Payments terminal provider Ingenico has partnered with WalletConnect Pay to enable in-store stablecoin payments across its point-of-sale (POS) systems, marking one of the clearest pushes yet to bring cryptocurrency payments into everyday retail checkout. In […]
The Bank of Italy modeled what would happen to Ethereum’s security and settlement capacity if the price of Ether fell to zero, treating the network as critical financial infrastructure rather than just a speculative crypto […]
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index. The NCI benchmark index includes Bitcoin […]
The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity. The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem […]
BNY, a financial services company that traces its roots back to one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, launched tokenized bank deposits for its institutional clients on Friday. Tokenized bank deposits are […]
The Ethereum network, a decentralized layer-1 blockchain that executes smart contracts, is analogous to the open-source operating system Linux, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Linux and Ethereum are both open source and feature custom-tailored […]
Stablecoin company Tether and video platform Rumble released a non-custodial crypto wallet on Wednesday, allowing users to tip Rumble content creators in digital currencies. The wallet will initially support Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDt (USDT), Tether […]
Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs. In an X post on Monday, Jupiter said 90% of the […]
Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 network that uses zero‑knowledge (ZK) rollups, is experiencing fresh mainnet disruption as the project enters 2026. In an X post, the Starknet team said the network was facing downtime and that […]
Solana appears poised to expand from its memecoin-focused, retail-dominant network this year, after posting record real-world asset tokenization activity in December. Data from RWA.xyz shows the value of tokenized RWAs on Solana increased nearly 10% […]