Backpack, a major crypto exchange and wallet recognised for its efficient customer experience and flexibility across multi-assets, enabled a strategic integration into Aptos, a Layer-1 blockchain designed to deliver fast, secure, and scalable DApps (decentralized applications). Aptos announced the development via its X’s social media account. This partnership represents a huge achievement for the wallet
Ripple CTO David Schwartz recently announced he was stepping back from his role as Ripple’s chief technology officer, sparking reactions from the XRP and broader crypto community. An X user, in reaction to Schwartz’s announcement of his resignation, pleaded with the Ripple CTO to “kindly continue working on Coil.” Kindly continue working on “coil” Its
Key Takeaways BlackRock’s BUIDL fund gained $600 million in AUM in just two weeks, primarily on Ethereum. The BUIDL fund is now issued natively on seven major blockchains, including Ethereum, Aptos, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund has gained $600 million in assets under management over the past two weeks on Ethereum,
The perpetuals race has a new entrant in open beta. Lighter has opened its public mainnet after roughly eight months in private testing, positioning itself as an Ethereum-settled alternative to the current leaders. Under the hood, Lighter is a zk-rollup purpose-built for perps. A centralized sequencer batches orders, but state transitions — price-time-priority matching, liquidations,
Citadel Wallet has unveiled Suiball, the first hardware wallet designed specifically for the Sui blockchain. Summary Suiball uses clear signing to display all transaction details in a human-readable format, reducing the risks of blind signing. The wallet supports native Sui assets such as WAL, DEEP, NS, and NFTs, and integrates with DeFi platforms including Suilend,
At the X Layer offline, the CEO of the OKX Star Xu has stated that the strategic priority of the corporation is the establishment of an open blockchain network. He confirmed that the Ethereum Layer 2 rollup, X Layer, will be the basic infrastructure of the OKX Wallet and exchange. Three Phases of X Layer
Mantle, a blockchain platform backed by crypto exchange Bybit, is expanding to the fast-growing real-world asset (RWA) sector with a new tokenization service designed to bring traditional finance on blockchain rails The protocol’s Tokenization-as-a-Service platform, unveiled on Thursday at the Token2049 event in Singapore, offers a set of compliance services like licensing, know-your-customer (KYC) tools,
A new project wants to give blockchains their own “fast lane” on the internet. The DoubleZero Foundation announced Thursday that its highly anticipated mainnet-beta is live. DoubleZero is a network built to speed up how blockchain validators talk to each other. Instead of relying on the public internet, which can sometimes be slow and unpredictable,
After a recent beta, OVERTAKE has flipped the switch on its official marketplace, and this time it’s leaning hard on Sui and a dash of AI to make buying and selling in-game items actually pleasant. The pitch is simple: take the messy parts of Web2 trading (high fees, slow or restricted settlements, clunky payment flows)
US broker-dealer Alpaca has launched an Instant Tokenization Network (ITN) that allows institutions to mint and redeem tokenized US stocks directly, a move that could help boost onchain liquidity in a segment of the tokenization market still constrained by structural barriers. The ITN enables institutions to tokenize portfolios with a single API call and redeem