President Emmanuel Macron’s planned address at Paris Blockchain Week underscores France’s bid to place euro stablecoins, the digital euro and digital-finance regulation at the center of Europe’s sovereignty agenda. The broader message is geopolitical: Europe wants greater control over the financial infrastructure that may shape future payments, capital markets and monetary influence.

In Brief Revolut has processed over $1.2 billion in cumulative transaction volume on Polygon. The milestone points to growing use of blockchain rails inside mainstream fintech...

Algorand Foundation promoted Bruno Martins to CTO, Will Beaumont to global head of product and integrations, and Brian Whippo to senior director of integrations and developer tooling.

Katana acquired IDEX and launched Katana Perps, expanding from a DeFi-first blockchain into a more integrated onchain trading platform.

World has launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit that lets websites verify whether an AI agent is backed by a unique human rather than part of a bot swarm. Built to work with Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol, the launch reflects a broader race to build the trust and payments infrastructure for agent-driven online commerce.