One step toward further integration of blockchain-based payments into the infrastructure of the global financial system might be Mastercard’s decision to extend its settlement network to accommodate regulated stablecoins. Intraday, weekend, and holiday settlement, in addition to onchain settlement utilizing regulated stablecoins, would be available to issuers and acquirers, according
The original white paper for The Open Network’s cryptocurrency, Toncoin (TON), suggested the name Gram (GRAM), and the company says it intends to rename its token to that moniker. In the original white paper, TON’s token was originally named Gram, according to a Monday post by Pavel Durov, founder of both Telegram and TON.
With the release of its Committee Sync MVP on Ethereum and Arbitrum, Orbs, a decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure centered on sophisticated on-chain trading, announces a significant milestone in the development of Orbs V5. The upgrade is intended to increase validator involvement, decrease infrastructure cost, and enhance the way decentralized trading execution is
The on-chain trade and security platform Guardis, which tracks smart money and identifies frauds, has officially debuted. To assist users in making better trading choices and preventing scams, the platform combines wallet intelligence, automatic fraud detection, and low-latency trading tools into a single interface. Guardis is a non-custodial platform that first launched
On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the US has confiscated around $1 billion worth of Iranian cryptocurrency. He also mentioned that some of the wallet owners may not even be aware that their funds has been confiscated. “I believe that we have seized about a billion dollars of their
On Thursday, Bitcoin (BTC) made its first move back over $72,500 in six weeks, leading to $342 million in liquidations for bullish leveraged bets. Investors are concerned that bears will maintain control ahead of the $9 billion monthly options expiration, even if there was a recovery bounce to $73,500. With $3.4
An individual familiar with the situation said that market circumstances had caused asset management behemoth Grayscale to postpone its intentions to go public, making it the latest cryptocurrency company to do so. This individual spoke on condition of anonymity due to the private nature of the subject, but they did
The first “blockchain-native” company to get registration as a clearing agency from the US SEC is Paxos, a blockchain infrastructure platform and stablecoin issuer. On Thursday, Paxos said that its subsidiary, Paxos Securities Settlement Company, has been authorized by the SEC to serve as a central securities depository in the United
Enterprises, financial institutions, and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) across Korea and the broader APAC region will benefit from the expanded digital asset security and compliance infrastructure thanks to a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CertiK, the leading Web3 security services provider, and Lambda256, a blockchain technology subsidiary of
Today, CertiK, a blockchain and AI security firm, officially launched CertiK Skill Scanner, a new security solution intended to safeguard the quickly expanding ecosystem of AI Agents and third-party AI Skills. The solution is designed for developers, businesses, AI skill markets, and ultimately regular consumers who want more insight into the dangers
