Honestly Goldman's European energy rationing call doesn't surprise me. A sustained Hormuz disruption will start hitting industrial output across Europe and Asia, and we're closer to that line than most people realize. I've been tracking this for a while now, and in my view,

The Middle East conflicts made one thing very clear. The current oil trading infrastructure was not built for volatility. Slow settlement and locked up capital become a crisis on top of a crisis when supply chains get disrupted. CoinDesk covered this more 👇

Quick breakdown of who is actually buying Venezuelan crude because I don't think enough people are tracking this. 🇺🇸 US is buying around 280 to 290 kb/d (thousand barrels per day), mostly Chevron. 🇨🇳 China is still in the game but volumes fluctuate, exact numbers are hard to

Brent $141… Let that sink in. The ATH is $147, hit in 2008 when the entire global economy was collapsing. We just matched that energy, except this time it's a war, a blocked strait, and zero signs of stopping. History doesn't repeat, but it's rhyming LOUD right now.

Tokenization doesn’t replace geopolitics or create ships, ports, or spare capacity. What it does is reduce paperwork drag, shorten settlement cycles, improve transparency, and help markets distribute risk and capital faster during oil shocks. My Co-Partner at INDEX breaks this

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If Venezuela's oil recovery keeps gaining ground, Chevron is the one company I keep coming back to as the clearest beneficiary. They have deep partnerships with PDVSA, active licenses, and they are already moving around 300,000 barrels per day into the US. They were already in

In oil markets, sweet and sour have nothing to do with taste, they describe sulfur content. Sweet crude has low sulfur, easier to refine, and commands a higher price. Sour crude carries more sulfur, requires additional processing, and trades at a discount. That difference in

Our Co-Founder Baron Lamarre discussed with Invezz how the Hormuz crisis is exposing the structural flaws of oil trading. Documentation failures, settlement delays, credit intermediation breaking down when speed matters most. That's the problem we are building to fix. Full

I spent years watching the same problem repeat itself. Deals stuck in paperwork for 90 days, capital locked up across banks and clearinghouses, and smaller players completely shut out. A $6 trillion market running on infrastructure built decades ago. CoinDesk covered why we

Supply shocks are fast, but the response isn’t. So what’s slowing oil markets down? Watch this to understand 👇

Energy Market Highlights: Crude pulled back this week after last week’s spike toward $140. Profit-taking and short-term stabilization brought prices slightly lower, but levels remain elevated. 1/5

Got a question this week that I think a lot of people are quietly wondering about. Why do US gas prices move when the Middle East escalates if America is the world's largest oil producer? Because crude is a global market. The moment supply anywhere looks threatened, every

The internet didn't kill retail, manufacturing, or logistics, it rebuilt the infrastructure everything runs on top of and changed who could participate. Index Litro is doing the same thing for energy. The commodity hasn't changed, the infrastructure it trades on is being

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Everyone kind of moved past it, but I can’t stop thinking about Ras Laffan. A 17% hit to LNG capacity, for up to five years. Feels like Europe and Asia are going to be dealing with this way longer than people expect, no matter how the conflict plays out.

A barrel of oil is 42 US gallons, why that uneven number? Early traders in the 1860s standardized around the wooden barrels they had on hand, and 42 gallons just stuck. Today, trillions in crude are still priced using a unit set by 19th century American wildcatters.

Everyone keeps asking if Trump’s Hormuz blockade actually works. I looked into it and figured out that most Iranian crude moves on Chinese-linked ships anyway. No scenario where the US Navy starts stopping those, so this changes nothing.

In a supply crisis, traditional finance slows when speed matters most. With verified and tokenized reserves, ownership transfer and settlement can happen in hours not weeks. That is the core problem we are designing LITRO to solve. Our Co-Founder breaks it down in full 👇

The market reaction now feels very different compared to a few months ago. One headline used to send oil flying instantly, now traders pause because they’ve already seen this play out.