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Mento and Wormhole Join Forces to Revolutionize Cross-Chain FX Infrastructure

Mento and Wormhole Join Forces to Revolutionize Cross-Chain FX Infrastructure

Mento, a key FX infrastructure within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem, has announced a strategic partnership with Wormhole, a leading interoperability platform. The collaboration seeks to expand Mento's onchain FX capabilities beyond Celo, enabling real-time, decentralized currency exchange across more than 40 blockchains. This partnership aims to modernize the...

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Taskon Integrates Memebridge to Enhance Web3 Task Collaboration

Taskon Integrates Memebridge to Enhance Web3 Task Collaboration

Taskon is a versatile task collaboration platform that enables users to complete decentralized Web3 tasks collaboratively. It has recently incorporated Memebridge, a multi-chain bridging infrastructure, to enhance cross-chain interoperability. Through this collaboration, these efforts will make it easy to swap quickly, seamlessly, and at low cost across a myriad of...

Chainlink's Utility Drives Growth Amid Market Shift

Chainlink's Utility Drives Growth Amid Market Shift

Chainlink reinforces its position as the key infrastructure provider to decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contracts. This continuing change is a testament to the industry’s realization that projects must be built with form following function and not speculation. With a market cap of $9 billion, Chainlink is creating quite the...

Arbitrum Attracts $1.9 Billion in Cross-Chain Inflows Amidst Layer-2 Surge

Arbitrum Attracts $1.9 Billion in Cross-Chain Inflows Amidst Layer-2 Surge

Arbitrum, a Layer-2 platform, has witnessed $1.9 billion worth of cross-chain bridge inflows, indicating deepening adoption of its infrastructure. The platform’s relevance has absolutely skyrocketed. More recently, it has become a critical infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces.Arbitrum’s architecture, backed by the GHOSTDAG protocol underpinning the...

CBEX Crypto Scheme Unravels, Investors Defrauded as Funds Laundering is Exposed

CBEX Crypto Scheme Unravels, Investors Defrauded as Funds Laundering is Exposed

Then in April 2025, CBEX, another fictitious cryptocurrency investment platform went bust. This failure, in turn, left thousands of investors defrauded, with particular burden on African investors including many Nigerians. The platform misleadingly announced that it had only suspended withdrawals temporarily while an audit by a British firm, to be...

Lightec's zkBTC Bridge Ushers in New Era for Bitcoin-Ethereum Transfers

Lightec's zkBTC Bridge Ushers in New Era for Bitcoin-Ethereum Transfers

More recently, Lightec released the zkBTC Bridge to the Ethereum mainnet, a major step forward in cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi). This cutting-edge bridge makes it easy to transfer Bitcoin into Ethereum’s flourishing ecosystem, using zero-knowledge proof technology to remove the need for centralized third parties. Lightec has made progress on...

Navigating the Crypto Landscape A Practical Guide to Spending Digital Assets in Daily Life

Navigating the Crypto Landscape A Practical Guide to Spending Digital Assets in Daily Life

The natural maturation of cryptocurrency markets has resulted in a flourishing of direct, easy-to-use options for spending your crypto assets. Bitcoin machines are surfacing in countries across the world. At the same time, crypto debit cards are making it easier than ever to use digital currencies for everyday transactions. These...

Ethereum and Solana Lead Blockchain Innovation Amid Rising Institutional Demand

Ethereum and Solana Lead Blockchain Innovation Amid Rising Institutional Demand

Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) are at the forefront of Ethereum innovation. Their recent upgrades have gone a long way to strengthen their capabilities in decentralized applications (dApps). Meanwhile, Solana is enjoying a counterrevolution fueled by regular network upgrades that make its historically touted performance all the more superior. Ethereum...

Bitlayer Launches Trust-Minimized Bitcoin Bridge on Mainnet

Bitlayer Launches Trust-Minimized Bitcoin Bridge on Mainnet

Now, Bitlayer, a DeFi startup backed by investment titan Franklin Templeton, has launched its new smart contract bridge into full production. This inventive bridge, named BitVM, is now live on the Bitcoin mainnet. The launch increases Bitcoin’s versatility and interoperability across various blockchain ecosystems. Interoperability is the ability to link...