Howard Lutnick, the US Secretary of Commerce and former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, introduced plans to combine blockchain know-how into the dissemination of financial statistics. GDP Statistics On The Blockchain Speaking at a cupboard assembly with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Lutnick articulated his imaginative and prescient of inserting Gross Home Product (GDP) knowledge on…
Google Cloud is advancing into blockchain infrastructure with the event of a Layer-1 platform, the Google Cloud Common Ledger (GCUL). The system is designed for monetary establishments and goals to assist tokenized belongings, settlements and Python-based sensible contracts. The initiative, now working on a personal testnet, was first revealed in March by way of a…
Do you need to hear insights from probably the most modern banks in Singapore? On this episode, Evy Theunis, the Head of Digital Belongings, Institutional Banking Group at DBS Bank explains to Chengyi Ong (Head of Coverage (APAC), Chainalysis) concerning the thriving presence of digital asset companies working their companies out of Singapore and the…
Solana recorded 107,540 transactions per second on mainnet over the weekend, marking what developers claim as the first time a major blockchain has achieved 100,000 TPS. Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz announced the milestone on social media, crediting developer “dr cavey phd” for executing the stress test that pushed Solana’s throughput to six figures. Solana just…
Payments giant Stripe is developing “Tempo,” a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain focused on payments, in partnership with crypto venture capital firm Paradigm, according to a job posting discovered on the Blockchain Association website. As per Fortune report, the stealth project represents Stripe’s most ambitious crypto initiative yet, building on its recent $1.1 billion acquisition of…
JPMorgan Chase has named Kara Kennedy as the new global co-head of Kinexys, the bank’s blockchain-focused division, deepening its investment in digital asset infrastructure as regulatory clarity improves in the US. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Kennedy, who is based in Edinburgh, will oversee Kinexys Digital Assets and Kinexys Labs, two units that focus on asset…
WeWake is quickly gaining attention as one of the top crypto presales of 2025. Built as a walletless and gasless Layer 2 blockchain, it aims to bring the next billion users into Web3. With social logins, no seed phrases, and zero gas fees, WeWake simplifies the crypto onboarding process for everyone. One click is all…
The Celestia ($TIA) token fell 8% to $1.77 amid a broader market pullback, but key developments and upgrades suggest this may be temporary. With $144 million in daily trading volume and a $1.2 billion market cap, the modular blockchain’s fundamentals could prove instrumental for a comeback. What’s more, several key network upgrades and strategic moves…
Vietnam has taken a big step toward locking down its government data with the launch of NDAChain, a new blockchain network that only approved participants can join. Built by the National Data Association and overseen by the Ministry of Public Security’s Data Innovation and Exploitation Center, the system will serve as the main verification layer…
According to a senior Moscow lawmaker, the ranks of officially registered crypto mining companies have gone from just 91 at the start of 2024 to over 1,000 today. This sharp rise comes after a law passed in the fall of 2024 required anyone using more than 6,000 kWh of electricity per month to sign up…