Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is urging the nation’s banks to ramp up their use of digital assets in a bid to blunt the impact of Western sanctions. “Today, cryptocurrency-based transactions are more active than ever, and their role in facilitating payments is growing,” Lukashenko said in a meeting held on Tuesday with officials from the
REI Network, an open, Ethereum-compatible blockchain, has collaborated with WELF Finance, a digital private banking platform. The main purpose of the partnership is to offer RWA-backed liquidity and yield solutions for high-net-worth users to advance Web3 private banking. As REI Network’s official social media announcement discloses, the collaboration is set to integrate conventional finance and
Semiconductor stocks climb as Broadcom drives sector gains in Wednesday trading Key Takeaways Broadcom outperformed its semiconductor peers in Wednesday’s trading session. The chip sector saw strong gains, with Broadcom leading the advance Broadcom led a rally in semiconductor stocks today as the chip sector posted strong gains during Wednesday trading. The stock’s performance helped
Technical indicators suggest that Bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term momentum may be sustaining, with the potential to target a new record high in the coming weeks. Specifically, Bitcoin has formed a Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) golden cross below the zero line, a setup that has historically preceded strong upside moves, according to pseudonymous cryptocurrency analyst BitBull
Key Takeaways CME Group has introduced rolling futures indices spanning six major asset classes: agriculture, crypto, energy, FX, Treasury, and metals. These indices serve as transparent and replicable benchmarks for their respective markets. CME Group launched rolling futures indices today, providing benchmarks across agriculture, crypto, energy, foreign exchange, Treasury, and metals markets. The new indices
StarkWare, a company specializing in zero-knowledge (ZK) technology, a way of verifying information without revealing the specific contents of that information, said it created a ZK verification of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain that can run on mobile devices. The proof contains all the Bitcoin block headers from the genesis block until the present, but not
Fresh off a partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said the decentralized oracle network is collaborating with other Trump administration agencies to bring even more federal government functions on-chain. The entrepreneur said a timeline for rolling out these partnerships has not yet solidified—but that he is hopeful “things can move
The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization sector has witnessed a remarkable development as the top players have joined forces to roll out the ERC-7943 Standard. The groundbreaking ERC-7943 standard is a modular and open Ethereum standard to bring flexibility, collaboration, and transparency to the rapidly growing RWA sector. The platforms taking part in this initiative include
AGI Open Network, a decentralized AI infrastructure provider, has partnered with DeepSafe, a blockchain entity using inclusive PoW+PoS consensus. The partnership is aimed at developing trustless AI agent validation while also fortifying Web3-based decentralized infrastructure. As the platform disclosed in its official X announcement, the collaboration is a notable move in improving the interoperability and