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  1. ALLCointelegraph

    Visa Outlines Stablecoin Strategy After Q3 Earnings

    During its third-quarter earnings call, Visa outlined its investments across various layers of the stablecoin ecosystem, including blockchain, issuance, wallets, infrastructure, and applications, with notable progress in issuance and application layers. The company mentioned its involvement in the OpenStandard consortium, which plans to issue the OpenUSD stablecoin for global money movement, and indicated that its stablecoin platform will enable partners to settle with stablecoins, support onchain wallet services, and facilitate transfers between fiat and stablecoins, starting with OpenUSD. Additionally, Visa intends to integrate with Pismo to support tokenized deposits for financial institutions and plans to include third-party providers in the future. The company also highlighted artificial intelligence as a long-term growth area, describing stablecoins and AI as complementary technologies, and noted that cross-border volume increased 13% year over year, while processed transactions rose by 10%.

  4. ALLCointelegraph

    AmericanFortress Unveils Quantum-Safe Crypto Wallet Proposal

    AmericanFortress has introduced a cryptographic scheme intended to protect existing cryptocurrency wallets from future quantum attacks without requiring users to move funds or change wallet addresses, as detailed in a technical paper on the Cryptography ePrint Archive. The scheme is designed to be compatible with seed-based hierarchical deterministic wallets used across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, and it leverages zero-knowledge proofs derived from a wallet's original seed phrase instead of replacing the underlying elliptic curve cryptography. The company states that participating nodes would verify these proofs while users continue signing transactions with their current keys. This approach differs from other post-quantum solutions, such as Freedom Factory’s hardware wallet PQ1, which employs dedicated hardware for cryptographic signatures. The development of post-quantum wallet protections reflects broader industry efforts to address potential vulnerabilities posed by future quantum computers, with some projects, including the Ethereum Foundation and Algorand, exploring migration strategies.

  5. ALLCointelegraph

    Galaxy, MARA Expand Texas Footprint with New Land Deals

    Galaxy Digital announced the acquisition of a 500-acre site in McGregor, Texas, where it plans to establish its second AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center, initially equipped with 74 megawatts of power capacity. Separately, MARA Holdings disclosed an agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered site in Matagorda County with access to up to 2 gigawatts of power, intending to develop it for AI, HPC workloads, and Bitcoin mining. These developments are part of a broader trend of infrastructure expansion in Texas, which includes Meta Platforms' plan for a $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso. Texas's large power market, low electricity costs, and suitable land have made it a favorable location for crypto and data infrastructure projects.

  7. ALLCointelegraph

    Kraken Opens Jersey Mike’s IPO to Retail Investors with Tokenized Shares

    Kraken is allowing eligible US customers to request allocations of Jersey Mike’s IPO shares at the IPO price, while users in over 110 countries can request tokenized shares (JMKEx) backed 1:1 by the underlying stock, which will trade on Kraken and other platforms after the IPO closes. The company expects the IPO price to be between $21 and $25 per share, with the shares listed on the NYSE under the ticker JMKE. Allocations are determined by the IPO underwriter and are not guaranteed. The tokenized shares can be transferred across compatible platforms and integrated with decentralized finance applications, extending access beyond traditional brokerage accounts. This approach follows Kraken's previous offerings, such as SpaceX’s IPO, amid growing interest in tokenized equities despite some past challenges with demand and supply.

  14. DEFICointelegraph

    The real reason DeFi projects that survived 2022 crash are shutting down now

    According to Cointelegraph, many DeFi projects that survived previous market crashes are shutting down in 2026 due to shifts in market structure and investor behavior. Data from Artemis suggests that onchain activity has moved into different areas of the crypto economy rather than leaving it, leading to smaller shares for industry leaders and increased competition among protocols. Market participants are now more discerning, focusing on sustainable yield, track records, and curation rather than short-term incentives, which has contributed to the decline of some projects. Industry maturation has also resulted in fewer new protocols being built from scratch, with existing infrastructure being used as a foundation for new products, and investment flowing into infrastructure that facilitates integration with traditional finance.

  15. ETHEREUMCointelegraph

    Ethereum, Solana led crypto hack losses in H1 2026: Blockaid

    According to a report by onchain security platform Blockaid, crypto losses exceeded $1 billion in the first half of 2026, with Ethereum and Solana experiencing the largest thefts, at approximately $332 million and $326 million respectively. Blockaid tracked 212 security incidents during this period, with the most significant single exploit being KelpDAO's $292 million loss. Ethereum suffered primarily from code exploits and vulnerabilities in applications, whereas Solana's losses mostly stemmed from breaches involving compromised keys and signing infrastructure, largely linked to North Korea-linked cyber groups. The report underscores that attackers targeted vulnerabilities in high-value protocols and infrastructure on both networks.

  19. DEFICointelegraph

    1inch moves to unite DeFi liquidity across 13 chains with Aqua

    1inch announced Aqua, a protocol designed to unify liquidity pools across 13 blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Robinhood Chain, and BNB Chain. The protocol allows liquidity providers to authorize multiple strategies against a single wallet, with assets remaining in the wallet until a trade settles, rather than depositing into specific pools. Aqua provides features such as an onchain registry, wallet-backed automated market making, atomic settlement, and position management, aiming to enhance liquidity utilization without multiplying assets. Additionally, the protocol plans to allocate 500,000 USDC and 10 million 1INCH tokens for incentives to promote adoption, pending tokenholder approval.

  23. ETHEREUMCointelegraph

    Lido upgrade aims to slash Ethereum’s validator count by one-third

    Lido has launched the Curated Module v2 upgrade for its liquid staking protocol, which is designed to consolidate validators and introduce new operator rules, aiming to improve validator efficiency and decentralization. The upgrade could potentially reduce Ethereum’s validator count from about 880,000 to roughly 628,000, based on Lido’s projections, representing a decrease of approximately one-third. This change is not expected to affect Ethereum’s transaction fees or gas costs but will impact the consensus layer by reducing the number of validators and messages needed to maintain the network. The upgrade also introduces new accountability measures for node operators, including bonding and penalties, while no action is required from stakers during the upgrade, as it will be handled at the protocol level.

  24. ALLCointelegraph

    Ondo Shifts From Layer-1 Blockchain to Offchain Execution Network

    Ondo Finance has shifted from its initial plan to develop a layer-1 blockchain for institutional real-world asset tokenization to launching an offchain execution network called Ondo Network, as of a Monday announcement. The new system handles trades outside of public blockchains using a secure computing environment known as “enclaves” or Trusted Execution Environments, with trades being recorded on public blockchains without specifying the number or identities of operators involved. The company described Ondo Network as a continuation of its previously announced Ondo Chain, which reached testnet in 2025 and was intended for onchain asset tokenization. Ondo stated that the system may later incorporate more operators, record additional activity on public blockchains, and introduce security tokens, but provided no specific timeline.