Nebius has secured a massive US$17.4 billion (AU$26.36 billion) deal to supply Microsoft with GPU technology for its AI infrastructure. Shares of crypto mining companies surged, with Bitfarms climbing 22% and Cipher Mining rising 20%, leading the sector’s gains. Nebius stock soared nearly 50%, reaching an intraday high of US$98.68Continue Reading
Ant Group’s enterprise arm is tokenising US$8.4 billion worth of Chinese energy infrastructure, including data from 15 million solar panels and wind turbines, on its proprietary AntChain blockchain. The company has already used tokenisation to finance three clean energy projects, raising US$42 million, and is now exploring listing these tokensContinue Reading
The XRP Ledger is introducing XRPL Gamechain, a specialised gaming sidechain developed by B3 and XRPL Commons to bring on-chain gaming experiences directly to the XRPL ecosystem. The initiative features Xcade, a mobile-friendly arcade platform with five fast-paced games designed to engage users through challenges, tournaments, and rewards within theContinue Reading
Pudgy Penguins has launched Pudgy Party, a mobile Web3 game that quickly rose to the top of Apple’s App Store and garnered over 50,000 downloads on Google Play. The game is a party-royale format built on the Mythos Chain on Polkadot, allowing players to earn in-game items that can beContinue Reading
Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, is predicting that Wall Street financial firms will begin operating directly on Ethereum’s infrastructure, running validators and launching their own Layer-2 and Layer-3 blockchains. Lubin’s optimistic outlook is supported by a significant increase in institutional adoption this year, with companies like Bitmine Immersion and SharpLinkContinue Reading
Google Cloud is developing its own Layer-1 blockchain, the Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), specifically for banks and financial institutions to compete with platforms from companies like Circle and Stripe. The GCUL will be a neutral, Python-based smart contract platform, with Google Cloud’s Rich Widmann arguing that this neutrality willContinue Reading
The U.S. Department of Commerce, at the direction of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, will begin publishing its headline economic data, starting with GDP figures, directly onto the blockchain. Lutnick linked the move to President Trump’s pro-crypto stance, and the initiative aims to increase transparency and accessibility of government data. TheContinue Reading
Animoca Brands has partnered with Ibex Japan to launch a Web3 entertainment fund aimed at bringing dormant anime and manga intellectual property (IP) onto the blockchain. The fund plans to leverage Ibex’s network to license and finance new Web3 products, revitalising what Ibex Japan partner Sandeep Casi calls the “90%Continue Reading
Wilder World, an Ethereum-powered metaverse project, has released its second major game mode, a high-intensity first- and third-person shooter, at Gamescom. The new shooter, available on the Epic Games Store, is part of a phased rollout to refine individual game modes before a full open-world metaverse launch planned for earlyContinue Reading
Centrifuge becomes one of the leading real-world asset (RWA) platforms alongside BlackRock’s BUIDL and Ondo Finance, surpassing US$1B in TVL. Institutional adoption drives growth, with players moving from pilot projects to full deployments and strong demand from on-chain allocators. The JAAA fund, a fully on-chain AAA-rated CLO, launched with US$1BContinue Reading
