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NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin has proposed a new treasury system called the NEAR Sovereign Fund. The plan would pool the protocol's treasury and revenue, invest it to earn yield,
Ripple locks XRP in time-based smart contracts on the XRP Ledger and releases a maximum of 1 billion XRP on the first day of each month, a supply schedule set up in December 2017 and enforced
Sui is adding two quantum-resistant signature schemes, ML-DSA-65 and SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s, both approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The move gives Sui use
The Clarity Act would take XRP's current digital commodity status, which today rests only on a joint interpretation from the SEC and the CFTC, and write it into permanent federal law. That si
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared an updated roadmap on August 10. The biggest change is that: quantum safety is now the top goal. Buterin compared his old 2023 roadmap to Ethereum's
Ripple invested in ZILO and Licuido to close a gap in how tokenized fund shares work on the XRP Ledger (XRPL): ZILO handles the regulated record-keeping that transfer agents normally provide,
The Canary HBAR ETF, trading under the ticker HBR, became the first U.S. spot exchange-traded fund holding HBAR when it launched on Nasdaq on October 28, 2025. Nearly a year later, its buyer
Cardano's Shelley upgrade, launched in July 2020, got one thing right from the start: it let ADA holders earn staking rewards without ever giving up custody of their coins. Six years later, t
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, known formally as NU6.3, on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. The upgrade replaced Orchard, the network's main privacy pool, with a new pool call
Trezor, the hardware wallet maker, confirmed that a breach at its shipping partner ShipMonk exposed the personal data of 13,689 customers, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and
Plume Network bakes KYC and compliance into the chain by building identity checks, transfer restrictions, and sanctions screening into its core protocol modules instead of leaving each app to
On August 25, the SEC sent a crypto custody proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget. The full text is not public. What is known comes from the agency’s own description of