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Il Centro Notizie HTX fornisce gli articoli più recenti e le analisi più approfondite su "Infrastructure", coprendo tendenze di mercato, aggiornamenti sui progetti, sviluppi tecnologici e politiche normative nel settore crypto.

From Crypto Giant to National Gambler: How a16z's $15 Billion Bets on America's Future

a16z, a leading venture capital firm, has raised $15 billion in new funding, accounting for nearly 20% of all VC fundraising in the U.S. in 2025. The funds will be allocated across several sectors: $6.75 billion for growth-stage companies, $1.7 billion each for applications and infrastructure, $700 million for biotech, and $1.176 billion for "American Dynamism"—a theme focused on revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, particularly in defense technology. This defense-focused investment includes companies like Anduril, Shield AI, and Castelion, which develop advanced weapons systems and drones, primarily for the Pentagon. a16z is betting on modernization gaps in the U.S. defense industry and leverages its political connections, including ties to the Trump administration, to influence policy and secure contracts. While crypto investments are now categorized under a broader "other" segment, a16z remains committed to the space, viewing it as critical infrastructure alongside AI and defense. The firm’s strategy combines high-conviction bets during market downturns with extensive resource-building—including media influence and government relationships—to create a durable competitive advantage. However, this approach also ties its success to U.S. geopolitical and economic trends, making it a high-stakes wager on America’s future.

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From Crypto Giant to National Gambler: How a16z's $15 Billion Bets on America's Future

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Salad.com and Golem Network Partner To Bridge Web2 and Decentralized Computing

Salad.com and Golem Network have partnered to test the integration of traditional cloud computing with decentralized infrastructure. Salad will run real commercial workloads—including AI inference, 3D rendering, and drug-discovery simulations—on Golem’s decentralized network. The goal is to evaluate compatibility, cost efficiency, and the benefits of crypto-based settlements. Salad, which operates a GPU cloud service using global devices, still relies on centralized systems for payments and user rewards. This experiment aims to reduce operational overhead and explore whether decentralized infrastructure can support Salad’s scale while introducing cryptocurrency payments—a feature requested by users. The collaboration reflects a broader industry trend where Web2 companies experiment with Web3 infrastructure to improve transparency, lower costs, and leverage underutilized global computing resources. If successful, it could make high-performance computing more accessible and efficient through decentralized models.

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Salad.com and Golem Network Partner To Bridge Web2 and Decentralized Computing

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ZKsync Unveils 2026 Roadmap Focused on Real-World Adoption

ZKsync has unveiled its 2026 roadmap, emphasizing real-world adoption and enterprise-focused development. The plan aims to expand its zero-knowledge infrastructure to support practical blockchain applications. Key initiatives include Prividium, a privacy-focused blockchain for enterprises; ZK Stack, a toolkit for building application-specific blockchains; and Airbender, a settlement proving engine intended to become a standard for zero-knowledge virtual machines. CEO Alex Gluchowski stated that ZKsync is prioritizing long-term, compliant infrastructure over industry shortcuts, focusing on institutional partnerships rather than speculative adoption. The goal is to establish ZKsync as a foundational player in the next phase of blockchain infrastructure.

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ZKsync Unveils 2026 Roadmap Focused on Real-World Adoption

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After Eight Years, Behind Monero's New High, the Privacy Narrative Is Returning to the Core of Crypto

Eight years after its last peak, Monero (XMR) has surged past its 2017 all-time high, rising over 500% since early 2024. This signals a broader revival of the privacy narrative in crypto, moving beyond short-term trends to become a core infrastructure theme. Zcash (ZEC), another major privacy asset, recently faced governance turmoil as its development team resigned amid disputes with the board, causing a sharp price drop. Despite this, Zcash remains a decentralized protocol. Other projects are expanding privacy beyond currency. Humanity Protocol uses palm recognition and zero-knowledge proofs to create private digital identities. Railgun offers privacy for DeFi interactions, with over $4.49 billion in cumulative transaction volume. Pirate Chain enforces 100% privacy on all transactions. Tornado Cash, despite U.S. sanctions and legal battles, continues to see significant usage, with $2.5 billion in ETH inflows in 2025. Meanwhile, Dusk Network takes a compliance-friendly approach, offering auditable privacy for regulated applications like RWA tokenization. Together, these developments show privacy is evolving from a niche tool into a fundamental layer of the crypto ecosystem.

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After Eight Years, Behind Monero's New High, the Privacy Narrative Is Returning to the Core of Crypto

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Eight Years Later, Behind Monero's New High, the Privacy Narrative Is Returning to the Core of Crypto

Amidst market volatility and fleeting meme coin trends, privacy is re-emerging as a core narrative in crypto. Monero (XMR) recently broke its 8-year all-time high, surging over 500% since early 2024, symbolizing a return to privacy-first principles. Its design, featuring ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT, ensures strong anonymity by default. Zcash (ZEC) initially led this privacy resurgence but faced a governance crisis when its development team, ECC, collectively resigned due to disputes with the Bootstrap board, causing a 40% price drop. Despite this, Zcash remains a decentralized protocol. Other projects are expanding privacy beyond transactions. Humanity Protocol uses palm recognition and zero-knowledge proofs to create a private digital identity system, partnering with Mastercard. Railgun acts as a private wallet layer for DeFi, allowing anonymous interactions with smart contracts, with Vitalik Buterin among its users. Pirate Chain enforces 100% privacy using zk-SNARKs. Tornado Cash, despite U.S. sanctions and legal battles, saw significant ETH inflows in 2025, showing persistent demand for privacy. Dusk Network takes a compliance-friendly approach, offering auditable privacy for regulated assets like RWA, aligning with EU regulations. This shift indicates privacy is evolving from a niche tool into essential infrastructure for crypto's sustainable growth.

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Eight Years Later, Behind Monero's New High, the Privacy Narrative Is Returning to the Core of Crypto

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The Ethereum Doomsday Scenario: Inside The Bank Of Italy’s Crisis Simulation

The Bank of Italy published a technical analysis exploring the potential consequences if Ethereum's value were to fall to zero and remain there. The paper frames this as a stress test on infrastructure, not just asset prices. It warns that if ETH loses its value, the economic incentive for validators—who are paid in ETH—would disappear. This could lead validators to exit the network, severely slowing or even stopping transaction settlement. The paper further cautions that other assets on the chain, such as tokenized securities or stablecoins, could become difficult to move or face security risks. While the scenario is not presented as likely, the analysis highlights how market risk can transform into infrastructure risk, especially since there is no formal mechanism to orderly shut down a permissionless blockchain.

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The Ethereum Doomsday Scenario: Inside The Bank Of Italy’s Crisis Simulation

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$15 Billion in Ammunition: What Is a16z Secretly Planning?

a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) has raised a record $15 billion in new funding, with a significant focus on cryptocurrency and AI as key future technologies. The funds are allocated across six main areas: American Dynamism, App, Bio + Health, Infrastructure, Growth, and Other Venture Strategies. The App, Infrastructure, and Growth funds are expected to drive most crypto investments, targeting application-layer projects, protocol-layer infrastructure, and mature platforms like exchanges. In 2025, a16z made 31 investments in crypto, emphasizing prediction markets (e.g., Kalshi), wallet services, privacy blockchains, stablecoins, and AI-crypto integrations. Looking ahead to 2026, a16z highlighted 17 key areas of interest, including privacy enhancements, prediction markets, stablecoin innovation, AI agents, decentralized communication, and tokenization of real-world assets. The firm aims to support groundbreaking solutions in these domains, leveraging its capital to advance the crypto ecosystem.

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$15 Billion in Ammunition: What Is a16z Secretly Planning?

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From 'Quick Money' to 'Slow Infrastructure': Why Is the Endgame of Payment Globalization a Marathon?

Chinese payment industry is undergoing a major reshuffle, with domestic competition intensifying and regulatory pressures increasing. As profit margins shrink, major players are expanding overseas where cross-border payment fees are 3-5 times higher. However, entering foreign markets requires significant investment in licenses, compliance, and talent. Acquiring payment licenses, such as the U.S. MTL, involves high costs and long waiting periods. Companies like Airwallex and LianLian Global have benefited from early investments in global licenses, achieving rapid growth after years of preparation. Compliance with regulations like AML, KYC, GDPR, and DORA adds substantial hidden costs, while a shortage of skilled compliance professionals further increases expenses. Geopolitical risks, as seen in Paytm’s downfall in India and TikTok’s challenges in the U.S., highlight the unpredictability of overseas expansion. Chinese companies are adopting a "China +1" strategy, turning to regions like the Middle East and Indonesia to mitigate risks. The global payment landscape is fragmenting, and success now depends on long-term investment in compliance and infrastructure rather than quick gains. The era of fast growth is over; payment globalization has become a marathon, not a sprint.

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From 'Quick Money' to 'Slow Infrastructure': Why Is the Endgame of Payment Globalization a Marathon?

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RWA Power Map: Understanding How the Five Major Protocols 'Divide' Trillions in Institutional Capital

The institutional RWA tokenization market is rapidly approaching $20 billion, driven by yield opportunities, regulatory clarity, and infrastructure maturity. Five key protocols are leading this space, each targeting distinct institutional needs: - **Rayls Labs** focuses on privacy for banks using zero-knowledge proofs. - **Ondo Finance** dominates tokenized public stocks with $1.93B TVL and cross-chain expansion. - **Centrifuge** is the infrastructure for private credit, with $1.3-1.45B TVL and major asset manager deployments. - **Canton Network**, backed by Wall Street giants like DTCC and BlackRock, offers privacy-focused settlement infrastructure. - **Polymesh** embeds compliance at the protocol level for regulated securities. Key challenges include cross-chain fragmentation ($1.3B annual cost), privacy-transparency trade-offs, and regulatory divergence. Critical 2026 catalysts include Ondo’s Solana launch, Canton’s DTCC MVP, and Centrifuge’s $1B Grove deployment. The market is projected to reach $2-4 trillion by 2030, driven by institutional adoption across treasury bonds, private credit, and tokenized equities.

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RWA Power Map: Understanding How the Five Major Protocols 'Divide' Trillions in Institutional Capital

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Unitas is Committed to Building a Global Savings Layer for Digital Assets and Compliant High-Yield Stablecoins

Unitas introduces a new market-neutral yield infrastructure standard, aiming to establish a global savings layer and compliant high-yield stablecoin ecosystem. It provides a modular yield service platform that decouples capital access, asset custody, and yield execution, serving both individual and institutional users without taking directional market risk. The core strength lies in its self-developed and self-operated yield engine, which manages the full lifecycle of signal generation, execution, and risk response. Unitas runs multiple market-neutral strategies under a unified risk framework, including delta-neutral liquidity strategies and basis arbitrage, ensuring returns come from market activity rather than price speculation. Built-in risk controls monitor exposures and hedging deviations in real-time, prioritizing stability over speed during volatility. Backed by 24/7 human oversight, the system demonstrated strong performance with a 16.7% net APY and only -0.16% max drawdown in 2025, including zero loss during extreme market conditions. Unitas emphasizes transparency through real-time disclosure of collateral and risk parameters. Future plans include expansion into TradFi, integration with RWA like tokenized stocks and commodities, and serving as a foundational yield layer connecting DeFi and traditional finance.

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Unitas is Committed to Building a Global Savings Layer for Digital Assets and Compliant High-Yield Stablecoins

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