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Insights, product updates, and announcements from the HighTower team.
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What Is NEAR—and What Are NEAR Intents
Cross-chain swaps reimagined — one outcome request, one settlement layer.
Polymarket Isn't About Betting: How Liquidity Prices Reality
Why prediction markets are eating traditional polling, the Wall Street invasion, and how stablecoin liquidity became the new consensus mechanism for political volatility.
Circle & ARC: The Payment Infrastructure Stack Emerging in LATAM
A deep-dive into how Circle and ARC are supporting payment startups, expanding into LATAM markets, and what the USDC growth curve actually looks like from the inside.
LayerZero’s Zero: Decoupling Execution From Settlement
LayerZero’s Zero redesigns L1 architecture by separating execution from settlement and introducing multi-zone heterogeneous validation.
RPC vs Full Node vs Indexer: What’s the Difference?
Understanding how RPC endpoints, full nodes, and indexers differ in blockchain infrastructure, and what each brings to builders and traders.
Blockchain Data Solutions: Building Reliable RPC and Indexer Infrastructure for Modern dApps
How modern dApps depend on RPC endpoints and blockchain indexers. Learn how scalable infrastructure, including ClickHouse-powered indexers and dedicated RPC nodes, improves performance and reliability.
The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents: From Moltbook to Self-Funded Crypto Activity
Autonomous AI agents are now provisioning infrastructure and transacting via Bitcoin Lightning. This article examines what’s real, what’s overhyped, and what it means for crypto infrastructure.
Citrea Bitcoin L2 Mainnet Campaign: Dashboard, Bridge, ctUSD & Metrics
An in-depth look at Citrea’s Bitcoin L2 mainnet launch: on-chain campaign metrics, ctUSD stablecoin design, BitVM bridge architecture, and early network performance.
Lightning Nodes Are More Profitable Now — But Not How You Think
Why Lightning node profitability is becoming real for some operators — and why capital concentration, automation, and liquidity management now matter more than uptime alone.
From Genesis Validator to Ecosystem Infrastructure: Building Somnia.info
How running a genesis validator and building Somnia.info turned HighTower into a trusted infrastructure partner within the Somnia ecosystem.
Lawyers Sell Uncertainty. Prediction Markets Quantify It
Why prediction markets might beat legal memos for regulatory scenario planning, and the liquidity problem on Polymarket.
What Is a Blockchain RPC Node and How It Works
A deep dive into how blockchain RPC nodes work, why they are critical infrastructure for Web3, and what happens when they become a bottleneck at scale.
Raiku: Current State, February 2026
Polymarket: How Prediction Markets Moved From Crypto Experiment to Financial Signal
"Polymarket is a blockchain-based prediction market built on Polygon, where users trade yes-or-no outcomes on real-world events using USDC.
VAULT: Building a Gasless Stablecoin Wallet
How HighTower and AdSkill built VAULT — a self-custodial stablecoin wallet with gas abstraction, designed for real-world payments.
Midl × HighTower: Supporting Bitcoin Abstraction Infrastructure
Midl is a Bitcoin-native abstraction layer designed to enable smart contract execution directly on Bitcoin without wrapped assets or external bridges.
HighTower × BOB: A Case Study in Strategic Community Partnership
BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer-2 designed to unlock native Bitcoin DeFi by enabling smart contracts secured by BTC.
Launching and Powering Infrastructure at Concero and Lanca: Logic & Verified Data
Next-generation modular cross-chain messaging protocol designed to unite blockchains through a single, decentralized data transmission layer.
BitBoard: Bringing Clarity to Bitcoin’s Layer-2 Ecosystem
How HighTower transformed internal Bitcoin L2 research into BitBoard — a comprehensive analytics platform tracking Bitcoin’s expanding Layer-2 ecosystem.
Asset Flow: From Capital to Consumption
BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is an EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer-2 designed to unlock native Bitcoin DeFi by enabling smart contracts secured by BTC.