Vodafone, Chainlink Show Blockchain Can Support Global Trade Processes The proof of concept enabled devices to act autonomously and produce accurate information to support global trade processes, the companies said.

CipherBlade Founder Says Blockchain Sleuthing Firm ‘Hijacked’ Members of the original CipherBlade entity – who no longer control its domain or social platforms – are suing the new ownership.

Tokenization of RWAs Gets Boost with DTCC Deal to Buy Blockchain Startup Securrency Securrency provides institutions with blockchain-based regulatory technology on top of existing legacy systems to enable digital asset adoption in a compliant manner.

Stellar, Early Blockchain Built for Payments, Adds Smart Contracts to Take on Ethereum The nine-year-old project, one of the earliest major blockchains, is getting a facelift to incorporate “smart contracts,” that theoretically could attract new applications and users – and potentially more demand for the XLM token.

Reddit’s blockchain-based Community Points are going away Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeReddit is sunsetting its blockchain-based Community Points product, the company announced on Tuesday. A Reddit admin (employee) shared the announcement about Community Points, which uses the Ethereum blockchain, on a few subreddits, including r/CryptoCurrency (which had its own “moons” crypto token), r/Fort…

Manta’s Layer-2 Blockchain Already Plans to Ditch OP Stack for Polygon The network, which just went live a couple weeks ago as a so-called optimistic rollup – the core underpinning of OP Stack – will now become a “ZK-rollup,” which is what Polygon’s software kit provides.

Scroll zkEVM Launches, Blockchain Data Shows, Competing With Polygon, Matter Labs The new Ethereum layer-2 network’s debut adds to the competition among rival providers of so-called “zkEVMs,” including Polygon and Matter Labs.

The Blockchain-Based Solution Poised to Improve Our Financial Lives Tokenization grabs headlines, but digital wallets hold tremendous promise, too.

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Launches Blockchain-Based Settlement Platform HKEX says the system, used by traders in Hong Kong to buy stocks in China, will speed up settlement and provide greater transparency.

CMCC Global Raises $100M for Hong Kong-Based Blockchain Companies The lead investor in the fund was B1, which committed $50 million, alongside Richard Li’s Pacific Century Group, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ firm and Animoca Brands founder Yat Siu.

At Last, Blockchain Developer OP Labs Delivers ‘Fault Proofs’ Missing From Core Design The developer’s OP Stack software – the blueprint for Coinbase’s new Base blockchain – had been criticized for the lack of a crucial security feature, likened to driving a fast car without airbags.

Blockchain Analytics Firm Chainalysis Cuts 15% of Staff This is the second round of layoffs by the analytics firm in less than 12 months.

Buenos Aires Releases Blockchain Digital Identity Solution Powered by Matter Labs’ ZK Proofs Citizens of Buenos Aires can access the identity solution, the QuarkID wallet, where they can store their birth and marriage certificates, according to the city government.

The Protocol: Google Pushes Deeper into Blockchain Google’s cloud-computing division is increasingly involved in blockchain, with plans to add 11 networks including Polygon, Optimism, and Polkadot to its ‘BigQuery’ program for public datasets.

Google Cloud Pushes Deeper Into Blockchain Data, Adding 11 Networks Including Polygon Google’s cloud-computing business has stored historical data on Bitcoin since 2018, claiming the service provides faster access than can be obtained directly from the blockchain.

Nouns DAO’s $27M Revolt Reveals Toxic Mix of Money-Hungry Traders and Blockchain Idealists It wasn’t only the $90,000 spent on naming rights for a rare Ecuadorian frog species that turned off members of this decentralized blockchain-powered community project; some savvy arbitrageurs just wanted their share of the project’s treasury.

Polygon Emerges as Suitor for Celo’s New Layer-2 Blockchain, Competing With OP Stack Celo, which is ditching its standalone blockchain in favor of a new “layer-2” network atop Ethereum, had originally signaled plans to rely on Optimism’s OP Stack, a similar customizable kit to Polygon’s but using Optimism’s “optimistic” technology.

Arbitrum Blockchain Traders Can Now Protect Against Impermanent Loss GammaSwap developers say it’s the first application to allow Arbitrum users to hedge against supplied liquidity by letting them go short on those positions.

Crypto VC Firm Blockchain Capital Raises $580M for 2 New Funds Most of the firm’s limited partners are traditional institutional investors, including university endowments, private foundations, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and U.S. pension plans.

Ethereum’s Holesky Testnet Fails To Launch, in Rare Tech Misstep for the Blockchain Developers of the Ethereum blockchain say there was a misconfiguration in the genesis files of the test network, and now they plan to try again in about two weeks.