CoinMENA, Revolut Expand UAE Financial Services Footprint
Crypto exchange CoinMENA has entered a banking agreement with Standard Chartered to strengthen fiat payment infrastructure for customers in the...
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Equipment Finance Platform Trad.Fi to Bring $650M in Private Credit Onchain
US-based equipment finance platform Trad.Fi announced plans to bring up to $650 million in private credit onchain over the next...
Pudgy Penguins Winds Down Pudgy Party After 1M Downloads
Non-fungible token (NFT) project Pudgy Penguins is winding down its mobile game Pudgy Party and halting further development.In an X...
Onchain Gambling Defies Crypto Pullback With $14B Quarter: TRM Labs
Prediction markets overtook onchain gambling for the first time in the opening quarter of 2026, recording $36.6 billion in volume...
LG Electronics, Arbitrum Launch Blockchain Ad Network
South Korean tech giant LG Electronics is working with the Ethereum layer-2 network Arbitrum to build a blockchain-based advertising network...
TRM Warns of World Cup Crypto Scams Targeting Fans
TRM Labs warned that crypto scammers are targeting FIFA World Cup fans through fake ticketing sites, fixed-match betting schemes and...
Franklin Templeton, BNP Paribas See Tokenization Boosting EU’s Capital Efficiency
Large financial institutions are turning to tokenization to improve capital efficiency and liquidity, according to representatives from Franklin Templeton and...
Botanix Pulls Plug on Bitcoin L2 After 4 Years as Fee Income Falls Short
Key TakeawaysBitcoin L2 network Botanix is winding down all operations after a 4-year effort to build on the blockchain.The team...
Privacy Push Accelerates as StarkWare and Sui Launch Compliance-Ready Confidential Transfers
StarkWare and Sui launched new privacy features this week that allow users to conceal transaction data without fully sacrificing auditability...
Yuga Labs Developers Rescue 68 NFTs From Flooring Exploit
Yuga Labs-affiliated developers rescued 68 non-fungible tokens from Flooring Protocol after an exploit put NFTs from collections including Bored Apes...
Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement for Card Transactions
Mastercard announced its plans to expand its settlement capabilities to let issuers and acquirers settle some card transactions using regulated...
Travala Launches AI Hotel Booking Protocol With USDC on Base
Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for...
Zcash Developers Weigh New Shielded Pool After Orchard Bug
Zcash developers and researchers are discussing whether a new shielded pool could help restore supply verification confidence after a recently...
Russian Ruble Stablecoin Kept Growing Despite Western Sanctions: CertiK
The Russian ruble-backed A7A5 stablecoin continued to grow despite Western sanctions, processing more than $110 billion in cumulative onchain transactions,...
Zcash Fixes Privacy Pool Bug After Explorer Confusion
Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after discovering a critical vulnerability in the privacy-focused blockchain’s latest shielded pool, then restored...
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin for Remittance Network
MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a US dollar stablecoin on Stellar, as the remittance company deepens its push into blockchain-based cross-border payments.The...
Sui Addresses Three Network Outages With Major Upgrade
The Sui Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Sui Network, says it has made a “major upgrade” to address issues...
Vietnam Proposes Allowing SMEs to Use Digital Assets as Loan Collateral
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed letting small and medium-sized enterprises use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as...
Sui Network Goes Down for Second Day in a Row
The Sui layer-1 blockchain experienced another disruption on Friday, causing a “network stall” that temporarily halted block production, before normal...
NYSE Parent ICE Seeks ‘Level Playing Field’ for 24/7 Onchain Perps
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is urging regulators to allow regulated exchanges to...
BIS Project Agorá Shows Tokenized Payments Cut Settlement Risk
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report Wednesday on Project Agorá, an experimental prototype for cross-border wholesale payment.The...
Tezos Developers Test quantum-Resistant Blockchain Privacy System
Developers behind the Tezos ecosystem launched a testnet prototype for private blockchain payments designed to resist future quantum computing attacks,...
