Tokenization is moving from a concept to a multi-billion-dollar market and central banks are rebuilding settlements around programmable platforms. The case for...
Over the past several years, the Web3 industry has experienced extraordinary growth. Blockchain technology has expanded far beyond early cryptocurrency use cases...
The Near Protocol and THORChain comparison is one that keeps coming up among investors hunting for the best crypto to buy in...
Monero’s dramatic surge to an all-time high above $800 in early 2026 before pulling back sharply to the mid-$300s put privacy coins...
The blockchain market is entering a phase where investors are becoming more selective about which projects deserve long-term attention. It is no...
The world’s most valuable assets aren’t gold bars or commercial real estate. They’re patents filed into cabinets and forgotten, music royalties stuck...
In October 2023, JPMorgan’s blockchain-based platform Onyx processed $1 billion in tokenised transactions in a single day. BlackRock launched its first tokenised...
SWIFT, the messaging network that connects 11,000 financial institutions across 200 countries, processed 12.4 billion messages in 2023. For over 50 years,...
In January 2024, BlackRock filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF, and within three months the fund attracted over $17 billion in assets....
When Circle published its 2024 attestation report, it revealed that USDC, the company’s dollar-backed stablecoin, had processed over $12 trillion in cumulative...
In September 2023, Visa published the results of a year-long experiment: every USDC settlement transaction processed through its stablecoin pilot was visible...
On 3 January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block, embedding a headline from The Times: “Chancellor on brink of second...
In 2020, Revolut listed cryptocurrency trading as a feature alongside currency exchange and budgeting tools. By 2024, blockchain was embedded in the...
On 15 September 2022, Ethereum completed the Merge, switching its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake and reducing the network’s energy consumption...
In March 2024, BlackRock launched BUIDL, a tokenised US Treasury money market fund, on the Ethereum blockchain. Within six months, the fund...
In November 2023, Goldman Sachs issued a €100 million digital bond on a blockchain, settling the transaction in the same day instead...
In February 2016, hackers sent fraudulent SWIFT messages from Bangladesh Bank’s terminal and successfully transferred $81 million to accounts in the Philippines....
A migrant worker in Dubai sending $200 home to the Philippines through a traditional remittance channel will pay an average of $12...
In October 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore completed the first live cross-currency transaction on Project Guardian, a decentralised financial infrastructure pilot...