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Ingenico Brings Stablecoin Payments to In-Store Checkout
Payments terminal provider Ingenico has partnered with WalletConnect Pay to enable in-store stablecoin payments across its point-of-sale (POS) systems, marking…
ZKsync Centers Privacy and Control in 2026 Institutional Roadmap
Layer-2 network ZKsync released a 2026 roadmap that puts privacy, deterministic control and native interoperability at the center of its strategy for…
BNB Chain’s Fermi Upgrade Brings 0.45-Second Blocks and Faster Finality
BNB Chain’s Fermi upgrade, which goes live Wednesday, will cut BNB Smart Chain (BSC) block times from 0.75 seconds to 0.45 seconds and push transaction finality…
Solana Policy Institute Urges SEC Protect DeFi Developers From Regulations
Update (Jan. 13, 2026, 9.45 a.m. UTC): This article was updated to clarify the legal status and jurisdictions of recent cases involving Tornado Cash developers.…
Ethereum Must Pass Walkaway Test to Be Self-Sustaining
Ethereum needs to get to a point where its value proposition remains even if developers stop active work on the protocol, according to its co-founder Vitalik…
CFTC Forms Panel Regulating Blockchain, AI Innovation
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Mike Selig has unveiled the agency’s new innovation committee, aimed at guiding the regulation of emerging…
Bank of Italy Models Ether-to-Zero Scenario in Stress Test
The Bank of Italy modeled what would happen to Ethereum’s security and settlement capacity if the price of Ether fell to zero, treating the network as critical…
Starknet Team Outlines Root Cause of Latest Network Outage
The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity.Cointelegraph is…
Nasdaq and CME Team Up To Issue the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as…
BNY Launches Tokenized Bank Deposits for Institutional Clients
BNY, a financial services company that traces its roots back to one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, launched tokenized bank deposits…