# Blockchain Related Articles

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BREAKING: Mastercard Just Opened Its Global Payment Network To Crypto — Which Altcoins Made The Cut?

Mastercard announced the expansion of its global settlement infrastructure to support on-chain settlement using regulated stablecoins. This enables card transactions to settle 24/7, eliminating delays from traditional banking hours. The initial rollout supports six stablecoins—USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD—across eight blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, and the XRP Ledger. The service is launching with partners in the U.S. and Latin America. This is a back-end settlement upgrade, not a consumer-facing change, allowing network partners to optionally use blockchain rails while traditional fiat settlement remains available.

bitcoinist3h ago

BREAKING: Mastercard Just Opened Its Global Payment Network To Crypto — Which Altcoins Made The Cut?

bitcoinist3h ago

XRP Marks 14th Birthday While Ripple Expands DC Presence

XRP marked its 14th anniversary on June 2, with founders and the community celebrating its origins. The date commemorates a key 2012 code commit that established its fixed 100 billion token supply. Concurrently, Ripple announced an expansion of its Washington, D.C. office, emphasizing a commitment to engaging with U.S. policymakers and regulators on digital asset frameworks. The company aims to help shape policy around market structure, stablecoins, and financial innovation. XRP traded at $1.24 at the time of reporting.

bitcoinist6h ago

XRP Marks 14th Birthday While Ripple Expands DC Presence

bitcoinist6h ago

Anchorage Digital and Real Finance Partner to Advance Institutional RWA Tokenization

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., and Real Finance, a Layer 1 blockchain for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, have announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration aims to support the full lifecycle of tokenized assets, covering issuance, custody, settlement, servicing, and secondary liquidity. Key areas include Anchorage providing regulated custody for the Real Finance ecosystem and its $ASSET token, serving as a foundational custody layer for institutional products on the blockchain, and mutual support for each other's institutional client pipelines. Executives from both companies emphasized that tokenization alone is insufficient for institutional adoption, highlighting the need for integrated, regulated infrastructure for custody, settlement, and lifecycle management to move from pilots to functional on-chain capital markets. The partnership seeks to address fragmentation in the tokenized asset ecosystem by combining blockchain technology, regulated custody, and tokenization infrastructure to support assets like private credit, real estate, and financial instruments.

TheNewsCrypto6h ago

Anchorage Digital and Real Finance Partner to Advance Institutional RWA Tokenization

TheNewsCrypto6h ago

Blockmaze Defines the Future of RWA Tokenisation with Compliance-First Infrastructure for a $500T On-Chain World

Blockmaze, a regulated ecosystem for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) backed by Finvasia Group, is launching compliance-first infrastructure to bridge traditional finance and blockchain. It aims to solve the critical challenge of connecting digital tokens to legally recognized ownership and regulatory frameworks. With licenses across eight jurisdictions and over 45 regulatory registrations, Blockmaze provides a platform for issuers and institutions to tokenize assets like real estate, stocks, and commodities securely and compliantly. The goal is to unlock institutional trust and accelerate the transition of a portion of the estimated $500+ trillion global asset market onto the blockchain. The company's CEO, Tajinder Virk, emphasizes that the future of tokenization hinges not just on technology, but on regulated infrastructure that ensures legal recognition and trust.

TheNewsCrypto9h ago

Blockmaze Defines the Future of RWA Tokenisation with Compliance-First Infrastructure for a $500T On-Chain World

TheNewsCrypto9h ago

Crypto is dead, Perps are forever

The crypto industry is shifting from a focus on creating native assets (like altcoins and protocol tokens) to becoming a "global asset pipeline." Native cryptocurrencies, except for Bitcoin, are seen as failing in their value storage and utility promises, with demand driven largely by speculation. Attention and liquidity are now moving toward real-world assets (RWAs) like U.S. stocks, bonds, gold, and oil traded on-chain via perpetual contracts (Perps). Stablecoins like USDT and USDC set the precedent, proving blockchain's core strength is efficient global settlement and transfer, not inventing new monetary systems. Meanwhile, assets like Ethereum and many DeFi tokens struggle as their narratives weaken against tangible traditional assets and the rapid real-world progress of AI. Perpetual contracts have emerged as a pivotal innovation. They simplify trading by offering pure price exposure to any asset, bypassing complexities of ownership, custody, and traditional market hours. Projects like Hyperliquid gained traction by combining CEX-like efficiency with on-chain transparency, capitalizing on post-FTX distrust, macroeconomic volatility, and the surge in demand for 24/7 stock trading. In conclusion, while the era of speculative native "crypto assets" may be over, perpetual contracts persist as the industry's most potent financial instrument—transforming all assets into globally accessible, constantly tradable instruments centered on price speculation.

marsbit10h ago

Crypto is dead, Perps are forever

marsbit10h ago

TON Rebrands Native Token As Gram, Reviving Original White Paper Name

The native token of the Toncoin (TON) network is being rebranded to 'Gram,' reviving its original name from the project's first white paper. This change, announced by Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov, is the fourth step in his "Make TON Great Again" (MTONGA) initiative. The transition period is expected to take about three weeks, and a new logo has been previewed. The rebrand follows Telegram's official return to the ecosystem in May as its largest validator, after a six-year absence that began with a 2020 legal dispute with the SEC. Durov stated that the move "returns to our roots" and paves the way for future developments, with three more steps remaining in the MTONGA roadmap. At the time of the announcement, Gram was trading around $2.02.

bitcoinist12h ago

TON Rebrands Native Token As Gram, Reviving Original White Paper Name

bitcoinist12h ago

Variant: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ZCash Highly Likely to Become Major Stores of Value

At Variant, our investment philosophy centers on enabling individuals to own their money, identity, and data. We believe all tokens fall into two categories: stores of value (SOV) or equity-like instruments. The SOV framework is particularly useful for evaluating Layer 1 (L1) blockchains, which are major monetary coordination protocols. A good store of value should possess: 1) Technical durability, 2) Scarcity, 3) Censorship resistance, 4) Economic productivity, 5) Strong memetics, and 6) Liquidity. The total addressable market for SOV assets is massive, with gold alone valued at $31 trillion. Three L1 assets stand out as prime candidates for becoming major stores of value: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and ZCash (ZEC). Bitcoin excels in memetic dominance as "digital gold." Ethereum demonstrates superior technical durability and adaptability through its upgradeable roadmap. ZCash offers exceptional censorship resistance and privacy via its shielded transactions. While digital SOVs outperform traditional ones like gold on many metrics, they still represent a small fraction of the overall SOV market, presenting a significant growth opportunity.

marsbit21h ago

Variant: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and ZCash Highly Likely to Become Major Stores of Value

marsbit21h ago

Solana Takes Aim At Hyperliquid With Push For Fully Onchain Perps

The Solana Foundation has announced a new initiative to actively support teams building fully onchain perpetual futures (perps) on Solana. This move directly challenges the current market structure, exemplified by platforms like Hyperliquid, where much of the derivatives volume still relies on centralized exchanges or hybrid models with offchain components. Solana argues that its high-performance blockchain makes fully onchain perps viable without sacrificing speed or user experience, aiming to shift a lucrative trading segment entirely onchain. The Foundation seeks to back projects that prioritize onchain price discovery (like order books or RFQ systems) over pool-based models, require projects to be "Solana-first" with revenue routed back to the chain, and mandate open-source development. The support includes distribution, technical assistance, and capital for core perps protocols as well as complementary infrastructure.

bitcoinistYesterday 17:27

Solana Takes Aim At Hyperliquid With Push For Fully Onchain Perps

bitcoinistYesterday 17:27

nGRND Gold Protocol Games Surpasses 855K Participants With $6M in Rewards Before Token Launch

The nGRND Gold Protocol, a Web3 initiative backed by verified in-ground gold reserves, reports strong growth for its sponsored mobile games 'Gold Fest' and 'Dig It', surpassing 855,000 participants across 200+ countries. These games, designed to introduce mainstream audiences to asset-backed digital economies, have awarded approximately $6 million in ecosystem rewards ahead of the protocol's Token Generation Event (TGE). The framework uses a proof-of-stake utility model, with rewards sustained by the protocol's gold treasury and revenues from alternative land use, avoiding traditional mining extraction. The preserved gold assets are subject to third-party audits for transparency. Following the successful first season, Season 2 for both games is underway, with the project planning to expand into eight participation streams like Governance, Impact, and Play, further integrating ESG and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

TheNewsCryptoYesterday 13:22

nGRND Gold Protocol Games Surpasses 855K Participants With $6M in Rewards Before Token Launch

TheNewsCryptoYesterday 13:22

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