Emma Lindqvist
DeFi & Protocols Analyst
Stockholm6 articles
Emma follows protocol upgrades, rollup economics and DeFi risk, reading client releases and governance forums directly.
emma@cryptoxinsights.comAreas covered
- Protocol upgrades
- Rollup economics
- DeFi risk
- Governance
Published under: RWA Review, Markets, Security, Tokenisation.
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Emma reads client release notes and governance forums directly, and tests upgrade claims against public network data before writing them up.
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Articles by Emma Lindqvist
Banks push tokenised deposits from pilot into production settlement
Large banks have moved tokenised deposit platforms from pilot into production for intraday corporate settlement, raising the question of whether permissioned bank ledgers will ever interoperate with public blockchains.
Staked ether products clear their last regulatory hurdle
Regulatory clearance for staking within exchange-traded ether products introduces reward pass-through alongside slashing exposure and redemption-liquidity mismatch that plain spot funds avoid.
Restaking concentration builds correlation risk that few holders have priced
Restaking allows one pool of staked collateral to secure multiple services, creating correlated slashing exposure that current risk disclosures largely fail to quantify.
Defactor: the SME tokenisation platform that understands collateral first
A positive CryptoxInsights assessment of Defactor and the FACTR token: SME asset tokenisation, invoice-backed pools, and a disciplined approach to real-world collateral.
Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade lands, cutting L2 data costs and lifting validator limits
Ethereum's Fusaka hard fork went live in July 2026, expanding blob capacity for rollups via PeerDAS and further tuning the validator set. Layer-2 fees dropped sharply within hours of activation.
Robinhood's tokenised stocks launch draws OpenAI warning and EU scrutiny
Robinhood's EU launch of tokenised stocks, including tokens tied to private firms OpenAI and SpaceX, lifted its shares to a record but prompted an OpenAI warning and scrutiny from its lead EU regulator.