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SBI issued JPY 10 billion on-chain security token bonds for retail investors using BOOSTRY’s “ibet for Fin” and Osaka Digital Exchange’s START trading.
Bond buyers receive XRP equal to their subscription after payment, then additional XRP on interest dates in March 2027, 2028, and

Pi Network celebrated 1 year of Open Network, making ecosystem tokens, KYC, and AI tools the top priorities of the Mainnet.
Pi coin traded around $0.17 as the update noted 16 million users completed KYC and migrated to Mainnet.
Pi Network celebrated the first anniversary of its Open Network

ReCircleRewards verifies mobility activity using receipt OCR normalization, duplicate checks and cross-field validation across providers.
VeChain anchors verified actions and reward records on-chain, so distribution stays transparent, tamper-resistant, and auditable for partners.
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Vitalik Buterin has revealed plans to build a “cypherpunk principled non-ugly Ethereum” interoperable with the existing chain.
The new network would run alongside Ethereum for years, but with its own lean consensus and a new virtual machine.
Vitalik Buterin has been known to make bold

Dash has added shielded transactions that rely on the Zcash Orchard technology to its Evolution chain to boost payment privacy.
Next will be shielded tokens, which will hide balance and transaction history using zero-knowledge proofs.
Two of the crypto industry’s privacy-focused pioneer

NYSE-listed Pineapple Financial has purchased 560,000 Injective (INJ) tokens worth $2 million as part of its cash purchase program.
The first purchase was in October, where the company accumulated 678,000 tokens at $12.4; this batch has lost 76% of its value at current prices.
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Soil launched a compliant RWA-backed yield protocol on XRP Ledger for RLUSD, attracting $1M in deposits within 72 hours.
RLUSD holders access on-chain Yield Vaults offering fixed returns from private credit, tokenized government debt, and market-neutral hedge funds.
ORQO Group, an

The Injective IIP-619 proposal became effective, and a major upgrade of the mainnet will occur on February 19, 15:00 UTC, to scale the real-time EVM architecture.
INJ price shot up over 13% after the vote, with traders watching the next resistance points.
Injective’s INJ token climbed more t

Quantoz, a digital payments firm whose EURD stablecoin is issued on Algorand, has announced a new partnership with Visa to enable stablecoin payments.
It will enable the issuance of virtual Visa cards that are accepted globally, but where users make payments with their stablecoins.
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The Graph has published its roadmap for the year, with one of its key targets being to expand access to data analysts, AI agents and enterprise users.
It has outlined six specialized projects for the year: subgraphs, Blockchain JSON-RPC Data Service, substreams, Token API, Tycho and Amp.
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