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Fidelity International, a global asset manager with about $1 trillion in client assets, has launched a tokenized liquidity fund assessed by Moody’s Ratings.The new Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ) is issued on blockchain infrastructure linked to Chainlink and was launched through Sygnum Bank’s tokenization platform.According to Sygnum, the fund received a AAA-mf assessment from Moody’s Ratings, a designation used for money market funds that signals strong credit quality and liquidity.“This marks an important milestone in the evolution of capital markets, demonstrating how tokenized liquidity products can bring high-quality, yield-bearing liquidity on-chain in a regulated and scalable way,” said Fatmire…

Network News”ALPENGLOW” UPGRADE LIVE FOR TESTING ON SOLANA: Solana developer Anza said that Alpenglow, the network’s biggest proposed consensus overhaul to date, is live on a community test cluster, marking a major step toward a potential mainnet rollout. The update means validator operators can now test software designed to move Solana from its current consensus system, which combines Proof-of-Stake with TowerBFT and Proof-of-History, toward a new architecture intended to dramatically reduce finality times and improve network responsiveness. “Alpenglow is live on the community test cluster,” Anza wrote on X. “The biggest consensus change in Solana’s history, now running on validator…

The Xbox team is continuing its mission to win back fans by implementing some tiny but noteworthy additions and improvements to the Xbox Series X|S interface–and some in the Xbox Insider program can check them out starting today.Last week, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared the console’s new bootup animation, which select Xbox Insiders can now witness for themselves at startup. The animation emphasizes the Xbox signature color of green a lot more, though the sound is similar to what users are accustomed to.Enthusiastic achievement hunters might enjoy some new vanity badges that will show up on their profile and the…

In a significant shift in bitcoin’s market structure the amount of supply held by “conviction buyers” has surged to nearly 4 million BTC, according to BitGo data cited by Bitfinex on Wednesday.Bitcoin in long-term buyers’ hands currently represents a 300% increase since the end of 2025, signaling a massive migration of the crypto’s realized value into large, low-activity entities, according to Bitfinex.The massive “conviction” capital is valued at just over $320 billion, based on bitcoin’s current price of roughly $80,000.“While the exact methodology behind BitGo’s ‘conviction buyers’ metric isn’t immediately clear, the broader signal is notable,” said Mati Greenspan, a…

Prediction market platforms such as Polymarket regularly observe millions in volume on most of their events, ranging from election outcomes to crypto price targets. That said, one persistent problem remains: most participants are essentially just guessing. They pick a side based on brief research, gut instinct, social media noise, or whatever narrative may feel more convincing that specific week. Poly Truth is positioning itself as a platform that wants to fix that. Rather than being just another prediction platform, it’s an intelligence layer, which is built on top of prediction markets. Think of it as an AI-powered tool designed to…

The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has explained why he’s not in charge of the franchise’s next chapter — The Hunt for Gollum — and why he thinks Gollum actor Andy Serkis will do a “more exciting” job.Speaking at the Cannes film festival (via Variety), Jackson answered questions around the upcoming Middle-earth movie — the first of several to revive the franchise for the big screen over the next couple of years. As its name suggests, The Hunt for Gollum will see numerous characters (Gandalf! Aragorn! Sauron!) tracking the fallen hobbit to find out what has become of…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2185.22, down 0.3% (-5.55) since yesterday’s close.Seven of 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: DOT (+2.6%) and BNB (+1.7%).Laggards: SUI (-3.2%) and TAO (-2.7%).The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

Make CryptoSlate preferred on Bitcoin just fell below $80,000 as a hotter-than-expected US inflation print pushed crypto and equities lower.Bitcoin price feels hot inflation impact BTC price slipped from the low $81,000 area into $79,706, with the session low marked near $79,557. The break turned $80,000 from a round-number reference into the first tactical line for intraday structure.Bitcoin price decline alongside rising US Treasury yields, oil prices, and US dollar indexThe move followed the April US Producer Price Index. Final demand PPI rose 1.4% month over month, far above the 0.5% consensus and the prior 0.7% reading.The annual rate accelerated…

The heroes of Overwatch are coming to Fortnite this week. Epic Games and Blizzard Entertainment confirmed the poorly kept secret that D.Va, Genji, Mercy, and Tracer are dropping onto Fortnite’s island this week, and for some reason, D.Va brought a huge sword. Epic Games revealed the Overwatch x Fortnite crossover on Wednesday with a new Act 3 cinematic trailer that shows the quartet of Overwatch heroes rescuing Jonesy and Fishstick while they’re under attack from the Ice King. Everyone on the Overwatch side says their signature catchphrases — except for Genji, who does not say “I need healing” — and…

In brief Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov argued that migrating to post-quantum signature schemes is “mostly a coordination issue” for Bitcoin, rather than a technical challenge. Shaulov flagged North Korean hacking attacks as a roadblock to institutional adoption of crypto. Crypto privacy is “the most important and unresolved issue” for Fortune 500 companies seeking to adopt crypto, he said. The threat posed by quantum computing to the cryptographic signature schemes employed by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is “not actually a threat as people make it out to be,” according to Michael Shaulov, CEO of crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks.Speaking at the Financial…