Category: Blockchain

Together AI Joins Pearl Labs to Cut AI Inference Costs With Blockchain

Timothy Morano May 15, 2026 17:07 Together AI partners with Pearl Research Labs to slash AI inference costs using Proof of Useful Work, generating crypto rewards for GPU workloads. Together AI has teamed up with Pearl Research Labs to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in artificial intelligence: the high cost of inference. The partnership introduces a discounted inference endpoint for the Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl model, leveraging Pearl’s blockchain protocol to turn AI computations into cryptocurrency emissions. Together AI claims this setup reduces…

Tezos Developers Test quantum-Resistant Blockchain Privacy System

Developers behind the Tezos ecosystem launched a testnet prototype for private blockchain payments designed to resist future quantum computing attacks, as concerns grow that advances in quantum technology could eventually compromise existing blockchain privacy systems. The prototype, called TzEL, uses post-quantum cryptography and zk-STARK proofs to shield transaction data and encrypted payment metadata that could otherwise be vulnerable to “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, where encrypted blockchain data collected today is decrypted in the future, according to Tezos. The prototype also uses Tezos’ Data Availability Layer to handle the larger…

Bermuda to Shift Financial Services to Stellar Blockchain

Lawrence Jengar May 12, 2026 22:59 Bermuda plans to use the Stellar blockchain for financial services, aiming to lower transaction fees and become the first fully on-chain economy. The government of Bermuda is taking a significant step toward becoming the world’s first fully on-chain national economy. Speaking at the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum on May 12, Premier David Burt announced that the country will begin transitioning key payment and financial services activities to the Stellar blockchain network. This move builds on a…

Bermuda to Transition ‘Key’ Financial Services to Stellar Blockchain

The government of Bermuda announced that it will begin moving payment and financial-services activities to the Stellar network as part of its plans to be a “fully on-chain national economy.” Speaking at the Bermuda Digital Finance Forum on Tuesday, Premier David Burt said that the island nation’s government, after risk assessments, could accept and invest in digital assets. In addition, Stellar announced that Bermuda would move certain financial services onto its network in response to high transaction fees. “The lack of mobile money applications and reliance on legacy payments infrastructure…

Is BlackRock Sidelining XRP? New Launches Shift Focus To Another Blockchain

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, has picked Ethereum over the XRP Ledger (XRPL) as it plans to launch two tokenized money-market funds. These funds will target stablecoin holders as BlackRock continues to expand its crypto offerings.  BlackRock Picks Ethereum Over XRP Ledger For New Funds According to a Bloomberg report, BlackRock has filed with the U.S. SEC to launch two tokenized money market funds. The first fund will be tokenized shares of its BlackRock Select Treasury-Based…

Istanbul Blockchain Week returns in June 2026 amid surging crypto adoption in Türkiye

Istanbul, Türkiye, April 12, 2026 – Istanbul Blockchain Week, organized by Web3 marketing agency EAK Digital is set to return for its fifth edition on June 2nd-3rd, 2026, at the Hilton Bomonti Hotel. Following last year’s success, this year’s event is gearing up to host prominent leaders and organizations in the industry, with more opportunities to learn at the heart of Eurasia’s key crypto hub. According to a recent report by Chainalysis, Türkiye leads the Middle East and North Africa’s largest cryptocurrency market, recording nearly $200 billion in annual on-chain…

RWA: Real-World Asset Tokenization – Blockchain.News

Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization is the process of bringing tangible and intangible assets—such as real estate, government bonds, gold, and private credit—onto the blockchain. By converting these assets into digital tokens, the industry aims to increase global liquidity, enable fractional ownership, and provide 24/7 settlement for markets that were previously slow and siloed.   The Institutional “On-Chain” Wave By mid-2026, RWA tokenization has moved past the experimental phase and into the mainstream. Large financial institutions like BlackRock and Franklin Templeton have pioneered this shift with tokenized treasury funds (such as…

Understanding BRC-20 Tokens – Blockchain.News

Unlike Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard, which uses smart contracts, BRC-20 tokens use JSON data inscribed onto individual satoshis to manage token supply and movements directly on the Bitcoin ledger.     How BRC-20 Works The BRC-20 standard was created in 2023 as a way to see if Bitcoin could support “altcoins” natively. It leverages the Ordinals protocol but instead of inscribing images or art, it inscribes a small piece of text (a JSON file). This file contains the “instructions” for the token, such as its name (ticker), the maximum supply, and…

What is Celestia (TIA)? – Blockchain.News

Celestia is the first modular blockchain network focused specifically on data availability. By separating the consensus and data availability layers from the execution layer, Celestia allows developers to launch custom blockchains as easily as a smart contract, providing the high-capacity “blobspace” necessary for scalable rollups. The Power of Specialization Traditional blockchains are monolithic, meaning they handle everything—transactions, security, and data storage—on a single layer. This creates a “data bottleneck” that leads to high fees. Celestia changes this by doing only one thing: it ensures that transaction data is published and…

What is a Modular Blockchain?

A modular blockchain is a specialized network that offloads its core functions—execution, settlement, consensus, and data availability—to separate layers. This architecture breaks away from traditional “monolithic” designs to solve the blockchain scalability trilemma.   The Shift from Monolithic to Modular For years, blockchains like Bitcoin and the original Ethereum were monolithic. This means a single node in the network was responsible for everything: processing transactions, reaching agreement on their order, and storing the data. While secure, this creates a bottleneck; as traffic grows, the network slows down and fees skyrocket.…