Strike announces purchase of $100 million in Bitcoin

According to CoinDesk, SWIFT currently processes approximately $5 trillion in cross-border settlements daily, but transaction costs range from 1% to 4% and settlement takes 1 to 5 business days. In the face of competition between stablecoins and tokenized assets, SWIFT launched a blockchain ledger last month. HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank completed their first real-time transaction through this system, reducing settlement time to seconds. BNY expects the stablecoin and tokenized cash market size to reach $3.7 trillion by 2030, while Citigroup expects the tokenized securities market size to increase to $5.5 trillion during the same period.

According to GMGN data, trader Bonkguy has increased his position in MarsCoin and currently holds 24.9 million MarsCoins with a value of approximately $1.31 million. He has invested approximately $984800 with an average cost of $0.0389 and a floating profit of approximately $344600. Bonkguy stated that he chose to increase his position in MarsCoin after seeing Niulai launch the Binance contract, and expressed optimism about the trading logic, believing that the transaction needs to patiently wait for the logic to be fulfilled.

Members of the Executive Committee of the European Central Bank suggest introducing central bank currency into blockchain, using smart contracts to adjust interest rates, collateral requirements, and access conditions in real-time. （CoinDesk）

The Zcash full node client Zakura team has released the encryption and protocol library Zakura Common for the Zcash ecosystem. The mobile proof generation speed has been increased by over 14 times, the desktop side by over 5 times, the Sinsemilla hash speed by over 21 times, the trial decryption speed by over 1.5 times, the zk SNARK verification speed by 4 to 8 times, and the wallet creation transaction waiting time has been reduced from more than 3 seconds to less than 200 milliseconds. This upgrade does not require network upgrades and has adopted the MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license open source. Zakura 1.3.0 will switch to this technology stack.

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