Blockchain

Bitcoin payments startup ZBD has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round as it looks to expand blockchain-based payment infrastructure for the video game industry, Fortune reported. The New Jersey–based company, which provides payments software for game developers, was led in the round by Blockstream Capital. The crypto…

A Columbia Business School professor is raising concerns about the scant details in the New York Stock Exchange’s plan to build a blockchain for real-world asset tokenization, amid fears it could run against the ethos of crypto. In an X post on Tuesday, Omid Malekan said NYSE’s announcement read like…

TLDR F/m Investments is seeking SEC approval to tokenize shares of its U.S. Treasury 3 Month Bill ETF. The company plans to record ownership of the ETF on a permissioned blockchain ledger. F/m Investments believes it is the first firm to request SEC approval for tokenized shares of a registered…

Noble, a stablecoin blockchain, has announced it is moving from the Cosmos ecosystem to Ethereum, citing the need to access a better tech stack and wider developer community. Noble announced on Tuesday that it will be migrating its Cosmos SDK-based blockchain to a standalone EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) layer 1,…

Crypto infrastructure company Chainlink is set to roll out support for 24/5 trading of US stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which it says could help bring parts of the roughly $80 trillion US equities market on-chain. Chainlink said on Tuesday that its 24/5 US Equities Streams will be added to…

Chainalysis introduced a new automation feature designed to make blockchain investigation tasks easier for non-technical users. The update targets compliance teams and analysts who rely on structured workflows but often lack coding skills. The company said the tool improves speed, consistency, and accessibility across routine investigative processes...Read More

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Journalist MegaETH, the real-time EVM-compatible blockchain, announced that it will launch its mainnet on the 22nd of January. Dubbed the MegaETH stress test, it aims to process 11 billion transactions in 7 days. They were ” opening mainnet to users for several latency-sensitive apps while the chain is under intense,…

TLDR: Marshall Islands completes first nationwide blockchain-powered UBI distribution using the Stellar network. USDM1 digital sovereign bond replaces weeks-long cash deliveries with instant digital wallet payments. Lomalo app powered by Crossmint, enables remote citizens to access funds in seconds, not weeks or months. Stellar Development Foundation grant funds a financial…

Ripple has quietly built a broad financial infrastructure through a series of acquisitions, prompting some market experts to say the blockchain firm is now moving faster than traditional banking giants. Speaking in a recent discussion, expert Allan Staple said Ripple’s purchases of firms such as Hidden Road, now rebranded as…