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S&P Issues First-Ever Credit Rating for a DeFi Protocol
On August 7, S&P Global Ratings issued its first-ever credit rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, assigning Sky Protocol — formerly MakerDAO — a B-. The assessment used S&P’s global scale, placing Sky’s risk profile alongside that of traditional lenders worldwide rather than under a bespoke DeFi framework.



TradFi Veteran Joins Tokenization Platform Centrifuge as COO: “This Feels Like the Early ETF Days”
After two decades in ETFs at firms like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, Jürgen Blumberg has joined Centrifuge and Anemoy to help bring fund management onchain. In this interview, he explains why tokenized funds are starting with distribution, where today’s wrappers fall short, and how real transformation will come from rebuilding issuance, pricing, and liquidity at the protocol layer..




Inside the GENIUS Act: 8 Key Questions on the U.S. Stablecoin Framework
On July 17, the U.S. House passed the GENIUS Act with a supermajority of 308–122 votes. To help you cut through the noise, we’ve answered the 8 most important questions about the GENIUS Act: what it allows, who it empowers, and what comes next.




Exclusive: AllUnity CTO on the Strategy and Vision for EURAU, Europe’s Newest Stablecoin
Last week, German euro-stablecoin company AllUnity was granted an E-Money Institution (EMI) license by German regulator BaFin. Following this regulatory approval, we sat down with Peter Grosskopf, CTO/COO at AllUnity, for an interview.






