🔎 It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @WalrusProtocol as verifiable storage becomes an increasingly important part of AI and Web3 infrastructure? 🧠 @Matterhorn is using Walrus Memory to preserve AI agents’ project context, including documentation, audit findings and deployment history, across sessions and teams. This means less repeated work and a verifiable record of the information agents rely on. 🛠️ Walrus has also launched Console, giving developers one place to manage files and agent memory, connect AI tools like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through MCP or APIs, and protect data with encryption and on-chain verification. New users can get started with 5GB free. 📈 Market interest has picked up too. Since Console’s launch on 7 October, $WAL has risen from around $0.037 to $0.053, while its market cap stands at roughly $138M, according to CoinGecko. These figures add market context to Walrus’s recent product developments, though they don’t establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship. #Walrus #ChainWatch #AI #Web3 #DecentralisedStorage

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments highlight tighter crypto regulation, growing institutional use of stablecoins, expanded access to regulated crypto trading, and new protections against trading exploits: 🇰🇷 South Korea has approved measures to block domestic access to 27 websites operated by unregistered crypto exchanges and virtual asset service providers, including KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex and Bitrue. The restrictions extend existing enforcement against unregistered platforms beyond mobile apps to websites. Authorities have also acknowledged that affected users may face difficulties withdrawing their assets and plan to provide withdrawal guidance and support. 🏦 Standard Chartered has launched institutional custody for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai International Financial Centre branch. The bank also plans to extend its collateral model to LMAX Group, allowing eligible clients to use RLUSD holdings as trading collateral without transferring the tokens to the trading platform. The proposed arrangement remains subject to documentation, testing, regulatory requirements and internal approvals. ⚖️ Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has received full approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority for its local entity to provide crypto services. The planned rollout would give UAE customers access to spot and margin trading in UAE dirham-denominated pairs, alongside direct deposits and withdrawals. Kraken is targeting a launch in the coming weeks. 🛡️ Aptos has launched its optional Encrypted Mempool feature on mainnet to help protect users against frontrunning and sandwich attacks. Compatible wallets and apps encrypt transaction details before submission, keeping assets, amounts and other contents hidden while validators determine transaction order. The transactions are decrypted collectively after ordering is finalised. The protection comes with higher minimum gas costs and a small increase in processing time. TL;DR: South Korea is tightening access to unregistered crypto platforms, Standard Chartered is expanding RLUSD custody and planned collateral use, Kraken is preparing to offer dirham-based trading in the UAE, and Aptos is adding an optional layer of protection against transaction-ordering exploits. #Crypto #Blockchain #Web3 #Stablecoins #DeFi #Aptos #RLUSD #CryptoRegulation

🔎 It’s #GovernanceDigestFriday, and this week’s developments show how blockchain infrastructure is evolving to support AI agents, institutional custody, and data management. 🤖 @pharos_network has launched its Agent Native page, outlining its vision for an economy where users define the intent, agents handle execution, and value moves onchain. 🔐 @CantonNetwork has added another custody option with @Ripple Custody v1.43, which now supports Canton. Institutions can hold and transfer $CC and CIP-56 tokens within the same custody platform, policy engine, and audit trail as their other digital assets. 🦭 @WalrusProtocol has introduced Walrus Console, a managed platform for storing, organising, and connecting the data AI apps and agents need. It includes native MCP support, a developer API, and private, encrypted data by default. From agent-native execution to institutional-grade custody and AI-ready data infrastructure, these updates highlight different ways Web3 is expanding its capabilities. What stood out to you this week? 👇

🔎 It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @zilliqa as its transition to Zilliqa EVM moves through another phase of the migration? 🔄 The third migration hard fork went live on 5 October, moving ZIL balances for @BithumbOfficial, @UpholdInc and @Bybit_Official from Legacy Schnorr addresses to their verified Zilliqa EVM addresses. This follows the second hard fork in September, which migrated balances for participating exchanges in the previous batch. 🏦 Exchange access is also expanding. @binance, @bitvavocom, @HTX_Global, @MEXC, @LBank_Exchange, @BitkubOfficial, @ParibuCom and @cex_io have resumed ZIL deposits and withdrawals on Zilliqa EVM, with other participating exchanges expected to restore services according to their own timelines. 🛠️ For holders managing their own ZIL, the ZKP Migration App is now available for moving funds from Legacy accounts to Zilliqa EVM accounts. Installation guides are available for Windows, Linux and macOS, while the new Zilliqa Ledger app can be used alongside the migration app to move liquid ZIL from Ledger accounts. ➡️ Zilliqa’s transition is continuing to move ZIL activity from the Legacy network onto Zilliqa EVM while giving individual holders the tools to complete their own migration. #Zilliqa #ChainWatch #ZilliqaEVM #ZIL #Web3

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show blockchain moving deeper into tokenised equities, institutional finance, regulatory infrastructure, and protocol upgrades: 🏦 OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) have notified the SEC of plans for 24/7 trading of tokenised versions of more than 60 major US stocks, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla. The proposed platform would operate on OKX’s X Layer through permissioned Uniswap pools, with each token backed 1:1 by the corresponding shares and carrying rights such as dividends and voting. 📈 Solana recorded about $4.4 billion in tokenised-equities trading in September, highlighting the continued growth of real-world assets onchain. Across 39 blockchains, the broader RWA sector reached roughly $38.8 billion in distributed value and 5.11 million holders, with institutions continuing to expand tokenised products and infrastructure. ⚖️ The CFTC is advancing a proposed crypto regulatory framework even after the US Senate failed to pass the CLARITY Act. CFTC Chair Michael Selig outlined proposals that would create a national regulatory pathway for certain crypto businesses, including a proposed “crypto asset market” category for exchanges and rules covering retail crypto trading involving margin, leverage, or financing. 🛡️ Zcash has activated its NU7 network upgrade on testnet ahead of a targeted November 5 mainnet launch. The upgrade would reduce target block spacing from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, disable version 4 transactions, and introduce a Network Sustainability Mechanism that redirects part of transaction fees toward future block rewards. Developers are expected to make the final mainnet decision on October 20. TL;DR: Wall Street is pushing further into 24/7 tokenised equities, Solana is seeing billions in tokenised-stock activity, US regulators are moving ahead with crypto rules despite the stalled CLARITY Act, and Zcash is putting its next major network upgrade through live testing. #Crypto #Tokenization #Blockchain #RWA #Solana #Zcash #Web3 #DeFi

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @pharos_network as its RealFi ecosystem starts moving from individual assets toward a more connected market? 🤔 🏦 APC3M is now usable as collateral on Pharos, going live in an isolated USDC lending market on @Morpho with pricing streamed from an on-chain NAV oracle. Holders can now borrow USDC against APC3M without selling the underlying position, while the SharpByte USDC Pharos Ecosystem Vault provides USDC liquidity to the market. 💵 More RealFi products are also becoming accessible. Axil Pot (APT), a professionally managed yield product from @Official_Axil, is now available through @R25Official, giving USDC holders access to a real-world credit strategy targeting around 8% APY with T+0 instant redemption. 🤖 Agent infrastructure is developing alongside the financial layer. Pharos AI brings together Pharos MCP, Docs MCP, and SkillEngine for builders, while @AnvitaFlow’s Agent Widget is now integrated into Pharos Port, giving users access to supported agent features through a chat interface. A Pharos-customised edition of the AnvitaMate desktop agent is also coming soon, with Pharos tools and skills for development and onchain workflows. 🌐 Distribution is widening too. DeBot, an AI signal trading platform with 1.5M+ users, has integrated Pharos assets, giving the ecosystem another route for users already participating in on-chain markets. Pharos’ latest developments point to a broader shift: tokenised assets are becoming collateral, liquidity is moving around them, new markets are forming on top, and agent infrastructure is creating new ways to interact with that financial activity. #Pharos #ChainWatch #RealFi #RWA #OnchainFinance #DeFi #AI

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show blockchain infrastructure moving closer to institutional finance, payments, and real-world asset markets: ⚙️ Zenith has opened its EVM Testnet to the public, allowing developers to deploy standard Solidity applications using familiar Ethereum tooling while transactions are coordinated and finalised through Canton. The testnet also supports atomic workflows between Canton and Zenith EVM, giving developers a way to test EVM applications alongside Canton-native infrastructure. 💵 Verona has launched verUSD, a dollar-denominated stablecoin designed for payments between AI agents and other transactions on its network. The stablecoin launched across Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum, Celo, and Solana, with more than $100 million in institutional launch commitments and over $60 million in signed, committed revenue expected to flow through verUSD as payments. 🔗 Chainlink has launched CCIP 2.0 with new features including institution-operated Cross-Chain Verifiers, configurable transaction confirmation settings, and built-in compliance controls covering KYC, AML, sanctions screening, and transaction limits. The upgrade is designed to support more controlled cross-chain infrastructure for institutional and financial applications. 🏦 Goldman Sachs’ Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund (FTIXX) is now available to qualified US participants through Lynq, a real-time settlement network powered by tZERO. The roughly $100 billion fund remains a conventional money-market fund rather than being tokenised, giving institutional digital-asset firms another way to access Treasury exposure through blockchain-based settlement infrastructure. TL;DR: Zenith is opening Canton to EVM developers, Verona is bringing stablecoins into AI-agent payments, Chainlink is adding new security and compliance controls to cross-chain infrastructure, and Goldman Sachs is connecting a traditional Treasury fund to digital-asset settlement rails. #Crypto #Tokenization #Blockchain #Stablecoins #RWA #Web3

🚀 Governance Digest Friday Here’s a look at some of the developments across the ecosystem this week. 👇 🔹 @Debot_Official is expanding to @pharos_network, bringing its AI-driven trading platform to the Pharos ecosystem. Pharos assets, including @ProsperTicker, will be available to trade on DeBot alongside its AI signals and real-time on-chain monitoring. 🔹 @AvailProject is bringing Avail Deposit to @StratiumX, giving users a simpler way to fund their accounts by combining token balances across different chains in a single transaction. 🔹 @zilliqa has made its ZKP Migration App available for retail holders, providing a way to move ZIL from Legacy accounts to Zilliqa EVM. Following the second exchange migration hard fork, participating exchanges are also gradually restoring ZIL deposits and withdrawals. 🔹 @CantonFdn is heading to Korea Blockchain Week from September 28 to October 2, with appearances across RealFi x Asia Stablecoin Conference, Bridge Seoul and the STO Summit, focusing on institutional adoption and infrastructure for regulated markets. That’s a wrap for this week’s #GovernanceDigestFriday. #Web3 #Blockchain #Crypto

Earlier this month, we looked at what’s been happening across the @pharos_network ecosystem. 👀 From RealFi and Bitcoin lending to new protocols and applications, there’s been plenty to keep an eye on. We broke down some of the latest developments across the ecosystem and the projects helping shape what’s next for Pharos. 🔍 Read the full article: lithiumdigital.com/blog/what…

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @CantonNetwork as its infrastructure continues to evolve? 🤔 ⚙️ Splice 0.8.0 is now being deployed on Canton MainNet, with around two-thirds of Super Validator nodes already upgraded, including the GSF Super Validator. The release updates underlying network infrastructure and prepares the ordering layer for a future move from CometBFT to CantonBFT, although that switch requires a separate Logical Synchronizer Upgrade. 🏛️ The Canton Foundation is also moving its Developer Fund to Dev Fund 2.0. Applicants with open proposals were given 10 days from September 22 to update their submissions with the relevant RFP category, who benefits from the work, and how it supports Canton adoption. Proposals that are not updated will be closed and excluded from the next funding cycle. 🌏 Beyond the development fund, the Canton Foundation has announced the Canton Forum for October 8 at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. The event will bring together financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and ecosystem participants working on the next generation of global financial markets. Canton’s latest updates span the infrastructure supporting the network, how ecosystem development is funded, and the institutions building around it. #CantonNetwork #Canton #ChainWatch #Web3

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show blockchain infrastructure moving further into institutional finance, tokenized assets, and onchain markets: ₿ Circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing for eligible Circle Mint customers, allowing institutions to deposit BTC, mint 1:1 BTC-backed cirBTC, and use it as collateral to borrow USDC through supported third-party lending markets on Arc and Ethereum. Morpho is the first supported lending protocol, giving institutions a way to access USDC liquidity without selling their BTC. 🇪🇺 The European Central Bank has launched Pontes, a wholesale settlement service connecting distributed-ledger networks to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services. It allows eligible financial institutions to settle tokenized-asset transactions in central bank money. Pontes initially operates on business days from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CET, with longer operating hours planned over time. 📈 Ondo Finance has launched an in-kind conversion route with Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network, allowing approved institutions to use existing shares to mint Ondo Stocks on Ethereum and BNB Chain. The tokens can also be redeemed for the underlying shares, adding a new primary-market route alongside Ondo’s existing cash-funded process. 🔮 Prediction market platform Trueo has announced its migration from Base to Ethereum mainnet, citing greater integration potential, network effects, and a better fit for its long-term product goals. Existing Base markets will remain available, while Trueo is directing new longer-dated markets toward Ethereum as the migration progresses. TL;DR: Bitcoin is becoming usable as institutional collateral for USDC borrowing, the ECB is connecting tokenized markets to central bank settlement, Ondo is creating new ways to bring existing shares onchain, and Trueo is moving its prediction market from Base to Ethereum. #Crypto #Tokenization #Blockchain #DeFi #RWA #Web3

🚀 Governance Digest Friday Here’s what’s happening across the networks we support this week. 👇 🔹 The inaugural @CantonNetwork Summit took place in New York, bringing together institutions, builders and ecosystem partners. Discussions focused on how tokenisation is already expanding market access, putting collateral to work and enabling assets to move across global markets, with adoption increasingly demonstrated through real network activity. 🔹 @zilliqa shared its latest migration update, with the audit of its ZKP migration tool now complete and internal testing underway. The rollout is targeted for September 22, while exchanges are expected to gradually restore ZIL deposits and withdrawals on Zilliqa EVM following the migration. 🔹 @Arc Mainnet is officially live, with @AvailProject supporting the chain across its product suite from day one. Arc builders can use a single Avail integration to connect with users and liquidity across the EVM ecosystem. 🔹 @pharos_network has opened the pAlpha II action window. Holders can withdraw until October 1, while those continuing with pAlpha III do not need to take action. Their funds will automatically roll over after October 19. That’s a wrap for this week’s #GovernanceDigestFriday. #Web3 #Blockchain #Crypto

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @AvailProject as it expands its execution and interoperability stack? 🤔 🔄 Avail Atomic has added @KyberNetwork as its newest execution venue. It now pulls real-time quotes from KyberSwap and @kalqix, compares available prices, and routes swaps to the best quote before settling them atomically onchain. 🌐 @Arc’s mainnet is now live, with Avail supporting the chain across its product suite from day one. Arc builders can use a single Avail integration to connect with users and liquidity across the EVM ecosystem. 🛠️ Avail has also published its post-incident report following the August 31 network outage. The report covers the root cause, impact, and actions planned to prevent a recurrence. Avail is extending its role from data availability to execution, interoperability, and infrastructure that supports multichain applications. #Avail #ChainWatch #Web3

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show tokenised assets moving deeper into traditional markets while DeFi continues to expand the ways those assets can be used: 🏦 Edel Finance has joined the DTCC Digital Assets Solutions Industry Working Group, contributing to the development of the DTC Tokenisation Service alongside more than 100 industry participants, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and NYSE. The service is expected to launch in October 2026, bringing tokenised versions of DTC-custodied securities to blockchain networks while preserving existing ownership rights and investor protections. 🔐 A DeFi exploit involving a Gnosis Safe wallet resulted in the loss of roughly $7.8 million in rsETH, according to security researchers. The incident involved a custom Uniswap V4 module and an authorisation flaw that reportedly enabled an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The case highlights the risks that third-party modules can introduce to multisig and DeFi infrastructure. 🏦 CoinEx has announced that it will cease exchange operations after nearly nine years, citing prolonged weakness in crypto trading volumes and liquidity, rising regulatory requirements, and increasing compliance and operating costs. The wind-down began September 15, with spot trading scheduled to end September 29 and withdrawals remaining open until December 22, 2026. 📈 Kraken has launched xStocks Vaults, allowing eligible clients to put tokenised versions of SPY, QQQ, and Nvidia shares to work in on-chain lending markets. The vaults use Veda infrastructure and strategies managed by Sentora, with rewards paid in the same tokenised asset deposited. TL;DR: Institutional infrastructure is preparing for tokenised securities at scale, DeFi security remains a critical concern, CoinEx is winding down its exchange business, and tokenised equities are gaining new on-chain use cases through lending and yield products. #Crypto #Tokenization #Blockchain #DeFi #RWA #Web3

✨ It’s #ChainWatchThursday, and what’s new with @WalrusProtocol as it expands its data infrastructure across AI and consumer access? 🤔 🤖 Walrus introduced the Verifiable Trading Standard with @Astros_ag, an open standard for AI-readable trading records that makes execution history and account state verifiable and auditable. 🧠 Walrus also shipped three new tutorials showing how developers can add portable Walrus Memory across the TypeScript SDK, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop. 🌍 Meanwhile, $WAL went live on @Revolut, expanding access to more than 80M users across 40+ countries. #Walrus #ChainWatch #Web3

It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show blockchain infrastructure moving further into banking, capital markets, and financial regulation: 🇸🇬 DBS and Citi completed the first weekend cross-border USD payment between Singapore and the US using tokenised deposits on Swift’s Digital Ledger. The payment was completed on September 5 and settled in minutes, demonstrating how tokenised bank deposits could enable cross-border payments outside traditional banking hours. 🇰🇷 South Korea has introduced a three-phase roadmap for tokenised securities, with the first phase starting in February 2027. It will initially cover institutional money market funds and bonds, unlisted stocks, and publicly offered fractional investment securities before expanding to other securities and eventually exploring on-chain payments linked to stablecoins. 🇬🇧 The UK Financial Conduct Authority is reportedly considering whether to ease its restrictions on retail prediction markets, which have been limited since the FCA’s 2019 ban on binary options. No policy change has been announced yet, but the regulator is reportedly discussing the issue with market participants as UK users increasingly turn to overseas platforms. ⛓️ Harmony has proposed shutting down its Layer 1 and migrating ONE to Ethereum as an ERC-20 token. The proposal is non-binding and would involve taking a final snapshot of eligible balances before issuing corresponding tokens on Ethereum. The plan follows recent security concerns and would also mark a shift in Harmony’s direction toward other projects. TL;DR: Tokenised deposits are being tested for 24/7 cross-border payments, South Korea is laying out a national roadmap for tokenised securities, the UK is reconsidering its approach to prediction markets, and Harmony is proposing a move from its own Layer 1 to Ethereum. #Crypto #Tokenization #Blockchain #Stablecoins #Web3 #Fintech

August pushed several Web3 ecosystems from development into delivery. 🚀 Institutional activity expanded on-chain, new financial products launched, protocol upgrades moved into production, and cross-chain infrastructure continued to mature. In our August Ecosystem Roundup, we break down the developments shaping: 🔹 Tokenised assets and on-chain finance 🔹 Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure 🔹 Interoperability and cross-chain connectivity 🔹 Protocol and ecosystem growth 📖 Read the full roundup 👇 lithiumdigital.com/blog/lith… Featuring: @AvailProject, @WalrusProtocol, @CantonNetwork, @zilliqa, @wardenprotocol, and @pharos_network #Web3 #Blockchain #RWA #Interoperability

🚀 Governance Digest Friday From verifiable trade data to network recovery and migration progress, here are this week’s ecosystem highlights. 👇 🔹 @WalrusProtocol is strengthening the verifiability of global trade records as @blockticity extends 1M+ authenticated trade documents representing $7.7B+ in RWAs onto Walrus. The deployment is designed to mirror 15TB+ of authenticated records and supporting evidence across five commercial verticals, while protecting sensitive commercial data. 🔹 @AvailProject published its post-incident report following the recent Avail DA mainnet outage, covering the root cause, impact, and action plan. Block production and finality have since resumed. 🔹 @wardenprotocol confirmed rewards from its $HALO trading competition are live on @virtuals_io. The competition has closed, rewards have been paid, and another competition is coming. 🔹 @zilliqa shared a six-week migration update, confirming the first batch of exchange migrations is complete, a second batch is planned for mid-September, and the self-guided ZK migration tool is nearing release. A compensation proposal for affected holders is also being prepared. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #Crypto