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For institutional traders, the gap between execution and final settlement is where counterparty risk lives. Caladan, Asia’s largest digital asset market maker, is narrowing that window by int
The U.S. government has transferred a small amount of Bitcoin seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts three years ago, renewing attention on how federal agencies will handle the re
BlackRock is framing Bitcoin's long-term investment case around the nearly $40 trillion U.S. debt burden, shifting the argument away from short-term price swings and toward sovereign fiscal s
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Turning arbitrage pressure into an auction In most automated market maker designs, a price gap between the pool and external markets is a gift to arbitrage traders. They pocket the difference
How Chain Signatures Work @NEARProtocol's Chain Signatures feature allows a single NEAR account, including smart contracts, to sign and execute transactions on external blockchains without re
How Overledger Routes Your Request Every API call made through @quantnetwork's Overledger passes through a Connector, one per blockchain family. That Connector checks node health and routes t
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
How Stellar Path Payments Work A path payment on @StellarOrg lets a sender dispatch one asset and have an entirely different asset arrive at the destination, all within a single on-chain oper
Bitcoin has historically sat idle in wallets, earning nothing. @Coredao_Org is trying to change that. Through its self-custodial staking mechanism, $BTC holders can put their coins to work on
The XRP Ledger Foundation (@XRPLF) has updated its two primary developer libraries, xrpl.js and xrpl-py, to support XRPL version 3.3.0, according to developer @JulianBerridi. A Java library u
The Algorand Foundation has publicly launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol), an open-source, blockchain-agnostic standard for secure peer-to-peer communication between user
