Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: The XRP Ledger’s BatchV1_1 amendment remains in its activation window and is expected to enable around October 9 if validator support stays above the required threshold. The upgrade allows multiple transactions to be bundled into an atomic group, replacing an earlier…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Eleven years in crypto is not simply an anniversary. It means navigating multiple boom-and-bust cycles, changing asset narratives, exchange failures, and the growing convergence between traditional finance and onchain markets. At its 11-year mark, LBank reports more than 30 million registered users…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: NextBlock has invested $3 million in Soda Labs, funding the company’s entire seed round. Soda is building privacy infrastructure based on garbled circuits and multiparty computation so financial applications can process confidential data while remaining connected to public blockchains. Public blockchains…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Moscow Exchange plans to begin offering cryptocurrency trading from December 1 and says testing with professional market participants is already underway. Under Russia’s new framework, unqualified investors are expected to face limits on which assets they can buy and how much…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Sui and Alibaba Cloud are working on an integration that would let AI agents pay for cloud services per request using stablecoins within budgets set by their owners. The collaboration was unveiled at Sui Basecamp and remains under development, with no…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Hyperscale Data says Ault Markets is now providing invite-only access to a decentralized exchange running in beta on the Ault Blockchain. The publicly listed company plans to expand the platform with additional assets, including tokenized precious metals. A publicly traded data-center…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Binance is adding four bStocks tokenized securities as eligible collateral across Cross Margin, Portfolio Margin and Portfolio Margin Pro. The assets represent JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Securitize and StablecoinX, bringing tokenized equity exposure directly into the exchange’s crypto collateral system. Tokenized…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Binance will support cash dividends for Oracle and Marvell bStocks holders. After taxes, fees and other deductions, the net dividend will be reinvested into additional fractions of ORCLB or MRVLB rather than paid as cash. Onchain holders will receive the economic…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Optimism has released op-supernode v1.0.3 as an optional operator update. The release tightens validation around hardfork activation times and rejects invalid post-genesis fork ordering in custom rollup configs. Existing chains in the Superchain registry are not affected by the configuration issue…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR CFTC records show Bitnomial’s “Ondo US Dollar Spot” futures product was certified on October 1. The filing classifies the contract as a futures product under the financial-instrument category. Certification is a regulatory product filing status; it should not be described as…