The experiment was built on Swift’s earlier successes in connecting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital assets with existing and emerging payment systems. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the global financial messaging network, has unveiled the results of a groundbreaking experiment hindering the widespread adoption of tokenized assets. According to an official announcement on August 31, the company has successfully demonstrated that its infrastructure can seamlessly facilitate the transfer of tokenized value across a variety of public and private blockchains. The messaging platform said the results…
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Swift, Chainlink Tokenization Experiment Successfully Transfers Value Across Multiple Blockchains
“For tokenization to reach its potential, institutions will need to be able to seamlessly connect with the whole financial ecosystem. Our experiments have demonstrated clearly that existing secure and trusted Swift infrastructure can provide that central point of connectivity, removing a huge hurdle in the development of tokenization and unlocking its potential,” Tom Zschach, chief innovation officer at Swift said in a press statement. Source
Friend.Tech Hype Sees Base Surpass Rival Layer 2 Blockchains in Average Transactions per Second
Base, the layer 2 blockchain backed by Coinbase (COIN), averaged a record high of 15.88 transactions per second (TPS) over the past 24-hours, beating Ethereum and rival layer 2 blockchains Arbitrum and Optimism Source
Coinbase (COIN) Buys a Stake in Stablecoin Operator Circle and USDC Adds 6 New Blockchains
“I really do believe PayPal grows the pie for us,” McDonnell said in an interview with CoinDesk. “Crypto is so small today compared to the overall financial world. And, so, getting a lot of people in, whether they come through the PayPal door, or some other door, a lot of them eventually will find their way to other things in crypto, including us at Coinbase.” Source
Blockchains Keep Launching, From Sei (and Its $SEI token) to Shibarium (and Its $SHIB)
SEI HELLO! Sei, a new layer-1 blockchain built using Cosmos technology, launched to the public, and its native SEI token garnered more than $1 billion in trading volume after being listed on crypto exchanges including Gate.io and Binance. The project is notable because it was designed as an application-specific blockchain meant for trading, in contrast to more general-purpose networks like Ethereum that could theoretically support a wider range of use cases. Jay Jog, co-founder of Sei Labs, which led the new blockchain’s development, said that the “solution” to providing faster…
Just-Launched Sei Blockchain’s New Token Plunges 24% After Airdrop
The Sei Foundation, which coordinated the airdrop, posted on X early Thursday that it had tripled the number of eligible wallets for the cross-bridge airdrop to 1.5 million from 500,000, on blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and Solana. The expansion was “due to fervent demand,” according to the post. Source link
Over 66 Fake PayPal USD Tokens Have Popped up on Several Blockchains
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Litecoin Blockchain’s ‘Halving,’ Set for Wednesday, Should Harden Supplies of ‘Digital Silver’
Litecoin, like Bitcoin, uses a “proof-of-work” security mechanism – relying on “miners” who expend computational resources to process transactions and secure the network. During that process, miners win rewards – a combination of variable transaction fees and a predetermined “subsidy” that gets halved approximately every four years. (With Litecoin, they happen every 840,000 transaction blocks, and the average time to generate each block is about 2.5 minutes.) Source
Most Blockchains Cannot Handle AI’s Needs
A completely/fully decentralized blockchain, such as The Internet Computer (ICP), the network I helped build that offers compute power matching or exceeding Web2 cloud servers, will allow AI models to be run entirely inside of smart contracts. This will make the training parameters and inputs that make large language models both open source and tamper-proof. To enable AI integration on the blockchain, we need blockchains capable of processing data at speeds comparable to Web2 clouds, which can only come from full decentralization. Source
ERC-20 inventor discusses origins, new blockchains, BRC-20 and more
In 2018, Ethereum lead developer Fabian Vogelsteller contacted the community for a new standard for smart contracts he created alongside co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Dubbed ERC-20, Vogelsteller, at the time, only wished for input regarding the novel idea. Little did he know that ERC-20 would ignite a wave of initial coin offerings (ICOs) shortly after its inception to become the industry gold standard for issuing tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Just as ERC-20 tokens were gaining traction, Vogelsteller left the Ethereum Foundation the same year to focus on developing a new…