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IOTA adds Kalalohko to its Business Innovation Program to trace seafood from hook to plate and improve transparency for supply chains.
Kalalohko plans to use IOTA Identity, Notarization, and Gas Station to verify provenance and sponsor fees for a smoother user flow.
IOTA has added seafood tr

Stellar launches SCF Growth Hack Cohort 1 to help Stellar mainnet teams run go-to-market and user acquisition for real-world adoption.
Cohort includes stablecoin payments, cross-chain, and Soroban ZK-ready projects as the network deploys Protocol 25 X-Ray upgrade.
Stellar has launched the St

Midnight Network’s NIGHT token is now live on COTI, expanding liquidity and utility for privacy-native assets.
PriveX, the leading DeFi platform on COTI, has now processed $10 billion in volume as the era of private DeFi unravels.
NIGHT, the native token of the privacy-focused Midnight Netwo

Liquidity distribution protocol Turtle has deployed Chainlink’s technology to boost adoption of on-chain capital markets by institutions.
Chainlink’s CCIP and Data Feeds are now a requirement for all Turtle users to minimize risk while they provide

Chainlink Labs has joined the Global Alliance for KRW Stablecoin to expand the adoption of stablecoins backed by the Korean won.
Chainlink will enable the Alliance to establish global standards and deploy digital assets for institutional use cases.
Chainlink Labs has joined a South Korean in

USDT and wADA held on COTI earn 200 TPS per $100 with no staking and no lockups and TPS is minted daily to wallets.
Users bridge USDT from Ethereum or Base and bridge ADA from Cardano via ChainPort and TPS converts to COTI at season end.
COTI has introduced a rewards option for users who

Ripple launches Ripple Treasury via GTreasury, unifying cash and crypto with reconciliation, forecasting, and liquidity tools.
Platform targets 24/7 settlements, lower FX costs, and no pre-funding; Ripple says XRP stays central.
Ripple has launched Ripple Treasury, a unified enterprise

Shytoshi Kusama, founder of Shiba Inu, announced an AI project "beyond crypto," nearing launch with a small company. He referenced his July 2025 "AI Paper," emphasizing that the project aims to help people and highlighting recent shifts in AI development.

VeChain reports 100% network uptime since 2017 and over 530 million on-chain transactions.
VeBetter lists 5.2 million users, 50+ apps, and 50 million transactions since its June 2024 mainnet launch.
VeChain is developing its ecosystem based on real-life blockchain applications as the

VanEck has launched the first-ever US-listed Avalanche exchange-traded fund, bringing AVAX to Wall Street.
Founder Emin Sirer described it as a “big accomplishment” that will make it easier for investors in the capital markets to own AVAX.
Avalanche has finally landed on Wall Street, with as

Ripple has announced a new partnership with Jeel, the tech arm of Riyad Bank, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest banks.
The two will explore how blockchain can be integrated into the country’s national financial systems, including in cross-border payments.
Ripple has signed a Memorandum of

Nasdaq-listed Sui Group has revealed that its priority for 2026 is to accumulate SUI and build yield-generating platforms for shareholders.
The company is set to launch a new stablecoin, SuiUSDE, with 90% of the fees channelled to token buybacks or DeFi projects.
Sui Group, a publicly-listed

The Hedera-based IoT e-learning authentication stack hit 4,310 TPS, although performance lagged slightly to 3,425 TPS when combined with knowledge graphs.
Real-device tests showed 41–47 ms authentication on Raspberry Pi and 55–68 ms on ESP32; BAN+ProVerif runs found no authentication

Pi Network launched a free Product Design Workshop teaching UX/UI, prototyping, testing, and launch steps for Pi Apps.
The workshop ties into Pi tools like App Studio and supports non-coders in building apps with built-in Pi utility. 
Pi Network has introduced a Product Design Workshop

Korea’s oldest university joined the Injective network as a both a node validator and research collaborator. 
Both parties will pursue research and development in tokenization of real-world assets and other on-chain financial structures in South Korea.
Korea University, one of Asia’s most

IOTA updates its enterprise work into trade/supply chains, digital identity, tokenization, lifecycle, and DeFi use cases.
Showcases include Salus trade finance tokenization and TWIN cross-border digital trade data transfer on IOTA.
The IOTA Foundation has recently updated iota.org to

Pi Network testnet wallet now supports simulated USDT, letting users send and receive tokens for practice.
Testnet users can try swaps and liquidity pools while developers test DeFi tools before mainnet.
Pi Network is encouraging users to test USDT activity through its testnet wallet as it c

The Ethereum Foundation has launched a new post-quantum (PQ) team, declaring PQ security a top strategic target for the network this year.
Vitalik has warned that current cryptography will be breakable by quantum computers by 2030, although some like a16z have dismissed the threat.
The

Chainlink reported 14 new integrations across 3 services and 8 chains, including ACX, Arbitrum, Base, Concordium, Ethereum, Moonbeam, Plume, Polygon and TRON.
ACX said it integrated Chainlink Data Streams, while Chainlink described confidential compute using TEEs and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Stellar launches SCF Growth Hack Cohort 1 to help Stellar mainnet teams run go-to-market and user acquisition for real-world adoption.
Cohort includes stablecoin payments, cross-chain, and Soroban ZK-ready projects as the network deploys Protocol 25 X-Ray upgrade.
Stellar has launched the St