DSRV and SBI Ripple Asia have launched joint research to use the XRP Ledger to make cross-border payments between South Korea and Japan faster, cheaper and clearer. The project will test how blockchain can work with today’s banking systems and rules in both countries, rather than replace them.

Trump-affiliated venture World Liberty Financial is preparing to launch a blockchain-powered remittance and foreign exchange platform called World Swap, aiming squarely at the $9 trillion-a-day global Forex market.

The UK Treasury has chosen HSBC’s Orion platform to pilot tokenised government bonds, making Britain the first G7 country to test blockchain for sovereign debt. The DIGIT pilot will explore faster, on-chain settlement and aim to boost digital infrastructure across UK financial markets.

The UAE Central Bank has approved the dirham-backed stablecoin DDSC, which is now live on ADI Chain for institutional and government use. It will be used for payments, settlements, trade, and programmable financial services, and will be available to FAB customers through approved platforms.

The battle to become the blockchain's first platform to integrate an emerging AI agent economy is heating up — with MultiversX, making the first blow move.

Brave is betting that the next wave of Web3 users won’t arrive through crypto-first products, but through experiences that feel like games first and blockchain second.

Hang Seng is launching a new gold ETF on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with both regular shares and tokenized units on blockchain. The fund holds physical gold in Hong Kong and aims to attract both traditional and crypto investors.

Crypto startup Entropy is shutting down after four years, returning $25 million in investor funding following several pivots and layoffs. Founder Tux Pacific said the business model wasn’t scalable and they will leave crypto to focus on pharmaceutical research.

Leaders at the World Economic Forum said billions of AI agents are likely to start making payments on their own, and current banking systems are too slow and manual to support that shift. They argued that stablecoins and crypto networks are the most practical way to handle fast, automated and global payments for AI-driven activity.

Community accuses World Liberty Financial of sidelining locked tokenholders as insider-linked wallets push through USD1 expansion plans.