Blockchains cannot read each other. A user holding Bitcoin cannot spend it in an application built on Ethereum, because the two networks share no ledger. Cross-chain bridges close that gap. The asset is locked, burned or pooled on one chain and the equivalent is issued on another, as two separate entries connected by a protocol. Our new blockchain basics article explains how bridges work, how they differ from decentralized exchanges and coin swap services, and where the compliance risk sits.

BLOCKCHAIN EXPANSION UPDATE Chainlink services expanded across the following blockchains: CCIP • Arc • MOVA Data Streams • Arc CRE • ADI Chain • Ink • Monad Data Feeds • Arc • Tempo

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“Blockchains Are Cities” from @hosseeb and @jmonegro “Fat Protocols” are two pieces I’ve returned to repeatedly over the yrs But things changed in the last 10 years This piece looks at the trade-offs between ETH, SOL, and HYPE and why all 3 can win imo

Blockchain settles a USDC transfer perfectly. The second that USDC needs to arrive as Mexican pesos, the old correspondent banking problem stands as is. "Say I have USDC, and I send USDC to you. That's perfect. That's an atomic transaction. There's no back-end rebalancing that needs to happen." "You have to reinsert the tied-up capital problem because someone needs to lock in the price." DeFi tried to solve this with automated market makers. "They could never work for very deep markets like the FX markets because you would have to replicate the correspondent banking or the nostro/vostro problem onchain." That constraint is what @OfficialXFX was built to solve. "How can we process the maximum amount of volume with the minimum amount of capital in the system? That's the whole thesis." shares @SantiAlvarado_

Blockchain forensics splits across two parties: A blockchain analytics provider builds the dataset: making attributions about addresses and grouping addresses that share an owner. That work runs continuously, independently of any particular case. The investigator works on top of it. Following the funds, deciding which branch to take where they mix with other funds, following them onto other blockchains, finding the point where the trail meets a regulated business and documenting the result along the way. Our new article covers all six steps that make blockchain forensics work:

Blockchain Life 2026 | December 1-2 | Dubai, UAE Major companies. Behind-the-scenes negotiations. Top contacts. Connections with the Tops of the Сrypto from around the globe. 15,000+ participants Crypto leaders Web3 expo 130+ countries Global speakers 200+ booths

Blockchain Life 2026 | December 1-2 | Dubai, UAE Major companies. Behind-the-scenes negotiations. Top contacts. Connections with the Tops of the Сrypto from around the globe. 15,000+ participants Crypto leaders Web3 expo 130+ countries Global speakers 200+ booths

BlockchainWares — core contributors to the Hive blockchain with 31,000+ commits, building node infrastructure and developer tooling — joins European Blockchain Convention 12 as Bronze Partner. Meet them at EBC12 in Barcelona: