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After 70 years, why did SWIFT finally take the chain?

For decades, SWIFT @swiftCommunity SWIFT has been a central and unshakeable hub in the field of international cross-border payments. Like the central nervous system of the traditional financial world, SWIFT connects tens of thousands of financial institutions around the globe and dominates the communication channels for cross-border financial flows. How can SWIFT be understood as an artery for the settlement of funds? Take one example. After Iran was excluded from SWIFT in 2018, the gas and gas export clearance routes were compressed, export revenues were shrunk significantly, the local currency rials were weakened rapidly, foreign exchange markets were disrupted, and the dollar rials jumped from about 40,000 to about 170,000. But for a long time, SWIFT has been very cautious about block-chain technology: it is better to improve its own system than to slow down. Today, however, the wind has changed dramatically: at the Sibos Congress in 2025, SWIFT announced that it would extend its infrastructure to the block chain environment and work with more than 30 banks around the world to develop shared books based on block chains. What has led to a change in the attitude of this traditional, 70-year-old, cross-border payer who is finally willing to take this step up the chain? SWIFT's past hesitation over the block chain is partly due to technical factors. As early as 2017, SWIFT tried to validate the concept of block chain payments (PoC) based on Hyperledger Fabric, when it was concluded that the technology was still not mature enough to meet the stringent requirements of real-time payments between banks worldwide.

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I'll read your report.——RBS 2026 Outlook: Escape speed

In 2025, people kept asking, "Is AI foaming?" @UBS compares the 2026 market to a rocket that is setting fire. On the one hand, the push of AI capital spending and application, and on the other hand, the "gravity" created by the shadow of debt, political uncertainty and inflation. - Yes.

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Flow's $3.9 million cut-off line: blood stop and main net trust repricing

On 27 December 2025, Flow@Flow_blockchain, a security incident on the main network, tweeted that there was a potential security threat and was under urgent investigation.$Flow price immediately cut. The same night, the South Korean exchanges Upbit, Bithumb and others suspended the Flow charge and issued a risk warning indicating a serious situation. Following a vetting by official and security teams, the Flow Executive Level was attacked using loopholes, and the attackers moved approximately $3.9 million in assets the same day before the network was shut down. The stolen funds have been released through cross-chain bridges such as Celer, Debridge, Relay and Stargate, after which the attackers attempted to launder the stolen funds through Thorchain and Chainflip. The Flow Foundation responded in a timely manner, by submitting requests for the freezing of suspicious assets to agencies such as Circle, Tether and large exchanges, on the one hand, and by coordinating a stoppage to cut off the trail for subsequent stolen funds, on the other.

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I'll read your report.—Goldman Sachs 2026 Looking forward: Looking for catalysts in a mess

The 2026 market was pulled in half: on the one hand, "the nine central banks are down" and on the other hand, "asset valuation is still high". Ten percent of the market value was at the top of the standard, and AI capital expenditure hit 27 percent. If you think "everything is expensive now", you're not alone. 2026, no lack of business, the lack of a sense of direction. Today you're following GoldmanSachs, the 2026 Vision, to find catalysts in the mess.

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Galaxy 2026 Summary of Large Forecasts: The Year of Turning From Speculation to Capital

By 2025, Bitcoin had reached a record high in mid-year, falling back, and prices at the end of the year had largely returned to their levels at the beginning of the year. Despite a flat price performance, the year was not a step in the right direction: regulations continued to move forward, ETF flows stabilized, the chain of activity rebounded, and institutional involvement began to take shape, laying the foundation for development in 2026. Galaxy predicts that in 2026 the encryption market will enter the critical year of material landing. Stabilized currencies are expected to go beyond traditional payment systems, tokenized assets enter mainstream capital and mortgage markets, and enterprise-level public chains move from pilot to actual settlement. At the same time, the public chain will rethink the way value capture is captured, DeFi, and predicts that the market continues to expand.

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