San Francisco, CA – $NEAR is launching Near.com, a new crypto wallet and consumer app that aims to make blockchain technology feel as simple as using a traditional finance app, while positioning itself at the intersection of crypto and artificial intelligence (AI). Polosukhin previously co-authored the paper that introduced the transformer model, the architecture underpinning
Funton.ai, a major “Tap-to-Earn” (T2E) multi-game platform on Telegram and LINE, has announced its landmark strategic partnership with LF Wallet, a multi-chain, non-custodial wallet for storing assets and interacting across the ecosystem. The primary objective of this collaboration is to secure the multi-chain wallet in Web3 gaming for seamless flow. 🤝 https://t.co/UZaXmZkMH0 is partnering with
Flux ecosystem, a decentralized cloud infrastructure that provides advanced computational resources for developers to build Web3 applications, today announced a strategic partnership with CZR Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange that simplifies and secures people’s crypto trading journey. The collaboration enabled CZR Exchange to integrate Flux’s cloud computing infrastructure into its crypto trading platform, a move that
AI agents are becoming persistent, autonomous, and deeply embedded in everyday workflows. But as they gain the ability to act on our behalf, a harder question emerges: who controls the data, the execution, and the trust layer? — Today, $NEAR AI introduced its answer. Announced live at NEARCON 2026, IronClaw is a new open-source, verifiable
Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, has announced the formation of the RealFi Alliance, a strategic initiative aimed at bringing greater standardization and coordination to institutional real-world asset (RWA) activity onchain, according to an announcement shared with Finbold on February 23. The alliance brings together asset issuers, financial infrastructure providers, and onchain builders to
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The DeFi landscape is currently in the process of transitioning from fragmented liquidity to a single, unified, omnichain future. To facilitate cross-chain interaction, Oku (an advanced trading platform built on the Uniswap v3 network) has just announced its integration with Circle’s Cross Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP). Customers will now be able to transfer their native
The combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence is widely regarded as the next major evolution in digital commerce. However, the inability of automated agents to conduct transactions autonomously has so far made large-scale adoption difficult to achieve. To address this problem, Xyber has formed a significant alliance with Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 Network launched by
$BNB Chain has introduced a new privacy feature for its ecosystem. On February 23, the network confirmed that zERC20 has officially launched zBN. It is a privacy-preserving version of $BNB. The tool allows users to hide sender details, receiver information, balances and transaction history while still using $BNB normally. zBNB by @zERC20io is now live,
DFlow’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) has officially been launched, marking a significant milestone where Artificial Intelligence meets Decentralized Finance. The MCP was created to be a universal tool for trading that can be used by AI agents on the Solana and will change the way that automated entities operate with on-chain liquidity in the future.