Quant (@quantnetwork), the firm behind $QNT, unveiled a Multi-Ledger Rollup on its 10th anniversary, calling it Layer 2.5.

A bank token on Hyperledger Besu can serve as collateral in DeFi on Ethereum, with no bridge.

Inside the Layer 2.5 design:
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Kaspa (@kaspaunchained) activated Toccata on June 30, 2026, adding native covenants and zero-knowledge proof checks to Layer 1.

$KAS gets this inside its UTXO model, not an EVM, alongside the Kasplex zkEVM rollup.

What Toccata changed:
bsc.news/post/kaspa-toc…

USDY from @Ondo is not a stablecoin. It is a tokenized note backed mostly by short-term US Treasuries.

$USDY launched at $1.00 on Ethereum in August 2023, and its redemption value rises as those assets earn interest.

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Polygon (@0xPolygon), home of $POL, says a July 2025 upgrade cut finality from about two minutes to five seconds.

It reports fees near $0.002 and a SOC 2 Type 1 audit. Visa, Mastercard and Revolut have each tied it in.

What backs the label:
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Ripple (@Ripple) launched RLUSD in December 2024 under a New York DFS trust charter, on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum.

Each $RLUSD is backed 1:1 by cash and short-term Treasuries. BNY Mellon became reserve custodian in July 2025.

The full picture:
bsc.news/post/rlusd-rip…

Cloud Engines are Internet Computer subnets that firms configure under ICP's on-chain governance.

Node providers keep 80% of their revenue. The other 20% buys and burns $ICP, per the Mission 70 whitepaper from @dfinity.

How the burn model works:
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Volunteers kept Terra Classic running after UST lost its peg in May 2022 and the original team left.

Proposal 3568 set a 1.2% burn tax on transfers. By August 2026, monthly burns by @binance had removed 87.43 billion $LUNC.

What the rebuild involves:
bsc.news/post/terra-cla…

TRON began as an ERC-20 token and moved to its own mainnet in June 2018. That year it also acquired BitTorrent.

Holders freeze $TRX for Tron Power to vote for 27 super representatives, the validators of a network now run by @trondao.

Start here:
bsc.news/post/tron-trx

Monero (@monero) hides the sender, receiver and amount of every transaction by default.

Ring signatures mix each spend with decoys, stealth addresses create a one-time address per payment, and RingCT has hidden $XMR amounts since 2017.

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Render Network (@rendernetwork) launched on Ethereum in 2017 as RNDR and moved to Solana in 2023.

It connects GPU owners with 3D artists, VFX studios and AI developers. Jobs are paid in $RENDER under a Burn-and-Mint Equilibrium.

Full explainer:
bsc.news/post/render-ne…

Pavel Durov (@durov) co-founded VKontakte in 2006 and left Russia in 2014 after defying the Kremlin.

On May 4, 2026, he said Telegram would replace the TON Foundation as the main force behind $TON and run its largest validator.

From Leningrad to TON:
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Google, IBM and Boeing each run a consensus node on Hedera (@hedera) and hold one equal vote on its council.

The model copies Visa's 1968 member-bank setup. Council votes cover software updates, fees and the $HBAR treasury.

Inside the council model:
bsc.news/post/google-ib…

Smart contracts can't fetch outside data on their own. Chainlink (@chainlink) launched in 2019 to fix that oracle problem.

Its node operators pull data from many sources, aggregate it into one answer, and stake $LINK as collateral.

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The XRP Ledger went live in 2012 with all 100 billion $XRP minted at launch. No new tokens can ever be created.

Ripple (@Ripple) got 80 billion and later locked 55 billion in on-ledger escrow, released monthly.

How the supply works:
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Concrete is an onchain finance platform from Blueprint Finance, with Earn, Vaults, Enterprise and AssetCX lines.

Its $CT token, from @ConcreteXYZ, has a fixed 1 billion supply and no inflation. Team and investors hold 50%.

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Dogwifhat (@dogwifcoin) launched on Solana on November 20, 2023, built on a 2018 photo of a Shiba Inu named Achi in a pink beanie.

On March 1, 2024, $WIF became the first memecoin to reach $1. Binance listed it March 5.

The listing-by-listing rise:
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FIP.16 passed a @FlareNetworks vote on April 24, 2026. It cut annual $FLR inflation from 5% to 3% and raised the minimum base fee twentyfold.

Fee revenue goes to FIRE, an entity that buys back and burns FLR.

Details here:
bsc.news/post/fip-16-fl…

Three entities split Cardano's work. Input Output does research, the Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF) does governance, and EMURGO drives adoption.

Under $ADA on-chain governance, Intersect now coordinates budgets and upgrades.

Who does what:
bsc.news/post/cardano-o…

Babylon Genesis, a Bitcoin-based Layer 1, launched on April 10, 2025.

@babylonlabs_io lets $BTC holders stake without wrapping or bridging and keep their keys. That BTC helps secure other chains.

How the staking works:
bsc.news/post/babylon-l…

Beam is a gaming-first Layer 1 that grew out of Merit Circle DAO, founded in 2021 around play-to-earn scholarships.

@BuildOnBeam's permissionless mainnet went live October 24, 2023, on Avalanche tech. Governance runs through $BEAM.

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