Robinhood Chain, the blockchain launched by US brokerage Robinhood earlier this month, has climbed to the top of crypto developer activity rankings in less than two weeks, a rare feat for a new network and another sign that traditional finance companies are gaining traction in Web3. The significant event became known after the CEO of
For years, tokenization of real-world assets has promised to unlock liquidity in traditionally illiquid markets. Private credit, a multi-trillion-dollar asset class run mostly through opaque bilateral agreements, should be a prime beneficiary. Yet most tokenized credit issuances have been primary placements. Investors who onboarded early ended up holding positions with no clear exit. A transaction
Robinhood Chain recorded an average of 10 million daily transactions during the first three weeks following its official launch. The protocol transfers 10% of its net fee revenue to the ArbitrumDAO treasury and the developer guild. Total value locked in real-world assets (RWA) on the network reached $12.8 million by mid-July 2026. At least 10
A Sixth Straight Quarterly Record The Q2 figure did not arrive as a single dramatic spike. It capped six consecutive quarters of growth, and the final week of the quarter alone set a weekly all-time high of $1.42 billion in tokenized asset volume. To put the scale of the acceleration in context, the $5.77 billion
Allen Konevsky, Chairman and Chief Executive of tZERO Group, one of only two firms to hold a special purpose broker-dealer licence from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, has said he has a long-term bias toward tokens that function as infrastructure ingredients rather than stores of value, singling out $XRP and Ether as assets better
Aztec Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 built for private smart contracts, said on Tuesday that its Alpha V5 release is live on mainnet, calling it “the fastest private transactions we’ve ever shipped.” The company said Alpha V5 proves a fully private transaction in about 2.5 seconds on a laptop and cuts transaction fees to under
zkSync is set to make a significant appearance at the Futurist Conference, with Philippe Noelting representing the brand. He will discuss the critical topic of institutional adoption and the necessary infrastructure to support it, as highlighted in their recent tweet. This appearance emphasizes the growing importance of trust in infrastructure for institutional capital in the
Base has recently announced its focus on native account abstraction through EIP-8130, which aims to improve user account management. This development was shared via a tweet that has gained traction in the crypto community, highlighting the potential for enhanced user experiences in decentralized applications. More details can be found in the official tweet here. Breaking
A new set of machine-checked proofs published on Ethereum Research on July 21, 2026, pushes the formal theory of cross-domain state preservation meaningfully forward — and the implications stretch well beyond academic verification. The work mechanizes the composition of preservation maps between synchronization domains and stratifies them by coupling breadth, using Isabelle/HOL as the proof
MoneyGram has spent years experimenting with blockchain technology, but CEO Anthony Soohoo says the company’s latest crypto-related revelation is that it works best when customers don’t have to think about it. Speaking in an interview with CoinDesk, Soohoo said MoneyGram’s blockchain strategy has evolved from early experimentation into a broader effort to modernize the company’s