Bitpanda said Wednesday it is building Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 that the Vienna-based broker said is aimed at helping European banks and fintechs issue and manage tokenized assets using infrastructure designed for compatibility with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. Bitpanda is
Monument Bank said it plans to tokenise up to 250 million pounds ($335 million) of retail customer deposits on the Midnight network in what it described as the first such move by a U.K.-regulated bank on a public blockchain. The London-based challenger bank said the deposits will remain interest-bearing, fully backed by Monument and redeemable
Peter Thiel-backed digital asset broker Bitpanda has launched Vision Chain, an Ethereum layer 2 network designed to provide a regulated infrastructure where financial assets and institutions can operate safely onchain. Created with the Vision Web3 Foundation and built on the Optimism stack, Vision Chain delivers a compliant, resilient environment for financial institutions to issue and
Vienna-based crypto broker Bitpanda is launching a new blockchain network aimed at bringing tokenized assets into Europe’s regulated financial system, as institutions look to move toward always-on markets. The company said Wednesday that its “Vision Chain,” built with the Vision Web3 Foundation and Optimism OP$0.1126, will provide infrastructure for banks and fintechs to issue and
Euroclear, one of the world’s leading financial market infrastructure providers with €40.7 trillion in assets under custody, has partnered with Chainlink to address the corporate actions problem. Corporate actions, the processes by which companies distribute dividends, execute stock splits, manage rights issues, and handle other ownership-affecting events, cost the global financial system more than $58
Noos protocol, a decentralized infrastructure for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) era, has disclosed its strategic partnership with MarsCat Global, a privacy-first, serverless peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized communication network and Web3 application engine. The primary objective of this integration is to ensure secure and privacy-first Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents operate autonomously on Web3. 🚀 Noos ×
In a landmark development for the digital asset space, Ondo Finance announced on March 21, 2025, that the Total Value Locked (TVL) on its Ondo Global Markets platform for tokenized securities has officially crossed the $700 million threshold. This significant achievement solidifies the platform’s dominant position, currently commanding over 60% of the market share in
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has once again drawn a hard line in the sand between the underlying technology of digital assets and the speculative frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. During at a conference held in Washington, D.C. that was held earlier this Tuesday, the billionaire CEO stated that he believes in blockchain but rejects
Bank of Montreal, which goes by BMO, is joining forces with derivatives marketplace CME Group and Google Cloud to launch a tokenized cash and deposit platform. This will make BMO the first bank to offer CME Group’s tokenized cash solution on Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), the three companies said Tuesday in a joint press
Neo X smart contracts can now request and receive external data through Neo N3’s built-in oracle service, following the launch of the Neo Oracle Gateway by BaneLabs. The new infrastructure component routes oracle requests across chains using the Message Bridge and is deployed on both MainNet and TestNet. The release marks an effort to extend