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🔥 NEW: XDC Network integrates with Stripe-owned Bridge to enable near-real-time stablecoin settlement and fiat on- and off-ramps.

🚨 BUILDERS: MultiversX says its upcoming Supernova upgrade will bring sub-second finality to its blockchain.

🚨 RWA: Solana led tokenized gold growth with 213% QoQ market cap expansion in H1 2026.

🔥 LATEST: Polkadot activates staking updates #1909 and #1910, cutting nominator unbonding from ~28 days to ~48 hours and removing nominator slashing.

📊 BIG: Solana saw 1B non-vote transactions in a single week, marking a new all-time high.

🔥 HUGE: Total transactions on Tron have surpassed 14.6 billion.

🚨 NEW: Solana's Alpenglow upgrade could make transactions final in just 100-150ms. That's a 100x speed boost with mainnet expected in Q3 2026.

🔥 LATEST: DFNS now supports XDC staking. DFNS is a core banking platform for digital assets used by 400+ banks, fintechs and institutions, securing $100B+ in client assets.

🔥 LATEST: Solana Foundation launches Solana Governance Proposals, a new on-chain governance process for stake-weighted community votes.

⚡️ UPDATE: XDC Network now holds about $1.1B in tokenized value, including ~$860M in real-world credit across debentures, receivables, and business loans.

⚡️ LATEST: Privacy layer Unlink is now live on Monad. It lets users move ERC-20 tokens privately using zero-knowledge proofs, without a separate chain or bridge.

🔥 LATEST: PayGo402 joins the XDC ecosystem to power programmable payments for APIs, AI agents and machine-to-machine commerce.

🚨 LATEST: HashKey Cloud, Republic, Animoca Brands, Clearpool, BCW Group, stakeFi, SettleMint, and InvestaX all joined XDC's validator set in the last 60 days. SettleMint signs an MOU to build compliant markets across Asia and the Middle East.

⚡ LATEST: Monad Foundation joined the Global Neobank Alliance to help bring onchain banking to millions of users.

🚨 HUGE: INJ saw its largest buy back ever. $315,000 worth of INJ was bought and permanently burned.

🚨 HUGE: Kazakhstan's stock exchange listed the Volatility Shares Solana ETF. The first in central Asia.

🔥 LATEST: Polkadot OpenGov has two new staking proposals. Referenda #1909 and #1910 aim to strengthen validator incentives, remove nominator slashing, and cut the unbonding period from ~28 days to 2 days.

⚡ LATEST: TRON's total accounts have surpassed 388M.

🚨 HUGE: Solana saw $1B in weekly tokenized equities volume.

🔥 JUST IN: Solana has surpassed 113B non-voting transactions.