The South Korean government has introduced a blockchain payment system aimed at stopping the misuse of public funds and modernizing its financial infrastructure. This is the second time the nation wi...
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Blockchain: Building Trust with Financial Giants
At the 2026 Paris Blockchain Week, Ripple‘s executive, Markus Infanger, shed light on the intricate hurdles facing large-scale financial institutions in adopting blockchain technology for massiv...
Venom Foundation Says Blockchain Industry Is Not Ready for the Quantum Era
Venom Foundation is putting the blockchain industry on notice over a threat many teams still prefer to ignore: quantum computing. The Abu Dhabi-based blockchain infrastructure company said it has comp...
Why Banks Still Prefer SWIFT Over Blockchain Rails Like Ripple
Why Financial Institutions are Reluctant to Move From SWIFT to Blockchain Networks At Paris Blockchain Week 2026, RippleX Senior Vice President Markus Infanger gave a frank reality check on why major ...
South Korea to pilot blockchain deposit tokens for government spending in Q4
South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance will begin testing blockchain-based deposit tokens for government spending in the fourth quarter as part of a broader push to modernize how public funds a...
South Korea plans to ditch government cards in favor of blockchain deposit tokens
South Korea’s Ministry of Finance and Economy is preparing to implement a system where “deposit tokens” are used to cover certain operational expenses, replacing the standard government card method, T...
South Korea’s Innovative Shift Toward Blockchain Technology in Public Expenditure
South Korea is preparing to make a significant leap into the future of public finance by digitalizing its public spending with blockchain technology. The Ministry of Economy and Finance announced plan...
South Korea to Test Blockchain-Based Deposit Tokens for Government Spending
South Korea plans to pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for official government spending in place of parts of its current card-based system. The government says the trial could improve transparency...
RippleX Exec Talks Tokenization Challenges and Opportunities at Paris Blockchain Week
The tokenization sector is witnessing a surge in global interest, according to RippleX Senior Vice President Markus Infanger, who addressed attendees at Paris Blockchain Week. He remarked that the ind...
Legal & General Launches Tokenized Funds on Blockchain Network
Legal & General brings £50B liquidity funds onchain via Calastone, enabling faster settlement, tokenized access, and digital investment solutions. London-based Legal & General Asset Management...
South Korea’s Revolutionary Blockchain Pilot Transforms Government Expense Management
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Bybit CEO Ben Zhou Predicts Rise of AI-Driven Finance at Paris Blockchain Week 2026
Zhou questioned the accepted notion of how consumers engage with financial services. He proposed that users may not engage with platforms at all in the future. At Paris Blockchain Week 2026, Ben Zhou,...
Complete Guide to Blockchain Transaction Fees
Blockchain transfer fees denote a core element of the crypto sector. In this respect, these fees act as both a security layer and an incentive management. Thus, whenever someone interacts with, receiv...
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
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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...