TODAY: Chainlink announced it is working to enable financial institutions to connect to @swiftcommunity’s blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform.
Swift moves the equivalent of the world's GDP roughly every three days ⬇️
1. Institutional risk controls: Add an independent layer of verification on top of CCIP by deploying custom Cross-Chain Verifiers (CCVs) directly within Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, or by utilizing enterprise-grade operators like Infosys and Nethermind.
2. Flexible settlement: Asset issuers get direct control over execution speed and parameters to run fast paths for high-frequency flows, or full finality and time-delayed approvals for high-value settlement.
3. Always-on compliance functionality: Native integration with Chainlink ACE embeds policy controls directly into cross-chain transfers, enforcing issuer-defined KYC, AML, sanctions screening, allowlists, exposure limits, and more.
Interoperability used to mean choosing between insecure legacy bridges that have been exploited for $3.3B+ or over half a year of custom engineering work per chain.
CCIP 2.0 marks a new era as the only standard designed to meet the security, compliance, & speed requirements of the world's largest financial institutions.
xStocks everywhere, powered by @Chainlink.
With CCIP 2.0, xStocks can move across chains and plug into more markets and liquidity through a common interoperability standard and unlock greater utility for tokenized equities onchain.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Bitwise’s $NEAR ETF gets the green light to list on NYSE Arca under the ticker $NRR.
Bitwise raises its NEAR base-case price target to $155, while its bull-case target stands at $562.
Cardano Native Tokens (CNTs) will be supported on @FireblocksHQ.
That means every exchange, bank, and fintech using Fireblocks will be able to custody, send, and receive CNTs with the same policy controls they already use for every other asset.
Special thanks to @emurgo_io and the Pentad as well as @IagonOfficial for helping on this journey.
JUST IN: Cardano is now part of the official x402 SDK.
Any app or AI agent can pay for an API call in $ADA or any CNT over a web request. No account, no API key, no checkout page.
Every service already on x402 can switch Cardano on.
The agent economy just got a Cardano rail.
🚨 TODAY: Sam Altman's World launches World Money, a stablecoin-powered finance app rolling out in 150+ countries for holding, earning, trading and sending digital assets.
Arc Mainnet is live.
Arc launches as the Economic OS for the internet: an open platform for global markets, real-time value movement, tokenized assets, and agentic economic activity.
Arc is more than a blockchain.
It launches as a full-stack financial platform with assets, applications, interoperability, developer infrastructure, and Circle platform services live from day one.
Arc delivers USDC as native gas, deterministic sub-second finality, EVM compatibility, and institutional validators.
It integrates with Arc Studio, App Kits, Arc Portal, Circle Agent Stack, CCTP, Gateway, CPN, and StableFX.
A complete economic platform at genesis.
Arc launches with infrastructure for:
→ Agentic economic workflows
→ Lending and borrowing
→ Trading and liquidity
→ Onchain FX
→ Payments and settlement
→ Tokenized assets
→ Exchanges, wallets, custody, compliance, data, and developer tooling
190+ institutional and ecosystem builders are building across Arc.
The ARC token has been minted.
Circle is the first publicly traded company to mint a network token for a new blockchain.
This is a technical milestone in the Arc roadmap as the network explores a future transition from Proof of Authority toward Proof of Stake.
The minting of ARC does not represent any commitment to a public launch of the token.
ARC is not live, tradeable, available for public use, or active for staking, governance, fees, or utility. The Arc network remains Proof of Authority today. Future ARC functionality and activation remain subject to change.
Official ARC contract: https://t.co/NldipcFjQO
Arc Mainnet is live.
Built for programmable money, global markets, and agentic economic activity, Arc brings stablecoin-native infrastructure to builders and institutions from day one.
Explore what’s live on Arc: https://t.co/2dpsrq6vW3
Dear CoinEx Community,
Today, I am announcing that CoinEx will cease operations and begin an orderly wind-down.
First, what matters most: your assets are safe. CoinEx’s reserve ratio exceeds 100%, and every user asset is fully backed and available for withdrawal. Withdrawals are open starting today and will remain open until December 22, 2026. Certain tokens may take slightly longer to process while funds are moved between cold and hot wallets, but every withdrawal request within the withdrawal period will be honored and processed.
CoinEx officially went live on December 22, 2017. Exactly nine years later, on December 22, 2026, the platform will be formally closed. Nine years is a long time in crypto. Together, we lived through multiple bull and bear cycles, witnessed the rise and fall of countless projects, and watched many of our peers leave the market in one form or another.
After much reflection, I have come to accept a hard truth. CoinEx did not become one of the industry’s leading exchanges, and the security and compliance risks of running a crypto exchange have become increasingly difficult to contain. Revenues can decline, responsibility does not. Carrying unlimited risk for limited revenue is no longer a rational choice. That said, CoinEx has survived nine years in one of the most volatile and unforgiving industries, weathered every storm, and is leaving intact, and with dignity. We may not have won the race, but we are finishing with honor.
On CET: CoinEx will buy back CET at its initial listing price of 0.005 USDT per token, with no cap on quantity. To every CET holder who has supported us over the years, thank you. CET represents your belief in CoinEx and, for many of you, your belief in me personally. I am sorry that we were not able to create the long-term value we once hoped CET would deliver. The least we can do now is bring that chapter to a responsible conclusion.
I did seriously consider selling CoinEx. Ultimately, I decided against it. Users entrusted their assets to CoinEx because they trusted the platform and, in many cases, trusted me personally. I did not feel that handing the platform and that trust to a new owner was the right way to end this journey. A clean ending is the right ending.
Nine years, millions of users. I did not turn CoinEx into the “great” exchange I once hoped it would become. But I can give it a decent ending: making sure users can withdraw their assets in full, giving my employees a dignified farewell, and providing CET holders with a clear and responsible conclusion. This is the best ending I can give CoinEx.
To everyone who traded with us, built with us, and stood by us through the hardest days of this market, thank you. It has been a privilege to walk this road with you.
To the CoinEx team, thank you for building this platform with me, for carrying it across every cycle, and now for seeing it through to the very last day.
For detailed arrangements, please refer to the official announcement: https://t.co/E27wSecpug
Thank you all for nine years of trust.
Haipo Yang
Sept 15, 2026
🤝@SKhynix and @NVIDIA are taking their AI memory partnership to the next level.
As part of a $500B+ strategic partnership, SK hynix will advance next-generation AI memory, including #HBM, to meet growing global AI demand.
🔗https://t.co/hjptEMz2zK
#SKhynix#NVIDIA#AIMemory