Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin sidechain built with Polygon CDK that aims to transition into a ZK-rollup Layer 2 and supports Bitcoin-native assets via ZK-rollups, decentralized oracles, fraud proofs, and the MERL governance token.
Verona is a projects-and-protocols that provides an intelligence layer for AI, enabling user-verified facts to be privately verified once, reused by agents and applications, and used for programmable settlement and payments.
Project Ensemble is an HKMA initiative to build infrastructure for asset tokenisation and interoperable digital money, using a sandbox and the "Ensemble TX" pilot to test wholesale tokenised deposits and real‑value transactions.