UAE Innovation City, the UAE’s AI-powered free zone in Ras Al Khaimah, has launched what it calls the first blockchain enabled digital business identity system, where each registered business in the freezone will receive a sovereign cryptographically verified identity built on IOPn blockchain, the OPN Chain. Innovation City, and IOPn are moving companies towards the
Agentic AI is gaining attention across finance, but the industry’s biggest obstacle is no longer whether the models are powerful enough. The harder problem is whether banks, asset managers, and treasury desks have the infrastructure to delegate financial tasks to autonomous systems without losing control of money, accountability, or compliance. A Deloitte poll of more
CiDi Games published a roadmap on May 3 for building a gaming layer on Pi Network. It covers a developer SDK, a browser-based gaming hub, and tools for outside studios to integrate Pi payments into their own games. Pi co-founders Chengdiao Fan and Nicolas Kokkalis speak at Consensus 2026 in Miami two days later. The
Grayscale Research said Ethereum, Solana, Canton, Avalanche, $BNB Chain, and Chainlink are positioned to benefit as tokenized assets expand. The firm estimated tokenized assets at about $30 billion, up 217% year-over-year. Key Takeaways: Grayscale identified Ethereum, Solana, Canton, Avalanche, $BNB Chain, and Chainlink as key beneficiaries of tokenization growth. Tokenized assets reached about $30 billion,
Dunamu, the Seoul-based fintech company behind South Korea’s dominant crypto exchange Upbit, has tapped the Optimism Foundation to underpin and scale its GIWA Chain using the OP Stack and integrate it into Optimism’s OP Enterprise framework. Unveiled last September, GIWA Chain is an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain focused on improving usability and accessibility in web3.
Lava Network, a decentralized Remote Procedure Call (RPC) routing protocol built for providing fast, reliable, and secure data access for blockchain applications, has announced its strategic partnership with Bitcore, the first decentralized digital cryptocurrency that operates as a secure, peer-to-peer payment system using blockchain technology. Lava’s partnership with Bitcore goes beyond integration. It brings both
New York Stock Exchange filed a rule change proposal. It submitted this to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The proposal allows tokenized securities trading. These include stocks and ETFs on blockchain rails. If approved, settlement infrastructure will evolve significantly. 🚨NYSE FILES RULE CHANGE TO ENABLE TOKENIZED SECURITIES TRADING The NYSE filed a proposal with
Mike Cagney has been here before, just not with blockchain. In the early 2010s, he helped reshape consumer lending with SoFi by connecting borrowers directly with capital. Now, at Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), he said he’s trying to do something similar on a much larger scale: rebuild the infrastructure of credit markets themselves. The plan
When it comes to web3 architecture, indexing is often described in purely functional terms. It’s the plumbing that allows centralized and decentralized applications to read the blockchain. It’s middleware, not appware. But as web3 infrastructure matures, this narrow definition is no longer strictly accurate. We’re now moving past the phase of simple data retrieval into
In a landmark achievement for the blockchain industry, Solana quarterly transactions have surpassed 10 billion for the first time. Data from Unfolded, a blockchain analytics platform, confirms that the Solana network processed over 10 billion transactions in the most recent quarter. This milestone underscores Solana’s growing role as a high-performance blockchain for decentralized applications (dApps),