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Solana Breakpoint wasn’t just another conference this year. It doubled as a stage for Jupiter to roll out its most aggressive product expansion to date.
The team revealed a coordinated set of upgrades touching lending, stablecoins, data infrastructure, developer tools, and trading execution , plus a major acquisition aimed at reshaping onchain liquidity.
The message is simple and loud: onchain...
Ripple has scored a major regulatory milestone in Europe. AMINA Bank AG, a Swiss-regulated digital asset bank, has become the first European bank to adopt Ripple Payments for near real-time cross-border settlements.
The partnership expands the two firms’ collaboration following AMINA’s earlier adoption of RLUSD, and marks a significant shift from trial-phase digital asset experiments to full-...
a16z just dropped its annual report, and the message is clear: crypto isn’t slowing down. The firm covers everything shaping the next wave , stablecoins, tokenization, payments, privacy, security, AI agents, and a new global expansion strategy.
The ideas land fast. The tone is urgent. And the numbers show how quickly the sector is shifting.
This year, stablecoins take the spotlight. Tokenized...
Ethereum Activates BPO-1 Upgrade, Boosting Blob Capacity and Expanding the Network’s Scaling Roadmap
Ethereum has activated BPO-1, a protocol adjustment that increases blob capacity per block from 6 to 15, marking one of the most meaningful improvements to the network’s data availability layer since the Dencun upgrade.
The announcement, shared by the Ethereum Foundation on December 11, highlights how the change optimizes Layer 2 data throughput while keeping costs low.
The development was also...
CryptoBench just landed. Developed by ChainOpera AI and Princeton AI Lab, under the guidance of Professor Mengdi Wang and her PhD student Jiacheng Gu, it isn’t another benchmark.
It is the benchmark. CryptoBench aims to bridge the gap between academic AI tests and real-world crypto stress. It pushes agents to behave like real crypto analysts, pulling live data, scanning dashboards, and making...
Binance is expanding its stablecoin strategy again. The exchange has confirmed it will launch new USD1 trading pairs and convert all Binance-Peg BUSD collateral into USD1.
The move marks one of the largest stablecoin migrations on the platform since Binance shifted away from BUSD earlier this year.
The announcement arrives as the exchange continues tightening its stablecoin infrastructure and...
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...