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The IOTA Foundation is focusing on USDT in order to open up stable liquidity in DeFi, trade finance, and tokenized settlement on the network.
Integration work is in progress, with audits and validation needed because IOTA is non-EVM and Tether standards are strict.
IOTA Foundation has

Billon launched on Polygon, powering Asia’s first leveraged vault for tokenized RWAs with isolated lending pools.
Credio is Billon’s independent risk advisor, setting leverage, collateral, and liquidation rules.
Billon has now launched an on-chain lending protocol built for tokenized

CME will launch futures for Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar, aiming to attract institutional investors despite recent token price drops. CEO Terry Duffy announced plans for a CME Coin on a decentralized network and a tokenized cash project.

Michael Saylor announced Strategy’s Bitcoin Security Program to prepare for post-quantum cryptography options for BTC security early.
Chief Executive Officer, Phong Le, said Strategy’s balance sheet faces stress only if Bitcoin falls to $8,000 and stays near that level for 5–6 years on

Ethereum has unveiled a ‘trillion dollar security dashboard’ that displays the network’s strengths and where it can improve across six security dimensions.
These include user experience and infrastructure, where it ranks highly, as well as incident response and the social layer, where it has

Payments platform Payy Link has launched Payy Network, which it claims to be Ethereum’s first and only privacy-enabled, EVM Layer-2.
With a Privacy Layer, stealth transactions and native zero-knowledge proofs, the new network targets users to whom privacy is critical. 
Ethereum has been on a

XRPL is building regulated DeFi using Credentials, Permissioned Domains and a Permissioned DEX, with XRP as the bridge asset and fee token.
XRPL’s roadmap adds tokenization, settlement, and lending tools for institutional onchain use.
Ripple has provided new infrastructure improvements to se

Ethereum developers aim to start working on Hegota later this year after completing the Glamsterdam protocol upgrade in the first of 2026.
One of the headline changes will be fork-choice inclusion lists, or FOCIL, which would take away the power of block builders to censor any valid

Pi Network has announced that the KYC validator rewards system is under testing and expects the release to be before the end of Q1.
The current testing phase is evaluating validators who conducted identity checks for millions of users on their Pi payouts.
Pi Network has announced progress

Arbitrum has added support for ERC-8004, the Ethereum standard that makes autonomous agents verifiable and trustworthy on-chain.
The network says that builders who pair the new standard with its credibly neutral platform and deep liquidity can quickly grow the agentic economy.
Arbitrum has b

Aave DAO has proposed a narrowing of Aave V3’s footprint to exit blockchains that have contributed little to the network, starting with zkSync, Soneium and Metis.
The three chains have had few transactions and show no sign of future growth but incur costs for Aave in monitoring and

Internet Computer (ICP) founder has published a new paper proposing new tokenomics that would reduce the annual inflation rate by 70% this year.
It proposes two paths: reducing the number of tokens produced via rewards and raising the transaction fees by up to 5x.
Dominic Williams, the found

PATRIOT memecoin fell over 90% after launch while promoters used a 15-foot gold-leaf Trump statue to market it.
Sculptor Alan Cottrill claimed $75,000 for IP rights, and the dispute delayed a planned public unveiling.
A 15-foot statue of former U.S. President Donald Trump, cast in bronze and

Ripple Prime is now linked to Hyperliquid, enabling institutional clients to gain access to onchain derivatives liquidity and risk management.
Hyperliquid’s margin portfolio upgrade, live on the pre-alpha testnet,

Stellar Development Foundation aims to increase network asset value by $1 billion by expanding asset utility across payments, treasury, and finance.
At least 15 new enterprise partners, including global firms and NGOs, will onboard to Stellar, with 5 deploying live finance use cases in 2026.

Billon launched on Polygon, powering Asia’s first leveraged vault for tokenized RWAs with isolated lending pools.
Credio is Billon’s independent risk advisor, setting leverage, collateral, and liquidation rules.
Billon has now launched an on-chain lending protocol built for tokenized

Ethereum has unveiled a ‘trillion dollar security dashboard’ that displays the network’s strengths and where it can improve across six security dimensions.
These include user experience and infrastructure, where it ranks highly, as well as incident response and the social layer, where it has