Blockchain

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has tested the XRP Ledger as part of a blockchain-based proof of concept designed to make official statistics independently verifiable. The development was documented in BIS Working Paper No. 1374, titled “Verifiable official statistics: a blockchain-based approach,” published on September 2, 2026. The paper describes a system that creates […]

August marked a record month for the XDC Network, with the blockchain processing 27.7 million transactions, according to an ecosystem update published by XDC Network on Sept. 3. The monthly figure represents the highest transaction count in the network’s history. XDC says the milestone came alongside continued growth in its validator ecosystem, the launch of […]

Polygon Labs has published a comprehensive post-mortem detailing critical fixes delivered through two recent network upgrades: the Austin hard fork for the Bor execution layer and the Kyoto hard fork for the Heimdall consensus layer. The security review, released on the official Polygon governance forum, confirms that while no active exploits were detected on mainnet, […]

The idea of accessing Wall Street from a phone is no longer purely theoretical. In a recent Solana post, the network highlighted a growing range of financial products available through onchain applications, including tokenized stocks, commodities, Bitcoin, foreign exchange and yield products. The message was deliberately ambitious: “Everything Wall Street can do, now on Solana […]

Chainlink is positioning its infrastructure at the center of a rapidly developing market: bringing traditional stocks and exchange-traded funds onto blockchain networks and making those assets usable inside decentralized finance. In an August 26 update, Chainlink highlighted four major platforms — Coinbase, Robinhood, xStocks and Ondo — as examples of how its oracle, data and […]

Mastercard has joined the XRP Ledger Hackathon as a sponsor, adding one of the world’s largest payment networks to an event focused on developers building financial applications on the XRP Ledger. The announcement was made by the XRP Ledger Foundation, which said Mastercard will support the hackathon being co-hosted by XRPL Commons and the XRP […]

The Australian Taxation Office just updated its foundational crypto guidance. If you hold, trade, stake, or earn digital assets in Australia, this is the framework that governs your tax obligations right now — and the ATO is watching more closely than ever. On August 19, 2026, the Australian Taxation Office published its latest update to […]

The gap between blockchain theory and financial reality has never been smaller – and a new report from Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative shows exactly how that gap is being closed, one academic breakthrough at a time. On July 22, 2026, Ripple published its 2025–2026 research report for the University Blockchain Research Initiative – better […]

When a company that has been moving money across borders for more than 80 years decides to help run the rails it moves money on, the message is unambiguous: the era of blockchain-powered global payments is no longer coming. It is here. On July 16, 2026, MoneyGram announced its entry into the Solana ecosystem, becoming […]