Aukai Arkus

Combat Veteran of the USMC and former military contractor, currently studying the emerging intersections of fintech and environmental and cultural preservation efforts. Son of Oahu, Hawai'i. Cybersecurity, author, game designer and publisher.
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Stablecoin Payments Jumped 733% in B2B as Firms Skip the Wire

The dollar learned to move like an email. For businesses paying across borders, that is the whole pitch: seconds instead…

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Georgia’s Transaction Alley Meets Stablecoins as Fiserv Launches FIUSD Rails

Roughly 70% of U.S. card payments run through Georgia's Transaction Alley. Now its own giants are launching stablecoins, and the…

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Natural Capital Tokenization Chases a $700B Gap Wall Street Fled

The whole series has traced the gap between a token and the thing it stands for. Natural capital is where…

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Tokenized Carbon Credits Crashed 99%, and JPMorgan Is Trying Again

The first wave of tokenized carbon turned a lot of worthless offsets into on-chain liquidity. The second wave has to…

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Florida Bitcoin Reserve Bill Returns for 2026 as an Inflation Hedge

Florida is reviving a state Bitcoin reserve as an inflation hedge for a dollar-rich economy. The proven use of crypto…

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Tokenized Royalties Hit $1.2B Against a $61T Intangible-Asset Market

Intellectual property is the largest asset class on earth and the least tokenized. The tokens now selling a slice of…

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Delaware Crypto Firms Exit as Tokenized Shares Boom Offshore in 2026

Delaware wrote the first law to put shares on a blockchain in 2017. Now crypto firms are leaving and the…

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Tokenized Trade Finance Chases a $5T Small-Business Gap Banks Couldn’t Close

The first attempt to put trade finance on a blockchain needed every bank to join, and died when they didn't.…

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Connecticut Crypto Law Bans a State Bitcoin Reserve as Texas Builds One

Connecticut banned crypto from its own treasury while Texas built a Bitcoin reserve. The technology's real Connecticut future is in…

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Tokenized Deposits Keep FDIC Insurance as a Dozen Banks Build Shared Network

The banks' answer to stablecoins is not a new kind of money. It is the old kind, on new rails,…

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State-of-Crypto: Colorado Crypto Tax Program Draws 48 Payments in 2024 Despite First-Mover Status

Colorado was first to accept crypto for taxes, and almost no one uses it. The technology's real job in the…

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Tokenized Bonds Go Sovereign as UK Lines Up First G7 Digital Gilt

Unlike tokenized stocks, which mostly mirror an asset they don't own, tokenized bonds are increasingly the bond itself: issued on-chain…

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