At a record $322 billion, the total market value of stablecoins is more than the foreign currency reserves of 95 nations, including a number of developed nations. Their current market capitalization exceeds that of developed economies like the UK, Canada, and the oil-exporting behemoth UAE, as well as emerging markets like Mexico,
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has granted VALR, Africa’s leading provider of digital asset infrastructure, provisional approval to function as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP). This achievement gives VALR provisional authority to provide a wide range of services, such as: A key component of VALR’s worldwide expansion plan, this approval puts the company
Researchers at AmericanFortress™ deliver an formally proven upgrade route for the wallet infrastructure that is now in use by hundreds of millions of users. Sheridan, WY: Today, AmericanFortress™ published a cryptographic paper outlining a patent-pending post-quantum signature strategy for hierarchical deterministic wallets, which are the foundation of almost all current cryptocurrency wallets. Without
Solayer, a high-performance Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, has launched public testing for its flagship multi-asset perpetual trading platform, Margin Trade. Solayer opens Margin Trade to public testing Built by a team at Solayer Labs, and former traders with backgrounds at Citadel and Kraken, Margin Trade offers unified
Today, Factori AD, a fully licensed and EU-regulated investment broker offering brokerage, OTC execution, custody, and investment advisory services, signed its first securities tokenization deal with REAL Technologies Inc., the parent company of REAL Finance. The agreement is the first live implementation of REAL Finance’s tokenization infrastructure for regulated securities and activates a
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that tax evaders are increasingly using digital means such as Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens to conceal their income from tax authorities. In a research released on Wednesday, Chainalysis said that although tax evasion and unreported income have been around for a long time, the
Based on information from two sources familiar with the situation, cryptocurrency custody business Copper has been actively seeking a buyer for its platform, with an asking price of about $500 million. According to the sources, Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment firm based on Wall Street, has been enlisted to assist with
In order to explore privacy-preserving infrastructure for tokenized assets, Real, a Layer 1 blockchain focusing on institutional-scale real-world asset tokenization, and iExec, a provider of confidential computing infrastructure, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. In order to preserve confidentiality and facilitate compliance and auditability, the partnership will evaluate how institutional RWA issuance,
The infrastructure that connects Tether assets to every network, USDT0, has been integrated into the developer platform of Stables, a leading provider of digital payments infrastructure. Without having to deal with bridge infrastructure or multi-chain complexity, the integration allows developers to transfer USDT smoothly between supported blockchain networks as part of their
Today, Fetch.ai, a pioneer in agentic AI and a founding member of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI Alliance), announced the launch of Agent Launch on BNB Chain, a platform that enables AI agents to list on a decentralized exchange in minutes without the need for a human founder. On Agentverse, there
