Mastercard has taken another major step toward bridging traditional finance with blockchain. In a new collaboration with Chainlink, XSwap and Swapper Finance. The global payment giant is working to connect over 3.5 billion cardholders directly to the onchain economy. Chainlink Build member @xswap_link is helping connect Mastercard’s global payment network of over 3.5 billion cardholders
Lookonchain records tremendous withdrawals at leading exchanges. One thousand BTC was withdrawn by a new wallet that pulled out the funds at Binance. FalconX has been deprived of a second new wallet that took away 465 BTC. The moves took place in a span of five hours. The value of USD reported is approximately USD162
BTC is competing with silver to become the best-performing asset for 2025 to date. Precious metals trade near an all-time high, with silver catching up with outsized gains. Silver is challenging BTC as the fastest-growing asset for 2025. In the year-to-date, the metal added a net 63.9% to its price, while BTC locked in 64.1%
Visa built the world’s largest payment network that pushes nearly $16 trillion in payments through its virtual pipes. Now it wants to do the same for lending in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The report, titled Stablecoins Beyond Payments: The Onchain Lending Opportunity, reframes decentralized finance as “onchain finance” – a deliberate rebrand aimed
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. The second quarter of 2025 has been a reality check for blockchain scaling, and as capital keeps pouring into rollups and sidechains, the cracks in the layer-2 model are widening. The original
The cryptocurrency community has been abuzz with debate over the Bitcoin (BTC) Core v30 upgrade and Knots implementation. JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has joined the conversation with a cryptic post that sheds light on how the debate could harm the coin. Samson Mow warns against internal threats to Bitcoin In a post on X, Mow
Fetch.ai, the earliest Web3 LLM, has collaborated with Minima, a prominent blockchain platform for scalability, security, and decentralization. The partnership is aimed at combining the on-chain data and agentic AI. As Fetch.ai pointed out in its exclusive announcement on X, the collaboration merges Minia’s Integritas mechanism with the ASI, One ecosystem of Fetch.ai. This remarkable
The long-running Mt. Gox saga has returned to center stage as blockchain analysts detect new movement in the defunct exchange’s wallets for the first time in seven months. The move comes just weeks before a key repayment deadline, sparking concerns about renewed market FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). Mt. Gox Wallet Moves Ahead of 34,000
BNY and the National Bank of Canada went live this week with EquiLend’s 1Source platform, joining the blockchain-based system designed to eliminate manual trade reconciliations in the securities finance industry. The company that offers stock lending said a global broker-dealer will begin trading on the platform soon, with several other firms close to signing on.