The global trend of digital fragmentation seems unstoppable. Barring intervention by the Supreme Court, a law banning TikTok in the U.S. will go into effect later this month, despite investing ...

Is liquidity fragmentation hurting crypto price stability? Know how multi-chain markets create slippage and cross-chain complexity, and how institutional tokenization may fix it.

One common criticism of Android phones, tablets, and other devices is "fragmentation". In other words, the fact that there are many different extant versions of Android, numerous devices with ...

New research models how crosschain price gaps and capital friction are eroding efficiency as tokenized markets scale across blockchains. Fragmentation across blockchain networks is already imposing a ...

Espresso Systems tackles Rollup fragmentation and centralized sequencing with HotShot consensus, enabling cross-chain composability.

Starting with just a handful of pioneers a few years ago led by Arbitrum and Optimism, there's been a rapid multiplication of layer-2 networks atop Ethereum, designed to provide an alternate venue for ...

For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisation, integration and alignment. The most recent poster child of this trend was the shift to the ISO ...

A man stops in front of the logo for the Digital Silk Road Development Forum of the World Internet Conference, in Xian, China, April 16, 2024 (China News Service photo by Zhang Yuan via AP). The ...