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The Securities and Exchange Commission published a brief Federal Register order on Monday that does something markets have been anticipating since January: it formally approves Nasdaq's rule change to list and trade shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust under the ticker IBTC. The o

The report landed without fanfare. Parity Technologies, the team behind the Polkadot ecosystem's core infrastructure, published a comprehensive analysis of stablecoins in July 2026. It was not a government white paper. It was not an industry lobbying document. It was engineers ex

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division and Division of Clearing and Risk released a 47-page staff guidance document last week that attempts to answer a question regulators have been dodging for years: what exactly can a registered firm do with cry

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission handed down what appears to be a carefully calibrated signal last week: a no-action letter permitting Kraken Derivatives Exchange to operate certain designated contract market functions while the broader regulatory framework for digital as

Hyperbridge unveiled its relaunch as an interoperability hyperstructure, fundamentally redesigning its cross-chain messaging architecture to enable more efficient, secure, and scalable asset transfers across blockchain networks. The repositions the project from a bridge protocol

Startale introduced the Onchain Finance Kit (OFK), a comprehensive toolkit designed to bridge traditional financial institutions with blockchain-based finance infrastructure. The announcement marks a significant step in making decentralized finance accessible to institutional pla

Phala Cloud demonstrated running GLM-5.2 with 1 million token context on a single 8xH200 node, leveraging trusted execution environment (TEE) technology to ensure confidential AI model deployment and inference. The demonstration establishes that large language models with extende

Startale Group announced a strategic partnership with SBI Group and DigiFT to advance tokenized capital markets using JPYSC, a Japanese yen stablecoin, for settlement and on-chain dividend distribution. The collaboration signals meaningful institutional adoption of blockchain inf

The conference invitation landed with the quiet authority of a central bank. The Federal Reserve's fifth conference on the international roles of the U.S. dollar, held in July 2026, devoted significant attention to stablecoins and their growing role in international dollar financ

Phala Network introduced Private AI Gateway, a solution enabling organizations to deploy AI inference across fragmented compute environments while maintaining cryptographic privacy guarantees through trusted execution environment (TEE) technology. I've watched cloud computing fra