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JUST IN: @RobinhoodApp launches public testnet and partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain. Builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and compliance standards to power advanced tokenization use cases. Robinhood 🤝 Chainlink

Algorand CSMO @marcvl sat down with @Cryptonomist_en to discuss where Algorand is now and where we're heading. Marc explained why Algorand is back in the U.S 🇺🇸 Deep liquidity, developer talent, and entrepreneurship, amongst other reasons. Read the full interview below.

Clip from @synopsisevents Podcast featuring @marcliew888, Head of APAC at the Jito Foundation! youtube.com/watch?v=odPFAv…

When the tech gets boring, that's when real scalability happens.

Capital markets are moving on-chain for clear business outcomes: faster ledger-based settlement, reduced reconciliation, and minimized counterparty exposure for banks. Cosmos provides customizable and interconnected rails. Read more: cosmos.network/blog/real-worl…

Robinhood Chain testnet is now live on the Arbitrum platform. Phase 1 focuses on developer onboarding and infrastructure testing: Testnet gas + Stock Tokens Contract deployment Bridging + explorer visibility This allows tokenized asset flows to be tested without production risk. ⚠️ Testnet assets have no real-world value.

Binance and Franklin Templeton (@FTDA_US @FTI_US) are launching an institutional collateral program, enabling tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares issued via Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform to be used as collateral on Binance. This is the first initiative under Binance’s and Franklin Templeton’s collaboration announced last year. Learn more 👉 binance.com/en/blog/all/fr…

Avalanche 🤝 NEAR Intents $45M+ in AVAX volume already, powered by intent-based execution.

Matias A. joins Avalanche Foundation as Chief Investment Officer, bringing over a decade of experience managing $20+ billion in institutional portfolios across traditional finance and digital assets. Most recently serving as Head of Treasury at the Avalanche Foundation, Matias has been instrumental in architecting treasury strategies, designing DeFi-centric investment frameworks, and building algorithmic execution systems that bridge institutional rigor with crypto-native innovation. His background spans roles as Portfolio Manager at World Bank Treasury, where he directed $4.3B across fixed-income portfolios, created the backend infrastructure to manage $60B, and contributed to the external managers selection and tactical positioning for a $25B world bank pension fund portfolio, consistently delivering above-benchmark performance. Matias combines rare expertise across macroeconomic policy and capital markets execution. His career began as a Research Analyst at the International Monetary Fund, where he developed analytical frameworks for evaluating and designing policies for sovereign economies of European countries. At the World Bank, he worked on critical macroeconomic challenges including fiscal sustainability for El Salvador and the unfreezing of bond markets in Jamaica. These experiences gave Matias firsthand experience in how policy interventions can restore market function and catalyze economic growth. This dual foundation in macroeconomics and asset management gives him a distinctive lens: understanding both how economies generate growth and how capital markets channel resources to productive uses. Now applied to building Avalanche as the infrastructure for bringing real-world economic activity onchain at scale 🔺

eSui Dollar (suiUSDe) is live on @SuiNetwork. A synthetic dollar for Sui designed to unlock liquidity and capital efficiency across the ecosystem. Available on major Sui DeFi protocols from day one. Rolling out now. Powered by Ethena Whitelabel.

0/ ERC-8004, the standard for universal AI agent identity, reputation, and verification, is now live on Ethereum Mainnet. With the ERC-8004 standard, AI agents are accountable economic actors. Here are 5 unlocks that ERC-8004 gives to builders, and how to integrate today.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Chainlink has been selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab. Chainlink is supporting synchronized settlement between central bank money and onchain securities. This is how the UK financial system moves onchain.

It’s fairly easy to become complacent. It’s much harder to regain control once it’s gone. The next era of the internet is about human agency and taking back ownership of your data, your privacy, and your digital life. That’s the problem Polkadot was built to solve.

The $INJ Community BuyBack is now live! Long-term active stakers of $INJ are whitelisted to participate in the BuyBack which permanently burns INJ while simultaneously enabling users to earn one of the highest active yields in crypto. It's Time.

Introducing the DeFi Moonshots Program on Sui. An ultra-selective initiative backing teams building category-defining onchain finance - not incremental upgrades, but systems that expand what DeFi can be. Up to $500K in incentives + deep technical and launch support.

⚡️ WHAT’S NEXT FOR INJECTIVE in 2026? → @Synopsis_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@Synopsis_ This week @Mr_Myax spoke to @EricInjective on the recent news of @injective, the growth in perpetual futures to over $1T monthly volume, iAssets reaching $6.2B+ volume, the new $INJ Supply Squeeze, regulations, and many more 🎙 Speaker: Eric Chen ▪️Co-Founder & CEO of Injective 🗓 Date: February 3 ⏱️ Time: 5:00pm UTC 🗣 A new episode of Web3 Talks Podcast with Synopsis is coming #Injective, #INJ, #Institutions, #Mass_Adoption, #Web3, #Perps, #Synopsis_Summit, #Podcast

One of the top ranked chains by development activity in the last year. #1 chain for finance. Lessons in there.

Today at 7pm UTC Join @jchaskin for a livestream on deploying onchain OpenClaw bots with @austingriffith, human of @clawdbotatg. Learn how to make your bot use a wallet and build apps onchain. Watch here. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…