XRP Ledger activated PermissionDelegationV1_1 on Oct. 8, letting account owners hand specific jobs to helper accounts while their main keys stay offline. Until a fix for a token-burning flaw activates, operators can safely hand off fewer jobs than the feature allows.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Citrini Research skips Bitcoin in a crypto basket built on AI agents moving money
Citrini Research's latest crypto basket leaves out Bitcoin and backs the blockchain infrastructure that AI agents could use to move money. Citrini expects those agents to pull deposits from banks paying uncompetitive rates, and the basket is built to collect that flow.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives70
- Confidence30
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 hands the second bridge check to the institutions moving tokenized assets
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 cuts a transfer's default checks from two networks to one and lets institutions add their own verifiers back. Paying for the second check now falls to the bank or issuer, five months after a single-verifier bridge setup cost Kelp DAO $292 million.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
SBI and Kyobo's test transfer replaced the dollar leg with a single yen-won conversion
SBI Digital Practice sent a yen-linked test token to Kyobo Life and it arrived as a won-linked one, with no dollar in between. The run happened in a Canton test environment between two companies SBI Holdings part-owns.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Circle's Arc mainnet makes USDC both the unit of account and the gas token
Arc's founding validator set has twelve members, drawn from card networks, clearing houses and asset managers. The company that issues the chain's fee asset is also the company that can freeze it.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives72
- Confidence45