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Decentralised.co reported that the cost of sending $200 across borders is currently 6.36%, down from 9.67% in 2009, with the United Nations aiming to reduce it to 3% by 2030. Remittances consist of three parts: collecting from the remitter, transferring value, and paying the recipient, with the intermediate stage previously being slower and now the cheapest part. Receiving and paying require licenses, bank accounts, compliance, and payment networks. The process from Dubai to Manila takes about six steps, with only one step using blockchain.Pre-funded agent accounts decentralize operating capital. Tokenized dollars can be concentrated in a single funding pool, settled on Sundays, and rebalanced within minutes. Traders hold inventory and bear exchange rate risks. Félix Pago raised $200 million to facilitate remittances from the U.S. to Latin America via WhatsApp, with a16z leading a $87 million equity round and General Catalyst providing a $113 million credit line. Nium is now funding customer payments in USDC. a16z Crypto led a $10 million investment in Better Money. Conduit raised $36 million for corridors from Europe to Nigeria and Kenya, while Palla raised $14.5 million for white-label payments to thirty banks.The article states that stablecoins can fix pipeline issues but cannot resolve isolated systems related to legal matters or toll collection.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Monterrey Open: Diane Parry vs Elise Mertens," the sub-market "Monterrey Open: Diane Parry vs Elise Mertens" saw a dramatic fluctuation in the winning probability of the "Diane Parry" option, soaring from 46.5% an hour ago to the current 63.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Monterrey Open: Nikola Bartunkova vs Elise Mertens," the option "Nikola Bartunkova" in the sub-market "Monterrey Open: Nikola Bartunkova vs Elise Mertens" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 93.5% an hour ago to the current 30.5% (a fluctuation of 63%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Jacob Creech, Vice President of Technology at the Solana Foundation, stated that Solana has officially shortened the slot time for the first time since its establishment, now entering a new phase of 350 milliseconds, with the next target being 300 milliseconds.Slot time is the time unit corresponding to each block in the Solana network, and shortening it helps improve transaction confirmation speed and network throughput. Previously, Solana's target slot time had long been maintained at around 400 milliseconds, and this adjustment marks an important update to the network's performance parameters.

Solana developer Brennan Watt announced on the X platform that the Solana mainnet has activated the first slot time reduction, with the target decreasing from the current 400 milliseconds to 350 milliseconds, which will officially take effect in the 1020th Epoch.Watt pointed out that some SDK constants (such as DEFAULT_MS_PER_SLOT) have not yet been updated to the new values and will be pushed in subsequent versions. The transition period may affect applications that rely on SDK constants matching the mainnet reality, and developers are advised to manually determine whether the functionality is enabled based on Epoch boundaries when it takes effect. Watt explained that the long-term plan is to put these parameters on-chain for client queries, but currently, to launch the reduction feature as soon as possible, this transition period must be endured.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Wimbledon WTA: Marie Bouzkova vs. Elise Mertens," the sub-market "Wimbledon WTA: Marie Bouzkova vs. Elise Mertens" saw the winning probability of the option "Marie Bouzkova" experience drastic fluctuations, plummeting from 56.5% an hour ago to the current 12.5% (a fluctuation of 44%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Cointelegraph, Sei has released the Giga white paper version 2, which aims to bring finality under 250 milliseconds, pre-execution privacy protection, protocol-level MEV resistance, and a processing capacity of over 200,000 transactions per second.

NEAR officially announced the next major protocol upgrade SPICE (Separation of Consensus and Execution), which is a key step towards Nightshade 3. After the upgrade is completed, the NEAR block time will be reduced from the current 600 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, achieving about a 3x speedup, approaching the maximum speed allowed by physical conditions. The core of SPICE is to decouple the consensus layer from the execution layer, allowing validators to complete block consensus without waiting for transaction execution, thereby reducing latency and supporting more complex, time-consuming transactions.NEAR stated that this upgrade will be the largest underlying architecture change since Stateless Validation in 2024. After the upgrade, the transaction experience of applications such as NEAR Intents and near.com will be further enhanced. Defuse Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko indicated that the final confirmation time for NEAR is expected to drop to about 0.4 seconds, faster than Visa's standard of about 3 seconds, achieving a payment experience close to "completed in the blink of an eye."NEAR also mentioned that faster block times are crucial for the AI Agent economy, enabling high-speed payments and complex transactions between agents, and allowing longer tasks to be executed across multiple blocks. Additionally, SPICE will pave the way for Nightshade 3 and lay the foundation for achieving cross-shard atomic execution in the future. The NEAR development team stated that this will help address the development complexity and potential vulnerabilities brought by asynchronous environments, improving network scalability and security.

According to CoinDesk, the French Lightning Securities Exchange (Lise) plans to list aerospace parts supplier ST Group on its platform, which is expected to become Europe's first fully on-chain initial public offering (IPO).Lise was authorized last year under the EU's Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot Regime and is the first institution in Europe approved to operate a fully tokenized equity exchange. Headquartered in Paris, it has the support of French financial institutions such as BNP Paribas, CACEIS (a subsidiary of the Agricultural Credit Group), and Bpifrance. ST Group primarily produces composite material components for aerospace, defense, and space projects, with potential project revenues estimated at around €59 million (approximately $68 million) over the next decade.Lise aims to provide a lower-cost and more efficient listing path for small and medium-sized enterprises, replacing the lengthy and expensive IPO process in traditional capital markets. Tokenization technology enables faster trade settlement and more efficient ownership tracking, and Nasdaq and NYSE have previously disclosed plans for tokenized securities trading.

The latest research from blockchain data firm Glassnode shows that Hyperliquid's 24 validation nodes are concentrated in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tokyo region, giving traders near Tokyo a significant latency advantage.Tokyo users can reach the validation nodes in just 2 to 3 milliseconds, while European users experience delays of over 200 milliseconds. Using AWS Tokyo as a benchmark, the median round-trip time for orders is about 884 milliseconds; from Virginia, USA, it takes about 1,079 milliseconds, a difference of about 200 milliseconds.In a time-sequenced matching mechanism, geographic location directly determines queue priority, affecting price spreads and transaction probabilities. Major exchanges like Binance and KuCoin also deploy their core infrastructure in the same AWS region, making Tokyo the de facto hub for crypto trading in Asia. The research points out that, unlike traditional financial markets, decentralized finance currently lacks corresponding mechanisms to balance geographic advantages, and a latency arms race is quietly taking shape.

According to market news, the Solana core development team Anza has launched the Constellation protocol, a multi-concurrent proposer protocol that shortens Solana's block cycle to 50 milliseconds, making it the fastest blockchain in terms of economic rhythm at the protocol level.This protocol replaces the single leader model, eliminating exclusive control over transaction inclusion and ordering through concurrent proposers, enforcing fairness at the protocol level without relying on trusted third parties or modifying clients, while the validator economic model remains largely unchanged.

CZ posted on the X platform that the opBNB mainnet hard fork has been completed. This upgrade reduces the block time from 500 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds.

ChainCatcher news, Lise (Lightning Exchange) in Paris has received authorization from the French financial regulator ACPR, becoming the first company in Europe to operate a fully tokenized stock exchange.The exchange will merge trading and settlement onto a single blockchain platform, targeting French companies with a market capitalization of less than 500 million euros, and plans to launch its first small and medium-sized enterprise IPOs in early 2026. Lise's shareholders include CACEIS (a subsidiary of the French Agricultural Credit Group), BNP Paribas, and Bpifrance.

ChainCatcher message, Formula News founder Vida tweeted that by querying the historical order book of Binance's spot market, it was found that ATOMUSDT briefly touched $0.001 within 8 milliseconds from 2025-10-11 05:20:37.689 to 05:20:37.697. At that time, all market makers had exited, and there were no buyers to take the sell orders, causing the price to drop instantly. The price quickly rebounded within the following milliseconds. The price did indeed appear on Binance's spot market, but it will not affect the liquidation price of contracts, as the contract's mark price is calculated using a sliding average over several minutes, so the contract price did not drop to $0.001.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana new consensus protocol Alpenglow proposal SIMD-0326 has been voted through. The voting rule requires that the proportion of affirmative votes must reach 2/3 of the total votes (affirmative + negative) to pass.Alpenglow aims to reduce the block finalization time from 12.8 s to nearly 150 ms.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency exchange platform Kraken has acquired no-code trading company Capitalise.ai to expand its professional platform. Capitalise.ai is an Israeli company specializing in no-code, natural language trading automation, and the financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.This acquisition will enable Kraken Pro users to create, test, and automate trading strategies using everyday text without the need to write code. Kraken plans to launch these new features on the Pro platform later this year.

ChainCatcher news, according to Tech in Asia, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $250 million Series E funding round for the American AI real estate technology company EliseAI, with the company valued at over $2.2 billion. Existing investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures participated in this round of financing.EliseAI focuses on developing AI tools for automated customer service and operations, primarily serving the housing and healthcare industries. The company reported an annual recurring revenue of over $100 million by early 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Circle announced on August 19 that its cross-chain infrastructure Circle Gateway has officially launched on the mainnet. This product aims to achieve unified balance management of USDC across chains, providing users with the capability to access USDC across chains in seconds, and will continue to expand support for more blockchain networks in the future.The technical features of Circle Gateway include: cross-chain access speed of less than 500 milliseconds, allowing for quick invocation of a unified USDC balance without the need for cross-chain bridges or pre-configured assets; meeting multi-chain liquidity needs through a single integrated interface, effectively reducing capital occupation costs; adopting a non-custodial architecture design, allowing users to maintain complete control over their USDC, with fund transfers requiring signature authorization and the withdrawal process not relying on third-party trust.

ChainCatcher news, CACEIS, the asset services division of Crédit Agricole, announced the acquisition of a minority stake in the fintech company Kriptown, supporting its development of Lise, the first blockchain equity exchange in Europe focused on small and medium-sized enterprises.The platform is currently applying for regulatory approval under the EU DLT pilot program, aiming to simplify the corporate IPO process through distributed ledger technology, with the entire chain of securities issuance, trading, and settlement on the blockchain. The first IPO project is planned to launch in 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced that it will launch ultra-low latency (colocation) trading services in the coming weeks, providing customers with millisecond-level trade execution speeds.The first users will be able to experience the service at the London data center. The service will be powered by cloud computing technology provided by UK-listed company Beeks (BKS), and some customers will also have the option to install physical hardware at the Kraken data center for direct access to the hosting service. Kraken's solution is open to all customers, not just institutional investors.