BRICS Payment Push Puts $XRP Ledger’s Cross-Border Use Case in Focus BRICS is exploring ways to connect national fast-payment systems and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border trade. More notably, this does not mean the bloc has chosen $XRP. But it does highlight a challenge the $XRP Ledger was built to address when it
Ripple has renewed support for New York University Abu Dhabi’s blockchain research program, extending its University Blockchain Research Initiative partnership through 2027. NYU Abu Dhabi announced the renewed grant on Aug. 10, while Ripple Middle East and Africa Managing Director Reece Merrick highlighted the extension on Aug. 12. NYU Abu Dhabi described the arrangement as
Decentralized artificial intelligence project FLOCK announced on Aug. 12 via its official X account that it has integrated Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable seamless FLOCK token transfers across multiple blockchain networks. The integration allows FLOCK to operate as a Chainlink Cross-Chain Token (CCT), expanding its accessibility to users on Base, Ethereum, $BNB Chain,
Canton Network solves a problem that has kept most banks off public blockchains: it lets multiple institutions record and settle the same transaction on shared infrastructure while each party sees only the portion of that transaction it is actually involved in. This is called sub-transaction privacy, and it is the core reason banks such as
Barça Mobile, FC Barcelona’s official mobile telecom service operated by New Era Visionary Group, is developing an in-app digital wallet using infrastructure from Wirex, Crossmint and the Stellar Development Foundation. New Era announced the partnerships on Aug. 5. Its announcement described the wallet as an integrated feature of the existing Barça Mobile app rather than
Miden is planning to introduce a privacy-focused stablecoin backed by Circle Internet’s $USDC at the same time as the zero-knowledge blockchain prepares to debut its mainnet Issued natively on Miden using Circle’s xReserve infrastructure, USDCx will be backed 1:1 by Circle’s stablecoin held in an xReserve smart contract, the company said in a press release
Ethena’s $USDe has quickly become a major source of dollar liquidity on Robinhood Chain, growing from about $17 million a month ago to roughly $253 million, or close to 43% of the chain’s stablecoin supply, according to The Block. The jump is notable because $USDe is more than a digital dollar. It is a synthetic
Public token sales have pulled in $1.42 billion so far this year, but the capital is not spreading widely across the landscape. Data from CryptoRank, cited in the original report, shows that five blockchain ecosystems account for roughly $1.34 billion, or about 94% of the total. The fundraising window may be wide open, but project
Brazil’s biggest bank is taking another step into tokenized assets, adding to a growing list of the country’s financial heavyweights experimenting with putting traditional investments on blockchain rails. Itaú Unibanco has started working with digital-asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets on a tokenization pilot run by Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association ANBIMA, the companies said Tuesday.
You can prove you are over 18 without revealing your birthday. You can prove you have enough money for a transaction without revealing your balance. You can prove a computation was performed correctly without revealing the inputs. Zero-knowledge proofs make all of this possible, and they are quietly becoming the most important cryptographic primitive in