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Whop’s PayBox integration lets agents find products, prepare orders and pay under rules set by the buyer—without sellers changing their existing stores.
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In a major move toward scaling institutional DeFi adoption, BitGo has officially launched custody support for Flare (FLR) and its canary network Songbird (SGB). Institutions can now store, manage, and secure these assets through BitGo’s qualified custody and self-managed hot and cold wallets—staking support is also on the way. (Cover photo: Hugo Philion, CEO and Co-Founder of Flare)
Dubai, UAE — Flare, the blockchain built for seamless interoperability, is expanding its ecosystem with the launch of USD₮0, the omnichain version of USDT — the world's most widely used stablecoin.
The Flare x Google Cloud Hackathon, held from March 7-9 with Blockchain at Berkeley, brought together over 460 student developers and researchers from top institutions to explore AI-driven computation on blockchain. While blockchains ensure decentralized consensus, they lack native support for high-performance AI workloads. This event focused on solving that challenge without compromising verifiability.
Dubai — Flare is unlocking a new era of DeFi with the launch of Flare Fair, a unique gamified virtual fair designed to make the world of decentralized finance accessible and engaging for crypto veterans, newcomers, and everyone in between.
Flare, the blockchain for data, has officially launched FXRP (tokenized XRP) on Songbird, its canary network. This milestone advances Flare’s FAssets protocol, a system designed to enable non-smart contract cryptocurrencies like XRP, BTC, and DOGE to connect with DeFi applications.
SparkDEX has launched SparkDEX Eternal, a groundbreaking perpetual decentralized exchange (Perp DEX) on the Flare network. This innovative platform introduces a new layer of trading possibilities for Flare users, allowing them to engage in perpetual contracts across a variety of assets without the need for owning the underlying assets.
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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