bank
Hana Bank issues $100M digital bond on Euroclear
Hana Bank issued a $100 million five-year digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI, cutting settlement from three-to-five business days to same day.
transactions
News
XRP Ledger 3.4.0 adds lending and protocol fixes
XRP Ledger 3.4.0 adds LendingProtocolV1_1, closed-ended vaults, cash-basis accounting and a bundled protocol-fix amendment for servers.
Bitcoin
BitBank faces U.S. sanctions over alleged IRGC Bitcoin transfers
U.S. Treasury sanctioned Iranian exchange BitBank, alleging it moved hundreds of millions in Bitcoin to the IRGC through a Zanjani-linked network.
News
XRP Ledger records 3,254 transactions in one ledger
XRP Ledger processed 3,254 transactions in one ledger, led by tiny XRP payments that may have formed a throughput test.
Delisting
XRP Healthcare shuts down after $452K wallet incident
XRP Healthcare is winding down operations and coordinating XRPH and XRPHAI delistings after a wallet incident affected 4,011 accounts.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin daily transactions hit fourth-highest level in history
Bitcoin has processed 893,391 transactions in one day, its fourth-highest daily total on record and a reading above the 99th percentile of its historical range. Bitcoin…
News
Solana triples transaction capacity with v1 upgrade
Solana targets Sept. 9 for Transaction v1, raising its maximum transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes while requiring software updates.
bank
Citi, DBS test instant U.S.-Singapore payments
Citi and DBS completed a weekend tokenized dollar payment between Singapore and New York in minutes using Swift’s blockchain ledger.
Bitcoin
MENA crypto volume triples to an estimated $350 billion
MENA’s estimated annual crypto volume reached $350 billion as Saudi Arabia led growth and the UAE strengthened its regulated market.
Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin reveals Ethereum’s transaction redesign
Vitalik Buterin says separating transaction actions from dependencies could help Ethereum process checks in parallel and lower costs.