Daniel Alecio

1 day ago | thestreet.com | Daniel Alecio |Robert Powell

In a world of bots and synthetic fraud, the next battle for identity isn’t about who you are — it’s about proving you’re real. You don’t notice identity until it fails. Until the login doesn’t work, the KYC flags, or the system freezes because some server in some jurisdiction doesn’t recognize you. That’s the problem decentralized identity is trying to erase. You don’t notice identity until it fails.

1 week ago | thestreet.com | Daniel Alecio |Robert Powell

Ondo Finance has unveiled the Global Markets Alliance, a new industry coalition uniting leading wallets, exchanges, and custodians to create shared standards and infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Founding members include the Solana Foundation, Bitget Wallet, Trust Wallet, Rainbow Wallet, Jupiter, BitGo, Fireblocks, 1inch, and Alpaca.

4 weeks ago | thestreet.com | Daniel Alecio |Robert Powell

Stablecoins made the dollar 24/7. Ondo is doing the same for Treasuries—and, eventually, all of capital markets. The old system still sleeps. Closes on weekends. Clears trades in days. Moves money in loops and calls it “settlement.” A slow maze of custodians, paper trails, and batch processors dressed up as modern finance. Everyone nods. No one questions the lag. It’s a scaffold of rules and rituals. Stitched together by inertia, policy, and trust in institutions that forgot how to earn it.