Qatar National Bank Group (QNB), one of the Middle East’s largest banks, has adopted JPMorgan’s blockchain platform, Kinexys, to process corporate payments in Qatar, according to a Monday Bloomberg report. The switch marks a departure from the constraints of traditional banking infrastructure, where cross-border payments are limited to weekdays and can take days to complete. …
Key takeaways Monitor X, Reddit and Discord for early hype; use tools like LunarCrush to filter noise. Scout for IDOs and DEXs with DexScreener for volume spikes signaling listing potential. Track holder growth and buys via block explorers like Etherscan and research platforms like Arkham for onchain insights. Study Binance’s Innovation Zone and Launchpad and…
Key takeaways: XRP eliminates pre-funding and speeds up cross-border remittances, making it useful in emerging markets. Loyalty and travel programs are bringing XRP into daily life, turning it from an investment asset into a practical payment option. Institutions like SBI and Santander add credibility by holding XRP reserves and exploring settlement use cases. With the…
Stablecoins recorded more than $45 billion in net inflows in the last 90 days, highlighting rising demand for US dollar-pegged assets in the crypto space. On Monday, data tracker RWA.xyz showed that Tether’s USDt (USDT) stablecoin led the quarter with $19.6 billion in net inflows, followed by Circle’s USDC (USDC) with $12.3 billion. Ethena’s synthetic…
The Swift interbank communication network is working with Ethereum ecosystem developer Consensys to develop a blockchain settlement system. According to a Monday announcement, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is developing a blockchain in collaboration with over 30 financial institutions and Consensys. The initial focus is on developing infrastructure for “real-time 24/7 cross-border…
The crypto industry could be set for a flood of new crypto exchange-traded funds in October, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission set to make their final decisions on 16 crypto ETFs next month. The ETFs are connected to a variety of major altcoins, including Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Litecoin (LTC) and memecoin Dogecoin…
Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s decentralized peer-to-peer messaging service Bitchat has seen a spike in downloads from the African island nation of Madagascar amid protests, following a similar uptick during unrest in Nepal and Indonesia earlier in September. A Bitcoin open-source developer under the X handle callebtc, who is working on the messaging service, said on…
Web3 infrastructure company Jump Crypto has proposed removing Solana’s fixed compute block limit to strengthen network performance and incentivize validators with suboptimal hardware to upgrade. Jump, which is building a high-performance Firedancer validator client for Solana, is pushing for the SIMD-0370 proposal to be implemented sometime after the Alpenglow upgrade, Solana research company Anza said…
Opinion by: Tim Hafner, founder and CEO of OpenServ Launchpads were introduced to give Web3 projects access to early investors. As they operate today, however, they too often result in cash grabs over long-term success. This has resulted in a flood of half-formed products hitting the market without real support for builders. Virtuals Protocol has…
Key takeaways Stocks may survive AI disruption if they adapt quickly to changing technological and economic demands. New businesses spurred by AI, such as robotics, biotech or space, are expected to drive growth, and the stocks mirroring such advances will have a better chance of surviving the innovation turmoil. Periods of disruption should be expected…