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Wall Street backbone DTCC brings $30 trillion securities closer to blockchain with major banks
DTCC's tokenization service is live on Canton and Besu, with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley among 20 firms signed up.
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Stellar Lands Securitize as It Climbs the Tokenized-Asset Rankings
Securitize will support tokenized asset issuance on Stellar, which ranks fourth by distributed RWA value; details later.
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DTCC’s Tokenization Service Goes Live With 34 Securities
DTCC's tokenization service is live with 34 securities and 20 participants, but conversions run on a narrower schedule than token transfers.
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XRP Ledger developers propose creating wallets with zero XRP for stablecoin payments
XRP Ledger developers propose an experimental change letting companies fund zero-XRP wallets for stablecoin payments, including AI-agent accounts.
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Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow
Google's Multi-Party Compute custody security is in private preview, with Alphabet securing its own Ethereum and Solana assets.
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BNY Now Custodies XRP for Institutions, Plans Direct RLUSD Minting With Ripple
BNY Mellon adds XRP custody for institutions and plans direct RLUSD minting with Ripple.
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Chainlink and Anchorage just launched CustodySync so institutions can lend into Aave and Morpho without ever leaving custody
Chainlink and Anchorage launched CustodySync, letting custodied institutional assets earn in Aave and Morpho without self-custody.
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Discord is making public chats searchable on Google: How to opt out
Discord is making public server chats searchable on Google, a privacy shift users can opt out of.
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Tether’s Next Bitcoin Power Play: The Software Behind the Miners. Fifteen mining industry players back its open-source toolkit. The stakes reach far beyond hashrate.
Tether has gathered 15 mining firms, including Bitmain and Foundry, around an open-source mining software toolkit, raising centralization questions for smaller miners.
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Janus Henderson, Centrifuge launch tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch a tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar for non-US investors.
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Zcash Developers Split Over Where Grants Program’s 8% Block Share Should Go
Zcash developers disagree on redirecting the grants program's 8% block share under a draft ZIP.
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Ripple, BNY explore using the XRP Ledger to finance approved invoices
BNY adds XRP and RLUSD to custody, while Ripple and C2FO test invoice settlement on the XRP Ledger.
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ENSv2 Activation Queued, Setting Up End to New ENSv1 Registrations
ENSv2 activation is queued, which would irreversibly end new registrations on ENSv1 with no migration deadline.
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Nasdaq-100 comes onchain as Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch first licensed fund
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched an issuer-sponsored Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar, a licensed alternative to third-party stock tokens.
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CF Benchmarks brings Wall Street pricing infrastructure onchain, including data used by BlackRock
CF Benchmarks is offering traditional finance index pricing data onchain, including data used by BlackRock, for developers building tokenized products.
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Zcash Co-Founder Proposes Ending ZCG's 8% Block Reward Share
Sean Bowe's draft ZIP would redirect Zcash Community Grants' 8% block reward share to the Network Sustainability Mechanism.
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Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities patched in widely used Bitcoin ecosystem libraries
Multiple high-severity bugs patched in bitcoinjs-lib, bip39, bip32 and tiny-secp256k1, which many wallets and SDKs depend on; check and upgrade.
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Marinade Waives Bond Charges for Agave Slot-Skipping Bug
Marinade waives bond charges for validators hit by an Agave slot-skipping bug, with a fix in an Agave 4.4 candidate.
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Zcash co-founder calls to stop funding ‘over $125M’ grants program
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe argues ZCG has enough funding and wants new ZEC issuance redirected to a network reserve.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants funding, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposes ending the grants committee's 8% share of new ZEC, redirecting it to a reserve for future miners while the committee keeps funds already received.
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Chainlink CustodySync: Connecting Institutional Capital to DeFi
Chainlink launches CustodySync letting custodians offer institutional clients DeFi lending access while assets stay in custody, with Anchorage as launch partner.
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BlackRock joins SBI and Startale to link tokenized MMFs with Japanese yen stablecoins
BlackRock, SBI and Startale will explore linking tokenized money market funds with SBI's yen stablecoin JPYSC; this is an exploration, not a launch.
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Miden Opens Its Invite-Only Partner Mainnet, Privacy Guardrails Included
Miden opens an invite-only partner mainnet where users can move real funds, with validators still able to see private inputs.
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Is Mining Centralization A Threat for Bitcoin?
Explains why mining pool concentration is a concern but not an existential threat to Bitcoin's properties.
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Proposed quantum-safe chain design stores just 96 bytes per transaction on-chain
Proposed quantum-safe chain design storing 96 bytes per transaction on-chain; technical detail is limited in the snippet.
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We made the bitcoin-dev mailing list readable: 15 years, 24,699 messages, one page per thread, free
A readable mirror of the bitcoin-dev mailing list archive, one page per thread, useful for anyone following protocol debates.
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S&P Global Closes OpenZeppelin Acquisition
S&P Global closed its OpenZeppelin acquisition, with OpenZeppelin staying a separate unit under Demian Brener.
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Aviva Investors launches tokenized share class of $29B Sterling fund on XRP Ledger
Aviva Investors launched a tokenized share class of its $29B sterling fund on the XRP Ledger, its second tokenized fund.
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TIL: receipt.status != "complete" is always true in web3.py, and it shipped in a major agent toolkit
A widely used agent wallet toolkit had a web3.py status check that always failed, so successful Permit2 approvals were reported as failures and agents could re-approve.
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Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) — a registry of versioned safety specifications and of the scoped, attributable adoption relations that bind agents to them
Draft ERC proposing a registry of safety specifications and attributable relations binding AI agents that hold credentials or move funds.