A new platform founded by Wall Street veteran Chan Ahn is aiming to bring one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes — private equity — onto the blockchain. — Tessera has announced the launch of its private equity tokenization platform on Solana, a system designed to give investors onchain exposure to private company shares that
Story Highlights Two key opinion leaders have predicted that AI agents’ crypto transactions will quickly dwarf those of human beings. The key driver behind this is the ease of opening a crypto wallet as compared to a bank account. The integration of AI with blockchain has attracted several regulatory and security concerns. CEO and co-founder
Venus Protocol has officially announced the listing of XAUm, its first gold-backed Real-World Asset (RWA), marking a major milestone for lending markets on the $BNB Chain. This project, initiated with Matrixdock and anchored by Chainlink price oracles, enables users to pledge physical gold as collateral for the first time ever, without synthetic workarounds. The wall
For decades, venture capital has operated as one of finance’s most exclusive asset classes. Participation typically requires large minimum investments, extensive paperwork, and years long lockups that prevent investors from accessing their capital. According to Carl Vogel, general partner at 6th Man Ventures, blockchain is on course to change that. Democratizing access to gatekept strategies
Mastercard has unveiled Verifiable Intent, a new open, standards-based trust framework co-developed with Google, designed specifically for “agentic commerce” — a world where artificial intelligence (AI) systems don’t just assist shoppers, but actively plan, decide, and complete purchases autonomously. The core problem Verifiable Intent aims to solve is visibility: when a consumer delegates a purchase
Anthropic is suing the US Department of Defense and other federal bodies after being designated as “supply chain risk” by the Trump administration, effectively restricting its business with defense contractors. The designation came after talks collapsed over Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI systems to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or autonomous weapons,
Amina, a Swiss-regulated crypto bank, has joined a blockchain-based settlement platform for tokenized securities operating under the European Union’s DLT pilot regime, marking another step toward integrating digital asset infrastructure with traditional capital markets. The Zug, Switzerland-based company announced Monday that it has become a listing sponsor on the EU-regulated platform 21X, making Amina the
The merger of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology has hit a new milestone as Pundi AI has announced an official partnership with Clore.ai. The purpose of this partnership is to create a bridge from massive, community-governed datasets to the high-performance computing power needed to process those datasets. To build an end-to-end pipeline for the creation
HPX, a next-generation crypto financial gateway that brings digital assets into daily life, has announced its groundbreaking partnership with EmoFi, an Emotional Finance platform where information and insights become tokenized as digital assets. The primary purpose of this partnership is to tokenize user information as an on-chain trading asset. 🤝 HPX x @emofi_xyz, a pioneer
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