Indian City of Raipur Puts Real Estate Records on Blockchain With AirChains Raipur, the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, has started bringing building records on blockchain with the help of AirChains, an India based Zero-Knowledge (ZK) roll up.

The Protocol: Ethereum ETFs Aren’t Blockchain, but Buyers Ape In As Bitcoiners descend on Nashville for a big annual conference, we’re covering robust demand for new Ethereum spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and recapping the $230 million WazirX hack.

Philanthropy’s Blockchain Uptake Is Slow, But Future Is Bright Adoption by non-profits, or the lack of it, is a good test of product simplicity and reliability, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.

Financial Building-Blocks: Structured Products and Blockchain From significant cost reductions to enhanced composability, and improved accessibility, Christine Cai, Co-Founder of Cicada Partners, and Alexander Szul, CEO of Rome Blockchain Labs, argue the technology can revolutionize the way structured products are issued, managed and distributed.

Blockchain Friendly Roberta Metsola Reelected as EU Parliament President In 2018, as a member of the European Parliament for Malta, she called for regulation on crypto and blockchain when needed, without stifling innovation.

What Does It Actually Take to Build a Blockchain? Focus on builders, builders and builders. After liquidity, they are key to success, says Azeem Khan, co-founder of MorphL2.

DEX Aggregator Rage Trade to Issue Token on Buzzy New Layer 1 Blockchain Hyperliquid Decentralized exchange aggregator Rage Trade has announced plans to issue a new token via a liquidity generation event and a token sale on layer-1 blockchain Hyperliquid.

Vitalik Buterin Reflects On Strengths, Weaknesses of Ethereum, ‘Hardening’ the Blockchain The co-founder and intellectual leader of the largest smart-contracts blockchain ecosystem addressed a packed room at the EthCC conference in Brussels.

5 Blockchain Games: What Works and What Doesn’t Web3 games are much, much better than they used to be. Longtime gamer David Morris ranks the gameplay, graphics and tokenomics of popular franchises like Gods Unchained, Pixels and, yes, Hamster Kombat.

TON Blockchain Will Release New Layer-2 Based On Polygon’s Technology The new protocol, called the TON Applications Chain (TAC), will make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), as well as their AggLayer.

RedStone, Blockchain Oracle Project Pushing Into Restaking, Raises $15M The fresh round of capital will go towards hiring new team members, according to a press release.

Tezos, Smart-Contract Blockchain of ICO Fame, Reveals Roadmap to Rejuvenate The decade-old blockchain’s development plan, which goes out through 2026, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate “canonical rollup” that would support multiple programming languages.

Energy Giant EDF Subsidiary Joins Cronos as a Blockchain Validator EDF subsidiary Exaion helps industries with digital transformation by focusing on addressing the energy efficiency of data centers.

RWA Tokenization Expands to Life Insurance with Infineo Minting $9M of Policies on Provenance Blockchain This was the first example of transferring tokenized versions of life insurance policies, the company said.

Ripple launches new fund to drive blockchain innovation in Japan and South Korea Ripple on Tuesday said it launched a Japan and Korea fund, aimed at driving blockchain innovation in the two markets.

Fidelity International Tokenizes Money Market Fund on JPMorgan’s Blockchain The U.K. firm joined JPMorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN), piloting the tokenization of its own money market fund for the first time with Onyx Digital Assets.

Franklin Templeton’s Jenny Johnson on Bitcoin ETFs, RWA Tokenization and Blockchain’s Potential for TradFi The president and CEO of the asset management giant said blockchains are “transformational tech” that can help drive down operational costs during a panel discussion at Consensus 2024.

Web3 Digital Identity Network Galxe Crafts Own Layer-1 Blockchain Gravity Gravity’s first iteration will go live this June, with plans for the final version with staking and restaking to launch in the second quarter of 2025.

Crypto Bridge LayerZero Connects to Solana Blockchain Crypto holders on Solana will be able to move their assets to Arbitrum, Ethereum, Polygon and the 70 other chains it links to – and vice versa.

Shiba Inu Fetches $12M Investment in a Token Sale to Build Privacy-Focused Blockchain The new network will be built on top of layer-2 network Shibarium and offer enhanced privacy for users.