PwC Germany, Merck KGaA and The Hashgraph Group said they are testing a system to track cocoa production just months before European Union rules on limiting deforestation come into play as a precursor to a more extensive provenance-checking system. The system pairs physical markers on cocoa bags with records on the Hedera distributed ledger. The
Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.46.0 on Sept. 2, introducing an Authbox service that issues S3 credentials over HTTP alongside routing optimizations, operational improvements, and dependency updates for the S3-compatible interface to NeoFS decentralized storage. The release follows v0.45.1, which delivered read and write performance improvements in early August, and v0.45.0, which added bucket
R3E Network has resolved all 11 findings from a systematic audit of neox-rs, the Rust-based Neo X full-node client, including four classified at P1 severity. Separately, R3E shipped a security-focused release for the Neo Decompiler, hardening its parsing, output sanitisation, and release pipeline. Both releases reflect a security-first development approach across R3E’s Neo tooling, with
R3E Network’s Rust-based Neo N3 node implementation, neo-rs, has reached full protocol parity with the Neo N3 specification at v0.16.0. The milestone covers all 11 native contracts, all eight hardforks through Huyao, and all 41 system calls, verified with exact CPU pricing and permission gates. Alongside the node release, R3E published NeoRust v3.0.0, a correctness-focused
Stellar (XLM) is trading at $0.1922, up 4.4% over 24 hours, as the network holds its lead in tokenized non-US sovereign debt, a position it has maintained since February. According to data from RWA.xyz as of August 20, Stellar holds roughly $490 million in tokenized sovereign debt issued outside the US, more than any other
Hedera has unveiled a new fee structure that aims to deliver predictability to users amid the unpredictable nature of the crypto market. By offering fees that are so small they are almost unnoticeable, Hedera positions itself as a user-friendly blockchain. This development could significantly enhance user trust and participation in its ecosystem, as detailed in
Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptography becomes cheap enough to reshape Ethereum privacy. On Sept. 6, the Ethereum co-founder said there is a 60% probability that SNARKs, fully homomorphic encryption and indistinguishability obfuscation will eventually operate at less than 10 times the cost of ordinary computation. He put the odds at 33%
ARK Invest and Glassnode have put a new number on blockchain capture risk: the smallest group of block-production entities needed to cross a protocol-relevant control threshold. Their joint scorecard, published Sept. 1, put the threshold at three entities for Bitcoin and Ethereum and 19 for Solana. The same framework placed Bitcoin first in its composite
Singapore-based financial services group DBS and American financial services giant Citi completed the first weekend tokenized cross-border payment between Singapore and the US on Saturday. The two companies executed the transaction using tokenized deposits via the Swift Digital Ledger to bypass the constraints of traditional banking hours, DBS announced on Monday. The deposit was finalized
Hanwha Investment & Securities has reportedly completed a tokenized securities platform supporting Avalanche as South Korea prepares to bring blockchain-based securities into its regulated capital markets system in February 2027. Seoul Economic Daily reported Sunday that the South Korean brokerage began developing the platform with blockchain technology firm FairSquare Lab in 2025. The system was