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QuantusNetwork has officially announced the launch of its post-quantum asset, $QTC, on the $NEAR Protocol. This launch is particularly significant as it introduces a quantum-secure, cross-chain asset that promises confidentiality from day one. The announcement was made via a tweet from $NEAR Protocol, highlighting the security advancements that $QTC represents in the evolving blockchain landscape.…

S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the blockchain security firm known for its open-e move is designed to strengthen S&P Global’s digital asset capabilities—particularly around risk assessment and onchain technology analysis—at a time when financial institutions are increasingly looking to tokenized markets

Avalanche Treasury Company CEO Bart Smith expects artificial intelligence agents to create a sharp increase in blockchain activity as they move deeper into financial markets. Speaking at the Avalanche Summit in New York, Smith argued that low-end projections for agentic activity could challenge the assumption that Layer 1 blockspace is effectively unlimited. His central warning…

Public blockchains record every transaction, yet researchers can derive multiple measures of economic activity from the same transparent ledger.

US SEC grants 5-Year exemption to launch tokenized stock trading on blockchain venues   World

Over the past few years, Circle has done one thing only: bring USDC to where users already are. Now it’s stepping in to build its own Layer 1, betting not on stealing liquidity from Ethereum or Solana, but on creating markets that don’t yet exist: stablecoin foreign exchange, institutional private finance, and autonomous agent economies.…

In breaking SEC crypto news today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted temporary, conditional relief allowing permissioned Tokenized Securities Venues to trade tokenized U.S. National Market System stocks through on-chain automated market makers and liquidity pools.

A pioneering move in corporate payouts allows shareholders of Elemental Royalty (NASDAQ:ELE) to receive their upcoming quarterly dividend in either traditional fiat currency or digital gold.

Circle launches Arc mainnet for institutional finance | The Paypers NewsCrypto, Web3 and CBDC

A complete guide to Arc, Circle’s stablecoin-native Layer 1 blockchain, covering its architecture, USDC gas model, ecosystem, use cases and competition. ByGeorge Georgiev