Historical Record: The value of tokenized assets doubled year-over-year, reaching $16.6 billion driven by a massive user base. Institutional Dominance: Circle’s USYC fund grew from $150 million to $2.7 billion in five months, with 95% of its capital concentrated on this network. Activity Leadership: The network averaged 4.5 million daily active users in Q1 2026,
Aori has officially joined Rootstock in a major collaboration, which opens new avenues of cross-chain liquidity and enhances access to Bitcoin-native financial applications. The development of Bitcoin based decentralized finance is gaining traction, with new infrastructure being added to tie up isolated blockchain ecosystems. A faster, simpler way to move assets across chains🔥@aori_io is now
The AI news out of OpenAI this week has a sharp edge: the company launched a paid Safety Fellowship offering $3,850 weekly stipends to external researchers studying what could go wrong with advanced AI — announced within hours of a New Yorker investigation reporting that OpenAI had dissolved its internal safety teams and quietly removed
Morgan Stanley’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) began trading Wednesday with solid early activity, logging more than 1.6 million shares traded and roughly $34 million in inflows, the bank said. The fund, listed under the ticker MSBT, tracks the CoinDesk Bitcoin Benchmark 4 PM New York Settlement Rate and charges a 0.14% expense ratio. It
A billion dollars in loans originated in a single month — not by JPMorgan, not by Wells Fargo, but by a blockchain-native lending company most people outside of crypto have never heard of. — Figure Technologies quietly crossed that threshold in March, and the implications for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization are hard to overstate. Bernstein,
Midas, a tokenized real-world asset platform with approximately $1.7 billion in assets minted, has launched a new verification system called the Attestation Engine, built in collaboration with Chainlink. Midas, a tokenization platform with $1.7B assets minted, adopts Chainlink to bring unparalleled transparency to mHYPER & its suite of mTokens. Powered by Chainlink, @MidasRWA’s new Attestation
L2BEAT, a decentralized platform that provides real-time analytics to blockchain Layer-2 scaling solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with several Web3 projects, including Celo, an Ethereum Layer-2 platform designed to make DeFi applications accessible to all, and Ink, a Layer-2 network built on Optimism’s Superchain and developed/owned by Kraken crypto exchange. According to the announcement
SEOUL, South Korea – March 2025 – The landscape of digital finance in South Korea has reached a pivotal milestone. Danal Fintech, the blockchain subsidiary of payments giant Danal, and JB Jeonbuk Bank have successfully completed a comprehensive proof-of-concept (PoC) for a South Korean won-based stablecoin. This crucial test validates the entire operational lifecycle of
Noos Protocol, a decentralized infrastructure for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) era, is pleased to disclose its strategic partnership with Cluster Protocol, a decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that joins blockchain technology with AI infrastructure for a secure and privacy-focused ecosystem for AI deployment. 🚀 Noos × @ClusterProtocol Ecosystem Partnership Noos has partnered with Cluster
SEOUL, South Korea – March 2025 – KakaoBank, South Korea’s premier digital-only bank, has declared a definitive strategic pivot for the year, aiming to spearhead the issuance of a Korean won-backed stablecoin. Furthermore, the institution plans a fundamental transformation into an AI-native bank while accelerating its international footprint into Mongolia. This multi-pronged approach positions KakaoBank