Tokenization is about bringing real-world financial assets onto infrastructure that can support global scale and continuous market access, said Carlos Domingo, Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize.
The integration allows developers to build goal-oriented workflows where agents plan and execute swaps across the 1inch network using the Swap Application Programming Interface (API). This update provides rapid access to a suite of 15 APIs, including Portfolio and Gas Price tools, reducing integration time from days to minutes.
The transition here is a little bit of a fork. Rocktop Technologies is focused on some of the generative AI applications and data and documents, as well as automating some of the processes attached to default servicing and some of the trade operational pieces and capital markets.
Agentic payments is very early, and we still are figuring out the best way to structure these. So our team just came up with what we thought was the most elegant, minimal, efficient protocol that anyone can extend without our permission.
Remember back in 2021 when everyone thought a cartoon monkey was the peak of human financial evolution? Well, we have come a long way since then. If you are reading this in 2026, you already know that the "NFTs are dead" crowd was mostly wrong. They were just looking at the wrong things. While the hype around speculative art might have cooled, the actual tech behind digital ownership has grown into a massive, sturdy engine for the global economy.
Asset prices are in freefall, key legislation hangs by a thread, and members of Crypto Twitter fret it's their turn to learn what it's like to "have fun staying poor." One company, though, is sitting pretty amid all this. That would be Tether, which last week reported $10 billion in profits for 2025, and has amassed so much gold it's now storing bars of the stuff in Swiss bunkers from World War II.
Blockspace Media has acquired Bitcoin Layers, an independent data platform tracking metrics across Bitcoin's layer-2 and scaling ecosystem, as the company expands beyond journalism into data and intelligence products. The acquisition brings Bitcoin Layers' research and on-chain analytics directly into Blockspace's content and product suite, including a forthcoming data dashboard designed to track adoption, total value locked (TVL), and activity across Bitcoin L2s and other scaling platforms, the company wrote to Bitcoin Magazine.
Success in this space is no longer about being the first to launch. It is about being the most reliable and the most compliant. In the first half of 2025, trading volumes on exchanges reached a staggering $9.36 trillion. That is a lot of liquidity moving around. However, it also means the competition is fierce. To win, you need a platform that does not crash when the market gets wild.
