U.S. equipment finance company Trad.Fi has announced plans to tokenize up to $650 million in equipment loan receivables on the Base, Arch, and Avalanche blockchains over the next four years. The initiative, reported by Cointelegraph, aims to bring greater efficiency to a traditionally slow and paper-intensive lending process. Tokenization to streamline equipment lending The tokenization
Shibarium is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on top of Ethereum that processes transactions off-chain in batches before settling them on the Ethereum mainnet. Launched on August 16, 2023, it was designed to solve two specific problems Shiba Inu ($SHIB) faced on Ethereum: high gas fees and slow throughput. By June 2026, the network
Travala launches AI travel protocol for autonomous bookings. Platform supports 2.2 million + hotels with on-chain $USDC payments. Developers earn 10% cbBTC rebates for AI-driven bookings. Travala has launched what it describes as the world’s first end-to-end agentic AI travel protocol, allowing autonomous artificial intelligence agents to search, book, and pay for travel services with
Lava Network, a blockchain infrastructure protocol, has signed a preliminary agreement to help design a tokenization sandbox for Alba Bay, a planned Caribbean residential development of more than 40,000 units. Lava said it is the protocol’s first real-world asset mandate. BHL says the project will span nearly 40 million square meters, cost multiple billions of
ZK blockchain project Hyli is shutting down after two years, with the team citing weak market demand for zero-knowledge technology as the decisive factor. “ZK has not gained the traction we had hoped for,” the team said in an announcement posted Wednesday on X, adding that it sees no viable path to launching the network
Flare co-founder Hugo Philion has confirmed that the team is exploring a LayerZero Decentralized Verifier Network. His remarks followed a community proposal involving FXRP and the Cardano ecosystem. Philion did not confirm that Flare plans to bring FXRP to Cardano. The discussion remains at an early stage, with no launch date, technical plan or formal
KB Kookmin Bank has officially become the first South Korean bank to raise $100 million through a blockchain-based dollar bond. The company used HSBC’s Orion digital asset platform for the two-year note. HSBC is acting as the sole lead manager of the deal, as KB Kookmin Bank said it expects to offset some issuance costs
Pyth Network, a blockchain oracle and market data provider, has launched new pricing indexes for US stocks and commodities, a move aimed at supporting around-the-clock trading products across crypto exchanges. The company announced Wednesday that Coinbase, Kraken, dYdX and Nado are already using the indexes to power new trading markets. According to Pyth, the indexes
NBA Top Shot decentralized storage IPFS is now at the center of one of the platform’s biggest infrastructure changes yet. Every Moment on the platform — the video highlight, the thumbnail, and the metadata — is now preserved on decentralized IPFS storage, so collectors can verify what they own without asking for permission or logging
M3 DAO, a community-driven Web3 infrastructure platform, has partnered with RATGPT, a renowned decentralized entity. The partnership endeavors to combine the community-led infrastructure of M3 DAO with the cutting-edge platform of RATGPT for the development, trading, and tokenization of independent AI agents. As per M3 DAO’s official social media announcement, with the merger of token-based