Author: Jeremy Ryan

Cardano’s ADA token is trading decisively positive in a market where majors are up slightly but still locked in recent, familiar price ranges. The token has gained 10% in the past 24 hours with prices up 4% since midnight UTC hours, trading at over 27 cents, its highest level since May, according to CoinDesk data. Other relatively smaller tokens, such as VVV, ENA, and PEPE, are up 5% in 24 hours. Meanwhile, market leaders bitcoin BTC$85,476.85 and ether ETH$2,698.96 are up just 1% and 0.5%, respectively. Bitcoin, in particular, remains stuck in its recent $84,000 to $87,000 price range.The exact…

Aptos Labs has proposed an encrypted mempool that would hide pending trade instructions until transaction ordering is complete, with its research team reporting 27 milliseconds of added proposal-to-execution latency in tests. Summary Aptos Labs says the proposed feature would protect pending orders while completed transactions remain public. Governance approval is a condition of the company’s claim to become the first L1 offering native protection. Researchers reported 27 milliseconds of added latency, or 14%, compared with their baseline system. Aptos has also committed more than $50 million to products, research, trading infrastructure and AI partners. Aptos Labs outlined the proposal in…

A possible return of the European debt crisis of 2011/12 dominated much of the macro talk last week.This time, though, it is thought to be far more serious. While the first go-round 15 years ago was about the cratering of government bond markets at the so-called “periphery” of the EU, i.e. Greece, this year’s troubles are at the core — France.The gauge to watch is the spread between France’s 10-year OATs and Germany’s 10-year Bunds. It blew out last week to levels not seen since that first EU debt crisis.“At one point on Friday, the spread hit +160 basis points…

As part of a broader partnership to advance compliance infrastructure for tokenized finance, T-REX Network and OpenZeppelin have updated ONCHAINID to V3, which keeps its registry of verified claims and adds the capabilities of a modular smart account.For financial institutions and asset issuers, it simplifies how investors interact with regulated tokens: a single identity can hold assets, execute transactions, and manage recovery in one compliant flow.Why make identity programmable?ONCHAINID V3 widens what issuers and wallets can do. Keys, claims, and execution are now handled through installable modules rather than a single contract, so each can be added, reviewed, and changed…

The CLARITY Act bill text has been delayed again and had not been released as of July 18 A July 17 House Financial Services Committee field hearing in NYC was attended only by Republican lawmakers No Democratic senators or representatives were present at the hearing Three specific disputes are blocking the bill: ethics rules, Section 604 developer liability, and yield-bearing stablecoins Trump’s roughly $1.4 billion in disclosed crypto-related income is complicating the ethics provisions The Senate has about three usable weeks before August recess, widely seen as the last realistic window for 2026 passage Prediction market Polymarket puts passage probability…

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to give every American $5,000 if the Republicans win both chambers of the Congress in upcoming midterm elections. From an economic perspective, this injection of cash into the economy could be yet another catalyst for a rise in the value of risky assets. According to the head of DWF Labs, however, the impact could be much bigger. As the post below illustrates, the proposed payout would be roughly 150% of the COVID-19 stimulus checks. If even a slice of that liquidity finds its way into crypto, it could ramp up speculative demand and potentially…

Insider Brief Researchers developed a digital twin-based facility management system (DT-FMS) to improve lifecycle management of relocatable modular buildings (RMBs). The framework integrates building information modeling, internet of things, and geographic information systems for real-time monitoring, performance analysis, and logistics simulations. A case study on a modular school system in South Korea showed the system improved module distribution, reuse, and overall management efficiency. PRESS RELEASE — Relocatable modular buildings (RMBs) represent a sustainable construction method where buildings are assembled and transported easily using prefabricated modules. However, challenges in management and logistics hinder their wider adoption. In a new study, researchers…

Issuers get 30 days to opt out before any of the 63 NYSE-listed names can trade on the new venue, and tokens must carry dividends and votes. OKXICE LLC, a venture formed by cryptocurrency exchange OKX and NYSE parent company ICE, made a filing on October 4 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a tokenized stock trading exchange. The filing makes OKX one of the first crypto exchanges attempting to offer tokenized US stocks through a regulated exchange under the temporary SEC regulations. OKXICE Seeks Approval for 63 NYSE Stocks According to a report by Bloomberg,…

Big tech overhaulSmart Escrow explainedThe XRP Ledger (XRPL) continues its journey toward the deployment of programmable escrow features as developers just deployed the ninth release of the Smart Escrow Devnet.Mayukha Vadari, a senior software engineer at RippleX and one of the authors of the Smart Escrows proposal, said it’s a “big step toward launch.” She added that they are still in the process of reviewing and testing the Smart Escrows framework before the release.”Programmability on the XRPL keeps moving,” said Vadari. XRP Ledger Takes Big Step Toward Smart Escrow Launch Zcash (ZEC), Bitcoin (BTC), Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Binance Coin (BNB)…

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative has identified blind signing and transaction uncertainty as a user experience risk, and is exploring native transaction assertions as a next step to enforce a transaction’s final outcome, alongside Clear Signing. This post covers why a valid signature doesn’t always guarantee the transaction result you wanted, how native transaction assertions could protect users where today’s defenses stop, and the design choices behind them, with EIP-7906 (Transaction Assertions via State Diff Opcode) as one possible approach. Two ways a signed transaction can go wrong The problem starts with how Ethereum works. It executes exactly…