•Yum China was reportedly excluded from the second round of bidding for Jardine Restaurant Group, the franchisee for KFC and Pizza Hut in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
•Crypto analysts identified 13 decentralized projects, including XRP, Stellar (XLM), and Ondo Finance (ONDO), as primary drivers for the next wave of global adoption.
•These projects aim to replace legacy financial infrastructure worth trillions of dollars through decentralized finance solutions.