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S&P Global agreed to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin, expanding its digital asset business into the technology underpinning tokenized finance. On Sept. 17, the financial data and ratings company said that OpenZeppelin will continue operating under its own name a...


Aave V4 went live on the Arc Layer-1 network on Sept. 16 and attracted USDC almost immediately. By Sept. 17, point-in-ti...
Stellar activated Protocol 28 as the blockchain hit a new sustained throughput record, adding tools designed for larger smart-contract deployments. The network ran Protocol 28 by S...
Continue ReadingThe US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on block...

Optimism approved Upgrade 20, moving its fault-proof system toward the architecture required for future Superchain inter...
Crypto groups are pressing Congress to broaden tax relief after a House panel advanced the first digital-asset tax framework. The House Ways and Means Committee approved H.R. 10357...
Continue ReadingThe Senate gave DeFi a policy setback on Sept. 15. Then Aave founder Stani Kulechov used it to frame a new product challenge. Aave is a decentralized-finance lending protocol surro...
Continue ReadingThree days after Splash’s Cardano-based ADA/OADA StableSwap pool was drained, OADA holders still faced a problem that corrected code alone could not solve: the pool had lost the AD...
Continue ReadingThe House Financial Services Committee advanced legislation to put a federal Bitcoin reserve into statute on Sept. 16, approving a framework that would require a 20-year holding pe...
Continue ReadingPublic blockchains record every transaction, yet researchers can derive multiple measures of economic activity from the same transparent ledger. A Bank for International Settlement...
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