Is the Data Wallet Web3’s Trust Layer?
By Michelle Tan A Story: When Proof Becomes More Valuable Than Product A customs officer scans a shipment arriving at a U.S. port. The goods are labeled “Made in USA.”…
Gold’s New Era as Hard Money
In our previous article, “From Dirt to Fortune: The Mining Cycle,” we explored how raw earth transforms into one of humanity’s most enduring stores of value — and how fortunes…
From Dirt to Fortune: The Mining Cycle
In our previous article, “The Silver Mining Money Machine,” we explored how rising precious-metal prices magnify mining profitability — transforming modest cost advantages into explosive margin expansion. But understanding why…
The Silver Mining Money Machine
While headlines focus on soaring metal prices, a more powerful story is unfolding quietly beneath the surface: Silver miners are experiencing exponential profit expansion — not linear growth. In commodity…
The New Power Race in the AI War
History is often written through presidents and generals. But more often, history is decided by engineers — and by the nations willing to fund them. In the 1930s, a quiet…
The Truth Layer as a New Asset Class
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the Truth Economy — the emerging reality that verified data is becoming foundational infrastructure for digital markets. In Part 2, we explored…
The New Financial Operating System
In every technological revolution, there comes a moment when experimentation ends, and infrastructure begins. For crypto, that moment arrived in 2025. After two years of regulatory uncertainty, capital contraction, and…
The Verification Layer of the Truth Economy
In Previous article of this series, we introduced the emerging Truth Economy — a new infrastructure category in which verified data serves as the foundation of digital markets. In article…
Capturing Reality: The First Layer of Truth
In our previous article, “The Truth Economy: A New Investment Frontier,” we explored why trust can no longer be assumed in global commerce, regulation, or artificial intelligence — and why…
The Truth Economy: A New Investment Frontier
Now, the intelligence economy is demanding its next foundation: verifiable truth in data. Across global markets, digital claims now drive value — product origins, ESG disclosures, AI training datasets, tokenized…