Blockchain

Alchemy Pay has unveiled Alchemy Chain, a dedicated Layer-1 blockchain designed to power fast, low-cost stablecoin payments worldwide. The move marks a shift from Alchemy Pay’s previous role as a payment gateway toward building a self-sustaining, global financial network....

BNB Chain has implemented support for ERC-8004, a new standard allowing autonomous software agents to hold verifiable on-chain identities. The move aims to improve trust, transparency, and efficiency in decentralized systems, enabling AI-driven tools to operate reliably across multiple...

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains have greatly changed how people think about money and technology. But there’s an apparent and growing concern: their effect on the environment. Because some blockchains use large amounts of energy, which contributes to pollution and climate...

At Sibos 2025, Swift and HSBC announced a major initiative to integrate a blockchain-based shared ledger into global payments infrastructure, aiming to make cross-border transactions instant and always-on.  The move reflects growing momentum in the financial industry to embrace...

Cryptocurrency transactions linked to suspected human trafficking networks surged 85% year over year in 2025, according to a new report from Chainalysis, which warns that digital assets are increasingly embedded in illicit operations across Southeast Asia. In the next...

The UK Treasury has selected HSBC as the platform provider for its pioneering Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot, marking a decisive step in the nation’s quest to modernize its sovereign debt markets according to Bloomberg reports.  Announced on Thursday,...

The UAE has taken a major step toward institutional digital finance with the launch of the DDSC stablecoin, a UAE Dirham-backed token now live on ADI Chain. The initiative, spearheaded by International Holding Company (IHC) and First Abu Dhabi...

Cardano is moving firmly into the multichain era with the integration of LayerZero, one of Web3’s most widely used interoperability protocols. The upgrade will connect Cardano to more than 160 blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum and BNB Chain, significantly...

LayerZero Labs has announced the launch of "Zero," a new heterogeneous blockchain designed to eliminate scalability bottlenecks for global financial markets.  Developed in collaboration with industry giants Citadel Securities, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and Intercontinental Exchange,...

Monad has rolled out a new networking upgrade designed to significantly reduce the computational burden of message verification within its consensus protocol, marking a technical step forward in blockchain performance optimization. The update replaces traditional per-message cryptographic signature verification...