February 2026

Billiton Diamond and tokenization firm Ctrl Alt said on Tuesday they had moved more than $280 million of certified polished diamonds on-chain in the UAE, using Ripple’s escrow technology to secure the assets and the XRP Ledger to mint tokens tied to physical inventory. The initiative — framed as an institutional-grade tokenization pipeline for polished

xAI has opened an external ‘Finance Expert – Crypto’ role as it looks to deepen its AI models’ understanding of digital asset markets, signaling growing interest in crypto-native financial reasoning rather than simple price prediction. The role is designed to support xAI’s frontier models by providing high-quality annotations, evaluations and expert explanations drawn from real-world