The XRP Ledger is no longer being pitched as a faster wire transfer. Ripple and its infrastructure arm RippleX are pushing something more ambitious - a full-stack rebuild of the network into a platform designed to handle institutional-grade decentralized finance at scale.
Beijing didn't make headlines when it quietly crossed a threshold that took years to reach. But the numbers behind China's new 96-core blockchain acceleration chip are hard to dismiss.
Nasdaq announced a strategic partnership with Seturion - the blockchain-based post-trade platform operated by Boerse Stuttgart Group - to modernize securities settlement across Europe.
For most of Web3’s history, launching a token meant relying on someone else’s platform.
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have formally asked U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla to schedule a retrial for Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash.
The Ethereum Foundation has made a decisive break from years of operational practice.
TRON DAO has formalized its entry into the emerging agentic AI ecosystem, announcing it has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Gold Member - a move that places the blockchain network inside one of the more consequential governance structures forming around autonomous AI development.
CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig has put forward an ambitious regulatory overhaul he calls "future-proofing" - a deliberate shift away from the agency's recent enforcement-heavy posture toward what he describes as a "minimum effective dose" of regulation.
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit issued a preliminary sanctions notice against Bithumb on March 9, 2026, proposing a six-month partial business suspension alongside financial penalties that could reach 50 billion won - roughly $36.5 million.
The cryptocurrency ETF market showed mixed flows on March 9, with Bitcoin funds attracting fresh inflows while Ethereum, Solana, and XRP products recorded net outflows despite a broader rally across digital assets.
The latest data out of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York paints a picture of a labor market that isn't collapsing - but isn't healthy either.
When Iranian escalations rattled oil markets over the weekend, Wall Street was offline. Hyperliquid wasn't.



