Analyse de marchéThesis. 2025-2026 is the moment when programmable money shifted from experiment to regulated infrastructure. Three layers converge: private stablecoins (GENIUS Act/MiCA), wholesale CBDCs (Agora, mBridge), and a common data grammar (ISO 20022 exclusive since November 2025). The dollar is being "privatized-programmed" abroad while Europe builds regulatory monetary sovereignty: this is the monetary geopolitics of the…
Impact of the Iran conflict and rising energy prices on gold price dynamics and the state of the mining sector. The views of Chris Mancini, co-portfolio manager of the Gabelli Gold Fund (GOLDX), are based on an analysis of current economic conditions and expectations ahead of the release of third-quarter earnings reports.
The conflict…
Marathon Fusion's claim that it can produce stable gold from mercury-198 through neutron transmutation could structurally alter, albeit over the long term, the gold revaluation thesis advocated by State Street/Miran.
The physics is considered sound: the (n,2n) reaction, triggered by 14.1 MeV neutrons produced by D-T fusion, can generate stable gold-197 through the beta…
In Q4 2026, the stablecoin market shows high concentration: USDT (Tether, $183B) is non-compliant with MiCA, USDC (Circle, $72.7B) is compliant, USDS/DAI (Sky, $14.3B) is non-compliant, Ethena USDe ($4.1B) is non-compliant, USDG (Paxos, $3.4B) is compliant, PYUSD (Paxos for PayPal, $2.8B) is in progress, and EURC (Circle, <$1B) is compliant.
Total market cap peaked at…
Total market capitalization: $314.68B as of 21/06/2026 (382 issuers, DefiLlama), ~$323B at the May 2026 peak, with remarkable resilience during a -48% crypto bear market. Concentration: USDT $186.35B (59.22%) and USDC ~$77B = 83.02% of the market. USDC: +28% supply growth in Q1 2026, on-chain volume +263% to $21,500B.
The market processed >$33,000B in…
Title: The tokenized real-world asset market has fundamentally changed. It's no longer a bet on token appreciation: it has become a cash flow engine, rents, interest, coupons distributed automatically via smart contract. Analysis of a paradigm shift. In 2021, tokenization evoked speculative art NFTs. In August 2026, it evokes something else: ~$34.5 billion in tokenized…