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President Donald Trump has named tech leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), joining a group of other prominent AI and tech industry founders and executives. The council, established by executive order and announced by the White House on Wednesday, will be co-chaired by entrepreneur David Sacks—previously the White House AI and crypto czar—and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios. The 13 initial appointees also include Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell,…

Cardano-based UTXO platform FluidTokens completed the first atomic swap between Bitcoin and Cardano on the mainnet. The transaction, which exchanged a small amount of $BTC for $ADA, demonstrates that assets on both networks can now be traded directly without wrapping, bridging, or relying on centralized platforms. Key Points FluidTokens has executed the first atomic swap between Bitcoin and Cardano on mainnet, exchanging 0.0001 $BTC for 50 $ADA. The transaction used a structured process enabling participants to fund and complete swaps seamlessly with both $BTC and $ADA. This breakthrough builds on earlier Cardano ecosystem efforts to integrate Bitcoin, including a demo…

On-chain data revealed that non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoins on Solana have surged by more than 10x since January 2025. The expansion of non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoins shows that the stablecoin landscape on Solana has become a lot more diversified over the past year. At the time of publication, the stablecoin market cap is $14.227 billion, up 3.47% over the past 7 days. $USDC still dominates the stablecoin space, accounting for around 57.43% of the entire stablecoin market. Stablecoin supply on Solana increases by 75% YTD BREAKING: Non-$USDC/$USDT stablecoin supply on @solana is up by ~10x since Jan 2025. pic.twitter.com/yKJrdzUQqQ — Token Terminal 📊 (@tokenterminal)…

A new draft law regarding stablecoin yields in the cryptocurrency sector has sparked significant disagreements among industry leaders. A new regulatory document drafted in the US proposes prohibiting platforms from offering direct or indirect returns to users through “passive stablecoin balances,” while allowing reward mechanisms tied to specific activities only to a limited extent. This draft has sparked intense debate among both industry representatives and financial circles. A heated debate erupted yesterday during an industry conference call between representatives from cryptocurrency exchanges, fintech companies, and venture capital firms. According to sources who attended, the meeting turned into a “shout-out” atmosphere.…

Nebulai has formed an alliance with zCloak Network; thus, a new strategy will help to tackle the challenge of trust in automated systems. The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain is quickly developing from being an idea into being a genuine foundation layer where AI will gain more power to do transactions and create decisions without direct human intervention. As these developments happen, there is an urgency for the industry to resolve the critical bottleneck of trust through the combination of Decentralized AI compute and Identity solutions that are built using zero-knowledge. The goal of this partnership is to…

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin $BTC$68,689.78 slipped to $68,500 on Tuesday, having failed to reclaim $70,000 after trading above that level for a while over the weekend. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) dropped 0.23% over the past 24 hours. The market appears to be stabilizing after last week’s decline to $60,000, which erased all the cryptocurrency’s gains since Donald Trump’s presidential election victory in November 2024. The slide prompted over $2.7 billion in liquidations, flushing out leveraged positions. It may not, however, have reflected a fundamental change in the crypto market. Rather, it might have…

Umbra has officially opened its privacy wallet to the public on Solana, marking a major step in private onchain transactions. The wallet leverages Arcium’s encrypted execution engine, enabling fully shielded transfers between private addresses and encrypted token accounts. This allows users to send assets, execute swaps, and interact with Solana without exposing transaction data. The launch expands access beyond Umbra’s initial phased mainnet rollout following Arcium’s Mainnet Alpha debut in February. Previously, only limited participants could experience Umbra’s shielded financial layer. Now, traders, institutions, and businesses can perform private transfers without revealing sensitive information to the public blockchain. Privacy-Focused Transactions…

Harvard’s endowment has quietly made Bitcoin ETFs a top public holding, surpassing Google and joining other elite universities in rotating long‑term capital into digital assets. Summary Filings show Harvard built and then tripled its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust stake, lifting IBIT above Alphabet and other big‑tech names in its public portfolio. Brown, Emory, and other U.S. universities have also disclosed multi‑million‑dollar Bitcoin ETF and trust positions, signaling a broader endowment shift into crypto. The rotation comes as Bitcoin trades near $68,400, with Ethereum and Solana also rallying while digital assets again track global risk appetite.​ Harvard University’s endowment is now…

In the growing policy moment for securities tokenization, the House Financial Services Committee gathered views on the innovation at a Wednesday hearing, though the specter of President Donald Trump’s family crypto ties did arise more than once. The lawmakers broadly agreed that tokenized securities generally need the same regulatory guardrails as traditional securities trading, which matches the position of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins, who has said his agency is on the verge of issuing a formal rule proposal to move forward on such crypto policies. “We stand at the threshold of a significant transformation in our…

Is SG-FORGE Bridging $XRP Ledger and SWIFT’s Blockchain Future? SWIFT has named $1.8 trillion European banking giant Société Générale–FORGE (SG-FORGE) a key architect of its blockchain ledger for cross-border payments, signaling traditional finance’s embrace of distributed ledger technology to modernize global transactions. Interestingly, SG-FORGE is not just participating in SWIFT’s blockchain experiments, it has already gone live with its own regulated euro stablecoin, $EURCV, on the $XRP Ledger (XRPL). Launched in February 2026, MiCA-compliant $EURCV uses Ripple’s custody tech and is set to integrate with Ripple Payments and Liquidity Hub. Real-world adoption is underway, with tokenized bond settlements executed alongside…