Stories tagged “Blockchain.”
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Banks and financial regulators across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia are participating in a pilot program to test quantum-resistant infrastructure for digital asset wallets and onchain transfers.
The Paul Ryan American Idea Foundation and Digital Asset plan to pilot a blockchain-based system for distributing state-administered benefits across three US states using the Canton Network.
Solana has reduced its blockchain slot time to 350 milliseconds, marking the first such reduction since its inception, as part of a broader strategy to achieve a 200-millisecond target.
MANTRA token sank 18.5% to a record low after MANTRA Chain halted production due to an unexplained incident. The token later recovered to $0.0044, but trading volume surged 600% to $24 million.
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass legislation establishing clear rules for digital assets, following a White House meeting with industry executives. Cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related stocks surged on Thursday.
Optimism's governance has approved a proposal to repurpose 546.9 million OP tokens previously reserved for user airdrops to support ecosystem growth and institutional adoption.
Coinbase's Base is launching a new startup accelerator program focused on AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The program will select 10 startups for an eight-week virtual program and provide each selected team with a $100,000 investment.
Shanghai has unveiled a five-year plan to significantly boost its digital economy, focusing on blockchain technology and AI infrastructure to compete with leading tech hubs like Beijing and Shenzhen.
Ripple has raised $275 million in a senior note offering to support its expansion into traditional financial services, including prime brokerage and multi-asset clearing, citing strong demand from institutions.
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has announced he is coming out of retirement to lead Flop Labs, an AI inference protocol, and plans a significant token airdrop in Q4 2026.
The FASB proposed guidance outlining when companies may classify certain stablecoins as cash equivalents under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The proposal adds illustrative examples to the current definition, addressing inconsistent treatme…
Asset manager Neuberger has launched its first tokenized fixed-income fund through Securitize, offering an actively managed high-yield strategy across four blockchains. The fund will invest primarily in high-yield bonds, with additional exposure to collateralized loan obl…
Cash App is expanding its cryptocurrency offerings beyond bitcoin and USDC through crypto payments platform MoonPay. Eligible Cash App users will be able to use their balances to purchase tokens such as ether, solana, XRP, and USDT.
The Ethereum Foundation has issued a warning that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade's gas-model changes could break existing wallets, indexers, and gas estimators.
Harmony plans to roll back its blockchain to Aug. 11 following an exploit that created forged ONE tokens, discarding more than 109,000 transactions confirmed after its chosen checkpoint.
Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis has sued the United States government over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decision to award a sole-source contract to competitor TRM Labs. The contract is valued at about $94.6 million and covers forensic software and…
Ethereum developers are reviewing 66 proposals for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, scheduled for 2027, with a primary focus on integrating native privacy capabilities into the protocol.
Etherealize CEO Vivek Raman warns that the resurgence of private, permissioned blockchain networks risks recreating siloed systems that undermine the interoperability and liquidity blockchain technology was meant to enable.
Neutrl has suspended minting and redemptions for its NUSD synthetic dollar due to unspecified circumstances affecting protocol reserves. The protocol did not identify the affected asset or counterparty, nor provide a timeline for resuming operations.
Figure Technology Solutions reported $4.3 billion in consumer loan marketplace volume for the second quarter, up 132% from a year earlier, as its quarterly profit nearly tripled.
The Blockchain Association has filed an amicus brief in support of Custodia Bank's petition for Supreme Court review, arguing that the Federal Reserve should not have the power to deny payment system access to eligible state-chartered banks.
An Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) shareholder, Rosherville Pty Ltd, plans to seek Federal Court permission to sue former ASX officers and directors over alleged breaches of duty related to its abandoned blockchain-based CHESS overhaul.
Crypto exchange Coinsbuy suffered an $8 million loss in a coordinated attack across TRON and Ethereum, with funds routed through instant exchanges. Blockchain researchers linked the operations via a cross-chain swapper, though the attack vector remains unknown.
The first sign that quantum computing has broken modern cryptography probably won't be a splashy theft of Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant Bitcoin. It could just be a wave of unrelated crypto wallet breaches with no trace of how an attacker did it, according to the founder of b…
BIP-110, a proposal to eradicate spam from the blockchain, has been pronounced Dead On Arrival after securing just 2.5% support. CLARITY, a Senate bill aimed at regulating stablecoins, has been punted to September. Bitcoin security group Bitcoin Red Team has found nearly …
A minority Bitcoin chain split off from the main network on Saturday, but it mined only two blocks in about eight hours before stalling, falling dozens of blocks behind the main network. The fork, which inherited Bitcoin's difficulty setting with barely any hashpower, was…
A Bitcoin branch enforcing BIP-110 has stalled after mining only two blocks, widening the gap with the non-enforcing chain due to insufficient hashpower support during its mandatory signaling period.
A minority chain supporting Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 (BIP-110) stalled after mining only two blocks in eight hours, while the main Bitcoin chain advanced by 48 blocks.
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) has entered its mandatory-signaling phase, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation.
Nansen founder Alex Svanevik believes Bitcoin will never dip below $60K again, citing the growth of trading in real-world assets and the increasing maturity of the crypto industry.