Some of the world’s biggest banks have completed real cross-border payments using tokenized money in a test led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), another sign that tokenization is moving into the plumbing of global finance. Project Agorá, which brings together five central banks and 28 commercial lenders including JPMorgan, Citi, UBS, Deutsche Bank

More support has been thrown behind the Clarity Act as lawmakers rush to get the long-awaited bill over the line. This time from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.  The nonprofit — made up of police chiefs from major U.S. cities — said Thursday that it was happy with how the bill addresses financial crime.  Lawmakers

Seoul, South Korea, July 30th, 2026, Chainwire Flowra, the open orderflow auction and validator infrastructure platform for Solana, today announced a collaboration with compliance infrastructure provider Honeypot to integrate sanctions and risk screening directly into the block-building process. The collaboration combines Honeypot’s compliance intelligence with Flowra’s Programmable Block Policy (PBP), enabling institutional validators to define

Originally published in American Banker on 26 May 2026 A recent note from the IMF highlights tokenisation as a structural shift in financial architecture; it reconfigures trust, settlement, and risk management to the benefit of investors and issuers, but in their view also risks amplifying financial instability. To counter these risks, the Note emphasizes the

Major cryptocurrencies are unchanged over 24 hours. But masking the calm are erratic back-and-forth price swings around the Fed meeting that flushed out leveraged futures bets, triggering heavy liquidations. About $286 million in positions were liquidated across 87,294 traders in 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. Longs accounted for $186 million of the damage and shorts

Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis on Wednesday slammed Democrats for holding back the Clarity Act.  Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Lummis, of Wyoming, spoke of the bipartisan work that had gone into the bill — but questioned why it was stalling.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess.

The global internet ecosystem is shifting from a centralized model to something that is decentralized and verifiable. Although it’s a huge industry, there are some strategic bottlenecks that occur, especially in terms of the hardware and the infrastructure that powers the entire ecosystem. To address this evolution and these bottlenecks, Sol SyncUp is co-hosting an

Vitalik Buterin wants Ethereum to stop competing primarily on speed and focus instead on what the Ethereum Foundation calls CROPS, the cypherpunk properties of censorship resistance, openness, privacy and security. The success of that bet will ultimately depend on whether anyone values those properties enough to matter. Against a backdrop of growing competition from rival