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A Stellar anchor is a regulated business, such as a bank, money transfer operator, or licensed fintech, that accepts fiat currency through normal banking rails and issues the equivalent digit
InterLink's Seoul Private Mainnet is officially live. The project announced on July 1, 2026 that app Version 6.0.0 had been pushed to users, marking the start of its on-chain era after more t
Aave's (@aave) Global Dollar Hub is a dedicated liquidity hub on Aave V4, built specifically for assets tied to USDG, the regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos. Live on Ethereum since July 1,
Aerodrome (@AerodromeFi) is the main decentralized exchange and liquidity hub on Base, Coinbase's layer-2 network, and it settles most of the chain's trading volume even though it is not the
Robinhood Chain is Robinhood's (@RobinhoodApp) own Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, and its public mainnet went live on July 1, 2026. It is built to move tokenized stocks, DeFi products and AI-dr
Lean Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin's multi-year plan to rebuild nearly every major part of the Ethereum protocol over the next three to four years, with quantum-safe cryptography and built-in p
Renting blockspace on Polkadot means paying in $DOT to reserve processing time on the network's shared validator set, called a core, either in a fixed monthly block or in single-block increme
Staking is one of the most integral features of many of the largest blockchains in the world. Ethereum and Solana, both proof-of-stake networks, leverage it to secure their networks. Bitcoin,
This article was first published on The Bit Journal. Decentralized exchanges continue to eat at the market share of centralized trading platforms, as more users start to care about having mor
Aave's (@aave) Global Dollar Hub is a dedicated liquidity hub on Aave V4, built specifically for assets tied to USDG, the regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos. Live on Ethereum since July 1,
Bots and fake wallets are one of the biggest problems facing Web3 today, because creating a new wallet costs nothing and takes seconds, letting a single person or script control thousands of
WLFI Is a Governance Token Owning WLFI tokens gives you one thing: the right to participate in governance of the WLF Protocol. The official risk disclosures are direct about this. Holding the
