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St. Peter’s School Barcelona is rolling out blockchain-verified academic records to protect transcripts, certificates and consent forms from AI-assisted forgery.

The CLARITY Act could reshape U.S. crypto regulation, but digital assets need custody, settlement, liquidity, and compliance infrastructure to scale.

Arcium launched encrypted applications on Solana including Bench and Crafts, aiming to bring private information markets and fair token auctions to crypto through MPC-based confidential computing.

Taurus has secured MiFID investment firm license. It will enble the Swiss digital asset infrastructure company a regulated base to expand services tied to tokenized financial instruments across the EU.

Ledger rolls out perpetual trading inside Ledger Wallet through Yield.xyz and Hyperliquid, bringing hardware-secured self-custody to leveraged crypto markets.

Sumsub and Chainlink are integrating KYC credentials with Chainlink ACE to enable reusable, privacy-preserving identity verification across Ethereum, Base, Polygon, Avalanche and Arbitrum.

Coinbase-backed Base adopts Succinct’s SP1 zkVM to enhance security and reduce finality times.