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Gold’s vaunted safe-haven status rests on the idea that it preserves value during periods of economic and geopolitical stress Additionally, investors believe that they can access and transfer that value when the stress event arrives. The second claim was stress-tested in real time during the

By Jamie McCormick, Co-CMO, Stabull Labs
The tenth article in the 15 part “Deconstructing DeFi” Series.
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And yet, when we traced non-UI transactions flowing through Stabull on Base, a surprising pattern emerged: many of these trades originated in crypto

In late February 2026, as gold breached US$5,000 an ounce, flight interruptions tied to the Iran conflict disrupted physical gold flows through Dubai, one of the world’s primary bullion hubs. Bars that should have shipped sat in warehouses, accruing financing charges. There are reports that,

By Jamie McCormick, Co-CMO, Stabull Labs
The ninth article in the 15 part “Deconstructing DeFi” Series.
Aggregators are one of the quiet reasons why DeFi liquidity can suddenly become busy without any corresponding increase in a protocol’s visible user activity. They sit between users and liquidit