Web3 & NFTs

The Web3 gaming sector is moving away from token-based economics toward games that prioritize player engagement, with stronger projects hiding blockchain infrastructure behind user experience.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said public companies shouldn't automatically control blockchain products referencing their shares, sparking debate with AMC CEO Adam Aron over tokenized stock offerings.

A new startup built on Robinhood Chain is testing a loyalty program that rewards shoppers with tokenized stock from the companies where they spend. Instead of cashback or points, customers can earn stock tokens like $COS...

Apple's latest product event introduced new devices and features with indirect relevance to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, even as the company made no direct announcements about crypto payments or digital asse...

A new foundation model developed jointly by IBM and NASA enables researchers to analyze lunar observations at scale, identifying ice deposits, craters, and volcanic features more efficiently than previous methods.

Postquant Labs has introduced Quantum Echoes, a digital collectible collection created using verifiable measurements from gate-based quantum hardware, demonstrating how quantum processors can provide randomness for oncha...

LayerZero announced Akita, a production-ready polynomial commitment scheme using lattice-based cryptography for quantum-resistant zero-knowledge proving. The scheme reduces proof sizes to 65-80kb and will debut in the Jo...

Dee Goens has assumed the role of CEO at Zora, an onchain social network, replacing Jacob Horne. The transition comes as the platform grapples with a dramatic revenue contraction, falling from $5.64 million in Q3 2025 to...

Apple's release notes for macOS 27 Golden Gate disclose that Siri AI, Image Playground, and related cloud-based features will operate under daily usage limits, a detail buried in the documentation ahead of the September ...

Zora co-founder Dee Goens has assumed the CEO role after co-founder Jacob Horne's departure. The leadership change coincides with the company's $ZORA token launch and comes as Zora has restructured to fewer than 10 emplo...

Jupiter's Gacha trading card product is now natively available in its mobile application, allowing users to purchase and open packs of graded physical cards directly within the app on iOS and Android.

TON Foundation reports that Telegram Web3 mini-apps have surpassed 100 million monthly active users, representing a significant distribution milestone for the blockchain ecosystem integrated with the messaging platform.

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature allowing users to connect up to five external AI agents directly in the app through API keys, though messages with these agents skip the platform's standard end-to-end encryption.

Axis Robotics has launched Axis Sim Dataset V1, featuring over 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories to advance Physical AI research.

Token Terminal's Tokenized Assets dashboard now tracks over 4,600 assets across 310 issuers and 45 blockchains, with a total tracked market cap of approximately $345 billion following the addition of new listings from Ba...

AEON has introduced Agentic Checkout, a system enabling AI agents to autonomously shop and pay across e-commerce platforms using the AEON AI Card, integrated with Shopify, Amazon, and Travala.

Axis Robotics released Axis Sim Dataset V1, comprising over 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks. The dataset has garnered 160,000 downloads on Hugging Face and demonstrated per...

The Bank for International Settlements released a working paper describing a prototype that anchors official statistics on the XRP Ledger. While the system establishes a credible institutional use case, its batching desi...

Israeli-Dutch enterprise AI startup Wonderful closed a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce joining as a new investor. The round values the company at $5 billion, more than double its $2 billio...

The London Stock Exchange and Payward are partnering to tokenize the 100 largest companies listed in London as blockchain-based xStocks, enabling 24/7 trading for investors across 110+ countries.