Imagine a tireless analyst who works around the clock, cross-referencing a company’s onchain purchasing patterns with satellite imagery of its warehouses, correlating its job postings with its patent filings, and mapping its entire supply chain by watching the flow of smart contract payments. This analyst never sleeps, never loses focus and costs almost nothing to
Visa is working with WeFi, a deobanking infrastructure provider that combines traditional banking with decentralized finance, to explore stablecoin-based payments and on-chain banking in select markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the companies said Tuesday. The partnership will test how on-chain banking and stablecoins can be embedded into traditional payment ecosystems under established regulatory
Tezos is preparing to launch the first public testnet for Tezos X — a major upgrade designed to merge EVM and Michelson smart contracts into a single composable execution environment. — The testnet is expected to go live in May, marking the first real deployment of a roadmap that has been evolving since 2024. At
TopNod, a self-custodial wallet built for security and simplicity, has disclosed its strategic partnership with the Pharos ecosystem, a blockchain designed to bridge traditional fintech and Web3 by focusing on real-world assets (RWAs) and high-performance on-chain financial infrastructure. Basically, TopNod has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent called KiwiNod, which is running a $100000 prize
Crypto infrastructure company Startale Group has selected Sunnyside Labs’ Privacy Boost as the official privacy partner for its Startale App, built for Soneium, a Sony-linked blockchain network. Startale Group said Tuesday that the integration will add self-custodial private transfer features to the app, including shielded balances, private peer-to-peer transfers and privacy-enabled payment flows on Soneium.
Visa (V) is working with blockchain-based stablecoin infrastructure firm WeFi, to help establish the “last half mile” that can provide users with robust onchain payments and banking services, the companies said on Tuesday. WeFi, which is co-founded by former Tether OG Reeve Collins, describes its platform as “an orchestration layer between decentralized finance (DeFi) and
Ethereum has been the most favored blockchain in terms of transactions since its inception, taking the crown of the most used Layer 1 chain. According to the latest data from Chainspect, there is a massive disparity in network activity for the last seven days, where Solana has dominated Ethereum by recording a vastly high number
The $BNB ChainOsaka/Mendel upgrade is a hard fork activated on April 28, 2026 at 02:30 UTC that bundles nine BEP proposals into a single network update, shifting focus from raw block speed to execution consistency, stable finality, and better developer tooling. The Road That Led Here $BNB Chain has spent the past year aggressively cutting
Rayls, a blockchain network for banks, has partnered with LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability entity. The partnership aims to connect infrastructure that permits the streamlined movement of OFT-standard tokens and digital assets across linked blockchains. As Rayls disclosed in its official X announcement, integrating LayerZero’s technology bolsters interoperability while also guaranteeing the flow of capital and
Ethereum’s layer 2 ecosystem has moved into a new phase. Rollups now handle more daily transactions than the Ethereum mainnet, turning the network’s long-running scaling strategy into a measurable reality rather than a roadmap promise. That milestone has settled the throughput argument, yet it has opened a harder economic debate. Activity has shifted upward, mainnet