Articles by Hassan Maishera

Hassan is a Nigeria-based financial content creator that has invested in many different blockchain projects, including Bitcoin, Ether, Stellar Lumens, Cardano, VeChain and Solana. He currently works as a financial markets and cryptocurrency writer and has contributed to a large number of the leading FX, stock and cryptocurrency blogs in the world.

Binance Becomes a Sei Network Validator

Binance Becomes a Sei Network Validator

On Thursday, the Sei team announced via X that Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange, has become a Sei network validator.

Securitize Adopts the Chainlink Data Standard

Securitize Adopts the Chainlink Data Standard

Securitize, the tokenization platform with $4B+ in tokenized securities, has adopted the Chainlink data standard to price Securitize tokenized funds used as collateral on Aave Horizon.

Kinetiq Makes its LST, kHYPE, a Cross-Chain Token (CCT)

Kinetiq Makes its LST, kHYPE, a Cross-Chain Token (CCT)

Kinetix, a leading liquid staking protocol on Hyperliquid, has made its LST, kHYPE, a Cross-Chain Token (CCT), enabling it to be natively transferable across Ethereum and HyperEVM via Chainlink CCIP.

Monaco Adopts Chainlink as its Official Oracle and Interoperability Solution

Monaco Adopts Chainlink as its Official Oracle and Interoperability Solution

Monaco, an institutional-grade trading protocol incubated by Sei Labs, is adopting Chainlink as its official oracle and interoperability solution.

$ASTER is Now Live on Alchemy Pay's On-Ramp

$ASTER is Now Live on Alchemy Pay's On-Ramp

On Thursday, the Alchemy Pay team announced via X that the Alchemy Pay On-Ramp now supports $ASTER.

Ripple Raises $500M in Latest Funding Round to Hit a $40B Valuation

Ripple Raises $500M in Latest Funding Round to Hit a $40B Valuation

Blockchain and digital assets company Ripple has raised $500 million in its latest funding round, hitting a $40 billion valuation.

Wormhole Reserve Purchases One Million $W Tokens

Wormhole Reserve Purchases One Million $W Tokens

On Wednesday, the Wormhole team announced via X that the Wormhole Reserve has purchased one million $W tokens ($58k).

Lido Upgrades to Chainlink CCIP

Lido Upgrades to Chainlink CCIP

Lido announced via X on Wednesday that it is upgrading to Chainlink CCIP as its official cross-chain infrastructure for wstETH, adopting the CCT standard across all supported networks.

SBI Digital Markets Adopts Chainlink

SBI Digital Markets Adopts Chainlink

SBI Digital Markets (SBIDM) is adopting Chainlink as its exclusive infrastructure solution to power its digital assets platform.

Lighter Adopts Chainlink Data Streams

Lighter Adopts Chainlink Data Streams

Lighter, a leading perp DEX and the biggest ZK-based Ethereum rollup, has adopted Chainlink Data Streams as its official oracle solution, powering its RWA markets.

WisdomTree Adopts Chainlink

WisdomTree Adopts Chainlink

WisdomTree has adopted Chainlink to bring institutional-grade NAV data onchain to power subscriptions and redemptions for its CRDT tokenized fund on Ethereum.

Chainlink Partners with GSR

Chainlink Partners with GSR

Chainlink announced via X on Wednesday that it has partnered with GSR to launch a stablecoin enablement program powering the next generation of institutional-grade stablecoins.