World Gold Council Proposes Shared Infrastructure for Tokenized Gold Products

The industry body co-authored a white paper with Boston Consulting Group outlining a “Gold as a Service” platform to standardize issuance and custody of digital gold. The World Gold Council, the gold industry’s leading market-development body, announced Thursday it is building shared infrastructure designed to make digital gold products more interoperable, scalable, and easier to…

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Electric Capital Maps 501 Real-World Yield Sources, Finds 93% Untouched by DeFi

A new taxonomy from the venture firm identifies seven barrier clusters keeping most traditional yield sources off-chain, and argues that stablecoin growth is pulling them closer. Electric Capital published a research report on Monday, cataloging 501 distinct sources of real-world yield and cross-referencing them against tokenized assets with meaningful on-chain traction today. The venture firm…

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World Liberty Financial Launches Toolkit to Let AI Agents Spend USD1

The Trump-backed DeFi project’s new AgentPay SDK gives AI agents self-custodial wallets and policy-enforced spending on EVM chains. World Liberty Financial (WLFI) on Thursday released the AgentPay SDK, an open-source toolkit that enables AI agents to autonomously hold, send, and receive funds across Ethereum-compatible blockchains. Transactions are settled in USD1, WLFI’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, which currently…

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Privy Taps Deframe by Pods to Unlock DeFi Yield Strategies

The Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider has integrated Deframe’s DeFi aggregation API, the latest in a string of yield-focused moves. Privy, the embedded wallet infrastructure provider acquired by Stripe last year, has integrated Deframe, a DeFi aggregation API built by the team behind Pods Finance, to enable developers to offer yield strategies directly within their applications….

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Ripple to expand in Brazil with custody, payments, and brokerage services ahead of central bank approval push: Ripple

Ripple is adding custody, payments, and brokerage tools for digital asset management in Brazil as it prepares to seek regulatory approval from the country’s central bank. Ripple is expanding its services in Brazil by adding custody, payments, and brokerage tools for digital asset management and tokenization. The blockchain firm plans to apply for regulatory approval…

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Aster Launches Privacy-Focused Layer 1

The second-largest perpetual futures DEX by volume began the rollout of its mainnet, which uses ZK proofs to keep trades private. Aster, the BNB Chain-native perp DEX backed by YZi Labs, has launched the genesis phase of Aster Chain, its privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain, the team announced on X. According to the announcement, Aster Chain…

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