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Circle is making a bold move. The company partners with privacy-focused blockchain Aleo to launch USDCx, a stablecoin designed with privacy at its core. Aleo co-founder Howard Wu explains the goal clearly , USDCx enables hidden transaction records and invisible asset flows. It aims for bank-level confidentiality, especially for institutional settlements and large-value transfers. In a market...
The Polygon PoS network has activated the Madhugiri Hardfork at block 80,084,800 around 10:00 UTC, marking another major step in the chain’s aggressive scaling roadmap. The upgrade arrives months after the Bhilai milestone, which helped the network break 1,000+ transactions per second, and now pushes throughput well beyond that threshold. The next leap toward an institutional-grade, global...
The future of AI is no longer forming in isolated silos. It is converging. And one of the most ambitious moves in that direction just arrived as Virtuals Protocol announced a strategic partnership with OpenMind, a robotics-focused AI layer positioned at the frontier of autonomous machine infrastructure. Both teams confirmed the collaboration through coordinated posts on X, OpenMind’s announcement...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has officially closed its two-year investigation into Ondo Finance, and it did so without charges. The decision marks a major turning point for the $1.5 billion tokenized-assets platform and removes the single biggest regulatory overhang that limited its domestic expansion. The closure was first reported by journalist Eleanor Terrett and later...
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is having a breakout year. While most major Layer-1 tokens remain underwater, BCH is pulling away from the pack. According to data shared by Crypto Koryo, only four L1 assets are positive this year, BCH, BNB, HYPE, and TRX, and BCH leads them all with a nearly 40% gain. $bch is the best performing l1 coin of the year. they don't even have an official twitter account. here...
Ethereum just wrapped one of its most active months of development yet. From protocol upgrades and scaling breakthroughs to institutional adoption and new consumer-facing apps, the network continues to push forward on every front. An overview posted by the Ethereum team highlighted 29 major launches, updates, and ecosystem milestones , underscoring how fast the network is evolving. https://...
Cloudflare suffered a major traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting at approximately 8:47 UTC. The incident pushed large parts of the internet offline for nearly 25 minutes, triggering widespread 500 errors across applications that rely heavily on Cloudflare’s global infrastructure. The outage hit hard and fast. Cryptocurrency exchanges, DeFi front ends, payment gateways, and real-time...
Aster has completed one of its largest supply-tightening moves to date, executing its S3 buyback burn and locking half of the returned tokens for future airdrop distribution. The operation marks a significant milestone for the ecosystem and signals a continued push toward long-term value creation. The team confirmed the burn on December 5, 2025, at 00:00 UTC, following the end of its S3 buyback...
The Canton Network has officially gone live with USDCx, a USDC-backed stablecoin powered by Circle’s xReserve. The launch marks the first integration of Circle’s new reserve framework and gives institutions a way to access cross-chain USDC liquidity while retaining privacy, atomic settlement, and interoperability across Canton’s regulated ecosystem. With USDCx now available through Canton apps...
MetaMask has rolled out one of its most significant feature integrations to date: MetaMask Prediction Markets, built directly into the MetaMask Mobile app and powered by Polymarket, one of the leading platforms in the sector. The new feature makes onchain prediction trading faster, easier, and accessible to millions of existing MetaMask users. It brings curated markets, one-click funding,...