Canadian Researchers With Indian Tech Industry to Explore Blockchain 318

Government-backed researchers in Canada are planning to unite with India’s technology industry association NASSCOM to research blockchain. Together, the two hope to create an global epicentre for studying the implications and applications of the innovative tech leading to increased “high-end technology capabilities.”

Blockchain: Beyond Cryptocurrency

The teaming up of Canada’s Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) and NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) aims to explore the use of blockchain technology in both government and academia. There are several areas in which India perceive blockchain to be disruptive to current industries, both financial and otherwise. These include land registry, healthcare, and banking.

The announcement of the union between BRI and NASSCOM, combined with the recent news that India are forming a “Future Skills” initiative aimed at educating their youth in cutting edge technology, clearly evidence a nation positioning itself as a hub for innovation in the blockchain industry. The educational platform was announced just days ago by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the World Congress on Information Technology 2018.

Meanwhile, the BRI’s stated goal is to “build blockchain-based economies around the world”. With their assistance, plus an increasingly blockchain-literate young workforce, India could well rise to the top in the field of research and application of the exciting and potentially disruptive technology. Narendra Modi’s government have even earmarked around US$500 million for developing the digital economy. This represents a doubling of public spending on the sector.

According to CNN, Don Tapscott, the founder and executive chairman of the Canadian institute, stated:

“We see our coalition with NASSCOM as a delightful opportunity to nurture the blockchain community in India… We strongly believe that India has the potential to lead the blockchain revolution.”

Whilst the Indian government are evidently receptive to the innovative potential of the blockchain, they seem somewhat more hesitant when it comes to the first real application of the technology – crytocurrency. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently stated in his 2018/19 Budget Speech:

“The government does not consider crypto-currencies legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these cryptoassets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payment system.”

This statement has been interpreted in two ways. Firstly, there are those who believe it represents out and out hostility towards digital currency. This wouldn’t be surprising from a nation who have taken extremely misguided measures such as demonetisation policies in the past. However, there are also those who stress the use of the word “illegitimate” in Jaitely’s statement. This could be interpreted as meaning greater efforts to curtail money laundering offences made possible by cryptocurrency whilst not ensuring any form of blanket ban for its legitimate use.

 

 

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Cloud Campaign Makes It Simple for Vertical SaaS Platforms to Offer Built-In Social Media Management 890

Cloud Campaign, the leading white-label social media management platform, is making it easier than ever for vertical SaaS companies and digital platforms to integrate social media management directly into their products. The company’s OEM solution now powers social media tools for more than 70,000 small businesses, reflecting its growing role as the engine behind leading SaaS platforms.

While not a new offering, Cloud Campaign’s OEM platform has quickly become its fastest-growing product line, achieving over 400% year-over-year growth in 2024. By partnering with SaaS companies to integrate scheduling, content creation, approvals, analytics, and AI-powered workflows, Cloud Campaign allows software providers to expand their feature sets and deliver immediate value to their customers — without building these complex tools from scratch or having to establish platform relationships to gain access to early feature releases and elevated support.

“Cloud Campaign made it easy to embed powerful social media tools into our platform quickly and seamlessly,” said the Chief Product Officer of a leading software platform in the home services industry. “Their team has been a true partner — collaborative, responsive, and willing to evolve the product alongside our goals. The platform has driven strong customer adoption, while also enabling our managed services team to operate more efficiently.”

This success underscores how Cloud Campaign’s OEM solution supports SaaS companies in delivering more value to their customers.

“It’s incredibly rewarding to know that tens of thousands of small businesses are succeeding on social media thanks to the tools we’ve built,” said Ryan Born, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloud Campaign. “As demand for embedded marketing tools continues to grow, our partners are delivering real value under their own brands, and we’re proud to be the infrastructure powering that success.”

With both a fully embeddable interface and a white-label standalone application, Cloud Campaign has become the OEM solution of choice for SaaS platforms seeking to enhance their feature sets, improve user retention, and accelerate time to market.

Cloud Campaign’s OEM growth reflects a broader trend across the SaaS industry: social media management is becoming a standard feature in digital platforms, and Cloud Campaign is enabling that shift — without the development overhead.

About Cloud Campaign

Cloud Campaign is a white-label social media management platform built for marketing agencies and SaaS companies. Through fully embeddable and white-labeled solutions, Cloud Campaign powers the social media tools behind today’s leading SaaS platforms — helping thousands of small businesses manage content, publish posts, and grow their online presence, all within the software they already use. Learn more at cloudcampaign.com.

Cross-Chain crime surges past $21 billion, Elliptic report reveals 870

  • Criminals moved over $21 billion through DEXs, cross-chain bridges, and swap services — a threefold increase from 2023
  • 12% (Around $2.5 billion) worth of these funds can be attributed to North Korean hacks, and $300 million originated from Iranian crypto services under U.S. sectoral sanctions
  • A third (33%) of crypto investigations involved more than three blockchains, 27% span over 5 and a fifth (20%) span over 10

Elliptic, the global leader in digital asset decisioning, has found cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has surged past an estimated $21 billion as of May 2025 — triple Elliptic’s $7 billion estimate from 2023.

The figures, published in Elliptic’s 2025 Cross-Chain crime report, show that since the 2022 inaugural edition, in tandem with the exponential growth of blockchains and assets utilized in illicit activities, new crime trends have emerged across the crypto crime landscape. Bad actors are increasingly turning to decentralized exchanges (DEXs), cross-chain bridges, and coin swap services to enable hacks and scams, including memecoin rug pulls, subsequent money laundering, and evading sanctions.

As the crypto ecosystem becomes increasingly multi-chain, with criminals frequently moving assets across multiple networks, broad blockchain visibility is more critical than ever. To address this, Elliptic offers the broadest blockchain coverage in the industry, spanning 54 networks, nearly double that of any other provider. As well as breadth, its advanced cross-chain tracing capabilities and deep coverage of critical infrastructure like bridges and numerous assets enable unmatched insight into complex, illicit transaction flows.

North Korea alone accounts for approximately 12% of the $21 billion estimate in cross-chain criminal activity. The nation’s reliance on cross-chain obfuscation has grown since 2023, with the North Korean Lazarus Group cyberhackers notably using advanced chain-hopping methods — where criminals rapidly swap assets across multiple blockchains to obscure transaction trails — to launder stolen crypto, including after the record-breaking $1.46 billion Bybit hack. This rapid chain-hopping creates adverse operational challenges, making it increasingly difficult for compliance professionals and government agencies to track the complex movement of funds without a data foundation that is both broad in chain coverage and deeply integrated. Elliptic’s investigations show that 33% of complex cross-chain cases involve more than three blockchains, 27% involve over five, and 20% span more than ten.

Besides North Korean activity, almost $300 million worth of funds were obfuscated through cross-chain services originating from Iranian crypto services under U.S. sectoral sanctions. Illicit actors, especially in Russia, Iran, and North Korea, increasingly use anonymous coin swap services to access privacy coins, launder funds, and even cash out via buried treasure dumps or armed money couriers.

Notable cross-chain exposure was also revealed in Elliptic’s analysis of Russian exchange Garantex, which was seized in March 2025 with support from Elliptic’s data and intelligence in collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service. Elliptic’s analysis highlights that Garantex had leveraged cross-chain services to obfuscate the origin of funds and evade the sanctions imposed on it by the U.S. Treasury and the European Union.

Beyond nation-state actors, the report reveals a spike in industrialized crypto scams. Schemes such as CBEX, which defrauded nearly $1 billion, used bridges and DEXs to launder funds even while the scam was still active and claiming to be a legitimate investment platform, showing the urgency of real-time monitoring, which Elliptic provides.

The 2024-25 memecoin craze also became a breeding ground for exit scams. One instance highlighted in the report is the collapse of the $LIBRA token, which saw a $100 million rug-pull following an endorsement tweet from Argentina’s President Javier Milei that boosted its price.

Dr. Arda Akartuna, Lead Crypto Threat Researcher at Elliptic, said: “Criminal actors are exploiting the growing complexity of the crypto ecosystem — but they can be stopped. Elliptic’s advanced cross-chain analytics, spanning 55 blockchains and automatically tracing through over 300 bridging combinations, provide crucial visibility into illicit flows. With these capabilities, we empower stakeholders in the digital asset ecosystem to detect and disrupt criminal typologies at scale, safeguarding innovation and protecting consumers.”

As criminals diversify tactics across multi-chain assets, Elliptic’s real-time monitoring and industry-leading coverage spans nearly twice as many blockchains as any other provider. This includes the ability to automatically trace through cross-chain bridges, significantly reducing the costs and manual effort required for complex investigations. Beyond this, Elliptic’s unique approach to model blockchain data as a single financial network with a unified schema enables compliance professionals and government agencies to investigate cross-chain activity more effectively and deploy tailored detection methods to counter increasingly sophisticated obfuscation tactics.

Elliptic continues to offer the most robust and scalable blockchain intelligence tools, supporting the needs of over 500 financial institutions and organisations globally.

To learn more about Elliptic, visit https://www.elliptic.co/

About Elliptic

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy.

Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.

Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., Dubai, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co

AlgoFusion 5.0: Inside AlgoFusion 5.0’s Latency Engine for Execution Precision 902

AlgoFusion 5.0 has launched a specialized update focused on execution timing analytics, addressing one of the most critical yet under-measured dimensions of algorithmic trading: latency. The platform now enables users to monitor, visualize, and optimize the time elapsed between signal generation and trade execution, offering a granular view of strategy responsiveness across asset classes and timeframes.

At the heart of this release is the new Execution Timing Suite, which introduces live dashboards, timestamped logic chains, and latency heatmaps, giving users a detailed perspective into how their strategies perform under real-market conditions. Unlike conventional performance metrics that focus on outcomes, this suite measures behavioral speed, exposing bottlenecks that can compromise timing-sensitive strategies.

Core features in this release include:

  • Execution Delay Mapping – Measures time intervals between logic trigger, order dispatch, and confirmation.
  • Latency Heatmaps – Visual indicators highlight which components of a strategy are slowing down real-time execution.
  • Microsecond-Level Timestamps – Precise temporal tracking for every trade action, accessible in both live and backtest mode.
  • Timing Drift Alerts – Flags when response time exceeds predefined tolerances, prompting corrective action or logic review.
  • Infrastructure-Aware Diagnostics – Differentiates between system logic delay, network latency, and broker-related execution lag.

These new capabilities address the needs of multiple user profiles. For systematic traders, the suite allows for the refinement of high-frequency strategies. Discretionary managers gain insights into the factors contributing to suboptimal trade timing. Infrastructure teams benefit from increased visibility into how platform conditions influence operational performance.

The execution timing tools are fully integrated into AlgoFusion’s existing visual strategy builder, allowing users to view timing performance alongside logic flow, risk parameters, and outcome metrics. This makes it possible to optimize strategies holistically—balancing speed, structure, and statistical effectiveness.

“Latency is not just a technical detail—it’s a competitive variable,” said Marcus Leighton, Head of Product Strategy at AlgoFusion. “With this release, we’re helping users understand how their systems behave in motion, not just in logic.”

In addition to live trading environments, the Execution Timing Suite is available in simulation and backtest modes, making it a valuable resource for education, prototyping, and infrastructure benchmarking. Users can export time series data, generate reports for compliance or governance review, and benchmark multiple strategies against timing stability scores.

This release aligns with AlgoFusion’s broader objective to enhance the measurability, transparency, and execution-awareness of automated trading, supporting users in the development and deployment of data-driven strategies.

About AlgoFusion 5.0

AlgoFusion 5.0 is a modular, multi-asset strategy platform designed to empower traders, analysts, and institutions with transparent automation tools. The system features visual logic construction, real-time performance tracking, explainability frameworks, and integrated diagnostics. Whether for live execution, simulation, or collaborative development, AlgoFusion 5.0 provides a high-resolution view into how strategies behave across conditions, timeframes, and infrastructures.

Users Can Explore Execution Timing Tools in AlgoFusion 5.0:
https://algofusion-v5.com
https://algofusion.info
https://algofusion-reviews.com
https://algo-fusion.pro
https://algofusion-ai.com

Viction drives global adoption of the ownership economy with scalable Web3 platform 1048

Viction, a people-centric Layer-1 blockchain, is gaining traction as a practical infrastructure for tokenized ownership in daily life. With strong real-world metrics and ecosystem growth, the platform is delivering on its mission to make Web3 more accessible, secure, and user-driven — especially across emerging markets.

Originally launched with the aim of simplifying Web3, Viction has evolved to champion the “ownership economy,” where individuals can tokenize everything from creativity and culture to financial value and digital identity. This vision is now reflected in real user activity and expanding developer ecosystems around the world.

According to analytics from Nansen, Token Terminal, and DefiLlama (as of July 12, 2025), Viction’s network activity has surged significantly in Q2:

  • Ranked #11 among all Layer 1s by Daily Active Users (DAU)
  • Ranked #14 among EVM-compatible chains by Weekly Active Users (WAU)
  • DAU increased 4x from 10,000 in Q1 to 40,000 in Q2
  • Monthly Active Users (MAU) hit 142,500 in Q2, up 12.3% from 126,900 in Q1
  • Monthly transactions rose to 16.2 million, up from 14.8 million in Q1
  • Total Value Locked (TVL) rose from $2.9M in January to nearly $12M by July 9

These figures reflect genuine user engagement across DeFi, gaming, NFTs, digital identity applications, and global payments.

Viction’s platform has been structured to remove technical and financial barriers to blockchain interaction. Technology Foundation include:

  • Zero Gas Transactions for all users
  • Proof-of-Stake Voting (PoSV) model supported by over 150 masternodes

These capabilities support a growing range of applications:

  • DeFi: The platform’s flagship DeFi protocols include deFusion for staking and RabbitSwap, a DEX with $12.8M in cumulative volume and $2.2M peak TVL, and launchpads like Starship to support new project fundraising.
  • Gaming: Titles like Eternals, a pet-based NFT game, let players earn, own, and explore in digital worlds built on Viction.
  • NFTs: Minting through platforms like Dagora has enabled creators and collectors to turn cultural value into digital assets.
  • Payments: Cross-border stablecoin transfers have provided real-world value to freelancers and families, particularly in regions with limited access to traditional banking.
  • Digital Identity: With ONEID, users gain sovereignty over their online identity — a foundational step for broader Web3 access.

Token activity within the ecosystem continues to expand, with traction seen for VIC, DADA, DEF, WHEEE, SAROS, RABBIT, ETER, and ONEID.

Community-led growth: The rise of FrontierDAO

Viction’s approach to growth extends beyond technology — it prioritizes community-led expansion through initiatives like FrontierDAO, now operating as the platform’s official Community Growth Engine under the banner “Own It Together.”

FrontierDAO has:

  • Built the Viction Vanguard – all-in-one contributor platform with transparent leaderboards, bounties, and campaign collaboration
  • Launched local chapters across Turkey, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and Africa
  • Organized the Viction Vanguard Ambassador Program, with over 200 ambassadors in more than 10 countries

This structure transforms content creators and community advocates into ecosystem stakeholders, rewarded through token incentives and on-chain recognition.

Own What Matters: A human-centric approach to blockchain

The Viction Manifesto, launched earlier this year, outlines the network’s commitment to “owning what matters” across three key areas:

  • Own Freedom: Businesses and communities can build sustainable models by tokenizing loyalty and engagement.
  • Own Fandom: Artists and fans can mint and preserve cultural artifacts via NFTs.
  • Own Future: Everyday users participate in infrastructure growth through staking and governance.

These themes are already playing out in real use cases across the network, illustrating a transition from passive users to active owners.

Own What Matters is more than a slogan — it’s Viction’s core principle. In a world where digital presence is constant, the platform enables users to turn values, creativity, and daily actions into tokenized ownership. It’s a movement toward sovereignty: cultural, financial, and deeply personal.

Looking ahead

Viction’s recent growth underscores its relevance in a rapidly evolving Web3 landscape. By lowering entry barriers and emphasizing real-world ownership, the platform is attracting a diverse global user base — not just crypto-natives, but also creators, freelancers, and communities seeking meaningful value online.

With strong infrastructure, growing ecosystem traction, and measurable adoption, Viction is not pitching a vision — it’s delivering one.

Follow Viction
Twitter: @BuildOnViction
Telegram: t.me/buildonviction
Discord: viction.link/discord
Blog: blog.viction.xyz

Numerai Announces $1M Strategic Buyback of NMR 1052

Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Announces Strategic Token Buyback as Meta Model Leads Amid AUM Growth

Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced plans to buy back $1 million of its token, Numeraire (NMR), from the open market. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in its staking ecosystem, a mechanism that aligns thousands of global data scientists with the long-term performance of its hedge fund.

Over the past year, Numerai has more than doubled its assets under management (AUM), growing from approximately $173 million to over $441 million. The fund now trades more than $1 billion per month across over 30 global markets, relying on machine learning models crowdsourced from a global network of data scientists who stake NMR on their predictions.

Each week, thousands of data scientists submit predictions to Numerai’s tournament and stake NMR on their models’ performance. These stakes encourage aligned, high-quality contributions to the hedge fund, and it’s working. Numerai’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, an ensemble of user models weighted by their NMR staked, has consistently outperformed individual models, reinforcing Numerai’s incentive-aligned approach to collective intelligence.

“The success of our Stake-Weighted Meta Model speaks for itself: it’s outperformed every individual model over the past year. As our AUM grows and top institutional allocators join us, the role of NMR has never been more critical,” said Richard Craib, Founder and CEO of Numerai.

But as Numerai’s ecosystem has matured, NMR has become scarce. With a fixed supply capped at 11 million, and roughly 3 million NMR remaining in Numerai’s treasury, the company has limited capacity to continue distributing staking rewards at historical levels. The company says the buyback will help underscore its long-term commitment to its participants and maintain economic stability.

The buyback will be executed gradually to ensure transparency. Orders will be placed at or near prevailing bid prices, allowing the program to unfold gradually over time. The full explanation behind the buyback can be found on Numerai’s newly launched blog.

About Numerai

Founded in 2015, Numerai is a San Francisco-based hedge fund that crowdsources stock market predictions to solve the hardest problem in finance. The fund is powered by thousands of data scientists globally who can stake NMR on their models and contribute to a crowdsourced Meta Model used in live trading.

Token Relations Launches Avalanche Dashboards, Delivering Deep Onchain Insights Across the Ecosystem 1067

Token Relations, a leading crypto-native media and ecosystem analytics company, today announced the launch of comprehensive Avalanche-focused dashboards. Built in collaboration with Ava Labs, the dashboards offer real-time metrics across Avalanche’s C-Chain and L1 networks to enhance transparency, accessibility, and understanding of onchain activity.

The dashboards provide key insights into total value locked (TVL), token prices, staking activity, transaction volume, decentralized exchange (DEX) volume, active wallet addresses, and more, covering over $1.6 billion in TVL and over 3.2 billion transactions (source) processed on Avalanche to date. In addition to these foundational metrics, the dashboards also showcase analytics tailored to the Avalanche ecosystem, such as L1-specific activity, C-Chain usage trends, and Avalanche-native asset movements. By consolidating a wide array of metrics into a user-friendly interface, the new platform empowers developers, investors, analysts and the broader Avalanche community with the data they need to make informed decisions.

“Avalanche is one of the fastest growing ecosystems across the Web3 and tokenization space, and it deserves data infrastructure that’s as fast and scalable as the network itself,” said Jacquelyn Melinek, CEO and Founder of Token Relations. “These dashboards are a step toward democratizing access to meaningful onchain data for everyone from builders to curious newcomers.”

The launch underscores the growing need for dedicated analytics tools as the Web3 industry continues to expand across real-world assets, DeFi, gaming, and other verticals. Until now, onchain data has been siloed across various sources, making it difficult to access a comprehensive view of the network. With the launch of Token Relations’ Dashboards, it aims to set a new standard for how blockchain data is visualized and interpreted, bringing the most important metrics together in one accessible platform.

“Having access to reliable, real-time data is essential for anyone building or participating in crypto and the Avalanche ecosystem,” said Matthew Schmenk, Senior Ecosystem Growth Associate at Ava Labs. “Token Relations’ new dashboard offering provides a clear, comprehensive view of the activity happening across Avalanche’s C-Chain and L1s, helping to advance transparency, drive smarter decision-making, and support the ecosystem’s continued growth.”

The dashboards are now live and publicly accessible via https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard. Token Relations plans to expand the product in the coming months with deeper integrations, enhanced visualizations, and additional blockchain ecosystems.

About Token Relations

Token Relations helps blockchains and protocols turn community attention into action.

It works with over a dozen leading chains from Avalanche to Solana to streamline communication, deepen engagement, and create more informed, active ecosystems – all in one place. Through newsletters, ecosystem calls, research reports and now dashboards, it’s making web3 smarter.

Trusted by more than 160K+ subscribers, including VCs, institutions, developers, token holders, and the next generation of builders, Token Relations is building the communication layer for the onchain world.

Learn more at www.token-relations.com.

About Avalanche

Avalanche is an ultra-fast, low-latency blockchain platform designed for builders who need high performance at scale. The network’s architecture allows for the creation of sovereign, efficient and fully interoperable public and private layer 1 (L1) blockchains which leverage the Avalanche Consensus Mechanism to achieve high throughput and near-instant transaction finality. The ease and speed of launching an L1, and the breadth of architectural customization choices, make Avalanche the perfect environment for a composable multi-chain future.

Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building decentralized applications (dApps). With its combination of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the platform of choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.