New research examines how investor behavior, wallet architectures, and operational security practices determine what genuine self-custody requires in 2026.
Kyrian Alex
Kyrian Alex is a staff writer at Cointelegraph and a research analyst at Cointelegraph Research, where he focuses on core decentralized finance infrastructure and related products. He has over six years of experience in digital assets and has worked with Cointelegraph Research since 2024. His academic background in mechatronics and control systems engineering informs his analytical approach to blockchain research.
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Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins: What True Self-Custody Actually Requires - Research
How Batched Threshold Encryption could end extractive MEV and make DeFi fair again BTE offers epochless, constant-size decryption shares (as small as 48 bytes) that can help layer-2 rollups to achieve pending transaction privacy.
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