Ripple’s April roadmap is back in view as Bitcoin and Ethereum advance quantum-security work, but XRPL’s real challenge begins after an account rotates its key.

With 70 minutes left, Solana’s faster-disinflation proposal was losing. A late reversal and delegator overrides pushed it across the line by just 0.334 percentage points.

The ECB will launch Pontes in September to settle tokenized transactions in central-bank money, and Isabel Schnabel wants programmable reserves across Europe’s wholesale financial markets.

BitGo has acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading business, adding derivatives, financing, structured products and capital markets services to its custody and settlement infrastructure.

Ripple Prime has launched a Delta One business offering total return swaps tied to US-listed equities, stock indices and digital assets.

A retirement report shows how little room many U.S. workers have for financial setbacks. That context matters when crypto is presented as a route to faster wealth creation.

JPMorgan has reportedly reviewed the option of issuing a stablecoin. The bank says no product is under way, and a separate group of banks is discussing a commercial venture.

Revolut has started a phased EURR rollout for selected customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal. The new token gives eligible users a euro-denominated balance within Revolut’s crypto offering.

Thirty-nine U.S. banking associations have formed BankChain Alliance, which plans shared blockchain infrastructure for smaller financial institutions offering payments and digital money.

Ethereum is considering a new setting for compounding validators. EIP-8148 would let them choose when accumulated rewards are swept to their withdrawal address instead of waiting for the current 2,048 ETH default.

Standard Chartered has become the first bank distributor for HKDAP, bringing Hong Kong’s regulated HKD stablecoin directly into institutional treasury, tokenized fund settlement, and cross-border payment workflows.

Solana validators and stakers are casting votes on three core governance proposals that reach far beyond daily market pricing: who holds direct voting power, how rapidly token inflation decelerates, and how the network funds its long-term operations.