Latest updates, press releases, and insights from the volatile world of digital assets.
Hong Kong-based HashKey Group has joined DTCC’s industry working group on digital assets alongside major banks and exchanges, as the depository prepares an October launch of tokenized securities services
Company releases tokens through three transactions as locked supply drops to 31.28 billion, with historical patterns showing limited net addition to circulating supply
New open-source cryptography tools cut shielded transaction construction times dramatically, with mobile gains exceeding fourteenfold and no network upgrade required
Japanese firm moves another large Bitcoin batch to institutional custodian days after similar transfer, raising questions over potential sales while total holdings stay unchanged
Ethereum core developers have warned that gas repricing in the Glamsterdam upgrade, set for the fourth quarter of 2026, could disrupt a limited number of Layer 1 smart contracts while paving the way for substantially higher network capacity
Digital asset firm Taurus has linked its custody and tokenization systems to Swift’s shared ledger, enabling institutional clients to process cross-border payments with bank-issued tokenized deposits on a near-continuous basis
Payments firm introduces Native product enabling fiat-crypto transactions inside partner apps without redirects or repeated identity checks
The upgrade, live since 02:30 UTC on August 25, strengthens bridge and validator security while enabling fuller blocks at the existing 450-millisecond interval
The upgrade targets stronger security for cross-chain bridges and validators alongside higher transaction throughput on the BNB Smart Chain mainnet
MANTRA’s token dropped 18.5% to an all-time low of $0.004126 before a partial rebound, as the network froze transactions following an upstream vulnerability exploit and investigation
