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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is returning to offer tokenized stocks nearly five years after shelving a similar product under regulatory pressure. The exchange has teamed up with tokenization specialist Ondo Finance to list 10 tokenized U.S. stocks, ETFs and commodity-linked products on the Binance Alpha platform, the companies said in a Tuesday press release. Binance Alpha is a platform within Binance Wallet, the exchange’s crypto wallet service, that allows users to trade early-stage, riskier crypto projects before listing them on the centralized spot marketplace. The lineup includes blockchain-based token versions of Apple, Google, Tesla and…

Key Highlights: Bhutan launches Digital Nomad Visa on Solana blockchain. For the visa, one requires TER, a stablecoin backed by gold. Bhutan becomes the first country to launch such an initiative. Bhutan has introduced a new Digital Nomad Visa that uses blockchain technology (specifically Solana) to make the process of visa application and management system more modern and secure. Through this program, launched by the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority in collaboration with NomadClub, people who work remotely, like freelancers, creators, or tech professionals, can live and work in Bhutan more easily. The Bhutan government (@gmcbhutan) just launched the world’s first…

SolanaFloor, which serves as a leading news hub and resource for DeFi, NFTs, prices, and market insights on the Solana blockchain, announced today it is ceasing operations following financial difficulties at parent company Step Finance. Today we are announcing that SolanaFloor will be winding down operations, effective immediately. Since its founding, SolanaFloor has worked to document and contextualize the growth of the Solana ecosystem. What began as a small X account grew into one of the most widely read… — SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) February 23, 2026 The platform, which grew from a small social media presence into a prominent source of…

Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin proposed a technical overhaul of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), calling for the use of personal artificial intelligence agents to privately cast votes on behalf of users and help scale digital governance. The plan, published on social media platform X one month after Buterin criticized DAOs for drifting into low participation and power centralization, aims to shift users away from delegating votes to large token holders. Instead, individuals would deploy their own AI model, trained on their past messages and stated values, to vote on the thousands of decisions DAOs face. “There are many thousands of decisions…

A plot of empty land on Zanzibar’s coast will soon become home to a new kind of settlement, according to entrepreneurs who secured government approval to build what they’re calling a Cyber City. The project sits on 71 hectares near the Fumba Peninsula on the western shore of Zanzibar Island. Florian Fournier, who started OurWorld with partner Kristof De Spiegeleer, walked potential investors through the dirt and brush in early July, describing plans for a community designed to house between 5,000 and 7,000 residents. But the city aims to reach far beyond those physical inhabitants. Fournier and De Spiegeleer want…

Crypto payment provider Oobit has launched crypto-to-bank transfers that settle into bank accounts via local payment rails, expanding its app beyond in-store spending and peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Oobit said users could send supported digital assets from self-custody wallets and have funds deposited into bank accounts through networks including the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) in Europe, the Automated Clearing House (ACH) in the United States and Mexico’s Sistema de Pagos Electrónicos Interbancarios (SPEI). Settlement currencies include US dollars, euros, Mexican pesos and Philippine pesos, while supported assets include Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and a…

Shares of Riot Platforms (RIOT) rose nearly 9% Wednesday after activist investor Starboard Value LP released a letter pressing the company to accelerate its transition from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure provider. The aim is for Riot to pursue high-margin artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (AI/HPC) hosting deals. Riot’s 1.7 gigawatts of fully available power capacity make the company “well positioned to execute high-quality AI/HPC deals,” said Starboard, highlighting two of Riot’s Texas-based sites, Corsicana and Rockdale, as “premier” locations for data center development. Starboard said that if Riot can monetize its power in line with recent transactions in the…

Acurast, a decentralized network using everyday smartphones as secure compute nodes, has officially activated a 225,000-node smartphone compute network on Base. It’s a big development in bringing confidential onchain artificial intelligence (AI) into mainstream Web3. The integration with Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 chain designed to make decentralized applications faster, cheaper, and more scalable, enables developers to run confidential AI workloads directly onchain using millions of smartphones worldwide. Instead of relying on centralized infrastructure, this network uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) built into mobile devices to execute sensitive tasks securely, preserving user privacy and maintaining verifiability. Smartphones are the new cloud…

The Flying Tulip (FT) token became transferable and began trading today, Feb. 23, marking the token generation event (TGE) for the latest DeFi project linked to Andre Cronje, a systems architect best known for building early DeFi protocols Yearn Finance and Fantom. Data from CoinGecko shows that despite an initial dip to around $0.08, FT has spent its first hours trading sideways around the $0.10 mark, implying a fully diluted valuation of around $1 billion. FT Public Sale, Explained Flying Tulip’s public sale price was set at $0.10, but it wasn’t a standard token sale. The project’s tokenomics make $0.10…

Ethereum price continued its strong downward trend on Friday as geopolitical risks rose and demand for cryptocurrencies waned. Summary Ethereum price may continue the downward trend this year. Technical analysis shows that it has invalidated the inverted head-and-shoulders pattern. The upcoming Donald Trump attack on Iran may push prices lower. Ethereum ($ETH) token dropped to $1,937, down sharply from the all-time high of $4,943, and key factors suggest that it has more downside, potentially to the key support level at $1,500. Ethereum price technical points to more downside The weekly timeframe chart shows that the $ETH price has remained under…