Author: James Wilson
Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatory April 27 deadline for all node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22. Summary Pi Network is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with both co-founders scheduled to present at the Convergence Stage. Nicolas Kokkalis joins a May 7 panel on proving human identity online without exposing personal data, while Chengdiao Fan speaks May 6 on aligning Web3, AI,…
Coinbase has filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price. Summary Coinbase will launch Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, covering both nano XRP and full-sized contracts. TAS lets institutions execute large block orders at the official closing price, eliminating intraday price exposure that makes high-volume execution costly and unpredictable. The launch completes XRP’s institutional execution pathway on Coinbase, following the SEC and CFTC’s joint March 2026 classification of…
BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize securities tied to the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, an $11 billion US natural resource initiative, in what the companies describe as live production infrastructure rather than a pilot. Summary BridgeTower Capital is using Chainlink’s complete stack, including CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and CRE, to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project. The deployment is live production infrastructure, not a pilot, making it one of the largest single-asset tokenization builds ever brought to institutional scale. BridgeTower plans to expand the same platform to…
BNB Chain has officially become the leading blockchain network for autonomous AI agents, with more than 150,000 on-chain deployments as of April 20, a 43,750% increase from the fewer than 400 agents that existed across all blockchains at the start of 2026, with one in every three AI agents currently operating on any blockchain now running on BNB Chain. Summary BNB Chain surpassed 150,000 on-chain AI agent deployments as of April 20, 2026, up from fewer than 400 at the start of the year, representing a 43,750% increase in under four months. Third-party data from 8004scan confirms that one in…