Mastercard and Ripple Complete Historic Transaction, New Use Case for XRP?

Ondo Finance, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and Ripple have jointly completed the first near real-time cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized US Treasuries — with the XRP Ledger serving as the settlement blockchain at the center of a transaction that connected public blockchain infrastructure directly to global banking rails for the first time. Related Reading: […]

Cardano Founder Calls For Simpler, Safer Crypto Across All Chains

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a Wednesday keynote at Consensus 2026 in Miami to argue that crypto’s next phase will not be won by another isolated chain, token or wallet. The Cardano founder said the industry must make self-custody, identity, privacy and multi-chain access simple enough for mainstream users without handing control back to centralized […]