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Solana In The Spotlight: Will 2025 Be Its Breakout Year?

Solana In The Spotlight: Will 2025 Be Its Breakout Year?

May 7, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The Solana platform, acclaimed for its speed, scalability, and innovation, was established back in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a skilled software engineer with experience at Qualcomm. Solana supports high-speed and low-cost transactions on a single-layer blockchain. This means that decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, game finance (GameFi) apps, and decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) networks can scale without requiring major infrastructure changes. Solana's chief innovation is speed. It can process approximately 65,000 transactions per second, so it's considerably faster than Ethereum.
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Fintech 2.0: Why Banks Must Adapt or Be Left Behind

May 6, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
For banks, the question is no longer if they should act, but how fast they must adapt. Over the last two decades we’ve seen a meteoric rise of fintechs, starting as small startups focused on user acquisition and hypergrowth. Today, these same firms are maturing into sustainable, profit-generating businesses proving they’re here to stay; they are fundamentally reshaping the financial services industry.
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Fireblocks Enables Web3 Connectivity for Calastone's Industry-First Tokenised Fund Distribution Platform

Apr 28, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
Fireblocks is now working with Calastone, the largest global funds network, to support Web3 connectivity within Calastone’s Tokenised Distribution solution, a first-of-its-kind solution enabling asset managers to tokenise any fund on Calastone’s network and distribute it across blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon. Fireblocks is providing secure infrastructure components that enable integration with Web3-native distributors.
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Japanese Megabank SMBC Leverages Fireblocks for Stablecoins

Apr 24, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
One of Japan’s largest banks is leveraging Fireblocks, alongside other technology providers, to explore stablecoin initiatives, dialing up momentum in the Japanese digital asset space. Fireblocks, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Ava Labs, and TIS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to initiate joint discussions on the commercial use of stablecoins.
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Charting the Course: How Paris Blockchain Week Mirrors the Path to Maturity of Digital Assets

Apr 24, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
I’ve returned from my fourth Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) with Fireblocks, which gives us a great opportunity to see how far we’ve come in the digital asset space. No longer a space for curious exploration, PBW is where we talk about implementation for mainstream adoption that’s happening today. And much like the industry, I’ve seen my own growth over the past five years at Fireblocks!
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The Bybit Wake-Up Call: Strengthening Crypto Security Before It's Too Late

Apr 23, 2025 By Kirsten Doyle In Tripwire
The recent Bybit hack, in which bad actors swooped in and made off with $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum, has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. As one of the largest digital heists in history, it lays bare the vulnerabilities in crypto exchange security and the persistent threats from sophisticated actors. And yes, Bybit has assured its customers that their funds will be covered; the question is how these incidents happen in the first place.
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It's All About the Network-Welcome, Circle!

Apr 21, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
If there’s one truth in payments, it’s this: the network always wins. Think of what Visa and Mastercard created: not just payment rails, but global ecosystems of merchants, issuers, acquirers, and processors. Their networks didn’t just move money—they connected entire economies. As digital assets move into the mainstream, the same principle applies. But the networks of tomorrow won’t be built on closed systems and settlement delays.
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Unlocking Profit: How Bankers Can Harness Stablecoins for Revenue Growth

Apr 17, 2025 By Fireblocks In Fireblocks
Brian Moynihan recently remarked, “It’s pretty clear there’s going to be a stablecoin… So if they make that legal, we’ll go into that business …it’s just then like another foreign currency.” While the comments from the CEO of Bank of America capture one bank use case for stablecoins, these digital assets have much more to offer banks than that.
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