Author: Yeek.io

The Beijing city administration has announced a plan for local blockchain development and implementation over the next two years.According to an April 29 announcement, the plan was jointly developed by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Zhongguancun Administrative Committee, the Cyberspace Administration Office, the Bureau of Government Services and Data, the Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and the Bureau of Commerce. The implementation is expected to start this year and continue until 2027.The announcement. Source: Beijing governmentThe Beijing Blockchain Innovation and Application Development Action Plan recognizes blockchain as a “critical foundational technology for industrial digitalization and vital…

Neo Legacy, the original version of the Neo blockchain launched in 2016, will cease operations by October as the project completes its transition to Neo N3. Neo will shut down its original blockchain called Neo Legacy by the end of October, urging users and developers to migrate assets and smart contracts to Neo N3 before the deadline to avoid permanent loss. Since launch in 2016, the Legacy chain has produced more than 14 million blocks, processed over 281 million transactions, and supported nearly 3 million addresses, the project revealed in an X post on Tuesday. Neo Legacy was succeeded by…

AI16Z surged by as much as 22% today, ahead of its upcoming listing on South Korea’s Bithumb exchange. According to data from crypto.news, Ai16z (AI16Z) an agentic AI crypto spiked to an intraday high of $0.305 during morning hours in Asia on April 29, extending its gains to nearly 200% from its monthly lows and lifting its market cap over $328 million. The main catalyst driving its gains today is a listing announcement by South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, which will launch a KRW trading pair for AI16Z later in the day at 6:00 PM KST. The listing price is…

Table of Contents Strengthening U.S. Federal Agencies With Blockchain Technology: 10+ Real-World Use Cases 1. Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies 2. Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies  3. Defense 4. Energy and Water Development 5. Financial Services and General Government  6. Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 7. Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 8. Legislative Branch 9. Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies 10. State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 11. Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Modernizing the Public Sector With Blockchain

As global uncertainty grows due to Trump’s trade war and tariff announcements, Americans are increasingly turning towards Bitcoin as their go-to safe haven. Historically, investors sought refuge in gold, but recent trends highlight a significant shift towards cryptocurrency.To explore how Americans are turning to BTC as a safe haven, NFTEvening partnered with Storible to survey 1,290 Americans via Prolific between April 27 and April 28.Our survey revealed that 68.21% of Americans have bought Bitcoin since Trump announced the tariffs—a remarkable figure that surpasses gold buyers by 23.77%. This trend underscores a pivotal moment for Bitcoin, positioning it as a modern…

Payments giant Mastercard unveiled a “360-degree” approach that allows 150 million merchants across its network to receive payments in stablecoins.The stablecoin settlement support comes amid increasing global regulatory clarity on digital assets, particularly stablecoins.Mastercard announced its partnership with payments processor Nuvei and stablecoin issuers Circle and Paxos to enable a seamless payment ecosystem.With the “global end-to-end stablecoin acceptance and payments capabilities,” Mastercard aims to grab stablecoin’s evolving regulatory clarity to ensure people and businesses can benefit most from it.“We believe in the potential of stablecoins to streamline payments and commerce across the value chain,” said Jorn Lambert, chief product officer…

1inch, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, has expanded its service with adding support to Solana, the current most popular blockchain network. With this integration, 1inch is also planning to introduce cross-chain swaps between Solana and a number of other blockchain networks. Launched primarily on Ethereum, 1inch now supports over 14 different blockchain networks while having a user base of over 22.5 million. The latest integration of Solana makes it one of the most connecting decentralized applications (dApps) within the DeFi ecosystem. 1inch is now available on Solana for seamless on-chain swaps.It’s a massive step towards true DeFi unity.✅ API support already…

Housecoin’s explosive rally may be losing steam, as momentum indicators point to a cooling trend following its parabolic 600% surge. Launched in early April on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, Housecoin (HOUSE) is a memecoin satirically positioned as a hedge against the collapsing real estate market, using the tagline “Flipping the Housing Market, One $HOUSE at a Time.” The memecoin has grabbed the spotlight after it had surged over 660% in just 2 days, climbing from $0.010 on March 25 to an intraday high of $0.076 on April 26, marking its ATH. Although it has since retraced to $0.060, it continues…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. In just the past few months, several high-profile wallet exploits have shaken the crypto world, from sophisticated phishing campaigns to browser vulnerabilities that exposed users’ private keys. Crypto wallets are supposed to be the bedrock of democratized finance—tools that give users direct, sovereign control over their assets. Instead, they often feel like rickety scaffolding: unstable, unforgiving, and ready to collapse under the weight of a single mistake. For all the innovation in web3, wallets remain one of…

Homepage > News > Business > The hidden problem behind Ethereum’s endless upgrades Ethereum is a mess, and Vitalik Buterin’s recent proposal suggests he knows it. Lamenting how slow and expensive Ethereum’s execution layer has become and how messy its code has gotten over time, Buterin proposed replacing the EVM with something called RISC-V, a more general-purpose and efficient virtual machine he claims will be up to 100x faster. Ethereum developers would still write smart contracts in Vyper or Solidity if the proposal was adopted, but they’d compile on RISC-V instead of EVM. The proposal would also allow developers to…