Binance has launched Digital Resilience Lab in Ukraine with up to $500,000 in grants, offering funding, mentoring, and ecosystem access for students, veterans, and entrepreneurs building Web3 solutions.
Terra Research proposes deploying $139 million worth of UST across five DeFi protocols on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon to boost cross-chain liquidity. The community is mostly supportive, despite recent criticism from MakerDAO’s co-founder who called UST a 'solid Ponzi'.
ARO Network announces $5M strategic funding co-led by NoLimit Holdings and an Asian data center operator. The project builds a decentralized 'Agentic Edge' network, placing AI agents in users' homes for privacy and low latency. Over 1.18M active nodes; Testnet Sprint 2 launched.
Swiss fintech Tangem announced Tangem Pay, a Visa card with a cold wallet chip enabling self-custodial crypto spending. Users authorize transactions via smart contracts without intermediaries, compatible with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and 130M+ merchants. Private keys remain offline, fully controlled by the cardholder.
Toss (Viva Republica) is developing a proprietary L1 blockchain mainnet and native cryptocurrency, filing 24 won-pegged stablecoin trademarks (including 'TOSSKRW'), to integrate payments, banking, and securities. With 30 million users, the firm plans a 2026 US IPO.
Crypto custody firm Fireblocks unveils a Web3 services suite offering institutional-grade access to liquidity, NFT minting, and blockchain game asset management across 35 chains, onboarding partners like Animoca Brands and MoonPay.
The Central Bank of the UAE grants approval to AED Stablecoin LLC to issue AE Coin, the first regulated stablecoin in the country. Fully backed by the Dirham, it enables fast, low-cost transactions under central bank oversight.
Zoomex has launched its RWA-themed SpaceX Token and a $300,000 airdrop campaign, with separate reward pools for retail and VIP users as the platform expands its push into tokenized real-world assets.
