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Tokenized commodities such as gold, silver and copper are now a $5.5B market.
Why did almost 90% of the growth come from gold?
Silver, copper and others have the demand, but not yet what allocators check first: verifiable reserves and a reference price. Full analysis below.
Reading the full legal documentation gives you the full picture of what an asset really is. That is where Block Analitica starts its risk assessment.
From there the approach to outcomes is conservative. Whenever something can't be fully verified, or there is a bit of uncertainty, they model the worst case scenario to see whether the structure can still cover even the worst losses.
Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica on Beyond Yield.
Our full conversation with Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica is now live on Beyond Yield.
Watch it now:
youtube.com/watch?v=IGBa80li…
The new wave of tokenized equities trading needs complex price feeds with verifiable freshness and market-state awareness.
DIA provides both for ST0x. Each price carries a signed observation timestamp and freshness logic is applied per market session.
Glamsterdam is on track for mainnet before year's end, with lots of EIPs that improve and scale DeFi on Ethereum. Builders should start preparing their protocols now.
Oct 6: Sepolia live, finalized cleanly
Oct 26: Hoodi, the testnet that staking pools, home stakers, node operators and consensus-layer clients treat as the closest rehearsal to mainnet
Dec: Mainnet
DIA · Blockchain Oracles retweeted
TOKEN2049 felt different this year, and not only because the air quality index was 150.
In a room full of what CT calls "BD Larps" there was some gold, and it's being tokenized.
5 things I'm bringing back from Singapore:
Do you know how Sky has one of the best and most advanced risk frameworks in DeFi?
Sky holds allocators to one of the toughest risk standards in DeFi.
Before they deploy, they post their own capital against the risk.
That capital is segregated and absorbs any loss first.
Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica breaks down how it works on Beyond Yield
Our full conversation with Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica is live on Beyond Yield:
youtube.com/watch?v=IGBa80li…
DIA wrapped up TOKEN2049 week with a great closed-door event co-hosted with @pharos_network.
Somehow, the best conversations always happen in rooms like this.
At one point this year we were seeing a new DeFi hack almost every week.
AI gets a lot of the blame. Anthony DeMartino, CEO of @SentoraHQ, thinks that's a bit overplayed. The last 8 to 10 came down to keys, liquidity and misconfigured oracles. None of it needed AI to find
Watch the full Beyond Yield episode with Anthony DeMartino from @SentoraHQ:
youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9MmpXE…
S&P is building ratings for onchain lending vaults. Deposits in those vaults went from $1.5B to $10B in 2 years and a rating needs vaults and curators that can be compared.
DIA's vaults map puts them side by side across 70+ chains:
diadata.org/map/defi-vaults-…
THE BLOCK: S&P Global Ratings has launched a new risk assessment framework for onchain lending vaults as deposits in the sector reach $10 billion, up from $1.5 billion two years ago.
The framework will assess credit, liquidity, curator, blockchain, protocol, security, and governance risks, with initial vault assessments to follow.
Everyone knows the institutions are coming to DeFi.
Is JP Morgan going to curate a vault on Morpho, with the rest of the banks right behind?
The answer starts with bank capital rules.
Anthony DeMartino, CEO of @SentoraHQ, on Beyond Yield.
. @vetro_org treats the tech stack behind a stablecoin as the real risk decision. Get the infrastructure or the price feed wrong and the peg goes with it.
Vetro was built with that in mind, even down to a mode that keeps user exits open if the price feed itself ever gets disrupted. That's what building maturely, with institutional standards in mind, looks like.
DIA provides reliable price feeds for VUSD and sVUSD.
Isolating markets doesn't isolate risk.
Morpho separates lending into independent markets, but vaults still concentrate liquidity into the same ones. When one of those markets takes a loss, every vault allocated to it takes the hit together.
Lee McClelland from @NexusMutual.
Watch the full Beyond Yield episode with Lee McClelland from @NexusMutual: youtu.be/R1eGBSzlE6g?si=jSE8…
The Glamsterdam upgrade is going to be something every DeFi and Ethereum builder should look at carefully. It touches block capacity, transaction processing, gas costs, validator operations, and staking rewards. In total, up to 18 EIPs are reshaping the network.
Where things stand right now:
Sep 14: Devnet-11, a private test network, went live.
Sep 16: Ethereum Foundation AMA on Reddit with protocol researchers.
Oct 6: Sepolia, Ethereum's public testnet, switches on the new rules.
Q4 '26: Mainnet
