Ondo Finance has abandoned its layer-1 blockchain plans, launching the Ondo Network — an offchain execution layer built on secure hardware enclaves with onchain settlement.
Zimbabwe's Securities and Exchange Commission approved seven fintech projects for its regulatory sandbox, with four focused on tokenizing assets and securities.
Hong Kong's HKMA has launched a Quantum Preparedness Index and given banks until 2030 to become quantum-secure, directly tied to the city's tokenized-finance push.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota's first-in-the-nation prediction market ban, finding federal law likely preempts the state felony statute.
Microsoft's MDASH multi-agent system scored 88.45% on CyberGym, outpacing Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 while claiming half the cost of its prior setup.
AscendEX, BitMEX, and BitMart have all announced shutdowns within two weeks. What the cluster of CEX closures means for crypto consolidation and Hyperliquid.
Total crypto market cap drops 2.82% to $2.25T as the Fear & Greed Index hits 29. HYPE leads 24h losses at -5.9%, while BTC holds above $63K with 56.3% dominance.
Lido's Curated Module v2 migrates 8M+ staked ETH to a bond-backed operator model, potentially cutting Ethereum's total validator count by roughly one-third.
Securitize Capital LLC is now SEC-registered as an investment adviser, adding a fifth regulated function to its tokenized real-world asset platform alongside its broker-dealer and transfer-agent licenses.
Prediction market traders on Polymarket and Myriad have pushed July Fed rate-hike odds to 27% in 24 hours, rattling a crypto market already sitting at Fear & Greed 30.
