Mastercard has taken another major step toward bridging traditional finance with blockchain. In a new collaboration with Chainlink, XSwap and Swapper Finance. The global payment giant is working to connect over 3.5 billion cardholders directly to the onchain economy. Chainlink Build member @xswap_link is helping connect Mastercard’s global payment network of over 3.5 billion cardholders
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. The second quarter of 2025 has been a reality check for blockchain scaling, and as capital keeps pouring into rollups and sidechains, the cracks in the layer-2 model are widening. The original
Fetch.ai, the earliest Web3 LLM, has collaborated with Minima, a prominent blockchain platform for scalability, security, and decentralization. The partnership is aimed at combining the on-chain data and agentic AI. As Fetch.ai pointed out in its exclusive announcement on X, the collaboration merges Minia’s Integritas mechanism with the ASI, One ecosystem of Fetch.ai. This remarkable
BNY and the National Bank of Canada went live this week with EquiLend’s 1Source platform, joining the blockchain-based system designed to eliminate manual trade reconciliations in the securities finance industry. The company that offers stock lending said a global broker-dealer will begin trading on the platform soon, with several other firms close to signing on.
Mahidol University’s Faculty of Engineering has signed a triparty Memorandum of Understanding with ZERO13 and Unique Transformation Co., Ltd. to accelerate the development of Thailand’s carbon credit ecosystem, strengthening education, research, technology and market access. The five‑year collaboration will pilot projects, deliver training and joint research, and conduct biannual reviews to build a transparent, high‑integrity
BNB Chain, the well-known decentralized blockchain ecosystem, has partnered with CMB International, a Hong Kong-based renowned investment bank. The partnership will let accredited investors access regulated real-world assets (RWAs) via secure tokenization on-chain through a $3.8B Money Market Fund. As BNB Chain’s official press release reveals, the development combines conventional financial potential with DeFi. Hence,
CoinEasy, a crypto platform simplifying blockchain access, is excited to announce its strategic partnership with Creditlink, an artificial intelligence (AI-powered) on-chain protocol. The basic purpose behind this collaboration is to upgrade the status of Web3 among users for its transparency, trust, and reputational mechanism. 🇺🇸 I 🇰🇷 🧡 CoinEasy Announces Partnership with Creditlink ✅ Creditlink
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and the creator of decentralized apps like BitChat and White Noise, likes the idea of having a decentralized GitHub. On X, a developer shared a screenshot of his suspended GitHub account. He said, “My GitHub account got suspended.” A second dev responded, saying there should be a distributed version to
Jovay Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) network backed by Ant Digital, a subsidiary of Alibaba, is catching eyes today after it proclaimed its alignment with Ethereum on social media. Despite many investors being surprised by the news, Jovay was originally revealed as an Ethereum L2 in April at the RWA Real Up conference in
Brevis is now knocking on the door of the Ethereum Foundation’s ultimate proving goals. Its latest numbers show 96.8% real-time coverage, putting it a whisper away from the sub-ten-second target that would redefine base-layer security. Summary Brevis’s Pico Prism zkVM has reached 99.6% proving coverage for Ethereum blocks under 12 seconds, with 96.8% verified in