Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon, has integrated the data standards and services of the decentralized oracle network Chainlink into its platform, enabling connectivity between traditional cloud infrastructure and blockchain networks.

 

The integration, according to AWS, aims to address the blockchain oracle problem. Although blockchain networks operate as decentralized ledgers, they are not inherently designed to connect with external data sources, application programming interfaces (APIs), and other blockchains. This limitation presents a significant challenge for developers building digital asset solutions and tokenization products that depend on real-world data for operational efficiency.

 

 

By integrating Chainlink data standards into its marketplace, AWS addresses this connectivity problem, making it possible for blockchain networks to connect to its cloud infrastructure while maintaining the security, compliance, and reliability standards required by financial institutions.

 

The integration brings three Chainlink oracle services into the AWS Marketplace. These include Chainlink Data Feeds, which provide access to decentralized price and market data for asset valuation, assessment, and risk management; Chainlink Data Streams, which deliver fast and secure data that enables on-chain systems to respond to market movements in real time and manage risk dynamically; and Chainlink Proof of Reserve, which provides secure and verifiable on-chain reserve attestations for stablecoins and other tokenized assets.

 

Through this integration, enterprises will be able to build tokenization solutions that leverage AWS cloud capabilities alongside blockchain functionality without needing to independently solve the blockchain oracle problem. Developers will also be able to connect external data sources to blockchain applications through secure oracle networks while using AWS compute resources.

 

Platforms Integrate with Decentralized Oracle Networks

Decentralized oracle networks, which are blockchain-based middleware systems that securely bridge real-world data to blockchain networks using several independent nodes, have increasingly been integrated into platforms in recent times.

 

Just this month, Polymarket integrated Pyth Network into its prediction market platform. Through this integration, Polymarket enabled traders to place predictions on real-life commodities such as gold and silver, as well as U.S. stocks, including NVIDIA and Apple.

 

Allor Network, also this month, integrated the decentralized oracle network Band Protocol into its platform, allowing for the secure delivery of real-world data for its Web3 applications.

 

Chainlink decentralized oracles have also been integrated into traditional finance platforms, including SWIFT and SIX Group, the organization behind Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, the SIX Swiss Exchange, with plans underway to integrate them into the Australian Stock Exchange platform.

 

 

The Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has launched the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio (MSNXX), a new government money market fund that aligns with the stablecoin reserve investment requirements set by the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act).

 

The new stablecoin reserve fund aims to offer payment stablecoin issuers an eligible money market fund option in which they can invest their stablecoin reserves backing their payment stablecoins. 

 

According to Fred McMullen, Co-Head of Global Liquidity at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the reserve fund offers stablecoin issuers investment solutions that allow them to safely and securely invest the reserve assets backing the stablecoins they hold.

 

With this stablecoin reserve fund, stablecoin issuers can safely and efficiently preserve their reserve capital while maintaining daily liquidity and competitive interest yields. Since the fund only invests in cash, Treasury bills, notes, and bonds with maturities of about 93 days or less, stablecoin issuers are not required to manage complex regulatory compliance processes or continuously audit reserves to demonstrate sufficient liquidity backing their stablecoins.

 

Speaking on the launch of the stablecoin reserve fund, Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy for Morgan Stanley, said that the launch of the MSIM Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio is another step toward modernizing Morgan Stanley’s financial infrastructure and is a key step in improving the firm’s institutional client experience.

 

"Creating opportunities for all client segments as markets evolve will make the next phase of finance possible and more broadly accessible," Oldenburg added.

 

Morgan Stanley Expands Its Digital Assets Offerings

The launch of the Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio (MSNXX) is part of Morgan Stanley’s efforts toward expanding its digital asset offerings and comes shortly after Morgan Stanley Investment Management, early this month, launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), a spot exchange-traded product that tracks the price performance of Bitcoin.

 

Upon launching on the New York Stock Exchange, the MSBT fund drew approximately $34 million in net inflows on its first day, processing more than 1.6 million shares and significantly outperforming older exchange-traded funds.

 

Eric Balchunas, one of Bloomberg’s notable ETF analysts, ranked it in the top 1 percent of all ETF launches, describing it as “arguably the biggest bitcoin ETF launch in the history of the spot bitcoin ETF market.” Balchunas also projects that the MSBT fund will reach $5 billion in assets under management within the next year.

 

 

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, specifically the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has frozen $344 million in USDT allegedly linked to Iran.

 

In a Friday post on X, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the crypto seizure. The move, according to Bessent, is part of the U.S. effort to systematically degrade Tehran’s ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds.

 

 

“We will follow the money that Tehran is desperately attempting to move outside of the country and target all financial lifelines tied to the regime,” Bessent wrote.

 

While the announcement from Bessent confirmed the freeze and the imposition of sanctions on the owners of the wallets involved, the technical action of the freeze itself was carried out by stablecoin issuer Tether. The stablecoin issuer had earlier stated that it was supporting OFAC and law enforcement agencies in freezing the $344 million linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Hezbollah militant group.

 

Following the announcement, Tether blacklisted two specific wallet addresses on the Tron blockchain, holding $213 million and $131 million in USDT respectively. This move by the U.S. Department of the Treasury follows a similar action in February, when OFAC sanctioned more than 30 individuals and entities allegedly linked to Iran’s oil shipping network.

 

Tether Expands Blockchain Development Efforts

Tether has consistently pushed forward with innovative blockchain developments. Just this month, it launched tether.wallet, its self custodial wallet that brings Tether’s global financial infrastructure within reach of those who have been left unbanked by the traditional financial system.

 

In an effort to enhance the utility of its stablecoins, Tether last month invested 5.2 million dollars into Ark Labs, supporting the building of Arkade, an infrastructure layer that brings programmable, instant transactions directly to the Bitcoin network. Through the Arkade network being built by Arkade Labs, we might see the introduction of stablecoins, including USDT, into Bitcoin.

 

Tether, for the first time, expanded USAT, its US regulated stablecoin, to the Celo blockchain. Since Celo is an Ethereum Layer 2 network optimized for payments, the expansion of USAT to Celo enabled the integration of USAT into Opera MiniPay and Google Cloud infrastructure.

 

 

MetaMask cofounder Dan Finlay has left Consensys after spending about a decade working with the self-custodial wallet firm.

 

Finlay announced his departure from Consensys in a Thursday post on X, citing burnout and the need to spend more time with his family. He also wished the Consensys team well, saying the team has an amazing road ahead of them.

 

 

Since joining Consensys in 2016, Dan Finlay, alongside cofounder Aaron Davis, worked hand in hand on the development of MetaMask, Consensys’s self-custodial wallet. Finlay played an instrumental role in shaping MetaMask, transforming it from a browser-based Ethereum wallet into one of the mainstream crypto wallets, enabling access to decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and many other on-chain services.

 

Finlay was also key in the design and creation of some of MetaMask’s technical features, including Snaps, a MetaMask feature that allows third-party developers to safely extend MetaMask’s capabilities. Some of the capabilities added through Snaps include the ability to explore other blockchains such as Bitcoin, Solana, and Cosmos, as well as improved security features and the ability to receive warnings about malicious transactions occurring within a MetaMask wallet.

 

On his last day at Consensys, Finlay highlighted the launch of Advanced Permissions, ERC-7715, stating that he was over the moon regarding its launch. Advanced Permissions is a feature that allows decentralized applications to request pre-approved permissions from a MetaMask user to execute transactions on their behalf.

 

With this Advanced Permissions ERC-7715 feature, a user can activate or grant a particular request in their MetaMask wallet without having to manually approve it repeatedly.

 

Voluntary Exits Not Uncommon Among Crypto Founders

Like Dan Finlay, it is not uncommon to see crypto founders voluntarily step away from work to focus on other important aspects of life, especially their families.

 

On the same day Finlay announced his exit from ConsenSys, Bitcoin advocate and podcaster Preston Pysh announced that he was stepping away from public work and social media to focus on his wife and children.

 

Earlier this month, Ethereum researcher Josh Stark announced his departure from the Ethereum Foundation after spending five years there. According to an X post, Stark said he was stepping away from work to focus more on his family and friends.

 

 

BitMEX, a derivatives-focused cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered with Zodia Custody, an institutional-first digital assets custody firm, to enable off-exchange trading and secure asset custody for BitMEX’s clients.

 

The partnership, announced this week, will see the integration of Zodia Custody’s Interchange platform into BitMEX. Interchange is an off-venue settlement solution that allows institutional and professional clients to trade directly on BitMEX while keeping their digital assets securely held off-exchange with Zodia Custody.

 

 

This partnership, according to Stephan Lutz, BitMEX CEO, draws on lessons learned from past market failures, especially the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the 1.4 billion dollar Bybit hack. These events, Lutz said, exposed the risks associated with unsegregated or compromised exchange-held funds and are key examples of how custody failures or security threats can put client funds at risk.

 

Through this partnership and the integration of the Interchange platform, BitMEX clients, especially institutional clients that often trade with large amounts of money, do not have to worry about the safety of their funds on the exchange in the event of a hack, as their digital assets are secured in Zodia Custody’s cold, segregated storage wallets.

 

The partnership also serves to bridge the gap between institutional-grade security and crypto-native liquidity, allowing BitMEX’s professional and institutional clients to access BitMEX’s deep crypto derivatives liquidity while eliminating the need to pre-fund the exchange before trading.

 

The Growing Need for Security on Crypto Exchanges

Security has been one of the major challenges faced by cryptocurrency platforms over the years. In 2025, over $4 billion was stolen from crypto platforms. This represents a 34 percent increase compared with 2024, when losses stood at $2.2 billion. Unfortunately, the recovery rate of stolen crypto funds remains very low, at less than 8 percent. This is even worse for centralized exchanges, which are often high value targets.

 

By integrating Zodia Custody’s interchange platform into its crypto infrastructure and allowing clients’ digital assets to be stored in Zodia Custody’s segregated vaults, BitMEX eliminates the trade offs institutional clients face when choosing between derivatives trading access and the safety of their assets. Since Zodia handles the custody of clients’ assets, BitMEX faces minimal damage in the event of a security breach or hack. 

 

 

Singapore-based fintech company Nium has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to integrate the USDC stablecoin into its global payment network.

 

The integration, announced this week, leverages Coinbase’s custody, liquidity, and wallet infrastructure, allowing Nium’s clients and users to perform cross-border payments in USDC and settle transactions in either stablecoins or local currencies.

 

 

As Coinbase will provide the wallet infrastructure, Nium clients will be able to fund accounts in USDC within a Coinbase wallet embedded in the Nium platform. The USDC can then be converted to fiat currency by Coinbase and paid out through Nium, all within a single workflow on the platform.

 

Through this partnership, Nium will enable end-to-end stablecoin-to-fiat payment flows that allow users to send, receive, and convert stablecoins into fiat across more than 190 countries within a single platform.

 

Speaking about the partnership, Prajit Nanu, CEO of Nium, said it is aimed at providing clients with a more efficient way to move and manage money globally. He added that the collaboration improves capital efficiency while supporting a future in which stablecoins play a central role in Nium’s payment stack.

 

About Nium 

Based in Singapore, Nium is a cross-border payments company that allows users, including retail and institutional clients, to perform cross-border remittances and transactions.

 

Apart from being a core traditional finance company, Nium has in the past made several pro-crypto moves, especially in the stablecoin space.

 

In March of this year, it launched a stablecoin card issuance platform that allows companies holding stablecoins to issue spending cards on both the Visa and Mastercard networks through a single API integration on its platform. To enable USDC settlements on its platform, Nium last year participated in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, which eventually made it possible for the company to settle cross-border transactions using stablecoins across different supported blockchain networks.

 

Like Nium, several other Singapore-based traditional finance companies have taken pro-crypto steps in recent times, integrating blockchain technology and crypto support into their platforms. Notable among them is DBS Bank, Singapore’s largest bank, which launched the DBS Digital Exchange, a platform for asset tokenization, crypto trading, and custody.

 

Cryptocurrency exchanges, including Kraken, OKX, Binance, and Bybit, have also partnered with traditional finance institutions to help bridge the gap between traditional finance and decentralized finance.

 

 

Prediction market platform Polymarket is reportedly in talks with investors to raise 400 million dollars. If successful, this would place the prediction market company at a valuation of 15 billion dollars, up from its current $9 billion.

 

While there is still no official confirmation from Polymarket regarding this news, the fundraising is expected to drive Polymarket’s growing influence in the expanding prediction market sector, giving it a competitive advantage over its competitors, particularly Kalshi.

 

This move comes a few weeks after Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), invested 600 million dollars into Polymarket. This followed an earlier investment of 1 billion dollars into the prediction market company a few months prior.

 

So far, Polymarket has raised over $2 billion across several fundraising rounds from venture capital firms and investors, including Intercontinental Exchange, Blockchain Capital, Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, 1789 Capital, Ethereum co founder Vitalik Buterin, Aave founder Stani Kulechov, among several other investors.

 

Prediction Market Firms Grapple With Regulatory Uncertainty

Despite how remarkable the global prediction market sector has grown in recent times, prediction market companies still face several regulatory challenges, ranging from state level lawsuits to nationwide bans.

 

Several U.S. states, including New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Arizona, have taken strict regulatory action against prediction market companies, with many state regulators alleging that these companies offer illegal sports event contracts. At least 12 states in the U.S. have filed civil lawsuits against prediction market companies.

 

Outside the U.S., prediction market companies have also faced strict regulatory scrutiny. Just this year alone, about four countries in Europe, Portugal, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and Hungary, have imposed nationwide bans on Polymarket’s activities.

 

However, despite this harsh regulatory landscape, the global prediction market continues to grow. In the most recent quarter, global trading volume across prediction market companies exceeded $ 26 billion, a 90 percent increase from the previous quarter. This volume, according to the global equity research firm Bernstein, is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030.

 

 

Coinbase dropped a new public discovery tool aimed at making it easier for both people and AI agents to find and use paid online services that settle instantly with crypto micropayments.

 

The platform went live today at agentic.market and works as an open directory for thousands of services built on the x402 protocol. You can jump in and browse immediately without login, API keys, nothing like that required. It pulls fresh data straight from real payments moving through Coinbase’s Developer Platform, so you see live pricing, how much volume each service is actually getting, how many different users are paying, and the latest activity timestamps. This release picks up right where Coinbase left off with its Agentic Wallets back in February, which first let AI agents hold their own funds and spend them independently. 

 

The x402 Bazaar is where paid online services show up once they’re set up with the right discovery info and start receiving payments, so you don’t have to submit a separate listing. It acts as x402’s backend index, tracking what’s available, how it’s priced, and what’s happening on-chain, while Agentic.Market turns that into a public marketplace where people and AI agents can easily search, compare, and plug these services into their workflows. This includes things like AI model runs, data and analytics feeds, media tools for images and video, search and scraping services, social and messaging integrations, core infrastructure like storage and compute, and even trading tools for moving assets around. Coinbase says the protocol is built so both humans and machines can pay programmatically for things like paid APIs, pay‑per‑call tools, and agents buying access at runtime, so the whole setup is really about making it simple.

 

 

Coinbase noted that the x402 protocol already has more than 165 million transactions and moved roughly 50 million dollars in volume, with over 480,000 agents actively taking part across around 100,000 services. The directory puts the busiest and most reliable ones front and center, which helps both humans and machines figure out what is actually getting real traction day to day. 

 

This is about smoothing out the little daily frictions that slow down building, and rolling out useful agents that can move naturally between on-chain steps like shifting assets or chasing better yields and off-chain jobs like running inference or grabbing fresh data, all paid for through in stablecoins. Teams handling internal automation or tools that face customers now have one, clean spot with data to check out providers without digging through random docs or dealing with payment mismatches. Work in DeFi or tokenization gets clearer ways to add agent driven logic that works natively instead of forcing awkward bridges or extra steps.

 

This is still early, so real momentum will come down to more services jumping on the x402 standard and agents getting better at handling payment details and safety checks on their own. Even with that, the way it indexes itself automatically and stays completely open shows Coinbase leaning toward letting the ecosystem expand through actual use rather than any kind of control. Groups that start implementing x402 features into their agents today could end up in a much better spot, as these machine-to-machine payments become normal.

 

 

Aleo is revolutionizing zero-knowledge technology use-cases well beyond the whitepaper and it could help benefit millions. The privacy-focused Layer-1 blockchain announced this week that it has launched a pilot program in Colombia designed to deliver stablecoin aid to displaced communities without ever exposing their personal data. It is, by most measures, one of the more ambitious real-world tests of privacy-preserving blockchain technology to date.

 

The project was developed alongside Mercy Corps, market-making firm GSR and its affiliated Foundation GSR, and implementation partner Humanity Link. Together, they have built a system that runs on Aleo's programmable blockchain and distributes funds using USDCx, a privacy-enabled version of USDC developed in collaboration with Circle. The stablecoin launched on mainnet in January 2026, following a testnet rollout in late 2025.

 

Why Colombia, and Why Now

Colombia is not a random choice. Mercy Corps has delivered humanitarian assistance to more than 514,000 people in the country since 2019, focusing on Venezuelan refugees, Colombian returnees, and host communities stretched thin by years of conflict and economic strain. Over 30 percent of Colombia's population lacks sufficient income to cover basic needs like food and housing. In that context, the friction involved in traditional aid pipelines, identity registration, exposure of personal data, and the risk of retaliation that can follow, is not just inefficient. It can be dangerous.

 

That is the problem Aleo's system is designed to solve. Using zero-knowledge proofs, the network can verify whether someone is eligible to receive aid without revealing who they are. Beneficiaries register through WhatsApp and collect funds using a QR code. There is no crypto wallet setup, no public transaction history, and no permanent record of their identity tied to a blockchain ledger. For populations already navigating difficult circumstances, that distinction matters.

 

The Role of USDCx

Central to the Colombia pilot is USDCx, which Circle and Aleo positioned from the start as a stablecoin built for real-world institutional use. Unlike privacy coins such as Zcash or Monero, which offer anonymity but carry significant volatility and regulatory risk, USDCx is pegged to the US dollar and includes what Circle calls a configurable compliance layer. That means every transaction carries a compliance record accessible to Circle in response to legitimate law enforcement requests, while remaining opaque to outside observers.

 

Aleo co-founder Howard Wu described the broader design logic plainly: transparent blockchains force users to leak financial data every time they transact. USDCx is meant to offer a middle path, the settlement speed and global reach of blockchain infrastructure, with the confidentiality that institutions and vulnerable populations alike tend to require.

 

Pilots Expanding Beyond Colombia

The Colombia rollout is not moving along by itself. A separate pilot is already underway with the Danish Refugee Council, and a second deployment is expected shortly through GOAL Global, an international humanitarian response agency. Both expand the geographic and organizational footprint of what Aleo and its partners are positioning as a scalable, privacy-first model for humanitarian cash transfers.

 

This is a big moment for the aid sector. Blockchain-based cash transfer programs have been discussed for years, but uptake has remained slow, partly because public ledgers create their own transparency problems. Donor organizations and beneficiaries both have legitimate reasons to want transaction data shielded. Aleo's argument is that zero-knowledge infrastructure finally makes that possible without sacrificing auditability or regulatory compliance.

 

ZK Tech Moves Off the Whitepaper

Aleo is a Layer-1 blockchain built with privacy as a native feature rather than a bolt-on. Its architecture separates off-chain computation, where zero-knowledge proofs are generated, from on-chain verification, where validators confirm correctness without seeing the underlying data. The network's native programming language, Leo, is designed to abstract away the cryptographic complexity for developers building privacy-preserving applications.

 

The project raised a $200 million Series B in 2022 at a $1.45 billion valuation, backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. It launched its mainnet in September 2024. The Colombia pilot represents something of a maturation moment: a transition from infrastructure buildout toward use cases that can be pointed to in the real world.

 

Whether this particular deployment scales is an open question. But the architecture being tested here, private stablecoin transfers routed through a zero-knowledge network, accessed via smartphone messaging apps, targeted at populations with no existing crypto infrastructure, is an unusual combination. If it holds up in Colombia, the implications stretch well beyond the country's borders and could successfully benefit under-represented communities across the globe.

 

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has rolled out crypto-backed loans for users in the United Kingdom, allowing users to borrow USDC against Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Coinbase Wrapped Staked Ether (cbETH) holdings.

 

The launch, announced this Monday, is part of Coinbase’s overall efforts to build a leading financial app in the UK that allows users to invest, manage, and grow their money.

 

 

The loans will be issued through Morpho, a decentralized finance lending protocol on Base, and according to Coinbase, users will be able to borrow up to $5 million in USDC, depending on the amount of Bitcoin and other eligible assets they hold as collateral. Coinbase says the interest rates will vary, depending on market conditions on Base, and that these rates will be set by Morpho.

 

It is also important to note that while there is no fixed repayment schedule for the borrowed loans, borrowers face liquidation risk if the loan-to-value ratio exceeds specific thresholds that will be set by Coinbase.

 

The crypto-backed loans can be accessed through the Coinbase app, where users can choose the amount of USDC they want to borrow and their preferred collateral asset. Once this is done, the pledged collateral will be transferred on-chain to a Morpho smart contract, and the USDC loans will be automatically disbursed to the user’s Coinbase account, which can then be converted to British pounds (GBP).

 

Coinbase Expands Its Crypto Efforts

Coinbase is one of the cryptocurrency exchanges leading development at the intersection of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI).

 

In an X post last weekend, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced that the exchange was testing and integrating two AI agents into Slack and email. These AI agents will serve as virtual workers, able to perform on-chain actions such as holding funds, spending and sending money, trading, and earning yield.

 

This recent development comes shortly after Coinbase launched the x402 Foundation, designed to enhance the use of its x402 protocol as a standard payment protocol for internet native payments.

 

To achieve its “Everything Exchange” goal, Coinbase made a number of significant acquisitions last year, including the acquisition of the Deribit exchange and Echo. The exchange has also rolled out stock and ETF trading in-app for all eligible users, with its most recent rollout in Canada.

 

 

Global crypto asset manager Bitwise Asset Management has launched BAVA, a spot Avalanche Exchange-Traded Product (ETP) that provides investors with exposure to the Avalanche (AVAX) token, allowing them to earn yield without directly holding it.

 

 

Since the Avalanche network allows investors to earn rewards of up to 5.4% per year for staking AVAX, Bitwise, through its in-house staking division, Bitwise Onchain Solutions, will stake 70% of its AVAX holdings in the BAVA ETP, while the remaining 30% will be kept as a liquidity reserve to meet redemptions and operational needs.

 

Although BAVA allows investors to gain exposure to Avalanche’s AVAX, it is important to note that this exchange-traded product is not suitable for all investors. It is subject to a high degree of risk, is highly volatile, and could result in significant losses. Investors, therefore, need to exercise caution when investing in BAVA.

 

How BAVA Performed

Starting with initial assets under management of $2.5 million and a net asset value of approximately $25 per share, the BAVA crypto ETP recorded a trading volume of over $400,000 within the first 90 minutes of its launch.

 

Within its first day of trading, BAVA closed at $25.50, marking a 2 percent increase from its launch price and reaching $26. According to TradingView, BAVA is currently trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $26.30. Its assets under management have also grown from the initial $2.5 million to approximately $13 million to $19 million within days of its launch, while AVAX, the native cryptocurrency of the Avalanche network, is currently trading at $9.19, according to CoinGecko.

 

The launch of the spot AVAX ETP comes a few days after Bitwise launched the Hyperliquid Staking Exchange-Traded Product, BHYP, on Deutsche Börse Xetra in Europe. In January, the asset manager launched CLNK, a Chainlink exchange-traded fund that provides exposure to LINK, the native cryptocurrency of the Chainlink oracle network.

 

The Bitwise Proficio Currency Debasement fund, an exchange-traded fund that provides exposure to Bitcoin, gold, miners, and precious metals, was also launched by the asset manager earlier this year.

 

About the Avalanche Network

The Avalanche network is a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain designed for speed, scalability, and customization. It uses its own Avalanche, also known as Snow, consensus mechanism that allows a validator to select a small random subset of other validators to validate blockchain transactions.

 

Due to its high performance, several top-tier blockchain protocols have built on the Avalanche network, including the decentralized finance lending protocol Aave and the decentralized exchange WOOFi. Other tokenization institutions, such as Franklin Templeton, VanEck, and Securitize, have also built tokenized products on the Avalanche blockchain.

 

 

Wrapped XRP (wXRP) is now live on Solana, issued by regulated custodian Hex Trust and bridged securely via LayerZero, backed 1:1 of XRP that lets users trade, provide liquidity, lend, and earn yield across Solana’s DeFi apps. 

 

 

This is the latest piece of a multi-chain rollout that Hex Trust detailed back in December 2025, as the same wXRP infrastructure is already operating on Ethereum, Optimism, and HyperEVM, giving XRP holders regulated on-ramps into deeper liquidity pools wherever DeFi happens. RippleX SVP Markus Infanger, noted the move addresses growing demand to use XRP across the wider crypto ecosystem and it aligns with Ripple’s own RLUSD stablecoin work. LayerZero handles the bridging that has captured the majority of reliable cross-chain volume after earlier bridge exploits elsewhere.

 

Major Solana based players such as Ondo Finance which has expanded tokenized treasury and equity products onto the network, and Superstate whose leadership has publicly endorsed Solana as one of only two viable chains for RWAs work alongside Ethereum now operate in a way where they can integrate wXRP straight into liquidity pools lending markets and atomic settlement flows. 

 

At the same time, big institutions like BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are building on Solana with their own tokenized market funds. BlackRock brought its BUIDL fund  which holds cash and Treasuries to deliver dollar yields to Solana, giving qualified investors fast, low-cost access to on-chain returns. Franklin Templeton did the same with its on-chain US Government Money Market Fund. WisdomTree brought its tokenized funds covering money markets, stocks, bonds, alternatives, and balanced portfolios, VanEck launched its low-fee Treasury bill fund VBILL, Hamilton Lane added tokenized access to private infrastructure and secondary funds, and Apollo made its ACRED private credit product available as collateral in protocols like Morpho. This lets firms keep their traditional compliance and custody setups intact while plugging these assets straight into Solana, so institutions can easily use wXRP for liquidity, collateral, or quick settlements.

 

Solana has been scaling RWA activity with tokenized ecosystems on-chain surpassing two billion dollars in value and protocols like Kamino handling over one billion dollars in real world asset deposits across isolated lending markets, where institutions borrow against assets and earn yield from cash flows. Ripple has targeted these kinds of entities through its custody solutions and partnerships with banks, including BBVA, DBS Bank, DZ Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, and more recently Kyobo Life Insurance, for on-chain settlement and staking capabilities that now extend naturally to Solana networks.

 

There’s support across Phantom wallet, Jupiter Exchange, Meteora, and Titan Exchange, ensures that the infrastructure is ready for immediate use, which removes one of the frictions that has kept payment assets like XRP siloed from builders who prefer Solana for its sub-cent fees and near instant finality.