Robinhood Chain kept producing blocks through the outage reported on Friday. What stopped was its transaction data reaching Ethereum, for 14 minutes across two gaps. Posting those batches is what puts Robinhood Chain’s data where anyone can reconstruct the chain and check it, and what allows funds to leave for Ethereum. Robinhood Chain posts more
Chainlink Data Feeds went live on Tempo on Sept. 3, providing the payments-focused blockchain with onchain market data for stablecoin and financial applications. The integration allows businesses, institutions and developers to access supported price feeds without building independent oracle infrastructure. Applications can use the data for collateral valuation, foreign exchange comparisons, treasury management and automated
The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, or $GENIUS Act, is the new federal framework for payment stablecoin issuers. Its reserve rules aim to make each token a safer dollar claim, while the public blockchains moving those tokens retain their own fee markets and capacity limits. A Federal Reserve staff paper, first
The Mina Mesa upgrade stopped transaction processing for about eight hours on September 3 as the layer-1 blockchain shifted mainnet to its Mesa release. Exchanges suspended $MINA transfers, while deployed zkApps now need new verification keys before they can resume proof-authorized activity. The process split into five hours when blocks continued without transactions and roughly
Pineapple Financial has moved more than $1 billion in residential mortgage records onto Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on financial applications, as part of a broader effort to migrate its historical loan portfolio onchain. Pineapple plans to eventually migrate more than 29,000 funded mortgages worth over $10 billion onto the network, Injective said Friday. Each
ZKsync has unveiled Prividium, a new initiative aimed at creating private and connected tokenized deposit networks. This announcement surfaced through a tweet discussing the risks associated with isolated bank networks. By emphasizing the importance of privacy and connectivity, ZKsync may influence how banks integrate blockchain solutions moving forward. For more details, see the original tweet
Broadridge Financial Solutions said on September 2 that it had expanded its Distributed Ledger Repo platform to support G7 securities. In its announcement, the company said the addition enables international market participants to conduct cross-border repo transactions, intraday repo activity and collateral movements through atomic settlement. The release presents the service as live infrastructure rather
Robinhood Chain collected more in gas fees over the past 24 hours than any other blockchain, after memecoin launch activity pushed the two-month-old network’s base fee far above the minimum price its contracts allow. Almost all of the increase is price. Transactions on the chain rose about 36% over the same stretch, while the execution
Bottomline Brings Blockchain Rails to a $16 Trillion Payments Network The recently announced partnership puts Chainlink technology inside a significant piece of global financial infrastructure. Bottomline, a top-three provider of SWIFT services, processes more than $16 trillion in payments annually and serves 600-plus banks, 1,200 financial institutions, and 10,000 businesses globally. The deal is designed