September 4th, 2026 – Chicago, United States

Liquid Mercury today announced that ACQUA1, LLC completed the initial closing of its MERC exchange offering on September 1, 2026.

ACQUA1 is a Liquid Mercury subsidiary that operates Liquid Mercury’s Lab Company program, licensing Liquid Mercury technology to companies primarily tokenizing real-world assets and receiving fees plus a minority equity stake in return. Liquid Mercury is the majority holder and Manager.

“Over the past 18 months, dozens of companies have approached Liquid Mercury seeking to tokenize their assets,” said Tony Saliba, CEO and founder of Liquid Mercury. “Many assumed they would need to raise capital and build this infrastructure from scratch. Licensing Mercury RWA lets them launch on systems that were already live and proven, at a fraction of the time and cost. ACQUA1 token holders now own a slice of the business that earns equity, plus fees from the companies in the Lab Company program.”

Verified accredited investors subscribed by exchanging MERC for non-voting Class B units of ACQUA1 at the initial conversion rate of 10 MERC per unit. Under its operating agreement, ACQUA1 must burn 100% of the MERC it receives at each closing within five business days and may not transfer, trade, lend, stake, pledge, or otherwise deploy it. 

On September 2, all 563,230,000 MERC received at the initial closing were burned via a transfer to the dead address, as the offering documents require.

Initial Closing Highlights

• Initial closing: September 1, 2026
• MERC burned: 563,230,000
• Transferred to the dead address September 2, 2026
• Units issued: 56,323,000
• Non-voting Class B units of ACQUA1, LLC under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D
• 10 MERC per unit
• Evidenced on-chain by ACQUA1-C tokens
• ACQUA1-C tokens convert one-for-one into ACQUA1 tokens upon issuance
• Remaining closings: On or about October 30 and December 31, 2026
• ACQUA1 may skip or terminate at its discretion
• The conversion rate at subsequent closings may differ

Verification Links

Burn transaction

ACQUA1-C contract

Verified accredited investors can request full terms at acqua1.liquidmercury.com/contact.

About Liquid Mercury

Liquid Mercury powers professional crypto trading and digital asset marketplaces. The company delivers institutional-grade infrastructure, access to deep liquidity, and best-in-class trading tools and workflow automation across its Pro, OTC, and RWA platforms. Through Mercury RWA, Liquid Mercury is extending that infrastructure into tokenized real-world assets, with MERC serving as the access and platform layer token. For more information, visit www.liquidmercury.com.

Investor Notice

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Class B units of ACQUA1, LLC and the ACQUA1 tokens representing them are offered and sold in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, solely to verified accredited investors as defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D, and solely pursuant to ACQUA1’s confidential private placement memorandum, as supplemented, and definitive subscription documents, which contain important information, including risk factors. ACQUA1 tokens are restricted securities, are subject to transfer restrictions under ACQUA1’s operating agreement and may remain illiquid indefinitely; investors should not assume that Rule 144 will be available. Statements regarding future revenues, valuations, portfolio performance, and subsequent closings are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties; actual results may differ materially. The MERC contract has no burn function; tokens are removed from circulation by transferring to the dead address. Supply outstanding excluding the dead address is 5,436,770,000 MERC, as of the date of publication.

Contacts

Director
Kent Egan
Liquid Mercury
ke@liquidmercury.com
Director
Ryan Hansen
Liquid Mercury
hansenr@liquidmercury.com

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September 3rd, 2026 – London, UK

class=”ql-align-center”>COINPRO will use Integral’s technology to aggregate liquidity, automate pricing and support wholesale transactions between digital assets and fiat currencies

Integral, a leading currency technology provider, today announced that Grupo Salinas, through COINPRO, has selected Integral Digital as the technology infrastructure for Coinpro’s institutional digital asset trading desk.

The desk is designed to serve corporate and institutional clients seeking to buy or sell digital assets against fiat currencies. Its wholesale model will support exchanges, digital asset companies and other businesses that require institutional pricing, liquidity and execution.

Integral Digital will provide Coinpro with a single environment for liquidity aggregation, price formation, order and position management, risk controls and real-time analytics across digital assets and fiat currencies.

By automating these functions, Coinpro will be able to quote and execute institutional transactions more efficiently and scale its operations as client demand grows.

The infrastructure may also support institutional use cases that require efficient conversion between digital assets and local currencies.

Carlos Díaz Alonso, General Manager of Comission- Based Business of Grupo Salinas, said: “Through Coinpro, Grupo Salinas is developing a specialized institutional capability for digital assets. We selected Integral because its technology brings liquidity, pricing, risk management and operational control into a highly automated workflow. This gives us the infrastructure needed to serve corporate and institutional clients with the speed and discipline this market requires.”Harpal Sandhu, CEO of Integral, said: “Integral Digital enables global partners to seamlessly integrate digital assets into their institutional offerings while navigating market complexity. By combining cross-exchange aggregation with institutional-grade risk management, Integral bridges the gap between client demand and operational requirements. Grupo Salinas is a pioneer in Latin American financial innovation, and we are thrilled to support their execution.”

About COINPRO

COINPRO is Grupo Salinas’s digital asset and blockchain infrastructure platform, enabling cryptocurrency services and next-generation financial solutions across the Grupo’s ecosystem. COINPRO connects traditional financial rails with the digital economy, creating more efficient, scalable and borderless ways to move and manage value.

About Grupo Salinas

Grupo Salinas (www.gruposalinas.com) is a group of dynamic, fast growing, and technologically advanced companies focused on creating economic value through market innovation and goods and services that improve the lives of its customers, social value –with the creation of capacities in society to improve their living conditions– and environmental value –by mitigating negative impacts of its value chain. By bringing well-being to all levels of society, Grupo Salinas fosters the development of the countries where it operates.

Created by entrepreneur Ricardo B. Salinas(www.ricardosalinas.com), Grupo Salinas operates as a forum to develop entrepreneurial ability and support decision-making among the executives who lead Group’s member firms: TV Azteca (www.azteca.com; https://www.irtvazteca.com/), Grupo Elektra (www.grupoelektra.com.mx; www.elektra.com), Banco Azteca (www.bancoazteca.com.mx), Totalplay (www.totalplay.com.mx), among others. The Group shares a common vision, values and strategies to achieve rapid growth, superior results and world-class performance.

About Integral

Integral is the currency technology partner to hundreds of financial institutions, including banks, brokers, investors and cross-border payment companies, who have embedded Integral’s technology in their workflows and customer-facing services.

Adopted first by the financial markets and now integrated across all industries – our embedded FX and crypto services are solving the currency challenges faced every global organization. Founded in 1993, we support customers from our offices in Palo Alto, New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore and Bengaluru.

Additional information is available at www.integral.com.

2026 Integral Development Corp. All rights reserved. Integral technology is protected under U.S. patents and patent-pending applications and related intellectual property rights.

Contact: Integral, 380 Portage Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306 e-mail: integral@aspectusgroup.com

Contact

Ted Harvey
ted.harvey@aspectusgroup.com

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September 3rd, 2026 – Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands

DWF Labs, an established, market-tested investor and market maker built to strengthen digital asset market infrastructure at scale, today announced an expansion of its global regulatory footprint with a group entity granted Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulatory approval from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC).

Granted under the BVI’s Virtual Assets Service Providers Act 2022, the approval authorizes DWF Labs as a registered VASP, to provide the exchange of one or more forms of virtual assets, as well as to participate in, and provide financial services related to an issuer’s offer and/or sale of a virtual asset.

The approval enables institutional clients access to DWF Labs’ integrated OTC trading and market making capabilities, including spot trading across thousands of digital assets and stablecoins, through a regulated BVI entity. It also strengthens the company’s ability to deliver investment, incubation and ecosystem development services to support token issuers and digital asset projects on a global scale. 

The BVI has established itself as a leading jurisdiction for decentralized ledger deployments and structured real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. The territory now represents nearly 10% of the global tokenization US treasuries market, with $1.5 billion in distributed value. BVI-domiciled entities also facilitate more than $1.2 billion in active, circulating stablecoins – figures underpinned by more than 24,700 stablecoin asset holders and weekly transfer volumes of $694.1 million. These figures (Source: rwa.xyz treasuries and stablecoins) reflect the strength of both the regulatory and market infrastructure DWF Labs is now positioned to operate within. 

Heng Lee, Managing Director and Partner at DWF Labs said, “The Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) approval from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC) is a key step in responsibly expanding and delivering DWF Labs’ regulated digital asset services to international institutional clients.” “As the digital asset market and industry continue to mature, and adoption increases, this addition to our regulatory framework will enable us to deliver a broader range of solutions, products, and services, while reinforcing our focus upon transparency and governance.”

DWF Labs will continue to expand its regulatory footprint across key global markets, supporting its international growth strategy and commitment to operating within robust regulatory frameworks.

About DWF Labs

Established in 2022, DWF Labs is an investor and market maker, focused on giving builders the capital, liquidity, expertise, and partnerships needed to take ideas from concept to scale. DWF Labs is among the world’s largest high-frequency digital asset trading organizations, active on more than 80 centralized and decentralized exchanges. The firm supports over 20% of CoinMarketCap’s Top 100 projects and 35% of its Top 1,000, and has worked with more than 1,000 blockchain companies across Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, DeFi, gaming, AI, payments, infrastructure, and tokenization.

The firm’s work is organized across four business lines: Liquidity (institutional market making and liquidity provision), Investment and Incubation (strategic capital and token advisory for emerging projects), Ecosystem Development (go-to-market support), and OTC and Structured Markets (tailored trading solutions for institutions, funds, and protocol treasuries). DWF Labs also founded and incubated Falcon Finance, a synthetic dollar and universal collateralization protocol.

DWF Labs operates a globally distributed team on a 24/7/365 basis. 

For more information, visit www.dwf-labs.com, or follow DWF Labs on X, LinkedIn, and Telegram.

Contact

DWF Labs
press@dwf-labs.com

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September 1st, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has expanded its Islamic Account with 20 additional Shariah-compliant trading pairs, the first batches that will bring the total number of new pairs to 100 this year.

The newly added pairs include: NIGHT/USDT, XPL/USDT, SOMI/USDT, MON/USDT, IP/USDT, RECALL/USDT, CC/USDT, SEI/USDT, ZKC/USDT, ZORA/USDT, WAL/USDT, XAN/USDT, STRK/USDT, AI16Z/USDT, ATH/USDT, ZBT/USDT, S/USDT, 2Z/USDT, CAMP/USDT, and INIT/USDT.

Each verified Shariah-compliant pair has undergone review by Bybit’s Shariah advisory partners to confirm compliance with Islamic finance principles prior to listing. The expansion will continue in stages, with new pairs introduced approximately every two weeks. 

“We believe access to digital assets should not require users to compromise their values. By expanding our Islamic Account, we’re giving Muslim traders greater choice while maintaining the rigorous Shariah review process behind every supported asset. This is part of our long-term commitment to building a more inclusive digital asset ecosystem,” said Derek Dai, Head of Bybit MENA.

Since its introduction, Bybit’s Islamic Account has been positioned as a dedicated offering for users seeking a trading experience consistent with Islamic financial principles, designed to eliminate interest (riba) and provide transparent fee structures. Bybit was among the first global cryptocurrency exchanges to introduce a fully Shariah-compliant account, developed in consultation with Shariah advisory scholars.

The account provides access to Spot Trading, Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Bots, and Spot Grid Bots, alongside other Shariah-compliant products, allowing users to build and manage positions in a manner consistent with their values and beliefs.

Demand for Shariah-aligned financial products continues to grow across the Middle East and other Muslim-majority markets, alongside increasing participation in digital assets. By broadening the range of approved trading pairs, Bybit aims to give Muslim users greater choice within a dedicated environment designed around Islamic finance principles.

The latest upgrade reflects Bybit’s ongoing commitment to serving the Muslim trading community with an account architecture grounded in transparency, fairness, and faithful adherence to Islamic financial principles, and that further enhancements to the Islamic Account are planned as part of this continued effort.

Terms and conditions apply. For details of eligibility requirements nd other information, users may visit: [MENA Exclusive] Trade the halal way: Deposit & trade to earn up to 50 USDT and Bybit Islamic Account Expands: 20 New Shariah-Compliant Trading Pairs Now Available 

Disclaimer:

This event is available only to users registered under the CMA license who joined Bybit on or after January 19, 2026. Participation is subject to eligibility requirements. This event is not available to residents of Dubai.

#Bybit / #NewFinancialPlatform  

About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com

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September 1st, 2026 – George Town, British Virgin Islands

Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, today announced the kickoff of USD1 RWA Boost: Phase 1 with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), featuring 125,000,000 WLFI and 6,250,000 USD1 in rewards.

The campaign builds on AOS-2, Aster’s earlier expansion of its Aster Open Standards (AOS) framework from spot markets to perpetuals.

Leonard, CEO at Aster, said: “AOS-2 is turning Aster from a decentralized perp exchange into an open infrastructure layer where anyone can launch and operate their own perpetual markets on top of Aster Chain. The first USD1 RWA perpetuals show that model is already working.”

AOS-2: A Published Standard for Perpetual Listings

AOS-2 is Aster’s standardized, onchain framework for initiating perpetual market listings, enabling projects to propose new markets through a transparent and automated process.

Applicants stake 1 million $ASTER, locked for four years with no early exit, before the proposal goes to an onchain validator vote. If approved, Aster’s risk team configures the market and the perpetual can go live as early as T+1; if rejected, the stake is returned in full. 

Listing access runs on published onchain rules, while leverage and other trading parameters stay under Aster’s risk controls, letting Aster bring new markets to traders faster without giving up risk management.

USD1 RWA Boost Phase 1: 125M WLFI + 6.25M USD1 in Rewards

The campaign runs from August 31 through December 31, 2026, covering SPCX/USD1, CL/USD1, XAU/USD1, SNDK/USD1, SKHYNIX/USD1, and MU/USD1. 

Users earn Trading Points through taker volume on eligible USD1 pairs, which determine their share of the USD1 reward pool, while Open Interest (OI) Points are earned by holding eligible positions and determine their share of the WLFI reward pool. Traders using Single Asset Mode with USD1 as collateral receive a 2x boost on OI Points. Rewards are calculated across weekly epochs and distributed the following week.

“When real-world assets trade onchain, the settlement asset matters as much as the market itself. Perpetuals on gold, energy, and equities, all denominated in USD1, give traders one dollar instrument across every one of these markets, and that is what stablecoins were built to do. We are supporting these markets because this is where onchain market structure is heading, and Phase 1 is only the start,” said Zach Witkoff, Co-Founder and CEO at World Liberty Financial.

Building the Frontier of Onchain Trading

AOS-2 gives Aster a repeatable, onchain path for bringing new markets to the platform, and the first USD1 RWA perpetual listings show that path is already at work. Paired with the ecosystem support from Aster and WLFI, the launch turns a new listing framework into real trading activity from day one.

As more real-world and crypto-native assets move onchain, Aster aims to become a leading venue for bringing new asset markets onchain. The map gets bigger from here.

About Aster

Aster is a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, with unique features like Hidden Orders to protect user trading activity. It pioneers the frontier of on-chain trading through perpetual futures, spots, and earn products for top-trending assets, including RWAs, memes, and core crypto markets. It is powered by Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built to power the future of decentralized finance.

Users can learn more about Aster on the official website or follow Aster on X.

*Disclaimer: Eligible pairs, reward parameters, and campaign rules are subject to change during the campaign. Please refer to the official campaign page for the latest eligible pair list and campaign details. Trading cryptocurrencies and leveraged products involves significant risk and may result in the loss of capital. This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or financial advice.

Contact

Marketing Manager
Lola Chen
Aster DEX
lola.chen@asterdex.com

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September 1st, 2026 – London, London

class=”ql-align-center”>ALKEMYA METACORE SCSp SECURES INITIAL USD 50 MILLION INVESTMENT AHEAD OF LISTING OF TOKENISED EQUITY NICKEL OFFERING

Alkemya Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (“Alkemya”), the sponsor, is pleased to announce that Alkemya Metacore SCSp has secured USD 50 million in a pre-launch capital raise for its precision industrial nickel wire business backed by Class 1 nickel wire. It is announcing the sale of additional ALKN tokens in a new tranche (the “Token”) at USD 1.0 per Token. 

The offer, which is being arranged by Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd, will take place on Bitfinex Securities. The offer is available to institutional and professional investors and will close on 15 October 2026.

The Tokens are issued by Alkemya Metacore SCSp (“Alkemya Metacore”), a special limited partnership based in Luxembourg, which is registered as an Issuer with CNAD (National Commission of Digital Assets) in El Salvador. 

Alkemya Metacore is a Luxembourg-based investment and operating platform focused on the industrial development, commercialisation, and financial structuring of high-technology metals. It owns approximately 7 million metres of 99.99% ultra-pure nickel wire with 0.025 mm diameter, which has been independently verified and valued at approximately USD 1.64 billion. The asset is held in institutional custody in Lugano, Switzerland.

Alkemya will use part of the initial capital raise and further funds raised in additional tranches to invest working capital in Alkemya Metacore to finance its commercialisation strategy of transforming its ultra-pure wire into engineered mesh products tailored to high-growth applications across seven sectors: EMI shielding, aerospace and defence, marine and desalination, power and industrials, semiconductors, green hydrogen and rare/precious metals recovery. 

The successful capital raise, before secondary market listing, represents a major milestone for the offering and demonstrates confidence in the underlying exposure to high-purity nickel and the structure of the issue. The Token affords investors a combination of an asset-backed investment and a thematic play on energy transition and electronic security technologies.

The listing on Bitfinex Securities of the Token will enable Alkemya to leverage tokenisation to access a wider pool of global investors and be part of a regulated, 24/7 trading venue.

The Tokens aim to provide long-term investment value linked to real-world applications and technology. 

Cash distributions will be governed by a strict waterfall that first returns investor capital in full, cumulative distributions equal to a 6% per annum compound interest calculated annually (i.e., the preferred return) on the investor capital at any time outstanding, from the date of payment of the same up to the date of final repayment of the invested capital and an additional 80/20 profit split with a carry partner in favour of Token holders from the commercial business. 

Carlo Guido Della Peruta, Manager of the General Partner of Alkemya Metacore, commented: “Securing this initial investment is a significant milestone for Alkemya and validates both the quality of our asset and the strength of our commercialisation strategy. We chose to list on Bitfinex Securities because tokenisation offers us access to a genuinely global investor base within a regulated framework, and because it reflects the innovative approach we are taking across all aspects of our business. This raise will allow us to begin transforming our nickel wire asset into high-value engineered products serving some of the fastest-growing sectors in the global economy, and we look forward to welcoming further investors as the listing progresses.” Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, commented: “Bitfinex Securities exists to connect exciting investment opportunities with a broader and deeper investor base, giving more people access to investments that were previously out of reach and giving businesses access to a wider pool of capital. Alkemya Metacore will represent yet another example of how we’re using blockchain technology to bring previously inaccessible asset classes to market within stringent regulatory guardrails, and Alkemya’s initial $50 million capital raise is a sign of appetite for this exciting opportunity.”Arvinder Sood, CEO and Director at Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd, said: “Hanover Square Capital is delighted to announce this transaction in collaboration with Bitfinex Securities and its successful pre-launch close of USD 50 million investment, which not only underscores the evolving direction of global capital markets but also establishes a compelling foundation for a groundbreaking transaction with the launch of ALKN tokens. This milestone reflects a broader structural shift in how financial assets are created, accessed, and exchanged, as traditional frameworks increasingly converge with digital innovation. By embracing tokenised equity, the transaction highlights a more efficient, transparent, and accessible model for capital formation, one that is better aligned with the demands of modern investors and issuers alike, with the capacity to trade on a peer-to-peer basis.

Hanover Square Capital believes that this transaction not only validates that trajectory but also signals the growing importance of blockchain-enabled solutions in redefining how assets are issued, managed, and traded on a global scale.”

Bitfinex Securities provides a regulated venue for the issuance and trading of tokenised securities, combining blockchain technology with regulated market access for issuers and eligible investors.

The offering was advised by the following law firms: CMS DeBacker in Luxembourg (as regards Luxembourg law aspects), Dentons El Salvador (as regards El Salvador law aspects), Foley and Lardner in the US (as regards US law aspects), and CNPLaw LLP in Singapore (as regards Singapore law aspects). Winston Taylor acted for Bitfinex Securities. The Edison Group advised on investor relations and issued a pre-IPO research note. The ALKN tokens will be available for trading across three regulated exchanges: Bitfinex Securities, AGX (operated by LabyrinthX Technologies Pte Ltd, a company in the Hydra X group) and Archax Ltd. HydraX Digital Assets Pte. Ltd. is the custodian and distribution partner in Asia, with Archax playing a similar role in the UK. Scytale, the technology firm, is providing onboarding technology services for compliance to Alkemya Metacore under Luxembourg and EU law.

About Hanover

Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd (“HSC”) is an independent, regulated advisory firm headquartered in London, comprising a small team of highly experienced finance professionals. The firm provides strategic advice across a broad range of areas, including energy transition and climate-related solutions, public and private debt and equity placements, bank financing, and both project and commodity finance, alongside advisory services on financial investments. HSC brings deep sector expertise spanning environment-related projects, infrastructure development, next-generation technologies with applications to electromagnetic shielding and efficient green energy production, with a particular emphasis on sustainability and the global energy transition.

As a member of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), the firm is closely aligned with leading sustainability practices. Its client base is global, encompassing large and mid-cap corporations, government and state agencies, selected institutional investors, and professional investors. HSC is further supported by its connected company, Hanover Square Investments Pte. Ltd, based in Singapore.

About Bitfinex Securities

Bitfinex Securities provides a regulated platform for the issuance, listing and trading of tokenised securities. Licensed in El Salvador and Kazakhstan, Bitfinex Securities gives issuers and eligible investors access to digital securities markets within established regulatory frameworks.

The platform supports capital raising and secondary market trading for tokenised securities, including real-world asset-linked opportunities. By combining market infrastructure, technology and regulatory oversight, Bitfinex Securities aims to make capital formation more efficient, transparent and accessible for issuers and investors.

Media Contact:

Richard Morgan Evans

rmorganevans@sapiencecomms.co.uk

Jonathan Batchelor

jbatchelor@sapiencecomms.co.uk

Sapience Communications

+44 (0) 203 841 7610

Disclaimer:

No offering is being made in the European Union or the European Economic Area, and no retail investors within the meaning of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”) will be admitted as purchasers of the ALKN Tokens. The ALKN Tokens are also exempt from the obligation to publish a prospectus for offers to the public under Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended (the “Prospectus Regulation”), as the offering will only be addressed to qualified investors in the EEA/EU. The offering is limited to institutional investors in Singapore. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of any of the ALKN Tokens in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. These securities have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the securities laws of any U.S. state or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction outside El Salvador, nor is such registration contemplated. The ALKN Tokens will only be offered and sold outside the United States (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”)) in offshore transactions pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S and in accordance with any other applicable securities laws where such offers and sales are made. The ALKN Tokens have not been and will not be offered or sold within the United States. 

Forward-Looking Statements: Information outlined in this news release may involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements included in this document are made as of the date of this document, and Alkemya Metacore and Alkemya disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities legislation. Although management believes that the expectations represented in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.

Notice: None of Bitfinex Securities, Archax Ltd or the Hydra X group accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.

Since this offering is not targeting US investors as it is made under Regulation S and similarly it is not targeting EU retail investors under the EU Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”) or non-institutional investors in Singapore, this announcement is not intended for US investors, retail investors in the EU or non-institutional investors in Singapore. US investors, EU retail investors and non-institutional investors in Singapore are considered prohibited investors under the ALKN Token offering. 

Contact

Jonathan Batchelor
Sapience
jbatchelor@sapiencecomms.co.uk

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August 31st, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore

Onchain trading platform Blackboard will open its Alpha on September 1, giving its first users access to a trading experience designed to make onchain markets easier to discover, access, and trade.

Blackboard is a non-custodial, multi-product trading terminal that connects markets fragmented across protocols, applications, and chains through a single interface.

Rather than building another isolated exchange, Blackboard connects users to established onchain protocols and their native liquidity. The goal is to reduce the complexity of switching between applications, wallets, balances, and chains while making onchain trading easier to use.

But simplifying today’s crypto trading experience is only the starting point. Blackboard’s longer-term goal is to make onchain markets accessible to a much broader group of users, allowing them to focus on the markets they want to trade rather than the infrastructure underneath.

One wallet, every market, one interface.

Over time, Blackboard plans to support a broader range of markets, including perpetuals, prediction markets, options, tokenized securities and collectibles, and other emerging products.

The Alpha will begin with a phased rollout on September 1. Waitlist participants can increase their Waitlist Score through activities and referrals, with users who rank higher receiving earlier access. A limited number of Invite Codes will also be distributed through official partners and selected communities.

During the Alpha, Blackboard will focus on user behavior, product feedback, and platform stability while gradually expanding access and market coverage.

“We’re starting with users who already know onchain markets, but the goal is to build a trading product that can ultimately be used by anyone interested in the market, without requiring them to understand the infrastructure underneath. Alpha is the first step toward testing that direction with real users.”

Users can join the Blackboard Waitlist through the official website, with Alpha access beginning on September 1.

About Blackboard

Blackboard is a non-custodial onchain trading terminal that gives users access to perpetual futures, prediction markets, trading cards, and other onchain markets through a single interface. Users retain control of their assets at all times.

Contact

Blackboard PR Team
support@blackboard.fi

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August 31st, 2026 – Riga, Latvia

New releases add a faster integration path for partners, a trusted new payment method for US users, and expanded compliance coverage across the Paybis On/Off Ramp.

Paybis, a global crypto infrastructure provider, today announced a wave of upgrades to its On/Off Ramp. The updates streamline integration for partners and add a new payment method. Paybis On/Off Ramp is the embedded buy/sell crypto with cards and local methods partners use to let their own users buy and sell crypto directly within their own apps and websites.

Easier for Partners to Integrate

Paybis released a new React Native SDK for the On/Off Ramp, making it even easier to integrate into mobile apps. The new SDK cuts integration time to a matter of minutes.

PayPal – one of North America’s most trusted payment methods has been added for end users of the Paybis On/Off Ramp US. That gives US users a faster checkout with a payment method they already trust, without having to enter card details. 

Loading-time improvements across the iOS, Android, and web versions of the On/Off Ramp round out a broader push to make the checkout flow feel faster end to end.

Staying Ahead on Compliance

Following the introduction of Travel Rule requirements across the On/Off Ramp, Paybis is continuing to evolve the compliance experience to make it easier for partners to meet regulatory requirements without adding friction for their users. As part of this work, Paybis is introducing the ability for partners to provide the additional information required for custodial wallets before the user journey begins. This allows the relevant compliance checks to be handled in the integration layer, rather than introducing additional steps for the end user during checkout.

Paybis is also preparing further improvements for unhosted wallet flows, with the aim of making Travel Rule data capture as seamless as possible across different transaction types and wallet models.

This work supports Paybis’ broader move toward more headless integrations, where partners retain ownership of the customer journey, brand, and checkout experience, while Paybis provides the compliance and infrastructure underneath.

“Our focus is twofold: making the On/Off Ramp easier for partners to integrate and build with, while continuing to raise the bar on compliance without compromising the user experience,” said Julia Kovalchuk, Head of B2B Product at Paybis. “As the regulatory landscape evolves, we want to absorb that complexity into our infrastructure so our partners can scale confidently and their users can continue to have a fast, frictionless experience.”

Availability

The features described above are live for eligible partners and customers on a rolling basis; availability may vary by market and partner integration type. Businesses interested in the Paybis On/Off Ramp can contact their account manager or the Paybis partnerships team for onboarding details.

About Paybis 

Paybis makes crypto simple for individuals and enterprises. Established in 2014, the company combines a trusted crypto exchange and wallet -to buy, sell, swap and hold over 90 cryptocurrencies – with award-winning crypto-fiat infrastructure. This infrastructure empowers businesses to transfer capital globally, eliminating traditional payment friction.

In 2026, Paybis was recognized as the Best Crypto Payment Provider, a testament to the expansive global reach, rapid onboarding protocols, and the deep expertise of the 200 dedicated professionals who drive the operations.

Processing more than $6bn annually, Paybis is one of the most efficient platforms for acquiring and transacting in digital assets. This commitment to operational excellence is why Paybis maintains one of the highest ratings for crypto companies on Trustpilot, and why 7 million users and hundreds of the world’s fastest-growing enterprises consistently rely on services.

Website | X | LinkedIn | Blog

Contact

CEO
Innokentiy Isers
Paybis
marketing@paybis.com

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August 28th, 2026 – Washington, United States

As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue.

Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them.

Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City opened a probe into both leading venues, a Washington judge ordered Kalshi to halt most wagers in the state, and the CFTC began an internal review of so-called “mention markets.”

Amid that scrutiny, a simpler question has gone largely unexamined: when two venues list the same question, do they agree on the answer?

Often, they do not. On identically worded midterm markets tracked by Predictions.io, “Blue tsunami in 2026?” was priced at 44.5% on Polymarket and 36.0% on Kalshi. “Blue wave in 2026?” showed 82.5% against 74.0%. Both gaps are 8.5 percentage points — on questions whose wording is identical on the two venues. Across a sample of directly comparable binary markets live on more than one venue, the median gap was more than four points, and nearly half of the pairs differed by five points or more. (Prices as of 05:08 UTC on 28 August 2026; both venues’ live prices are shown side by side on Predictions.io.)

Those gaps matter to anyone quoting a single number. A market priced at 44.5% on one venue and 36.0% on another does not have one “market-implied probability” – it has two, and which one gets cited is arbitrary unless the reader is told both.

“A single venue’s price is a data point. The spread between venues is the information. When the two biggest markets in the world disagree by seven points on the same sentence, that disagreement is the story – and nobody who runs one of those markets is in a position to report it.” said spokesperson of Predictions.io

Predictions.io aggregates markets from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold, matching equivalent questions across venues so the same event can be compared directly. The platform currently tracks more than 9,700 event pages across 23 categories including US politics, economics, crypto, sport and geopolitics.

Alongside the comparison pages, Predictions.io publishes two free tools:

? Fee Calculator — enter any trade and see the fee, total outlay and effective all-in price on each venue, including Kalshi’s 0.07 × P × (1?P) taker formula and maker discount against Polymarket’s zero-fee standard markets.

https://predictions.io/tools/fee-calculator

? Odds Converter — convert American, decimal and fractional odds into implied probability and prediction-market prices, and see the vig-free line.

https://predictions.io/tools/odds-converter

A direct venue comparison is available at https://predictions.io/compare/polymarket-vs-kalshi, and live midterms markets at https://predictions.io/lobby/us-politics.

Predictions.io operates no market and takes no position in any contract. It is a data and comparison service, not an exchange, broker or investment adviser.

About Predictions.io

Predictions.io is an independent aggregator of prediction markets, bringing prices from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold into a single view so the same question can be compared across venues. It publishes free tools for traders and journalists, including a cross-venue fee calculator and odds converter.

Users can learn more about Predictions.io here: https://predictions.io/

Predictions.io socials: https://bio.site/predictions.io

Contact

Spokesperson
Predictions.io
support@predictions.io

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August 27th, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs.

Terms were not disclosed.

TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund.

The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy vaults, tens of millions of dollars in total value locked and more than 1.5 million registered wallets. Keyrock, Hardcore Labs, Edge Capital and Origami serve as Curators, managing strategy vaults on the protocol. The TMX token completed its TGE on August 25.

The investor’s own public position points to the gap this investment is meant to fill. In an August 14 post describing what it wants to see built, YZi Labs wrote that tokenized blue-chip equities have reached meaningful volume, but that the financial application layer around them — credit, collateral management, risk transfer and structured products — remains underdeveloped, and that options and other risk-transfer products in particular remain conspicuously absent.

YZi Labs placed this investment precisely where that gap sits.

“When I left banking, there were a few hundred billion dollars of assets sitting on-chain without a single directly observable interest rate curve between them. In traditional markets, that would be unheard of. That is what made me decide to build this infrastructure on-chain.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.

Tokenized equities are the fastest-growing asset class on-chain, now at $2.48 billion, with holder count up 165% in 30 days.

TermMax integrated Ondo Global Markets in January 2026 to launch the first fixed-rate borrowing market to accept tokenized U.S. equities as collateral, then added Binance’s bStock. In August it went live on Robinhood Chain, where QQQ, SPY and NVDA can be posted against USDG.

But financing is only half of what tokenized equities need. Nearly all of this year’s tokenized-equity infrastructure has gone into perpetual futures, and almost none into options.

TermMax Alpha is where that changes: physical delivery options, with no liquidation before expiry. The conversion price is fixed when the position is opened, and the position is settled by physical delivery at expiry. A directionally correct position therefore cannot be knocked out by a few minutes of volatile trading in thin liquidity — the failure mode that makes perpetuals unsuitable at the illiquid end of tokenized equities.

This no-liquidation design rests on a choice running through the whole protocol: when liquidation does happen, it settles by physical delivery, with collateral delivered directly to the lender rather than sold into the market. The usual assumption — that collateral can be sold at fair value on demand — holds for ETH and fails for a tokenized equity with a few million dollars of depth.

On the institutional side, TermPrime completed its first live trade on Canton Network at the end of June and has since grown its counterparty network to nine institutions.

TermMax runs an early validator node on Canton, and TermPrime is ready to support lending business for institutions there through open markets.

TermMax holds a DeFiSafety Process Quality Review score of 93%, matching Aave V3.

“What we set out to do is not to teach traditional institutions DeFi. It is to let DeFi grow into something professional enough to genuinely serve finance.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.

What TermMax wants to be is not another lending protocol, but the on-chain interest rate curve itself.

About TermMax

TermMax is a fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending marketplace built by Term Structure Labs, live on mainnet since April 2025 and deployed across 10 EVM-compatible chains, where it runs 60 fixed-rate markets and 40 strategy vaults. The protocol splits debt into three tradable tokens: FT (principal), XT (interest and option value) and GT (an ERC-721 receipt for leveraged positions). Professional Curators set target APR ranges across isolated markets and manage strategy vaults, and liquidations settle by physical delivery of collateral. Co-founder and CEO Jerry Li has 25 years in global financial markets and served as Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, running fixed income and FX for Greater China.

Website: https://ts.finance/

About YZi Labs

YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets globally. Our investment philosophy emphasizes impact first — we believe that meaningful returns will naturally follow. We invest in ventures at every stage, prioritizing those with solid fundamentals in Web3, AI, and biotech. YZi Labs’ portfolio covers over 300 projects from over 25 countries across six continents. Some notable portfolios include Trust Wallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, SafePal Wallet, Better Payment Network, Aster, XAI, and more. More than 65 of YZi Labs’ portfolio companies have gone through our incubation program, EASY Residency. For more information, follow YZi Labs on X (@yzilabs).

Contact

TermMax Marketing Team
hello@cipherdance.com

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August 26th, 2026 – Berlin, Germany

class=”ql-align-center”>TronBid expands its two-sided TRON resource marketplace, giving users new ways to rent Energy, trade Energy and Bandwidth, and reduce USDT fees for TRC-20 transactions.

TronBid, a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON network resources, has expanded its platform with new tools for users looking to rent TRON Energy, manage transaction costs and access network resources without maintaining large amounts of staked TRX.

The platform now operates as a two-sided marketplace where both buyers and sellers can create orders for TRON Energy and Bandwidth.

Understanding TRON Energy Usage

TRON uses Energy and Bandwidth as its primary network resources. Energy is required for smart-contract computation, including USDT TRC-20 transfers.

When a wallet does not have sufficient Energy, TRX may be consumed to cover the resources required by the transaction. This has created demand for users and businesses to rent Energy instead.

By receiving temporary Energy delegated from another account, users can perform eligible TRON transactions without maintaining enough staked TRX for their maximum resource requirements.

For businesses processing frequent TRC-20 transactions, choosing to rent TRON Energy can therefore provide another way to manage network costs and reduce USDT fees.

A Two-Sided Marketplace for Energy

Unlike platforms where rental conditions are determined entirely by the provider, TronBid allows both sides of the market to create orders.

Buyers can create BUY orders specifying the amount of Energy required, rental duration and price they are willing to pay.

Sellers can create SELL offers with their own amount, price and rental period. Buyers can purchase all or part of these offers directly.

For example, if a seller offers 600,000 Energy, one buyer can rent 350,000 Energy, leaving the remaining amount available for other buyers.

Creating a SELL offer does not reserve the seller’s Energy. If resources become unavailable because they are being used elsewhere, recurring offers can automatically pause and become active again when sufficient Energy returns.

This allows sellers to participate in the TronBid marketplace while continuing to manage their resources elsewhere.

Rent Energy Without Waiting for the Marketplace

For users who need resources immediately, TronBid also provides Quick Rent with predefined Energy packages and short rental periods.

Energy can be delivered directly to any specified TRON address, even when payment is made from another wallet.

TronBid has also introduced Flash Recharge, an alternative designed for wallets that already maintain their own Energy capacity but need to manage consumed resources.

Energy and Bandwidth Trading

TronBid’s marketplace supports both Energy and Bandwidth, allowing holders of staked TRX to monetize the network resources their stake generates.

This creates two sides of the ecosystem: users who need to rent TRON Energy or Bandwidth and resource owners looking to make unused capacity available to the market.

By allowing both buyers and sellers to determine their own terms, TronBid aims to create more transparent price discovery based on actual supply and demand.

B2B API to Reduce USDT Fees at Scale

TronBid also provides a B2B Quick Rent API for exchanges, payment processors, wallets, OTC services and other businesses processing frequent TRON transactions.

Businesses can maintain a prepaid balance and automatically request Energy for specified TRON addresses before executing transactions.

Instead of manually renting resources for every transfer, companies can integrate Energy rental directly into their transaction infrastructure.

For businesses handling large numbers of USDT TRC-20 transfers, this can make it easier to rent Energy automatically and manage the network-resource component of transaction costs.

TronBid Becomes a TRON SR Partner

Alongside the expansion of its marketplace, TronBid has become a TRON Super Representative Partner, adding the project to TRON’s delegated proof-of-stake governance ecosystem.

The development strengthens TronBid’s connection with the underlying TRON ecosystem while the platform continues building infrastructure around Energy and Bandwidth.

About TronBid

TronBid is a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON Energy and Bandwidth. Buyers can rent TRON Energy, create BUY orders or purchase existing seller offers, while resource owners can create SELL offers with their own prices and rental periods.

The platform also provides Quick Rent, Flash Recharge and a B2B API for businesses looking to automate Energy rental and reduce USDT fees for TRC-20 transactions.

More information: https://tronbid.com

Contact

Petr Stoli
support@tronbid.com

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August 24th, 2026 – Seoul, South Korea

FlyEdge, a B2B platform focused on tokenizing airline loyalty value, has opened a multilingual public preview that allows airlines and travelers to experience and independently verify the full on-chain process—from token issuance and conversion to transfer and redemption.

The preview runs on StreamChain, an EVM-compatible mainnet founded by GW Lee that FlyEdge says was built specifically for aviation loyalty. The company said the network’s aviation-focused architecture and ready-made interfaces were key reasons for choosing it over a general-purpose blockchain.

At the center of the preview is airline control. Through a token factory, airlines can issue an initial supply, mint additional tokens, burn tokens, and transfer them. Transactions are verified through on-chain receipts and finality.

That control addresses one of the biggest concerns surrounding tokenized airline loyalty.

Airlines have traditionally been cautious about making loyalty currencies more liquid because greater circulation could affect breakage—miles that are issued but never redeemed, which can represent an important part of loyalty-program economics. Earlier experiments, including Air France-KLM’s “Miles on Blockchain” proof of concept in 2017–2018, demonstrated interest in blockchain while also highlighting the business challenges surrounding airline loyalty.

FlyEdge’s model is designed to keep those decisions with the airline. Airlines retain control over official value, permitted conversions, and the services for which tokens can be used, while FlyEdge provides a shared infrastructure layer for authentication, ledger functions and settlement.

The company is also attempting to remove the technical friction normally associated with blockchain. Traveler accounts are non-custodial smart accounts protected by passkeys, while network fees are sponsored. Users therefore do not need to manage seed phrases, gas tokens or traditional crypto wallets.

Released in 12 languages on 20 August 2026, the preview is built around four traveler-facing experiences: PASSPORT, a non-custodial wallet and access pass; SHOW, featuring aviation-focused live streams and sponsorship; LAST CALL, centered on imminent seat experiences; and LOUNGE, where users can convert permitted airline tokens and request airline services.

FlyEdge says it has verified 100 pilot assets and activity across all four experiences on-chain, with the results cross-checked through a public blockchain explorer.

The company stresses that the preview does not represent existing commercial deployment by external airlines. It is an invitation for airlines, travelers and media organizations to test and verify the system themselves.

FlyEdge also does not claim that tokenization eliminates airline liabilities. Accounting treatment, it says, remains a decision for each airline in consultation with its auditors and regulators.

“Airline loyalty doesn’t need another general-purpose chain. It needs infrastructure that understands how airlines actually operate,” said John Kim, founder and chief technology officer of FlyEdge. “Rather than asking airlines and the media to take our word for it, we’re asking them to verify the entire cycle themselves.”

FlyEdge’s broader ambition is to build an aviation settlement layer, rather than simply create another mileage token. Its vision is to make airline loyalty value an asset that airlines and travelers can move, use and audit while airlines retain control over their own loyalty economics.

The company’s tagline captures the idea: “Unlocking the True Value of the Skies.”

About FlyEdge

FlyEdge is an aviation-focused B2B infrastructure platform built on StreamChain, designed to unlock the true value of tokenized airline loyalty. Founded by John Kim, who also serves as the company’s chief technology officer, FlyEdge bridges enterprise-grade controls for airlines with frictionless, passkey-secured non-custodial accounts for travelers, providing a scalable settlement layer for the aviation industry. To explore the public preview and learn more, visit https://flyedge.io/en.

Contact

GW Lee
media@flyedge.io

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August 20th, 2026 – Sheridan, Wyoming

THEO is Now Live on Hydrex — Autheo’s Internet Operating System Token Begins Trading

Following its August 14 announcement, THEO enters the public market at $0.05, with 125 validators securing Mainnet and over 2 million wallets, 1.1 million smart contracts, and 10 million transactions on testnet.

Autheo confirmed that THEO, the native utility token powering its Internet Operating System, is now live on Hydrex, the Base-native Omni-Liquidity MetaDEX. THEO entered the public market at a reference price of $0.05 against USDC, with Enflux serving as official market maker.

Unlike many blockchain projects that enter the public markets before meaningful adoption, THEO launches into an operational ecosystem — powering Autheo’s Internet Operating System, with Mainnet secured by 125 validators.

TOKENOMICS

THEO has a maximum supply of 7.0 billion tokens, with approximately 5.33% designated as initial circulating supply at TGE — for an initial market capitalization of approximately $18.66 million at the $0.05 reference price. The substantial majority of this allocation is designated for liquidity, with most of that liquidity locked or otherwise unavailable for trading. The fully diluted valuation of $350 million represents the theoretical value if all tokens were circulating, but emissions are intentionally distributed over a 10-year period, introducing supply very gradually. The model was developed over several years, with contributions from two Ph.D.-level tokenomics researchers, to support sustainable network economics and align long-term incentives.

THEO UTILITY

THEO powers the economics of the Autheo Internet Operating System — the native utility and coordination asset connecting users, developers, infrastructure providers, and validators. It pays for compute, storage, networking, messaging, AI services, containers, and other decentralized infrastructure, while rewarding the providers that contribute resources to the mesh network. THEO also supports Validator and Infrastructure Node participation, staking, network security, governance, transaction fees, and provider incentives. As applications and enterprises consume resources, THEO provides the economic mechanism through which demand is measured, paid for, and distributed to participants providing and securing the infrastructure.

LAUNCH PARTNERS & WHAT’S NEXT

Launch partners include Hydrex and Enflux (market making). Autheo’s infrastructure has undergone independent security audits across multiple layers, with Halborn auditing the Testnet and Validator Node platform, CertiK auditing Mainnet and smart contracts, and Avelar Labs auditing the Base Autheo Mainnet bridge. Decentralized infrastructure deployment and hosting are supported by Zeeve, InfStones, and Antier.

ApeBond is expected to launch an on-chain OTC bond program shortly after listing, through which participants may acquire THEO under a discounted, vested structure designed to support protocol-owned liquidity.

With THEO now publicly trading, Autheo is entering the next phase of its rollout, with additional strategic partnerships, exchange listings, product launches, and ecosystem initiatives expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

“For years, we built in quiet — the network, the infrastructure, the audits — knowing that a token without a working platform is simply a token, not an economy,” said Todd Mortenson, Founder and Managing Director of Autheo. “THEO is live — and for the first time, the public can participate directly in building the Internet Operating System, expanding the Autheo ecosystem, and shaping the THEO economy — an economy designed for developers, infrastructure providers, validators, enterprises, and users alike. The world has no shortage of tokens. It has a shortage of economies worth participating in — built on working infrastructure, secured by real validators, and driven by real network participation. That’s what an Internet Operating System makes possible. Today, that economy opens to the world with THEO.”

HOW TO BUY THEO

To purchase THEO on Hydrex: (1) install an EVM-compatible wallet and add the Base network; (2) fund the wallet with USDC on Base; (3) navigate to hydrex.fi and connect the wallet; (4) verify the official THEO contract address and select the THEO/USDC pair; and (5) confirm the swap. Hydrex provides permissionless, non-custodial trading through connected wallets.

Official THEO Contract — Base Mainnet (Chain ID 8453):

0xebe516a20238F79dc20b07ead6768e08891Ed309

BUILDING ON AUTHEO

With Mainnet live and THEO now publicly trading, Autheo invites developers to put the network to work. Whether building decentralized applications, financial infrastructure, AI-powered applications, or identity solutions, developers can build and deploy directly on Autheo Mainnet today:

• Buy THEO on Hydrex: hydrex.fi
• Base Autheo Mainnet Bridge: hyper.autheo.com
• RPC Endpoints & Network Configuration: docs.autheo.com/getting-started/network/endpoints
• Wallet Integration: docs.autheo.com/getting-started/quickstart
• Smart Contract Deployment: docs.autheo.com/developers/tutorials/deploy-smart-contract
• Validator Purchase: commerce.autheo.com
• Validator & Staking: docs.autheo.com/web-apps/validator-portal/delegation
• Validator Node Self-Hosting: docs.autheo.com/validator-program/self-hosting-guide
• One-Click Validator Node Deployment & Managed Hosting: validator.autheo.com — powered by Zeeve

ABOUT AUTHEO

Autheo is building the Internet Operating System — a decentralized coordination and execution layer unifying compute, cloud, storage, AI, networking, microservices, identity, security, and blockchain, with native IBC interoperability.

Founded by Scott Bayless and Todd Mortenson, Autheo launched Mainnet on May 14, 2026. The project is stewarded across four entities: Autheo, LLC (Wyoming — operations), Autheo Labs, LLC (Wyoming — development), THEO Token Ltd (BVI — token issuer), and the Autheo Foundation (US nonprofit — protocol steward). Visit autheo.com or follow @Autheo_Network on X.

LINKS & RESOURCES

Autheo: autheo.com · X: @Autheo_Network

Buy THEO: hydrex.fi · Bridge: hyper.autheo.com

Hydrex: hydrex.fi

Official THEO Contract (Base Mainnet): 0xebe516a20238F79dc20b07ead6768e08891Ed309

Developer Docs: docs.autheo.com/start-here/your-path

Mainnet Explorer: evm-explorer.autheo.com

Testnet Explorer: testnet-explorer.autheo.com

Buy a Node: commerce.autheo.com

Enflux: enflux.io

ApeBond: ape.bond

MEDIA CONTACT

Ryan Teigen, Director of Product Marketing

Email: ryan@autheo.com · press@autheo.com · Phone: 608-713-1028

autheo.com · X: @Autheo_Network

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this release are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Digital assets carry significant market, regulatory, and technical risk.

Contact

Managing Director

Todd Mortenson

Autheo LLC

press@autheo.com

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August 20th, 2026 – Montevideo, Uruguay

Today, Aligned, a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN*, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum.

Less than one percent of the world’s assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. Building on top of them is still harder than it should be. A fintech going onchain usually signs with multiple vendors, one for wallets, another for scalability solutions (including rollups and proving systems), then spends months wiring them together and keeping them in sync. There is no standard way to ship a financial product on Ethereum yet.

Aligned was built to fix that. It’s built in close collaboration with LambdaClass, a company behind key contributions across the Ethereum ecosystem, including work on Starknet, zkSync, Polygon Miden, and EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer), as well as Ethrex (the execution client which powers Aligned’s Rollup-as-a-Service) and lambdaworks, a cryptography library written in Rust. By integrating with Aligned, users can access wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services through a single stack.

Aligned ships the stack one piece at a time:

• Proof Aggregation Service: live on mainnet alpha. Batching the proofs a rollup generates so verification stays cheap as Ethereum scales.
• Wallet-as-a-Service: MVP already launched. Users sign in with Google or Face ID and get a real Ethereum wallet, with no seed phrases, extensions, or gas fees.
• Rollup-as-a-Service, the LambdaVM, and the interoperability protocol: in development. The LambdaVM is Aligned’s RISC-V zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), built in collaboration with LambdaClass and 3MI Labs. Each ships as it’s ready.

The world’s assets are moving onto Ethereum, and Aligned is creating the stack that makes it easy to build on. In the future, $ALIGN will be available as an option to pay for the services across that stack, from Proof Aggregation to Wallet-as-a-Service. As more teams build on Aligned, it will be the asset they use to pay for that usage. It is a utility token. It is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends, and it does not promise a yield or a price.

$ALIGN has a fixed supply of 10 billion tokens, with about 16% circulating at launch. The full allocation and the Genesis airdrop are laid out in the ALIGN tokenomics. The airdrop was distributed across several waves spanning developers and researchers, the Discord and Galxe communities, distinguished contributors to Ethereum and ZK such as Protocol Guild, L2BEAT, ZachXBT, and ZK Podcast, and holders of ecosystem tokens including Starknet, Mina, zkSync, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and EigenCloud.

Aligned is committed to Ethereum by choice, focusing all of its efforts on it. Through the rest of the year, the team plans to ship the remaining pieces of the stack and grow the number of products built on it. The longer-term goal is to make building a financial product on Ethereum a single decision, not a systems-integration project.

Check eligibility and follow the launch at community.alignedlayer.com. To hear more, read the ALIGN tokenomics at blog.alignedlayer.com and follow @alignedlayer.

About Aligned

Aligned builds the tools that turn Ethereum into the world’s financial backend. It gives fintechs, institutions, and enterprises one integration for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services, so they can build real financial products on Ethereum instead of assembling a stack from separate vendors. Users can learn more at alignedlayer.com.

*$ALIGN is the native asset of the Aligned ecosystem, built on Ethereum as an ERC-20 token and also available on Base, with a fixed total supply of 10 billion and an initial circulating supply equal to approximately 16% of the total token supply. It will be used across the Aligned stack. $ALIGN is not equity, a share, or a claim on revenue or dividends. This announcement is informational only and is not financial advice. Do your own research.

Contact

Roberto Catalan

Aligned Layer

roberto@yetanothercompany.xyz

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Global crypto exchange BYDFi is participating as a Gold Sponsor at Coinfest Asia 2026, taking place August 20-21 at Melasti Beach in Bali. Positioned as “The World’s Crypto Festival Built for Institutions, Builders & Traders,” the event brings together participants across digital assets, finance, technology, and trading. Attendees can meet the BYDFi team at Booth A1 throughout the two-day event.

Coinfest Asia 2026 Returns for Its Fifth Edition

Coinfest Asia 2026 marks the fifth annual edition of the event, spanning five beach clubs at Melasti Beach as one integrated venue. With more than 150 CEOs and industry leaders expected across the two-day event, the program combines conference sessions, product discovery, networking, and community experiences within the beachfront setting.

The 2026 agenda is organized into three intent-based tracks: Institutional, Builders, and Traders. Together, they cover digital asset adoption, stablecoins, tokenization, regulation, AI, blockchain infrastructure, product development, market narratives, and trading strategy. Asia Go-To-Market Sessions add localized perspectives on regulatory environments, user behavior, and ecosystem development across key Asian markets.

Trading Conversations and Community Interaction in Bali

At Booth A1, BYDFi is meeting with traders, builders, institutional representatives, partners, and community members to exchange perspectives on market access, product usability, and changing trading needs. Visitors can also learn more about BYDFi’s trading experience across spot trading, perpetual contracts, copy trading, trading bots, and TradFi trading.

The booth features a Lucky Wheel where attendees can take part in on-site interaction and receive exclusive BYDFi merchandise. The activity has drawn a steady flow of visitors, with attendees gathering around the booth to watch, participate, and speak with the BYDFi team.

Reliability in a Fast-Moving Market

Coinfest Asia 2026 brings institutions, builders, and traders into one setting as digital assets become increasingly connected to the wider financial system. For BYDFi, the conversations taking place in Bali offer a timely view of shifts in technology, industry priorities, and user expectations.

This environment reinforces BYDFi’s focus on practical product improvement, steady execution, and a dependable trading experience. As user needs continue to change, that focus remains central to how BYDFi carries Built for Reliability forward.

About BYDFi

Founded in 2020, BYDFi now serves over 1,000,000 users across 190+ countries and regions. BYDFi is Newcastle United’s Exclusive Official Crypto Exchange Partner and is listed by Forbes Advisor Canada among the best crypto exchanges in Canada for 2026.
BYDFi is dedicated to delivering a world-class crypto trading experience for every user.

BUIDL Your Dream Finance

Website: https://www.bydfi.com
Support email: cs@bydfi.com
Business partnerships: bd@bydfi.com
Media inquiries: media@bydfi.com

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Contact

Anna
BYDFi Fintech LTD
anna@bydfi.com

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August 11th, 2026 – Milton, Georgia

Businesses are increasingly looking for ways to offer more payment options without adding operational complexity.

ForumPay, a crypto payment infrastructure company, enables merchants to accept crypto payments across online, in-store, and in-app channels, with instant conversion and next-day settlement.

ForumPay has recently announced a new payment flow that it says could meaningfully alter how payments are processed. Customers can now initiate purchases using any Visa or Mastercard and bank transfers in selected markets, with funds routed automatically through ForumPay’s infrastructure. Merchants can now offer card and bank payments without registering as a card acceptance businesses, sidestepping chargeback liability and PCI-DSS compliance costs while still receiving precisely the amount invoiced. 

This latest ForumPay release represents one of the more ambitious developments yet to bridge the gap between traditional payment rails and crypto infrastructure. 

Built for Modern Payment Acceptance

Businesses increasingly want to offer customers greater flexibility at checkout, but additional payment methods tend to bring additional operational and cost burdens. Card acceptance, in particular, can introduce chargeback exposure, compliance requirements, fraud management responsibilities, and more complex settlement processes, challenges that only grow more acute for organizations operating across multiple markets.

ForumPay’s innovative new payment flow is designed to solve these issues. Customers can initiate payments using any Visa, Mastercard, or bank transfer in selected markets, with those funds automatically used to purchase crypto and processed through ForumPay’s existing crypto payment infrastructure, with all of the inherent features and benefits, and converted and settled as per the preferences a merchant has already established on their account. Merchants will receive exactly the amount invoiced. For example, if a customer is billed $100, then $100 is what arrives in the merchant’s preferred bank account.

Critically, ForumPay will pass the additional card and bank transfer costs directly to the payer, meaning merchants pay only their usual crypto acceptance fees that would apply to any transaction processed through the platform. The approach allows businesses to expand the choice of available payment methods at checkout without taking on the compliance architecture, risks and costs that card acceptance would ordinarily require.

More Payment Options, the Same Operational Footprint 

Businesses increasingly want to offer customers greater flexibility at checkout, but incorporating additional payment methods tend to bring with it additional operational burdens. Card acceptance, in particular, can introduce chargeback exposure, compliance requirements, fraud management responsibilities, and more complex settlement processes, challenges that only grow more acute for organizations operating across multiple markets. 

ForumPay’s new payment flow is being designed to address this friction. Customers will be able to initiate payments using any Visa, Mastercard, or bank transfer in selected markets. Those funds are then automatically used to purchase digital assets and processed through ForumPay’s existing infrastructure, allowing merchants to continue receiving funds according to their established settlement preferences without having to overhaul their operations to accommodate the new options in the process. The approach, ForumPay says, allows businesses to expand what they can offer at checkout without taking on the compliance architecture that card acceptance would ordinarily require.

About ForumPay

ForumPay is a complete cryptocurrency-to-fiat payment technology firm; its core processing technology helps businesses attract new customers, optimize customers’ ability to spend, and increase revenue. ForumPay’s wallet-agnostic solution enables crypto consumers to spend their preferred cryptocurrency, from any wallet for everyday goods and services to luxury goods, automobiles, real estate, and private jets. ForumPay eliminates merchant exposure or risk by processing transactions with instant crypto-to-cash conversion. ForumPay merchants receive payments in the currency of their choice directly into their bank account. The transactional experience is similar to accepting other popular payment methods, including cash, credit cards, and bank transfers, but simpler, faster, and more secure.

Contact

Director Global Account Management
Paul Wordsworth
ForumPay
paul@forumpay.com

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August 10th, 2026 – London, UK

CT3 has announced the start of comprehensive preparations for the future listing of the CT3GB token.

The company has begun scaling its data storage infrastructure, building financial and infrastructure reserves, and preparing its own tokenized economy, in which CT3GB will become the platform’s primary settlement asset. At the same time, the transition to a new data storage architecture based on specialized smart contracts is underway, while an independent audit of the entire core smart contract infrastructure will be conducted ahead of the listing.

Over the past several months, CT3 has significantly expanded the capabilities of its platform. One of the most important milestones was the implementation of automatic backup technology, following which demand for data storage services increased substantially. The growth in data volumes confirmed the platform’s readiness to support continuous data storage scenarios and became a signal to move on to the next stage of ecosystem development.

The company notes that further scaling cannot be considered separately from the platform’s economy. For this reason, preparations for the CT3GB listing began before the token enters the open market.

Transition to an In-House Settlement System

Today, most internal CT3 operations are carried out using the Polygon infrastructure. Following the launch of CT3GB, the company plans to transition all major financial processes within the platform to its own token.

CT3GB will be used to pay for data storage services, settle payments with infrastructure owners, distribute rewards, facilitate internal settlements between network participants, and carry out other operations required for the functioning of the CT3 Cloud ecosystem.

Thus, the token will become not merely an additional means of payment, but a fundamental element of the platform’s economy, facilitating the flow of value between users, storage infrastructure, and CT3 services.

Preparing the Economy Before the Listing

According to CT3, the sustainability of a tokenized economy is determined not by the moment of listing itself, but by the degree to which the infrastructure is prepared to operate after the listing.

That is why the company has already begun expanding its data storage network, increasing available computing capacity, and building reserves that will enable the platform to continue scaling without compromising performance.

Part of this strategy is being implemented through the Storage Contracts program. The company views it not as a separate stage of product development, but as one of the tools for building financial and infrastructure reserves. This approach makes it possible to gradually increase the network’s capacity while maintaining a high level of commercial utilization and, at the same time, creating the resource buffer required for the continued growth of the ecosystem after the listing.

A New Network Architecture

In parallel, CT3 continues to modernize its technology platform.

One of the key areas of development is the segmentation of the storage infrastructure into separate specialized smart contracts. Instead of relying on a single architecture, different products within the ecosystem are gradually being assigned their own contracts with independent capacity limits and resource accounting.

According to the company, this model will enable more efficient platform scaling, improve transparency in infrastructure utilization, and provide greater flexibility for developing new services without affecting products that are already operational.

Independent Audit Before the CT3GB Launch

Another mandatory stage of the preparation process will be an independent audit of the smart contracts.

Before CT3GB enters the public market, the company plans to complete a comprehensive review of the smart contract infrastructure that will support the token and the platform’s key services. The audit will focus on verifying the security of the contracts, the correctness of their business logic, and compliance with industry standards.

CT3 notes that the audit is considered an essential part of preparing for the public launch of the project’s economy and one of the factors that can help strengthen trust among users, partners, and cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Next Stage of CT3’s Development

The preparation for the CT3GB listing is part of CT3’s long-term development strategy aimed at creating a fully autonomous data storage infrastructure with its own economic model.

Once the preparations are complete, CT3GB will become the platform’s primary settlement asset and will be used for all internal operations across the ecosystem. At the same time, the value of the token will be driven not only by market demand but also by its practical utility in the day-to-day operation of CT3 Cloud services.

Infrastructure expansion, reserve creation, the implementation of a new storage architecture, and preparation for an independent audit are all part of a unified strategy designed to ensure that CT3GB launches within an ecosystem that is already prepared for further scaling and growth.

About CT3

CT3 is a technology company developing next-generation decentralized data storage infrastructure. The company’s ecosystem combines a distributed storage network, NFT-based access keys, automatic backup technologies, and a scalable smart contract architecture. CT3 solutions are designed for both individual users and the corporate sector, providing secure long-term data storage, backup, and protection of digital information.

Contact

CMO
Rodrigo Pereira
CT3
contact@ct-3.ltd

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August 10th, 2026 – Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Deposits Are Open for hBTC, the Vault Token for Hilbert Group’s BTC Basis+ Strategy

Syntetika, a tokenization hub for regulated investment strategies, opened deposits today for its first strategy: BTC Basis+, managed by the publicly traded Hilbert Group.

Syntetika makes investment strategies that run inside regulated funds accessible directly from a wallet. Each fund operates with independent custody, and each cycle its net asset value is attested by an independent third party. That attested NAV is the price at which vault tokens are issued and redeemed.

BTC Basis+ is a Bitcoin basis strategy: it holds Bitcoin exposure and captures the funding spread between spot and futures markets, with returns denominated in Bitcoin terms. Participants deposit cbBTC through the Syntetika platform in a permissionless way. Deposits are queued and subscribed into the fund at the next processing cycle, with hBTC minted at an attested NAV. Redemptions follow the same cycle.

Syntetika launches with partners Tulipa Capital on strategy curation, Ember Protocol on vault infrastructure, and Yield Network as Liquidity Syndication Partner. The platform launches on Base. Reserves behind its tokens will also become checkable by anyone through Chainlink Proof of Reserve.

“Today Syntetika opens its doors with BTC Basis+,” said Jorge Cuartero, CEO of Syntetika. “What we are really launching is the platform underneath it: infrastructure built to carry a growing set of regulated strategies onchain. This is day one of that roadmap.”

BTC Basis+ is open for deposits now at syntetika.io

About Syntetika

Syntetika is a tokenization hub for regulated investment strategies. Each strategy runs inside a regulated fund with independent custody and third-party NAV attestation, and is accessed onchain through a vault token issued and redeemed at that attested NAV.

Contact

Head of Marketing
Niko Petrov
Syntetika Proto Limited
niko@syntetikalbs.io

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August 7th, 2026 – Road Town, British Virgin Islands

class=”ql-align-center”>250+ TradFi markets join Carbon’s 530+ crypto perpetuals & 150 24/7 RWAs in one venue.

Wall Street depth at listing, stable overnight rates, and on-chain settlement.

Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, today opened public trading on 250+ Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated TradFi venues, making Carbon the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Alongside 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 24/7 RWAs, total tradeable instruments now exceed 950 in one account. 

Carbon TradFi is Carbon’s own on-chain instrument. A trader opens a position on-chain, in their own wallet, and Carbon’s solver architecture hedges it 1:1 at a regulated broker off-chain. The trader never leaves self-custody, and the price and depth they receive are the underlying market’s, not bootstrapped on-chain order books.

That structure removes the cold-start problem that has constrained real-world assets on-chain. Every Carbon TradFi market opens at full institutional depth on its first day, because the depth is inherited rather than manufactured. There is no per-market incentive program to run and no waiting period while liquidity accumulates.

Carbon now offers traders both in one account. Its 150 24/7 real-world markets trade around the clock, for traders who want access at any hour. Its 250+ Carbon TradFi markets track market hours with carry prices from the underlying, for traders who want institutional depth and predictable holding costs. Roughly 30 assets are live as both, letting a trader hold one against the other and capture the difference between the two financing rates without leaving the account.

The global market Carbon connects to is substantial. TradFi clears over $1.5 trillion daily in CFDs across thousands of markets, liquidity that until now had no direct route on-chain.

Carbon TradFi coverage at launch:

• 200 stocks across US, EU, and Asia markets
• 62 forex pairs
• 12 indices
• 8 commodities

Carbon can list a trending name within the same week it begins moving in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong, a cadence order-book venues cannot match because they lack the off-chain rails to stand up a new market that quickly. A further 150 listings are scheduled.

The launch also opens the Carbon Liquidity Provider (CLP) vault to public deposits. The CLP is a delta-neutral yield product: it funds the hedge behind trader flow rather than taking directional positions, earning from the difference between on-chain demand and off-chain liquidity. Modeled APY is illustrative and ranges from 20.3% at launch utilization to 57.1% at maturity, depending on flow and capital utilization.

“Traders have had to choose between the assets they want and the execution they need. Carbon ends that trade-off. Every position is hedged into the deepest liquidity in the world and settles in the trader’s own wallet, with 950+ markets in a single account. This is what global markets look like when they finally arrive on-chain properly.” – Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon“One of the biggest challenges for bringing traditional financial assets onchain has been delivering deep liquidity. Carbon is operating an architecture that connects onchain trading with established market infrastructure while preserving self-custody. We want Arbitrum to be home to teams building this next generation of financial infrastructure” – David Garcia, Ecosystem Lead at Arbitrum Foundation 

About Carbon

Carbon is the on-chain prime broker for global markets, combining crypto perpetuals and Carbon TradFi in one venue. Carbon’s solver architecture connects on-chain traders to institutional liquidity through bilateral 1:1 hedging, delivering Wall Street-grade depth and stable carry with on-chain settlement and self-custody. Live since 2023, Carbon has processed $20B+ in cumulative trading volume across 36K+ unique traders. Carbon operates on Arbitrum. Users can learn more at carbon.inc.

Contact

COO
Rens
Carbon
rens@carbon.inc

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August 7th, 2026 – Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

CoinMarketCap has expanded its Pro API with a new suite of seven real-world asset (RWA) endpoints, giving developers a single programmatic source for data on tokenized versions of traditional financial instruments.

The RWA endpoints cover tokenized equities, commodities, currencies, government securities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and real estate. They are available now.

The RWA endpoints resolve each asset through a stable identifier and span the full data lifecycle. An ID map and a metadata endpoint return descriptive and company information. Asset-list and quotes endpoints return aggregate tokenized price, market capitalization, and 24-hour volume. Market-pairs and issuer endpoints expose the underlying on-chain tokens, as well as the markets they trade on and the issuers behind them. Core endpoints are accessible on CoinMarketCap’s free Basic plan and above.

The RWA API launch coincided with a notable market moment. When SpaceX completed its public listing, CoinMarketCap published an RWA developer guide. The guide showed how to retrieve data on the company’s tokenized stock through the same endpoints, connecting a major traditional-finance event to on-chain data in one workflow.

The RWA endpoints expand an already broad API offering. Through a single integration and credit system, the CoinMarketCap Pro API delivers real-time and historical crypto prices, along with centralized exchange, decentralized exchange (DEX), derivatives, and liquidation data. It also provides proprietary indexes, including the CoinMarketCap Fear & Greed Index and CMC20, as well as real-time WebSocket streaming. The platform offers agent-native access through a hosted MCP server and pay-per-call x402 support, as well as a Keyless Public API that lets developers call a curated set of endpoints without an account or API key.

“Developers should not have to stitch together a dozen providers to build a serious crypto product,” said Rush, CEO of CoinMarketCap. “By bringing tokenized real-world assets into the same API that already covers spot, derivatives, DEX, and our own market indices, we give builders one dependable source of truth. Our goal is simple: to be the first and last data API a team needs.”

The expansion follows CoinMarketCap’s recent certification under ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701, independently assessed by BSI, covering information security and privacy management across its platform and API.

ABOUT COINMARKETCAP

CoinMarketCap stands as the Home Of Crypto. With over 1 billion monthly page views and 53 million tracked cryptocurrencies, CoinMarketCap drives the industry forward by organizing and delivering comprehensive crypto intelligence. Major media outlets including Forbes, Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal rely on CoinMarketCap as their primary source for crypto data.

Contact

Marketing Manager
Min Park
CoinMarketCap
min.park@coinmarketcap.com

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August 5th, 2026 – Kingstown, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines

class=”ql-align-center”>The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase.

Former TON executive Martin Masser joins ChangeNOW to build strategic partnerships, ecosystem relationships, and media momentum behind its next phase.

Masser comes with experience across traditional banking, Web2 and Web3, including senior growth and business development roles within the TON space. At ChangeNOW, he will lead strategic relationships with blockchain networks, wallets, fintech companies, payment providers and other infrastructure partners.

His appointment comes as ChangeNOW grows beyond standalone crypto services, transitioning to one connected product where users can buy, store, swap, trade, send, receive and grow digital assets. The industry has already built most of the individual components. What it hasn’t solved is the experience of using them together; clients are still expected to switch between platforms, understand different networks and connect the pieces on their own. ChangeNOW’s super app strategy is designed to move that complexity beneath the product.

“Martin brings a rare mix of commercial relationships, product and media understanding,” said Pauline Shangett, Chief Strategy Officer at ChangeNOW. “He knows what the technology can do, what the business needs and how to make the market pay attention. That is exactly the perspective we need as we build the ChangeNOW super app.”

Masser’s role will focus not on accumulating partnership announcements, but on identifying relationships that can make ChangeNOW’s infrastructure more complete and remove unnecessary steps from the ?lient experience.

“The best partnerships create access, adoption and attention. My focus is to build relationships that make the product stronger, simpler and more useful, and then help the market understand why they matter. If you are building wallets, networks, payments, stablecoins, fintech infrastructure, consumer crypto or Web3 products, I want to hear from you,” said Masser. 

For consumers, ChangeNOW is combining the core activities of managing crypto within one environment. For businesses, it is developing an integrated set of tools for crypto payments, exchange, stablecoin settlement, digital asset management and Web3 integrations.

As ChangeNOW expands into a crypto super app, its next phase is connecting the right networks, wallets and partners. Masser’s role will be central to building those relationships and turning them into product value, adoption and market momentum.

About ChangeNOW

ChangeNOW.io is a crypto super app built for every crypto move, giving newcomers, professionals, and businesses the tools they need to access Web3 finance in a simple and secure way.

Since 2017, ChangeNOW has grown from a fast, secure, and limitless instant exchange into a trusted platform where storage, swaps, trading, staking, and asset management are covered in one simple experience for millions of clients worldwide.

About Martin Masser

Martin Masser is Director of Strategic Partnerships at ChangeNOW, where he is building partnerships around the company’s expansion into a crypto super app. His career covers traditional banking and capital markets in London and Web3, including his previous role as Head of Growth at TON Foundation. Martin works at the intersection of growth, infrastructure, and partnerships, connecting products and industry players to make crypto services work as one seamless user experience.

Contact

PR Team
CHN Group LLC
pr@changenow.io

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July 29th, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched the DCA Challenge, giving away up to 55,000 USDT in prizes to eligible Bybit Trading Bot users who auto-trade BTC, ETH and XAUT through its Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Bot feature.

From now until August 17, 2026, the exclusive event offers for new and current users alike:

• New DCA users stand to enjoy 20% cashback, capped at 50 USDT, based on their qualified cumulative BTC, ETH and XAUT DCA investment amount starting at $100. Cashback rewards are limited to the top 100 users ranked by cumulative investment volume.
• All eligible users can unlock an exclusive 50,000 USDT prize pool. Participants who create a DCA Bot to invest in BTC, ETH or XAUT and maintain qualified cumulative daily holdings of at least $200 through DCA Bots will share the pool proportionally, based on their share of total cumulative holdings among eligible participants.

The DCA strategy has long appealed to investors who prefer a measured approach over attempts to time market entry. By committing to fixed, recurring purchases regardless of short-term price swings, disciplined investors reduce the impact of volatility on their average entry price and remove much of the emotional decision-making that accompanies manual trading. 

For assets like BTC, ETH and XAUT, which can see sharp intraday moves, DCA is emerging as a steady accumulation strategy for investors building long-term positions rather than chasing short-term momentum. Bybit’s DCA Bot automates this process, letting users set their own contribution frequency and amount while the DCA bot handles execution.

Trading carries risks. Terms and conditions apply. For details on availability and eligibility, users may visit: Auto-trade BTC, ETH, or XAUT with DCA and share a 55,000 USDT prize pool

#Bybit / #NewFinancialPlatform  

About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com

For more details about Bybit, please visit Bybit Press

For media inquiries, please contact: media@bybit.com

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Head of PR
Tony Au
Bybit
tony.au@bybit.com

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July 29th, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced a new collaboration with Finloop Finance Technology Holding Limited (“Finloop”), an AI-driven Web5 (Web2+Web3) wealth technology platform to offer the Finloop USD Instant Digital Liquidity (FUIDL), a tokenized USD liquidity product powered by Finloop and backed by an AAA-rated money market fund.

Through this collaboration, Bybit will enable the share of FUIDL as collateral for trading on its platform.

The product provides institutional and professional investors access to USD liquidity through blockchain technology, while maintaining the asset backing standards commonly associated with traditional financial markets. FUIDL provides eligible investors with on-chain access to an AAA-rated USD liquidity fund, offering hourly subscription and redemption, and T+0* (same-day) interest accrual. It allows investors to move capital efficiently between traditional and digital asset markets. The underlying USD liquidity fund has received the highest possible ratings from major international agencies: AAAm from Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Aaa-mf from Moody’s and AAAmmf from Fitch. An AAA rating represents the highest rating available for Money Market Funds (MMFs).

Finloop serves as the tokenization agent and provides the infrastructure that connects traditional money market fund assets with blockchain-based settlement. The collaboration is designed to combine the transparency and speed of digital assets with the stability and operational standards expected by institutional and professional investors. 

The alliance is a significant milestone in Bybit’s long-term mission to build The New Financial Platform, an open, secure, and efficient bridge between traditional and digital finance. Through this collaboration, Bybit users will benefit from same-day settlement across selected tokenized and digital instruments, made possible by Finloop’s market-leading RWA and cash management capabilities and Bybit’s proprietary infrastructure.

Yoyee Wang, Global Head of TradFi and RWA of Bybit, said: “Partnering with Finloop marks a pivotal step in realizing our vision of The New Financial Platform. This collaboration turns that vision into action, merging institutional-grade trust with the efficiency of digital infrastructure of Bybit. By enabling same-day settlement and reinforcing custody standards, we’re not just improving transaction speed; we’re redefining what financial interoperability can look like.”

By integrating ByCustody with Finloop’s tokenization technology, the collaboration will pilot T+0 settlement for select asset types, with plans for global rollout throughout 2026. The initiative also underscores a shared commitment to advancing transparency, operational excellence, and risk management for institutional market participants.

Cai Hua, CEO of Finloop, said: “This collaboration demonstrates how a wealth technology platform and a digital exchange can work together to achieve instantaneous settlement while meeting high operational and regulatory standards. We are proud to partner with Bybit on this milestone that sets new benchmarks for efficiency and trust in the digital asset space.”

For more information about FUIDL, please visit:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7466045282808434689

https://x.com/FinloopHK/status/2060284153795580006?s=20

*Subject to the actual fund arrival time.

About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com. 

For more details about Bybit, please visit Bybit Press

For media inquiries, please contact: media@bybit.com

For updates, please follow: Bybit’s Communities and Social Media

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Disclaimer:

Bybit and ByCustody are not licensed, approved or regulated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and do not service Hong Kong residents.

#Bybit / #NewFinancialPlatform  

Contact

Head of PR
Tony Au
Bybit
tony.au@bybit.com

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July 28th, 2026 – New York, United States

class=”ql-align-center”>BitSafe has released infrastructure for builders launching decentralized financial applications on Canton Network.

Backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant of over $1 million (8,500,000 $CC), BitSafe today opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-sourced framework allowing apps and institutions to build resilient products that distribute control across multiple independent operators.

Canton Network has become critical infrastructure for institutions bringing real capital and operations on-chain. Meeting institutional application standards requires audit trails and distributed trust, but until now every team building on Canton has had to build threshold custody, governance, and audit infrastructure from scratch. Decentralization Manager makes those reusable, so teams build the application, not the infrastructure.

Independently audited by Quantstamp, Decentralization Manager marks an exciting expansion of on-chain use cases and allows institutions to continue leveraging the network’s privacy-native architecture while mitigating risk by distributing their operations.

Decentralization Manager ships with pre-built frameworks for token issuance and custody and enables additional products such as:

• Token issuance: Issuers can launch and govern Canton-native tokens, ranging from wrapped cryptoassets to stablecoins and RWAs.
• Custody and multi-signature wallets: Teams can hold and transfer assets under shared, multi-party control, removing reliance on any single custodian.
• Tokenized real-world assets and securities: Builders can bring real-world assets on-chain and govern them under distributed control.
• DEXs, lending, and structured products: Institutions can launch institutional-grade financial applications with Decentralization Manager.

Contact us to start launching decentralized applications and assets.

CBTC, the first non-native asset on Canton, is the first live use case of Decentralization Manager. With over 10 million transactions to date, node operators powering CBTC already earn a share of Canton fees from on-chain transactions. Decentralization Manager now extends that opportunity across the network. Application builders get an easier path to high quality node operators who can support their products, and those operators earn the same share of Canton fees in return.

“The future of institutional blockchain depends on making sophisticated infrastructure easier to build and adopt,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “By open-sourcing Decentralization Manager, BitSafe is giving developers the tools to create resilient, privacy-preserving applications that distribute trust across independent operators without compromising the governance and control institutions require. Contributions like this strengthen the Canton ecosystem and help accelerate the growth of institutional digital assets and tokenized financial markets. We’re pleased to see BitSafe making this capability available to the wider community and look forward to seeing the next generation of institutional applications built on Canton.”As of today, Palladium Labs is the first builder announced using Decentralization Manager to enable multi-party authorization for protocol operations. “Distributed trust and full auditability are table stakes for institutional-grade credit infrastructure like Alpend,” said Akshay Sinha, Cofounder & CTO of Palladium Labs. “Decentralization Manager makes that a framework the entire Canton ecosystem can build on. Adopting it was one of the easier decisions we’ve made.”

In addition to Palladium, CBTC Attestors Nethermind, DSRV, and Finoa Consensus Services have already implemented Decentralization Manager. Their institutional participation affirms a collective effort across Canton to embrace decentralized technology that prioritizes data privacy, operational control, and resilience.

The public beta is open now on the Canton Foundation’s GitHub, with an additional grant application underway. Builders who need operators to complete their Decentralized Party can reach out to BitSafe to be matched with vetted, institutional-grade node operators. Institutions looking to issue and govern Canton-native tokens can engage BitSafe’s Decentralization Services for custom tokenization engagements.

Additional quotes from ecosystem partners:

“The CBTC Decentralized Party has shown how far Canton has come, and the public beta opening of Decentralization Manager is a big step for the whole ecosystem. Onboarding was remarkably smooth for our team – contract deployment was essentially one click. For any app still running on a single validator, this is the easiest path we’ve seen to move beyond a single point of failure.” – Joonkyo Kim, CTO, DSRV”As one of the attestors securing CBTC, we’ve operated inside BitSafe’s decentralized signing architecture from an early stage, so we’ve seen firsthand what it takes to distribute trust across independent operators in production. Onboarding into Decentralization Manager was refreshingly straightforward, the admin tooling is intuitive and whenever we hit an issue the BitSafe team resolved it quickly and communicated the whole way through.Institutions bringing real assets onto Canton increasingly expect exactly this: no single point of control with the audit trails and operational resilience their risk teams demand. Making that kind of infrastructure open and repeatable is a meaningful step for the ecosystem.” – Mateusz J?drzejewski, CIO, Nethermind“BitSafe’s Decentralization Manager turns the infrastructure we already run into a setup with no single point of failure, the kind institutions expect from Canton. We’re glad to extend our partnership with BitSafe and look forward to building more together as new applications join the network.” – Daniel Schrader, Managing Director, Finoa Consensus Services

About BitSafe

BitSafe builds decentralized, privacy-enabled digital asset infrastructure on the Canton Network. As the team that brought Bitcoin to Canton (CBTC), BitSafe’s threshold-governed multi-sig infrastructure distributes custody and governance, eliminates single points of failure, and enables institutions and developers to launch trading venues and build compliant financial products and assets across the ecosystem.

Contact

Kadeem Clarke
BitSafe
marketing@bitsafe.finance

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July 27th, 2026 – Panama City, Panama

EMCD, a global crypto-fintech platform and one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining pools, announced the launch of its Miner Support Program, providing eligible miners with access to up to $30 millions* in financing, fee relief and partner benefits.

The program launches against a challenging backdrop. Bitcoin’s hashprice — the key measure of mining revenue per unit of compute — has declined to approximately $28/PH/day, a 50% drop from its October 2025 peak and an all-time post-halving low, per CoinShares Q1 2026 data. An estimated 252 EH/s has been taken offline (According to Hashrate Index data, cited in CoinCentral, April 2026) as operators running older-generation hardware found margins no longer viable. Three consecutive negative difficulty adjustments, the first such streak since July 2022, signal broad capitulation across the sector. EMCD, which has operated its mining pool since 2017 and processed over 4,550 BTC mined by its users in 2025, sees the current period as both a stress test and a structural opportunity for operators who remain active.

Program Structure

As margins compress across the industry, EMCD has put together a concrete response: restructured fees, negotiated hardware and infrastructure deals, and opened access to its liquidity and yield products — a toolkit built around how mining businesses actually work, available to operators in any region.

Miners facing cash flow pressure can access EMCD’s secured liquidity facilities at 3.9% APR — to cover operational costs without selling assets into a down market. Unlike generic crypto-backed credit lines, EMCD products are built around mining-specific cash flow cycles and are bundled with the rest of the program, so the effective cost of capital comes down further when combined with fee relief and hardware savings rather than being judged on rate alone.

Those looking to protect margins on every block can apply for zero pool commission for 60 days, reducing overhead while hashprice remains depressed. Miners running older or underperforming hardware can unlock preferential pricing on Vnish firmware — the market’s leading third-party ASIC optimization software. Those looking to expand or relocate capacity get access to special terms on equipment and data center services through EMCD’s partner network. 

Partner Participation

EMCD is inviting hardware manufacturers, data centers, and hosting providers to join the program by offering exclusive terms to eligible miners. Partner applications can be submitted at the website: https://support-miners.emcd.io/.

“We’ve been through every cycle in this industry since 2017 — the rallies, the winters, the halvings. What we’ve learned is that the operators who survive aren’t the ones who wait out the downturns. They’re the ones who use them. This program is our commitment to making sure our miners have the tools to do exactly that.” — Michael Jerlis, Founder & CEO, EMCD.

*The stated amount reflects the maximum aggregate value of support (including financing, fee reductions and partner offers) that may be made available under the program and does not constitute a reserved fund.

About EMCD

EMCD is the global cryptocurrency mining pool and infrastructure provider. Founded in 2017 as an early industrial BTC mining operation in Europe, EMCD now serves users and businesses across 120+ markets. With over 30 EH/s of hashrate and a place in the global top ten, EMCD committed to security, reliability and transparency. EMCD’s mission is to make it simpler for individuals and businesses to build, earn and transact with digital assets. EMCD was recognised as Best Mining Pool by Coingape in 2026 and Finance Feeds in 2025.

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Nadia Pereira
EMCD
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July 24th, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore

class=”ql-align-center”>Backed by Galaxy Ventures and Vitalik Buterin, the ultra-high-performance perp DEX has officially launched its public rewards program.

RISEx, the fully on-chain perpetuals exchange built on the high-throughput RISE Chain, has officially launched Ignite: Season 1, its core loyalty and ecosystem points program. Following an invite-only beta phase that generated over $3 billion in cumulative trading volume, the program marks the next major step in RISEx’s broader ecosystem rollout as the protocol builds toward long-term community ownership and future token distribution.

Launch week concluded today with the distribution of the Season 0 retroactive points, recognizing the users who traded on a merit-based, invite-only venue with no guarantee of reward.

The program also carries a claim no competing venue can make: 100% of RISE points are allocated to RISEx users, including traders, LPs, and builder code integrators. RISE is an exchange chain, and RISEx is its product. Rather than splitting rewards across a diffuse ecosystem, the entire network’s incentive weight routes through the venue where activity actually happens.

The launch arrives amidst a massive structural shift in crypto derivatives, with decentralized perpetuals rapidly devouring centralized venue market share. Following the successful live deployment of its core exchange infrastructure, including cross-asset netted-margining and native Real-World Asset (RWA) trading, the public opening of RISEx’s rewards system marks the platform’s formal transition into global scale and growth mode.

Ecosystem Traction: By the Numbers

Prior to opening public rewards, the RISEx closed beta cultivated organic, institutional-grade liquidity and deep user engagement over three months:

• $3 Billion+ in cumulative trading volume processed since genesis.
• $26 Million+ in Open Interest (OI).
• $15 Million+ in Total Value Locked (TVL).
• 15,000+ Registered users accumulated entirely through a merit-based referral network.

Source: DUNE

Product First, Incentives Second “Much to the frustration of our growth team, I was adamant that we would not launch an incentives program until our core exchange engine reached absolute stability,” said Sam Battenally, CEO and co-founder of RISE Labs. “Too often, points programs are deployed prematurely to mask unfinished infrastructure or buy empty, temporary volume. We spent the last few months doing the hard engineering work instead by stabilizing core features like reduce-only GTC and bootstrapping deep, quality liquidity. If you are fueling the engine, it has to perform. Now that our core architecture is fully live, optimized, and performing at a world-class level, we are ready to scale.”

Ignite Season 1 Structure & Timeline

Ignite runs according to a product roadmap, and that is RISEx’s commitment to the RISE mission. As the exchange ships and reaches milestones, the season moves with it. AutoYield, Permissionless Portfolio Margin, and equity listings are all part of a larger vision to bring full-scale composable finance on-chain.

This is a deliberate design choice. Rewards should track real product progress rather than a marketing calendar that forces a program to overspend early or thin rewards later, penalizing the early contributors and active traders who showed up first.

• Live Since: Week 1 of Ignite began on Monday, July 20, 2026, at 00:00 UTC.
• Public Distribution: RISEx will distribute 200,000 points per week, settled every Tuesday, with the first weekly distribution on July 28, 2026, at 14:00 UTC.
• Season Length: Ignite is expected to end no later than Q2 2027.
• Allocation: 100% of RISE points are allocated to RISEx users, including traders, LPs, and builder code integrators.

Inside the Ignite Mechanics

Engineered to reward genuine, long-term ecosystem participation over predatory Sybil farming and artificial wash trading, Ignite evaluates user contribution across multiple health metrics rather than volume alone.

• Multi-Layered Earning: Qualifying activity spans higher-order activity, total costs including fees, slippage and negative markouts, trading volume, and open interest and hold time.
• Referral Rewards: Referrers earn an additional 10% of their referee’s points.
• Undisclosed Weightings: The exact methodology and weightings are not published. This protects the program from being gamed.
• Affiliate Program: For those who qualify, the affiliate program offers additional incentives such as fee rebates, point boosts, and more.

Institutional-Grade Architecture

RISEx achieves centralized-exchange execution speeds with full self-custody by utilizing RISE Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer 2 network delivering unprecedented 5 Ggas/s throughput and 1-millisecond latency. Because the exchange and the underlying blockchain share the same state, users benefit from a fully on-chain orderbook where collateral and interconnected DeFi positions exist within a single, atomic execution environment.

With the core perpetual exchange engine stabilized, the platform’s mid-term product roadmap is shifting toward the launch of native EVM Spot trading, AutoYield, and Permissionless Portfolio Margin.

Traders can clear the gate, check their retroactive allocations, and begin earning Season 1 points by visiting rise.trade.

About RISEx

RISEx is a fully on-chain perpetuals exchange built on RISE Chain. Delivering centralized-exchange execution speeds with full self-custody, RISEx features an on-chain orderbook that shares state and liquidity with the entire RISE DeFi ecosystem in a single transaction. RISEx offers institutional-grade crypto perpetuals with flexible collateral, with plans to expand into equities, forex, and commodities.

About RISE Chain

RISE Chain is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 purpose-built for high-performance DeFi, delivering 5 Ggas/s throughput and Web2-like latency via its proprietary Shreds architecture. Developed by RISE Labs, the network is backed by Galaxy Ventures, Vitalik Buterin, Finality Capital Partners, EtherFi, OrangeDAO, DACM, P2 Ventures, Stani Kulechov, and other leading digital asset investors.

Contact

Grigory Prelovskiy
grigory@riselabs.xyz

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July 23rd, 2026 – Toronto, Canada

CoinRabbit and GoMining have published a report on Bitcoin mining profitability, showing why managing mined Bitcoin is becoming as important as producing it.

The report highlights how the post-halving environment is redefining success in mining, with operators relying on stronger treasury management, capital discipline, and long-term asset strategies to navigate tighter margins. With the block reward reduced to 3.125 BTC and network difficulty near record levels, operational efficiency alone is no longer enough. The next phase of mining will be shaped by smarter capital allocation and long-term conviction in Bitcoin.

The Four Pillars of the Bitcoin Mining Efficiency Mindset

The report presents a clear framework built around four key pillars:

1) Operational Cost Efficiency

Low-cost power procurement, high uptime, efficient cooling, and disciplined maintenance remain the foundation of any viable mining operation. These factors determine the baseline production cost and are essential for competitiveness.

2) Collateralization Over Liquidation

Instead of selling freshly mined Bitcoin to cover expenses, effective operators are using it as collateral. This approach allows them to meet short-term cash needs while retaining full ownership and long-term exposure to the asset’s value.

3) Operational Liquidity and Tax Optimization

Bitcoin-backed lending provides flexibility to cover recurring operating costs, including power, hosting, and payroll, while avoiding taxable sales. At the same time, it preserves the deductibility of operational expenses.

4) Long-Term Vision and Capital Discipline

Sustainable operators treat mining as a disciplined, capital-intensive business. They maintain the flexibility to hold Bitcoin through market cycles and reinvest in hardware upgrades when opportunities arise, avoiding forced sales during downturns.

The full report can be downloaded here.

Walter Barrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at CoinRabbit, commented: “Long-term success is built on conviction in the assets you hold and the discipline to manage them through different market cycles. At CoinRabbit, we are proud to work with clients who share this long-term vision and recognize the value of staying focused through periods of uncertainty. We appreciate the collaboration with GoMining experts and their contribution to sharing deeper industry insights with the mining community.”Jeremy Dreier, Chief Business Development Officer at GoMining and Managing Director of GoMining Institutional, added: “In the post-halving environment, discipline is critical. The miners that are winning are those with efficient operations and cash put aside for this exact time. This is the best possible moment to deploy capital into expanding your fleet, because it’s cheap to add hash rate when Bitcoin’s price is down. There’s a lot of opportunity in the market. At GoMining, this is our third bear market, and we’ve seen that the operators who are prepared look at these conditions as an opportunity. Those who aren’t prepared are the ones who panic.”

About CoinRabbit

CoinRabbit is a crypto asset management platform built for long-term capital preservation. It enables users to manage liquidity seamlessly across instant payments, lending, trading products, and the Private Program — all within a single ecosystem. Since 2020, CoinRabbit ensures 100% capital reserve, keeping clients’ funds safe and never reused.

For more information, users can visit coinrabbit.io

About GoMining

GoMining is an all-in-one Bitcoin ecosystem that makes it simple and secure to mine, earn, and use Bitcoin every day. GoMining serves 5 million users and ranks among the top-10 Bitcoin miners by hashrate globally, with data centers in the U.S. and internationally. The company makes Bitcoin accessible through tokenized hashrate, daily BTC rewards, and an expanding suite of payment and earning products. 

For more information, users can visit gomining.com

Contact

CMO
Irene Afanaseva
CoinRabbit
marketing@coinrabbit.io

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July 22nd, 2026 – Miami, United States

Unserious today announced the acquisition of Creepz, one of the most recognizable NFT collections of the 2021-22 cycle.

Backed by entrepreneur and investor Adam Weitsman, and with the support of the original founders, the deal places the lizard cult brand under a powerhouse new team.

Most importantly, the acquisition marks a homecoming for Psychrome – the original mastermind and creative genius behind the Creepz lore. Returning to lead IP development, he also brings a resume as a globally exhibited artist whose commercial collaborations span Nike, Salomon, Sneaker Con, Staple, Disney, Warner Bros., and Rovio.

Beyond this foundational creative leadership, the Unserious team brings deep operating experience with a track record spanning consumer brands, entertainment, and enterprise tech, alongside crypto’s largest token launches – including the historic ApeCoin.

Unserious also took the opportunity to formally deny the existence of lizard people, their alleged evil activities, and any plans for CREEPZ world domination.

About Unserious

Unserious is reimagining the future of decentralized brands.

Contact

Acquirer
Unserious
Unserious
contact@unserious.inc

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July 22nd, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Privacy-first travel platform debuts with dedicated hotel packages for Token2049, Singapore and Devcon 8 in Mumbai, letting attendees book and pay for accommodation straight from their wallet.

Flyfi, a privacy-first, crypto-native online travel agency, is now live at flyfi.io, giving travellers a way to book more than 300,000 premium hotels worldwide and pay in over 30+ cryptocurrencies — including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and major stablecoins — without creating an account or handing over unnecessary personal data.

Flyfi’s checkout is built the way crypto holders already transact: connect a wallet, select a hotel, and receive confirmation in minutes. There is no account registration, no mandatory profile, and no data resale — the company collects only the information required to complete a booking, and does not sell, analyse, or retarget customer data. AI-powered search surfaces the right premium property at the right price, with pricing displayed upfront.

The launch addresses a friction familiar to anyone holding digital assets: legacy booking platforms still demand account creation, extensive personal data, and fiat payment — forcing crypto-native travellers to convert assets and surrender information simply to book a room. Flyfi stays true to the cryptocurrency ethos – respecting user privacy.

As its opening proof point, Flyfi has launched dedicated premium hotel packages for the global crypto conference circuit, led by Token2049 Singapore, the After2049 side-event week surrounding it, and Devcon 8, the Ethereum developer conference taking place in Mumbai — with further packages covering Consensus, ETHDenver, NFT.NYC, and Paris Blockchain Week through 2027. Each package curates premium and five-star hotels within easy reach of the conference venues and the evening side-event circuit.

“The people flying to Token2049 or Devcon already run their financial lives on-chain, and many of them are exactly the travellers who least want their movements logged, profiled, and retargeted,” said Peter Georgiou, CEO of Flyfi. “We built Flyfi for them: premium hotels, paid in crypto, booked in minutes — without handing over your life story or converting your assets three times over.”

For delegations and travellers with specific requirements — group bookings, team accommodation near a venue, extended stays, or heightened privacy needs — Flyfi also offers a dedicated concierge service, with a personal agent handling the entire booking from first brief to check-out. Through the same service, clients can request access to private jets, yacht charters, and bespoke experiences ahead of their full integration into the platform.

Flyfi has launched with premium hotels across major destinations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, with flights, car rentals, and activities planned as future additions — all transacted in cryptocurrency.

About Flyfi

Flyfi is a privacy-focused, crypto-first online travel agency enabling travellers to book 300,000+ premium hotels worldwide using cryptocurrency, with no account creation required and minimal personal data collection. Flyfi uses AI to help travellers find the right hotel at the right price, and is built for a young, tech-savvy, adventure-seeking audience that wants the convenience of modern travel booking without sacrificing privacy or payment flexibility. For more information, visit flyfi.io.

Contact

CEO
Peter Georgiou
Flyfi
peteg@flyfi.io

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July 22nd, 2026 – Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

New builders and 25+ partners can now begin testing the much-anticipated Bitcoin infrastructure ahead of mainnet, powered by Sui’s high-performance network and Hashi’s novel security mechanism, the Guardian Layer.

Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, today announced that Hashi testnet has officially launched, giving builders, institutions, and infrastructure providers the opportunity to develop and integrate Bitcoin-backed financial applications ahead of mainnet. 

Bitcoin has proven itself as the world’s premier digital store of value, amassing over a $1 trillion market cap on that use case alone. Its next chapter will be defined by utility. With Hashi testnet now live on Sui, this marks an important milestone in Bitcoin’s necessary evolution, giving developers, custodians, financial institutions, and ecosystem partners their first opportunity to build, integrate, and stress-test Bitcoin-backed financial applications ahead of mainnet. 

Alongside today’s launch, Hashi introduces the Guardian Layer, a new defense-in-depth security architecture purpose-built to help institutions securely manage Bitcoin collateral while preserving the transparency and programmability of onchain finance. The Guardian Layer gives Bitcoin the defense it needs to finally go on offense, helping unlock lending, credit, yield strategies, and a new generation of institutional financial products on Sui.

While institutional adoption has accelerated through spot ETFs, corporate treasury strategies, and expanding regulatory clarity, more than a trillion dollars of Bitcoin remains largely dormant. The infrastructure to safely deploy native BTC into transparent, programmable credit markets has simply not existed. Just as importantly, institutions have lacked confidence that moving native BTC into onchain markets could be done without triggering unnecessary tax consequences. Fenwick, one of the foremost law firms in digital assets, concluded that Hashi’s deposit and redemption mechanics should not constitute taxable events under U.S. tax law.

Hashi testnet is the beginning of the ecosystem buildout that will ultimately power institutional Bitcoin lending, borrowing, and credit origination on Sui. From custody providers and wallet infrastructure to lending protocols and capital markets participants, builders can now begin validating integrations, testing operational workflows, and preparing production-ready applications before Hashi reaches mainnet.

Developer SDK documentation, an integration guide, and technical resources are available today on sui.io/hashi to help builders begin immediately.

“Every major asset class eventually develops deep credit, lending, and liquidity markets,” said Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui. “Bitcoin is no different. Hashi is giving developers the infrastructure to build those markets onchain with the security, transparency, and programmability institutions have been waiting for.”

Adding Defense: Hashi’s Guardian Layer 

A key component of the protocol, unveiled for the first time today, is the Guardian Layer, an additional protection mechanism designed to help secure collateral movement and large transactions. The Guardian Layer introduces configurable safeguards that can slow or prevent potentially malicious activity before collateral leaves the system, helping institutions manage operational risk while maintaining the transparency of onchain markets. 

All BTC collateral (or UTXOs) are secured with a 2-of-2 multisig requiring an MPC signature from the Hashi validators as well as a signature from the guardian, creating an additional layer of protection against malicious activity.

These protections, which are a prerequisite to meaningful institutional participation, complement the broader architecture introduced earlier this year, including automated collateral management, verifiable loan terms, and full onchain visibility into collateral health.

Expanding the Institutional Ecosystem

As Hashi enters testnet, the ecosystem continues to grow with strategic partners spanning DeFi, banking infrastructure, and capital markets. Wave Digital Assets is deepening its commitment to Hashi after first announcing support during devnet. As an institutional manager, Wave has committed to three years of best efforts to prioritize the tokenization of Bitcoin-yield-bearing bond products on the Sui protocol utilizing Hashi, reinforcing its conviction that programmable Bitcoin fixed-income markets are ready for institutional adoption.

Hashi’s World-Class Launch Partners 

These developments fortify an ecosystem that already includes many of crypto’s leading custodians, liquidity providers, wallet providers, DeFi protocols, insurance providers, and infrastructure companies.

When devnet was announced earlier this year, over 20 day-one launch partners had already committed to building and deploying capital on Hashi, including several of crypto’s heavyweights.

Custody & Wallet Access 

• BitGo: Institutional custody clients.
• Blockdaemon, Cobo, Fordefi (by Paxos): Institutional wallet and infrastructure providers.
• Cubist: Cross-chain collateral infrastructure and transfer engine.
• Ledger: Retail/institutional self-custody.
• SwissBorg: UHNW European retail/institutional asset management and wallet interface.

Lending, Trading & Liquidity Providers

• Bullish: Institutional digital asset platform supplying liquidity.
• Cumberland: Leading institutional crypto market maker and liquidity provider.
• Erebor: OCC-chartered bank providing liquidity.
• FalconX: Institutional prime brokerage supplying liquidity.

DeFi & Lending Applications

• AlphaLend, Bluefin, Current, Scallop, Suilend: Native DeFi protocols enabling retail lending and borrowing on day one.
• Fluid: Connecting lending, borrowing, liquidity and more financial products into a capital-efficient system. 
• Navi: One of Sui’s largest and longest running DeFi protocols slated for Hashi lending. 

Vaults & Asset Management

• Concrete by Blueprint Finance: Yield-infrastructure vault platform.
• Inveniam Capital: Real-World Asset (RWA) yield strategies.
• Wave Digital Assets LLC: SEC-registered investment adviser working with industry partners to facilitate the issuance of Bitcoin-collateralized bonds.

Index Oracle, Insurance & Security Auditing

• CF Benchmarks: Crypto index provider distributing pricing data via oracles.
• Soter Insure: Native, Bitcoin-denominated institutional insurance.
• Asymptotic, Certora, OtterSec: Smart contract security and formal verification auditors.

Starting today, developers can build. Institutions can integrate. Infrastructure providers can deploy. Together, they can help shape the financial system Bitcoin has been waiting for. A system where the world’s largest digital asset becomes one of the world’s most productive forms of collateral.

Technical documentation and testnet access configurations are hosted at https://www.sui.io/hashi. 

About Sui

Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for scalable finance and global payments. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui’s primitives offer builders everything they need to create high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agentic payments. Users can learn more at sui.io. 

Contact: media@sui.io

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July 22nd, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched Stock Earnings Season from July 21 to August 30, 2026, aligned with one of the most concentrated stretches of quarterly earnings reporting on the financial calendar.

Global investors are in full gear as the Q2 earnings season unfolds on Wall Street, bracing for potential gains and corrections of some of the biggest names in tech, AI, and semiconductors. Through the new program, Bybit brings together the community in fostering disciplined trading, encouraging informed decision-making and responsible investing habits. 

The program kicks off as Tesla is scheduled to post earnings on July 22, followed by Alphabet on July 23. It continues through a series of high-profile earnings dates over the following six weeks, including Meta, Apple, Amazon, SPCX, Nvidia, Microsoft, Micron and SanDisk, covering the most anticipated earnings announcements for equities traders. 

How it works:

Once enrolled, participants can earn points by trading across Bybit’s expansive product suite offering global equities exposure, which includes spot, derivatives, Bybit Alpha, and Bybit TradFi stock CFD trading. Points accumulated over the course of the event count toward a leaderboard, where the top 200 participants will share a reward pool of up to 1 million USDT.

• Welcome gifts: The first 20,000 eligible new users get exclusive perks for completing registration, KYC, first deposits and first trades. In addition, qualifying Convert Stock trade comes with USDT bonuses on a first-come, first-served basis. 
• Daily and milestone tasks: From daily check-in to trading across Bybit’s stock-themed products suite, prolific traders can unlock extra rewards after achieving cumulative trading volume milestones. 
• Engagement rewards: A separate daily mechanic lets users allocate points toward the stock perpetual pair they expect to post the strongest T+1 gain from a tracked list of ten. Users who choose correctly split the pooled points from that day’s activity, encouraging investors follow earnings calendars and price action closely.
• Bonus track: Between 21 and 30 July, traders can earn extra points on 5 designated stock perpetual pairs, including TSLAUSDT, GOOGLUSDT, METAUSDT, AAPLUSDT and AMZNUSDT.
• Referral points: A successful referral to the campaign culminating in a qualifying first-time trade earns the referrer extra points. 

In addition to select airdrop rewards, points can also be redeemed through a rewards store stocked with a Tesla Cybertruck, an iPhone 17 Pro Max, a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Google AI Ultra membership access, and USDT.

The limited-time event was curated to reflect a broader shift underway across financial markets, as traditional financial assets and crypto trading infrastructure continue to interact and converge. Tokenized equities, stock-related perpetual contracts, and other traditional finance instruments are increasingly moving onto crypto-native platforms, placing a premium on exchanges with deep liquidity, established risk infrastructure and the ability to support both asset classes under one system. 

Bybit has continued to expand its TradFi and stock-themed product line alongside its core crypto offerings, positioning itself to serve both crypto-native traders and users engaging with tokenized traditional assets for the first time.

Terms and conditions apply. For more details on eligibility and potential restrictions, users may visit: Stock Earnings Season – Win a Cybertruck

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About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com

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July 20th, 2026 – Auckland, New Zealand

The Request for Proposal Regarding High-Specification Cryptographic Provenance

GLOBAL COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK & THE 500-YEAR YIXING ZISHA TEAPOTS REAL-WORLD ASSET (RWA) LINEAGE ?

THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB LIMITED (NZ) launches an international technical initiative to establish the definitive 500-year paradigm of Yixing Zisha Teapots. Centering on the “Genesis No. 001” masterpiece, this framework uses high-precision, 100-Megapixel Hasselblad digital scanning for permanent RWA (Real-World Asset) archival and codification, separating “500-year cultural lineage” from mere ephemeral narratives.

? OFFICIAL ACADEMIC PROVENANCE & HISTORICAL CONTEXT ?

This initiative is anchored in five key institutional verifications:

1. LUO RE-POSIT(S) CENTURIES-OLD CHINESE ARTISTIC TRADITIONS OF ART WITHIN CONTEMPORARY FORMS, TECHNIQUES, AND IDEAS.

—— THE CLAY STUDIO COLLECTION (ACCESSED VIA EHIVE DIGITAL ARCHIVE, REF: PC311 | HISTORICAL OBJECT: YIXING TEAPOTS)

[ THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB DATA COGNITION ] THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE ENCOUNTER:

THE ECHO OF 1999 IS LOUDER THAN THE SILENCE OF 500 YEARS.

2. THE CREATOR, LUO XIAOPING, IS AN ELECTED INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CERAMICS (IAC, GENEVA).

HIS LIFE’S WORK REPOSITIONS CENTURIES-OLD CHINESE ARTISTIC TRADITIONS WITHIN CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL FORMS,

WITH SCULPTURES PERMANENTLY ENSHRINED IN THE WHITE HOUSE (USA) AND MUSÉE ARIANA (SWITZERLAND).

3. LUO XIAOPING’S WORK REPRESENTS A PROFOUND SPIRITUAL DEPARTURE FROM THE PURELY ARTISANAL CONSTRAINTS

OF TRADITIONAL CERAMICS… LUO HAS MASTERFULLY DISMANTLED THE ‘FUNCTIONAL ILLUSION’ OF THE UTILITARIAN OBJECT.

—— JONATHAN MANE-WHEOKI (CNZM), FROM THE HISTORICAL 1999 AUCKLAND EXHIBITION CRITIQUES.

4. CERAMICS MONTHLY (USA) 1999-2001 SPECIAL REVIEWS | VERDICT: BEYOND AESTHETICS;

A MASTERCLASS IN GRAVITATIONAL DEFIANCE AND MATERIAL EXTREMES.

5. HISTORICAL ARCHIVE [1999-2000] | TOPIC: MY WAY | THE SLAB CONSTRUCTION OF LUO XIAOPING

CONTEXT:

APT3 CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW (AU/NZ).

|VERDICT: THE RE-POSITIONING OF

500-YEAR CHINESE TRADITION.

? INSTITUTIONAL INTAKE & GLOBAL MEDIA PROCUREMENT ?

THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB LIMITED initiates global media procurement for this 500-year archival ledger, with opportunities open for top-tier outlets under framework code TDP. High-spec digital/print dissemination slots available for competitive agency bidding.

* Direct Inquiries: wing@thejudge-lab.nz

? TOKEN & CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPLIANCE MATRIX ?

Decentralized parameters under the TDP framework are non-fractional, non-custodial Utility Protocol Keys (TDP) for identity logging, cryptographic verification, and programmatic media display synchronization. This digital archival process does not represent, convey, or imply any equity ownership, revenue-sharing, debt obligation, investment profit pooling, or commercial voting rights in THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB LIMITED or Genesis No. 001. Public financial speculation and securities categorization are expressly disclaimed and legally refused under global financial sanctions.

ARCHIVE STATUS & PERMANENT SOVEREIGNTY:The ownership, provenance history, exhibition context, and material truth of this asset are physically verified and endorsed by the creator, Luo Xiaoping. The official abdication and decoupling of historical interpretive sovereignty are vested directly into the asset owner WING – THE JUDGE ARCHIVE-LAB LIMITED.

? OFFICIAL RFP TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ?

* Project Reference Specimen: THE 500-YEAR YIXING ZISHA TEAPOTS PARADIGM

* Material Authentication: Handcrafted Yixing Duan Clay / Gas & Wood-Fired Hybrid Firing

The 1999 Auckland Exhibition Luo Xiaoping Handcrafted Yixing Duan-Ni Teapot Specimen

* Procurement Framework Code: TPD

* Core Procurement Scope: Premium Print Media

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July 17th, 2026 – San Francisco, CA

class=”ql-align-center”>Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow

Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year.

The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s hedge fund. Contributors stake NMR on their models, earning additional NMR when their predictions perform well on future market data and losing it when they do not. The resulting Stake-Weighted Meta Model continues to outperform Numerai’s internal benchmark models, demonstrating the value of aligning incentives with predictive performance.

Since announcing its first strategic buyback in July 2025, Numerai’s network has expanded significantly. Active accounts have more than doubled over the past year, submissions continue to increase, and the platform has introduced new infrastructure including Numerai Skills, Numerai Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Atomic Blockchain Staking, enabling increasingly autonomous participation by AI systems.

The underlying hedge fund has also continued to grow. According to the company, Numerai now manages approximately $700 million in assets, up from approximately $560 million at the end of 2025.

Numeraire is a fixed-supply Ethereum token capped at 11 million NMR. Because tournament rewards and staking incentives are distributed from Numerai’s treasury, the company is replenishing its holdings through open-market purchases. Before this buyback, approximately 3.1 million NMR remained in Numerai’s treasury.

Unlike the previous two announcements, this buyback had already been completed before today’s announcement. As with prior purchases, the transaction was executed on the open market through Coinbase Institutional at or near the bid price over several weeks to minimize market impact.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. This content does not represent an offer to purchase or sell any security or the interests of any account managed by Numerai GP, LLC or its affiliates. Such an offer may only be made to persons who qualify to invest and in jurisdictions in which such an offer is legal.

About Numerai

Numerai is a San Francisco-based hedge fund and data science platform founded in 2015. Through a global competition and open API, thousands of data scientists submit stock market signals that are aggregated into a single Meta Model used to trade global equities. Numeraire (NMR) is used to stake and reward models that improve the fund. Numerai’s mission is to build the world’s last hedge fund through open, competitive machine intelligence.

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July 17th, 2026 – London, United Kingdom

ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover.

The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties.

As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems. 

Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a real tail risk for them. By working with Nexus Mutual, ether.fi has mitigated this with protection that kicks in to secure against validator losses. This cover was calculated to protect ether.fi in even the most extreme scenarios and represents more than all historical losses from ETH slashing combined.

“We’ve always believed the safest protocols will ultimately win. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in audits, operational security, staking architecture, and now the largest insurance program in the industry. We are excited to partner with Nexus Mutual to make this a reality,” said Mike Silagadze, Founder & CEO of ether.fi.“We’ve known the ether.fi team since before it was ether.fi, and they’ve been focused on risk from day one. Covering their users for up to 15,000 ETH in slashing penalties is a historic step, and we’re proud they chose Nexus Mutual to take it with them,” said Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual.

About ether.fi

ether.fi is the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management. With $6B+ in AUM across Cash (crypto card), Stake (restaking), and Liquid (liquid restaking derivatives), ether.fi has established category dominance in crypto neobanking. It’s the rare institutional-grade product built for consumer adoption. 

About Nexus Mutual

Nexus Mutual is the first crypto insurance alternative. Since 2019, they have covered more than $7 billion against smart contract hacks, slashing, and other digital asset risks. As the industry leader, they have become a trusted partner for everyone from individuals to institutions to help manage onchain risk.

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July 17th, 2026 – Dubai, UAE

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges.

As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants.

Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1 million, Bybit consistently delivered lower average slippage than two leading global exchanges. For US$10,000 orders, average slippage was approximately 52% lower than one exchange and 84% lower than the other, with similar advantages observed across larger trade sizes.

Q1 2026 BTC/USDT Average Spot Slippage (Basis Points)

*Source: Bybit internal execution analysis, Q1 2026. *

“Our focus is not simply increasing displayed liquidity but improving the prices users actually receive when trades are executed,” said Sean Ballard, Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business, Trading Risk at Bybit. “Execution quality has become one of the most meaningful measures of exchange performance. By combining deep liquidity with Rapid Price Improvement, we are delivering consistently better execution outcomes across a broad range of trade sizes.”

Market Structure Designed Around Execution Quality

Bybit’s Rapid Price Improvement mechanism is a proprietary execution model inspired by retail price improvement frameworks widely used in traditional equity markets. Eligible spot orders are matched against a dedicated pool of liquidity providers quoting prices inside the visible bid-ask spread, enabling users to receive execution prices that are often better than those displayed on the public order book.

Unlike many implementations that restrict price-improvement liquidity to selected client segments, Bybit extends eligible RPI execution across BTC and major USD stablecoin spot trading pairs, allowing a broader range of users to benefit from improved execution quality.

Consistent Performance Across Trade Sizes

The analysis found that Bybit’s execution advantage remained consistent from retail-sized orders through institutional block trades.

Compared with the benchmark exchanges included in the study:

• Against Exchange A, Bybit reduced average BTC spot slippage by approximately 52% for US$10,000 orders (0.01 vs. 0.02 bps).
• Against Exchange B, Bybit achieved approximately 84% lower average slippage for US$10,000 orders (0.01 vs. 0.06 bps).

The consistency of these results suggests that the improvement is structural rather than limited to specific order sizes or market conditions.

Liquidity Depth Supports Better Execution

Execution quality is supported by the depth of executable liquidity available in the market.

During Q1 2026, Bybit’s BTC/USDT market averaged US$10.4 millions of executable depth within a 5-basis-point spread, compared with US$5.4 million for Exchange A and US$1.9 million for Exchange B. Within a 10-basis-point spread, average executable depth reached US$15.1 million, versus US$11.4 million and US$3.6 million, respectively.

This additional executable liquidity is driven in part by liquidity providers participating through Bybit’s Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism, where eligible orders can access tighter pricing than is available through the standard order book. Users can access this liquidity through the Bybit Web interface, the Bybit App, or via the publicly available RPI Orderbook API, which provides visibility into RPI liquidity and enables clients to incorporate it into their own trading workflows and execution analysis.

Most third-party exchange liquidity rankings rely primarily on publicly displayed order-book data accessed through standard exchange APIs. While this methodology provides valuable insight into quoted liquidity, it may not capture all executable liquidity available through price-improvement mechanisms such as RPI. As a result, traditional order-book depth alone may not fully reflect the liquidity available to traders at the point of execution.

Methodology and Disclaimer

The analysis presented in this release is based on Bybit’s internal assessment of BTC/USDT spot market activity during Q1 2026. Slippage calculations incorporate both standard displayed order-book liquidity and eligible Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) liquidity available at the time of execution. Competitor comparisons are based on publicly available market data and standardized slippage calculations applied consistently across identical order sizes under comparable market conditions.

Because Bybit’s analysis includes executable liquidity available through its publicly accessible RPI Orderbook API, results may differ from third-party liquidity rankings that rely solely on standard order-book APIs. Actual execution quality may vary depending on market conditions, order type, trading volume, volatility, latency, and other market factors.

About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com. 

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July 16th, 2026 – Kingstown, St. Vincent, the Grenadines

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitunix has launched the Bitunix Card, a Visa-powered payment solution that allows users to spend their funds on everyday purchases, and earn yield on idle balances.

The launch reflects a growing demand for practical crypto products that connect digital assets with everyday spending. Instead of moving funds between multiple platforms, Bitunix users can now manage payments, and earnings from one place.

The Bitunix Card can be used at more than 130 million merchants worldwide that accept Visa payments. Users can pay for everyday services and subscriptions such as Uber, ChatGPT, Amazon, Spotify, and Netflix, while also using the card when traveling internationally. Payments are completed instantly, allowing users to spend their crypto as easily as they would with any traditional payment card. The card offers up to 8% cashback on eligible spending, with rewards capped at 1,000 USDT monthly.

To support everyday payments across different regions, the Bitunix Card is compatible with major digital wallets such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and Paypal, as well as selected regional payment platforms and local payment networks.

Available through the Bitunix web platform as well as its iOS and Android applications, the card is designed to give users more utility for their USDT beyond trading. Through a unified dashboard, users can manage card balances, transfer funds between accounts, track transactions, monitor cashback rewards, and control card settings in one place.

The card applies standard regional network processing fees, while eligible users may offset these costs through cashback rewards, depending on their VIP tier.

In addition, eligible balances held on the card can automatically earn yield, reaching up to 11.6% annually, depending on the asset and applicable conditions.

“The Bitunix Card goes far beyond payments. It unlocks a seamless, high-yield financial ecosystem built for everyday global commerce,” said Bitunix’s Chief Strategy Officer, Steven Gu.

The card comes with no issuance fee and no monthly maintenance fee. To activate the card, users are required to transfer a minimum balance of 100 USDT to their card account. The funds remain fully available for spending and do not represent an activation fee.

Users can apply for the Bitunix Card directly through the Bitunix platform. The card is offered to eligible Bitunix users who have completed the platform’s identity verification process and reside in supported regions.

The launch is part of Bitunix’s broader effort to make cryptocurrency more practical for everyday use. By combining spending and earning features in a single product, Bitunix gives users more ways to put their digital assets to use in everyday life.

For more information about the Bitunix Card and application details, users can visit the official Bitunix Card page.

About Bitunix

Bitunix is a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange trusted by over 5 million users across more than 150 countries. Guided by its core principle of better liquidity, better trading, the platform is built for traders who expect more, committed to providing Ultra Trust, Ultra Products, and Ultra Experience. Bitunix offers a fast registration process and a user-friendly verification system to ensure safety and compliance. With global standards of protection through Proof of Reserves (POR) and the Bitunix Care Fund, the exchange prioritizes user trust and fund security. Industry-first innovations like Fixed Risk, TradingView-powered chart suite, along with indicator alerts, cloud-synced templates, provide both beginners and advanced traders with a seamless experience. Making Bitunix one of the most dynamic platforms on the market.

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July 16th, 2026 – Dubai, UAE

class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, received two industry awards at the Peru Blockchain Conference 2026, reinforcing its growing leadership in Latin America’s digital asset ecosystem.

Bybit was honored with the Excellence in Innovation for Trading & Web3 Ecosystems award and Best Strategic Leadership for Latin America, recognizing the company’s continued investment in product innovation, user experience, and its contribution to advancing the region’s digital asset industry.

Designed to bridge crypto with everyday finance, the Bybit Card offers 100% cashback on eligible subscription services such as Netflix and Spotify, alongside a limited-time 10% cashback on eligible purchases during the first month after activation.

“These awards reflect our commitment to turning innovation into real-world value for our users,” said Patricio Mesri, Country Manager for Spanish-speaking Latin America at Bybit. “Financial freedom should be more than a marketing slogan—it should be a tangible benefit people experience every day. While traditional financial services often remain constrained by national borders, Bybit is building a global financial ecosystem that gives people greater access, flexibility, and control over how they save, spend, and grow their wealth.”

Patricio also joined a featured panel discussion to explore the future of Peru’s crypto ecosystem and the outlook for digital asset adoption across Latin America. During the discussion, he emphasized that the future of crypto will be driven not only by investment opportunities, but by practical financial utility that delivers greater freedom and accessibility for everyday users.

Bybit demonstrated how its integrated ecosystem supports that vision by enabling users to make international payments, spend digital assets through the Bybit Card, access multiple payment methods, earn on their digital assets, participate in global market opportunities all within a single platform.

The panel also highlighted education as a key driver of long-term crypto adoption across Latin America. “Education and trust are essential to long-term adoption,” Patricio added. “When people understand how digital assets work and have access to secure, intuitive products, they gain the confidence to participate in the global economy. We’re committed to working with local communities and industry partners to expand financial inclusion and unlock new opportunities across Latin America.”

Patricio Mesri (center), Country Manager for Spanish-speaking Latin America at Bybit, participates in the panel discussion “Building the Crypto Ecosystem in Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges 2026” at the Peru Blockchain Conference 2026.

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About Bybit

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We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com. 

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July 15th, 2026 – London, United Kingdom

CT3 today announced the transition of its decentralized storage infrastructure to a dedicated Storage Contracts model designed to support continued platform growth, improve infrastructure scalability, and expand storage capacity as demand increases.

The transition follows rapid growth across the CT3 ecosystem, with more than 180,000 unique users having used the platform and more than 500,000 uploads completed. Each upload is linked to an NFT access key, allowing platform activity and network usage to be independently verified on-chain.

Continued growth in demand for ct-3.cloud services has increased pressure on the existing infrastructure. Processing all new uploads through a single main collection and one smart contract may reduce scaling flexibility and make storage capacity more difficult to manage as network activity expands.

Under the new architecture, new uploads will be distributed across dedicated Storage Contracts rather than a single main contract. Each Storage Contract is linked to a fixed amount of storage capacity and operates as an independent infrastructure segment with its own capacity, utilization level, and on-chain statistics.

The new model is intended to distribute workloads across multiple smart contracts, improve the transparency and measurement of resource utilization, and support the deployment of additional storage capacity as demand grows. Participants may finance the deployment of new Storage Contracts and the addition of storage capacity. The allocated capacity is used to store files uploaded through ct-3.cloud, while the resulting profit is shared between CT3 and the participant who financed the infrastructure expansion.

Infrastructure Segmentation

Previously, CT3 keys were issued primarily through the main collection and a single contract flow. As the platform expanded, this model became less flexible for handling different categories of data.

Storage Contracts divide the infrastructure into separate segments. Each segment:

• operates through its own smart contract;
• is linked to a specific amount of storage capacity;
• can serve a particular category of files;
• allows capacity utilization and workload to be measured independently;
• reduces pressure on the main NFT key issuance process.

This separation makes the infrastructure more resilient and allows individual areas of the platform to scale without rebuilding the entire system.

How the Allocated Storage Capacity is Used

Each Storage Contract is linked to a defined amount of capacity within the CT3 network. Once activated, the corresponding storage space is supplied by network nodes and used to store data uploaded through ct-3.cloud.

The allocated capacity may be used for:

• standard user files;
• corporate archives;
• automatic backups;
• long-term datasets;
• future CT3 products and applications.

Larger contracts can accommodate heavier files and more substantial flows of corporate or backup data. This allows the network to direct workloads to infrastructure segments with sufficient available capacity.

Storage Contract Economics

The commercial model behind Storage Contracts is based on the real use of CT3 infrastructure. The platform acquires storage capacity from node operators and provides it to ct-3.cloud customers at the market price of the storage service.

A participant finances the deployment of a new Storage Contract and the expansion of the network’s available capacity. Once launched, this capacity is used to store personal and corporate data, while the generated profit is distributed between the investor and CT3.

The financial performance of each contract depends on two main factors:

• the actual utilization of the allocated capacity;
• the margin between the cost of acquiring storage capacity and the price charged to end users.

Storage Contracts therefore allow participants to take part in the growth of CT3 infrastructure and potentially earn income linked to real demand for storage services. The more actively the allocated capacity is used, the greater the contract’s potential result.

On-chain transparency

The operation of each Storage Contract can be verified through the blockchain. Files stored within the allocated capacity are represented by NFT keys containing storage-related metadata.

The combined size of the files associated with these keys can be compared with the utilization figure displayed for the contract. Through the smart contract address, an investor can verify issued NFTs, collection activity, and the actual use of the capacity they helped finance.

This model makes it possible to independently verify:

• the number of keys created;
• the volume of stored data;
• utilization of the allocated capacity;
• activity within a specific Storage Contract;
• the relationship between infrastructure usage and profit generation.

For ct-3.cloud users, the experience remains unchanged: both existing and new NFT keys continue to be supported, and the transition to the new architecture requires no additional action.

About CT3

CT3 is developing a decentralized data storage infrastructure that combines independent nodes, the ct-3.cloud interface, NFT access keys, and blockchain verification.

Users upload files through ct-3.cloud, after which the data is distributed across network nodes. An NFT key is created for every stored object, confirming access rights and containing the relevant storage metadata.

Within this model, nodes provide physical storage capacity, CT3 manages data distribution and access, while individual and corporate users generate demand for storage services.

As the number of users and uploads increases, the network must continuously expand its available capacity. At certain times, demand growth may outpace the addition of new capacity from node operators. Storage Contracts allow CT3 to add new resources in a structured way and allocate them to specific areas of use.

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July 14th, 2026 – Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ask Crystal, a new AI capability inside Crystal Expert, turns any transfer into one clear, evidence-backed narrative, so compliance, investigation, and risk teams decide in seconds, not minutes.

Crystal Intelligence today announced the rollout of Ask Crystal, an on-demand AI analyst built into Crystal Expert. Ask Crystal reads the full on-chain picture behind any transfer and returns one structured narrative, every answer backed by verifiable blockchain evidence. It is designed to support analyst work, to save time and make faster decisions.

Teams that review blockchain activity face a hard reality. Whether they work in compliance, investigations, or risk, case volumes keep climbing. The signals that matter, transfer details, fund connections, triggered alerts, and counterparty history, sit across separate screens. Two reviewers can read the same case and reach different conclusions. The result is slow reviews, inconsistent decisions, and heavy cognitive load on the people who can least afford a mistake.

Ask Crystal removes that friction. Inside Crystal Expert, on any transfer, a single tab generates a plain-language AI summary on demand, and regenerates it whenever the analyst needs a fresh read. Each summary consolidates four structured sections: a transfer overview, a connections analysis covering source and destination of funds, alert details explained by type and detection rule, and prior interactions with a trusted-list check. One read replaces minutes of manual correlation across tabs.

“Across compliance, investigations, and risk, teams are asked to make high-stakes calls under time pressure, with the evidence scattered across screens,” said Navin Gupta, Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Intelligence. “Ask Crystal changes that. This AI does the reading, the correlating, and the cross-referencing in seconds, then hands the analyst one clear, evidence-backed story. We are not automating the decision. We are giving every decision the full picture it deserves.”

What teams get

• Less operational complexity. Every key signal in one structured view of the transfer.
• More consistent judgments. Context, connections, alerts, and history are interpreted the same way, every time.
• Lower cognitive load. No manual correlation across tabs and alert screens.
• Faster onboarding. A guided, plain-language read makes cases easier to learn from.

Ask Crystal is part of Crystal Expert, the institutional-grade platform used by compliance teams, investigators, financial institutions, and regulators to detect crypto risk, trace funds across more than 330 blockchains, and prove compliance with reports regulators trust. Access to Ask Crystal is controlled through role-based permissions. The feature is rolling out to Crystal Expert customers now.

About Crystal Intelligence

Crystal Intelligence turns blockchain complexity into clear, actionable intelligence for compliance teams, investigators, financial institutions, and regulators. Crystal Expert covers more than 330 blockchains and over 110,000 attributed entities, giving teams the verified data they need to detect risk, trace funds, and prove compliance. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Crystal Intelligence is ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant, with EU-based data governance.

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July 13th, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”>Byreal, a decentralised exchange incubated by Bybit, today marked its first anniversary since launching on the Solana testnet on 30 June 2025.

Over the past year, the platform has grown into a primary liquidity venue for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) and established itself as one of the first AI agent-native exchanges in DeFi.

Since launch, Byreal has recorded more than $3.7 billion in cumulative trading volume across 25.3 million total transactions. The platform has attracted close to half a million total users and paid out $2.8 million in fees to liquidity providers.

“One year ago, Byreal set out to prove that DeFi could match the liquidity and execution quality of a centralised operation while keeping our ecosystem authentic. Reaching $3.7 billion in total volume and becoming a leading venue for tokenized real-world assets on Solana validates that vision. This is only the foundation for what Byreal will build next,” said Emily Bao, Founder of Byreal. 

Real-World Assets and Crypto Liquidity Hub

Byreal has established itself as a primary on-chain liquidity venue for tokenized equities and commodities. Partnerships with xStocksFi, Backpack, Tether Gold, and Sunrise have enabled more than 20 tokenized equities, including MU, SPCX, SNDK, NVDAx, and CRCLx, to trade with real depth on Solana.

Through deep integration with Bybit Alpha, Byreal became the top Day 1 trading volume venue on Solana for multiple new tokens, including BP, MON, ARX, SKR, and BRIB, bridging centralised exchange liquidity with on-chain markets from launch day.

Over the past year, Byreal has expanded its product suite across three verticals, now available on a single platform:

• Real Farmer: the first copy-farming product on Solana
• Perps: offering up to 50x leverage trading for both equities and crypto, available 24/7
• Predict: an on-chain market for trading real-world outcomes

AI and Agent Infrastructure

Byreal positions itself as the most agent-native DEX on Solana, combining deep hybrid liquidity (CEX + on-chain), real-world asset support, and purpose-built tools for the next wave of AI-driven trading and DeFi activity. Incubated by Bybit and powered by Solana.

The platform has continued to build agent-native infrastructure over the past year, releasing tools that allow both human users and AI agents to participate in DeFi. Agent Skills is an open infrastructure layer that allows AI agents to swap, provide liquidity, trade perps, and participate in prediction markets. RealClaw is a personal AI agent that autonomously farms yield, trades spot, perps, and prediction markets, and manages positions on behalf of users.

Community Meme Contest

To mark its first anniversary, Byreal is hosting a community meme contest. Participants are invited to create and share memes celebrating the platform’s agent-native features, RWA integrations, and product innovations. Winners will receive prizes and recognition on official channels.

About Byreal

Byreal is a decentralised exchange (DEX) built on the Solana blockchain and incubated by Bybit. Byreal brings together trading, liquidity provision, and yield generation into one unified onchain platform, with execution quality and infrastructure designed to match the standards of a professional trading venue. Built from the ground up as an AI agent native DEX, Byreal enables both human users and AI agents to trade, swap, and provide liquidity programmatically.

For more information about Byreal, please visit: www.byreal.io

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July 13th, 2026 – VICTORIA, Seychelles

Global crypto trading platform BYDFi participated in Peru Blockchain Conference 2026, held July 10-11 at JW Marriott Larcomar in Miraflores, Lima.

Now in its 5th edition, the event was positioned as one of Peru’s largest blockchain, crypto, and trading gatherings, bringing together industry participants across digital assets, Web3, trading, fintech, AI, regulation, and financial education.

Peru Blockchain Conference 2026: A Key Gathering for Web3 and Trading in LATAM

Peru Blockchain Conference 2026 convened a broad mix of industry participants from across Latin America and the global digital asset ecosystem.Organizers highlighted official event scale figures of more than 4,000 attendees, 100+ speakers, and 50+ sponsors, with the event designed around conference programming, exhibition activity, networking, and direct engagement between companies, builders, traders, investors, and communities.

The program covered a wide range of themes, including Crypto & Digital Assets, Blockchain & Web3, Trading and Financial Markets, Artificial Intelligence, Fintechs and Startups, Regulatory Framework Peru & LATAM, Asset Management, and Financial Education. For BYDFi, the agenda offered a clear view of the conversations shaping user expectations around access, usability, trust, and long-term participation in digital finance.

BYDFi Connects with Attendees in Lima

At the venue, BYDFi’s booth drew steady foot traffic from attendees throughout Peru Blockchain Conference 2026. Visitors gathered around the booth to meet the BYDFi team, learn more about BYDFi’s trading experience, and take part in on-site interactions. BYDFi also distributed football-themed T-shirts and caps inspired by BYDFi’s Newcastle United partnership, which drew visible interest from visitors and added to the booth’s on-site activity.

The booth served as a practical meeting point for traders, builders, partners, and users to discuss market access, trading tools, user experience, and the growing connection between crypto and broader financial markets. BYDFi also shared perspectives across digital asset trading and TradFi trading access, reflecting user interest in more flexible ways to participate across market environments.

Advancing Trust Through Education and Participation

Peru Blockchain Conference 2026 brought financial education, regulation, trading, digital assets, and Web3 adoption into one setting. For BYDFi, that context reinforces how important it is for trading platforms to support users with practical access, steady execution, and standards they can rely on over time. This aligns with BYDFi’s annual theme, Built for Reliability: building trading experiences that remain useful, stable, and trusted as digital finance reaches more communities.

Michael Hung, Co-Founder & CEO of BYDFi, said: “Peru Blockchain Conference brought together important discussions around education, access, regulation, and real user participation. For BYDFi, the priority is to listen closely, build responsibly, and keep improving a trading experience users can trust over time.”

About BYDFi

Founded in 2020, BYDFi now serves over 1,000,000 users across 190+ countries and regions. BYDFi is Newcastle United’s Exclusive Official Crypto Exchange Partner and is listed by Forbes Advisor Canada among the best crypto exchanges in Canada for 2026.

BYDFi is dedicated to delivering a world-class crypto trading experience for every user.

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July 12th, 2026 – Limassol, Cyprus

LEVERAGED, a proprietary trading firm empowering anyone to become a trader, announced the conclusion of the 2026 Leveraged Cup, a worldwide trading competition where participants competed to secure the highest percentage return regardless of account size.

Sebastian, known in the competition as Cassius, won the $20,000 grand prize after securing first place in the live Final Four finale. He advanced to the final stage shortly before qualification closed and went on to overcome an early setback before taking the lead in the final minutes.

The Leveraged Cup attracted thousands of participants from around the world and ranked traders by percentage return. Removing account size from the scoring criteria, the competition was designed to ensure access to capital did not determine the outcome. Participants were judged on their ability to generate returns, manage risk and perform under pressure.

The four highest-ranked traders advanced to a live 90-minute Sprint-to-Cash finale, where each finalist competed under the same conditions. Matthew, trading as MattyNortz, Yasin, trading as YasinTrades, Sebastian, trading as Cassius, and Alamin, trading as Alamin98, each earned their place through their performance on the competition leaderboard.

“The Leveraged Cup shows that trading ability can come from anywhere,” said Tal Fromchenko, Founder and CEO of LEVERAGED. “With account size removed from the equation, the competition was about discipline, decision-making and execution. Thousands of people entered, four earned their place in the live final, and the winner proved their determination and trading prowess to claim the win.”

The $20,000 prize was distributed live during the broadcast, with the winner describing it as “the biggest trading win of his career.” He had also secured four Sprint payouts during the wider competition, capturing the many ways participants could benefit from their performance throughout the event.

The competition was built around LEVERAGED’s Sprint format, an accelerated route to funded trading. Traders must reach a 2% profit target during the evaluation stage before progressing to a funded account, where they trade using company capital and retain 80% of the profits they generate.

The format reflects LEVERAGED’s mission to reduce the barriers that prevent aspiring traders from developing and demonstrating their abilities. The company combines funded trading opportunities with structured risk rules, practical education, daily webinars, market analysis, one-on-one coaching and AI-powered trading tools.

LEVERAGED operates in more than 150 countries and has enabled over 50,000 portfolio managers to participate in its funded trading programs. The company has processed more than $100 billion in trading volume and offers multiple account formats, including Sprint, Turbo Trade, Classic and Crypto Challenge.

For more information, visit www.getleveraged.com.

About LEVERAGED

LEVERAGED is a global proprietary trading firm founded on the belief that “Everyone’s a Trader.” Serving traders in more than 150 countries, the company provides access to funded trading accounts, AI-powered trading tools, and comprehensive educational resources designed to help traders develop professional-level skills. LEVERAGED has funded more than 50,000 portfolio managers and processed over $100 billion in trading volume.

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July 10th, 2026 – New York, USA

TrueDAO announced today the completion of a $10 million strategic funding round.

The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital. The proceeds will primarily fund core AI protocol development, AI-driven risk control, security audits, global compliance efforts, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships.

The journey to this milestone began a year ago when the TrueDAO team set out to build a decentralized financial infrastructure driven by smart contracts, on-chain reserves, dynamic adjustment mechanisms, and community governance. The initiative aimed to address challenges in the traditional crypto industry regarding yield sustainability, risk response, reserve transparency, and governance efficiency; since then, the team has successfully developed the core protocol architecture.

TrueDAO is not designed for a single blockchain application; instead, it aims to serve as a modular financial infrastructure, providing global ecosystem projects with liquidity management, reserve management, risk alerts, yield distribution, and governance support.

This funding round will focus on five key areas: refining smart contracts and protocol modules; building AI-driven risk monitoring and stress-testing systems; implementing independent security audits, real-time monitoring, and bug bounty programs; advancing legal and compliance assessments across various jurisdictions; and releasing developer documentation while expanding ecosystem partnerships.

SoLee, Head of Marketing at TrueDAO stated “Raising $10 million is a significant milestone, but it is not the finish line. While capital accelerates development, it cannot replace security, transparent governance, and genuine value creation. We remain committed to building an on-chain financial infrastructure that is auditable, verifiable, and governable.”

Following the funding, TrueDAO will advance its testnet launch, security audits, developer tools, and ecosystem integration plans, while disclosing protocol operations and reserve data in phases. Specific launch dates, token arrangements, and incentive mechanisms will be subject to official announcements and applicable laws.

About TrueDAO

TrueDAO is an AI-driven decentralized autonomous financial infrastructure project. It is dedicated to building an open, transparent, and composable on-chain financial system through the integration of smart contracts, on-chain data, AI risk analysis, dynamic value adjustment, protocol reserves, and DAO governance.

TrueDAO Website: www.truedao.ai

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July 9th, 2026 – SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Kresus, the self-custody wallet designed to simplify digital asset ownership, today announced Kresus Inheritance.

With millions of bitcoin already lost forever, Kresus’ new subscription service lets self-custody users securely pass on digital assets after death.

This new service lets users create a secure succession plan for their cryptocurrency holdings. It requires no private key sharing and no complex recovery procedures.

Self-custody gives individuals full control over their digital assets. But little of the supporting infrastructure that traditional wealth management offers has kept pace. Beneficiary designations, estate transfer mechanisms, recovery pathways, and long-term planning are largely missing. Every alternative requires a vulnerability. Seed phrases written down can be found. Keys shared early can be misused. And traditional estate planning can be costly and complex.

“Too much digital wealth has already been lost because there was no plan for what happens next,” said Trevor Traina, Founder and CEO of Kresus. “Self-custody shouldn’t mean your assets disappear if something happens to you. With Kresus Inheritance, we’re giving users a secure and affordable way to protect their legacy and ensure the wealth they’ve built can be passed on to the next generation.”

Inheritance costs $99.99 per year and is built directly into the Kresus wallet. The service lets Kresus users designate a beneficiary to access the portfolio only after a defined inactivity period has elapsed. Private keys are never shared during the transfer process. Users retain full control of their assets while active. Kresus does not take custody of user assets. The wallet owner remains in control unless the defined inactivity period lapses and the succession process is triggered. 

An estimated 55 million U.S. adults, or 21% of the population, now own cryptocurrency, according to a Harris Poll study. Yet a Cremation Institute study found that 89% of crypto investors worry about what happens to their assets after death. Kresus Inheritance is designed to close that gap, giving users a built-in way to plan for their digital assets before the need ever arises. A user holding $50,000 in bitcoin can now seamlessly designate a spouse or adult child as beneficiary, with zero access until a verified succession event occurs.

Inheritance builds on Kresus’s existing wallet and infrastructure business, which already serves millions of self-custodial wallet users through the Kresus Wallet, mini-app experiences, and enterprise solutions. It reflects Kresus’s broader focus on expanding the wallet’s role into a complete platform for wealth management, anchored by tools like Inheritance that bring legacy planning directly into the self-custody experience.

About Kresus

Kresus is a U.S.-based wallet and blockchain infrastructure company that creates digital asset tools for consumers and institutions. Its products include the Kresus Wallet, mini-app experiences for users, and enterprise solutions for digital wallets, tokenized assets, and on-chain financial workflows. Founded in San Francisco, Kresus aims to deliver secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure designed for actual applications.

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July 9th, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”> Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, reported that Bybit’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) BTC fund products have recorded a comprehensive annualized return of approximately 4.9% over the past 60 days, with select individual funds delivering 30-day annualized percentage rates exceeding 40%.

Through its BTC-invested, BTC-settled fund structure, Bybit PWM’s BTC strategies offers a more advanced allocation solution to users holding larger BTC positions.

Launched in September 2025, Bybit PWM manages over $239 million in assets across over 160 portfolios. In June 2026, Bybit introduced PWM 2.0, expanding direct dashboard access to eligible VIP2+ users and allowing PWM users to customize their wealth solutions with ease. 

“BTC continues to trade well below its previous highs in the first half of 2026, leaving many BTC holders weighing how to manage their holdings through a period of volatility. Even for BTC faithfuls, the central question is often not whether to sell BTC for short-term liquidity, but how to keep BTC working while remaining exposed to the asset itself,” said Jerry Li, Head of Earn and Wealth Management at Bybit. ”Our BTC-denominated PWM funds and Earn products are built around that premise, enabling users to invest and settle in BTC while accessing yield.” 

Bybit PWM products currently start from a minimum of 10 BTC, positioning the offering toward larger BTC holders. For users who prefer not to subscribe directly with BTC, some PWM funds can also be accessed through USDT, with the flexibility to gradually convert returns into BTC over time.

Beyond PWM, Bybit offers a broader set of BTC yield options intended to serve different types of holders:

• On-Chain Earn provides an entry-level BTC yield product that allows users to stake BTC for returns while retaining exposure to the asset. It is built for straightforward, long-term BTC holders who want a basic yield solution.
• PWM offers BTC-invested, BTC-settled fund structures tailored for larger BTC holdings. In addition to BTC strategies, USDT-denominated fund options are also available, allowing yield to be gradually converted into BTC over time. The product is positioned for larger-ticket users and wealth management use cases with a current minimum entry of 10 BTC.
• Advanced Earn provides structured BTC products for users seeking more advanced investment mechanics, including Dual Asset, which features VIP-exclusive boosted APR products, and Discount Buy, which serves users looking to diversify their BTC yield strategy beyond a single product type.

No matter the market condition, Bybit’s offerings and diverse BTC strategies reflect an approach to balancing BTC accumulation and yield. Larger holders can pursue PWM’s fund-based allocation, holders with smaller positions can access on-chain yield through fBTC, and users with higher risk appetite can explore structured products such as Dual Asset and Discount Buy.

Terms and conditions apply. For more details on eligibility and potential restrictions, users may visit explore Bybit Earn and Bybit PWM.

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About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

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July 7th, 2026 – Zug, Switzerland

class=”ql-align-center”>Premium virtual assets pioneer BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. is now fully authorized by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, enabling regulated institutional services across the UAE.

Building on its position as Switzerland’s leading crypto financial services provider, Bitcoin Suisse is further accelerating its international expansion. Bitcoin Suisse Group’s subsidiary, BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. (“BTCS ME”) has received Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, marking another significant step toward the Group’s international growth strategy becoming a leading global wealth management partner.

The FSP marks the completion of a thorough, multi-stage licensing process and enables BTCS ME to deliver a comprehensive suite of regulated digital asset financial services to institutional and professional clients in the United Arab Emirates. Bitcoin Suisse brings more than a decade of experience across multiple digital asset market cycles to the UAE. The Group currently safeguards USD 3.7 billion in crypto assets and ranks as the fourth-largest staking operator globally.

With the FSP, clients benefit from the same foundations that have made Bitcoin Suisse a trusted partner to investors, institutions, and blockchain innovators for more than a decade. Across multiple market cycles, Bitcoin Suisse has built a reputation for resilience, combining a robust, proprietary infrastructure with a service philosophy centered on long-term client relationships.

Institutional and professional clients can access a regulated digital asset financial infrastructure designed for sophisticated needs, including managing and hedging digital asset exposure, in a fully compliant environment, institutional-grade custody, and trading approved virtual assets. All supported by a dedicated relationship manager, ensuring access not only to institutional-grade technology and regulatory clarity, but also to personal attention, continuity, and deep expertise. As the market evolves, BTCS ME is also positioned to support clients in accessing tokenized real-world assets in the future.

By combining regulatory strength, operational depth, and a highly personalized approach to client service, BTCS ME is designed to support clients through the next phase of institutional adoption.

Ceyda Majcen, Chief Executive Officer and SEO of BTCS ME, leads Bitcoin Suisse Group’s expansion in the Middle East and brings extensive, long-standing senior leadership experience across the Group.

Receiving the FSP from the FSRA is a major milestone in our international growth strategy. The authorization reflects more than a decade of experience building resilient infrastructure, risk frameworks, and trusted client relationships. We are excited to bring our unique combination of institutional-grade capabilities and highly personalized service to the UAE, one of the world’s most dynamic hubs for digital assets.”Arvind Ramamurthy, Chief Market Development Officer at ADGM, said “We congratulate Bitcoin Suisse on receiving its FSP from the FSRA. Its expansion into ADGM reinforces the strength and maturity of our digital assets’ ecosystem, which continues to attract leading global institutions seeking regulatory clarity, market access and long-term growth opportunities. As Abu Dhabi further strengthens its position as a leading financial hub in the region, ADGM remains committed to enabling innovation within a robust, internationally recognized regulatory environment.”

About Bitcoin Suisse

Bitcoin Suisse is a leading premium digital assets financial services provider. Founded in 2013 by digital asset experts, it provides a cohesive suite of trading, custody, staking and lending services for institutional clients, digital asset foundations, family offices, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals. Bitcoin Suisse is headquartered in Zug with over 200 employees in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Arab Emirates, and Bermuda. www.bitcoinsuisse.com

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Bitcoin Suisse
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July 6th, 2026 – Panama City, Panama

Deribit by Coinbase, via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus, a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island, their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date.

Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000 USDC in prizes across solo and team competition, daily and weekly reward rounds, Mystery Box deposit mechanics, short-dated options challenges, and a Private Island jackpot.

Registration for The Island opens on June 29 at 08:00 UTC, with the competition running from July 6 at 08:00 UTC through August 10 at 23:59 UTC. To participate, users must trade through SignalPlus on Deribit. Competition standings will be based on eligible options and futures trading volume only, with options weighted 1.0 and futures weighted 0.5.

The campaign is designed around eleven core arenas spanning weekly volume competition, daily reward loops, team participation, referral-driven expansion, whale and block-trade incentives, and dynamic ecosystem progression in one connected experience. New mechanics in this edition include the Mystery Box deposit experience, a weekly P&L leaderboard, short-dated options reward multipliers, and the Flash Arena, where higher short-dated options volume unlocks more jackpot shots and reward opportunities.

Key Details

• Total Prize Pool: Up to $600,000 USDC
• Registration Period: June 29, 2026, 08:00 UTC – August 10, 2026, 23:59 UTC
• Competition Period: July 6, 2026, 08:00 UTC – August 10, 2026, 23:59 UTC
• Eligibility: Open to eligible retail traders on Deribit via SignalPlus
• Registration Link: https://t.signalplus.com/deribitislandcompetition

This campaign is run by DRB Panama Inc and is not targeted at or intended for residents of Dubai, UAE. T&Cs apply. Virtual Assets are subject to extreme market volatility, involve a high degree of risk, and can lose value, in part or in full.

Early Bird Incentives

• Users who register by July 7th will receive 3 free Deribit options.
• Team captains who invite five or more friends to register by July 7th will have a chance to win a Cressi Velvet Wetsuit valued at 300 USDC.
• Among the first 10 participants to reach 200M in trading volume by July 12, one randomly selected winner will receive two RIMOWA suitcases valued at 5,000 USDC in total.

“The Island brings together everything we want this competition to be: bigger scale, stronger participation loops, and a structure that rewards how active options traders actually engage,” said Luuk Strijers, Senior Director from Deribit by Coinbase. “With solo and team competition, short-dated options mechanics and aspirational rewards led by the Private Island jackpot, this is our most ambitious retail trading campaign yet.”“We are excited to partner with Deribit by Coinbase once again on the latest edition of the competition,” said Chris Yu, CEO and Co-Founder from SignalPlus. “The Island is designed to make participation more dynamic and more rewarding, whether traders are competing on volume, teaming up with their network, or engaging through short-dated options and daily missions. Together, we are creating a more immersive experience for sophisticated retail traders.”

Competition Highlights include:

• Core Arena: Weekly solo and team trading leaderboards designed to reward notional trading activity across individual and squad-based competition.
• Mystery Box Deposit Round: Users who register and maintain deposits for seven days unlock Mystery Box draw chances tied to guaranteed USDC prizes and premium rewards.
• Daily Reward Ecosystem: Daily individual and team missions encourage repeat engagement, with volume-based rewards and team milestone unlocks.
• Flash Arena: Short-dated options trading powers daily reward multipliers and jackpot-style shooting mechanics, including access to the Private Island reward opportunity.
• Block Arena: High-balance and block-trade participants can unlock fee rebates and luxury reward opportunities.
• Expansion Arena: Referral mechanics reward both community growth and successful invitations of higher-value traders.

In addition to the Private Island headline reward, this year’s prize pool includes a range of premium rewards such as a Rolex Watch, Apple Vision Pro, NVIDIA Stock, Luxury Turkey Trip, Ledger Stax, Gentle Monster Sunglasses, Razer Keyboard, SOL spot rewards, trading fee coupons, and daily USDC prize pools.

The Island invites participants into a dynamic retail trading competition that combines strategic trading with team-based participation and a tiered reward structure. With every trade, participants move closer to exclusive rewards, from daily USDC prizes to the Private Island headline jackpot. The event begins today.

About Deribit 

Deribit by Coinbase is a centralized, institutional-grade provider of crypto derivatives ecosystem, specializing in Bitcoin and Ethereum options and futures. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, Deribit offers instantaneous price discovery, low-latency execution, advanced risk mitigation tools, and deep liquidity through a network of top-tier market makers. Deribit facilitates the majority of global crypto options volume and upholds rigorous proof-of-reserves practices to maintain the highest standards of integrity and transparency.

About SignalPlus

Signalplus provides trading software and infrastructure for crypto derivatives, helping professional and sophisticated retail traders access options, futures, and spot markets with advanced execution and analytics tools. SignalPlus delivers a comprehensive options trading suite tailored for crypto derivatives traders.

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Deribit
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July 2nd, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has officially launched the Bybit Card in Peru, marking a significant step in bridging the country’s growing digital asset ecosystem with the practicalities of everyday spending.

Over 3 million users globally use the Bybit Card to pay at merchants. Offering year-round rewards on everyday spending, the Bybit Card also unlocks up to 10% cashback and 100% rebates on eligible digital subscriptions including popular services essential to the modern lifestyle, such as Netflix and Spotify. 

120 USDT Welcome Bundle

To celebrate the launch, new users in Peru will enjoy exclusive access to bonus cashback tracks for a limited time only. New cardholders who apply, complete identity verification, and top up a minimum equivalent of 100 USDT in their Bybit account are in for a month of rewards: 

• 10 USDT airdrop: distributed directly to their Bybit account after the first qualifying top-up
• Up to 110 USDT cashback booster: a special 10% cashback to their Bybit account rate on qualified lifestyle spending during the first 30 days, capped at 110 USDT

Available as a virtual card with no annual fees, the Bybit Card enables Peruvian cardholders to spend their balances on the go at millions of merchants worldwide, whether online, in-store, or in-app. The card supports both US Dollars (USD) for international spends and Peruvian Soles (PEN) for local spending, ensuring compatibility and global convenience for cardholders. 

The Bybit Card is built on a simple principle: crypto and fiat should move as freely as the people who hold them. Its core features eliminate the friction that has historically separated digital assets from everyday spending. 

“Peru’s financial landscape has undergone a quiet but meaningful transformation in recent years as its young, mobile-first population has embraced digital payments. With the Bybit Card, Peruvians can spend PEN at home and spend USD anywhere when they explore the world, without friction,” said Patricio Mesri, Country Manager for Spanish-speaking Latin America at Bybit.

Bybit Card Peru – Highlights

• Tiered cashback: 2% to 10% cashback on eligible everyday purchases and boosted spending categories 
• Dual-currency flexibility: Spending balances in USD and PEN wherever major cards are accepted
• Seamless asset management: Balances are drawn directly from the Bybit account
• No hidden fees: Instant virtual card activation with no issuance fees or annual fees; foreign exchange conversion fees may occur on foreign-currency transactions
• 100% subscription rebates: Full rebates on popular digital services including Netflix and Spotify

Peru represents an exciting frontier for digital finance in Latin America. The launch in Peru is part of Bybit’s broader commitment to expanding access to practical financial tools across emerging markets in Latin America. As the region’s digital payments infrastructure matures and regulatory frameworks continue to evolve, the Bybit Card’s entry into Peru signals Bybit’s long-term vision and user-focused growth in the region.

Terms and conditions apply to all cashback offers, welcome rewards, and subscription rebates. For eligibility and reward details, users may visit: Bybit Card is now live in Peru: Get rewarded every time you spend

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About Bybit

Bybit is The New Financial Platform.

We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That’s why we’re building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world’s finance.

Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.

Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.

Learn more at Bybit.com

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July 2nd, 2026 – George Town, Cayman Islands

BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, is recording a standout result from its 15 Years in the Game: The BTCC World Cup Showdown campaign, with futures trading volume surging up to 55% ahead of Argentina’s World Cup match days.

The surge is a direct result of the platform’s 1.25x volume boost for traders during the 24-hour window prior to kickoff.

As an official regional partner of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), BTCC built the perk to reward users who time their trading around La Albiceleste’s matches. The data speaks for itself:

• June 15 (day before Argentina vs. Algeria): Daily futures trading volume hit approximately $2.84 billion, about 15% above the average of the surrounding days.
• June 21 (day before Argentina vs. Austria): Volume climbed to approximately $2.35 billion, a 55% jump over the previous day.

The numbers confirm what BTCC aimed the campaign would deliver: real, measurable engagement tied to the excitement of the World Cup. Traders aren’t just watching the matches, they’re trading around them, and the 1.25x boost gives them a tangible reason to do both at once.

More Boosts Ahead

With Argentina set to face Cabo Verde on July 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET in a Round of 32 match, the 1.25x volume boost will once again be active in the 24 hours leading up to kickoff. 

A win will send Argentina straight into the Round of 16, keeping Lionel Messi and his team on their path to defend their World Cup title and clinch a fourth crown.

For BTCC traders, the boost gives them another opportunity to climb the weekly and overall leaderboards, which are ranked by futures trading volume and share a combined prize pool of 690,000 USDT.

Campaign Finale: A Messi-Signed Jersey Awaits

Beyond the volume boosts and leaderboard prizes, the campaign’s lucky draw pool includes a jersey signed by Lionel Messi, alongside a Miami yacht getaway and a Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Titanium watch. 

These premium prizes will be awarded once the World Cup concludes, which provides traders an added incentive to stay engaged through the campaign’s final weeks.

A Partnership Built for the World Cup

BTCC’s role as an official partner of the AFA is central to the campaign’s design. It is a natural fit for the exchange’s 15th anniversary, timed to one of football’s biggest global stages. The partnership puts BTCC’s brand in front of millions of football fans worldwide and cements its position as a platform built for champions, on the pitch and in the markets alike.

The BTCC World Cup Showdown runs through July 21, 2026. Full rules and registration are available on the official campaign page.

#BTCC15 | #BTCCxArgentineFA | #BuiltForChampions

About BTCC

Founded in 2011, BTCC is a leading global cryptocurrency exchange serving over 11 million users across 100+ countries. As the official regional sponsor of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and with NBA All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. as its global brand ambassador, BTCC offers secure and accessible cryptocurrency trading services, focused on delivering a user-friendly experience while adhering to applicable regulatory standards.

Official website: https://www.btcc.com/en-US

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