Two new funding rounds for Corastone and Zcash Open Development Lab show blockchain infrastructure maturing for real‑world scale, private markets, and privacy‑first payments. Summary Corastone raised backing from Fidelity, Hamilton Lane and others to run a private, permissioned blockchain as shared infrastructure for private‑market workflows. Zcash Open Development Lab secured over $25m from Paradigm, a16z
Chainlink adoption expanded this week with 11 new integrations across 2 services and 11 chains, including Base and Injective EVM. New integrations included $ADI Chain, Arc, DogeOS Chikyu, GIWA Sepolia, Monad, Perennial, Pharos, Seismic, and Stable. Chainlink recorded 11 new integrations this week across two services and 11 blockchain networks: $ADI Chain, Arc, Base, DogeOS
The platform’s first fully onchain athlete asset signals a shift toward decentralized tokenization of sports talent ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Tokenization has become one of the most discussed themes in crypto over the past two years. Most blockchain projects experimenting with the concept have focused on financial assets such as treasury securities,
R3E Network has shipped a live API indexer for Neo N3, giving developers structured access to on-chain data through a new service at n3index.dev. The release is one of several infrastructure deliveries from Jimmy Liao, R3E Network founder and Neo core developer, in the span of two weeks, alongside a free domain name system and
Niza Labs, a Niza Global-based incubator and startup accelerator project, has disclosed its landmark collaboration with Lava Protocol, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity and bridging protocol allowing users to trade both crypto assets and tokenized stocks. The primary objective of this partnership is to expand the innovation in tokenized finance and Web3 trading infrastructure for easy
Brickken, an institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure provider for capital markets, allowing the issuance, management, and lifecycle automation on blockchain networks, is excited to do something innovative for shaping a global standard for institutional tokenization. For this, Brickken announces its unification into UNE’s national committee CTN 71/SC 307, the Spanish standardization body responsible for national standardization work.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is testing blockchain in real financial operations. As part of Project Acacia, the RBA recently completed 19 real transactions using Hedera-based infrastructure. The initiative, launched in July 2025 with Digital Finance CRC, explores 24 tokenization use cases, including bonds, trade finance, and other asset-backed transactions. This pilot marks a
Aylab, a Web3 development entity, has partnered with REI Network, a prominent blockchain network. The partnership aims to advance the scalable Web3 infrastructure growth. As Aylab mentioned in its official X announcement, the joint effort focuses on broadening the REI Network to back gaming, DeFi, and wider real-world applications. Additionally, the move removes friction for
Quack AI announced today that its signature-based execution layer, Q402, is now live on the Avalanche C-Chain, a move the startup says will make agent-driven applications feel native on one of the fastest L1 ecosystems. In a post on X, the team framed the deployment as a milestone for “verifiable, policy-aware execution” that leverages Avalanche’s
The concerns about quantum computers have emerged again, with veteran crypto researcher Justin Bons warning that they could crack Zcash ($ZEC) and Monero ($XMR). In an update shared by Bons on X, the crypto researcher claims that these privacy-focused coins are at risk. How quantum computing could deanonymize privacy coins Notably, Bons explained that quantum