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London, United Kingdom, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire
World Mobile will be one of the headline presences at Rare Evo 2026, taking place July 28-31 at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The company joins the event as a premier sponsor of the conference and will deliver a keynote address featuring Micky Watkins, Co-Founder & CEO of World Mobile.
At the center of World Mobile's presence at Rare Evo is what the company is calling its biggest story yet: the World Mobile Stratospheric direct-to-device connectivity roadmap. Attendees can hear the full details during Watkins' keynote and connect with the World Mobile team on the exhibitor floor. The details of the initial announcement can be found below:
World Mobile Stratospheric today set out its direct-to-device connectivity roadmap, highlighting the role of its StratoMast high-altitude platform and the SkyMast flight-test pathway with Britten-Norman as the company develops an airborne network layer between terrestrial towers and satellite systems.
The timing is significant. AI is moving from centralised data centres into phones, machines, vehicles, sensors and public infrastructure at the edge. According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity consumption from data centres is projected to double to around 945 TWh by 2030, reflecting the scale of demand being created by AI and high-performance computing. But compute alone is not enough. To turn AI into real-world utility, intelligence must be able to reach the places where people, devices and infrastructure operate.
Mobile networks are already carrying more of that burden. The Ericsson Mobility Report says 5G subscriptions have passed three billion globally and that mobile network data traffic grew 22 percent between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026. At the same time, Omdia forecasts smartphone satellite direct-to-device services will reach 411 million monthly active users and generate approximately $12 billion in revenue by 2030.
World Mobile Stratospheric believes the next connectivity era will not be defined by one layer alone. Towers, satellites and stratospheric platforms each have a role to play. The stratosphere sits in the critical space between terrestrial infrastructure and orbit: close enough to serve real demand on the ground, high enough to cover large areas from above, and flexible enough to be repositioned around changing network needs.
A layer built for AI at the edge
AI will not create value only inside data centres. Its impact will increasingly depend on how reliably intelligence can reach people, sensors, enterprises, vehicles and public services in the real world. That makes connectivity a strategic AI infrastructure requirement, not a secondary utility.
World Mobile Stratospheric is focused on the airborne layer that can help carry that intelligence to the edge. By combining wide-area reach with direct-to-device connectivity, the company aims to support use cases where terrestrial networks are difficult to deploy, slow to extend, or vulnerable during disruption.
StratoMast: a high-capacity airborne connectivity layer
At the centre of the World Mobile Stratospheric roadmap is StratoMast, a hydrogen-powered high-altitude platform designed to fly at around 20,000 metres and carry a mobile network payload in the stratosphere. The phased-array antenna carried by StratoMast is being developed to concentrate reusable 5G capacity across approximately 15,000 square kilometres per platform, putting targeted coverage where demand actually sits.
Published technical material from Cambridge Consultants describes the full-scale airborne antenna as more than three metres square, with more than one million components, 480 individual beams, a coverage diameter of up to 140 km, aggregate mobile speeds in excess of 100 Gbps and a weight of around 120 kg. These specifications relate to the antenna payload at the heart of the StratoMast system, which is designed to provide high-performance 5G coverage across vast geographies and highly targeted areas from stratospheric altitude.
World Mobile has outlined the proprietary phased-array antenna as the core network capability within StratoMast, responsible for shaping coverage, steering capacity and maintaining direct-to-device connectivity from the airborne platform.
This creates an innovative but practical proposition: a programmable airborne network layer capable of shaping coverage around demand. Instead of relying only on fixed towers or distant orbital assets, StratoMast is being developed to place capacity over cities, rural communities, transport routes, disaster zones or enterprise sites where connectivity is needed most.
The next stage is to validate key elements of this airborne network architecture through SkyMast.
SkyMast and the Britten-Norman flight-test pathway
World Mobile Stratospheric is advancing the SkyMast pathway using a Britten-Norman BN2T-4S Islander aircraft as an airborne testbed for 5G system integration and validation. In its partnership announcement, Britten-Norman said the collaboration will demonstrate a pioneering airborne 5G communication system using an Islander aircraft and validate how aircraft-based systems can extend mobile coverage to remote areas and restore communications following disasters.
The programme has since moved from announcement to integration. Britten-Norman has confirmed that the BN2T-4S Islander is prepared for the next phase of system integration, with the aircraft ready for installation of the airborne 5G antenna system. The same update says installation is underway at Britten-Norman's MRO facility, test flights are scheduled to commence in the summer, and flight assessment will be conducted with World Mobile Stratospheric in cooperation with BT at its Adastral Park R&D facility near Ipswich.
SkyMast is designed to be the bridge between engineering ambition and operational validation. It gives World Mobile Stratospheric a near-term test platform to assess airborne 5G performance, integration, safety, certification considerations and network behaviour before full-scale stratospheric operations.
Beyond coverage: resilience, sovereignty and scale
World Mobile Stratospheric sees stratospheric connectivity as part of a wider shift in how critical communications infrastructure is planned, deployed and governed. For governments, operators and enterprises, the next generation of connectivity is not only about expanding coverage. It is about resilience when ground infrastructure is damaged or overloaded, flexible capacity when demand shifts, and greater control over how national and regional communications systems are designed.
A stratospheric layer can support underserved regions, emergency response, temporary capacity and data-sovereignty-focused network architectures, while integrating with terrestrial infrastructure and future non-terrestrial network standards. This is especially relevant as telecom moves toward a more intelligent, multi-layered network model for 5G, 6G and AI-enabled services.
Direct-to-device is more than a satellite story
Direct-to-device connectivity is often discussed through the lens of satellite networks. World Mobile Stratospheric is advancing a complementary perspective: the sky is not one layer, and all airborne or orbital systems should not be treated as interchangeable.
The stratosphere offers a distinct position between towers and orbit. It can provide wide-area reach from above while remaining closer to terrestrial users and infrastructure than satellite systems. World Mobile Stratospheric believes this layer can play a decisive role in the future connectivity stack, particularly as AI, emergency response, industrial automation and digital inclusion place greater pressure on networks to be available wherever demand appears.
"The next generation of connectivity will not be defined by coverage alone. It will be defined by how effectively networks connect people, devices and intelligence wherever demand exists. As AI moves from the data centre to the edge, and as direct-to-device becomes a major telecom category, the stratosphere gives us a powerful new layer between towers and satellites. World Mobile Stratospheric is building for that future," said Micky Watkins, CEO, World Mobile Group.
About World Mobile Stratospheric
World Mobile Stratospheric is developing high-altitude airborne connectivity systems designed to support direct-to-device mobile coverage from the stratosphere. The initiative is focused on building a resilient airborne network layer capable of extending mobile connectivity across underserved regions, high-demand areas, disaster-affected locations and future AI-enabled edge environments. Learn more at wmstratospheric.com.
About World Mobile
World Mobile is building a decentralised mobile network designed to expand connectivity through a sharing economy model. Its ecosystem combines telecom infrastructure, community-operated nodes and blockchain-enabled coordination to support wider access, network participation and new models for digital connectivity. Learn more at worldmobile.io.
About Rare Evo
Rare Evo is an annual blockchain and AI conference held at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, bringing together builders, enterprises, investors, policy makers, and communities from across Web3 and emerging technology. Rare Evo 2026 takes place July 28-31. General Admission Tickets are currently free. You can secure your ticket now at https://www.rareevo.io/?tracking=mawmtx
Contact
Director of OperationsEvan FischerRare Networkcontact@rarenetwork.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire
Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume expands its derivatives architecture, integrating Hyperliquid to offer access to perpetuals on equities, indices, precious metals, commodities, forex, and crypto.
This marks the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals.
Perps on VALR are set to go live on the web on Monday, 6 July, with mobile app availability to follow shortly after.
VALR has announced the imminent launch of 'Perps', a new cross-asset class perpetuals product that introduces more than 200 markets to the platform. This expansion enables users to express directional views by going long or short with leverage across a comprehensive selection of global equities, commodities, precious metals, stock indices, forex pairs, and crypto assets. The launch adds to VALR’s established derivatives infrastructure, which pioneered the exchange's initial perpetuals offering in 2023.
Strategic Infrastructure Integration with Hyperliquid
The new product is delivered through an integration of Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralised blockchain. Using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR users can open and manage positions directly on VALR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Advanced Cross-Asset Market Exposure
The inclusion of over 200 new markets marks a major development in the diversity of assets available through a single digital platform and marks the first time that a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. The newly available contracts span multiple global asset classes, enabling traders to express their views on macroeconomic events and capitalise on volatility:
Global Equities and Benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending global enterprises and pre-IPO markets, including SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Palantir Technologies, alongside exposure to leading global equity indices such as the S&P 500 and other international indices.
Commodities and Precious Metals: Exposure to vital energy markets, including Brent Crude Oil, WTI Crude Oil, and Natural Gas, metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Copper.
Foreign Exchange: Institutional currency pairs including EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY.
Crypto Assets: Comprehensive coverage of the digital asset ecosystem, ranging from foundational protocols like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, to a wide selection of alternative layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralised finance tokens, and high-volume tokens.
Gianluca Sacco, Chief Operating Officer at VALR, said:
“With this launch, we're putting over 200 perpetuals markets directly inside the VALR app. 24/7 access to crypto, commodities, currencies, and equities - both listed and pre-IPO - all through the regulated exchange our customers already trust. Perps are how crypto traders take a view on price - a market now exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. We believe they will become how people trade every market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will give our users the deepest on-chain liquidity available anywhere. For VALR customers in South Africa and beyond, this is access to the markets that matter, in real-time."
About VALR
Founded in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by leading investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is the leading digital asset exchange and infrastructure provider on the African continent, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetuals, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC services, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange is dedicated to advancing a just financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For more information, visit valr.com.
About Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid is a decentralised layer one blockchain best known for perpetuals and spot trading. It is the largest and most liquid decentralised exchange, with support for crypto and real-world assets, such as oil and precious metals. In addition, the ecosystem supports borrowing, lending, and a full-fledged EVM.
Risk Disclosure
Futures trading is provided by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed Financial Services Provider (FSP #54897) and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider.
VALR Perps order management, order execution, liquidation, margin requirements, position management, mark prices, and funding rates are managed by, and provided through, certain third-party liquidity provider(s). VALR acts only as an intermediary that enables account holders to access the services offered by such third-party liquidity provider(s) and disclaims any liability arising from or in connection with the acts, omissions, services, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability, or operational failures of such third-party liquidity provider(s).
Use of VALR Perps involves risk; please refer to VALR’s Risk Disclosures and Futures Terms of Service.
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Tortola, British Virgin Islands, July 1st, 2026, Chainwire
VCT combines blockchain transparency, agribusiness intelligence, export-finance infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on BNB Smart Chain.
Valle Capital Token (“VCT”) today announced the development and expansion of its blockchain-powered ecosystem designed to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agribusiness operations and international commodity exports.
Built on BNB Smart Chain, Valle Capital Token combines utility-token functionality with a real-world asset-focused model intended to support greater transparency, operational visibility and digital infrastructure across agricultural production, commodity financing, logistics and export activity.
The project is structured around a British Virgin Islands tokenization entity and aims to create a bridge between traditional agribusiness, international trade and the global Web3 economy. Through EVM smart contracts, digital dashboards, monitoring tools and on-chain records, Valle Capital intends to support a more transparent and connected ecosystem for producers, commercial partners, exporters, international buyers and eligible global participants.
Connecting Global Capital to the Real Economy
Brazilian agribusiness and commodity exports represent one of the country’s most important economic engines. The sector depends on continuous access to capital, operational intelligence, logistics coordination, documentation control and reliable reporting across every phase of the production and export chain.
From advance commodity purchases and crop financing to storage, shipment preparation and international settlement, agricultural and export operations often involve multiple parties, including producers, buyers, warehouses, logistics providers, exporters, financial partners, insurers and international counterparties.
Valle Capital Token is designed to help address this operational complexity by creating a technological layer that organizes information, improves visibility and supports digital integration across the agro-export chain.
The project’s market opportunity is driven by the increasing demand for:
More transparent agribusiness and export operations
Better access to structured working capital
Reliable contract and document monitoring
Digital traceability from field to shipment
Operational intelligence through data and artificial intelligence
Blockchain-based auditability for selected commercial milestones
New technology infrastructure connecting real assets and global digital capital
VCT is positioned at the intersection of agribusiness, commodity trading, export finance and real-world asset tokenization.
A Technology Layer for the Entire Agribusiness Chain
Valle Capital Token is not designed solely as a digital asset. It is being developed as a broader ecosystem of digital tools and operational infrastructure for the agribusiness and export sector.
The platform is expected to include:
Satellite Monitoring and Field Intelligenc: The ecosystem plans to use imagery and field data to monitor agricultural areas and track the evolution of production cycles. These tools are intended to support improved operational visibility across the agricultural chain.
Climate Mapping: Territorial and climate indicators are planned to support decision-making throughout crop cycles, helping participants monitor environmental and operational conditions relevant to agricultural activity.
Logistics Tracking: Valle Capital Token plans to provide visibility into commodity movement, storage, commercial preparation and shipment-related milestones, helping reduce fragmented information among partners in the supply chain.
Irrigation and Field Mapping: The platform is expected to include tools for mapping and visualizing irrigated areas, soil information and field infrastructure, supporting operational analysis and agricultural planning.
Operational Artificial Intelligence: VCT plans to integrate AI-based tools for operational analysis, sector intelligence and data interpretation, strengthening the ability of participants to understand trends, monitor activity and make more informed decisions.
Digital Traceability: Digital traceability tools are intended to support the monitoring of production-chain information, operational milestones and product-origin data. This can create a clearer historical record for selected activities within the agro-export ecosystem.
Information Panels and Operational Alerts: The project plans to provide dashboards for users and partners, combining field data, operational progress, real-time alerts and relevant ecosystem information in a single digital environment.
Smart Contracts and On-Chain Transparency: A central component of Valle Capital Token is its use of EVM-compatible smart contracts to support auditable records of selected capital flows, commercial structures and operational milestones.
The project intends to register hashes and references associated with real-world operations, which may include:
Agricultural agreements
Commodity purchase contracts
Export and international trade agreements
Invoices
Packing lists
Bills of Lading
Certificates
Logistics milestones
Delivery confirmations
Settlement status
This structure is designed to improve auditability and transparency without replacing the legal, financial, and commercial processes required for real-world operations.
According to the project’s model, financing flows are expected to be formalized through legal structures and recorded on-chain to create a more transparent operational record.
Agribusiness and Export Finance Strategy
Valle Capital Token’s ecosystem is designed around two primary operational areas.
Valle Capital: Agribusiness Operations
The project plans to support infrastructure connected to:
Agricultural financing for producers
Advance commodity purchases
Working-capital support
Crop financing
Future-contract structuring
Agricultural supply-chain operations
Grupo CGM: Export Operations
The export-finance structure may support:
Pre-shipment financing
Logistics and shipping costs
Operational cost coverage
Commodity-export preparation
International trade activities
Export-volume expansion
The project states that international capital may be transferred to Brazilian operating entities through formalized legal mechanisms, including capital contributions and structured private-loan agreements, subject to applicable law, regulatory requirements and project compliance procedures.
VCT Token and Ecosystem Utility
VCT is positioned as an RWA-focused utility token intended to connect eligible global participants to a growing ecosystem of digital tools, services, programs, benefits and future platform modules.
The current website identifies a total supply of 650,000,000 VCT on BNB Smart Chain. The token allocation is structured across presale, operations and treasury, liquidity and listings, marketing and ecosystem development, team and advisors, and strategic reserve and legal allocation.
Current token allocation includes:
35% — Presale: 227.5 million VCT
25% — Operations and Treasury: 162.5 million VCT
15% — Liquidity and Listings: 97.5 million VCT
10% — Marketing and Ecosystem: 65 million VCT
10% — Team and Advisors: 65 million VCT
5% — Strategic Reserve and Legal: 32.5 million VCT
The presale is structured across 15 rounds of 10 days each. The website states that presale allocations include 10% at token-generation event, with the remaining 90% released over 12 months.
Roadmap Toward Global RWA Expansion
Valle Capital Token has outlined a phased roadmap focused on moving from token infrastructure and presale activity to real operational deployment and broader ecosystem expansion.
Phase 1 — Foundation and Presale includes the BVI tokenization entity, smart-contract development, audit preparation, BNB Smart Chain deployment and the 15-round presale structure.
Phase 2 — Capital Deployment focuses on agribusiness financing through Valle Capital, export-finance activity through Grupo CGM, formalized capital flows and investor dashboards.
Phase 3 — Smart Operations includes satellite and climate monitoring, logistics-tracking modules, AI operational analysis, digital traceability and staking-related ecosystem tools.
Phase 4 — RWA Scale targets on-chain commodity tokenization, card-gateway and fiat on-ramp integration, international partnerships, exchange-listing preparation and the development of a global RWA marketplace.
Why Valle Capital Token Stands Out
Valle Capital Token is designed around a differentiated proposition: combining blockchain technology with real agribusiness and commodity-export operations rather than focusing exclusively on speculative digital-asset use cases.
The project’s main advantages include:
Focus on Brazilian agribusiness and global commodity exports
BVI tokenization structure and BNB Smart Chain deployment
Utility token with an RWA-focused ecosystem model
Smart contract-based transparency and auditability
Satellite, climate and logistics intelligence tools
Digital traceability for the agro-export chain
AI-driven operational analysis
Investor and partner dashboards
Structured capital deployment for agro and export operations
Long-term roadmap toward global RWA marketplace infrastructure
“Valle Capital Token is being developed to connect technology, capital and real operational activity. Our goal is to create a more transparent digital ecosystem where agribusiness, exports, blockchain infrastructure and global participants can operate together,” said Luan Coimbra Correia Responsible Representative, Valle Token.
Important Notice
VCT is a utility token and does not represent equity, ownership participation, a security, guaranteed returns, guaranteed yield or guaranteed token appreciation. Participation in digital assets involves risks, including market volatility, liquidity risk, technology risk, operational risk, regulatory changes and potential loss of capital.
The project states that participation is subject to applicable laws, jurisdictional restrictions, KYC/AML verification and legal review. The VCT presale is not marketed to persons located in, or citizens or residents of, the United States, Brazil or OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions.
About Valle Capital Token
Valle Capital Token is a blockchain-powered agribusiness, export-finance and real-world asset ecosystem. The project aims to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agricultural operations and international commodity exports through EVM smart contracts, blockchain transparency, digital traceability, operational intelligence and scalable Web3 infrastructure.
Official Links
Website: https://valletoken.com
Whitepaper: https://whitepaper.valletoken.com
Telegram: https://t.me/vallecapitaltoken
X / Twitter: https://x.com/valletoken_
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vallecapitaltoken
Contact
CFOLuan Coimbra CorreiaVALLE CAPITAL TOKENsupport@valletoken.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Florida, United States, July 1st, 2026, Chainwire
Streamex is making commodities easy to acquire and trade, and the latest step puts it in regular brokerage accounts.
Buying gold has long meant choosing between two inconveniences: take physical delivery and pay to store and insure it, or buy a fund and accept the fees and market-hours trading that come with it. A run of moves by Streamex Corp. (NASDAQ: STEX) is aimed at dissolving that trade-off, and the latest landed on June 29, when the company announced its gold-backed, tokenized yield-bearing security $GLDY can now be bought through an ordinary brokerage account. This brings Streamex another step closer to offering exposure with modern features & benefits to the $13 trillion global gold market, like yield, 24/7 markets and digital self-custody.
A trusted broker now offers it like any stock or bond.
The collaboration brings together three names from different corners of finance. Firstly, Siebert Financial, a FINRA-member broker that oversees roughly $20 billion in client assets, handles distribution. Secondly, tZERO, a regulated digital-securities platform, custodies the asset. Finally, Streamex issues $GLDY to accredited investors. The practical effect is that a Siebert broker can now offer yield bearing tokenized gold to a client in the same conversation as any stock or bond, with no crypto onboarding, no wallet and no blockchain knowledge required.
Your gold pays you in more gold, so what you own grows.
The client gets a holding that grows. $GLDY pays a yield of up to roughly 3.5% per year, distributed monthly and paid in additional gold, generated by lending the underlying metal to commercial users such as jewellers, mints and refiners. Because the yield arrives as more of the asset, the holder’s quantity of digital gold increases over time.
“Our goal has always been to make gold something everyone can own, easily, in whatever form suits them. Putting $GLDY into a brokerage account is a major step toward that, because it meets traditional investors exactly where they already are. It’s one of several moves we’re making to bring digital commodities to a global audience.” Henry McPhie, Co-Founder & CEO, Streamex
Step by step, Streamex keeps opening commodities up to more people.
This brokerage play is the latest step in Streamex’s plan to bring digital gold and other tokenized commodities to the wider market. $GLDY launched in February, soon began paying its monthly yield in additional gold, and in May gained round-the-clock secondary trading through the Solana decentralized exchange Orca. Each move has opened the asset to a new kind of buyer and improved accessibility for existing holders: first direct buyers, then on-chain traders, and now the wealth-management and institutional clients a broker like Siebert serves.
Right now it is for accredited investors. The doors keep widening.
It is worth being clear about today’s boundaries. $GLDY is a regulated security available to verified accredited investors. The brokerage channel broadens who can reach it within that framework.
Soon anyone could buy yield-paying gold, through a broker or their own wallet.
That fuller opening is what Streamex says comes next. The company is building a tokenization platform for real-world assets, beginning with commodities, which anyone can access. Digital gold will be the first offering in its range of accessible commodities. This retail-focused digital gold will be able to trade across a number of decentralized exchanges (likely Jupiter, Meteora and Orca) allowing everyday investors to trade the commodity from anywhere in the world via their mobile phone or laptop. The retail version of $GLDY is also expected to pay the same yield, up to roughly 3.5% a year, so everyday buyers benefit the same way. The vision is one where owning gold is as simple as holding any mainstream asset, whether someone comes through a broker or through their own wallet.
What are the benefits of digital gold vs buying a gold ETF or physical gold?
Most gold holders pay for the privilege. Streamex allows you to earn yield (in gold) instead, allowing investors to stack their asset over time by simply holding.
Trade your asset anytime, anywhere.
Trade your self-custodial asset in a permissionless manner with no broker required.
Gold is having a moment, and Streamex is building for both Wall Street and crypto users.
The market context gives the strategy room to run. Tokenized gold has been one of the fastest-growing categories in digital assets, and demand has broadened from crypto-native traders toward more conventional investors looking for a hard-asset hedge that can also generate a return. By distributing through a FINRA-member broker, custodying on a regulated platform, and building toward an open retail product at the same time, Streamex is trying to meet both audiences at once. There were over 26million active wallets on Solana last week (22nd-29th June 2026 - https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/projects/solana/metrics/active-addresses-monthly) and Solana RWA volume has increased sharply in 2026 (https://defillama.com/rwa/chain/solana) so far due to newly available products and platforms. Solana users already benefit from incredibly high speed trade finalisations with very low fees, so by bringing gold to the masses with Solana rails, commodities can be truly democratized.
AboutStreamex
Holding Streamex’s digital gold allows you to stack more gold, and soon almost anyone can buy it.
For investors, the through-line is accessibility. A year ago, a yield-bearing, blockchain-based gold product was a niche instrument for a small group. As of June 29 it sits, for eligible clients, alongside stocks and bonds at a mainstream broker, and Streamex says the next step is to make a version of it reachable by almost anyone. For more information visit Streamex.
This article is for general information only and is not investment, financial, legal or tax advice. $GLDY is offered as a security to verified accredited investors under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D and is a restricted security. Stated yields are variable, not guaranteed, and may change. References to a future retail product describe plans that are not yet available and are subject to change. Products may not be available in all jurisdictions. Trading digital assets involves significant risk, including loss of capital. Streamex Corp. is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: STEX); statements about future products are forward-looking and involve risk.
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Yaroslav Provadacontact@stratosphere.vip Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Dubai, UAE, July 1st, 2026, Chainwire
Utorg, a crypto wallet and card platform built on institutional-grade infrastructure, today announced it has received full authorization under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, effective July 1, 2026 – the date on which the industry’s transitional period ends and unauthorized providers can no longer legally serve European users.
The company, which also provides regulated crypto rails, wallets and stablecoin infrastructure to businesses across 130+ countries, is among a small number of platforms to have completed the full authorization process and is now cleared to operate across all 29 EEA member states, a combined market of over 450 million people.
What MiCA means for users
MiCA is the EU’s first unified regulatory framework for crypto-assets, establishing binding standards on consumer protection, transparency, and financial integrity across all member states.
For users, MiCA authorization means concrete protective measures that previously did not exist in crypto: funds must be held separately from company assets, fees must be disclosed upfront, and users have a legal right to file complaints with a national regulator. If a MiCA-authorized platform fails, user assets are protected under EU law (not subject to the discretion of an offshore jurisdiction).
For Utorg, the authorization is the result of a full regulatory review of its products, operations, and compliance infrastructure. It also means ongoing oversight: Utorg is now subject to regular reporting obligations and supervisory review under EU financial law.
Industry background
July 1, 2026 marks the end of MiCA’s transitional period - the point at which crypto-asset service providers without full authorization can no longer legally serve users in the EEA.
In the months leading up to the deadline, a significant portion of the market has withdrawn from or restricted European operations. Utorg is among the few platforms to have completed the full authorization process and is operational from day one of the new regulatory regime.
Eugene Petrakov, Co-founder of Utorg, said: “Most of the industry spent the last two years hoping MiCA would get delayed or softened. We spent it building toward it. For European users, July 1 means fewer options, stricter standards, and a much shorter list of platforms they can actually trust. We intend to be at the top of that list, not just because we’re authorized, but because we built a product that is safe by design. The license confirms what was already true.”
Utorg’s products available to EEA residents
From July 1, EEA users can continue to access Utorg’s full product suite through the Utorg App, including:
A crypto wallet supporting buy, send, receive, store, and swap across 170+ cryptocurrencies and 14 blockchains, including BTC, ETH, and SOL. Thanks to its non-custodial nature, Utorg has no access to users’ funds at any point.
A crypto card accepted at 80 million+ merchants worldwide, with Google Pay and Apple Pay support and allowing users to spend their crypto as they wish. It’s worth mentioning that there are no fees for issuance, maintenance, or top-ups.
This crypto card operates under strict AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) compliance requirements, as mandated by MiCA, ensuring users benefit from the full protections afforded by EU law.
For card payments specifically, Utorg holds a PCI DSS Level 2 certificate under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This is the same security framework used across the traditional payments industry, and it governs how card numbers, transaction records, and personal details are stored, processed, and transmitted. Compliance is verified through regular audits by an independent assessor.
About Utorg
Founded in 2019, Utorg is a crypto infrastructure and consumer application fintech company operating across 130+ countries. It provides regulated on/off-ramp rails, wallet infrastructure, and stablecoin solutions to fintechs, exchanges, digital asset platforms and other businesses globally. Its consumer app, trusted by more than 2 million users, offers a self-custodial multi-chain wallet and a free Visa crypto card, available on iOS (in July) and Android. Utorg is MiCA-authorized and holds PCI DSS Level 2 certification.
Contact
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Sheridan, USA / Wyoming, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire
Five years in the making, Autheo is launching its decentralized operating system on Mainnet — after public testnet adoption surpassed 1.8 million wallets, nearly 1 million smart contracts, and 8.8 million transactions.
Autheo today formally introduced its decentralized operating system to the public: a coordination layer designed to let the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents interoperate natively as a single system. The company is now launching its Mainnet — the production environment for the network — after more than a year of public testnet activity.
THE COORDINATION LAYER THE INTERNET NEVER HAD
The networking wars of the 1980s and early 1990s settled a principle that has shaped the Internet ever since: interoperability comes from pragmatic, openly deployed protocols, not top-down frameworks. The standards that won — TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS — succeeded by being practical and deployable, and the modern Internet still rests on them. The blockchain era took a different path: each network optimized for its own internal consistency — its own security model, consensus mechanism, APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling — and the result has been a fragmented landscape of largely siloed chains. The rapid rise of AI agents now amplifies that fragmentation, as a growing population of autonomous actors needs to transact across Web, blockchain, and AI systems that were never designed to coordinate with one another.
Protocols such as IBC, LayerZero, CCIP, Wormhole, and Axelar have made meaningful progress on chain-to-chain messaging and asset transfer — but those efforts operate at the bridging layer. Autheo addresses the problem from a different angle: a shared substrate where Web services, blockchain networks, and AI agents coordinate natively on a common identity, communications, execution, and infrastructure layer, rather than relying on bridges that pass messages between otherwise disconnected systems.
At the same time, approximately three-quarters of business applications today are delivered as SaaS, and identity, storage, compute, payments, and messaging already run as distributed services across the Web. The Internet, in other words, has quietly taken on many of the functions of an operating system. What it has lacked is the layer that lets those services — together with blockchain networks and AI agents — interoperate by default, rather than through one-off, brittle integrations built per partner, per protocol, and per chain.
Autheo’s purpose is to provide that coordination and execution layer. The Autheo OS exposes the standard functions one would expect of an operating system—identity, scheduling, messaging, state, compute, storage, and execution—as open, programmable services that any application, protocol, or agent can call. The objective is an integration substrate on which Web2 systems, Web3 protocols, and AI agents can transact and collaborate without needing to know which environment the counterparty is in. For autonomous AI agents specifically, Autheo is built around an on-chain, quantum-resistant trust and identity layer — designed so agents can hold credentials, sign transactions, and invoke services without depending on external systems or exposing private keys. The two design imperatives behind the project are simple: integration and interoperability.
“We didn’t set out to build just another network,” said Scott Bayless, Managing Director and co-founder of Autheo. “We set out to find the right relation between the ones we already have. A body has many parts. A city is many trades. The Internet today is many systems — each doing its work, none of them moving as one. With Mainnet now live, Autheo is the layer where the web, the chain, and the agent can finally work together.”
FOUNDED BY LONG-TIME COLLABORATORS
Autheo was founded in July 2021 by Todd Mortenson and Scott Bayless, long-time collaborators who have built and operated multiple ventures together over the past two decades.
The founders shared a simple thesis: the next phase of the Internet will be defined less by any single technology — and more by the coordination layer that enables the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI to operate as a single system. Much of what ultimately matters in technology tends to begin far from the loudest places — quietly, slowly, by those who would not have been the obvious choices.
Guided by that vision, the founders and engineering leadership spent the project’s first several years researching networks, ecosystems, protocol design, digital identity, post-quantum security, and decentralized coordination before building Autheo from the ground up around four distinct architectural foundations: TheoID — Autheo’s W3C-compliant Decentralized Identifier (DID) implementation — as the native identity primitive for users, services, and AI agents; PQCNet, Autheo’s post-quantum communications and identity framework, built upon NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, including ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205); a sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer 0 with native IBC interoperability; and an integrated EVM-compatible Layer 1 execution environment, operating as a Proof-of-Stake network with delegated staking and licensed validator eligibility, secured by CometBFT block finality (“Proof of Autheo”).
Solidity smart contracts can be deployed natively on Autheo or migrated from existing EVM-compatible chains, providing developers with a familiar development environment while benefiting from native IBC interoperability across the broader blockchain ecosystem.
The research and development underlying the platform has also resulted in an expanding portfolio of patent families covering core architectural innovations, reflecting the team’s long-term intellectual property strategy surrounding decentralized operating systems, digital identity, interoperability, post-quantum security, and related technologies.
Network engineering and Autheo’s post-quantum security architecture are led by Chief Engineering Officer Kenneth Harper, who has overseen the design, architecture, and implementation of the platform through public testnet and into Mainnet launch. Supporting those efforts is a multidisciplinary organization spanning engineering, product, project management, quality assurance, infrastructure, operations, ecosystem development, developer support, business development, partnerships, marketing, global channels, finance, legal, compliance, and intellectual property. Autheo’s broader contributor base spans approximately 100 people across 25 countries — blockchain pioneers, Fortune 500 operators, and researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Caltech. Independent security audits have been completed by Halborn (testnet) and CertiK (Mainnet).
Autheo collaborates with leading infrastructure, security, and ecosystem partners — including Zeeve, InfStones, Hydrex, Halborn, CertiK, TrustSwap, Team.Finance, Utila, Ape Bond, Antier, EVU, among others — across validator and node operations, security audits, custody, token services, and ecosystem development.
TESTNET ADOPTION HAS COMPOUNDED
Autheo’s public testnet went live in 2025 and, over its first twelve months, attracted approximately 350,000 wallets and 60,000 smart contracts as developers stress-tested the network. Following the May 12, 2026, announcement of Mainnet Phase 1, adoption accelerated. In the roughly 45 days since, cumulative wallet addresses have grown more than 5x and smart contracts have grown more than 15x. As of today, cumulative testnet totals stand at:
1,812,088 wallet addresses
968,502 smart contracts
(Figures per Autheo network data, June 24, 2026. Independently verifiable on the public testnet explorer: testnet-explorer.autheo.com · verified contracts.)
Daily activity over the past month has averaged approximately 30,000 new wallet addresses and 20,000 new smart contracts. The Autheo testnet is now onboarding more wallets and deploying more contracts in a single day than it did across full months of its first year. Contract density at this stage is unusual for a Layer-1 testnet and reflects the breadth of developer use cases the team has supported across the build-out.
“Mainnet is live,” said Todd Mortenson, Managing Director and co-founder of Autheo. “The industry will be racing to retrofit post-quantum security ahead of NIST’s timeline — our developers won’t have to. We built PQC in from the ground up. One interface for Web services, on-chain protocols, and AI agents. One million human developers on-chain within three years. And the AI agents building alongside them? Orders of magnitude more. The coordination layer for that future is live today.”
WHAT’S NEXT
With the testnet validating the architecture and the Mainnet now launching, Autheo’s near-term focus is on expanding partnerships across the Web2, Web3, and AI communities and supporting builders deploying applications, agents, and protocols on the platform.
Developer Access (Mainnet, Live Today):
Docs: docs.autheo.com
Mainnet block explorer: evm-explorer.autheo.com
Chain ID: 2127 (0x84f)
Public RPC endpoints: rpc1.autheo.com · rpc2.autheo.com · rpc3.autheo.com
API documentation: evm-explorer.autheo.com/api-docs
GitHub: Public open-source release is in progress; commercial components remain in compartmentalized private repositories.
Testnet explorer (with verified-contract source): testnet-explorer.autheo.com
For developers seeking an early path into the Mainnet ecosystem, the Core Node and Prime Node tiers remain available at commerce.autheo.com (settlement via ETH on Arbitrum). These programs provide eligibility for long-term THEO token emissions, enabling developers to begin accumulating THEO for building, deploying, and participating in the network as the ecosystem expands. The Sovereign Validator Node program (399 nodes total) has its first 275 slots fully subscribed; the remaining 124 are reserved for enterprise partners and ecosystem customers. A dedicated builder portal at autheolabs.com is anticipated to launch, providing additional THEO token and validator allocations for projects deploying on the network.
THEO is anticipated to become available on Hydrex.fi in early July 2026, with additional exchange access expected to follow.
Additional documentation ecosystem, security, infrastructure, and listing announcements are expected over the coming weeks.
ABOUT AUTHEO
Autheo is building the Internet operating system — a decentralized coordination and execution layer that enables the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents to interoperate as a single system. The platform utilizes W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as its native identity framework and is anchored by PQCNet, Autheo’s quantum-resistant communications and identity infrastructure built upon NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography, including ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205). Operating alongside Autheo’s sovereign Cosmos-based Layer 0 and EVM-compatible Layer 1, PQCNet is designed to provide next-generation security for digital identity, communications, authentication, encryption, and trusted interactions across Web, blockchain, and AI ecosystems.
Autheo integrates a sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer 0 with native IBC interoperability and an EVM-compatible Layer 1 execution environment, allowing developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts natively or migrate existing applications from other EVM-compatible networks. Founded in July 2021 by Scott Bayless and Todd Mortenson, Autheo opened its public Testnet in 2025 and launched Mainnet in 2026.
For more information, visit autheo.com and follow Autheo on X at @Autheo_Network. Find the Media Kit at mediakit.autheo.com
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Berkeley, California, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire
A single terminal where natural-language intent becomes onchain action — trading, automation, and onchain building, in one place.
Bankr today launched the Bankr Console, a single terminal that brings trading, automation, wallet management, and onchain building into one surface, driven by natural language. Describe a trade and the agent executes it onchain. Describe an app and the agent ships it. The Console is Bankr’s bet on how finance gets built and used as agents mature: the interface for the market becomes the prompt, the wallet becomes a programmable endpoint, and the line between user, trader, and builder collapses into a single workflow.
The Console is also an answer to a structural problem in onchain finance. The people building the agentic future operate in a parallel universe to the people who will eventually use it — fluent in a stack splintered across wallets, trading interfaces, dev environments, model providers, and deployment infrastructure. The Console collapses that stack, and because it operates in plain language, the same terminal that runs advanced strategies is one a newcomer can pick up on day one.
The cost of building software is collapsing toward the cost of inference. As that happens, distribution becomes the scarce input — and the Console doubles as the discovery layer for everything shipped on it.
“Welcome to the agentic future of finance, all in one place,” said Deployer, Founder of Bankr. “The goal is to incubate a community of people who already understand this new frontier of finance, and to give them one place to build in it as the industry hits escape velocity.”
What the Console does
The Console functions as a place to act on markets and a place to build on top of them.
Trade and act:
Trade in natural language. The agent executes onchain across nine chains, including full Hyperliquid support.
Automate. Rules, recurring strategies, and advanced orders run without manual intervention.
Integrated wallet. Full wallet functionality is built into the terminal.
Quick swap. Buying and selling are available from any page in the Console.
Build and ship:
Apps from a prompt. The agent generates interface, logic, and onchain actions from a single instruction. A reference Polymarket alpha app, generated from one prompt, ships with the Console.
Workspace. A built-in file explorer the agent can read and write, with GitHub and Google integrations for repositories and documents.
LLM gateway. Access to 40+ models, including private ones, usable inside the Console or from external harnesses such as Claude Code and Codex, paid in crypto from a Bankr wallet.
Skills. Plugins that teach the agent new capabilities. Installable, creatable, and publishable to other Console users.
Onchain primitives. Users can deploy x402 endpoints and webhooks that trigger their Bankr agent from anywhere.
Token launches. Permissible token launches via the Bankr launchpad, with project management built into the same terminal.
Built-in distribution
The Console doubles as a discovery surface. The homepage surfaces top projects and tokens launched on Bankr, an ecosystem explorer lets users dig into what teams are shipping, and the skills directory puts new agent capabilities in front of everyone using the terminal. For builders, every token, project, and skill shipped on Bankr lands in front of an active user base from day one. Tokens in the Bankr ecosystem have transacted more than $4.75 billion in cumulative volume.
The Bankr Console is available now at https://bankr.bot.
About Bankr
Bankr is a crypto AI agent platform and builder console. It pairs a user-facing agentic terminal — natural-language trading, automation, and wallet functionality — with a builder platform comprising prompt-to-app generation, an LLM gateway with 40+ models, a skills ecosystem, x402 endpoints and webhooks, and permissible token launches through the Bankr launchpad. The Bankr ecosystem surfaces tokens, projects, and skills to an active user base.
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London, United Kingdom, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire
RedotPay, a global stablecoin-based payment fintech, has selected OpenPayd, a leading financial infrastructure provider, to enhance its treasury operations, multi-currency payments, and cross-border remittances for customers worldwide.
The collaboration strengthens RedotPay’s payment infrastructure, enabling a more seamless experience for global fund movement so users can navigate between local and digital currencies effortlessly.
As a result of the integration, RedotPay users benefit from faster, more efficient cross-border remittances and frictionless multi-currency payment options. The integration also optimizes how liquidity is managed behind the scenes. As a result, transactions are processed securely and without unnecessary delays, regardless of where the user is located.
By leveraging OpenPayd’s infrastructure and integrating the best of traditional and digital finance into a single, intuitive platform, RedotPay enables users to move seamlessly between local and digital currencies as it continues to scale its global footprint. Throughout, it maintains its commitment to a fast, flexible, and user-centric payment experience.
Jonathan Chan, Head of Partnerships & Co-Founder of RedotPay, said: "Our goal has always been to make digital finance accessible and practical for everyday use. By partnering with world-class infrastructure providers, we’re removing the friction from cross-border payments. This collaboration allows RedotPay users to enjoy effortless multi-currency payments and faster cross-border remittances, allowing us to better serve customers as our global reach expands."
Lux Thiagarajah, Chief Commercial Officer at OpenPayd, said: "RedotPay is building one of the most compelling payment experiences at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets. As they continue to scale globally, the ability to move seamlessly between payment rails, currencies, and stablecoins becomes a competitive advantage. OpenPayd is proud to provide the infrastructure that enables RedotPay to deliver faster, more efficient, and more flexible money movement for customers around the world."
About RedotPay
RedotPay is a global stablecoin-based payment fintech that integrates blockchain solutions with traditional banking and finance infrastructures. Our intuitive platform empowers millions around the world to spend and send digital assets, ensuring faster, more accessible, and inclusive financial services. RedotPay advances financial inclusion for the unbanked and supports crypto enthusiasts, driving global adoption of secure and flexible stablecoin-powered financial solutions to bring crypto to real life. For more information, visit www.redotpay.com.
For media inquiries, please contact: press@redotpay.com
About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Ozan Ozerk, its rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API. OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, OpenPayd processes more than $240 billion in annual volumes for over 1100 businesses. It is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
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Provincia de Panama, Panama, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire
CryptoCloud, a platform for accepting and processing crypto payments, has announced its rebranding to Trybit. The team is setting its sights on the global market, scaling its crypto service for businesses worldwide. Over the past five years, the platform has maintained 99.9% uptime while handling payments, payouts, and exchange operations in 40+ cryptocurrencies with consistent reliability.
From CryptoCloud to Trybit
The team describes CryptoCloud as the product's starting point. After expanding its feature set and entering new markets, it decided to create a brand that matches the platform's growing footprint. The name combines two ideas: "Try" — to build and develop new ideas — and "Bit" as a reference to Bitcoin, which laid the foundation of the crypto era. The new brand is a launchpad for entering the global market and deploying a full suite of crypto payment services.
“Our mission is to make crypto payments as accessible and reliable as possible. We see cryptocurrencies shaping the future of the financial stack, so we're building a product that streamlines payments for businesses and everyday users worldwide.” — Founder, Trybit.
Heading for the Global Market
Trybit develops payment infrastructure for projects targeting a global audience that uses crypto as a primary payment method. The service is built for e-commerce, high-volume digital businesses, SaaS, online stores, and other digital niches where stable payment acceptance is the backbone of business revenue. These companies value payment-flow consistency because payout delays, frozen funds, and low success rates all lead to direct financial losses.
The Problem Trybit Solves
For businesses managing high-volume payments, reliability is the top priority. They need infrastructure that keeps payment acceptance and payouts stable — without delays, frozen funds, or operational interruptions. In this segment, infrastructure failures can cause far greater losses than processing fees ever could. Trybit pairs that reliability with competitive market rates, so businesses don't have to choose between stability and cost.
Suspicious incoming transactions can trigger frozen funds on the exchange side, while processing downtime or delayed payouts directly hit transaction volumes and revenue. The result is not just financial loss but uncertainty — funds temporarily inaccessible, payouts late, and a provider that proves unreliable exactly when business continuity matters most. Trybit focuses on stable crypto payment flows, lower operational risk, and helping merchants maintain turnover at scale.
“A crypto payment flow should be about predictability and control — not a source of undue risk.” — Founder, Trybit.
Built for Business
Beyond stable infrastructure, Trybit gives merchants the tools to run crypto payments with minimal manual work:
Automatic withdrawals by schedule or amount — funds move on terms, without manual processing.
Automatic conversion of incoming payments into stablecoins — protection from volatility the moment a payment arrives.
Bulk payouts via API — send mass payments to partners, suppliers, or users in one operation.
White-label solution — run the payment flow under your own brand.
Flexible fee and payment settings — adapt parameters to the business model.
Dedicated project support — a direct line for setup, scaling, and day-to-day operations.
For larger businesses and high-volume projects, Trybit also offers personalised terms — custom rates tailored to transaction volume.
About Trybit
Trybit is a global crypto payment gateway for accepting payments and making payouts in crypto. Built for enterprise-scale businesses, the service is engineered for stable, uninterrupted operation around the clock. It supports 40+ cryptocurrencies and provides ready-made integration tools for building a complete crypto payment infrastructure.
For more information and cooperation with Trybit:
Website: trybit.com
Email: marketing@trybit.com
Telegram: Telegram channel
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Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire
Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion.
Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss's first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users.
Frontier AI has run out of internet to scrape. The next generation of models depends on real-world data, the kind that captures how people actually speak, move, and react, which does not exist on the open web and has never had a clean way to be sourced, licensed, or paid for. Poseidon is building the infrastructure to change that, and Toss brings the reach to do it at scale.
Through the partnership, Poseidon's contributor app, Numo, launches inside the Toss app. Toss users can help build Korean-language training data across voice, image, and video, and receive payment tied directly to what they contribute. Poseidon provides the infrastructure that tracks each contribution and its value, while Toss provides the user base and the financial experience that turns participation into payment. Together they offer a working answer to a question the AI industry has struggled with, which is how to compensate the people whose data makes models better.
Every contribution made through Numo is registered on DATA, the AI data network that Poseidon refines data for. DATA gives each record a verifiable provenance trail through Trace, its public audit layer, so a buyer can see where a piece of training data came from and a contributor can see that their work was counted and paid. DATA Foundation, which launched this week from the rebrand of Story, is building this layer alongside integration partners including the human data marketplace Kled, and Poseidon is one of the largest sources of refined data flowing into it.
What Numo collects is first-person data, recorded by real people in real environments, which is among the hardest and most valuable categories to obtain. It is the raw material for physical intelligence, the AI that has to operate in the physical world across robotics, autonomous vehicles, and other applications. Demand from global AI labs for this kind of data is climbing, and Korea is positioned to supply it, with its dense real-life data and Toss's user base. Poseidon and Toss intend to prove the model in Korea, then expand to global markets.
Changhoon Seo, Executive Director of New Business at Toss, said: "As the AI industry grows, demand for high-quality data is rising just as fast. Toss plans to build an environment where users can take part in the data economy more easily and naturally, and to expand a structure in which the value they contribute is rewarded transparently."
SY Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of Poseidon, said: "Korea is one of the few markets where the strategic importance of AI data, a mature financial system, and world-class mobile experience all exist at once. Toss is the right partner to turn user-contributed AI data from an early idea into a standard the rest of the world can adopt." Lee previously founded the web-novel platform Radish and sold it to Kakao Entertainment, co-founded Story, the IP infrastructure that recently rebranded as DATA Foundation, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum this year.
About Poseidon
Poseidon is the data infrastructure for AI, built to source, refine, and license the real-world data that frontier models need and the open internet cannot supply. Incubated by the team behind The DATA Network, Poseidon bridges the gap between data supply and AI demand by enabling access to high-quality, IP-safe, and composable training datasets. Poseidon raised a $15 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Poseidon's contributor app, Numo, has recorded more than 711,000 data registrations worldwide and is available and is now available on the Toss app.
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Limassol, Cyprus, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire
New marketplace feature introduces automated descending-price sales and expanded secondary market access
GoMining is launching today Step Down Auction, a new feature on its secondary marketplace that introduces an automation to buy and sell Digital Miners. The update allows sellers to set a starting price and a minimum price, with the listing price automatically decreasing over time until a buyer purchases the asset.
Unlike traditional auctions, Step Down Auction does not involve bidding. Sellers define the pricing parameters in advance, and the first buyer to accept the current listed price secures the Digital Miner. The feature is designed to streamline transactions while giving buyers greater flexibility in deciding when to enter the market.
The launch introduces a new dynamic to GoMining's marketplace experience, allowing users to monitor price movements in real time and choose the moment they believe offers the best value. Buyers can view the current price, upcoming price reductions, and a complete timeline of scheduled price changes before making a purchase decision.
"Step Down Auction gives users a new way to discover value and complete transactions more efficiently," said Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining. "By combining transparent pricing with automated price reductions, we're creating a marketplace experience that is more engaging for buyers while helping sellers reach market-clearing prices faster."
As part of the update, GoMining has also expanded access to its secondary marketplace. All users can now browse marketplace listings, increasing visibility for assets available for sale. The platform additionally enables users to list Mine Boxes without minting them first, reducing friction in the listing process.
To support informed purchasing decisions, marketplace listings now display current ROI data for Digital Miners. Buyers can also access detailed price history information, including previous reductions, future scheduled price drops, and the date and time when a listing reaches its final price.
The marketplace interface has been redesigned with new sorting and filtering tools. A Hot Deals filter highlights listings with the highest ROI, while a new Price Type filter enables users to browse Fixed Price and Step Down Auction listings separately. For Step Down Auction listings, users can also sort by Next Price Drop to identify assets approaching their next scheduled reduction.
To help maintain marketplace integrity, GoMining has introduced an additional verification step for buyers. All marketplace transactions are settled using the GOMINING token.
The launch of Step Down Auction represents GoMining's latest effort to enhance liquidity and improve user experience within its digital mining ecosystem. By introducing automated descending-price sales alongside expanded marketplace functionality, the company aims to create a more transparent and efficient environment for both buyers and sellers.
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, and an expanding suite of payment and earning products. GoBTC Pay is layer 1 non-custodial instant Bitcoin payments open protocol announced by GoMining at Consensus Miami in May 2026.
For more information, please visit https://gomining.com/.
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Palo Alto, United States, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Story rebrands as The DATA Foundation, launches DATA Network with flagship Kled AI integration, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the platform
The Foundation also introduces Trace, the first public audit layer for consent, licensing, and data provenance at scale
Today, Story announces a strategic transition to become The DATA Foundation (“DATA”) and launches Trace, an onchain registry for AI training data provenance and licensing. The launch includes a flagship integration with Kled, the world’s largest opt-in human data marketplace, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the Network. Andrea Muttoni becomes CEO of The DATA Foundation, and Kled’s founder, Avi Patel, joins in an advisor position as the Chief Data Officer.
AI’s Training Data Has Hit a Bottleneck
The shift to DATA reflects where the market is pulling hardest. AI training data has emerged as the most valuable and least solved category of IP. Frontier AI labs have hit a multi-billion-dollar data bottleneck, where the internet has been effectively exhausted for scraping. The remaining supply is either expensive and bespoke or legally undocumented, leaving labs without a way to source data at scale, prove its provenance, or guarantee its quality.
The legal stakes are rising, as frontier labs stake out market-defining products on data sourced through opaque networks, often without clear records of consent or jurisdiction. Scraped and undocumented data is no longer an option for enterprise-grade AI.
“The challenge in AI has shifted from compute and architecture to sourcing and provenance. As the scrapable web fractures, the question for labs now is who is keeping the receipts,” said Andrea Muttoni, CEO of The DATA Foundation. “With Kled, we combine full data transparency and auditability with the largest pool of AI training data on the planet.”
Building the Infrastructure for Trusted AI Data
DATA builds on the original mission to deliver a data and intellectual property (IP) layer for the internet, recognizing that the form of data and IP that is most critical in this era is AI training data. DATA Network brings essential infrastructure for training AI, anchored by a flagship integration with Kled. Starting today, Kled's licensing rails and contributor receipts run on DATA Network with added support for stable coin payouts, which involves registering a staggering 1.5 billion user-contributed records with programmatic legal safeguards.
“Frontier labs have exhausted the supply of high-quality, human-generated public text available on the open web. Suppliers showing data-sourcing provenance will win the next decade of deals, and that’s our bet,” said Avi Patel, CEO and founder of Kled and part-time advisory CDO of The DATA Foundation. “Instead of sourcing data blindly, Kled’s data marketplace and DATA’s auditable chain of custody converge on what labs actually need to license data with confidence and transparency.”
Trace Launches as the Public Audit Layer for AI Training Data
Trace, The DATA Foundation's public audit and search platform, also launches today alongside the Kled integration. Trace generates immutable, confidential receipts for every contribution, allowing labs to verify the legitimacy of datasets in seconds. For every single record uploaded by users worldwide, a receipt on DATA will be generated, enabling upstream compensation for contributors' data and intellectual property. This addresses an urgent need for a verifiable and compliant AI training data market, which has become a legal and operational minefield.
A Wider Contributor Network
DATA's thesis was validated by Poseidon, the AI data processing project incubated by Story, which cleans, normalizes, and scores raw human data for authenticity and quality, ensuring every record that reaches a buyer is model-ready. Poseidon’s early traction with frontier labs proved the AI training data opportunity. Backed by a16z and now running entirely on DATA, its contributor app Numo is live today, bringing thousands of contributors into the AI economy in exchange for real-time payouts.
"We started Story to build an IP layer for the internet, and the most important IP of this era is the data you can't scrape: how a surgeon's hands move, how a robot grips, how people speak, drive, and work in the real world," said SY Lee, CEO of PIP Labs and strategic adviser to The DATA Foundation. "DATA is where that conviction goes next: an end-to-end network that proves real-world data's origin, licenses it, and pays the people who made it. "
Token Migration and Ecosystem Continuity
The $IP token migrates to $DATA one-to-one with no action required from existing holders. Migration guidance, exchange timing, and an FAQ are available here.
About The DATA Foundation
Data is the biggest bottleneck in frontier AI. The data models need most either sits siloed with people and companies, or doesn't exist yet, and won't, until incentives are aligned to create it. DATA Network is the world’s AI audit rails built to answer the three questions every lab asks: can you source data at scale, prove where it came from, and guarantee its quality? Contributor apps including Numo and Kled supply opt-in human data; Trace gives every record a public, tamper-proof receipt; Poseidon turns it into model-ready datasets, so frontier AI can keep advancing on a foundation it can trust. $IP is now $DATA. More information available at datafdn.org.
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London, United Arab Emirates, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Solstice to launch aiUSX, a yield-bearing asset that lets companies help finance the buildout with the capital they already hold for AI.
TensorX and Solstice today announced a partnership to finance European sovereign AI infrastructure. TensorX and Solstice will work together to create a facility with up to $1 billion in capacity to finance AI hardware and data-center build-out to meet rising demand for sovereign compute across the EU. Solstice will provide the onchain financing for that buildout and will launch aiUSX, a potential yield asset that opens the same infrastructure lending to companies holding capital for AI.
TensorX owns and operates a fleet of NVIDIA GPUs and delivers AI models in EU data centres with zero data retention, predictable pricing with best-in-class performance. The company works with AI startups and enterprises across the EU block with plans to expand into other global jurisdictions.
"Europe wants AI that can run on its own terms, on its own soil, without handing its data to someone else's cloud on the world stage," said Tim Grant, Executive Chairman of TensorX. "Meeting that accelerating demand takes hardware, and a lot of it. The billion dollars going into GPUs and data center capacity is the first step, and we expect to keep buying as demand grows. Solstice gives us a financing partner that can keep pace with this incredibly fast moving market."
aiUSX: Financing the AI Buildout With Capital Companies Already Hold
Companies hold growing piles of cash and stable assets for their AI spend while inference bills climb. These two pools sit apart, and the cash earns nothing while it waits. aiUSX closes that gap. The capital a company sets aside for AI goes into aiUSX, which opens access to the AI-infrastructure lending Solstice finances, the same deals large institutions fund. The company takes the position of an infrastructure lender without becoming one or underwriting anything itself; for example, USD.ai has brought capital to AI hardware across the wider buildout. At launch, aiUSX will be capped at $5 million, with yield generated by the lending it gives access to. The capital stays liquid and redeemable, and what it earns goes toward the cost of inference later.
"Every company is turning into an AI company, and every one of them watches its inference bill climb," said Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice. "aiUSX puts the money they set aside for AI to work in the meantime. They get access to the kind of AI-infrastructure lending that used to sit with large institutions, the capital stays liquid, and what it earns goes toward inference later. It is treasury management for the AI era."
"Sovereign AI is one of the biggest infrastructure buildouts of this decade, and it runs on capital as much as it runs on chips," said Stuart Connolly, CIO of Deus X Capital. "TensorX builds the compute, Solstice brings the financing, and aiUSX lets more companies take part in funding it. Both companies are in the Deus X Capital ecosystem, which is why we’re uniquely positioned to deliver this to the market."
About Solstice
Solstice is an onchain settlement and yield protocol and part of the Deus X Capital ecosystem. Its dollar-denominated asset, USX, and its treasury products provide institutions and businesses with capital that remains liquid and productive. Solstice has a three-year audited track record and more than $500 million in total value locked.
https://solstice.finance/
About TensorX
TensorX is a sovereign AI infrastructure company based in Dublin. It buys and operates AI hardware and data-center capacity across the EU, connects clients to private compute, and keeps prompts and data on European infrastructure with full data residency and zero retention.
https://tensorx.ai/
Contact
LauraConquista Ventureslaura@conquista.co Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
SushiSwap, one of DeFi's most established decentralized exchanges, has integrated dSLTP, the stop-loss and take-profit protocol powered by Orbs Layer-3 technology. The integration enables users to automate trade execution through decentralized stop-loss and take-profit orders directly within the SushiSwap trading interface.
The launch expands SushiSwap's suite of advanced trading tools, building on its existing integration of Orbs-powered dLIMIT and dTWAP protocols. Users can now create automated orders that execute when predefined price targets are reached, allowing them to manage risk, secure profits, and reduce the need for constant market monitoring while maintaining full custody of their assets.
Unlike similar functionality offered by centralized exchanges, dSLTP operates through decentralized infrastructure powered by Orbs. The protocol enables stop-order automation without centralized servers, custodians, or off-chain execution systems, preserving the transparency and composability of decentralized finance.
"Stop-loss and take-profit orders are among the most widely used tools in trading, yet they've largely been unavailable in a decentralized environment," said Ran Hammer, Vice President of Business Development at Orbs. "By bringing dSLTP to SushiSwap, we're giving traders the ability to automate risk management and execution without sacrificing the transparency and self-custody that make DeFi unique. It's another milestone in closing the gap between centralized and decentralized trading experiences."
Through the integration, traders can configure a range of execution parameters including trigger prices, optional limit prices, order expiration periods, and percentage-based trading strategies. Orders can be monitored, modified, or canceled directly through the SushiSwap interface.
Stop-loss orders automatically execute when an asset falls below a predetermined price, helping traders limit downside exposure during volatile market conditions. Take-profit orders trigger once a target price is reached, allowing users to lock in gains according to their trading strategy. Used together, the order types provide traders with a framework for automating both risk management and profit-taking.
The launch marks the latest expansion of Orbs' growing suite of decentralized trading protocols. Alongside dLIMIT, dTWAP, Liquidity Hub, and Perpetual Hub, dSLTP is designed to bring advanced execution capabilities typically associated with traditional finance and centralized exchanges to on-chain markets.
As decentralized exchanges continue to evolve beyond basic token swaps, advanced order types are becoming increasingly important for traders seeking greater precision, efficiency, and control. With dSLTP now live on SushiSwap, users gain access to institutional-grade trading functionality while remaining fully on-chain.
About SushiSwap
SushiSwap is one of DeFi's most established decentralized exchanges, originally launched in 2020 on Ethereum and now deployed across multiple chains. A pioneer in community-governed DeFi infrastructure, SushiSwap offers a comprehensive suite of trading and liquidity products and continues to be a consistent driver of on-chain trading volume.
About Orbs
Orbs is a decentralized Layer 3 blockchain designed for advanced on-chain trading. Using a Proof-of-Stake consensus, Orbs acts as a supplementary execution layer, enabling complex logic and scripts beyond the capabilities of standard smart contracts. Orbs-powered protocols, including dLIMIT, dTWAP, Liquidity Hub, and Perpetual Hub, bring CeFi-level execution to decentralized markets. With a global team spanning multiple locations, Orbs continues to innovate at the frontier of blockchain infrastructure. Learn more at www.orbs.com.
Contact
Ran Hammerhello@orbs.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Zug, Switzerland, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Anyone can now execute mass payouts across EVM chains and Tron from a single platform and can choose between multiple wallet screening providers.
Just three weeks after releasing major upgrades for crypto payment collection, the Request Network Foundation today announced another expansion of its stablecoin payment platform. The release introduces one-click mass payouts on both EVM and Tron, alongside built-in bridging and token swapping across EVM chains. The update also expands compliance capabilities through the integration of Merkle Science as an additional wallet screening provider.
Together, these capabilities reinforce Request Network's vision of providing businesses with a simpler, more scalable, and more resilient way to operate stablecoin payments globally.
Users Can Now Disburse at Scale in One Click From a Single Wallet Without Bridging or Swapping
Stablecoins are already widely used to disburse salaries, commissions, affiliate rewards, bug bounties, supplier payments, and customer refunds or withdrawals across the world. While settlements are now faster and cheaper in stablecoins compared to fiat, the operational processes needed to send funds remain complex as recipients usually require payments on multiple chains and in multiple currencies. This has forced finance teams to initiate multiple transactions in separate currencies and from multiple wallets.
Request Network now abstracts away this fragmentation, allowing anyone to initiate mass payouts from a single wallet in a single currency to pay recipients across the top 6 EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and BNB Chain) in USDC and USDT.
Through a single signature, a mass payout can now be initiated even if the individual transactions need to be bridged and swapped to reach their recipient. Request Network protocol automatically retrieves and batches bridge and swap quotes in order to funnel every payment of a batch to its correct destination in just one approval.
To simplify the process further, Request Network also allows any recipient to set and update their payment preferences so payments are always routed to where they should go.
This represents one of the biggest breakthroughs in cross-chain and swapping abstraction, bringing payers and recipients closer than ever before, regardless of the blockchain or currency they trust.
Mass Payouts Now Available on Tron
Alongside EVM mass payouts, Request Network also announced the support of mass payouts on Tron, becoming the first protocol to combine both capabilities.
Thanks to this release, anyone can now send USDT to multiple recipients on Tron in a single transaction, unlocking large-scale payouts on one of the most used chains in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
With this release, anyone can now manage all stablecoin payouts globally from the Request Network protocol.
More Choice for Wallet Screening
Alongside mass payouts, Request Network also announced a partnership with Merkle Science to offer additional wallet screening providers on the protocol.
As a reminder, Request Network offers built-in wallet screening to protect its users from high-risk wallet interactions. When enabled, this feature allows payments to be executed only if the payer or recipient satisfies the preset screening policies, helping businesses to avoid exposure to high-risk wallets which may lead to asset freezing or difficulties off-ramping to fiat.
By expanding its integration of Merkle Science, Request Network just became one of the safest ways to receive crypto onchain, while accommodating for recipients’ preferences.
Tristan Wallaert, CEO of the Request Network Foundation, said: "Stablecoins allowed money to move globally without the usual fiat constraints, but executing payments at scale remains a bottleneck and is forcing users to rely on payment service providers. Anyone should be able to pay by himself hundreds of payments across chains in just a single operation.High risk wallets exposure has tarnished the crypto reputation recently, if we want to provide the best protection to blockchain users they need to be able to use the best screening providers. Sending and receiving payments must become intuitive and safe if we want stablecoins to be a real alternative to fiat."
Mriganka Pattnaik, CEO of Merkle Science, said: “As stablecoin payments become more global and cross-chain, compliance needs to become just as seamless as the payment experience itself. Our integration with Request Network helps businesses screen wallets with greater confidence, reduce exposure to high-risk activity, and scale onchain payments without compromising trust or operational efficiency”.
About Request Network
Since 2017, Request Network has developed, educated about, and promoted the use of open-source, decentralized and permissionless protocols that provide infrastructure for on-chain payments and related financial flows.
Request Network allows anyone to send and receive crypto at scale, across chains, without custodial intermediaries. The protocol is developed by a community-funded foundation whose mission is to make crypto payments accessible while protecting its participants.
To date, more than $2 billion has moved thanks to Request Network technology.
Press kit
About Merkle Science
Merkle Science provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions that help businesses detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime across digital assets. Its platform supports wallet screening, transaction monitoring, risk intelligence, and investigations, enabling crypto platforms, financial institutions, and payment providers to manage onchain risk and meet compliance requirements at scale.
Contacts
CEOTristan WallaertRequest Network Foundationpress@request.networkDirector of Business OperationsÁlvaro Garcíaalvaro.garcia@merklescience.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Kyoto, Japan, June 24th, 2026, Chainwire
IVS2026, Japan’s largest startup event, will take place over three days from July 1 to 3, 2026, in Kyoto. In addition to the main venue at Miyako Messe, IVS introduces "IVS CORE"—an exclusive, invite-only zone tailored for C-level executives hosted at the Hotel Okura Kyoto. The IVS KYOTO Executive Committee has curated three days of rich programming designed to showcase the great potential of Japan's startup ecosystem to the world.
Following IVS Crypto in 2024 and the IVC Summit in 2025, the Crypto Stage returns to the main IVS venue this year. Powered by renowned crypto venture capital firm IVC (Infinity Ventures Crypto) and Japanese crypto media outlet Nada News, the track assembles a premier lineup of domestic and international experts to explore shifting market dynamics and uncover the industry’s next growth vectors.
Traditional Finance vs. On-Chain Innovation: Reshaping the Global Infrastructure and Japan’s New Web3 Playing Field
IVS2026 Crypto Stage is dedicated to the adoption of blockchain technology across global financial infrastructure and the Japanese market. Reflecting this year’s core theme—The Deep Convergence of Traditional Finance and On-Chain Technology—the panel examines the scaling and utility of digital assets amid changing regulations and technological evolution. Key discussions spinning around Bitcoin ETFs, RWA and MMF tokenization, and the highly competitive global stablecoin market. Additionally, a dedicated spotlight on 'AI Agents × Stablecoins' will explore how intelligent automation and on-chain capital are driving a cross-border payment revolution, establishing crypto as the foundational infrastructure for the broader economy.
With the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) triggering a new regulatory era, the Crypto Stage offers a front-row seat to Japan's Web3 transformation as it bridges with international markets. Highlights Japan’s collaborative efforts with major industry players to build the next-generation financial system. Over ten curated panel sessions will dissect critical milestones on the road to mass adoption, from stablecoin frameworks and the evolution of digital wallets into the next generation of Super Apps, to sharp market dispatches from leading crypto VCs and the integration of DeFi within Web3 gaming. The stage is set to spark vital dialogue and cross-pollination between top-tier global capital, multinational conglomerates, and the rising startup ecosystem.
Global Visionary & Japanese Pioneers: Building a World-Class Web3 Speaker Lineup
The stellar speaker lineup bridges top-tier government policymakers, traditional financial institutions, and founders of leading global Web3 projects. The lineup includes:
Government & Regulatory Representatives:
Seiji Kihara (Member of the House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan / Secretary-General of the Headquarters for Japan's Growth Strategy)
Nobuchika Imaizumi (Counsellor for Crypto-Assets, Blockchain and Innovation, Strategy Development and Management Bureau, Financial Services Agency, Financial Services Agency of Japan)
Traditional Finance & Digital Payments:
Yuki Tanaka (BlackRock Japan)
Mitsunori Yuasa (Franklin Templeton Japan)
Emi Hidaka (Nomura Holdings)
Akio Isowa (SMBC Group)
Daniel Heffernan (Representative Director, Stripe Japan)
Yusuke Jinguuji (PayPay)
Jin Lee (LINE NEXT)
Michihiko Kasai (Coincheck Digital Assets)
Takeshi Chino (Binance Japan)
Top Web3 Project Leaders & VCs:
Sebastien Borget (CEO, The Sandbox)
Hilmar Pétursson (CEO, Fenris Creations)
Manuel Beaudroit (Co-Founder, Belo)
Noritaka Okabe (CEO, JPYC)
Jonathan M. Hayashi (CEO, Backseat)
Gary Mao (Co-Founder, Orange Cap Games)
Edward Chen (Co-Founder, Seeds Labs)
Tatsuya Saito (CEO, Progmat)
Kelvin Koh (Co-Founder, The Spartan Group)
Simon Kim (CEO/Managing Partner, Hashed)
...as well as multiple core partners and executive representatives from organizations such as IVC (Infinity Ventures Crypto), BitGo, Circle, and the Canton Foundation.
When Traditional Kyoto Collides with Cutting-Edge Web3 Innovation
Where a thousand years of heritage collides with the future of innovation, Kyoto sets the stage for an unique gathering. The official IVS2026 Crypto Stage networking reception—hosted by IVC and sponsored by BitGo—brings an exclusive, invite-only experience to The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto.
Disconnect from the daily tech hustle and immerse yourself in the quiet elegance of this historic city. This is your exclusive opportunity to align with premier industry leaders and map out the next frontier of Web3 finance. Celebrate the powerful synergy of past and future, and share an unforgettable night in Kyoto with IVS.
IVS 2026 Event Details
Dates: July 1(Wed) - July 3 (Fri), 2026
Venue: Miyako Messe (Kyoto International Exhibition Hall)
Organizers: IVS KYOTO Executive Committee (Headline Japan Inc., IVC, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City)
Official Website: https://www.ivs.events/en/
Official Social Media (X): https://x.com/IVS_Official
International Attendees Special Ticket: https://4s.link/en/tickets/f25a14aa-5374-4054-87b2-4f88c1e8fd23
About IVS
Launched in 2007, IVS is one of Japan's largest startup conferences, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, and industry leaders around Japan each year. Through high-level sessions, startup markets, and the legendary IVS LAUNCHPAD pitch arena, we exist to be the catalyst for the next generation.
Contact
IVCivc-marketing@infinityventures.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

London, United Kingdom, June 24th, 2026, Chainwire
OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has secured authorisation under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, strengthening its ability to deliver regulated stablecoin infrastructure across Europe.
The milestone comes one year after OpenPayd launched its stablecoin infrastructure, enabling businesses to move and manage fiat and digital assets through a single platform. Since launch, adoption has expanded across treasury, settlement and cross-border payment use cases as businesses increasingly seek regulated pathways into the digital asset economy. Today, OpenPayd processes more than $240 billion in annualised volume for over 1,100 businesses globally, including Kraken, eToro, OKX and B2C2.
The MiCA authorisation enables OpenPayd to operate as a regulated crypto-asset service provider (CASP) under a unified European regulatory framework, allowing the company to provide regulated crypto-asset services to clients across the EEA through a single licence.
Through the authorisation, OpenPayd can offer regulated digital asset services including fiat-to-stablecoin on and off-ramping, custody, wallet infrastructure and global stablecoin transfers across major blockchain networks. Through a single API, businesses can seamlessly move and manage money across both traditional financial rails and digital assets.
Iana Dimitrova, CEO of OpenPayd, said, “Stablecoins are rapidly becoming part of mainstream financial infrastructure. MiCA is a major step forward for Europe because it gives businesses the assurance to leverage digital asset technology to improve their payments and treasury and to grow.
At OpenPayd, we are building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. This authorisation strengthens our ability to help businesses move and manage money globally through a single platform that seamlessly connects traditional finance and digital assets.”
The MiCA approval forms part of OpenPayd’s broader investment in regulatory infrastructure and global connectivity across both fiat and digital asset services. Together with its existing regulatory permissions and banking network, OpenPayd is building one of the industry’s most comprehensive regulated infrastructures for global money movement.
About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Ozan Ozerk, its rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API. OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, OpenPayd processes more than $240 billion in annual volumes for over 1100 businesses. It is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
Contact
OpenPaydpress@openpayd.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Sui aims to transition more of Bitcoin’s $1.2T market cap into verifiable, productive onchain products.
Hashi, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, gains more institutional support ahead of the scheduled launch of its global testnet this July.
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that Cumberland, Fluid, and SwissBorg have joined the Hashi ecosystem, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, weeks ahead of its scheduled global testnet launch this July. The expanding coalition addresses a critical bottleneck in crypto: solving the persistent capital inefficiency by unlocking over a trillion dollars of immobile BTC into DeFi safely.
Previous market cycles demonstrated the systemic dangers of relying on opaque, centralized credit intermediaries such as Celsius, Voyager, and Genesis to generate utility from dormant assets. Hashi replaces centralized balance-sheet trust with verifiable smart contract logic.
But with a strict separation for safety by design, Bitcoin remains securely on the native Bitcoin blockchain. Sui smart contracts handle the cryptographic and programmatic rights to enable its use as financial collateral.
“Hashi was built to unlock the productive use of Bitcoin at a scale the industry hasn't seen before,” Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui. “We believe Bitcoin will become one of the largest sources of collateral in finance as the world moves onchain, and Hashi provides the foundation to make that possible on Sui.”
Built for Institutional Bitcoin Finance
Hashi is a foundational primitive setting a new standard for how builders can create bespoke, Bitcoin-backed financial products with risk parameters and loan terms that are fully verifiable onchain. In just a few weeks’ time, institutions, custodians, wallet providers, and developers can begin freely testing the infrastructure that will support Bitcoin-backed lending, borrowing, and credit origination on Sui.
Expanded Institutional Support
Three new powerhouses join the growing Hashi ecosystem, broadening support for institutional liquidity providers, market makers, and digital asset platforms:
Cumberland: One of the digital asset industry's largest institutional market makers, Cumberland joins the Hashi ecosystem to evaluate the protocol’s structural frameworks and prepare for eventual onchain liquidity provisioning.
SwissBorg: A European wealth management app with over one million users, is exploring opportunities to connect its network of European high-net-worth Bitcoin holders and liquidity providers to Hashi, creating new pathways for Bitcoin-backed borrowing and lending.
Fluid: A major DeFi lending protocol with a strong record of efficient, safe trades, is now building in preparation for mainnet institutional services. Fluid's participation would provide institutional-grade lending markets and deepen access to Bitcoin-backed credit on Sui.
These new builders join an industry-leading group of infrastructure providers, custodians, and DeFi protocols already working together to build a native Bitcoin financial ecosystem on Sui.
“Bitcoin is the world’s most liquid digital asset, but without native utility, it remains an off-chain asset,” said Paul Kremsky, Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland. “Hashi is exciting because it introduces a transparent, institutional-grade framework for BTC-backed credit that will replace synthetic workarounds with a product we are excited to use ourselves.”
“Our community has consistently sought native ways to lend and borrow against their Bitcoin,” said Cyrus Fazel, Founder & CEO at SwissBorg. “We’re thrilled to see Hashi delivering innovative solutions that make this a reality.”
“The next phase of the industry's growth will come from bringing larger pools of capital onchain through infrastructure institutions can actually trust," said Samyak Jain, Co-Founder & CEO at Fluid. “Hashi gets this right: Bitcoin stays on its native chain while verifiable contracts make it productive as collateral. Fluid's lending infrastructure is built to turn that into deep, capital-efficient Bitcoin-backed credit markets on Sui.”
These additions expand the growing consensus of many partners announced earlier this year that Sui is where Bitcoin finance will take flight, thanks to Hashi:
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.
The activation of the global testnet this July represents the ultimate rehearsal for fully changing Bitcoin Finance. This sandbox environment is designed for institutional engineers, Sui protocols and developers, and custody partners to test integration parameters, stress-test the code under simulated market volatility, and verify cryptographic integrity ahead of mainnet release.
Technical documentation and testnet access configurations will be 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
Contact
Sui Foundationmedia@sui.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Zug, Switzerland, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
The Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority has granted Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR. The European entity of Bitcoin Suisse can now serve clients across selected EEA markets, with Roman Przibylla appointed CEO to lead the expansion.
After more than a decade as Switzerland's crypto pioneer, the Bitcoin Suisse Group ("Bitcoin Suisse") is expanding across Europe. Its European entity, Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG, founded in 2018, has been granted a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA), building on its long-standing registration under the Token and TT Service Provider Act (TVTG).
Across Europe, Bitcoin Suisse operates with a clear ambition: to be the first choice for high-net-worth individuals, corporates and institutional investors. This ambition is built on more than a decade of operational experience, proven across multiple market cycles in which the company’s business model has consistently demonstrated its resilience.
Its core services of trading, custody and staking rest on two pillars that clearly differentiate Bitcoin Suisse in the market: a robust, proprietary infrastructure and a unique service philosophy that provides every client with a dedicated relationship manager.
As a result, clients benefit not only from institutional-grade technology and regulatory clarity, but also from personal attention, deep expertise and continuity in the relationship. In a market that is often complex, fast-moving and fragmented, Bitcoin Suisse offers clients a trusted partner that combines technical strength with human accessibility.
“We are very proud of this milestone. The MiCAR authorization marks a decisive step on our journey towards a global brand and eventually becoming a global wealth management platform. Together with our presence in Switzerland and Bermuda, we now have the regulatory foundation to serve clients across some of the world’s most important financial centers,” says Andrej Majcen, Co-Founder and Group CEO, Bitcoin Suisse.
Roman Przibylla Appointed to Lead European Business
Roman Przibylla leads the European expansion as CEO of Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG. He brings more than 15 years of distribution experience from senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, HSBC, Vontobel and Maverix Securities.
“The MiCAR license gives Bitcoin Suisse access to one of the largest and most sophisticated investor markets in the world. We can now bring high-net-worth and institutional clients in Europe what they truly need: infrastructure at the highest level and, at the same time, direct, personal points of contact with genuine crypto expertise. That combination is not a given in this market,” says Roman Przibylla, CEO Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG.
About the Bitcoin Suisse Group
Bitcoin Suisse is a leading premium provider of crypto financial services for institutional clients, crypto foundations, family offices, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals. Headquartered in Zug and founded in 2013 by crypto natives, Bitcoin Suisse employs over 200 people across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda. www.bitcoinsuisse.com
Contact
Lukas MettlerBitcoin Suissel.mettler@bitcoinsuisse.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

London, United Kingdom, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
The BVI now represents more than 10% of global tokenized US Treasuries, with $1.5 billion of distributed value in its corporate structures
The jurisdiction is home to 28,127 stablecoin asset holders, with a weekly transfer volume of $323.5m
The BVI is at the forefront of the rapidly growing tokenised RWA market, which has reached $334 billion globally and is set to exceed $400 billion by 2030
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) has cemented its position as one of the world’s leading jurisdictions for digital assets and tokenised finance, accounting for over 10% of the global market for US tokenized treasuries1 and $1.2 billion of stablecoins2, according to new research published by BVI Finance.
Launched at BVI Finance’s flagship international conference Fintech on the Seas, Destination Digital: An On-Chain Future, reveals the growing scale of the BVI's role in one of the fastest-growing segments of global finance. As of the 1st June 2026, the distributed value of US tokenised treasuries in the BVI reached $1.5 billion. In practical terms, one in every ten dollars of tokenized US treasuries distributed worldwide is now represented through BVI structures. The BVI also leads globally by number of tokenized securities, hosting 305 – the highest total of any jurisdiction3.
The findings also highlight the strength of the BVI’s stablecoin system. The BVI is home to more than 28,000 stablecoin asset holders, while current transfer volumes hit $323.5 million weekly4. On this current trajectory, annualised on-chain stablecoin activity could reach more than $16.8 billion.
These numbers position the BVI at the centre of a rapidly expanding market for tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), which is transforming how financial assets are owned, transferred and settled. The global on-chain RWA market reached $334 billion in June 2026 including stablecoins, and $31.6 billion excluding5, with forecasts suggesting the total market could exceed $400 billion by 20306.
The jurisdiction’s emergence as a leading destination for digital asset businesses is the outcome of intentional regulatory innovation. Its tax-neutral corporate framework, bespoke VASP Act 2022, court-recognised legal status for digital assets, and established professional services ecosystem make it structurally suited to serve institutional-grade tokenised structures.
The findings are also reinforced by the calibre of business that has chosen the BVI as its corporate home. Tether Holdings Limited, the BVI-incorporated parent behind USDT and the world's largest stablecoin, was founded within the BVI's corporate framework. Bitfinex, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges and closely affiliated with the Tether group through parent company iFinex, also maintains its corporate structure in the BVI. While Binance holds a BVI-licensed arm, and Kraken operates a BVI affiliate in Payward Trading Ltd. Most recently, Bitstamp by Robinhood secured its VASP registration in the BVI in early 2026, reflecting the jurisdiction's continued appeal to institutional-grade digital asset platforms seeking a credible regulatory home for their international operations.
Elise Donovan, CEO, BVI Finance, said: “The global financial system is undergoing a structural shift. The digitisation of real-world assets is reshaping how capital is owned, transferred, and settled. What our research makes clear is that this transition is no longer on the horizon. It is happening now, and at scale.
“Recent regulatory developments are supercharging that momentum. The GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act in the United States, combined with the FSB's push for consistent oversight of global stablecoin arrangements, have fundamentally changed the landscape. Regulation is not slowing the market down, but instead giving institutional capital the certainty it needs to move in at scale.
“The BVI has long been a cornerstone of international finance. Our legal framework, regulatory architecture, and professional ecosystem have supported trillions of dollars of cross-border investment, fund formation, and capital markets activity for decades. As the world moves on-chain, the BVI is not a bystander to this transition – it is foundational to it.”
See the full Destination Digital: An On-Chain Future here.
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Methodology
Stablecoin market cap and asset holder data sourced from RWA.xyz. US tokenised securities distributed value and global on-chain RWA market figure sourced from RWA.xyz, as of 1 June 2026.
About BVI Finance
BVI Finance is responsible for protecting and promoting the British Virgin Islands’ financial services industry. The BVI is recognised as a leading international business and finance centre, offering a robust legal framework, a stable and business-friendly environment, and a strong reputation for regulatory compliance.
With strategic expertise across wealth management, corporate services, trusts, fund administration, and digital assets, the BVI continues to attract global businesses, investors, and financial professionals who use its products and services.
About Destination Digital
Destination Digital: An On-Chain Future is the second annual report of its kind. First launched at Fintech on the Seas in 2026, it looks towards how the BVI is navigating growth beyond borders in an ever-evolving landscape.
For further information, please contact: 
Shamahl A. Smith
Communications and Research Officer
ssmith@bvifinance.vg
Tel: 284-852-1957
Contact
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