Blockchain

Aave founder wants DeFi to tokenize assets worth $50,000

Stani Kulechov, founder of decentralized lending platform Aave, says DeFi could tap into $50 trillion in "abundant assets" like solar power through tokenization by...

Robinhood Chain testnet launches on the Arbitrum platform

Update (February 11, 2026 09:48 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Johann Kerbrat, Senior Vice President and General Manager Crypto...

Public benefits Onchain is the future, but challenges remain, says CEO

Blockchain technology is an effective medium for administering social benefits programs, but key compliance challenges remain, according to Julie Myers Wood, CEO of consulting...

Tokenized goods exceed $6 billion after gold adoption

The tokenized commodities market has grown 53% in less than six weeks to more than $6.1 billion, making it the fastest-growing industry in the...

Generation Z open to cryptocurrencies on Valentine’s Day: survey

Generation Z Americans may be willing to pay for dates with cryptocurrency, but most still aren't putting their digital coins where their hearts are,...

Israel arrests two people in connection with Polymarket transactions amid strikes in Iran

Israeli authorities have arrested and charged two people for allegedly using secret information to place bets on Polymarket's prediction market related to an Israeli...

UK launches blockchain digital bond pilot with HSBC Orion

The UK government has appointed tokenization platform HSBC to support a pilot issuance of digital government bonds, known as 'gilts', in the latest step...

Why Blockchain TPS Numbers Often Break Down in the Real World

Blockchain transactions per second (TPS) are often used as a measure of performance, but they do not fully tell us whether the network can...

Spark Launches Institutional Lending Package for Channel DeFi Stablecoins

Spark announced on Wednesday the launch of Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending services to direct more of its decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin reserves...

The UK Central Bank will launch a pilot onchain settlement infrastructure

The Bank of England has launched a novel industry experimentation initiative to explore how tokenized assets can be settled using synchronized, atomic settlement in...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Indexes

The Ethereum Foundation sponsors the cryptocurrency security nonprofit Security Alliance (SEAL) to "track and neutralize" cryptocurrency drainers and other social engineering attackers that target...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Indexes

Interoperability is crucial for the seamless utilize of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. However, it is largely lacking in the integration of many existing wallet SDKs...

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum scaling should transition from L2

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the original vision of Layer 2 scaling "no longer makes sense," arguing that many L2s have failed to...

Bitwise will acquire Chorus One as demand for cryptocurrency staking grows

Bitwise Asset Management is reportedly acquiring institutional stake provider Chorus One, expanding its operations into cryptocurrency income services.The acquisition adds a major staking operation...

CME Group is considering issuing a proprietary token as collateral and margin

Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group is considering launching its own digital token as it explores how tokenized assets could be used as collateral in...

Payy launches the first privacy-enabled L2 EVM on Ethereum

The Crypto Payy project, which operates a privacy-focused wallet alongside a crypto banking card, has launched an Ethereum Layer 2 network designed to support...