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
As quantum computing advances, post-quantum cryptography is rapidly moving from niche research topic to a core pillar of long-term cybersecurity planning for governments and enterprises. Summary Report overview and strategic context Standards and regulation driving quantum-safe migration Momentum in PQC adoption and key use cases From experimentation to production deployment Investment, innovation, and market dynamics
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.
Neo SPCC has published NeoFS Node v0.51.1, a follow-up to the v0.51.0 release that shipped earlier this month. The update focuses on new administration and diagnostic tooling, several storage-layer bug fixes, and performance improvements to metabase resynchronization. NeoFS Node v0.51.1 The v0.51.1 release introduces new CLI commands and a storage node observability metric alongside a
Crypto built the plumbing, but it still hasn’t built the products. This was a common theme at the annual Ethereum development conference $ETH Denver last week, as attendees attempted to shift the focus away from a continually down market and to building better Web3 products. Two prominent voices at the event, $ETH Denver founder John
Haseeb Qureshi, general partner at Dragonfly Capital, says that crypto infrastructure will ultimately be mass adopted by machines, not humans. Qureshi Says Crypto Technology Works, But Not for “Our Society’ In an article posted to X, Qureshi addresses the “fantastical story” that everyone would begin using smart contracts, rather than traditional legal contracts, for everything.