 2026

January 2026

Who’s really using Stablecoins? Rehashing Artemis & Lightspark’s Data

We replicate Artemis & Lightspark data and audit the top wallets, revealing retail-sized transfers by count, but an intermediary- and wholesale-led…

Jan 27 • Girum Gizachew

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Liquidity Will Find a Way

How Paycrest is programming the WhatsApp economy of informal OTC markets into a global, atomic settlement layer for the post-SWIFT era.

Jan 9 • Seventeen Tabs

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December 2025

Interoperable money as the next layer of value

Announcing top submissions to LAVA's Master of Narratives

Dec 11, 2025 • See Eun and Seventeen Tabs

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