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At TOKEN2049, Kenneth Shek talks to Blockster about AI’s usability problem, who controls customer data, Europe’s digital identity push and the permissions agents need to act.
AIR and Minds are partnering with Reap and Pivota to let agents use verified customer benefits and complete purchases within approved spending limits. The collaboration will begin with a single-merchant demonstration.
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SpookySwap is leveling up trading on Sonic. The DEX has now integrated dSLTP, the decentralized stop-loss and take-profit protocol powered by Orbs Layer 3, making it one of the first platforms on Sonic to offer automated, on-chain risk management tools with zero centralized infrastructure.
Solflare — one of Solana’s most widely used non-custodial wallets with more than 4 million active users — is officially entering the hardware market. Today, the team introduced Solflare Shield, an NFC-powered, tap-to-sign hardware wallet designed to deliver true cold-storage security without sacrificing the simplicity Solana users expect on mobile
Axis — a fully onchain quantitative fund managing $100 million in live capital — has raised $5 million in a round led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from OKX Ventures, FalconX, GSR, Maven 11, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, and Aave’s Marc Zeller. The round was 4× oversubscribed, reflecting accelerating demand for transparent, real-yield infrastructure built directly on public blockchains.
For the first time in XRP’s history, holders can now earn staking rewards — thanks to Firelight Protocol, a newly launched economic security layer designed to protect DeFi assets from hacks and exploits.
When we started building Blockster V2, we weren’t just imagining a media platform. We were imagining a place where crypto feels like a culture, something you live in, belong to, and identify with. And at some point it became unmistakably clear: culture needs artifacts. Identity needs expression. And for all the innovation happening in Web3, the industry has never really had a fashion identity that felt authentic to the people inside it.
Falcon Finance is taking another major step toward building a truly global collateral ecosystem. The protocol has added tokenized Mexican government bills (CETES)—issued on-chain by Etherfuse—to the USDf collateral base, marking Falcon’s first integration of a non-USD sovereign yield asset.
GoMining CEO Mark Zalan talks Bitcoin mining, AI infrastructure and GoBTC Pay as the company expands into a broader Bitcoin ecosystem.
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