JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA's Ouroboros Leios saw 94 updates in the past week. Leios will uplift the Layer-1 from 10 TPS to 500 TPS in the first release, a 50x improvement, with a public testnet set for the end of Q2. IOG aims to release Leios in the Dijkstra hard fork this year.

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NEW: TON Foundation has partnered with Banxa to expand stablecoin payment processing for Asia-Pacific merchants using TON blockchain infrastructure.

Dubai is ramping up robotics in public spaces, deploying robots to help firefighters tackle dangerous blazes, expanding automation in emergency services, and rolling out a self-driving patrol robot at the Global Village

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INSIGHT: $BTC DROPS TO 13TH IN LARGEST ASSETS BY MARKET CAP From becoming the 8th largest asset by market capitalization at the end of 2025, $BTC has now dropped to 13th place according to a recent report from @MessariCrypto Year over year, BTC has performed the worst among