GapLimit

Research · GapLimit

Follow infrastructure, incentives and power.

Evidence-led analysis of the systems connecting digital assets and global finance.

Rails · Payment infrastructure

Swift vs stablecoins: two very different ways money moves

A fair comparison of financial messaging, correspondent banking and blockchain-based dollar settlement.

Research · Infrastructure

Digital assets and traditional finance are solving different trust problems

Where banks, markets and blockchains are strong—and where each infrastructure model still fails.

Ownership · Institutional systems

Where a billion dollars of crypto actually lives

Institutional custody, key control, governance and how a large Bitcoin purchase reaches settlement without pretending to know a buyer's private book.

Research · Evidence ledger

What has crypto actually contributed?

A sober separation of established contributions, growing adoption, active experiments and unsupported hype.

Ownership · Value

Who owns crypto—and what makes it valuable?

A framework for known ownership, estimated behavior, long-term-holder metrics, and comparisons with gold and real estate.

Research · A fifteen-year audit

What did the crypto era actually prove?

A sober account of what survived repeated booms, crashes, failures, regulation and technical change—and what remains unproven.

Research · Measurement

The adoption atlas: who is using digital assets, and how?

A measurement-first map of individual, developer, company, institutional and public-sector activity without one misleading global score.

Research · Corporate evidence

Why companies adopt digital-asset infrastructure

Documented case studies of treasury, settlement, custody and market access—separating implemented products from promised benefits.

Research · Monetary systems

Crypto vs fiat: a comparison of claims, rails and trust

Cash, bank deposits, stablecoins and native crypto assets compared by issuer, settlement, reversibility, privacy, governance and failure mode.

Research · Scarcity

Bitcoin vs gold: two scarcity systems, not one slogan

A deep comparison of monetary history, supply, custody, verification, liquidity, portability, energy and institutional role.

Research · Culture and capital

Memecoins, technology projects and the market for attention

A non-romantic, non-dismissive analysis of cultural assets, technical infrastructure and how attention reallocates capital and risk.

Voices · Primary records

Landmark crypto writings—and what they did not say

A source-led reading room for the Bitcoin paper, Ethereum's original vision, the pizza record and the institutional access decision.