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How a 100 Bitcoin scam, World of Warcraft and a tour of China with Vitalik Buterin led Louis Vuitton’s IT guy Sunny Lu to create VeChain. VeChain founder and CEO Sunny Lus first experience buying Bitcoin is the kind of moment that sticks with you for life, but not in the way most Bitcoin OGs would hope. The first encounter with Bitcoin, I got scammed in 2012, Lu tells Magazine.  The timing couldnt have been worse. Lu desperately needed that Bitcoin to solve an urgent crisis in his life. Read more

Altcoin season has returned to trading desks, though its form in late August looks different from past cycles. Liquidity is still concentrated, but pockets of activity show investors shifting into tokens with distinct functions. Beyond price moves, three projects—Hyperliquid, VeChain, and Algorand—show how utility, adoption, and design can all carry weight during altseason.Broader conditions remain […] The post Altcoin Season Alert: Hyperliquid, VeChain, Algorand Could Be Your Ticket to Wealth appeared first on Cryptonews.

Franklin Templeton has launched the BENJI platform on at least seven blockchains, with the fund’s largest market share on Stellar. VeChain, a layer-1 blockchain for real-world applications, is partnering with $1.5 trillion asset manager Franklin Templeton to integrate the company’s BENJI platform for enterprise payments. The move extends the reach of Franklin Templeton’s platform while providing businesses operating on VeChain another stablecoin option, according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph. Franklin Templeton’s BENJI platform permits tokenized access to the company’s Franklin Templeton OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX), an onchain US government money fund worth about $780 million. The fund invests in cash, government securities and collateralized repurchase agreements. One BENJI token is equivalent to one share in the fund, which the company tries to peg to $1. Read more

At Consensus Toronto, VeChain is debuting new infrastructure that combines RWAs, AI agents, and NFT staking to make crypto usable by everyone.