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The Sui blockchain announced a pivotal infrastructure upgrade on February 15, 2025, integrating OpenZeppelin’s industry-standard smart contract library directly into its ecosystem. This strategic move significantly bolsters the security framework for developers building decentralized applications on Sui’s Move-based platform. Consequently, the integration provides verified DeFi mathematical primitives and sophisticated access control features. These enhancements arrive during a critical period of blockchain infrastructure maturation. Therefore, developers gain immediate access to battle-tested security components. Sui Blockchain Adopts OpenZeppelin’s Security Standards The integration represents a major milestone for the Sui ecosystem’s development trajectory. OpenZeppelin brings its extensively audited library of secure smart contract…

Dividend exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are becoming an increasingly popular investment tool for those seeking passive income and liquidity. Below, Finbold highlighted some of the best dividend ETFs worth considering in the current market environment. 1. Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) tracks the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index, beginning with a broad universe of U.S. dividend-paying companies. As such, it estimates each stock’s expected dividend yield over the next year, with the top half of yielders ending up in the portfolio. Currently, it delivers a yield of about 2.3%. The strategy isn’t especially…

Anthropic just picked a fight with its biggest potential customer. The AI company behind Claude filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California naming the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, State, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, the General Services Administration, and several other federal agencies as defendants. Anthropic says the U.S. government effectively blacklisted its AI systems from federal procurement and did it without following any of the legal procedures required to actually ban a vendor. It says there was a lack of formal determination, interagency review, documented evidence, and no evaluation of…

Customers of a number of well-known UK banks were unexpectedly given the blockchain experience today after a banking app glitch meant their transactions and accounts became public. The technical issue allowed customers from Lloyds, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland to view the banking activity of other users. Some could see charge notifications from other people’s accounts, while some reported that they could view other people’s National Insurance numbers. The BBC reports that for 20 minutes, some could see other users’ accounts, while one person was able to view benefit payments from the Department of Work and Pensions. Read more:…

ProShares has launched a new money market ETF that connects traditional finance with the fast-growing stablecoin market. The new fund, called IQMM, is designed to comply with the 2025 GENIUS Act. Because of this, it can hold assets that qualify as reserves for USD-backed stablecoins like USDT. As a result, the launch is drawing attention from both crypto investors and traditional institutions. LATEST: ⚡ ProShares launched its new GENIUS Money Market ETF, designed to comply with the GENIUS Act and hold assets that qualify as reserves for USD-backed stablecoins. pic.twitter.com/kN0YkFAM6p — CoinMarketCap (@CoinMarketCap) February 20, 2026 ProShares Launches First GENIUS-Compliant…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — the sister agencies that will regulate most U.S. crypto activity — have been rivals in the past over crypto issues, but they’re now pursuing a formal memorandum of understanding to combine agency efforts, said SEC Chairman Paul Atkins. “We are reorienting our approach toward a new golden age of regulatory coherence,” Atkins was set to say on Tuesday in remarks prepared for the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Florida. “More than aligning our rules, a harmonized framework also demands coordinating our responses to the firms that…

Startup VeryAI has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital to launch a palm-scan identity verification system designed to distinguish real users from AI-generated accounts. The platform records identity attestations on Solana and aims to help crypto exchanges, fintech companies and online platforms address growing risks from bots, deepfakes and synthetic identities. The company said zero-knowledge proofs allow users to verify their status across platforms without revealing personal information. The system captures palm images using a smartphone camera and converts them into encrypted biometric signatures used to confirm that a user is human without storing…

With the “Fear and Greed Index” in the cryptocurrency markets falling to single digits (7/100), an atmosphere of extreme pessimism prevails in the market. Industry representatives and experts are evaluating the pressures coming from Washington in light of signals that the market is bottoming out. Scott Melker noted that Democrats in Washington have hardened their rhetoric towards the cryptocurrency industry. Melker criticized Senator Warren’s letter to the Fed and Treasury calling for no bailout packages for crypto billionaires. According to Melker, this move is entirely aimed at strengthening an “anti-crypto army,” especially since such a bailout isn’t even on the…

$BNB Chain has surpassed Ethereum as the blockchain hosting the largest number of AI agents operating under the ERC-8004 standard, according to data from Agentscan and 8004scan. Out of 89,451 total registered ERC-8004 AI agents, there are currently 34,278 on $BNB Smart Chain (BSC), the $BNB Chain ecosystem’s EVM-compatible blockchain network, per 8004scan. Base is the second-largest network by number of agents, with 16,549, followed by Ethereum mainnet with just over 14,000. ERC-8004 agents by chain. Source: 8004scan Data from Agentscan shows BSC leading with 39,000 agents, and Base and Ethereum nearly tied at between 28K-30K on-chain agents using the…

Tether announced its decision to end support for the offshore yuan stablecoin CNHT. The company stated that with the implementation of this decision, it has immediately ceased issuing new CNHT tokens. It was also announced that buyback support for CNHT will completely end one year after the announcement, and users will receive an additional reminder before that date. In a statement, Tether said the decision was made in response to changing market conditions and limited demand for the product. According to the company, the current scale of CNHT usage no longer justifies the resource allocation required to maintain the operational…