The search giant’s cloud division has added analytics support for 11 additional blockchains, meaning users can now perform queries on chains from Avalanche to Zcash.

Institutional bank ANZ built on Swift’s Chainlink experiment with a simulated cross-chain purchase of a tokenized asset using its own Australian dollar stablecoin.

The German banking giant has announced a global partnership for custody and tokenization services with Swiss infrastructure specialist Taurus. But a discussion on X has questioned whether this is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

The 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index report from Chainalysis shows that South and South-East Asia are leading the way in grassroots crypto adoption. Countries with low-mid income tend to show a higher level of adoption.

Standard Chartered’s digital asset subsidiary has had a busy week, announcing that it will provide institutional support and custody to the Polkadot blockchain, and launching its custodial solutions into the Singapore market for the first time.

The Prime Minister of Thailand was sworn in on Tuesday along with his cabinet. During the election his Pheu Thai party’s signature policy was a 10,000 baht payout to citizens via a new blockchain platform. So now comes the logistical challenge of actually keeping that promise.

The payments giant has been accepting USDC payments on Ethereum from card-issuer Crypto.com in Australia since 2021, and will now use the cheaper Solana network to settle cross-border transactions with Merchant Acquirers, Worldpay and Nuvei, which collect payments on behalf of global retailers.

Swift, which has long been international banking’s preferred cross-border payments messaging system of choice, has published the results of an investigation into connecting traditional banks to the myriad of blockchain choices in order to leverage tokenized assets.