But technology alone is not enough. For blockchain to become real institutional infrastructure, decentralization needs to coexist with regulation, audits, and certification. You can read all about it in our latest article!

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.

That matters more in finance than almost anywhere else. A system built around one company, one infra provider, or one jurisdiction has obvious points of failure. Distributed networks change that architecture completely.

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.

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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.

The answer is not to stand outside this transformation. The Digital Turkish Lira should be designed as blockchain-based infrastructure: programmable, secure, interoperable, and compatible with Türkiye’s public oversight capacity.

In conversations with leaders from the Ethereum and stablecoin ecosystems, one message has been consistent: Hyper-dollarisation faces few serious barriers when stable dollars can move globally through blockchain-based payment infrastructure.

If Turkish-lira deposits weaken, the economic foundation of the Turkish lira weakens with them. That means greater pressure on the financing of local investment from roads and hospitals to businesses, industry, and the wider real economy.

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.

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.

This is why the CBDC debate has changed. The question is no longer simply whether central banks can build digital currencies. It is whether local currencies can find a meaningful role in a stablecoin-driven, blockchain-based dollar order.

As Circle, Tether, banks and Big Tech scale this model, dollar access becomes cheaper and more global. At the same time, the political leverage behind the dollar becomes sharper: who can issue it, where it can circulate, and which networks can carry it.

Stablecoins are no longer just crypto products. With GENIUS, they become part of the architecture of US debt demand: private issuers, public blockchains, and short-term Treasuries tied together into a new digital dollar regime.

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.