Japan is preparing to study a blockchain settlement system capable of processing stock and government bond transactions around the clock, according to an Aug. 26 report from Nikkei. The Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance, Bank of Japan and participating financial institutions are expected to establish a study group during summer 2026. The group would
After a year of policy battles in Washington between bankers and the crypto sector, the banks’ state associations have announced they intend to launch a new bank-run blockchain network to facilitate financial innovations, including smart payments, tokenized deposits and stablecoins. Thirty-nine of the state banking associations signed on to the “BankChain Alliance” with an aim
Blockchain financial infrastructure firm tZERO Group has entered a strategic partnership with the Sui network, announcing a direct integration that will allow Sui-based projects and institutional issuers to access a suite of regulated services, according to FinanceWire. The collaboration is designed to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain by providing token issuance, transfer
POSCO International, South Korea’s largest trading company, is pushing deeper into tokenized trade finance, completing a transaction that turned real-world receivables into digital assets on an Avalanche-based ($AVAX) blockchain network just one month after a similar pilot on Injective. The firm’s U.S. arm worked with trade finance platform Olea and asset-backed finance technology firm Intain
Arcus, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built by the team behind dYdX, has launched a protocol on Robinhood Chain that converts perpetual futures positions into transferable ERC-20 tokens and allows tokenized stocks to be used as collateral for leveraged trading. The launch includes products such as pBTC3x and pHOOD3x, offering 3x exposure to Bitcoin and Robinhood’s
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) maintainer Shipyard will wind down its engineering, maintenance and infrastructure operations on Sept. 30 after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding. The funding loss will leave projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion without dedicated maintainers, Shipyard said in a Monday blog post. IPFS is an
$SQD has partnered with Google Cloud to contribute blockchain datasets to Google Cloud Web3 Blockchain Analytics, allowing users to access $SQD-validated onchain data through BigQuery, according to a Tuesday announcement. Advertisement $SQD Network provides decentralized infrastructure for querying the growing volume of data generated by blockchains and web3 applications. Its network of data providers, workers,
$BNB Smart Chain (BSC) activated its Pasteur hard fork on Tuesday, closing bridge verification and validator authorization gaps while introducing a new route intended to fit more transactions into each block. In a Tuesday post, $BNB Chain confirmed that Pasteur was live on the BSC mainnet. The team said the upgrade strengthens the network’s bridge,
Coinbase has chosen Chainlink to offer price infrastructure for its tokenized stocks, thus allowing shares of companies like Apple and NVIDIA to move around freely in decentralized lending and trading marketplaces. The agreement is of particular importance for crypto users outside the US, as it allows them to take advantage of blockchain-based versions of US
US equity markets moving toward 23-hour, five-day trading still leave 53 hours each week without a national quotation, creating a pricing gap for continuous markets. Pyth covers more than 220 US equities on a 24/5 basis, while Hyperliquid uses discovery bounds and Pyth constructed indices to support weekend pricing. HIP-3 markets have exceeded $540 billion