A major experiment led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that tokenization could help fix some of the biggest pain points in cross-border payments, from slow settlement times to costly reconciliation between banks.
Project Agorรก participants now plan to move beyond simulations toward testing real-value transactions involving some currencies and institutions. The Bank of Canada also joined the initiative this week.
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Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Canada aims to grow exports to China by 50% by 2030, as her Chinese counterpart visits Ottawa in a sign of a shifting global order shaped by US tariffs. Wang Yiโs trip to Canada marks his first in a decade and he is set to meet Prime Minister Mark Carney later Friday.
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CME Group is bringing traditional finance closer to cryptoโs 24/7 reality with the launch of continuous XRP, Bitcoin(BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) futures and options trading today, alongside expanded coverage of Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), Stellar (XLM), Avalanche (AVAX), and Sui (SUI).
As a result, the inclusion of major altcoins such as ETH, XRP, ADA, LINK, AVAX, XLM, and SUI is also significant. It reflects a widening institutional focus beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum into sectors tied to payments, interoperability, decentralized finance, and scalable smart contract ecosystems.
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A startup just revealed an AI-powered uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to operate at depths of up to 1,640 feet (500 meters) and come with a 22-pound (10-kilogram) payload. This undersea drone is capable of subsea infrastructure protection, inspections, and intervention. It can operate independently for up to four hours, but can extend indefinitely if tethered to a power source from the surface.
This drone, called the SU10 and built by SYOS, can launch directly from shore, through a crewed mothership, or via a larger uncrewed surface ship. The SU10 could potentially excel at monitoring and protecting undersea cables. If it detects a disruption, it could immediately alert the operator, who can then take over to verify that information.
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Ripple and Stellar have both been included in FXC Intelligenceโs Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies for 2026, a move that reflects how far blockchain-based settlement has progressed within mainstream finance.
FXC Intelligenceโs list sits firmly in the global payments industry and features long-established infrastructure players such as Visa, Barclays, Bank of America, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, SWIFT, PayPal, BNY, and MoneyGram.
Ripple and Stellar appearing alongside them signals a shift in how blockchain networks
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Chinaโs Shenzhou-21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending more than 200 days aboard the Tiangong space station, marking the longest mission ever completed by a Chinese crew. The astronauts had lived and worked in orbit since last year, carrying out scientific experiments and helping test Chinaโs emergency space response systems.
The three-member crew landed at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia at 8:11 pm aboard the Shenzhou-22 return capsule. Medical teams on the ground said the astronauts were in good physical condition after the mission.๐
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Chinaโs Shenzhou-21 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending more than 200 days aboard the Tiangong space station, marking the longest mission ever completed by a Chinese crew. The astronauts had lived and worked in orbit since last year, carrying out scientific experiments and helping test Chinaโs emergency space response systems.
The three-member crew landed at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia at 8:11 pm aboard the Shenzhou-22 return capsule. Medical teams on the ground said the astronauts were in good physical condition after the mission.
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Dutch authorities dismantled a massive botnet that controlled more than 17 million infected devices in one of the largest cybercrime disruptions in recent years.
The operation involved the Dutch National Police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Investigators identified around 200 servers that managed the networkโs infrastructure. Officials said the servers operated from hosting facilities inside the Netherlands.
The investigation started after a cybersecurity researcher alerted the NCSC about suspicious activity tied to a sprawling proxy network. Authorities traced the infrastructure and launched a joint probe with law enforcement agencies.
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Wi-Fi 8 is on the horizon, and TP-Link announced the roadmap for its next-generation platform of Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn) products.
According to the company, the first product to launch will be a standalone Archer 8 Wi-Fi 8 router in October 2026 (tentatively). That will be followed by the company's first Deco 8 mesh router during Q1 2027 and a Roam 8 travel router during Q2 2027. TP-Link hopes to round out its Wi-Fi 8 networking portfolio in Q2 2027 with a line of range extenders and client adapters (likely in both USB and PCIe versions).
Wi-Fi 8 isn't tasked with bringing another huge leap in theoretical speeds for wireless devices, as were promised with older Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 standards. Instead, Wi-Fi 8 focuses on improving real-world performance and range so that devices can more closely approach the theoretical speeds promised in earlier Wi-Fi iterations.
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The U.S. Space Force announced itโs giving SpaceX $4.16 billion as part of a contract to build satellites that will be part of a missile and air defense system that President Trump is calling the โGolden Dome.โ
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The excerpts from a WisdomTree document present XRP and XLM as payment infrastructure assets rather than competitors to Bitcoin.
The report stated that XRP and XLM operate as transaction networks optimized for payments and settlement efficiency. WisdomTree argued that the relevance of these networks is tied more closely to usage levels, payment corridors, and transaction volumes than to scarcity narratives commonly associated with Bitcoin.
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President Donald Trump โremains in excellent health,โ according to the White House doctor, after undergoing a physical earlier this week which included a cognitive test.
A memorandum by the physician, Captain Sean Barbabella, concluded that Trump, who turns 80 next month, โis fully fit to carry out all duties of the commander in chief and head of state.โ He underwent a battery of tests and examinations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.
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โ๏ธ FOR CRYPTO ASSETS LIKE XRP AND XLM, THE CLARITY ACT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CATALYSTโ๏ธ
The attached document stated that when the Market Pulse Q1โ26 report was first published, the Senate path for the legislation remained uncertain. Since then, however, the proposal has reportedly advanced significantly.
For XRP and XLM, both of which are frequently associated with financial infrastructure and international transactions, supporters believe clearer rules could remove uncertainty that has weighed on the sector for years.
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Chinese aerospace researchers have introduced a new system that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs), or AI, to advance satellite-based surveillance. The Air Target Agent System integrates LLMs with collaborative AI agents. It enables autonomous analysis and decision-making from the sky.
"In the future, we will further explore deployment and optimisation strategies in larger-scale, real application scenarios," โ said Wang Lei, Chinese Academy of Sciences
According to a report from the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Chinaโs system represents an explicit effort to boost transparency over its use of AI.
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Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year. This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an AI device startup that Meta acquired at the end of 2025.
The startup made an AI pendant that users could attach to their shirt or wear as a necklace to record their conversations. At the time, Meta said the acquisition would allow it to โaccelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables.โ
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The SEC has sued Texas resident Nathan Fuller, alleging he raised about $12.3 million from roughly 150 investors through a crypto investment scheme built around false claims of AI-powered trading bots, guaranteed returns and insurance protections.
The SEC says he sold passive joint-venture interests in a purported crypto arbitrage trading operation from at least October 2022 through mid-2024.
The SEC charged Fuller with violating the registration and antifraud provisions of federal securities laws and is seeking permanent injunctions, disgorgement, civil penalties and a ban on participating in securities offerings.
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SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest as much as โฌ75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure. The first phase comprises an initial โฌ45 billion investment to deliver 3.1 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031.
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For decades, the computing industry has followed a simple formula: make transistors smaller and pack more of them onto a chip. That strategy fueled the extraordinary rise in computing power predicted by Moore's law. But as components approach atomic scales, engineers are increasingly running into the physical limits of silicon and the effects of quantum mechanics.
A team led by University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering materials science and engineering professor Qing Cao has demonstrated a new method for stacking multiple layers of silicon electronics directly on top of one another.
"For the first time, we have met the thermal budget of monolithic 3D integration using standard single-crystalline silicon and delivered unprecedented performance," โ Cao said.
The researchers report that their process achieves device yields of 98โ100% while using standard single-crystalline silicon, the semiconductor material that underpins modern electronics. The results suggest the technique could eventually be adopted by commercial chip manufacturers.
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