Decentralization is often framed as the opposite of institutions. Is this really true? In this week’s article, we discuss what decentralization means for institutions: distributing trust instead of depending on a single operator.

The interesting part is that institutions are starting to understand this. Blockchain adoption is no longer just about “crypto.” It’s becoming about settlement, resilience, infrastructure, and how trust itself is designed.

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A future in which stable dollars offer global access and higher yields raises a difficult question for every country: Why would people keep their savings in local-currency deposits? For Türkiye, this is not a distant scenario. It is a question of monetary sovereignty.

A properly designed Digital Turkish Lira could connect Turkish assets, trade, and financial institutions to the emerging digital-asset economy while strengthening Türkiye’s financial sovereignty. In our latest article, @gergin_101 examines why this infrastructure may become one of Türkiye’s most important strategic projects of the 21st century.

A future where anyone, anywhere, can access the US dollar from a phone sounds democratic. Stable dollars on Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Tron look like a new layer of financial freedom. But this new American dream is more centralized than it appears.

In our latest article, we look at what this means for the Digital Turkish Lira: Why abandoning it would be wrong, and why redesigning it as blockchain-based infrastructure may be essential for Türkiye’s financial sovereignty.