Category: Blockchain

Blockchain Lending Platform Figure Hit By Data Breach – Details

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Figure Technology confirmed that some customer files were stolen after an employee was tricked, according to reports. The company says the intrusion happened when an internal account was used to download a limited batch of records. The breach did not stem from a flaw in its blockchain system, but from human error. Reports say the stolen material was later posted online by a hacker collective that claimed responsibility. The group is said to have released about 2.5GB…

UK Launches Blockchain Digital Bond Pilot With HSBC Orion

The United Kingdom’s government has appointed HSBC’s tokenization platform to power a pilot issuance of digital government bonds, known as “gilts,” marking the latest step in its push to modernize sovereign debt markets using blockchain technology. His Majesty’s Treasury has appointed HSBC Orion to facilitate the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot issuance, according to a Thursday announcement. The Treasury published a DIGIT pilot update in July 2025, outlining plans to explore blockchain applications in UK sovereign debt issuance and to support the development of domestic tokenization infrastructure. “We want to…

Why Blockchain TPS Numbers Often Collapse in the Real World

Blockchain transactions per second (TPS) numbers are often treated as a performance gauge, but they don’t tell the full story of whether a network can scale in practice. Carter Feldman, founder of Psy Protocol and a former hacker, told Cointelegraph that TPS figures are often misleading because they ignore how transactions are actually verified and relayed across decentralized systems. “Many pre-mainnet, testnet or isolated benchmarking tests measure TPS with only one node running. At that point, you might as well call Instagram a blockchain that can hit 1 billion TPS…

LayerZero Labs Launching Blockchain Aimed at Institutions

Blockchain company LayerZero Labs is planning to launch its own layer-1 blockchain named “Zero” with backing from ARK Invest and Citadel Securities, and targeting institutional financial markets. Zero will launch in the fall of 2026, according to an announcement on Tuesday from LayerZero Labs, which also created and maintains the cross-chain messaging protocol LayerZero. The firm said it will be scalable to two million transactions per second by leveraging zero-knowledge proofs and zero‑knowledge virtual machine Jolt to bypass “the fundamental replication requirement,” which constrains “blockchains to fewer than 10,000 transactions…

Cardano Founder Says Leios Solves The Blockchain Trilemma

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano is preparing a layer-1 upgrade it says will push mainnet throughput from roughly 10–15 transactions per second to hundreds, while keeping the network’s decentralization and security profile intact. At a Tokyo community event on the Midnight Japan Tour, Input Output’s Michael Smolenski and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson framed Ouroboros Leios as both a scaling step and a broader consensus breakthrough. Smolenski, Cardano Core product manager at Input Output, told attendees Leios is “an upgrade to layer…

Bitcoin To Debut On Ripple’s Blockchain This Month? Here’s What It Means For XRP

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is set to debut on Ripple’s blockchain XRP Ledger (XRPL) this month. Analysts have taken to social media to explain what this milestone really means, highlighting how it automatically expands XRPL’s institutional use case and positions it as a leading network in the crypto space.  Ripple’s XRP Ledger Prepares To Tokenize Bitcoin XRP is starting the week in the spotlight, after crypto market expert Ripple Bull Winkle and other analysts unveiled…