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Fast-rising crypto exchange, Zoomex has outlined its approach to liquidity and execution quality as artificial intelligence continues to reshape financial markets. Traditionally, liquidity in cryptocurrency trading has been assessed from a human perspective, based on how easily assets can be bought or sold without significantly impacting price. 
However, as automated trading agents and algorithmic systems become more advanced, this definition is evolving. In an AI-driven environment, liquidity must deliver predictable, consistent execution, not just visible market depth.  As a result, platforms like Zoomex are increasingly evaluated on whether their infrastructure can support fast, reliable execution for both human traders and automated strategies.

Zoomex Liquidity Infrastructure in Practice
Liquidity quality depends on the underlying infrastructure supporting an exchange’s trading environment. Order-matching systems, market-making networks, and liquidity-sourcing mechanisms all contribute to the stability of an exchange’s order books.
In the liquidity analysis published by CryptoRank, Zoomex showed competitive liquidity across several major crypto markets. The report recorded more than $62.7 million in BTC spot depth within ±2% of the mid-price, placing the exchange among the stronger performers in the study.

In ETH markets, the platform demonstrated roughly $29.8 million in visible liquidity, indicating active trading participation in one of the most widely traded digital assets. The study also observed relatively low slippage levels, approximately 0.03% for simulated BTC trades, which suggests that the platform’s visible liquidity translates into real execution capacity.
Another notable finding was the balanced distribution of liquidity across multiple assets, including BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and DOGE. This distribution indicates that the exchange’s liquidity infrastructure is not concentrated in a single flagship market but instead supports several trading pairs.
For automated trading strategies operating across multiple markets simultaneously, such balanced liquidity environments are particularly important.
The Growing Role of AI Agents in Trading
The increasing importance of execution quality is closely connected to broader developments in artificial intelligence. Technologies such as Claude Code, developed by Anthropic, illustrate how autonomous AI agents are beginning to interact with complex digital systems. While Claude Code focuses on software development automation, it demonstrates the broader trend of AI agents performing structured tasks within digital environments.
In financial markets, similar AI-driven systems are being developed to analyze data, generate trading signals, and execute trades automatically. These systems rely on exchanges that provide stable execution conditions and reliable market infrastructure.
As AI adoption expands, exchanges are increasingly evaluated by whether their systems can support algorithmic trading environments where execution speed and data accuracy are essential.
In this context, Zoomex provides an excellent example of how trading infrastructure must evolve to accommodate machine-driven market participants.
The Liquidity Problem: When Market Depth Isn’t Real
A persistent issue in cryptocurrency markets is the difference between visible liquidity and executable liquidity. Some exchanges display large order books that appear deep but fail to maintain that depth when real trading pressure appears.
Orders may disappear rapidly during volatility, leading to slippage and unpredictable execution outcomes. This phenomenon, sometimes described as “ghost liquidity”, creates an environment where displayed order book depth does not accurately represent real trading capacity.
While human traders may sometimes adapt to these inconsistencies, automated systems depend heavily on stable and reliable order book behavior. When liquidity disappears during execution, algorithmic strategies can suffer substantial performance losses.
Independent market analysis from CryptoRank highlights the importance of measuring liquidity through execution metrics rather than visible depth alone. 

In its comparative study of several exchanges, the research evaluated slippage and reaction times to determine whether order book liquidity was truly usable in real trading conditions. Within that analysis, Zoomex demonstrated liquidity characteristics that translated effectively into real execution capacity rather than purely theoretical depth.
How AI Trading Agents Evaluate Exchanges
AI-driven trading systems analyze exchanges using objective infrastructure metrics rather than visual market indicators. Execution speed is one of the most critical parameters. Automated strategies frequently operate on signals that require rapid trade execution. Even small delays between order submission and confirmation can significantly affect algorithmic performance.
Another important metric is slippage. AI trading models measure how closely the executed trade price matches the expected price. Low slippage suggests that order book liquidity is genuine and capable of supporting larger trades without sudden price deviations.
Market data reliability is also essential. AI systems rely heavily on consistent APIs and structured data feeds to interpret market conditions. Exchanges that provide stable market data allow automated systems to operate more efficiently.
Platforms with infrastructure designed for fast matching engines, predictable execution logic, and transparent trading environments are, therefore, more attractive to algorithmic trading systems.
Zoomex’s trading infrastructure is the benchmark in this context, as its matching engine and liquidity framework are designed to support both human and automated trading.
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Execution Quality as the New Standard
As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into financial markets, the way exchanges are evaluated is changing rapidly. Trading volume and asset listings still matter, but they are no longer the only indicators of market quality. Execution reliability, liquidity stability, and data transparency are becoming the defining standards for modern trading infrastructure.
For AI-driven trading systems, liquidity must be real and executable. Automated trading agents rely on exchanges where order book depth consistently supports real trades without sudden slippage or liquidity disappearing. Stable APIs, fast matching engines, and transparent market data are essential for these systems to operate effectively.
Zoomex has positioned itself at the forefront of this shift. The platform’s liquidity infrastructure focuses on delivering real execution rather than simply displaying order book depth. Independent liquidity analysis has shown that Zoomex maintains strong market depth across major assets while achieving low slippage and responsive execution in both spot and derivatives markets. This combination of measurable liquidity and reliable trade execution creates an environment where both human traders and automated strategies can operate with confidence.
As AI trading agents continue to expand across financial markets, exchanges capable of supporting algorithmic trading environments will play an increasingly important role. With its emphasis on execution quality, transparent liquidity, and stable infrastructure, Zoomex is building the type of trading environment that modern markets and the next generation of AI-driven participants require.
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2026 market data show significant interest in tokenized commodities, particularly gold. The market for tokenized commodities grew from less than $1.2 billion in early 2025 to approximately $5.5 billion by early 2026, with gold-backed tokens dominating nearly the entire sector. For forward-looking fintech and blockchain companies exploring real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, Africa’s vast gold reserves are increasingly seen as a strategic frontier.
According to Africa Finance Corporation analysis, Arfica’s geological formations contain an estimated $5 trillion worth of gold resources at current mine-site valuations, including more than $1 trillion in undeveloped reserves. 
On the background of visible market trends, Aurum Foundation, AI-powered trading ecosystem, is expanding its Africa focus with the official appointment of Bockarie Albert Kalokoh as Chief of Africa Relations.

The hire brings in someone with experience across government, commercial banking, and private-sector finance at a time when more blockchain firms are trying to build ties with local financial systems and commodity markets. For Aurum, that matters as it continues to build its broader real-world asset strategy.
Kalokoh’s career has largely been shaped by work across Africa’s financial and public sectors. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Finance II, where he was involved in public financial management reforms, revenue-related policy work, and debt sustainability discussions with institutions including the IMF, World Bank, and African Development Bank.
Experience Across Public Finance and Banking
Before his time in government, Kalokoh built much of his reputation in banking. He held senior leadership roles at Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, including Deputy Managing Director and, at times, Acting Managing Director. That part of his career was closely tied to digital modernization efforts inside a traditional banking institution.
Earlier in his career, he worked as a financial analyst at KPMG in Lagos, giving him experience in a regional professional services environment before moving into more senior public and financial leadership roles.
That mix of government finance, banking operations, and institutional engagement is likely what makes him relevant to Aurum’s next phase. Real-world asset projects often talk about tokenization in technical terms, but execution usually depends on something less visible: relationships, regulatory understanding, and credibility across existing financial networks.
Building Links Between Finance and Commodities
Kalokoh’s more recent private-sector roles add another layer to that profile. He currently serves as Senior Vice President at Clinq DMCC in Dubai, where he oversees strategic operations and financial structuring, and as CEO of Clinq Mining SL Ltd in Sierra Leone, where his focus is tied to the country’s mineral sector.

Taken together, those roles place him close to both the financial and commodity sides of the market. That matters for a company like Aurum, which is trying to connect blockchain infrastructure with asset-backed financial models.
In practical terms, Aurum says Kalokoh will focus on building strategic relationships across Africa and strengthening collaboration between financial institutions, commodity producers, and digital asset platforms. His background suggests this is less a symbolic appointment and more a sign that Aurum wants people who understand how these systems work on the ground.
A More Practical RWA Strategy
The broader takeaway is that Aurum appears to be leaning further into the real-world side of real-world assets. That means looking beyond tokenization as a concept and toward the policy, banking, and commodity networks needed to support it.
Kalokoh’s experience does not come from crypto alone. It comes from the institutions, reforms, and financial structures that blockchain projects increasingly need to engage with if they want RWA strategies to move beyond marketing and into execution.

Ocean Network today announced the official Beta launch of its decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) compute orchestration layer. This marks a shift from fragmented hardware to a highly liquid market where compute is available on-demand, without the overhead of centralized gatekeepers. Powered by this architecture, Ocean Network allows modern data scientists and developers to bypass traditional cloud bottlenecks and move directly from code to execution.
Solving the "coordination problem" of decentralized compute

While the demand for high-performance GPUs has reached a fever pitch, decentralized compute has historically struggled with a usability gap. Most developers do not want to manage remote nodes, configure complex SSH keys, or gamble on unreliable uptime; they want to run code.
Ocean Network bridges this gap by focusing on the Orchestration Layer. To ensure top-tier reliability and performance from day one of Beta, Ocean Network is renting high-performance GPUs from Aethir, based on the partnership the two entered in 2025. This gives users immediate access to a massive fleet of industry-leading hardware, ranging from powerhouse NVIDIA H200s, H100s, and A100s to highly accessible 1060s and more.
"We aren't just giving data scientists and developers access to GPUs; we are giving them an orchestration layer that makes decentralized compute feel like a local execution," says the Ocean Network team. "This is the transition from manual infrastructure management to pure automatiON."
Moving forward, Ocean Network will start aggregating global, idle GPUs into a unified P2P network, allowing anyone to set up an Ocean Node and monetize their high-performing underutilized compute resources. 
The Ocean Orchestrator: A resident of popular IDEs
Central to the Beta launch is the Ocean Orchestrator (formerly the Ocean VS Code Extension). Recognizing that the modern user’s workflow lives within their editor, the Orchestrator integrates natively with VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Antigravity.
Unlike traditional cloud monopolies that force developers into expensive, rigid hardware tiers, Ocean Network offers total flexibility in resource allocation with no preset bundles. The UX is designed for granular control and speed:
Custom Selection: Filter and select specific hardware models (e.g., Nvidia H200, A100, Tesla 4) and set the exact minimum requirements for CPU and RAM;ONe-Click Submission: Deploy containerized jobs (Python or JavaScript) with a single click once the precise environment is mapped;Real-Time Retrieval: Monitor the job live and automatically pull results back to the user’s local environment.
Pure AutomatiON: The Pay-Per-Use economics
Ocean Network challenges the "Reserved Instance" models of AWS and GCP. In traditional cloud environments, users pay for the time a machine is "ON," regardless of whether it is actively computing or sitting idle.
Ocean Network introduces a Pay-Per-Use Escrow Mechanism deployed on Base (Ethereum L2) for low-fee, high-speed settlements. Funds are held in escrow and only released once the node successfully completes the job and returns the output. Users are charged strictly for the resources consumed by the specific job (time, hardware, and environment), effectively eliminating the cost of idle compute. All access and rewards are secured via wallet-based identity provided by Alchemy.
Security through Compute-to-Data (C2D)
For Web2 data scientists and AI agent aficionados handling sensitive data, Ocean utilizes Compute-to-Data (C2D). This architecture runs algorithms in isolated containers where the data resides. The raw data never leaves its perimeter; only the secure compute outputs are returned to the user. 
Building the future of liquid compute
The Beta launch invites Web2 Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Web3 Builders to experience a world where compute is a utility, not a bottleneck. While the initial Beta focus is on the demand side, that is empowering users to run jobs, the network will soon after expand to allow Node runners to monetize their idle high-power GPU and CPU capacity by joining the worker layer.
About Ocean Network
Ocean Network is a decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) compute network for pay-per-use compute jobs that turns idle or underutilized GPUs into usable distributed compute resources. It lets users choose a preferred Ocean Node with the resources the users need, submit a containerized job, and get results back without managing servers or infrastructure.

Gency AI raises $20 million to build a sovereign advertising network powered by AI and blockchain consensus

AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The round saw participation from several institutions, including TikTok, HF0, XYZ, Streamlined Ventures, Hat-Trick Capital, Arksteam, MH Ventures, ViaBTC, and Basics Capital.
The fresh capital is earmarked for scaling Gency AI’s decentralized advertising execution and settlement network, hardening its privacy-preserving computing stack, and accelerating product deployment and ecosystem partnerships across North America, Asia, and Europe.
Building verifiable infrastructure for the advertising economy
The global digital advertising market continues to grow rapidly, but many execution and settlement processes still rely on centralized platforms. Industry participants have highlighted ongoing challenges related to attribution transparency, data ownership, and reconciliation cycles between advertisers, publishers, and agencies.
Gency AI aims to shift the industry from a model of “platform trust” to “protocol trust” by introducing on-chain verifiable credentials and automated revenue distribution mechanisms. Leveraging smart contracts and privacy-preserving computing technologies, ad impressions, conversion outcomes, and revenue allocation can be independently verified and settled automatically.
According to the company, the system is designed to automate reconciliation processes through smart contracts, with the goal of reducing settlement times and improving transparency in cross-border advertising transactions.
AI and blockchain–integrated technical architecture
Gency AI’s network architecture is built around four core modules:
Policy identity
Creates on-chain permission identities and usage boundaries for data, enabling transparent and traceable data authorization management.
ESQ privacy computing layer
Integrates technologies such as TEE, PSI, and MPC to support encrypted computation and privacy-preserving processing of advertising data.
PSG clearing and settlement protocol
Converts advertising actions and conversion outcomes into on-chain verifiable credentials and automatically executes revenue distribution through smart contracts.
AI optimization engine
Operates in an anonymous and encrypted environment to power advertising strategy prediction, audience matching, and campaign optimization. It also enables model training and attribution analysis without exposing raw user data, balancing privacy protection with operational efficiency.
Investor perspectives
Investors participating in the round said the convergence of AI automation and verifiable computing has the potential to reshape the core infrastructure of digital advertising, gradually shifting the industry from a model driven by closed data platforms to one powered by open protocols.
They also noted that as global privacy regulations tighten and demand for AI-powered automated advertising continues to grow, building a trusted, verifiable, and autonomously operating advertising network is likely to become a key direction for the industry.
About Gency AI
Gency AI is a sovereign advertising network purpose-built for the agentic economy — an environment where data ownership, permissions, execution, and settlement are designed to be programmable, verifiable, and controlled by users by default.
Unlike traditional adtech systems that depend on opaque data aggregation and trust-based reporting, Gency AI reimagines advertising as a verifiable coordination system. By combining cryptographic guarantees, on-chain policy enforcement, and measurable outcomes, it enables coordinated interactions among advertisers, publishers, AI agents, and users.

 
Multi-Strategy Execution System Generates $922K in Trading Profits Within 50 Days of Launch
UNAI Engine, an onchain execution system operating on the UniversePro decentralized exchange (DEX), has released performance data showing significant traction in its first seven weeks of operation, positioning itself as an institutional-grade alternative to token-incentive models in decentralized finance.
Launched on January 25, 2026, UNAI Engine represents a departure from traditional DeFi revenue models by generating returns through trading execution rather than speculative token appreciation. The system integrates multiple revenue strategies into a single execution layer, addressing what has become a critical question in blockchain-based finance: whether onchain systems can establish sustainable cash flow structures independent of market conditions.

Phased Deployment Strategy
The platform's rollout followed a deliberate two-phase approach. The initial deployment activated only the Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) execution layer—a sophisticated arbitrage capture system that identifies and executes profit opportunities through transaction reordering and spread capture. Over 50 days, this module processed 102,248 transactions generating $824,200 in profits, averaging $8.06 per transaction.
On March 8, UNAI activated its DEX market-making module, which provides continuous bid-ask liquidity to capture trading fees and spreads. In its first week, this layer executed 251,668 transactions producing $97,900 in profits at an average of $0.39 per trade—a structure characteristic of high-frequency trading operations in traditional markets.

Current Performance Metrics
As of March 15, UNAI Engine reports assets under management (AUM) of $3.15 million across 4,581 participants, with a 30-day return on investment of 27.41%. The system's architecture distributes capital across three execution layers: DEX market-making for fee capture, MEV and high-frequency execution for arbitrage opportunities, and a forthcoming payment settlement layer for stablecoin liquidity operations. 

Sustainable Web3 growth cannot depend on inflationary rewards or speculative cycles. UNAI Engine demonstrates that onchain systems can generate consistent returns through infrastructure, execution efficiency, and capital productivity—the same fundamentals that drive traditional quantitative trading operations.
said Mr. Phil, Founder and CEO of UniversePro.

Mr. Phil, a blockchain business development veteran with over a decade of experience in Web3 ecosystem acceleration, has previously collaborated with industry leaders including Animoca Brands, Binance Labs, and UniSat. He founded UniversePro to build capital-efficient onchain trading infrastructure designed for institutional-grade performance.

Institutional Infrastructure Model
Unlike retail-focused trading bots, UNAI Engine functions as a coordination system that dynamically allocates capital based on real-time onchain data and liquidity analysis. This approach mirrors quantitative trading infrastructure in traditional finance, where returns derive from transaction flow rather than directional market bets.
The system's design addresses a structural challenge in DeFi: sustainability beyond bull market cycles. While liquidity mining and token incentives can drive rapid growth during favorable market conditions, they typically struggle to maintain participation during downturns. UNAI's execution-based model generates revenue from trading activity itself, creating what the company characterizes as a "market-structure-native" revenue stream.
The platform's third execution layer—payment settlement infrastructure—remains in development and is expected to integrate stablecoin liquidity into clearing networks, further diversifying the system's revenue sources.

About UniversePro
UniversePro is a Web3 project dedicated to decentralized trading and perpetual contracts. Through an all-in-one architecture, the platform aims to make onchain trading more transparent, efficient, and accessible—providing foundational infrastructure for the next phase of decentralized finance.

On 14–15 April 2026, Moscow will host Blockchain Forum 2026 — the largest crypto and Web3 event in the CIS, annually bringing together leaders of the digital economy. In recent years, the forum has become the region’s key platform where representatives of the crypto industry, the banking sector, investment funds, and technology companies convene.
More than a Conference — a Market Infrastructure Hub
Blockchain Forum is not merely a conference; it serves as an infrastructural hub for the market. Here, strategic directions for the development of digital assets are discussed, partnerships are forged, and projects shaping the industry agenda are launched.
Scale and Market Concentration
In 2026, the forum will gather over 20,000 participants from 100+ countries, 250 exhibiting companies, and 200+ exclusive speakers, many appearing in Russia for the first time. This creates a unique concentration of expertise, capital, and technology on a single platform.
Participants include investors, venture funds, banks, crypto exchanges, Web3 startups, and infrastructure companies. This combination makes the forum a space for direct dialogue between developers, businesses, and capital.
200+ Exclusive Speakers
The forum programme features presentations by leaders of crypto platforms, heads of investment funds, experts in digital asset regulation, and representatives of the technology sector. Many of the speakers rarely appear in the region, making the forum a significant opportunity to obtain first-hand information and engage directly.
Exhibition and Practical Case Studies
The exhibition area will bring together 250 leading crypto companies, showcasing infrastructure solutions, new products, and services. Participants will not only hear about trends on stage but also see technologies in action — from top projects to direct interaction with founders and teams.
AI Future Forum: The Synergy of AI and Web3
A dedicated section of the programme will be the AI Future Forum, a specialised platform focused on integrating artificial intelligence with blockchain technologies. The synergy between AI and Web3 is regarded by the market as one of the key vectors for the development of the digital economy in the coming years.
Networking as a Strategic Tool
Blockchain Forum is traditionally viewed by participants as a venue for strategic networking. Beyond the stages, negotiations take place, partnerships are formed, and investment decisions are discussed. The event format allows attendees to gain in two days a volume of contacts and practical insights that would otherwise require months of work.
Official Afterparty: L’One
The official afterparty will feature L’One, one of the brightest performers on the Russian stage. His live performance will serve as the forum’s climax, bringing participants together in an atmosphere of a large-scale show and premium networking. The afterparty traditionally continues the business programme in a more informal setting.
Blockchain Forum 2026 combines a business environment, a technological agenda, and an investment concentration, creating a space for decisions that shape the development of the market.
Tickets are available on the official website. Using the promo code blockman at purchase grants a 10% discount.
More details: https://blockchain.forum/ru/

Miami, USA, March 16, 2026 — Goldfish, a platform focused on bringing gold-backed assets on-chain, is preparing for the launch of its governance token GFIN, alongside an ecosystem airdrop tied to participation across its protocol. The initiative is being built around GGBR, the project’s gold-reserve-backed stablecoin, which is expanding across decentralized finance through early integrations with other protocols.
The rollout reflects growing interest in tokenized real-world assets within decentralized finance. By introducing a gold-backed stablecoin designed for on-chain use, Goldfish aims to combine exposure to physical gold with programmable financial infrastructure while establishing GGBR as the primary asset through which users participate in the protocol’s governance ecosystem.
Early community participation
Goldfish first introduced its participation framework through a social leaderboard designed to measure early community engagement.
According to the project, the campaign attracted more than 50,000 participants, who completed social tasks, followed ecosystem updates, and accumulated points through the leaderboard. The initiative helped establish early community participation prior to the rollout of on-chain functionality.
The project has since begun transitioning participation from social engagement toward on-chain activity, with GGBR positioned at the center of the system.
On-chain participation and leaderboard tracking
Following the social campaign, Goldfish launched Season 2, introducing an on-chain leaderboard that tracks ecosystem activity.
Holding GGBR, providing liquidity on Uniswap, and interacting with integrated platforms are among the activities recorded through a public dashboard.
Participants may acquire GGBR through supported platforms including the Goldfish website or exchanges where the token is listed. Liquidity providers in pools such as GGBR/USDT on Uniswap earn swap fees while contributing liquidity to the market.
Governance token development
Goldfish has announced plans for the launch of its governance token, GFIN, which is intended to support community participation in protocol decisions.
According to the project, GFIN holders will be able to vote on areas such as fee structures, treasury direction, partnerships, and the protocol roadmap.
The governance token launch is planned to follow the rollout of ecosystem infrastructure, with GGBR serving as the primary asset used within the system.
Gold Rush campaign expands participation
As Goldfish ecosystem integrations continue to expand, StakeMyGold, a separate protocol not owned or operated by Goldfish, has launched Gold Rush, a limited-time campaign tied to early ecosystem participation and potential GFIN governance allocation.
Through the campaign, users can swap PAX Gold (PAXG) or Tether Gold (XAUT) for GGBR at a 1:1 rate to earn points on the live leaderboard, with additional rewards available for early participants, social sharing, referrals, and optional staking through StakeMyGold.
The campaign is intended to encourage broader participation in the ecosystem as development continues ahead of the governance token launch.
Participation dashboard
Users who want exposure to tokenized gold and participation in the development of the Goldfish protocol can do so through GGBR, which serves as the primary asset within the ecosystem. Holding the token or using it in supported activities such as liquidity provision contributes to leaderboard rankings and ecosystem participation metrics. According to the project, eligibility for the upcoming GFIN governance token airdrop will be determined based on on-chain activity across the network.
Participation metrics and leaderboard rankings can be tracked through the Goldfish dashboard.
About Goldfish
Goldfish is an institutional-grade platform focused on bringing verified, over-collateralized gold on-chain. Through its gold-backed stablecoin and governance infrastructure, Goldfish aims to position gold as a durable base asset across both centralized and decentralized crypto markets.
By combining real-world asset backing with on-chain governance, Goldfish seeks to bridge traditional asset structures and decentralized finance while maintaining transparency, alignment, and long-term sustainability.

FinCEN-registered platform eliminates traditional banking friction for crypto users with compliant fiat on-ramp and off-ramp functionality, global access, and real-time stablecoin conversion
EvoCash has officially launched its Web3 financial services platform, offering a crypto-to-fiat bridge with Web3-compliant USD accounts connected directly to cryptocurrency wallets. Registered as a Money Services Business (MSB) with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) under the Bank Secrecy Act, the platform provides access to real-time USDT-to-USD conversion and comprehensive fiat on-ramp and off-ramp financial services for users worldwide.

The platform addresses a critical pain point in the cryptocurrency ecosystem: reliable, fast off-ramping without bank account freezes or withdrawal delays. Traditional financial institutions increasingly restrict cryptocurrency-related transactions, leaving users — particularly international freelancers, digital nomads, and cross-border businesses — struggling to convert digital assets into usable fiat currency. EvoCash provides a purpose-built, compliant crypto-to-fiat alternative.
MSB Registration and Global Compliance Framework
EvoCash's MSB registration with FinCEN enables legal operation of money transmission and currency exchange services in the United States and internationally. The platform operates under comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures aligned with regulatory requirements, enabling global user access without geographic banking restrictions.
Web3-compliant USD accounts are provided through partnerships with financial institutions using For Benefit Of (FBO) account arrangements, keeping user funds safeguarded at the partner bank and clearly segregated from company assets, while maintaining the speed and accessibility crypto users demand — particularly valuable for international users seeking crypto-to-fiat bridge solutions. This structure provides users with access to USD accounts without the restrictions typical of traditional banking.
Key Platform Features for Global Users
EvoCash offers an integrated suite of financial services:
Real-Time USDT-to-USD Conversion: Instant conversion between stablecoins and fiat currency without multi-day bank delaysFiat On-Ramp and Off-Ramp: Bidirectional flows between crypto and traditional currencyWeb3-Compliant USD Accounts: Compliant fiat accounts connected directly to Web3 wallets via partner financial institutions in the U.S.Trading and Exchange Services: Multi-asset crypto trading integrated within the platformGlobal Onboarding: Accessible to users worldwide without requiring local banking relationships — critical for international freelancers and digital nomadsMultichain Support: Asset management across multiple blockchain networksCross-Border USD Payments: Seamless international payment processingAccess to Traditional Instruments: Holdings in precious metals like gold alongside crypto assets
Solving Banking Friction Globally
Cryptocurrency users worldwide regularly experience frozen bank accounts, delayed withdrawals, and sudden account closures when attempting to convert digital assets to fiat. This challenge is particularly acute for international users across multiple jurisdictions.
EvoCash eliminates these barriers by providing regulatory-compliant infrastructure specifically designed for crypto-native transactions and global operations. Traders can convert profits immediately without waiting periods. Freelancers receiving crypto payments can access USD for everyday expenses instantly — regardless of where they're located. Digital nomads can maintain USD accounts globally without local banking requirements.
Future Expansion with Visa Integration
The platform is pursuing approval for a Visa card linked to stablecoins, currently under review with issuing partners. Once approved and launched, the card will enable users to spend crypto-backed USD balances at merchants worldwide through integrated stablecoin payments functionality, further bridging digital assets and traditional commerce globally.
EvoCash's compliance-first approach combined with purpose-built infrastructure for cryptocurrency users positions the platform as a leading crypto-to-fiat bridge connecting Web3 and traditional financial systems.
About EvoCash
EvoCash is a Web3 financial services platform registered as a Money Services Business (MSB) with FinCEN under the Bank Secrecy Act. The platform operates as a crypto-to-fiat bridge connecting decentralized finance and traditional financial systems through Web3-compliant USD accounts, real-time USDT-to-USD conversion, fiat on-ramp and off-ramp services, trading and exchange services, and multi-asset financial tools. EvoCash provides users with access to real-time stablecoin-to-USD conversion, global onboarding, cross-border USD payments, and multichain support, all within a secure, compliance-focused infrastructure. USD‑denominated accounts are provided through partner financial institutions in the U.S. using FBO account structures, so client funds are held and safeguarded at the partner bank and kept separate from EvoCash’s own funds. For more information, visit evocash.org.

MEXC Foundation and UNCB (University Network for Cryptocurrency & Blockchain) today launched MEXCampus at the Roundhouse, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Campus — formally introducing MEXC as UNCB's official partner and kicking off a structured trader development program for university students across Australia.
The MEXCampus Welcoming Party marks the beginning of an ongoing campus program combining community building with practical crypto education, including platform workshops and trading fundamentals grounded in risk awareness and financial literacy.
Through MEXCampus, students gain access to hands-on platform education and a clear, structured pathway into the crypto economy — designed to move participation from curiosity to informed engagement. This is MEXC Foundation's second activation with UNCB, reflecting a growing partnership built around education-first community development at the university level.
MEXCampus is one expression of MEXC Foundation's $30 million global initiative, launched in August 2025, to expand access to Web3 through education, empowerment, and community impact. The Foundation focuses on underrepresented communities and regions where blockchain literacy and adoption are rapidly developing.
University partnerships like MEXCampus reflect MEXC Foundation's approach to ecosystem building: meeting students at the earliest stage of their Web3 journey and providing the education and infrastructure to take it further. As the program expands across campuses, MEXC Foundation aims to establish a replicable model for university-level crypto education across the region.

About MEXC Foundation
MEXC Foundation is the impact-driven arm of MEXC Group, committed to accelerating responsible growth and inclusive adoption of blockchain and Web3 ecosystems. Through diverse initiatives, the Foundation fosters education, innovation, and equal access to opportunities on a global scale, making blockchain a force for positive and practical change worldwide.

For media inquiries, please contact MEXC Foundation team: mexcfoundation@mexc.com

Helios Finance, the company behind the specialized Bitcoin-native lending protocol and credit card, has raised $1M in funding to bridge the gap between long-term Bitcoin holding and real-world liquidity.
The round saw participation from top-tier venture firms including Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, 3Commas Capital, and the BitcoinFi Accelerator. A select group of strategic angel investors also joined the round to support the mission of bringing productive usecases to the world’s most secure network.
The funding will be used to scale Helios’s core infrastructure, which allows users to access real-world spending power without triggering the tax consequences or the long-term regret associated with selling BTC.
What is Helios Finance?
Unlike traditional wrapped-asset protocols that require users to move Bitcoin onto Ethereum or other chains, Helios focuses on maintaining a "Bitcoin-first" experience. The platform’s standout feature, built on the MIDL execution layer,  is a Bitcoin-backed credit card and lending suite that allows users to borrow against their holdings instantly.
The goal is to move Bitcoin away from being a "dormant" store of value and into a functional, programmable financial tool. Tim Draper, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has also invested in SpaceX, Tesla and Coinbase, sees Helios as a critical piece of the puzzle for the next phase of adoption.
“Helios is transforming Bitcoin from a passive asset into a functional bank on-chain," Draper noted. "With their lending platform and Bitcoin credit card, they’ve unlocked the liquidity of the world’s most secure asset. This is exactly how we transition to a Bitcoin economy.”
The Shift to BitcoinFi
The investment comes at a pivotal time for "BitcoinFi", a growing sector dedicated to building decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities directly on or around the Bitcoin network. As institutional interest in Bitcoin peaks, the demand for sophisticated credit products is skyrocketing.
“As the Bitcoin ecosystem matures, our mission is to turn dormant BTC into productive, programmable capital that still lives on-chain,” said Tristan Kleine-Fournier, Founder & CEO of Helios. “We’re building products that let Bitcoin holders tap into their Bitcoin wealth in everyday life, without ever having to sell the asset they trust more than fiat.”
Scaling the On-Chain Bank
While many lending platforms struggled during previous market cycles due to opaque rehypothecation, Helios is leaning into the transparency of on-chain collateralization. By offering a direct bridge to a credit card, the startup is positioning itself as the primary interface for users who want to live on a Bitcoin standard.
The Helios team plans to use the $1M injection to expand its engineering team and accelerate the rollout of its credit card to a global waitlist. As Bitcoin trends toward a global reserve asset, Helios is betting that the industry’s most vital service won't be helping people sell their Bitcoin, it will be ensuring they never have to.
Secure your spot on the Helios Reserve Credit Card waitlist at www.heliosreserve.xyz

About Helios Finance
Helios Finance is a Bitcoin-native lending and credit platform designed to unlock on-chain liquidity without requiring users to sell their BTC. Helios enables Bitcoin holders to borrow, spend, and earn in a fully on-chain, self-custodial environment. Its suite of products, including the Bitcoin-backed credit card, transforms Bitcoin from a dormant asset into a productive financial instrument for the emerging Bitcoin economy.
About Draper Associates
Draper Associates, founded in 1985 by Tim Draper, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs drive their businesses to greatness. Tim Draper is one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capitalists, investing in legendary companies such as SpaceX, Tesla and Coinbase. He is an ardent proponent of Bitcoin and is recognized as one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency holders.
About Draper Dragon
Draper Dragon, established in 2006 by Larry Li, Andy Tang, and Tim Draper, is a cross-border venture capital firm that bridges the gap between Silicon Valley and Asian innovation hubs. As a core member of the Draper Venture Network, the firm specializes in early-stage investments within the Web3, blockchain, and digital asset sectors. Draper Dragon has been a pivotal backer of transformative crypto infrastructure, with a portfolio that includes industry leaders such as Coinbase, Ledger, and Vechain.

MEXC, the fastest-growing global cryptocurrency exchange, redefining a user-first approach to digital assets through true zero-fee trading, today announced the launch of seven tokenized US equities across defense and energy sectors in partnership with Ondo Finance. The tokens are available for immediate trading on MEXC.
The assets trade as ERC-20 smart contracts against USDT pairs, with two separate launch tranches at 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC on March 4, 2026, and withdrawals beginning March 5, 2026. Each token represents direct ownership of the underlying US equity, with holdings verified through quarterly third-party audits and held in regulated trust accounts. The offering includes LMTON/USDT, RTXON/USDT, BBAION/USDT, ACHRON/USDT, COPON/USDT, OXYON/USDT, and ONDSON/USDT.

Tokenized equities provide continuous trading access across geographies while removing position minimums and qualified investor restrictions. Defense and energy stocks have historically traded with wide bid-ask spreads and limited retail accessibility. This launch expands institutional-grade market access to MEXC's 15+ million users.
MEXC remains committed to delivering institutional-quality assets and infrastructure to the global retail and professional trading community. Full product details and real-time trading data available here.

About MEXC
Founded in 2018, MEXC is committed to being "Your Easiest Way to Crypto." Serving over 40 million users across 170+ countries, MEXC is known for its broad selection of trending tokens, everyday airdrop opportunities, and low trading fees. Our user-friendly platform is designed to support both new traders and experienced investors, offering secure and efficient access to digital assets. MEXC prioritizes simplicity and innovation, making crypto trading more accessible and rewarding.

Between the traditional financial system and the crypto asset market, there has long existed a barrier that has yet to be broken. Assets in traditional financial markets—such as stocks, real estate, and precious metals—and digital assets in the crypto market have remained isolated from one another. Although blockchain technology has brought revolutionary changes to the crypto market, the liquidity of traditional assets and their ability to enter the crypto ecosystem have remained a persistent challenge.
Today, AurumX is driving a profound transformation of the financial system by effectively connecting traditional assets with crypto assets and redefining how global assets circulate. AurumX is a global multi-chain compliant financial trading system jointly developed by AUR Labs together with leading global institutions including OKX Ventures, Pillar VC, One Way Ventures, and Quasar Holding. Its innovation lies not only in technological breakthroughs, but also in empowering users with greater participation value—ensuring that everyone who uses the platform can benefit from global asset circulation.
The Divide Between Exchanges and Platforms: Users Have Long Been Overlooked
In existing crypto trading platforms, despite generating enormous profits, users often remain merely “retail liquidity,” with most gains extracted by the platform and little returned to the community. Taking Binance as a representative example, its massive trading volume is driven by user activity, yet the profits generated are not fairly redistributed to users. Participants bear substantial costs on these platforms, but receive almost none of the platform’s earnings in return.
The core issue of this model lies in its reliance on “trading volume-driven” profitability rather than “asset structure-driven” value creation. This approach not only fails to create additional value for users, but also reinforces the imbalance between platforms and participants. Users increasingly resemble tools for profit extraction rather than co-builders of platform growth.
AurumX’s Transformation: Connecting Traditional and Crypto Assets
AurumX’s core innovation lies in breaking the barriers between crypto assets and traditional financial assets. Through asset tokenization technology, it introduces traditional assets such as stocks, real estate, and precious metals into the crypto market, enabling seamless integration between crypto and traditional financial markets. Through a 1:1 asset mapping mechanism and custody verification framework, AurumX ensures the compliance and transparency of traditional assets, allowing users to participate in global traditional financial markets with lower barriers to entry.
In addition, AurumX adopts multi-chain deployment and cross-chain technologies, supporting asset circulation across major networks such as BNB Chain and Polygon, achieving unified access to multi-chain assets. This means that assets from traditional financial markets can circulate freely across different blockchains, significantly enhancing market liquidity and capital efficiency. Meanwhile, the platform integrates the compliant stablecoin USD1 and leverages Amazon AWS underlying cloud services, further strengthening ecosystem compliance and technical stability.
Empowering Users: Distributing Profits to the Community
On traditional platforms, users rarely receive a fair share of platform profits. AurumX, however, returns platform earnings to users through innovative mechanisms such as the Liquidity Vault and protection fund structures. AurumX not only provides a platform for participating in global asset circulation, but also enhances each user’s participation value and return opportunities through a revenue-sharing model.
AurumX’s profit distribution structure is simple and transparent. Through diversified revenue streams—including trading fees, asset tokenization transactions, and AI-powered prediction markets—the platform ensures sustainable operations. A portion of the revenue is distributed to users, including governance token holders, active traders, and all participants on the AurumX platform. In this way, users are not merely market participants, but beneficiaries of the value they help create.
The Future of Decentralized Finance: From Single Assets to Universal Asset Access
AurumX is not merely a crypto trading platform; it is a global asset circulation infrastructure that breaks the liquidity bottlenecks of traditional assets. On the AurumX platform, investors can not only trade crypto assets, but also participate in traditional markets such as stocks, real estate, and precious metals through asset tokenization. This universal asset circulation provides global investors with broader asset allocation choices and greater return opportunities.
Through a four-layer collaborative architecture, AurumX ensures that asset circulation, risk control, and settlement operate within a unified system. Every component of the platform connects seamlessly, delivering a more stable and efficient experience in trading, asset allocation, and risk management. One of AurumX’s core products—the Global Asset Tokenization Trading Market—is central to achieving this vision. It enables users worldwide to benefit from the convenience of crypto assets while integrating traditional financial assets into the crypto ecosystem.
AurumX’s Future Vision
With backing from top-tier institutions, a strong compliance framework, and technological innovation, AurumX is redefining the rules of global asset circulation and value accumulation. Through asset tokenization, multi-chain liquidity networks, AI-driven risk management, and a revenue-sharing model, the platform ensures that every participant receives fair returns from global asset flows.
Looking ahead, AurumX will continue to expand its global compliance network—covering key regions such as Asia, the Middle East, and the European Union—while leveraging ecosystem resources from institutions such as OKX Ventures and Polygon, as well as the foundational technical support of manadia. Its ultimate goal is to eliminate the boundaries between digital and traditional assets, providing global users with a fairer, more transparent, and trustworthy value-sharing framework—so that everyone can benefit tangibly from the evolution of the global financial ecosystem.

MEXC, the world's fastest-growing digital asset exchange and a pioneer of true zero-fee trading, concluded its limited-time USAT Flexible Savings event. The event attracted 11,254 subscribers and drove total assets under management (AUM) past $10 million within three days of launch.
The USAT Flexible Savings event, which ran from January 27 to February 26, 2026, offered users the opportunity to stake USAT and share a 300,000 USAT reward pool, with new users eligible for up to 300% APR. Participation surged throughout the event: subscription volume grew 14x, while AUM climbed more than 1,380%.
According to CoinGecko data as of February 27, 2026, MEXC ranked first in USAT spot market liquidity, recording a +2% buy depth of $1,512,954 and a bid-ask spread of just 0.01%, reflecting a liquidity structure that outperforms major exchanges. As the first exchange to list USAT, MEXC provides industry-leading trading depth and liquidity for the asset.

The USAT Flexible Savings event is one of many ways MEXC creates financial opportunities for its users. By removing fees, expanding asset access, delivering deep liquidity, and rewarding users with competitive yield opportunities, MEXC empowers users to discover more and act faster on market opportunities.

About MEXC
Founded in 2018, MEXC is committed to being "Your Easiest Way to Crypto." Serving over 40 million users across 170+ countries, MEXC is known for its broad selection of trending tokens, everyday airdrop opportunities, and low trading fees. Our user-friendly platform is designed to support both new traders and experienced investors, offering secure and efficient access to digital assets. MEXC prioritizes simplicity and innovation, making crypto trading more accessible and rewarding.

For media inquiries, please contact MEXC PR team: media@mexc.com

Risk Disclaimer:
This content does not constitute investment advice. Given the highly volatile nature of the cryptocurrency market, investors are encouraged to carefully assess market fluctuations, project fundamentals, and potential financial risks before making any trading decisions.

MEXC, the world's fastest-growing digital asset exchange and a pioneer of true zero-fee trading, announced the listing of Bitway (BTW) in its Innovation Zone, with the BTW/USDT and BTW/USDC trading pairs opened at 08:00 UTC and 08:20 UTC respectively on March 2. To celebrate the listing, MEXC launched a Bitway (BTW) Airdrop+ event offering a combined prize pool of $50,000 in BTW and 25,000 USDT, alongside an exclusive APR booster perk for new users.
Bitway is the internet capital gateway connecting on-chain liquidity with global opportunities. Its core offerings include Bitway Earn, an on-chain wealth management platform, and Bitway Chain, a Bitcoin-compatible PoS Layer 1 designed to support native BTC financing and enterprise-grade applications. Bitway recently raised $4.444 million in a seed round, backed by YZi Labs, TRON Foundation, and HTX Ventures, reflecting strong investor confidence in the project's vision. BTW is the ecosystem's native utility and governance token, underpinning network security, governance, and economic incentives across the platform's yield, payment, and financing products. BTW has a total supply of 10 billion tokens.

The Airdrop+ event runs from March 1 to March 8, 2026 (08:00 UTC). Users can participate by registering on the event page and completing designated tasks. New users who register via referral code "mexc-BTW" or exclusive link and complete KYC verification during the same period are eligible for Flexible Savings APR boosters of up to 300% in BTW or USDT.

The listing of BTW reflects MEXC's track record of bringing emerging assets to market ahead of the curve. By removing trading fees, maintaining deep liquidity, and continuously expanding its asset coverage, MEXC enables users to discover and act on market opportunities without the barriers of cost or timing, capturing value at every stage of the market.

For full listing details and to participate in the event, visit the official MEXC announcement: https://www.mexc.com/announcements/article/17827791533937

About MEXC
Founded in 2018, MEXC is committed to being "Your Easiest Way to Crypto." Serving over 40 million users across 170+ countries, MEXC is known for its broad selection of trending tokens, everyday airdrop opportunities, and low trading fees. Our user-friendly platform is designed to support both new traders and experienced investors, offering secure and efficient access to digital assets. MEXC prioritizes simplicity and innovation, making crypto trading more accessible and rewarding.

For media inquiries, please contact MEXC PR team: media@mexc.com

Risk Disclaimer:
This content does not constitute investment advice. Given the highly volatile nature of the cryptocurrency market, investors are encouraged to carefully assess market fluctuations, project fundamentals, and potential financial risks before making any trading decisions.

As cryptocurrency markets navigate liquidity shifts and heightened institutional scrutiny in early 2026, trading infrastructure is increasingly becoming the focal point of competitive differentiation. While previous market cycles centred on token listings and speculative products, Q1 2026 reflects a structural pivot toward performance reliability, execution transparency, and risk-controlled automation.
Within this environment, exchanges integrating artificial intelligence into trading systems particularly through smart execution layers and strategy optimisation tools are seeing renewed attention from both retail and professional participants.
Founded in 2021, Zoomex has emerged as one of the platforms positioning itself around high-performance trading architecture combined with simplified user design. The exchange reports more than 3 million registered users across over 35 countries and regions, offering more than 700 trading pairs and 590+ perpetual contracts.
AI-Enhanced Execution in a Liquidity-Sensitive Market
The first quarter of 2026 has highlighted increasing liquidity fragmentation across digital asset markets, with capital moving rapidly between venues and derivatives platforms. In this environment, execution quality including latency, routing precision, and order book depth has become a defining factor in trading performance.
Zoomex reports interface latency below 10 milliseconds, supported by a high-performance matching engine designed to maintain stability during high-volume conditions. Beyond speed, the platform has embedded AI-driven optimisation directly into its execution architecture.
Rather than functioning as a standalone trading feature, artificial intelligence operates within the exchange’s dual liquidity framework, analysing real-time market depth, volatility patterns, and short-term order book imbalances to improve routing efficiency and reduce slippage. This integration aims to preserve pricing integrity while enhancing execution consistency.
Technologies such as COSIGN, which the platform refers to as an AI-enabled analytics component, apply machine learning and pattern recognition to continuous 24/7 streams of market data. The objective is not speculative forecasting, but structural optimisation — reinforcing transparency, minimising information asymmetry, and strengthening operational resilience.
As institutional standards tighten in 2026, exchanges integrating AI at the infrastructure level rather than the interface layer are increasingly aligned with evolving market demands for fairness, stability, and high-performance execution.
Dual Liquidity Pool Model
Zoomex operates a dual liquidity pool framework that combines internal liquidity with aggregated external market depth to strengthen order book resilience. In the fragmented trading environment of 2026, where liquidity can shift rapidly across venues, single-source exchanges often face widened spreads and execution gaps during volatility spikes.
By distributing exposure across two liquidity streams, the model is designed to reduce concentration risk and maintain continuity of pricing. Platform disclosures indicate that, during extreme market stress, the structure can preserve up to 30% greater effective order book redundancy compared to single-source venues a meaningful safeguard for derivatives traders operating in leveraged perpetual contracts.
Artificial intelligence supports this framework by continuously analysing liquidity distribution, volatility conditions, and order book imbalances across both pools. AI-driven routing logic adapts execution pathways in real time to minimise slippage and stabilise pricing.
Rather than simply expanding access to depth, the dual pool model functions as a resilience mechanism reinforcing execution integrity in liquidity-sensitive markets.
Simplicity as Infrastructure Strategy
While institutional-grade features are increasingly important, user acquisition remains closely tied to usability. Zoomex has structured its product philosophy around three pillars: simple, user-friendly, and fast.
The trading interface emphasises clarity in asset display, real-time order transparency, and traceable execution results. Transparent order visibility is positioned as a method of reducing information asymmetry a persistent concern in derivatives markets.
Optional identity verification is also part of the platform’s framework. While regulatory alignment remains central, providing flexible onboarding pathways reflects ongoing industry discussions around balancing compliance with accessibility.
Security and Regulatory Alignment
Q1 2026 has seen continued institutional caution following volatility spikes and liquidity events across centralised platforms. In response, exchanges are increasingly foregrounding regulatory credentials and third-party audits.
Zoomex holds registrations including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC. The platform has also undergone security audits by blockchain security firm Hacken.
Asset protection reportedly operates through a multi-signature cold and hot wallet structure, a configuration designed to reduce single-point vulnerabilities. As institutional participation in crypto derivatives continues to expand, such structural safeguards are becoming baseline expectations rather than differentiators.
Brand Positioning and Global Visibility
Beyond infrastructure, Zoomex has pursued strategic global partnerships, including serving as an official crypto exchange partner of the Haas F1 Team. The company has also entered into a global exclusive brand ambassador partnership with professional football goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez.
While sponsorship does not directly correlate with platform performance, such alliances reflect an effort to align trading with themes of precision, speed, and rule-based execution — characteristics increasingly emphasised in algorithmic market environments.
Zoomex’s Positioning Within the 2026 Trading Landscape
As digital asset markets mature in 2026, competitive positioning is increasingly defined not by leverage levels or product expansion, but by transparency, fairness, and operational clarity. Following years of industry-wide trust recalibration, exchanges are being evaluated on how clearly they expose execution logic, asset custody, and settlement outcomes.
Against this backdrop of liquidity rebalancing and heightened compliance scrutiny in Q1 2026, Zoomex appears to be aligning its growth strategy around three structural priorities:
Low-latency, high-performance trade execution

Transparent and traceable order infrastructure

Regulatory and security alignment to meet institutional standards

Transparency, in this context, extends beyond marketing language. The platform highlights mechanisms such as Transparent Vault, designed to improve visibility around asset custody and settlement readiness, and digital profit flow logic intended to clarify how value moves from execution to account balance.
Additionally, its “Position = Account” framework simplifies the relationship between position outcomes and account equity, reducing ambiguity during high-volatility conditions. This design approach aims to minimise cognitive friction and reduce misinterpretation of available funds — a recurring concern in leveraged derivatives markets.
Rather than centring its identity around a single product category, Zoomex integrates AI-supported optimisation into a broader architecture built on fairness mechanisms, traceable execution, and structural resilience.
As regulatory expectations tighten and users prioritise verifiable processes over speculative claims, exchanges emphasising transparency, settlement clarity, and infrastructure integrity are likely to remain competitive in the evolving 2026 trading cycle.

Start Your Intelligent Trading Journey at Zoomex Today: https://i.zoomex.com/10abgl5J

About Zoomex
Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform serving more than 3 million users across over 35 countries and regions. The exchange offers 700+ trading pairs and more than 590 perpetual contracts, supported by a high-performance matching engine with interface latency under 10 milliseconds.
Guided by its core values of “Simple × User-Friendly × Fast,” Zoomex focuses on delivering a transparent and efficient trading environment. The platform emphasises fairness, traceable order execution, and clear asset visibility to reduce information asymmetry for users.
Zoomex operates under regulatory registrations including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has completed security audits conducted by blockchain security firm Hacken. Asset protection is supported by a multi-signature cold and hot wallet structure.
The exchange is also an official crypto exchange partner of the Haas F1 Team and maintains a global exclusive brand ambassador partnership with professional football goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez.

As global commerce increasingly incorporates digital assets and stablecoin settlements continue to grow, more companies are asking: how to accept crypto payments in a way that is scalable, secure, and financially predictable?
While many providers offer basic crypto checkout solutions, fewer deliver infrastructure capable of supporting long-term operational growth. In this review, we break down how businesses typically implement crypto payments — and analyze how 2328.io performs as a crypto payment gateway.

What Businesses Often Get Wrong
When researching how to accept crypto payments, companies often focus only on frontend integration.
In reality, a reliable crypto payment system must manage:
Blockchain monitoring and confirmationsMulti-network support (ERC20, TRC20, BEP20, etc.)Payment validation and underpayment toleranceSettlement logic and volatility managementReconciliation and accounting workflowsWithdrawal and payout automation
Many basic crypto gateways solve only the first layer — payment acceptance — while leaving settlement and treasury logic fragmented.

This is where infrastructure-focused providers differentiate themselves.

2328.io Overview
2328.io positions itself as an infrastructure-level crypto payment gateway rather than a checkout-only solution.
Founded by a team active in crypto processing since 2017, the platform is designed for businesses operating globally and handling structured digital transaction flows.

The core idea behind 2328 is simple:
Accept all major cryptocurrencies — while maintaining full financial control over settlement, balances, and payouts.

Integration Capabilities
One of the strongest aspects of 2328 is integration flexibility.
The platform supports:
Hosted checkout for rapid deploymentH2H (Host-to-Host) API for backend controlStatic wallet integration for deposit-based modelsBulk API payouts for automated withdrawals
This allows businesses to start with a simple integration and evolve toward a more complex architecture without migrating providers.
Compared to typical crypto checkout providers, this flexibility is a significant advantage.

Stablecoin Settlement & Volatility Control
Volatility remains one of the biggest concerns when accepting crypto payments.
2328 offers configurable automatic conversion of incoming payments to USDT or USDC. This enables businesses to:
Accept multiple cryptocurrenciesReduce exposure to price fluctuationsSimplify financial reportingMaintain stable internal accounting

While many providers support crypto acceptance, not all offer structured settlement control at the API level.
This feature positions 2328 closer to treasury infrastructure than a simple payment processor.
Invoice and Deposit-Based Payment Architecture
When businesses explore how to accept crypto payments, they typically choose between two operational models: invoice-based transactions or deposit-based balance systems.

Invoice-Based Payments
For most online services, dynamic invoice generation is the standard approach.
Instead of assigning permanent wallet addresses, merchants create a dedicated payment request for each transaction. This structure allows businesses to:
Generate invoices in fiat currencies with automatic crypto recalculationIssue invoices directly in cryptocurrencyAllow customers to choose network and assetAutomatically validate payment amounts and confirmation statusConfigure acceptable payment accuracy thresholds
Invoice-based architecture ensures that each transaction is clearly linked to a specific order, subscription, or service, simplifying reconciliation and accounting.
Deposit-Based Model
For platforms that operate with internal balances — such as SaaS ecosystems, exchanges, gaming platforms, or marketplaces — a deposit model may be more appropriate.
With 2328, businesses can:
Assign unique wallet addresses per userAutomatically detect and validate incoming depositsCredit internal balances after confirmationApply configurable accuracy toleranceReduce friction through network error recognition
This allows platforms to build internal digital economies rather than relying solely on one-time payments.
By supporting both invoice-driven and deposit-based architectures, 2328 functions as a flexible crypto payment gateway infrastructure layer. Businesses can start with simple checkout invoices and later expand into balance-based systems without switching providers.
This dual capability positions 2328 beyond basic crypto checkout solutions and closer to programmable financial infrastructure.

Bulk API Payouts
Withdrawal infrastructure is often the weakest point of crypto payment systems.
2328 includes Bulk API Payout functionality, enabling:
Automated mass withdrawalsMulti-asset payout executionOptional auto-conversion from USDT or USDC balancesScalable disbursement workflows

For exchanges, affiliate networks, marketplaces, and high-volume platforms, this feature is critical.
Many competitors focus heavily on acceptance — but lack programmable payout layers.
Strengths
Infrastructure-level API architectureStablecoin-based settlement controlDeposit-model compatibilityBuilt-in wallet and internal SWAP functionalityAdjustable payment accuracy settingsAutomated bulk payoutsMulti-network support
Who Should Consider 2328?
2328 is particularly well-suited for:
SaaS platformsMarketplacesExchangesGaming ecosystemsSubscription-based servicesDigital service providers
Businesses that need treasury control and automated payout infrastructure will benefit most.

Final Verdict
So, how to accept crypto payments effectively?
The answer depends on whether a company needs a basic checkout page or scalable crypto infrastructure.
2328.io stands out by combining payment acceptance, stablecoin settlement, deposit-based architecture, and payout automation within a single crypto payment gateway.
For businesses building long-term digital operations rather than experimenting with crypto, 2328 offers a structured and programmable approach to accepting cryptocurrency at scale.

Feb 2026 - Seoul, South Korea - Platform introduces creator revenue sharing, a pre-sale investment model for market backers, and a 100% revenue share-back event during its Private Beta launch on BNB Chain.

Prediction Markets Have a Creator Problem
Prediction markets are one of the fastest-growing verticals in crypto. They proved their mainstream potential during the 2024 U.S. election cycle when Polymarket surpassed traditional polling as a real-time signal for political outcomes. But as the sector scales, a fundamental design flaw has become increasingly visible: the people who create the markets and surface the most interesting questions don’t earn anything from the platforms they power.
On every major prediction market today, the platform collects 100% of trading fees. A creator who identifies a viral cultural moment and builds a market around it - the person whose insight generates all the trading volume - earns exactly zero from that activity. An early supporter who spots a promising market before anyone else and helps fund its liquidity receives no ongoing reward for that conviction.
This is the structural gap Xmarket was built to close.
What Is Xmarket?
Xmarket is a decentralized prediction market platform on BNB Chain where anyone can create a market on any topic - crypto, politics, entertainment, sports, economics - and earn revenue from the trading activity that market generates. No coding required. No token gating. No permission needed.
The simplest way to understand it: Xmarket is Pump.fun for Prediction Markets. Just as Pump.fun let anyone launch a token and earn from its success, Xmarket lets anyone launch a prediction market and earn from its trading volume. The difference is that prediction markets have real informational value - they’re not speculative assets with no utility. They’re instruments that surface what crowds actually believe about the future.
Revenue Sharing: Why Creators Will Move Here
The core innovation of Xmarket is its revenue-sharing architecture. Rather than retaining all trading fees at the protocol level, Xmarket distributes revenue back to the people who actually generate value on the platform:
Creator Revenue (Up to 50%)
When a creator builds a market and users trade on it, the creator earns up to 50% of the trading and redemption fees generated by that market. This is not a one-time reward. It’s a recurring income stream that runs for the entire life of the market. A creator who consistently builds markets that attract volume builds a real, compounding business - one that is not subject to social media algorithm changes, ad revenue fluctuations, or platform de-monetization. The creator owns their market and earns from it directly.
Referral Revenue
Every user on Xmarket can earn referral revenue by bringing new traders to the platform. During the 60-day promotional launch period, referrers earn 70% of fees generated from user-created markets and 100% of fees from platform-created markets. This creates a flywheel where creators are incentivized not just to build great markets, but to actively distribute them - turning every creator into their own marketing channel.
Why This Matters
The prediction market space is approaching an inflection point where creator acquisition will determine platform dominance. Polymarket proved the model works. The next phase is about who can attract the best market creators - the people who ask the most interesting questions and attract the most trading volume. Xmarket’s thesis is simple: pay them, and they will come.
The Pre-Sale Model: Investing in Markets Before They Go Live

This is arguably the most underappreciated feature of the Xmarket design, and the one that has the most potential to change how prediction markets are funded and launched.
Before any market goes live for public trading, it enters a Pre-Sale Phase. During this window, the market creator and early investors can fund the market’s Pre-Sale Pool. If the pool reaches its designated soft cap, the market officially launches. If it doesn’t, all contributed funds are returned - zero risk for early backers.
The critical part: Pre-Sale Investors earn a proportional share of that specific market’s ongoing revenue. This means that if you spot a market question before anyone else does - say, a market about a breaking geopolitical event, or an upcoming tech product launch - and you invest in its pre-sale, you earn revenue from every trade that market generates for its entire life.
This creates a new asset class within prediction markets: the ability to invest in the success of a market itself, not just a position within it. It rewards research, timing, and conviction - qualities that are currently unrewarded on any existing platform.
Beta Launch: 100% Revenue Returned to Users
To mark the Private Beta launch on BNB Chain Mainnet, Xmarket is running a limited-time event where 100% of all platform revenue is shared back to users. Every fee dollar generated during this promotional period goes directly to creators, pre-sale investors, and referrers. The platform retains nothing.
This is not a permanent structure - it’s a deliberate launch strategy designed to demonstrate the platform’s commitment to the creator-first model and to bootstrap the initial network of market builders and early investors who will define the platform’s market catalog.
Why BNB Chain
Xmarket chose BNB Chain for strategic, not arbitrary, reasons. The platform is built specifically for the APAC market, and BNB Chain has the largest established user base across Korea, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. USDT liquidity on BSC dwarfs that of competing L2s in the region, and transaction costs are low enough to support high-frequency prediction market trading without pricing out retail users.
BNB Chain is providing direct marketing and ecosystem support for the Xmarket launch, including introductions to projects within the BNB ecosystem for partnership opportunities.
Built for Real Trading: Order Book Infrastructure
While most decentralized prediction markets rely on Automated Market Makers (AMMs), Xmarket operates on a central limit order book (CLOB) model. The practical difference for users is significant: tighter spreads, better pricing, no impermanent loss for liquidity providers, and the ability to absorb large orders without the price distortion that plagues AMM-based platforms.
For retail traders, this means you get closer to the price you see when you click “buy.” For institutional or high-volume participants, this means the infrastructure can handle real size without moving the market against you. This is table-stakes infrastructure for a platform that expects to attract serious volume - not a feature, but a prerequisite.
What’s Next
The Private Beta is live on BNB Chain Mainnet. During this phase, Xmarket is onboarding creators through an invite-code system, refining the market creation flow, and running the 100% revenue share-back event. The platform’s KOL campaign is active across Twitter with 30 - 100 influencers driving awareness, and business development conversations are underway with major ecosystem players.
The roadmap ahead includes expanded social integration, broader creator tooling, and the $XMRK token generation event - details of which will be announced in a subsequent release.

About Xmarket
Xmarket is a creator-owned prediction market platform on BNB Chain. It is the first prediction market to share trading revenue directly with market creators and early investors, combining user-generated market creation, pre-sale economics, and order book trading infrastructure. Xmarket is designed for the APAC market and positions itself as “Pump.fun for Prediction Markets” - a platform where anyone can turn a cultural moment into a tradable market and earn from it.

Pump.fun’s $3 million Build in Public Hackathon continues to attract projects positioning themselves as foundational layers inside one of crypto’s fastest-moving ecosystems. Launched via the Pump Fund in January, the initiative backs founders who launch on Pump.fun, build in public, and demonstrate visible momentum; market traction provides the initial signal, and Pump Fund makes the final investment decisions.
Two recipients have already been announced: zauth (announced February 14, 2026) and Opal (@opalbotgg) as the second $250,000 selection, with additional picks ongoing. While many entrants remain at the idea or prototype stage, PumpMarket is already live on mainnet. In the first 48 hours since mainnet launch, with 63 markets resolved, 66 SOL in total volume and 150+ predictions made and settled.

A Dedicated Prediction Market for Crypto-Native Outcomes
General-purpose prediction markets have expanded rapidly across macroeconomic and political topics. However, they were not built for crypto-native micro-events, especially the rapid, high-frequency lifecycle of Pump.fun token launches.
PumpMarket addresses this gap by focusing on crypto-native outcomes that general-purpose prediction markets don’t cover. The platform launched with Graduation Markets (live on mainnet), where anyone can create a market on any new Pump.fun token and predict whether it will graduate from the bonding curve within a 1 hour window with settlement anchored to objective on-chain state changes.

Users participate by staking SOL on whether newly launched tokens will graduate within defined one-hour windows. The system operates through a parimutuel pool model, in which all stakes are pooled and distributed proportionally among correct participants once the market resolves.
By concentrating liquidity around a single, high-frequency event category, PumpMarket formalizes behavior traders already track rather than introducing entirely new mechanics.

Addressing the Execution Gap in Pump.fun
Pump.fun processes more than 20,000 token launches daily, yet graduation rates typically hover between one and two percent. Slippage, timing mismatches, and rapid liquidity shifts frequently undermine otherwise correct directional views.  While many traders believe they can identify strong projects early, execution remains unforgiving.
This sentiment is shared by PumpMarket CEO who noted “Pump.fun traders are right more often than people think.” “They lose money because execution is unforgiving, not because they can’t read the market.” PumpMarket gives them a way to back their conviction without touching the token.” 
By separating outcome conviction from spot trading mechanics, PumpMarket introduces a structured participation model that reduces exposure to volatility between entry and resolution. Furthermore, the platform enables two-sided expression, allowing participation in both graduation and non-graduation outcomes. Rather than fragmenting liquidity across thousands of unrelated topics, PumpMarket concentrates exclusively on Pump.fun’s ecosystem, aiming to create depth within a single, high-frequency event class.
Mainnet & Devnet Validation Signals Product-Market Fit
Prior to the hackathon, PumpMarket validated its infrastructure on devnet by resolving hundreds of markets against live on-chain Pump.fun data, proving the system could settle outcomes transparently and at scale. Since launching on mainnet, that validation has converted into real usage: users are actively creating and trading markets with real SOL, confirming demand for crypto-native outcomes in production, not just in testing.
The devnet phase also served as a stress test for the platform’s resolution infrastructure. Outcomes were verified in real time through integrations with leading Infrastructure providers like Bitquery, Helius, and Birdeye, ensuring that each market closed transparently and without discretionary intervention.
Beyond on-chain usage, the project received recognition within the Solana ecosystem, including acknowledgment from Solana co-founder Toly. Media coverage during the devnet stage from outlets such as TheNewsCrypto, Metaverse Post, OpenPR, Crypto News Flash, and BlockchainWire further signaled early ecosystem awareness prior to mainnet deployment.
PumpMarket Provides A Unique Solution
The Build in Public Hackathon was structured around four core themes: product maturity, demonstrable product-market fit, transparent development, and organic traction.
PumpMarket aligns with each.
First, the product is live. mainnet markets have been created, participated in, and resolved on-chain. The system operates using deployed smart contracts rather than conceptual wireframes. This positions the platform within a product-ready track rather than an early MVP hypothesis.
Second, traction has emerged without reliance on artificial incentive programs. Participation has centered on real graduation events inside Pump.fun’s ecosystem, suggesting engagement driven by user interest rather than short-term reward mechanics.
Third, the team has developed openly, sharing progress publicly in line with the hackathon’s “build in public” framework. Transparent iteration, live testing, and ecosystem engagement reinforce the competition’s underlying philosophy.
Finally, the platform addresses a measurable structural gap. Pump.fun processes tens of thousands of launches daily, yet graduation remains a low-frequency event with high trader attention. By formalizing that event into a structured outcome market, PumpMarket directly responds to an observable inefficiency within the ecosystem.
Commenting on this, PumpMarket co-founder added that “The Build in Public Hackathon is about proving product-market fit in the open. He further emphasises that traction, not narrative, should define credibility." “If you’re building infrastructure, it has to work before it wins attention. That’s what we focused on.”
Prediction markets are explicitly included among the hackathon’s accepted categories. PumpMarket’s focused implementation, live infrastructure, and measurable engagement place it squarely within scope. The hackathon rewards product maturity, transparent development, and organic traction.PumpMarket’s live infrastructure places it squarely within those parameters.
Building a Broader Prediction Layer
Unlike broad prediction platforms that distribute liquidity across macroeconomic events and unrelated categories, PumpMarket is purpose-built for Pump.fun’s ecosystem. Its initial focus on token graduations reflects a deliberate strategy rather than a narrow constraint.
Graduation is a binary, objectively verifiable on-chain milestone. It requires no discretionary interpretation and can be resolved transparently through real-time data. That structural clarity makes it particularly suited for outcome-based markets. By concentrating liquidity around a single high-frequency event class, PumpMarket prioritizes depth over fragmentation.
In doing so, the platform transforms Pump.fun’s own ecosystem data into a structured prediction layer native to the environment it serves. This idea is also shared by PumpMarket co-founder, who noted, “Graduation markets are our starting point, not our ceiling. We’re building the prediction layer for every verifiable on-chain outcome that matters. Pump.fun is where we start. The whole crypto ecosystem is where we’re going.”
More Development in the Pipeline
PumpMarket is now live on Solana mainnet and already generating revenue, with active markets being created and resolved in production. Building on this foundation, the platform will broaden beyond graduation outcomes into additional crypto-native categories, including structured markets around token price declines (downside markets), market capitalization milestones, trading volume thresholds, and exchange listing outcomes. Each category remains anchored in objectively verifiable on-chain or ecosystem events to enable transparent, rules-based settlement.
Over time, the same infrastructure is intended to extend beyond Pump.fun to additional launchpads and emerging crypto ecosystems. The longer-term objective is to establish a prediction layer that supports structured participation across a wide range of verifiable crypto-native events.
By starting with a concentrated use case and expanding methodically outward, PumpMarket positions itself not merely as a Pump.fun feature, but as an infrastructure layer designed to evolve alongside the broader crypto market.

About PumpMarket
PumpMarket is a crypto-native prediction market built on Solana, designed to enable structured, outcome-based participation in verifiable on-chain events. The platform allows users to stake SOL on whether newly launched Pump.fun tokens will graduate within defined time windows, removing the need to trade or custody the underlying asset.
Launching with Pump.fun token graduations as its first vertical, PumpMarket operates using a parimutuel pool model and Decaying Parimutuel Pools (DPP), with transparent settlement powered by real-time on-chain data integrations. The long-term objective is to build a prediction layer for crypto-native ecosystems, supporting markets across token performance, protocol milestones, and other objectively verifiable blockchain events.

Nordic Blockchain Conference returns to Stockholm for its 8th edition, highlighting the future of digital finance, policy, and blockchain’s interplay with other frontier technologies

The Nordic Blockchain Conference (NBC2026) - the largest and leading blockchain event in Northern Europe - returns to Stockholm on May 26-27th for its 8th edition, convening the most influential voices in blockchain, digital finance, regulation, and emerging technologies. 
Organized and hosted by Nordic Blockchain Association, NBC2026 is set to welcome 1,250 attendees for two days of impactful dialogue, curated networking, and visionary collaboration.

This year’s conference is centered around three critical themes driving the next wave of decentralized innovation:
Emerging Technology - exploring the convergence of blockchain with Artificial Intelligence, privacy-enhancing technologies, and much more.Regulation & Policy - navigating Europe’s evolving regulatory landscape and its global implications, with a focus on real implementation.Digital Finance - how blockchain is redefining capital markets, custody, and digital assets, including stablecoins, tokenized assets, and the future of finance.

Speakers include some of the most respected names in the global blockchain ecosystem, with executives and experts from BlackRock, JP Morgan, Cardano, eToro, Hashgraph, Stellar, IOTA, Gnosis, BSV, and many others.. 

NBC2026 is more than just a stage - it’s an experience. Alongside the main program, attendees can look forward to a rich array of side events and networking moments that extend the conversation beyond the two main stages - including policy roundtables, a pitch competition, the official After Party, an evening event for partners and VIPs, and much more.
With its ambitious agenda, top-tier speakers, and delegates from some of the leading-edge companies in the world, Nordic Blockchain Conference 2026 is poised to be one of the most impactful blockchain events in 2026.