Archives - 2026 - Page 11

A real-world remittance study by the Bank of Italy found that stablecoin transfer fees vary drastically by corridor, reaching as high as 8.96%.

RWA perpetual futures have reached a major adoption milestone, hitting 99.2% of Bitcoin perpetual volume across Hyperliquid and Binance as tokenized stocks and commodities lead trading activity.

The Bank for International Settlements announced that Project Agorá has successfully concluded real-value testing for tokenized wholesale cross-border payments, settling $1 million across six currencies involving 28 global financial institutions.

Strategy Inc announced its Q2 2026 financial results, navigating a $8.33B unrealized digital asset loss while expanding its Bitcoin treasury to 843,775 BTC.

Regulated RWA platform Kula has introduced six new proposed ERC standards (ERC-8325–8330) aiming to bring composability and cross-system data verification to the $36 billion tokenized asset market.

Ethereum’s price recovery has stalled below the psychological $2,000 threshold, hindered by Federal Reserve interest rate policy, geopolitical tensions, and legislative delays in Washington.

SALT has announced that Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse will join high-profile regulators and industry leaders at the third annual Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole this August.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced a governance proposal to retire dozens of low-adoption asset reserves and wind down deployments across six blockchains, consolidating nearly $98 million in supplied assets.

Twelve years after shipping the world’s first hardware wallet, Trezor marks its anniversary by reflecting on its Prague hackerspace origins, self-funded roots, and why user experience has replaced technical security as self-custody’s biggest hurdle.

European banking leaders have launched Regulated Layer One (RL1), establishing a member-owned European Cooperative Society in Luxembourg to operate a shared, compliance-optimized DLT network designed to eliminate market fragmentation across regulated digital asset ecosystems.

Ondo Finance has launched the Ondo Network, an off-chain execution environment designed to deliver near-centralized exchange speeds and institutional privacy, replacing its previously announced layer-1 blockchain project.

International airline Emirates has officially integrated Crypto.com Pay across its web and mobile checkout channels, allowing eligible UAE residents to seamlessly pay for flight bookings using digital assets.

SBI Holdings has restructured its wholly owned subsidiary into SBI Digital Practice to build institutional financial infrastructure on the Canton Network, marking a major multichain expansion alongside its existing Ripple and Solana initiatives.

Kraken is opening retail access to the upcoming Jersey Mike’s IPO, enabling direct allocations for US residents and 1:1 tokenized share requests across more than 110 countries.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has expanded its cryptocurrency exchange-traded product lineup with the launch of the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust on NYSE Arca.