Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Google Alumni are building a blockchain exchange for real-world asset trading
Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Google Alumni are building a blockchain exchange for real-world asset trading

DeepSigma has launched a paper-trading demo covering 77 traditional financial markets, using patented blockchain technology to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to stocks, commodities and other real-world assets. A team with backgrounds at Goldman S…

NextBlock backs Soda Labs with $3M to bring privacy to public blockchains
NextBlock backs Soda Labs with $3M to bring privacy to public blockchains

NextBlock is putting $3 million behind an increasingly important challenge for public blockchains: how to give financial institutions privacy without forcing them to move their activity onto separate, purpose-built networks. The Luxembourg-based ventur…

Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi
Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi

Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in o…

Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are
Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are

AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users’ behalf. However, when an agent shows up at a website or app, how does the business know who it’s working…

Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain
Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain

Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDream is the entertainment group behind K-pop artists including BTOB, LEE CHA…

Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets
Bitget suspects North Korean hackers in $351.6m theft from its hot wallets

Crypto exchange Bitget says hackers took about $351.6m from its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. It suspects North Korea. The company said on X that its systems spotted unauthorised transfers at 18:31 UTC. It has suspended withdrawals. Chief executive…

AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership
AmericanFortress paper shows how ZKPs can prove crypto wallet ownership

The team at privacy infrastructure developer AmericanFortress have authored a new paper. It proposes a novel means of proving the origin of crypto wallets. Vincenzo Botta, Michal Pospieszalski, Emanuele Ragnoli and Justus Ranvier of AmericanFortress au…

Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier
Nexo report points to operational friction as the biggest investor barrier

Nexo, a premier digital assets wealth platform, today published “The Future of Digital Wealth 2026” report. The main finding shows operational friction, not conviction, is the biggest barrier keeping high-net-worth investors in the U.S., U.K., and Arge…

PROSPER launches new structure for verifiable onchain performance data
PROSPER launches new structure for verifiable onchain performance data

PROSPER has launched Performance Markets, a new framework built on Pharos Network. It allows third-party operators to connect verifiable onchain performance data with independently priced crypto-native assets. The framework introduces MemeRWA. In MemeR…

Bubblemaps moves onchain forensics from post-mortem to pre-trade
Bubblemaps moves onchain forensics from post-mortem to pre-trade

For years, some of crypto’s most revealing onchain investigations have arrived after the damage was done. A token collapses, traders lose money. Analysts trace the wallets to uncover concentrated holdings, coordinated buyers or supply controlled by con…