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James Okafor

James Okafor is a Reporter covering DeFi and Emerging Protocols at The Chain Journal, focusing on protocol mechanics, liquidity dynamics, and the gap between whitepaper promises and on-chain reality. He examines how decentralised finance protocols actually function in practice, beyond the marketing, to give readers a grounded view of the space.

Programmable money enters the public sector

South Korea to pilot tokenized deposits for government spending

A Pilot With Fiscal Teeth South Korea’s latest blockchain test is more than a technology demo. By piloting tokenized deposits for government spending, policymakers are moving programmable money from theory into public administration. The sandbox is designed to test preset…

WLFI unlock plan splits its own whales

Trump’s World Liberty under fire for ‘absurd’ token unlock plan

A Governance Vote That Feels Like a Test World Liberty Financial is not just arguing about a token schedule. It is arguing about who really controls the token. Justin Sun, one of the project’s most prominent backers, blasted the latest…