Blog Netts
Notes from the Netts team: TRON fees, USDT transfers, APIs and the crypto industry.
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Crypto and Pirates: Black Markets That Refuse to Die
From Bartholomew Roberts' gallows to Houthi-linked TRON wallets — a clear-eyed look at maritime piracy's longest-running trick: making money disappear.
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Crypto and Insurance: Biggest Problems and Obstacles
Why crypto insurance is harder than it looks — regulatory limbo, oracle risk, missing actuarial data, capital fragility and the recourse gap.
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How Crypto Affects Online Education
Online education's biggest unsolved problems — payments, credentials, incentives, fraud — and how crypto is quietly redrawing each of them.
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Crypto and Architecture: Buildings Funded by Tokens
Why architecture's slow payment cycles, supply chains and patronage models are gettin changed by crypto — fractional ownership, milestone payouts and more.
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Public Transit and Crypto: Tickets, Tokens, and Daily Commutes
Why public transit feels broken, what fare boxes actually cost to run, and where crypto is quietly rewiring the system.
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Influence of Crypto on the Auction Houses
From Banksy's shredder stunt to Christie's $69M NFT sale — how crypto has already touched the auction industry, where it's stuck, and why adoption is coming
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Crypto and Live Performance: Ticketing, Royalties and More
From Ticketmaster's grip to per-stream royalty math — how crypto is rewiring tickets, payouts, and the artist-fan relationship.
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Crypto and Telegram: Match Made in Heaven
Why crypto teams meet users in Telegram chat windows instead of making them download desktop apps - the format works.
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Never-ending Competition Within Layer 2: Who's Winning?
Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Starknet, Polygon — who's actually winning the Layer 2 fight, and what each contender is fighting for.
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How Wars Push Civilians and Refugees Towards Crypto
When banks pull out of war zones and currencies collapse, a phone with a stablecoin wallet becomes the last piece of civilization that fits in a pocket.
