Johann Kerbrat doesn't mince words. Robinhood's Head of Crypto has a simple explanation for why the company chose to build an Ethereum Layer 2 rather than launch its own standalone blockchain: everyone else doing the latter is, in his view, building a glorified database.
The XRP Ledger quietly shipped one of its most consequential updates in months. Version 3.1.2, released in March 2026, carries no new features - but that's precisely the point.
The crypto bear market has a habit of separating projects that are actually building from those that were riding price momentum. On Solana, the latest development activity rankings from Santiment tell a clear story: a handful of projects are putting in serious work on GitHub while the broader market sorts itself out.
Stani Kulechov, founder of the Aave protocol, is pushing for a structural overhaul of how decentralized autonomous organizations govern themselves - and the timing is no coincidence.
Over $38 billion in humanitarian aid moves through traditional banking channels every year. Much of it arrives late, eroded by fees, and occasionally never at all. The United Nations thinks distributed ledger technology can change that — and it's no longer just theorizing.
The United Arab Emirates has crossed a threshold that most financial markets are still debating. Blockchain is no longer a pilot project sitting in a bank's innovation lab. It's live infrastructure, and it's generating revenue.
Beijing didn't make headlines when it quietly crossed a threshold that took years to reach. But the numbers behind China's new 96-core blockchain acceleration chip are hard to dismiss.
Nasdaq announced a strategic partnership with Seturion - the blockchain-based post-trade platform operated by Boerse Stuttgart Group - to modernize securities settlement across Europe.
AMINA Bank has become the first fully regulated bank to join 21X - the European Union's first regulated Distributed Ledger Technology Trading and Settlement System - marking a concrete step in the slow but accelerating institutionalization of blockchain-based finance.
The last few months have been ugly for crypto fundraising. Capital raised across the industry cratered 62% in the most recent three-month window, deals fell 38%, and the average check size nearly halved to $21.89 million.
Major financial institutions including Visa, ANZ, ChinaAMC and Fidelity International have completed a cross-border settlement proof-of-concept powered by Chainlink infrastructure under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD program.
Standard Chartered has recruited Naveen Mallela, the executive credited with building JPMorgan's blockchain payments empire from the ground up — a move that underscores just how seriously the bank is taking its digital asset ambitions.
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