The rollout includes new bitcoin payment tools and a merchant wallet aimed at making cryptocurrency use easier for small businesses.
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Fusaka – a blend of the names Fulu and Osaka – consists of two simultaneous upgrades to Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers, respectively.
As part of the arrangement, Jupiter plans to “progressively convert” about $750 million of USDC from its Liquidity Provider Pool into JupUSD.
MetaMask has launched perpetuals trading and plans to integrate with Polymarket to offer prediction markets.
The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives, Bee said.
VanEck says Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade will make the network faster, more stable and easier to run, as developers prepare even deeper performance changes.
A new GoMining survey shows Bitcoin finance has a marketing and trust problem — despite packed conferences and venture funding, most holders are staying away.
Global asset manager VanEck says Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade in December could cut costs for rollups and strengthen ETH’s role as the backbone of onchain activity.
Ripple cryptographer J. Ayo Akinyele outlines a privacy-first roadmap — ZK proofs and confidential tokens — to make XRP Ledger attractive to institutions.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Samsung is expanding its partnership with Coinbase to let U.S. Galaxy smartphone users buy crypto directly through its native Samsung Wallet.
DoubleZero is a network built to speed up how blockchain validators talk to each other.
Tenev said prediction markets could revolutionize existing industries, functioning as a hybrid of betting, exchange-traded products, and news.
The next two testnet runs are scheduled for Oct. 14 and 28. After those are complete, Ethereum developers will lock in a date for Fusaka’s full mainnet launch.
Also: Denials of Bitcoin Hard Fork, UN Experiments With Blockchain, and Gate Rolls Out Token Launcher.
The new product "enables any business to launch and manage their own stablecoin with just a few lines of code."
Decentralized yield protocol Pendle disclosed that an onchain wallet has been drained, and an exploiter is minting principal/yield tokens “to dumping.”
Crypto exchanges and wallet providers have been issuing Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards in an effort to boost customer adoption.
Visa launched a pilot to test stablecoins for cross-border payments, providing businesses a new way to transfer money abroad more quickly.
Chainlink “orchestrated the validation of multiple AI model outputs” that was transmitted to Swift using an ISO 20022-compliant messaging format.
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer development team has submitted a proposal, known as SIMD-0370, that would remove the block-level compute unit limit.
The platform aims to solve fragmented OTC crypto options markets, allowing institutional investors to execute strategies 24/7.
The Bitcoin community is split after leaked messages alleged Luke Dashjr backed a controversial hard fork.
The United Nations' pension fund tried blockchain technology to back up a "digital certificate of existence" that vastly improved its old, paper-based system.
Last year, Swift said banks would conduct live trials of digital asset transactions over its network in 2025.
The upsized offering follows Cipher Mining's $3 billion, 10-year AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack backed by Google.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Gate tapped Optimism for its new L2, Gate Layer, which will use the existing GateChain as a settlement layer and GT token as a gas token.
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.