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Standard Chartered and Coinbase have expanded their partnership to build crypto infrastructure for institutional clients. As part of the partnership, the duo will explore offerings across trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending, the British multinational bank announced on Friday. “We aim to explore how the two organisations can support secure, transparent and interoperable solutions that meet the highest standards of security and compliance,” Margaret Harwood-Jones, global head of financing and securities services at Standard Chartered, said. The two firms said the partnership combines Standard Chartered’s cross-border banking and custody expertise with Coinbase’s institutional crypto platform. The goal is to…

Ripple offered one of the fastest settlement chains, known as the XRP Ledger or XRPL. The ledger aims to compete for scalability and liquidity with Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem, based on settlement speed and the low cost of transactions. Both solutions offer a similar range of transactions per second, but XRPL has a native finality process, instead of relying on Ethereum. We will cover more details on the XRP Ledger vs Ethereum Layer 2s, with strengths and weaknesses for the different types of chains. Why settlement speed matters Payments vs smart contracts vs rollup settlement Settlement speed, also known as finality,…

The UAE government has conducted its first national transaction using the Digital Dirham, the nation’s central bank digital currency (CBCD). The transaction was conducted by the Ministry of Finance and the Dubai Department of Finance, according to the announcement on Tuesday. It was processed atop the mBridge platform and took less than two minutes to complete. The UAE Central Bank is among the founding central bank participants of mBridge, short for Multiple Central Bank Digital Currency Bridge. Project mBridge is the result of an extensive collaboration that started in 2021 between the BIS Innovation Hub, the Bank of Thailand, the…

Walk into a gas station, grocery store, or convenience store today, and you might see a small orange kiosk glowing in the corner. What started as a curiosity has quietly become one of the most familiar in-person touchpoints in the digital economy: the crypto ATM. With close to 40,000 crypto ATMs operating worldwide, this technology has become a staple for the crypto-curious and enthusiasts alike, helping spark mainstream interest in a digital asset once considered esoteric and unapproachable. As a physical bridge between traditional fiat currency and the digital asset world, these kiosks have made crypto more accessible, tangible, and…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Hyperliquid introduces portfolio margin, unifying spot and perpetual positions into one balance. Spot and perp PnL offset each other, improving capital efficiency and lowering liquidation risk. Hyperliquid introduces a margin portfolio feature in its latest network upgrade, which is currently live on the pre-alpha testnet. This feature unifies spot and perpetual trading within a single margin system, allowing positions to be managed from a single, unified balance. The goal is to improve capital efficiency while reducing the risk of liquidation due to margin segregation between…

In a move that signals a major push into the media landscape, Polygon Labs has made a strategic investment in Boys Club. This partnership aims to supercharge how blockchain stories are told and heard across the crypto ecosystem. For anyone tracking the evolution of Web3 communication, this deal reveals a crucial shift in how leading protocols are building their narratives. Why Did Polygon Labs Make This Strategic Investment? Polygon Labs, the driving force behind the popular Polygon blockchain, is not just investing in a company; it’s investing in influence. The core objective of this strategic investment is to enhance Polygon’s…

Bitdeer Technology Group’s week got worse. After the Bitcoin mining company announced a $266 million net loss, its cornerstone investor, Tether, decided to downsize its stake. Summary Bitdeer stock fell sharply Tuesday after Tether trimmed its stake by 7.7 million shares. The sell-off coincided with Bitdeer’s Q3 net loss of $266.7 million, a 422% jump from last year. Tether’s holdings dropped from 38 million to 30.36 million shares, representing an 18% stake. According to a recent filing, Tether has unloaded approximately 7.7 million shares since September, grossing around $166 million and reducing its stake from roughly 23% to 18%. This…

In response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent investor bulletin on crypto custody, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has positioned his firm as the only provider offering all the custody options described by the SEC. It comes only days after BitGo secured regulatory approval to operate as a bank, effectively expanding its institutional services. BitGo Claims It Can Do What No Other Crypto Custodian Can In a post on X (Twitter), Belshe emphasized that the BitGo exchange enables institutions to combine self-custody and third-party custody into a single hybrid strategy, creating custom risk profiles that no other provider can…

Data from South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, over the past 24 hours indicates a remarkable surge in trading volume, particularly in certain altcoins. A compilation of data from both exchanges, based on South Korean Won exchange rates, reveals a concentration of local investor interest in both major cryptocurrencies and specific altcoins. According to the data, XRP has become one of the most traded altcoins in the South Korean market by far, ranking high on both Upbit and Bithumb. While major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum also maintain high volumes, increases in altcoins such as MOVE, SOL, and…

The Web3 space in India is developing quickly. Too quickly. There is no doubt about the excitement, from small-town developers trying out smart contracts to regulators openly talking about frameworks. Things are changing. You can sense it. But here’s something we don’t mention enough: none of this will function without a powerful blockchain infrastructure. Not the buzz. Not the new idea. Not the promise of decentralization. And notably not the India blockchain infrastructure that can handle millions of apps. Because it can’t grow? Even the best Web3 ideas can stop working. Breaks. Or worse, it never gets to real people.…