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Ripple launched native digital asset capabilities in its treasury management system, enabling finance teams to manage XRP and RLUSD alongside fiat balances. This innovation positions Ripple ahead of competitors, integrating digital asset accounts into existing treasury functions.

Franklin Templeton has agreed to acquire 250 Digital, a crypto investment firm spun out of venture capital firm CoinFund, to create a dedicated institutional crypto division called Franklin Crypto, targeting pensions, sovereign wealth funds, and large institutional investors seeking regulated exposure to digital assets.

This essay discusses the inefficiencies of stablecoins, highlighting that 90% are unproductive and act as a hidden tax. It identifies a significant opportunity within DAO treasuries and DEX liquidity, as well as emerging solutions like HyENA and Solomon that aim to enhance yields for users.

Onchain investigator ZachXBT criticized Circle on April 2, 2026 for failing to act while millions in stolen USDC moved through its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) during the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit, despite the issuer having frozen 16 business wallets days earlier in a sealed civil case.

San Francisco, CA, February 26th, 2026, Chainwire SolanaCDN delivers 3.8x faster shred propagation through a global mesh of 35,000+ nodes, provided as a public good for the Solana network Pipe Network today announced the launch of SolanaCDN, a free, open-source Solana validator client with an

Polymarket’s daily fee revenue reached $1.02 million on April 1, 2026, just two days after the platform expanded variable taker fees to nearly all market categories including politics, finance, economics, culture, weather, and technology.

VICTORIA, Seychelles, March 12, 2026 — BYDFi announced the integration of its perpetual futures market data into TradingView, enabling traders to access real-time pricing and crypto market signals directly within TradingView charts. The integration supports more efficient workflows by bringing BYDFi

Pudgy Penguins disrupts the $31.7B licensed toy market by using a "Negative CAC" model, achieving over 2M unit sales in 10,000 retail locations. It has gained cultural significance through partnerships and aims for $120M revenue in 2026 ahead of a possible IPO.

Digital asset ETPs saw a peak of over $250B, ending 2025 with $184B AUM, mainly driven by Bitcoin products. The market is evolving, with over 125 new filings indicating a trend toward diversified asset offerings.

Ripple has introduced Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury within Ripple Treasury, embedding XRP and Ripple USD (RLUSD) directly into an enterprise treasury management system for the first time, allowing corporate finance teams to hold, view, and manage digital assets alongside cash without separate platforms or third-party custody providers.

Paris, France, March 12, 2026 - SwissBorg has successfully secured approval under the European Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Granted by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), this approval validates SwissBorg's ongoing commitment to providing secure, transparent, and fully c

The essay highlights challenges in direct RWA token exposure, emphasizes the potential in leverage opportunities amid settlement delays, critiques Morpho's governance token structure, and presents Fluid as a more effective token model with stablecoin links.

Cottonia, a distributed cloud acceleration infrastructure designed to provide high-performance, verifiable computing for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, autonomous agent ecosystems, and Web3 environments, is pleased to advance AI-native distributed compute infrastructure for running

Seoul, South Korea, March 17th, 2026, Chainwire Pieverse today announced Purr-Fect Claw, a pioneering full-stack infrastructure layer that transforms the OpenClaw framework into a fully autonomous, "on-chain" agent capable of trading and managing assets directly through Web2 social apps. While tod