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Ondo Finance joins Blockchain Association to advance US digital asset policy

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Key Takeaways Ondo Finance, a tokenized Treasury protocol, has joined the Blockchain Association. This partnership aims to advance pro-innovation digital asset policies in the United States. Share this article Ondo Finance, a tokenized Treasury protocol, today joined the Blockchain Association to help advance pro-innovation digital asset policies in the US. The move comes after Ondo concluded an SEC investigation, clearing the path for its expansion in tokenized asset operations. The platform tokenizes real-world assets to bring institutional-grade finance onchain while maintaining regulatory compliance through alignment with SEC practices. The Blockchain…

Base Launches Chainlink-Secured Bridge To Solana Blockchain

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Solana and Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base have been bridged together using Chainlink’s technology in a move to increase liquidity between the two networks. Base said on Thursday that it launched a bridge connecting it to Solana secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, enabling seamless asset transfers. The bridge is now live on mainnet for builders to integrate, and rolling out for anyone to use in apps, including Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch, and Relay. Users will also be able to trade Solana (SOL) and many Solana-based assets…

Huaxia Bank issues 637M blockchain bonds settled in digital yuan

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Key Takeaways Huaxia Bank issued $637 million in blockchain-based bonds settled exclusively with digital yuan, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC). This bond issuance demonstrates the practical use of blockchain technology in China’s regulated financial markets. Share this article Huaxia Bank, a major state-owned Chinese lender, issued $637 million in blockchain-based bonds settled exclusively in digital yuan. The issuance was carried out through Huaxia Financial Leasing, a subsidiary of Huaxia Bank. The digital yuan, operated by the People’s Bank of China, enables real-time, on-chain recording of the bond issuance process…

How blockchain upgrades start: From idea to proposal

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Blockchains do not stand still. Fee markets shift, validator sets evolve, and new modules arrive to handle everything from privacy to crosschain messaging. Behind each of those changes sits a simple starting point: an idea that someone cared enough to write down. Cointelegraph Decentralization Guardians (CTDG) was created to give those ideas a more reliable home. The initiative runs high-performance validators and participates in governance across networks such as Solana,, Injective, Chiliz, Polkadot, Coreum, Canton and Mantra, contributing to decentralization and security at the protocol layer. The CTDG Dev Hub,…

Klarna Launches Stablecoin on Stripe’s Tempo Blockchain

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Payments company Klarna has launched a stablecoin, becoming the first digital bank to issue a token on Tempo, the new layer-1 blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the new stablecoin is pegged to the US dollar and is currently live on Tempo’s testnet, with an upcoming mainnet launch set for 2026. Called KlarnaUSD, the stablecoin was built by Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure provider also owned by Stripe. The move expands Klarna’s long-standing payments partnership with Stripe across its 26 global markets. “Crypto is finally at a…

‘Buy now, pay later’ giant Klarna debuts stablecoin on Stripe’s blockchain

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Key Takeaways Klarna has launched its own payment stablecoin, KlarnaUSD, on Stripe’s blockchain to streamline cross-border payments. The stablecoin aims to cut costs for consumers and merchants while expanding Klarna’s services into crypto and international payments. Share this article Klarna, the Swedish “buy now, pay later” fintech giant, is entering the stablecoin space with the launch of KlarnaUSD on a Stripe-built blockchain, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. The rollout is aimed at streamlining international payments and reducing costs for both consumers and merchants as stablecoins help bypass intermediaries such as…

TRON DAO brings TRON Academy to UC Berkeley as campus interest in blockchain accelerates

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Share this article Geneva, Switzerland, November 17, 2025 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), successfully concluded its educational workshop with the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on November 14. This latest initiative extends TRON DAO’s growing academic network, which already includes world-class institutions such as Imperial College London, Yale University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, MIT, Cornell University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. The fast growing collaboration demonstrates TRON DAO’s strategic focus on driving innovation…

How Blockchain Tech and DATs Are Decentralizing Scientific Research

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Biomedical and scientific companies are turning to blockchain technology and crypto treasury strategies to fund research, overhauling traditional capital formation and research funding structures that can delay life-saving cures by decades. Portage Biotech, a biomedical technology company, pivoted to become a Toncoin (TON) treasury company in September, earning operating revenues from staking to secure the network and investing in Telegram ecosystem projects, including games and mini-apps. The company will funnel some of the revenue generated from the operating business and the capital appreciation of TON to fund cancer research, AlphaTON…

Privacy is the Gate to Institutional Blockchain Use: Matter Labs CEO

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Privacy tokens bucked the trend to surge in price and popularity during the recent market slump, but most of the discussion has centered on consumer-facing projects like Zcash. At the same time, banks and financial institutions have been exploring zero-knowledge (ZK) systems that enable private transaction flows on blockchains, a technology known for transparency and immutability. As Alex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, put it, “There is cypherpunk privacy, which is account-level privacy, and then there is institutional privacy, which is system-level privacy. Institutions need full visibility over their own…

New Consortium Aims to Unify Blockchain Payment Standards

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Seven crypto firms have joined forces to establish common standards for crosschain stablecoin transfers, following a bumper year in 2024 where transfer volumes surpassed those of Visa and Mastercard.  Fireblocks, the Solana Foundation, TON Foundation, Polygon Labs, Stellar Development Foundation, Mysten Labs and Monad Foundation said on Thursday they’re linking up to form the Blockchain Payments Consortium (BPC). The group is aiming to create a “common framework that enhances blockchain transactions with traditional data requirements of traditional payments.” “Blockchain rails are reshaping the global payments landscape. But for blockchain payments…