Banks and financial institutions will be able to launch a private Besu chain running the QBFT consensus, natively connected to Polygon’s decentralised cross-chain protocol, Agglayer
The Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures expand CME Group’s single-asset cryptocurrency offering, which includes Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui
Tokenised deposits will be offered through the Google Cloud Universal Ledger, allowing institutions to deploy 24/7 settlement with programmable capabilities
Under the partnership, Coinbase will integrate Thunes’ proprietary cross-border payment framework, the Direct Global Network, into its platform and power Thunes’ stablecoin infrastructure
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe says DLT activity has reached “record or significant levels” across digital bond issuance, tokenised assets, and repo markets
The initiative will enable onchain lending, collateral, and treasury-management applications for banks, asset managers, and DeFi users, according to Archax
Matthew Klopfer joins Kamino as its head of US institutional expansion with extensive private markets experience, and Blake Messer will head agentic operations, following over a decade with Cratejoy
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The product is offered to professional investors and supported through Finloop’s Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission-regulated entity and its tokenisation agent and technology service provider
The survey shows that while 88 per cent senior finance professionals at SMEs believe stablecoins could improve cross-border B2B collections, only 27 per cent currently accept them
The partnership seeks to offer payment networks a new settlement option with RLUSD as an additional rail, giving issuers and acquirers more flexibility to settle intraday and reduce settlement latency
Following over two decades of work for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the US Department of Justice, Kevin Webb will lead Solidus’ work with legislators, regulators, and industry associations
