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MANTRA, a Layer 1 blockchain built for real-world assets (RWAs), has taken a major step forward. The project announced that its latest mainnet upgrades are now live, making it the first blockchain to natively support both Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and CosmWasm smart contracts. This makes MANTRA the first true
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The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has executed its first blockchain-powered capital raise, marking a major milestone in the integration of distributed ledger technology into traditional finance. The deal, reported by the Financial Times on Monday, enabled MembersCap, a reinsurance asset manager, to raise funds for its latest private vehicle
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Binance Alpha, the exchange’s early-access platform for emerging web3 projects, has officially added Aleo to its lineup. The zero-knowledge-based layer 1 blockchain went live on the platform on September 14, giving more than 280 million Binance users across 100 countries access to its native token, ALEO. The Aleo Network
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Ant Digital, the technology arm of Jack Ma’s Ant Group, is bringing China’s renewable energy sector onto the blockchain. The company is tokenizing more than 60 billion yuan ($8.4 billion) worth of energy assets, a move aimed at creating a globally accessible market for clean power. According
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South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, appears ready to reveal its long-awaited blockchain project, dubbed Giwa, during the Upbit D Conference (UDC) on September 9 in Seoul. Seems legit, Dunamu filed the trademark for it🔥@Official_Upbit #upbit #L2 #giwa pic.twitter.com/RrOKBZy2Bc — Anna (@anna__yoon) September 8,
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Stripe and Paradigm have unveiled Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain designed to handle high-volume financial services applications. The project, now in private testnet, represents Stripe’s most significant move yet into blockchain and digital payments. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced the initiative on X, describing Tempo as “the payments-oriented L1, optimized
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The Ethereum Community Foundation (ECF) has introduced a new token, BETH, designed to make Ethereum’s burn mechanism more visible and usable across the network. The move aims to re-center attention on ETH as a core asset and to strengthen Ethereum’s monetary design at a time when debates about
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The Pyth Network’s native token (PYTH) surged more than 70% on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed it would use Pyth and Chainlink to publish official economic data across multiple blockchains. The move marks a significant step in bringing government statistics onchain and highlights the growing
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Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps has identified a familiar player at the center of Ye’s newly launched YZY memecoin. On-chain data shows that the same wallet linked to lucrative early buys of TRUMP and LIBRA tokens was also among the first to snipe YZY on its August 21 launch. 3/
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Wyoming has officially entered the digital finance arena with the launch of the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), making it the first U.S. state to issue a government-backed stablecoin. The token, unveiled this week by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, is pegged to the U.S. dollar and designed for
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Bitcoin has reached a new milestone, briefly overtaking Google parent company Alphabet to become the world’s fifth-largest asset by market capitalization. The cryptocurrency surged to an all-time high of $124,457 on Thursday, lifting its market value above $2.45 trillion and edging past Alphabet’s $2.4 trillion
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CMB International Asset Management (CMBIAM) and Singapore-based real-world asset (RWA) exchange DigiFT have introduced the CMB International USD Money Market Fund as a tokenized investment product, marking the first publicly offered money market fund on Solana to receive recognition from regulators in both Hong Kong and Singapore. The fund, ranked