Announcing the Winners: 2025/2026 Block Awards

NEW YORK, January 16, 2026 (Newswire.com)
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Introduced by Webacy, the 2025/2026 Block Awards acknowledge the infrastructure, establishments, and protocols which have moved crypto from experimentation to real-world financial affect. This yr’s awards prioritize adoption, safety, regulatory power, and actual utility.

This yr, our awards prioritize 4 essential areas: adoption, safety, regulatory power, and actual utility.

We had 4 classes:

• Greatest RWA/Privateness Chain: In response to the surge in new chains catering to the wants of establishments and particular person privateness.

• Greatest Stablecoin Innovation: To mirror the many corporations that launched and pivoted into stablecoins and responding to market wants round yield, custody, and investing merchandise.

• Greatest TradFi Crypto Incumbent: Rewarding the largest TradFi corporations in the world which have taken the leap into crypto.

• Most Progressive Use of DeFi: As DeFi matured, some groups have constructed stable, safe improvements to revolutionize yield, investing, and optionality.

How the Block Awards are Judged

Winners had been chosen utilizing a tailor-made framework designed round its function in the ecosystem:

• RWA/Privateness Chains: Objective-built structure, actual worth secured, and the stability between compliance and resilience.

• Stablecoin Innovation: Actual-world utility, pace and price benefits, liquidity reliability, and on/off-ramp accessibility.

• TradFi Crypto Incumbents: Depth of on-chain integration, institutional capital migration, and abstraction of crypto complexity.

• Progressive Use of DeFi: Capital effectivity, novelty of monetary primitives, and safety monitor report.

The judging panel included executives from Canton, Reown, Hedera, Crossmint, Motive Companions, GSR, Dune, and Arculus. Please see our separate X post appreciating their efforts and place in this ecosystem. Their scoring rubric, mixed with a People’s Choice voting system (which noticed 1,000+ votes) is what culminated into the last winners. Judges didn’t decide prospects or companions, or themselves.

And with out additional ado, listed here are the winners ranked from 1st to third.

Most Progressive Use of DeFi:

1. Uniswap

2. Babylon

3. Morpho

Greatest Stablecoin Innovation:

1. PayPal

2. Bridge (Stripe)

3. Stable.xyz

Greatest TradFi Crypto Incumbent:

1. BlackRock

2. Visa

3. Franklin Templeton

Greatest RWA / Privateness Chain:

1. Canton

2. Ondo Finance / Noble

3. Plume Community

“We’re seeing a transparent sign: The market is rewarding infrastructure that really works at scale and is in the end trusted,” mentioned Maika Isogawa, CEO of Webacy. “These winners aren’t simply experimenting with crypto: They’re operationalizing it in ways in which customers, establishments, and regulators can depend on.”

This yr’s Block Awards mirror a maturing business – one the place safety, compliance, capital effectivity, and value more and more matter greater than hype.

At Webacy and DD.xyz, we’ll proceed constructing the instruments that assist customers and establishments perceive threat, confirm belief, and establish actual infrastructure leaders.

Congratulations to all of this yr’s winners.

CONTACT:
Maika Isogawa
maikaisogawa@webacy.com

SOURCE: DD by Webacy Inc.

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