BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has introduced two new tokenized money market products, BSTBL and BRSRV, designed to serve as reserve assets for stablecoins. This move expands BlackRock's presence in the blockchain infrastructure and tokenized Treasury market.
Kenya, through its National Examinations Council (KNEC), has launched a blockchain-based system on the Avalanche network to verify over 30 million academic records. This initiative aims to combat certificate fraud and simplify credential verification for institutions.
En 2014, Ethereum a financé sa blockchain naissante par une vente publique de jetons (ETH) contre des bitcoins, levant 18,3 millions de dollars en 42 jours. Cette opération, qualifiée de « vente du siècle », a permis de construire le réseau et a marqué la première grande levée de fonds de ce type, transformant des investissements initiaux en fortunes.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects a consolidation of corporate blockchains, predicting that network effects will force weaker platforms to combine or retreat despite initial growth. He compares this to the stablecoin market, with Coinbase exploring a Base token to enhance neutrality.
Aave proposes winding down its V3 markets on six blockchains (Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, Aptos) and retiring 50 low-use token reserves and 21 Pendle principal token listings, affecting $98.1M in supplied assets and $15.6M in debt, to reduce economic and technical risk.
Crypto forensics company AMLBot has launched its AI Tracer, a self-service blockchain analysis tool designed to map visible fund movements across various networks from a transaction hash. The tool aims to simplify transaction tracing for users, journalists, and law enforcement, supporting multiple blockchains.
Aave risk service provider LlamaRisk proposed winding down V3 deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, affecting $4.1 million in debt. The plan aims to reduce support costs exceeding revenue, freezing reserves and adjusting interest rates to encourage withdrawals.
A Bank of Italy study on 200 USDC remittances across 10 corridors found stablecoins did not offer a systematic cost or speed advantage over traditional payments, primarily due to fiat on/off-ramp frictions. While often cheaper than the global average, they were less competitive than services like Wise in most comparable corridors, highlighting the importance of payment infrastructure and regulatory design.
BNY Mellon, a leading custodian bank, is transitioning its transfer agency operations to a blockchain platform, aiming to create a shared, on-chain record for fund ownership and transactions, initially covering $8.6 trillion in assets.
Tether and Nairobi Securities Exchange explore tokenized securities, blockchain infrastructure, and USDT as a settlement layer in a new MoU, amidst growing tokenized real-world assets sector.
KB Kookmin Bank to introduce blockchain-based cross-border payment service via JPMorgan's Kinexys network in August, initially supporting USD transfers across 10 countries.
Ten cows from Fazenda Engenho Velho in Paraná, Brazil, became the first livestock collateral registered on B3, Brazil's stock exchange. The deal, backed by blockchain-tracked animals with AI-powered sensor collars, offers a new financing alternative for farmers facing credit restrictions.
Payward, Kraken's parent company, has partnered with global fintech GTN to launch its blockchain-based xStocks outside the U.S. for the first time. The expansion begins with Hong Kong-listed equities, with plans to include U.K., European, and South Korean stocks, aiming to address capital market fragmentation.
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have launched a new digital asset index that tracks blockchain networks based on protocol revenue, rather than market capitalization. This index, designed for institutional allocation, includes 18 constituents like Ether, BNB, and Solana, and aims to distinguish established blockchain activity from speculative exposure.
Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul asserts that agentic AI, capable of autonomous transactions, will rely on high-speed blockchain networks due to their efficiency over traditional payment systems. This shift is expected to be a 'killer' use case for blockchain, driving significant adoption and investor demand for cryptocurrencies.
Sandy Kaul de Franklin Templeton et Jeremy Allaire de Circle affirment que la prochaine opportunité majeure de l'IA réside dans la blockchain, car les agents IA autonomes nécessitent une infrastructure de paiement sans compte bancaire. Le commerce agentique pourrait atteindre 3 000 à 5 000 milliards de dollars d'ici 2030, avec des protocoles comme x402 démontrant déjà des millions de transactions sur des réseaux comme Base.
Franklin Templeton's head of digital assets, Sandy Kaul, asserts that AI agents will significantly boost demand for blockchain and cryptocurrency due to their need for rapid, low-fee micropayments. Legacy card networks are deemed unsuitable for this agentic economy, a view echoed by payments giant Visa and investment platform Artemis.
Crypto exchange HTX has continued operations under the same brand after UK sanctions, rebuilding its on-chain wallet infrastructure by rapidly rotating addresses across multiple blockchains, according to a TRM Labs report. HTX denies any wrongdoing, stating these are routine security operations.
Movement Labs, developer of the Movement Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 15 in Delaware. This follows a market-making scandal involving co-founder Rushi Manche and Web3Port, which led to a 94% decline in the MOVE token and Coinbase suspending trading.
Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has launched staking support for Bittensor's TAO token, enabling its 40 million users to earn rewards by securing the decentralized AI network. This integration, announced by Bittensor validator Yuma, aims to expand access and participation in the Bittensor ecosystem, which coordinates AI model development through 128 subnets.
Bernstein analysts raised Robinhood's (HOOD) price target to $160, maintaining an Outperform rating, based on their view that tokenized equities and prediction markets, rather than traditional crypto, will drive its next growth phase. They project significant revenue growth from prediction markets and see tokenized real-world assets as a major long-term opportunity, with other financial institutions also expanding tokenization infrastructure.
Hyperliquid plans a HIP-4 upgrade allowing external operators to create prediction markets, challenging Polymarket. Deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE ($31.7M), with validators retaining broad oversight. This aims to expand market creation beyond validators, mirroring the success of HIP-3's perpetual futures.
LimeWire, a generative AI platform, empowers creators to produce, share, and monetize AI-generated content, including images, with upcoming music and video tools, offering NFT minting, ad revenue, and royalty models.
NEO, Ethereum'un bir rakibi olarak tanımlanan ve merkezi olmayan uygulamalar (dapps) oluşturmayı sağlayan bir yazılım ağıdır. Binance Launchpool'da NEO tabanlı protokollerin tanıtılmasıyla dikkat çeken NEO, dBFT konsensüs mekanizması ve iki yerel kripto para birimi (NEO ve GAS) ile çalışır.
