Blockchain


Finance

Blockchain-Based Microloans Are Coming to Farmers in São Paulo

The project utilizes a blockchain infrastructure developed with Tanssi's technology, enabling predictable transaction fees and reliability, rather than relying on public blockchains.

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Markets

Monad’s Debut Shows Why FDV Forecasts Broke as Bitcoin Fell

Monad’s listing illustrates how low-float launches can anchor valuation even when macro conditions point in the opposite direction, leaving traders mispricing outcomes that hinge more on supply than on sentiment.

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Markets

India's Debt-Backed ARC Token Eyes Tentative Q1 2026 Debut, Sources Say

The ARC will operate within a two-tier framework, complementing the RBI's Central Bank Digital Currency.

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Tech

Franklin Templeton Expands Benji Technology Platform to Canton Network

The move links traditional finance infrastructure with blockchain rails as major institutions push deeper into tokenized markets.

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Markets

Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman Outlines 3 Ways Blockchain Can Fix Finance

Friedman sees post-trade streamlining, collateral mobility and better payments as key blockchain breakthroughs.

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Web3

Chainlink Introduces CRE to Fast-Track Institutional Tokenization

CRE enables smart contracts that work across blockchains and tap into legacy financial messaging standards, with access to Chainlink's services.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Finance

TZERO Plans Public Listing as Tokenization Push Gains Steam

The move positions the company to scale its regulated platform across securities, real estate and digital assets as tokenization gains mainstream momentum.

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Opinion

Blockchain Will Drive the Agent-to-Agent AI Marketplace Boom

For agents to be truly autonomous they need to have access to resources and self-custody their assets: programmable, permissionless, and composable blockchains are the ideal substrate for agents to do so, Olas’ David Minarsch argues.

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Markets

PLUME Rises 25% as Network Registered by SEC as Transfer Agent for Tokenized Securities

Plume is already receiving interest from 40 Act funds and is seeking more licenses.

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Finance

What SWIFT's Blockchain Means for Stablecoins and Global Banks

The company that underpins the global financial messaging system is building infrastructure for onchain settlement as it seeks a role in blockchain-based finance.

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