Nasdaq announced a strategic partnership with Seturion - the blockchain-based post-trade platform operated by Boerse Stuttgart Group - to modernize securities settlement across Europe.

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.

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.

Ondo Global Markets has become the first issuer to admit digital securities for trading under the regulatory framework of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), marking a milestone in the convergence of tokenized assets and established financial oversight.

The Bank of Japan will begin experimenting with blockchain technology to settle bank reserves, marking one of its clearest steps yet toward integrating distributed ledger infrastructure into the core of the country’s financial system.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the Shanghai Data Bureau (SDB), and the National Technology Innovation Center for Blockchain (NTICBC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a shared blockchain infrastructure for cross-border cargo trade and finance.

The tokenized gold sector has moved far beyond its early experimental phase, emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments in digital assets.

Monad spent most of the past year defined by its testnet, one of the most closely watched in crypto, but[…]