Real-World Assets (RWA)
Real-World Assets (RWA) are tangible or traditional financial assets whose ownership rights have been converted into digital tokens on a blockchain, bridging traditional finance and DeFi.
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At Jackson Hole, the BIS Head Said Stablecoins Fail Every Test of Money. Banks Are Building Them Anyway.
At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on August 28, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Agustín Carstens delivered a keynote that amounted to a formal rejection of stablecoins as a viable payments instrument. Speaking just hours after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh conspicuously avoided mentioning digital assets entirely, Carstens used a three-test framework —…
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39 State Banking Associations Are Building Their Own Blockchain. The Technology Partner Is Still TBD.
Thirty-nine U.S. state banking associations have decided that if they cannot beat the crypto-native stablecoin market, they will simply build a parallel, permissioned version of it. On August 25, 2026, the group announced the BankChain Alliance, a network designed to bring tokenized deposits and smart payments into the regulated fold by 2027. This is not…
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Fasset’s $1B Valuation Bets Stablecoins Can Settle the Agent Economy — If Trust Follows
The Billion-Dollar Bet on Agentic Settlement The race to build plumbing for the agent economy is increasingly defined by a tension between open standards and proprietary gardens. While many startups in this space lean on the speculative promise of future autonomous commerce, Fasset has secured a $1 billion valuation by anchoring its growth in a…
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Hong Kong’s Stablecoin Bifurcation: Two Paths for Tokenized Money
The arrival of regulated stablecoins in Hong Kong is less a singular race for market share and more a structural bifurcation of how tokenized money will function in the regional economy. With the Hong Kong Monetary Authority granting its first two licenses on April 10, 2026, to Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC, the market has been…
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Virtuals Protocol
Virtuals Protocol is an agentic economy platform on Base that lets users create, co-own, and monetize autonomous AI agents using the VIRTUAL token with bonding curve mechanics and EconomyOS infrastructure.
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BlackRock’s New Stablecoin Reserve Vehicles Aren’t Competition — They’re the Foundation
BlackRock is not trying to launch a stablecoin. It is trying to become the plumbing that keeps the entire stablecoin industry from leaking. By launching the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and the Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle (BRSRV) on August 3, 2026, the world’s largest asset manager has signaled that it prefers…
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The Machine as Buyer: Virtuals ACP and the Evaluator Problem
On July 14, machines running peaqOS gained the ability to pair with AI agents through Virtuals’ Agent Commerce Protocol. The integration, via robotic.sh, lets robots set onchain spending allowances and hire agents to shop, pay, and execute tasks on their behalf. A machine is now the buyer. Whether that qualifies as real commerce or a…
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Virtuals Ecosystem: Tokenized Agent Revenue & Market Dynamics
Virtuals Protocol is currently stress-testing the marriage of generative AI and on-chain finance on the Robinhood Chain, attempting to force a reconciliation between speculative mania and the cold, hard utility of autonomous agents. By leveraging the Generative Autonomous Multimodal Entities (GAME) framework, the protocol has deployed over 4,500 agents into a three-layer revenue stack. The…
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What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs? | Forkast Learn
A cryptographic method where one party (the prover) demonstrates to another party (the verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement itself. The verifier learns nothing about why the statement is true—only that it is.