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It’s #TechieTuesday, and crypto this week reflects how tokenisation, stablecoins, and regulation are becoming more integrated with mainstream financial systems: 🏦 The UK launched a tokenisation task force bringing together firms including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Ripple, Coinbase, and Circle to accelerate the adoption of tokenised financial markets. The initiative outlines a 12-month roadmap beginning with tokenised repo transactions and aims to improve settlement efficiency, liquidity, and market infrastructure through public and private sector collaboration. 💴 Japan's SBI VC Trade is launching a lending service for its yen-backed stablecoin, JPYSC, allowing users to earn yield by lending their tokens for a fixed term. The product expands the role of regulated stablecoins beyond payments, while supporting Japan's broader push to develop on-chain finance and tokenised financial infrastructure. 🚗 Hyundai completed a pilot using USDT to settle a cross-border treasury transfer between its US and Mexican subsidiaries in around seven minutes on Avalanche. The proof of concept tested how stablecoins can be integrated into existing corporate treasury operations while maintaining current compliance and accounting processes. ⚖️ The CLARITY Act received support from a second US law enforcement organisation ahead of a potential Senate vote. While endorsing the bill's goal of establishing clearer digital asset rules, the group also called for revisions to strengthen accountability in DeFi and preserve existing investigative powers. TL;DR: Tokenised finance is gaining institutional backing, regulated stablecoins are expanding into new financial services, enterprises are testing blockchain for treasury operations, and US crypto legislation continues to move toward a clearer regulatory framework. #Crypto #Tokenization #Stablecoins #Blockchain #Regulation #Web3

🚀 Governance Digest Friday From infrastructure upgrades to RealFi expansion and cross-chain innovation, here's a look at some of the biggest ecosystem developments from this week. 👇 🔹 @AvailProject has launched the FastBridge Community Challenge, inviting users to test FastBridge, share feedback, and earn rewards while helping improve the cross-chain bridging experience. 🔹 @pharos_network unveiled its RealFi lending layer in collaboration with @Morpho, @RockawayX, @okutrade, and @merkl_xyz. The new infrastructure will let users supply USDC, borrow against $PROS and $wsrUSD, and deploy capital across the Pharos ecosystem. 🔹 @CantonFdn announced that the x402 payment standard is now live on Canton Network, enabling private, enterprise-ready machine-to-machine payments designed for institutional use cases. 🔹 @zilliqa has expanded its partnership with @ltin_li to build verifiable digital identity infrastructure. LTIN provides organisational identity, while Zilliqa verifies authorisation before transactions settle across any chain or settlement rail. The infrastructure layer keeps evolving, making networks more interoperable, compliant, and ready for real-world adoption. What development caught your attention this week? #Web3 #Blockchain #DeFi #RealFi #Interoperability #DigitalAssets

It’s #TechieTuesday, and crypto this week reflects how AI, regulation, and tokenisation are reshaping the next phase of digital finance: 🏦 Securitize debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ while simultaneously issuing tokenised versions of its own shares onchain. The move demonstrates how tokenisation is beginning to extend beyond traditional assets, allowing regulated securities to exist in both conventional and blockchain-based markets. 🤖 The UK Financial Conduct Authority outlined how autonomous AI agents could reshape retail financial services, with tokenised deposits and stablecoins potentially providing the programmable settlement infrastructure needed for automated payments. The regulator says stronger governance and accountability will be essential as AI adoption grows. 🔗 Moonbeam is pivoting from its role as a Polkadot parachain to launch an AI agent communication and settlement network on Base. The move reflects a broader strategy to build infrastructure for autonomous, cross-chain AI applications while continuing to support existing users during the transition. 🏛️ Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority flagged six crypto firms operating without MiCA authorisation shortly after the EU's licensing deadline took effect. The move signals that MiCA is shifting from regulation to active enforcement across Europe. TL;DR: AI is becoming part of financial infrastructure, tokenisation is reaching public markets, blockchain networks are evolving for autonomous applications, and crypto regulation is entering its enforcement phase. #Crypto #AI #Tokenization #Blockchain #Regulation #Web3

🚀 Governance Digest Friday This week's developments centred on institutional infrastructure, ecosystem expansion, liquidity, and making blockchain applications easier to build and use. 🔹 @pharos_network announced @Farooxyz as the first project selected under its $10M Pharos Incubator. Faroo's upcoming RWA Hybrid Vault will enable $PROS holders to combine staking rewards with real-world asset yield through a single onchain position, advancing Pharos' vision for RealFi. 🔹 @wardenprotocol announced WARD is now listed on @AerodromeFi, bringing deeper liquidity to the token. The listing marks the first step toward Halo's planned buyback engine, with liquidity provider incentives set to follow. 🔹 @zilliqa published its Compliance Before Settlement roadmap, outlining an approach where regulatory and compliance checks occur before transactions settle, enabling institutions to use blockchain infrastructure while meeting compliance requirements across different settlement rails. 🔹 @AvailProject is partnering with the Avalanche ecosystem to showcase how Avail Nexus enables users to fund applications from multiple chains through native deposit flows, helping developers simplify onboarding without relying on traditional bridging. The direction is becoming clearer: ecosystems are investing in infrastructure that improves compliance, liquidity, interoperability, and developer experience to support the next phase of onchain adoption. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #Infrastructure #RealFi

Institutional blockchain finance settles first, checks compliance after. That's the wrong order. Zilliqa runs the check before - on any chain or settlement rail. We've published the roadmap: blog.zilliqa.com/compliance-bef…

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It’s #TechieTuesday, and crypto this week reflects how blockchain ecosystems are expanding, regulation is becoming more defined, and institutional adoption continues to accelerate: 🚀 Sui teased major announcements ahead of its Basecamp event in Singapore, with a focus on AI-powered transactions and the next phase of blockchain adoption. The preview builds on the network's growing onchain activity, including rising stablecoin usage, increasing transfer volumes, and recent privacy-focused features. 🏛️ The UK Financial Conduct Authority finalised its crypto regulatory framework, requiring crypto firms to obtain FCA authorisation before the new regime takes effect in 2027. The rules introduce licensing, market conduct standards, and updated stablecoin requirements while providing greater regulatory clarity for firms operating in the UK. 🏦 More than 1B $CC tokens are now locked across the Canton Network under its ecosystem participation requirements. The milestone reflects growing institutional activity, with participating applications committing capital to support network security and long-term ecosystem development. ⚖️ The U.S. SEC secured a $5.4M judgment against NanoBit after alleging the platform defrauded investors through a fake crypto trading scheme promoted on social media and WhatsApp. The case reinforces continued enforcement against crypto-related fraud despite a more tailored regulatory approach toward legitimate digital asset businesses. TL;DR: Blockchain networks are expanding their capabilities, regulators are providing clearer rules, institutional participation continues to grow, and enforcement remains focused on protecting investors. #Crypto #Blockchain #Regulation #Tokenization #Web3 #DeFi

Big day. 🎉 @CauriWallet, our non-custodial wallet built natively on Canton Network, is now live on X. To celebrate, we’re giving away 1,000 CC to 50 community members. Head to @CauriWallet’s pinned giveaway post to enter. It only takes 2 minutes. ⬇️

Cauri Wallet is live on X. 👋 Your non-custodial wallet, built natively for Canton Network. This is where you’ll find: 💜 Product updates 🌐 Community news 🚀 Everything we’re building We’re not just building a product. We’re building a community on Canton. Follow along. The best is yet to come. ⚡ #CauriWallet #CantonNetwork #SelfCustody

🚀 Governance Digest Friday This week saw major progress in institutional infrastructure, cross-chain scalability, and secure digital asset management as ecosystems continued building for real-world adoption. 🔹 @pharos_network expanded the RealFi Alliance, welcoming @circle, @avalonfinance_, @TermMaxFi, @primus_labs, and @tulipacapital as strategic partners. The alliance brings together stablecoins, Bitcoin, fixed income, trust infrastructure, and institutional capital to accelerate productive finance onchain. 🔹 @AvailProject announced that Avail Nexus now supports cross-chain transactions of up to $10M through deeper liquidity access with @Mayan. The upgrade enables large treasury movements, institutional transfers, protocol liquidity management, and high-value DeFi transactions, while existing Nexus integrations automatically benefit without additional infrastructure. 🔹 @zilliqa completed a major upgrade to its Safe wallet infrastructure through @protofire, introducing stronger protection against address poisoning attacks, faster performance, CSV transaction exports, batch-of-batches transactions, an improved WalletConnect experience, and increasing the Safe account limit from 10 to 40. Across the ecosystem, the focus is increasingly shifting toward infrastructure that can support institutional-scale activity while improving usability and security for builders and users alike. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #Infrastructure #DeFi

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @zilliqa as it continues strengthening its infrastructure and ecosystem governance? 🤔 🔐 Zilliqa has upgraded its Safe wallet infrastructure through @protofire, bringing a more secure and efficient multisig experience. The update introduces stronger protection against address poisoning attacks, faster performance, CSV transaction exports, support for batch-of-batches transactions, an improved WalletConnect experience, and increases the Safe account limit from 10 to 40. Built on the Safe protocol, more enhancements, including Spaces and Nested Safes, are also planned. 🗳️ Zilliqa's governance framework has also taken another step toward long-term sustainability. The community approved monthly compensation of up to $500 per committee member for the GZIL Collective, beginning in Q2 2026 with no retroactive pay. The change is intended to support the growing operational work involved in running the Collective and future grant seasons, while leaving governance structure and community voting power unchanged. The Governance Portal now also supports both native-chain and EVM-based gZIL, allowing holders on either network to participate in governance. The direction is becoming clearer: Zilliqa is strengthening the tools users rely on while putting in place governance processes designed to support the ecosystem as it grows. #Zilliqa #ChainWatch #Web3 #Blockchain #Governance #DeFi

It’s #TechieTuesday, and crypto this week reflects how blockchain is becoming more practical across banking, payments, trading, and privacy: 🏦 Telcoin launched Version 5 of its wallet, introducing regulated eUSD digital cash accounts for U.S. users through its Nebraska-chartered Digital Asset Bank. The update combines blockchain-based dollars with traditional bank connectivity, allowing users to fund accounts via ACH, hold fully reserved eUSD, and make low-cost global transfers from a single wallet. ♠️ Solana processed more than $10M in World Series of Poker buy-ins within 12 days of introducing crypto payments. By enabling instant, fee-free payments with SOL, USDC, and USDT, the partnership demonstrates how blockchain can simplify high-volume payments in real-world events. 📱 Fomo raised $75M in a Series B round at a $550M valuation to expand its social trading platform, which lets users trade across multiple blockchains without manually bridging assets. The raise highlights continued investor confidence in consumer crypto applications that make digital asset trading more accessible. 🔐 Upbit listed Arcium's ARX token across the KRW, BTC, and USDT markets, providing broader access to a network focused on confidential computing. Arcium uses technologies such as MPC, fully homomorphic encryption, and zero-knowledge proofs to enable privacy-preserving applications across DeFi, AI, and other sectors. TL;DR: Blockchain banking is becoming more practical, crypto payments are proving themselves at scale, investment continues to back simpler trading experiences, and privacy-focused infrastructure is reaching more users. #Crypto #Blockchain #Payments #Privacy #Web3 #DeFi

.@protofire has completed a major upgrade across the Zilliqa Safe stack. What's new for users? - Better protection against address poisoning attacks - Faster loading and improved performance - CSV transaction exports - Batch-of-batches transactions - Improved WalletConnect experience - Safe limit increased from 10 → 40 accounts - Cleaner signing and execution flow Built on the trusted Safe protocol, with more improvements on the way including Spaces and Nested Safes.

🚀 Governance Digest Friday This week brought meaningful progress in institutional blockchain infrastructure, with upgrades focused on token standards, network performance, and broader ecosystem accessibility. 🔹 @CantonFdn approved CIP-0112: Canton Network Token Standard V2, introducing major improvements to privacy, settlement, institutional custody, and compatibility with traditional financial workflows. The foundation also confirmed Protocol 35 is now live on TestNet, validating Canton’s first Logical Synchronizer Upgrade across DevNet and TestNet ahead of a targeted MainNet rollout on June 27. 🔹 @pharos_network announced that $PROS is now supported on KuCoin Web3 Wallet, giving users a simpler way to access and manage assets on the Pharos Pacific Ocean Mainnet as the ecosystem continues to expand. 🔹 On our end, we wrapped up the Cauri Beta Farewell Airdrop, marking the close of the current Cauri beta phase. Participants completed peer-to-peer CC transactions through Cauri Wallet and shared why it is their preferred wallet on Canton. Cauri remains in active testing, with more features, improvements, and community campaigns on the way as we continue to build the wallet alongside user feedback. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #Tokenization #Infrastructure

🏁 The Cauri Beta Farewell Airdrop is officially complete! 🙌 A huge thank you to everyone who participated. The quality of feedback and submissions exceeded our expectations, so we updated the reward structure to recognise our top contributors. 🎉 All valid 26 participants — 20 CC each 🥇 Top 2 — an extra 100 CC each: @RealD0minic @0xalshaby 🥈 Next top 5 — an extra 56 CC each: @dloveth1998 @0xMagnetCcd @jingjin51691169 @erlan_7kyy @missboom_angela That's 1,000 CC distributed in total. But this is just the start. 👀 New features are dropping, more campaigns are on the way, and the best of Cauri is still ahead. Stay close, you don't want to miss what's coming next. 🚀 Join our Discord for more updates 👇 discord.com/invite/cauri #CauriBetaFarewell

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @AvailProject as it expands infrastructure for cross-chain applications? 🤔 🚀 KalqiX has launched its mainnet on Avail, using Avail DA to power a zk-native orderbook DEX with scalable, verifiable data availability. Together with Avail's execution infrastructure, it enables private, self-custodial trading with atomic settlement. 🌉 Cross-chain user experience is also becoming a bigger focus through Avail Nexus. In a recent workshop with Citrea, Avail demonstrated how Nexus enables applications to access a user's assets across multiple chains in a single transaction, eliminating the need for users to manually bridge funds before interacting with Bitcoin-native applications. 💱 That vision is already being adopted. Foresight is integrating Avail Nexus to enable seamless cross-chain deposits, allowing users to deposit assets from multiple EVM chains, receive ctUSD and gas on Citrea, and begin trading through a unified onboarding flow. The direction is becoming clearer: Avail is expanding beyond data availability by building infrastructure that helps applications combine scalable execution with seamless cross-chain liquidity and user onboarding. #Avail #ChainWatch #CrossChain #DataAvailability #Bitcoin #Web3 #BlockchainInfrastructure

🎉 The Cauri Beta Farewell Airdrop is officially closed! 💜 Thank you to everyone who participated, shared feedback, and helped make this beta journey memorable. 🛠️ As we wrap up the campaign, we’re still actively testing and refining key parts of the Cauri experience behind the scenes. 💰 We’re currently reviewing submissions, and the 40 selected recipients will be announced tomorrow. Reward distribution will also begin tomorrow, so keep an eye on your notifications. This may be the end of the Beta Farewell Airdrop, but testing continues as we roll out new features, campaigns, and improvements ahead of the full launch. More updates are on the way, stay close. 👀 #CauriBetaFarewell

⏰ Last call. The Cauri Beta Farewell Airdrop closes in just a few hours. 🏆 1,000 CC rewards → 40 participants receive 20 CC each → Top 2 participants receive 100 CC each Complete a qualifying transaction, share why Cauri Wallet stands out, and submit your entry before the deadline. 🔒 Closes today at 18:00 BST Full rules 👇 discord.com/channels/13947… #CauriBetaFarewell