Arun Shakyawar

Kentucky

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BitPay Launches HODL Pay to Let Users Borrow Against Crypto and Spend Without Selling

2 days ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

BitPay today launched HODL Pay, a new payment feature designed to let crypto users borrow stablecoins against their crypto holdings and spend without liquidating their assets. HODL Pay enables consumers to use their deposited collateral on Aave, a leading DeFi lending protocol, to borrow stablecoins and immediately spend them through BitPay’s merchant network.
SKALE Labs Launches BITE Protocol to Eliminate $1.8B MEV Threat

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

SKALE Labs has launched the BITE Protocol (Blockchain Integrated Threshold Encryption), a consensus-level solution aimed at eradicating Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) from blockchain transactions. MEV, which refers to the profits that validators and miners can extract by reordering transactions within a block, has been a persistent issue in blockchain networks, leading to over $1.8 billion in losses since 2020.
RabbitX and Paxos Launch 24/7 Gold Futures

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

RabbitX, a zero-fee decentralized perpetual futures exchange, has partnered with regulated blockchain infrastructure provider Paxos to launch perpetual futures for Pax Gold (PAXG), a gold-backed digital asset. The move represents a step toward real-time, borderless commodities trading—available 24/7 and free from legacy market constraints. The new offering allows users to trade perpetual futures on PAXG, a token fully backed by physical gold held in custody and regularly audited.
GOAT Gaming launches Amy, the first AlphaGOAT Pro AI agent

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

GOAT Gaming today unveiled “Amy,” its first AlphaGOAT Pro AI agent—an autonomous digital competitor designed to play, earn, and provoke in real time. Amy represents the frontier of interactive, AI-driven entertainment, merging gameplay, social engagement, and monetization into a single entity that lives within Telegram and beyond. Developed by the team behind Mighty Bear Games, GOAT Gaming operates a Telegram-centric gaming ecosystem with over 5 million active users.
Bitcoin Sets Course for $152K by Q1 2026

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin reached an intraday high of $97,811 and a low of $95,964, with a 24-hour trading volume of $24.27 billion. Bitcoin enters Elliott Wave V with Q1 2026 targets as high as $133K–$152K, backed by ETF inflows, and institutional buying. The cryptocurrency market saw a modest dip in the last 24 hours, with the global crypto market cap declining 0.59% to settle at $2.99 trillion. Despite the overall red tide, select altcoins bucked the trend.
Playtron Launches Game Dollar Stablecoin for $500B Gaming Economy

1 week ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

Playtron teams up with M0 and Bridge to launch Game Dollar – a programmable stablecoin for gaming economy. Built on the Sui blockchain, Game Dollar will enable in-game purchases, subscriptions, and rewards—offering a programmable, interoperable payments layer across Playtron’s GameOS and the new SuiPlay0X1 handheld console. Playtron, the developer behind GameOS, is launching a new stablecoin — Game Dollar.
Crypto UX Problem Persists Despite Growth, Finds Reown and Nansen’s 2025 Onchain UX Report

2 weeks ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

The 2025 State of Onchain UX report by Reown and Nansen highlights growing wallet usage, poor smart wallet awareness, and rising adoption of chains like Solana and Base. 62% of crypto users manage multiple wallets, signaling fragmentation in wallet UX; most users are unaware of smart wallets. Adoption is surging on specialized chains like Solana and Base, but interoperability and user education remain key hurdles for broader usage.
Sony's Blockchain Brings U.S. Treasury and Private Credit Yields Onchain

2 weeks ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

Sony-backed L2 Soneium teams up with Plume Network to bring real-world asset (RWA) yield onchain via SkyLink. Users can now access tokenized U.S. Treasuries and private credit natively in Soneium’s ecosystem. Plume, a full-stack RWA chain, has partnered with Soneium, an Ethereum Layer-2 developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, to unlock new yield-generating opportunities for millions of users through SkyLink, Plume’s cross-chain interoperability layer.
Avail Launches Enigma, Brings Encrypted Rollups to Public Blockchains

2 weeks ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

Avail and Rize Labs unveil Enigma, a new privacy layer for institutional blockchain adoption. Enigma brings encrypted rollups to public blockchains—solving the long-standing trade-off between transparency and confidentiality. Avail, a modular blockchain infrastructure provider, has partnered with Rize Labs to launch Enigma—a privacy-focused upgrade to Avail’s data availability (DA) layer—targeting enterprises with stringent confidentiality demands.
Kava AI Hits 100K Users, Launches a DeFi Execution Layer

2 weeks ago | alexablockchain.com | Arun Shakyawar

Kava, the Layer-1 blockchain blending the Cosmos SDK’s interoperability with Ethereum’s developer capabilities, has crossed a pivotal threshold in its decentralized artificial intelligence journey. The platform announced a major upgrade to Kava AI—its open-source, blockchain-native AI model—at Token2049 Dubai, revealing it has surpassed 100,000 users and launched a DeFi execution layer to unlock real-time alpha generation and automated trading for Web3 users.