In a landmark move for South Korea’s burgeoning digital finance sector, artificial intelligence firm Focus AI has finalized its acquisition of the Busan Digital Asset Exchange (Bdan). This pivotal transaction, confirmed on February 27, 2025, positions Focus AI as the controlling shareholder with a 40.61% stake. Consequently, the deal marks a significant consolidation within Asia’s
CertiK has released a new Top 10 AI Agent leaderboard on $BNB Chain using Skynet intelligence platform, which has put a spotlight on the accelerated emergence of AI-native apps in the blockchain ecosystem. The initiative presents projects that construct autonomous onchain AI agents, focusing on security, transparency, and operational resilience. According to CertiK the aim
The altcoin and blockchain projects with the most users, based on weekly active user count in the cryptocurrency market, have been announced. Data calculated using a 7-day moving average shows the number of unique transaction addresses on the networks and offers important clues about user engagement and adoption levels. Here are the altcoin networks with
Blockchains and artificial intelligence are complementary technologies, according to crypto asset manager Grayscale, even as markets have recently treated them as part of the same trade. Zach Pandl, Grayscale’s head of research, said that while disruptive technologies tend to produce clear winners and losers, the relationship between AI and blockchain is more symbiotic than competitive.
Network News AXIOM EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF ALLEGEDLY INSIDER TRAINING BY ZACHXBT: Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT said a senior employee at onchain trading platform Axiom Exchange allegedly abused internal access to user data to track private wallets and potentially trade memecoins using inside information. In a thread posted to X, ZachXBT said Broox Bauer, a New York-based
Decibel, a perpetuals exchange developed by Aptos Labs, launched today on the Aptos mainnet, bringing fully on-chain derivatives trading to the blockchain network. The platform executes all trading operations directly on-chain, including order matching, settlement, and risk management. During its public testing period, Decibel attracted more than 700,000 unique accounts and processed over one million
Patrick Collison and John Collison, founders of the payments company Stripe, stated on social network X that blockchain networks will need to handle up to 1 billion transactions per second (TPS) to meet future demand from AI agents. Otherwise, current infrastructure will fail to keep up with the surge in automated online transactions. The Collison
DoubleZero, a crypto infrastructure startup co-founded by former Solana Foundation executive Austin Federa, is rolling out a major update aimed at spreading Solana’s network more evenly around the world, and making it faster in the process. On Mar. 9, the company will launch “Phase II” of its DoubleZero Delegation Program, redirecting 2.4 million $SOL from
TL;DR: The architecture integrates Prividium as a private execution layer and Phylax for deterministic risk controls. The system enables the native issuance of tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and Real-World Assets (RWA) with total privacy. Thanks to Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs, entities achieve cryptographic integrity without exposing sensitive data. The global banking sector has moved past debating the
Financial technology firm Stripe says blockchains may need to process up to 1 billion transactions per second to support the future of artificial intelligence agents. In an annual letter posted to X on Tuesday, Stripe CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison and co-founder John Collison gave a rundown of the firm’s performance over 2025, while also