Ripple Teams with Korean Insurer for Blockchain-Based Bond Settlement

Ripple has partnered with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s largest life insurers, to pilot blockchain-based settlement of government bonds, as Seoul moves to formalize rules for tokenized se...

Visa launches on the Tempo blockchain as an anchor validator – More inside

Digital payments platform Visa has announced the launch of its validator node on the Tempo Network. Announced on the 14th of April, this move by Visa would boost transaction validation and accelerate ...

Paris Blockchain Week opens with privacy, composability and tokenized gold in focus

Day one at Paris Blockchain Week turns into an institutional scouting mission for privacy, composability and gold‑backed tokenization plays in the heart of Paris. Summary Early conversations at Paris ...

Visa Joins Tempo as Validator, Expands Blockchain Infrastructure

Visa joins Tempo as a validator, expanding its direct role in blockchain transaction infrastructure. Internal node operation follows six months of integration with Tempo’s Layer-1 network. The move al...

Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Grabs 47% of Europe’s Blockchain VC in 2025

Darius Baruo Apr 15, 2026 07:26 Crypto Valley raised $728M across 31 deals in 2025, up 37% YoY. TON’s $400M round drove half the total as capital concentrates i...

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou on Trust, AI, and the New Financial Platform at Paris Blockchain Week 2026

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — What will it take to build a financial system that billions of people can trust — and barely notice? That question set the tone for a firesid...

Ben Zhou at Paris Blockchain Week 2026: AI, Trust and Financial Infrastructure

Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou took the stage at Paris Blockchain Week 2026 on April 15 to discuss how artificial intelligence and trust are reshaping financial infrastructure, framing the two them...

Paris Blockchain Week Becomes Signal Week: Europe’s Premier Institutional Digital Assets Summit Announces Strategic Elevation and New Identity

PARIS, April 15, 2026  The organisers of Paris Blockchain Week (PBW), Europe’s leading institutional digital assets conference, today announced the elevation of the event to Signal Week: The Instituti...

SwarmBase Partners With ROAM To Make AI Agent Executions Scalable Through Decentralized Compute And DEPIN 

In a groundbreaking move to advance the effectiveness of decentralized AI to provide Web3 users with reliable decentralized applications, SwarmBase, a decentralized intelligent infrastructure platform...

Visa Launches Validator Node on Tempo Blockchain for Stablecoin Payments

Visa has launched a validator node on the Tempo blockchain, taking a direct role in verifying and processing transactions on a network designed for real-time stablecoin payments. Visa said the node is...

Ozak AI Maintains Strong Presale Activity as Market Attention Shifts Toward AI-Focused Blockchain Projects

As the entire crypto market is witnessing less volatility and slower transaction speed, there is a visible shift in investor attention towards projects that hold real utility rather than purely specul...

Visa, Stripe & Zodia Custody Join Tempo as Blockchain Validators

Visa, Stripe, and Zodia deepen roles in blockchain validation infrastructure Tempo scales stablecoin payments with institutional-grade validator support Agentic payments push automation in cross-borde...

SyntaxVerse and Bee Network Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Decentralized Automation in Web3

The rapid evolution of Web3 is leading to more complex and automated ecosystems that are governed by consensus of the community. One of the biggest moves to help accelerate this evolution is SyntaxVer...

Commodity Contracts Spark Excitement in Decentralized Exchanges

The HYPE token experienced a significant surge, reaching almost $45, marking a five-month high with a weekly increase exceeding 20%. This impressive price gain was closely linked to a dramatic boost i...

Tempo Blockchain Achieves Major Milestone As Visa And Stripe Join As Validators

Tempo Blockchain Achieves Major Milestone As Visa And Stripe Join As Validators Skip to content Home Crypto News Tempo Blockchain Achieves Major Milestone as Visa and Stripe Join as Validators &...

BREAKING: Hack Alert Issued for Popular Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange CoW Swap

BREAKING: Hack Alert Issued for Popular Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange CoW Swap – Bitcoin Sistemi ...

Ujitsu Teams Up With ADI Chain to Verify Jiu-Jitsu Athlete Records on Blockchain

Ujitsu has taken a notable step toward modernizing how achievements are recorded in jiu-jitsu, announcing an integration with ADI Chain that will allow belt promotions to be verified on-chain. For a s...

Blockchain Transparency and On-Chain Settlement: How Public Ledgers Are Reshaping Digital Value Transfer in 2026

Blockchain transparency has moved from a niche ideological promise into one of the most practical features of modern digital finance. In 2026, public ledgers such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and Bas...

Former Ripple VP Lands $100M SBI Fund for AI and Blockchain

SBI Holdings anchors a $100M micro VC fund of funds led by ex-Ripple VP Emi Yoshikawa, bridging U.S. startups with Japanese enterprises. SBI Holdings has announced a strategic alliance with Across Ven...

Visa to operate an ‘anchor validator’ on Stripe’s Tempo blockchain

The Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain gained a pair of heavyweight validators in Visa (V) and Zodia Custody, the crypto custodian majority owned by Standard Chartered (STAN). Alongside Stripe, Visa and Z...

Unlock blockchain interoperability: guide to cross-chain innovation

Blockchain interoperability enables cross-chain communication, transfer of assets, and collaboration. Trustless protocols like ZK bridges and IBC improve security and efficiency for ...

Sreeram Kannan: Agents are transforming into ownable digital assets, blockchain provides stability against AI disruption, and Eigenlayer is redefining blockchain infrastructure

Sreeram Kannan: Agents are transforming into ownable digital assets, blockchain provides stability against AI disruption, and Eigenlayer is redefining blockchain infrastructure | Bell Curve Eigenlayer...

China favors blockchain; Sweden flags digital bank risks

Homepage > News > Business > China favors blockchain; Sweden flags digital bank risks Amid an ongoing ban on digital currency trading and mining, China remains firm that blockchain is a criti...

Algorand (ALGO) Price Prediction 2026-2030: Can The Blockchain Pioneer Realistically Reach $1?

Algorand (ALGO) Price Prediction 2026-2030: Can The Blockchain Pioneer Realistically Reach $1? Skip to content Home Crypto News Algorand (ALGO) Price Prediction 2026-2030: Can the Blockchain Pio...

Digital Trust Without Intermediaries: What Blockchain Delivers and What It Does Not

By Igor Kulatov Most people in the industry feel they know blockchain well enough. The problem is everyone outside it thinks they do too — and what they know is usually wrong. Having a clear account o...

NEO FANTASY Partners With DDEX To Connect Metaverse Games With Decentralized Multi-Chain Liquidity

As part of efforts to enable game players and users to access true digital ownership of decentralized applications, NEO FANTASY, a blockchain-based metaverse gaming platform, today announced a strateg...

South Korea’s NHN KCP Signs Deal with Ava Labs for Payment Blockchain

NHN KCP partners with Ava Labs to build an Avalanche-based payment blockchain with fast processing, secure data, and global payment solutions. South Korea’s NHN KCP has announced a new blockchain part...

Fetch.ai Price Prediction: Will FET Bring the Power of AI to Blockchain?

Fetch.ai in April 2026 is a genuinely complicated story. On the technology side: the project has shipped more in the past eighteen months than in its entire prior history combined. World’s first...

Ondo Finance Seeks SEC No-Action to Integrate Blockchain Into Securities Infrastructure – Regulation Bitcoin News

Key Takeaways: Ondo Finance seeks SEC no-action relief for tokenized securities model on Ethereum. Structure improves utility without altering existing legal framework for securities. Bitgo custody su...

XRP Price Prediction: XRP Holds Wedge Floor As Ripple Heads To Paris Blockchain Week

XRP trades at $1.3251, up 0.01%, sitting on the wedge lower boundary with SAR at $1.3759 and Supertrend at $1.4681 overhead. Options volume jumped 172.46% to $3.75M with OI up 7.84% to $42.76M as the ...

+533%, +377% in Volumes and Even More: Which Blockchain-Based Assets Are Actually Growing?

Fundamental shift of cryptocurrency’s goal Things will not be the same One thing is evident from the most recent market data: growth in cryptocurrency is not what most people are looking for. Fu...

Why adopt decentralized finance? Real benefits

DeFi provides permissionless, 24/7 access to global financial services without intermediaries. It offers significant cost savings, including near-zero fees for cross-border transfers...