7-Eleven in South Korea will accept CBDC payments as part of a government pilot programme, offering a 10% discount on purchases made with digital currency between April and June 2025. The CBDC trial, launched by the Bank of Korea, involves 100,000 participants and aims to test digital currency use in everyday transactions.

Solana has launched the Solana Policy Institute (SPI) to help shape blockchain regulations and educate policymakers about decentralised networks. The move comes as Solana faces regulatory uncertainty while gaining more institutional support and market growth.

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The Trump family turned to cryptocurrency after banks closed their accounts, claiming they were unfairly targeted due to politics. They have since invested in crypto mining, DeFi projects, and digital assets, seeing crypto as a more secure and independent financial system.

USDC payments are now available on Sony's Singapore online store, with the company suggesting that additional cryptocurrencies may be introduced in the future.

GameStop raised $1.5 billion through a convertible note offering to buy Bitcoin and strengthen its balance sheet. Despite initial excitement, the move led to a drop in the company's stock, as investors grew wary of the increased debt.

Mastercard is launching a programme to accelerate virtual card adoption, enhancing interactions across banks, platforms, and businesses. By leveraging advanced VCN technology, Mastercard is enabling seamless, consumer-like commercial payments.

Singapore media, Lianhe Zaobao just reported that the founder of Bytedance Zhang Yiming, has changed his citizenship to become a Singaporean.

The South Korean entertainment giant-record label HYBE officially given up its hope on expanding into the blockchain, after multiple failed attempts.

As TikTok's April 5 ownership deadline approaches, its future in the US remains uncertain. President Donald Trump will hold a White House meeting on Wednesday to discuss potential investors before the crucial decision.

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According to Foresight News, the Nervos Ecosystem Fund has initiated the BTCKB plan, aiming to bridge BTC and CKB, making CKB a fully isomorphic Bitcoin Layer2 based on 'PoW+UTXO'. The plan intends to empower various BTC Layer1 assets with smart contract capabilities. As part of the plan, the Nervos Ecosystem Fund announced the incubation of blockchain software company CELL Studio, founded by Nervos co-founder Cipher Wang. CELL has launched the mobile Web3 Passkey wallet JoyID and plans to launch a two-way anchor bridge and UTXO-based DEX to connect BTC and CKB. Additionally, CELL aims to develop a CKB second-layer lightning network to connect with the BTC lightning network, enabling BTC Layer1 assets to circulate in a censorship-resistant, permissionless, and trustless manner. Leveraging CKB's enhanced UTXO model's atomicity and smart contract capabilities, CELL will promote the integration of Taproot Assets, RGB, and other Layer1 protocols. In the future, CELL will closely collaborate with the Nervos Ecosystem Fund to explore the first complete BTC Layer3 solution based on the CKB Axon chain framework, as well as UTXO-based Spore NFT protocol, Intent-based applications, and DeFi protocols. Together, they will promote various applications based on the lightning network, such as social applications derived from the Nostr protocol, micropayment scenarios, and various cross-border payment use cases.

블록텔레그래프에 따르면 레이어1 블록체인 너보스(CKB) 생태계 펀드인 인너베이션(InNervation)은 BTCKB 이니셔티브 출범 및 블록체인 소프트웨어 회사 셀 스튜디오(CELL Studio) 인큐베이션을 발표했다. BTCKB 이니셔티브는 비트코인과 CKB 블록체인을 긴밀하게 연결하는 것을 목표로 한다. BTC, 탭루트, RGB 자산을 CKB로 가져올 수 있게될 전망이다. 작년 11월 웹3 패스키 지갑 조이아이디(JoyID)를 출시한 셀 스튜디오를 인큐베이팅해 이 계획을 실행하기 위한 첫 번째 단계를 수행했다.

Nervos ecological fund InNervation announced the launch of the "BTCKB" plan. The plan aims to connect Bitcoin and CKB, bring smart contract capabilities to Bitcoin, and introduce BTC, Taproot and RGB assets to CKB. At present, this plan has incubated the blockchain software company CELL Studio.