Common Prefix

Common Prefix is taking the lead stewardship role of Axelar. We are excited to share our plans for 2026, with more details to be announced in Q1. Our team consists of scientists–professors, PhDs, and post-docs–from world-renowned universities like Stanford, Imperial, ETH Zürich, and University of Edinburgh. But also senior engineers with decades of experience in hedge funds, TradFi, and Web3. We bridge the gap between science and engineering. We are razor-sharp focused on institutional adoption. For this, we will double down on the ecosystems that matter like XRPL, Sui, Solana, Ethereum, Stellar, and Hyperliquid. We will make sure that supported connections bring value to the ecosystem, and the right incentives for validators. For institutional, we need increased economic security. We’ll enable co-staking of blue chip tokens beyond just AXL. Privacy, compliance, and robustness will also be a theme for the year. For bridging, we will remove friction of moving assets from chain to chain by introducing gasless bridging. Subsidies will come from investing capital locked in gateway contracts, creating novel asset classes. Users will always have the choice to act according to their risk appetite. Lastly, we’re building up-the-stack in select key verticals: stablecoins, tokenized deposits, yield, and lending. A fusion of new chains creates an opportunity for new emerging asset classes.

Dr. Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos, Blockchain Scientist at Common Prefix, will present "BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers" in Athens on November 19. The paper introduces the first light-client-based Bitcoin bridge: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1158 Register: luma.com/j277q0ee

Building on Bitcoin: Common Prefix x RootstockCollective Georgia Vasileiou, Community Manager at @RootstockColl, will open the evening with "Introducing RootstockCollective", a talk on the decentralized DAO scaling Bitcoin via Rootstock. 📅 November 19 🕕 18:00–21:00 Register: luma.com/j277q0ee

Season 1 of Honest Majority has come to an end. Thank you to all our guests, and to everyone who tuned in. All episodes are available at: commonprefix.com/podcast

Building on Bitcoin: Common Prefix x @RootstockColl Interested in how DeFi is being built on Bitcoin? Join us in Athens for an evening of talks with builders and researchers. 📅 November 19 🕕 18:00–21:00 Register: luma.com/j277q0ee

For most of its history, @axelar has operated as infrastructure largely unseen by end users, powering cross-chain movement for the applications built on top of it. Axelar is now open to everyone, marking a shift from serving users only through partner applications to also engaging with them directly.

4,000 followers! Thank you to everyone supporting our goal of creating certainty in mission-critical systems.

Common Prefix's very own Nikolaos Kamarinakis, Dejan Cabrilo and Odysseas Sofikitis will serve as mentors and judges at the XRP Ledger Hackathon in New York on October 24–25. Hosted by @xrpl_commons with @XRPLF & @RippleSwell. Apply to participate: luma.com/xrpl-hackathon-nyc

Thank you to everyone who joined the Rust Meetup and made it a great evening. See you at the next one.

A look back at the season finale of Honest Majority with Nikolas Kamarinakis (@nikolaskama), Co-Founder & CTO of Common Prefix. Highlights from the conversation below.