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Paris, France, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire
Limited to 10 institutional allocators, the program combines curated stablecoin lending strategies with institutional onboarding through Anchorage.
Frgmnt, an institutional onchain yield infrastructure company, today announced its Founding Allocator Program, designed to give professional investors access to stablecoin lending markets without having to build and operate the underlying DeFi infrastructure themselves.
The program will initially be limited to 10 institutional allocators and provides access to non-custodial Morpho Vault strategies curated by Frgmnt. These strategies have generated an average annualized yield of 6.80%, with program participants eligible for an enhanced yield of up to 10% APY. Participants will pay no program fees during the Founding Allocator Program, with no lock-up period and same-day withdrawals under normal operating conditions.
The launch addresses an operational barrier to institutional participation in onchain finance: accessing yield strategies requires custody arrangements, reporting and processes for evaluating and managing allocations, alongside the underlying technology.
Institutional onboarding will be supported through Anchorage, allowing eligible participants to access the program through an institutional custody environment. Frgmnt will provide strategy curation, dedicated reporting, regular strategy reviews and direct access to its team.
“Institutions increasingly understand the opportunity in onchain finance, but accessing it still requires a significant operational and infrastructure effort,” said Aurélien Roussel, CEO and Co-Founder of Frgmnt. “We built the Founding Allocator Program to bridge that gap — combining professionally curated onchain strategies with the infrastructure institutional investors need to evaluate, access and manage an allocation.”
As stablecoins expand beyond crypto trading and payments, onchain lending markets offer another route for institutions to deploy capital. Accessing these markets, however, requires more than an attractive yield. Custody, liquidity, transparency, operational processes and ongoing risk management remain central considerations for professional allocators.
Frgmnt combines transparent onchain strategies with an institutional framework for accessing and monitoring those opportunities. Participants can review their allocations and underlying activity through onchain data alongside dedicated reporting, while retaining flexibility to increase or withdraw their allocations.
The limited initial cohort will allow Frgmnt to work closely with each participant throughout onboarding and as they evaluate and scale their onchain allocation.
Applications for the Founding Allocator Program are now open.
About Frgmnt
Frgmnt is building institutional infrastructure for accessing onchain yield. The company curates non-custodial Morpho Vault strategies designed to provide professional investors with structured access to stablecoin lending markets. Frgmnt focuses on strategy curation, risk parameters and the institutional product layer surrounding onchain yield, while custody and institutional access are provided through specialized infrastructure partners.
Frgmnt's protocol and strategy activity are transparent onchain, with relevant information and performance data made available through its website and blockchain analytics platforms.
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Aurélien Rousselaurelien@frgmnt.fi Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tokyo, Japan, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire
Both companies to explore pilot connecting yen-denominated stablecoin JPYSC with U.S. dollar stablecoin Open USD (OUSD), marking the first step toward frictionless yen–dollar settlement, onchain and in real time
SBI Holdings, Inc. ("SBI") and Startale Group Pte. Ltd. ("Startale") today announced they have joined Open Standard, the fast-growing alliance of more than 140 leading global companies, including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Coinbase, driving the adoption of Open USD (OUSD), a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin built for global-scale settlement.
As part of this move, the two companies will explore interoperability between OUSD and JPYSC, the yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank. The public launch of OUSD onchain provides a foundation for this partnership, with the companies working toward faster, more efficient settlement between the world’s two most-traded currencies.
A Pivotal Moment for Onchain Finance
The move comes as the global financial system undergoes a historic shift toward blockchain-based settlement. Landmark U.S. legislation, namely the GENIUS Act, has accelerated the build-out of regulated, enterprise-grade stablecoin infrastructure worldwide. In June 2026, this momentum culminated in the launch of Open Standard, uniting more than 140 companies spanning finance, payments, and technology behind a single mission: establishing OUSD as a common settlement layer for the onchain economy.
SBI and Startale have been at the forefront of this transformation in Asia. In July 2026, SBI Global Asset Management, DigiFT Tech Pte. Ltd., and Startale unveiled a proof-of-concept for settlement and distribution payments on tokenized securities, a project designed with JPYSC's future utility in mind. Startale has continued to broaden JPYSC's real-world use and to build institutional-grade trading infrastructure, extending onchain finance well beyond payments.
Against this backdrop, SBI and Startale see growing interoperability between JPYSC and OUSD as a powerful lever, one capable of streamlining yen-dollar settlement and unlocking new use cases for stablecoins across the onchain financial landscape. With OUSD now publicly launched, the companies will explore concrete opportunities to advance this vision.
Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings, Inc. "As onchain finance continues to evolve, cross-border transactions will become increasingly prevalent. SBI Group is working to establish the ‘SBI APAC Digital Economic Zone,’ and believes that enabling seamless transactions across borders and currencies lies at the heart of this vision. In particular, ensuring seamless convertibility between yen-denominated and U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins is essential. Our participation in Open Standard and exploration of a proof of concept for interoperability between OUSD and JPYSC represent an important step toward achieving this goal. SBI Group has already become the first in Japan to offer the U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins USDC and RLUSD, and will continue to promote the broader adoption of digital assets through collaboration with leading partners in Japan and overseas."
Sota Watanabe, CEO, Startale Group Pte. Ltd. "Our participation in Open Standard reflects the shared conviction of SBI and Startale that the future of finance is onchain, borderless, and interoperable by design. We see the opportunity to pilot interoperability between JPYSC and OUSD as highly significant. The yen and the dollar are two of the world's strongest and most trusted currencies and enabling them to be exchanged and utilized seamlessly onchain could unlock significant opportunities. By working closely with the SBI Group and Open Standard’s partner companies, we aim to connect Japanese assets and financial services with global onchain markets through the creation of concrete use cases and help build that future.”
Looking Ahead
By joining Open Standard, SBI and Startale are positioning JPYSC for deeper integration with global stablecoin infrastructure, a move aimed at strengthening the international liquidity of yen-denominated assets. The companies will continue to deepen collaboration with Open Standard's global partner network, working within applicable regulatory frameworks to build a safe, trusted, and truly interoperable stablecoin ecosystem for the onchain era.
Note: This announcement relates solely to the exploration of a pilot. It does not represent the launch of a new commercial service, nor the start of production settlement or trading activity

About Open USD (OUSD)
Open Standard is the company behind Open USD (OUSD). Our mission is to build internet-native money, enabling all businesses to move money on infrastructure that’s cheaper, faster, more global and more programmable. Over 200 financial institutions, fintechs, banks, and global businesses have signed up to add OUSD to their platforms and benefit from low fees, shared rewards, and representative governance. Open Standard was started in 2026 and its founding partners include Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe, and Visa.
About JPYSC
JPYSC is a yen-denominated, trust-backed stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank, Limited, structured in full compliance with Japan's Payment Services Act and trust law framework. Designed as core infrastructure for onchain yen settlement, funds transfer, and distribution, JPYSC is positioned to support tokenized asset trading and cross-border payments at scale.
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Panama City, Panama, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire
Pixagram announces free account creation for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. Built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, Pixagram is an anti-hierarchy social network where every post, vote, and comment is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, with no ads and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started.
Pixagram will cover the 20 PIXA network fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. New members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and join the platform’s on-chain community for creators.
► Quit Renting the Spotlight — Users can register at http://pixagram.com
An On-Chain Username and Wallet Address
Opening a Pixa chain account normally costs around 20 PIXA. Pixagram is covering this fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026.
Username and wallet address: Each @username serves as an on-chain wallet address, replacing a randomly generated string of characters with a recognizable handle.
Blockchain-based registration: Once registered on the blockchain, an @username remains associated with its on-chain record, subject to the network’s rules and technical conditions.
Phone verification and privacy: One-time phone verification helps limit bot abuse of the daily account offer. A public @username can separate a creator’s online identity from their legal name, although public blockchain records may limit privacy.
Not Really Anti-Social, Truly Anti-Hierarchy
Mainstream social media serves advertisers while gatekeepers decide who sees your work. Pixagram—alongside platforms like Hive and Mastodon—is a SIGMA platform built for creators who prefer agency over status games. Your posts, art, followers, and feeds live directly on-chain with nothing in between, allowing you to reach every follower automatically.
NFT Platform Storage and Artwork Permanence
On many NFT platforms, the token sits on-chain while the image lives on a cloud server or IPFS—meaning a token can easily outlive its art.
On Pixa, every artwork is stored directly on-chain inside its post as a lossless image. Compact pixel art lives permanently on the blockchain and renders up to 4K resolution as a painting, CRT filter, hexagonal shapes, or square pixels.
Zero upfront cost: Every new account receives a starter delegation of stake (Resource Credits fuel) to cover posting and voting from day one.
Build Mode Note: Direct on-chain art sales launch in 2027, so everything you publish today builds your permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.
► Less Lurking. One Original Post. Start at Pixagram.com
Proof-of-Brain and Community Curation
Instead of relying on the computational process used in Proof-of-Work systems, Pixagram uses Proof-of-Brain, a mechanism that allocates rewards based on posting, commenting, and voting activity.
Community reward distribution: 70% of newly issued PIXA is allocated to community-voted content, with 60% distributed to authors and 40% to curators after seven days.
Staking and governance mechanisms: Authors can receive Pixa Power, which determines voting weight and supports governance participation, and Pixa Supra (PXS), a unit referenced by an oracle to a agnostic purchasing power index (without a fixed dollar value). Curators can also receive Pixa Power.
Censorship-Resistant by Design
Built on the Hive codebase with Steem lineage, the Pixa chain started from a clean genesis block with no airdrop and produces a block every three seconds. While an application interface can hide a post from its view, it can never erase the transaction record from the chain.
Furthermore, every artwork is checked for copies using PAPH-X (an open-source perceptual fingerprint for pixel art) and indexed by the Search V4 engine.
"The old internet wants you trapped in feed fog, renting reach from gatekeepers who track every click. Today information is king, and Pixagram operates outside that hierarchy... Don't believe the hype. Create it." — Matias Affolter, Co-Founder of Pixa
"The strongest rebellion is a working alternative. We're covering the network fee for 250 new accounts a day so any creator can step into build mode at zero cost. Claim your permanent @username now—because once a handle is written to the chain, it's gone forever." — Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa
Pixagram Account Registration and Developer Resources
Pixagram offers fee coverage for up to 250 new accounts daily through the end of 2026. Eligible new members can register and claim an @username at Pixagram.com. Additional technical information is available in the developer documentation at pixa.org.
About Pixagram
Pixagram is an on-chain pixel art and blog network developed by Pixagram AG (Zug, Switzerland) and operated by Pixa Rex S.A. (Panama City, Panama).
Contact
OwnerPixa Omnibus FoundationPixa Rex S.A.contact@pixarex.net Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Willemstad, Curaçao, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire
1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has launched the two-week public sale for $1WIN, a Solana-based token that extends the company’s existing gaming ecosystem with Web3 utility, user rewards, and revenue-linked token mechanics.
The public sale is now live, with 130 million $1WIN available at $0.03 USDC per token through an oversubscription model, with the Token Generation Event (TGE) occurring on October 30th. Participants can deposit USDC into the sale pool during the two-week sale window, with a minimum contribution of $10 and no maximum contribution.
Rather than operating on a first-come, first-served basis, final token allocations will be determined proportionally after the sale window closes in order to encourage fair distribution for all users. If demand exceeds the number of tokens available, each participant will receive a proportional allocation based on their contribution, with any unused USDC refunded.
$1WIN is being introduced into a platform that serves 100 million registered players across international markets. 1win’s existing business operates independently of the token and already generates revenue through its gaming and entertainment products.
The token has a fixed total supply of 1 billion $1WIN, with no additional minting after TGE. It is designed for use across 1win products including gaming, lottery, rewards, and other ecosystem functions. Two mechanisms connect the token directly with activity on the existing platform: open-market buybacks funded by gaming revenue and the permanent burning of 10% of $1WIN spent through supported platform products.
The sale marks the debut of $1WIN, the token introduced by 1win, a gaming and entertainment platform that has operated since 2016 and built its business without relying on a token. At the public sale price of $0.03 per token, $1WIN has a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of just $30 million. Issued as a native Solana token, $1WIN is compatible with standard Solana wallets and decentralized exchanges and is designed for use across the 1win ecosystem.
CertiK and Halborn also conducted independent security assessments of the token's smart contract infrastructure ahead of the sale and TGE. The audits reviewed the Solana-based smart contracts supporting the $1WIN ecosystem, including token, sale, and burn functionality.
The sale is the latest step in 1win’s broader expansion into Web3. The platform supports multi-chain cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and introduced wallet-based authentication through Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect earlier this year, allowing users to register, sign in, and deposit through a connected crypto wallet.
The $1WIN public sale is now open. Users can participate and learn more about the token here.
About 1win
Founded in 2016, 1win is a crypto entertainment platform in the global gaming industry. Operating across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, 1win offers a wide range of entertainment products adapted to regional audiences. The brand collaborates with international public figures, including UFC legend Ilia Topuria, Olympic champion and UFC fighter Gable Steveson, professional boxer Ryan Garcia, rapper Tyga, reggaeton star Nicky Jam, and UFC interviewer Nina Drama, all of whom are 1win VIP community members. 1win also partners with the football legend Luis Suárez.
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Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients.
In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up with a new product for foreign clients.
The launch of A7 International marks a new stage in A7’s journey. In response to requests from foreign entrepreneurs, the company is expanding its positioning and creating an export offering for businesses in various countries. It is a remote service compliant with local legislation on digital assets and available only in those jurisdictions where cryptocurrency circulation is permitted.
“We are presenting not just a new product in the lineup, but a new image of A7. We have adapted our service so that it can be used remotely from anywhere in the world. This is precisely the key demand of market participants today. They want to be able to transfer money around the world in a few clicks in the shortest possible time – directly from your smartphone, without lengthy paperwork, hidden fees, or unjustified holds on funds. And we are packaging this demand into a convenient and competitive form,” said Chairman of Bank PSB Petr Fradkov.
The mechanics of the service are simple: the client transfers USDT, and A7 arranges a bank transfer via SWIFT using the counterparty details specified in the invoice. The recipient does not need to accept cryptocurrency or open a crypto wallet: the funds arrive in their bank account.
To submit an application, you need to register in your personal account on the website a7.biz. Individuals undergo identity verification (KYC), and companies undergo corporate data verification (KYB). Then the client uploads the invoice and the necessary documents. The built-in algorithm automatically recognizes the invoice data and helps fill out the application.
“The system operates as follows. AI analyzes the sender and beneficiary, jurisdictions, and key risk factors of the transaction. Based on the verification results, a risk profile of the payment is formed and the available options for processing it are determined. The system compares compliance requirements with the capabilities of the existing payment infrastructure. After that, it recommends the optimal payment route taking into account its cost, speed, reliability, and applicable restrictions. Routing dynamically adapts to changes in conditions and the availability of payment channels. Data accumulated over the years makes it possible to continuously improve the quality of decisions made by the system,” noted A7 CEO Ilan Shor.
At launch, A7 International accepts USDT on the TRON network. Bank transfers are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan, and UAE dirhams. Other currencies are available by prior agreement. The commission is 0.3% for both businesses and individuals. After uploading the invoice, the client sees the final cost of the payment, including commission, in advance.
Payment execution time is from one business day. After the operation is completed, the client receives a SWIFT message or another confirming document. For currency and customs control, the service also provides closing documents.
The presentation of the service took place on a symbolic date and time — October 13 at 13:13.
Video of the official presentation and Customer journey here.
About A7
A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank.
A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes.
A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA.
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CMOAlex FedorovA7info@a7.biz Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Willemstad, Curaçao, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has announced the upcoming public sale of $1WIN, a new Solana-based token designed to extend the company’s existing gaming ecosystem with Web3 utility, user rewards, and revenue-linked token mechanics. The token sale starts here on October 15th at 4 pm BST.
The public sale marks the next stage in the rollout of $1WIN, which is being introduced to a platform serving 100 million registered players across international markets. Unlike token projects built around a future product roadmap, 1win’s existing business operates independently of the token and already generates revenue through its gaming and entertainment products.
$1WIN will have a fixed total supply of 1 billion tokens, with no additional minting after TGE. The token is being developed for use across 1win products, including gaming, lottery, rewards, and other ecosystem functions.
Two mechanisms will connect the token directly with activity on the existing platform: open-market buybacks funded by gaming revenue and the permanent burning of 10% of $1WIN spent through supported platform products.
Rather than financing buybacks from a finite pool of token reserves, 1win plans to fund regular $1WIN purchases using revenue generated by its existing gaming business. Separately, 10% of $1WIN spent through supported products will be permanently removed from supply through a smart contract.
The majority of the token supply is also allocated around user participation. 51% of the total supply is designated for user-facing mechanisms, including 25% for platform game reward pools, 18% for Wager Rewards, and 8% for distribution through the 1win Telegram Mini App.
$1WIN will be issued as a native token on Solana, allowing it to integrate with standard Solana wallets and decentralized exchanges alongside its planned use within the 1win ecosystem. The upcoming public sale will provide the first broader opportunity for users to access $1WIN ahead of its wider ecosystem rollout.
The token forms part of 1win’s broader expansion into Web3, and its structure is designed to make the token an extension of an operating business. The platform already supports multi-chain cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and introduced wallet-based authentication through Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect earlier this year, allowing users to register, sign in, and deposit through a connected crypto wallet.
To learn more about $1WIN, users can look here.
About 1win
Founded in 2016, 1win is a crypto entertainment platform in the global gaming industry. Operating across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, 1win offers a wide range of entertainment products adapted to regional audiences. The brand collaborates with international public figures, including UFC legend Ilia Topuria, Olympic champion and UFC fighter Gable Steveson, professional boxer Ryan Garcia, rapper Tyga, reggaeton star Nicky Jam, and UFC interviewer Nina Drama, all of whom are 1win VIP community members. 1win also partners with the football legend Luis Suárez.
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New York, NY, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
DeepSigma, a new decentralized perpetual futures exchange for real-world assets (RWAs), today unveiled its platform with a live paper-trading demo spanning 77 markets across U.S. equities, indexes, commodities, sector ETFs and Treasury yields.
Powered by the Cypherium blockchain, DeepSigma is being built to bring the perpetual futures model that has grown rapidly in crypto to traditional financial markets. Rather than tokenizing or taking custody of the underlying assets, DeepSigma's perpetual contracts track their respective real-world markets through external price data, allowing traders to gain long or short exposure without owning or taking delivery of the underlying asset.
The platform is being developed by a team spanning traditional finance, quantitative trading and blockchain infrastructure, with experience at Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google and Uber.
DeepSigma has also been designed around U.S. regulatory frameworks from day one. The company is working with specialized digital-asset counsel and views regulatory readiness as a market-entry advantage rather than an issue to address after achieving scale.
“Crypto has already demonstrated the demand for perpetual markets, but you cannot simply take the same model and put a stock or commodity ticker on it,” said Sky Guo, CEO of DeepSigma and founder of Cypherium. “Real-world markets have different trading hours, liquidity conditions, pricing sources and regulatory considerations. We started DeepSigma with those differences in mind.”
Building Perpetual Markets for Assets That Don't Trade Like Crypto
DeepSigma's live demo currently supports paper trading across 77 RWA perpetual contracts, including leading U.S. equities; the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, Russell 2000 and VIX; S&P sector ETFs; commodities including WTI and Brent crude oil, gold, silver, natural gas and copper; and U.S. Treasury yields.
Unlike crypto assets that trade continuously on largely crypto-native venues, real-world assets can stop trading overnight or over weekends while related markets continue moving. They can also face fragmented price discovery and periods of thin liquidity.
DeepSigma's technical architecture is being designed around those differences. Its risk framework includes multi-source external pricing, mark-price mechanisms intended to reduce the impact of short-term manipulation, position and exposure limits, circuit breakers, partial liquidations and an insurance mechanism for stressed market conditions.
The platform uses a central limit order book model, with a clearing layer responsible for positions, collateral, margin and settlement.
“The hardest part of bringing real-world assets on-chain isn't creating another market symbol. It's making sure the market still behaves sensibly when the underlying asset is closed, liquidity disappears or an external price moves sharply,” said Guo. “Those are market-structure problems, and they have to be part of the architecture from the beginning.”
DeepSigma's trading terminal currently combines paper-trading functionality with market data, technical indicators, asset-specific news, portfolio tracking and a competitive leaderboard. An AI Market Analysis Desk can analyze markets and generate potential trading strategies, but operates entirely off-chain with zero authority to execute trades or move user assets.
Prove Eligibility, Not Identity
Identity is another area where DeepSigma is taking a different approach from fully permissionless perpetual venues.
The company is developing decentralized identity infrastructure around the principle of “prove eligibility, not identity.” The proposed architecture uses zero-knowledge proofs to allow a participant to demonstrate that they meet required criteria without publishing the underlying personal information on-chain.
The approach forms part of DeepSigma's broader strategy of designing around U.S. regulatory frameworks from the beginning while preserving as much of the privacy and user control associated with decentralized markets as possible.
Powered by Cypherium and Patented Blockchain Technology
DeepSigma is powered by Cypherium, the open, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain founded by Guo.
Cypherium's technology is protected by four granted U.S. patents covering blockchain consensus and related technology: U.S. Patent Nos. 12,443,569; 11,907,174; 11,516,006; and 11,411,721.
Its architecture combines Proof-of-Work with HotStuff-derived Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus. The technology provides the underlying blockchain infrastructure on which DeepSigma is being developed. Cypherium is designed to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, providing the throughput needed to support high-frequency, on-chain financial activity.
Guo, a named inventor on Cypherium's patented technology, previously co-authored DLT Options for CBDC with Thomas Moser of the Swiss National Bank and has spoken at the United Nations Headquarters and Nasdaq.
DeepSigma's wider leadership team includes Albert Xu, CFO, a former FICC portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs and serial technology founder; Chaoran Wang, CTO, a former Google and Uber engineer and founder of quantitative trading firm UmiUmi; and Jenny Chen, Chief Quant Director, a quantitative macro trader, Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance honoree and most recently at Citadel Securities.
“DeepSigma brings together two areas that have largely developed separately: the market structure and risk discipline of traditional finance, and the open infrastructure that has made on-chain perpetuals successful,” Guo said. “The opportunity is not to copy one market into the other. It is to build infrastructure specifically for where the two meet.”
About DeepSigma
DeepSigma is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange for real-world assets, powered by the Cypherium blockchain. Designed around U.S. regulatory frameworks from day one, DeepSigma is developing perpetual markets spanning equities, indexes, commodities and rates, with infrastructure built around the distinct pricing, liquidity and market-structure requirements of real-world assets. Its live demo currently supports paper trading across 77 RWA perpetual markets, alongside market data, technical analysis and AI-powered trading insights.
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Steinhausen, Switzerland, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
Holders of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin can now pay suppliers, staff and landlords worldwide directly from self-custodial wallets through TrustLinq, with recipients receiving ordinary bank transfers in their local currency.
TrustLinq CH AG, a Swiss-regulated crypto-to-fiat payment platform, has expanded its partnership with Ripple by enabling third-party fiat payments funded from Ripple USD (RLUSD), the US dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York Department of Financial Services trust charter. TrustLinq clients holding RLUSD (ERC-20) can now pay any third-party bank account in more than 190 countries and over 80 currencies directly from self-custodial holdings, with recipients receiving standard bank transfers in their local currency.
The expansion builds on the companies' existing collaboration, under which Ripple Payments settlement infrastructure powers TrustLinq's global fiat payouts.
RLUSD was designed for enterprise-grade payments and institutional use, and the new capability gives holders a direct route into real-world settlement. Funds remain in the client's own wallet, connected to a dedicated payment vault, until the moment a payment executes. TrustLinq converts the required amount and delivers a bank transfer to the recipient through SEPA, Faster Payments, ACH, local payment corridors or SWIFT, with most transfers arriving the same or next business day. Recipients need only a bank account and do not interact with cryptocurrency at any point.
The capability addresses a structural gap in stablecoin usage. Analysis published by McKinsey and Artemis Analytics in January 2026 found that of approximately USD 35 trillion moving over stablecoin rails annually, roughly USD 390 billion, about one percent, constituted real-world payments such as payroll, invoices and remittances, with business-to-business payments the fastest-growing segment. TrustLinq's model targets that gap by settling obligations in fiat directly from self-custody, rather than requiring holders to sell through an exchange and transfer funds onward from a personal bank account.
"Stablecoin holders have never lacked ways to trade; they have lacked ways to pay," said Lili Metodieva, Co-Founder of TrustLinq. "RLUSD was built as regulated, enterprise-grade digital money, and this expansion gives it the last mile: a supplier invoice in Vietnam, a salary in Germany, rent in Dubai, paid straight from self-custody and arriving as ordinary bank transfers. Swiss regulation is what makes that possible at global scale."
TrustLinq operates as a Swiss financial intermediary subject to anti-money-laundering supervision through SO-FIT, a self-regulatory organisation recognised by FINMA, which gives recipient banks a regulated Swiss counterparty on every transfer. Clients verify once at onboarding; from then on, initiating a payment takes minutes. The platform supports payments funded from USDT (ERC-20 and TRC-20), USDC, EURC and RLUSD, serving individuals and businesses for use cases including supplier invoices, payroll, contractor payments, rent and tuition.
RLUSD support is available immediately to all verified TrustLinq clients, with no integration required. Coverage by destination and currency is published on the company's supported countries and currencies page.
About TrustLinq
TrustLinq is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary bridging cryptocurrency and traditional banking. The platform enables individuals and businesses holding cryptocurrency to send fiat payments to anyone, anywhere in the world, across 80+ currencies. Operating under Swiss regulation and compliant with Swiss AML, TrustLinq seamlessly enables crypto-to-fiat and executes payments globally while maintaining local payment efficiency via methods including SEPA, SWIFT, Faster Payments, ACH, and upcoming debit card solutions. The company prioritises security, compliance, and user control through a non-custodial intermediary model that does not hold client funds.
For more information, users can visit https://trustlinq.com
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Moscow, Russia, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire
On 13 October, the Russian international settlement system A7, created by Bank PSB, is set to present A7 International, a service enabling payments for a foreign counterparty's invoice in USDT, with the funds arriving via a standard SWIFT bank transfer in the required currency.
The service will cater primarily to foreign trade operators, but individuals are also eligible customers. The fee remains fixed at 0.3 percent.
Petr Fradkov, Chairman of PJSC Bank PSB, and Ilan Shor, CEO of A7, will provide a glimpse into its new offering on 13 October at 13:13.
To join the live broadcast and learn about the new project, follow the links:
https://a7.biz/live
About A7:
A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank.
A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes.
A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA.
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CMOAlex FedorovA7info@a7.biz Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire
Trace, the onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data with more than 250 million verifiable receipts, brings its training data to Sui and Walrus to power the next generation of AI models.
Sui Foundation and The DATA Foundation today announced that the DATA Network and its Trace registry are joining the Sui stack, bringing a live supply of rights-cleared AI training data onto the infrastructure Sui has built for AI workloads. Walrus, the data platform with integrity proofs anchored on Sui, becomes the default storage layer for applications operated by DATA Foundation. Separately, the DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui.
The upgrade gives AI labs a single place to source real-world training data they are allowed to use, with its provenance recorded by Trace and the original file stored and access-controlled on Walrus.
The data AI needs next
The next generation of AI models is constrained by access to real-world data. The open internet has been scraped, and the data that comes next must be sourced from people, with consent and with provenance that regulators and legal teams will accept. The EU AI Act and ongoing litigation over training data have made provenance a procurement requirement for labs.
The data those models need sits with people rather than on the open web: a nurse describing a patient’s night in her own words, a dashcam recording of a rainy commute in Jakarta, a factory technician’s hands as they diagnose a fault, or a customer call conducted in Bengali. It is personal and often regulated, and it belongs to the people who generated it.
Trace, launched by DATA Foundation in June as an onchain registry for AI training data, was built for exactly this kind of data. It records the origin of each contribution and the rights attached to it, and settles payment to the person who contributed it. It has registered more than 250 million contributions since launch and now processes over 3M receipts per day on average. Applications writing to Trace include Kled, the largest opt-in human data marketplace with over 1.5 billion records being onboarded, along with Numo and Oto, applications that already license data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies.
Why Sui and Walrus
Sui represents every asset as a programmable object, allowing datasets and their licenses to be managed onchain like tokens. Independent transactions execute in parallel and settle in under a second, making the network capable of handling millions of daily registrations. Walrus extends this capability to large files: it stores massive AI datasets efficiently and ensures data is only readable by licensed buyers. No other network offers storage, access control, and ownership tracking built natively into a single ecosystem, together with verifiable compute.
Trace now adds a flagship supply of rights-cleared data, with existing demand from the AI labs that license it today. The result of the integration will be stronger provenance guarantees and tamper evidence. Today a Trace record proves that a file was registered and when, and with Walrus, Trace will be able to hold an encrypted, immutable copy of the contributed file itself as a reference guarantee. The hash of the record can be regenerated from the data itself rather than from metadata an application supplied, and any later processing of the file can be checked against the original.
The upgrade is backed by a long-term strategic investment. Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in the DATA Network, establishing the largest institutional stake in the network, alongside the continuing holdings of PIP Labs and the DATA Foundation. Furthering the alignment, SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, joins Sui Foundation as Strategic Advisor.
The protocol upgrade
DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired. $DATA continues as the token of the DATA protocol on Sui, carried over one-to-one, with holder economics and governance rights at least equivalent to today. Locked and vesting positions carry over unchanged. In parallel, Walrus becomes the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications.
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui and Walrus, said: “The AI industry has reached the point where the open internet has been read, and the next frontier is defined by access to datasets with the consent and provenance that regulators require. Sui and Walrus were built to be the home where AI data is stored, licensed, and paid for, capable of operating at the scale these systems demand. The migration of DATA Network and Trace to our stack now brings massive volumes of high-quality, rights-cleared data that is already serving the world’s frontier AI labs.”
SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, said: “The next generation of AI will be trained on data that lives with people rather than on the open web, and that data needs consent and provenance built in, along with a way to pay the people it comes from, and Trace was built to be that layer. It now becomes part of the Sui stack alongside Walrus, backed by one of the strongest engineering organizations in the industry and with Sui Foundation as the network’s largest strategic holder. This is the right home for the network we built, and I am looking forward to helping Sui make it the data layer for AI.”
Andrea Muttoni, CEO of DATA Foundation, said: “Training data is critical for continuously expanding the frontier, and making sure it is traceable, auditable and cleared to use is just as important for AI safety as it is a precursor for data quality. With Trace, we have been tracking hundreds of millions of data assets. Joining forces with Sui now allows us to build out more of the stack, offering more than just an audit trail, like encrypted reference file storage and potentially fully verifiable TEEs for evals and fine tunings in the future.”
The existing DATA Network will continue to operate until the upgrade is complete, and a detailed timeline and holder transition plan will be published prior to the upgrade.
About DATA Foundation
DATA Foundation supports the DATA Network, the protocol for tracking provenance of the real-world data AI models need. Through Trace, each contribution is registered with its provenance receipt and a full audit trail. Applications building on the network include Kled, Numo, Oto, and others. Formerly Story Foundation, the organization refocused on AI training data in June 2026. The DATA Network is being upgraded to run as a protocol on Sui.
About Sui
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for onchain finance and agentic infrastructure. 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 verifiable. Sui’s primitives offer everything necessary to create high-performance finance and AI-native applications. Learn more at sui.io.
About Walrus
Walrus is the data platform built for the demands of AI. It lets builders, enterprises, and AI agents move data across apps and models, protect it with built-in access rules, and make it verifiable by anyone. As AI takes actions with consequence, the data it runs on has to be provable. Created by the cryptographers and distributed systems engineers behind Sui and Meta’s first stablecoin initiative. walrus.xyz
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Singapore, Singapore, October 9th, 2026, Chainwire
OceanBase’s international business launched EvolvingX, a dedicated database solution for next-generation digital platforms, at the TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 event. Built as a full-lifecycle data foundation, EvolvingX is designed to support the evolving needs of a wide range of businesses, particularly next-generation digital platforms, while delivering always-on performance — scaling freely with traffic fluctuations, supporting both high-throughput transactions and complex queries in one architecture, and helping teams move from early-stage development to global operations with lower cost and less architectural friction.
Digital asset platforms typically run workloads that resemble financial-grade platforms, where order management, market data, risk control, and ledger systems must operate together without interruption. Because these services serve users around the world, they cannot afford downtime, data inconsistencies, or slow responses during peak demand. Many teams also struggle with the complexity of sharded databases, cross-database transactions, and frequent infrastructure upgrades as their businesses expand. At the same time, they need to protect user and transaction data while keeping operational costs under control. And because the landscape of such platforms changes rapidly, their data platforms must be able to evolve without forcing constant architectural overhauls.
EvolvingX is built to address those challenges with a set of targeted optimizations:
High throughput with millisecond-level latency: Under a 3-node configuration (32C128G per node), the solution can sustain 150,000 high-frequency writes per second. Among these, 99% of writes complete within 1 millisecond, and 99% of queries finish within 20 milliseconds, with end-to-end API latency controlled below 100 milliseconds (representing a 30% reduction in latency compared to traditional architectures). Furthermore, the system supports linear scaling of read/write throughput by adding nodes; the largest production deployment built on this solution has been shown to continuously handle tens of millions of read/write operations per second.
Balanced performance across the cluster: EvolvingX completely eliminates the “single-point hotspot” issue commonly seen in traditional sharded architectures. Powered by OceanBase’s automatic load-balancing technology, tests on a six-node cluster show that CPU utilization is evenly distributed between 14% and 22%, with total cluster load staying below 30%, effectively preventing any single node from becoming overloaded.
Simpler architecture and lower infrastructure costs: By replacing cross-generation heterogeneous instances with a standardized homogeneous cluster, EvolvingX can reduce monthly infrastructure costs by nearly 70%.
Strong MySQL compatibility: In a proof-of-concept covering eight categories and 30 scenarios, including complex SQL, transactions, and operations, EvolvingX achieved a 100% pass rate, allowing existing MySQL-based applications to migrate with minimal changes.
Multi-region resilience and data security: A multi-region disaster recovery design helps applications continue operating during regional power or network failures. Layered encryption and security features are designed to protect information such as user identity data, asset addresses, and transaction histories.
The solution supports fast-evolving next-generation digital platforms from early development through global expansion. It allows teams to scale vertically and horizontally at the tenant, server, and cluster levels, and it can handle online transaction processing, hybrid transactional and analytical workloads, and analytical queries within the same platform. Built on OceanBase’s Paxos-based three-replica architecture, EvolvingX provides strong consistency and high availability. Its in-database AI and hybrid search capabilities also allow teams to run AI models directly against live data and build AI agent applications without moving data across multiple systems.
During the past several years, OceanBase has supported digital asset platform-related companies such as HashKey and ChainBase. With EvolvingX, the company plans to expand its support for the broader ecosystem of next-generation digital platforms, offering a database platform that can grow with teams as they move from early traction to large-scale, global operations.
About OceanBase
OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics.
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George Town, , October 8, 2026 —, Cayman Islands, October 8th, 2026, Chainwire
THORChain, a decentralized exchange, announced that native Zcash (ZEC) swaps are now live, allowing users to exchange ZEC with assets across other supported blockchain networks without relying on wrapped tokens or a centralized exchange.
The launch follows THORChain update 3.20, which introduced support for Zcash and Monero to the protocol. The Zcash pool currently holds more than $50,000 in liquidity, allowing the network to begin processing live ZEC swaps.
The pool remains in a soft-launch phase while performance is monitored. Trading may be temporarily paused if bugs or other issues need to be addressed. The current pool size can easily support trades in the five-figure range, however larger trades will experience higher slippage and take longer to settle until liquidity grows in the pool.
Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) will be automatically added to the Zcash pool when the fees/depth ratio is high enough. POL, introduced as part of the 3.20 upgrade, gives the protocol a mechanism to deploy a portion of the liquidity fees (currently set at 20%) into supported liquidity pools. As more liquidity enters the ZEC pool, it will be better equipped to support larger swaps with lower price impact and faster execution.
The integration gives Zcash holders a direct route into the broader crypto market using native assets. Users can swap ZEC against supported assets including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins without needing to deposit their Zcash with a centralized custodian or convert it into a wrapped representation on another network.
Zcash adds another native blockchain to THORChain’s cross-chain liquidity network, bringing the total to 14 blockchains. Rather than move assets through bridges or require users to give up custody to trade between otherwise disconnected networks, THORChain settles swaps using the native assets on their respective chains.
The soft launch will allow the network to test Zcash swaps under real market conditions while liquidity develops. The Zcash pool and its current liquidity can be tracked here.
About THORChain
THORChain is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that enables users to swap native digital assets across different blockchain networks without relying on wrapped assets or centralized custodians. It allows users to exchange assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other supported cryptocurrencies while maintaining a self-custodial experience.
Users can swap assets here: swap.thorchain.org
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 8th, 2026, Chainwire
NextBlock has invested $3 million in Soda Labs’s seed round, funding the company’s entire closed round as it expands its programmable privacy infrastructure for financial activity on public blockchains.
Over the past two and a half years, Soda Labs has developed a cryptographic privacy solution combining garbled circuits with multiparty computation (GC-MPC). It relies on standard, battle-tested cryptography such as AES and SHA256. Its privacy engine runs on ordinary cloud CPUs with no specialized hardware, enabling private computation while applications stay connected to existing public blockchain infrastructure.
Soda’s technology has already processed more than 100 million transactions on the COTI network, where it supports deployed applications including tokenization platform Zoniqx and perpetuals exchange PriveX. PriveX has processed more than $20 billion in trading volume, while Zoniqx is onboarding issuers across multiple asset classes and jurisdictions.
“What attracted us to Soda was not only the underlying cryptography, but the practicality of the technology for the financial workloads we believe will matter most onchain,” said Pieter van Poecke, Founder and General Partner of NextBlock. “Soda already had a working product and paying customers. We believe its differentiated technical IP, deeply technical founding team and strong commercial instincts give the company a compelling foundation for its next phase.”
The capital gives Soda Labs the room to focus over the next 12 to 18 months on scaling commercial adoption and execution.
The investment comes as Soda Labs extends its architecture from gcEVM, its Ethereum Layer 2 privacy layer that remains live on COTI, to Soda Bubble: a chain-agnostic coprocessor for programmable privacy. Bubble is designed to process developer-defined workloads originating from different blockchains without exposing the underlying private data publicly or to Soda Labs itself.
The Bubble Validator Network enables participants to mathematically verify that computations involving private data have been performed faithfully. Soda Labs is expanding the network as Bubble goes live across major EVM ecosystems, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and Base. Expansion to non-EVM networks, including Solana, is also underway.
Soda Labs expects to publish updated performance benchmarks in the coming weeks. According to the company, its latest testing was conducted on Arbitrum and measured the complete transaction lifecycle on the live network, including encryption, MPC computation, consensus and settlement, rather than the cryptographic operation in isolation.
The company reports that the results represent a five- to tenfold improvement over its previously published benchmark. Soda Labs also reports that its garbled-circuit MPC architecture can deliver approximately 10 to 100 times greater throughput and 100 to 1,000 times lower cost per transaction than currently available alternatives, while operating on standard cloud CPUs. The new benchmark results have not yet been publicly released.
The new capital will support Soda Labs’ go-to-market strategy, the expansion of its validator network and blockchain coverage, team growth and integrations with banks, payment companies, tokenization platforms and other financial infrastructure providers. The company is also working with financial and infrastructure organizations on several undisclosed pilots, with the objective of converting them into production deployments.
“Public blockchains already have the liquidity, users and financial applications. What they lack is a way for regulated money to move without showing everyone everything,” said Avishay Yanai, Co-Founder and CEO of Soda Labs. “Bubble gives banks, payment companies and tokenization platforms privacy with controlled disclosure, on the chains they already use. This round lets us take it from pilots to production.”
About NextBlock
NextBlock is a Luxembourg-based, thesis-driven venture capital firm investing at the intersection of blockchain and programmable cryptography. The firm backs companies building foundational infrastructure for privacy-preserving computation, encrypted systems and institutional digital finance, with investments spanning technologies such as multiparty computation, garbled circuits, fully homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge systems and post-quantum cryptography. NextBlock invests globally in technical teams translating advances in cryptography and computer science into commercially deployable infrastructure and applications.
About Soda Labs
Soda Labs builds confidentiality infrastructure for real-world onchain finance. Its Bubble privacy layer uses garbled-circuit multiparty computation (GC-MPC) to enable private transactions and computation across public blockchains while supporting selective disclosure and compliance requirements. Bubble is live across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base and COTI, with additional networks planned. Soda Labs’ technology is designed for financial use cases including payments and stablecoins, institutional DeFi, tokenization, asset management and banking infrastructure. The company was founded by Avishay Yanai (CEO), PhD in cryptography, and Meital Levy (CTO), PhD in algorithms, who together bring more than 20 years of experience in security.
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Willemstad, Curaçao, October 8th, 2026, Chainwire
1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has completed independent smart contract security audits of its upcoming $1WIN token with blockchain security firms CertiK and Halborn. The assessments reviewed the token’s Solana-based smart contract infrastructure ahead of its planned launch.
The audits examined the smart contracts supporting key elements of the $1WIN ecosystem, including token operations, sale mechanics, burns and related functionality. Neither CertiK nor Halborn identified any critical or high-severity vulnerabilities during their assessments.
CertiK conducted manual review and static analysis as part of its assessment of the $1WIN Token and Token Sale & Burn programs. CertiK’s published audit page lists 57 audited files and 10 findings in total, with seven resolved, two partially resolved and one acknowledged. The audit identified no critical or major-severity findings, while both medium-severity findings were resolved.
Halborn separately conducted a smart contract assessment of 1win’s Solana programs. The review focused on ensuring that the smart contract functions operate as intended and identifying potential security issues. Halborn reported four findings, with no critical or high-severity issues. Three findings were resolved, including the audit’s single medium-severity finding, while one low-severity issue was partially resolved. The full Halborn assessment is also publicly available.
The audits form part of the technical preparation for $1WIN, a native SPL token being developed for integration across the 1win ecosystem. The token is designed for use across gaming, lottery, rewards, and other platform functions.
The completion of both security assessments provides an independent review of the smart contract infrastructure supporting these mechanics before $1WIN becomes operational. The token will extend 1win’s existing crypto infrastructure, which already supports multi-chain deposits and withdrawals alongside Web3 wallet authentication through Trust Wallet, MetaMask and WalletConnect.
To learn more about $1WIN, users can look here.
About 1win
Founded in 2016, 1win is a crypto entertainment platform in the global gaming industry. Operating across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, 1win offers a wide range of entertainment products adapted to regional audiences. The brand has active collaborations with international public figures, including football legend Luis Suarez, martial artist Jon Jones, and Olympic champion and UFC fighter Gable Steveson. In 2026, 1win welcomed rapper Tyga and UFC legend Ilia Topuria as members of its 1win VIP community.
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Tallinn, Estonia, October 8th, 2026, Chainwire
SaaS and eCommerce increased their combined share from 48.26% to 55.54%, while Trading moved from 14.07% to 13.15%.
Businesses can build stablecoin infrastructure around the wrong problem.
The mistake is treating stablecoins primarily as a coin-and-network decision. For a digital business, they may need to support a much broader set of operating workflows, including billing, checkout, settlement, payouts, and reconciliation.
Which of those workflows matters most depends on the business model.
New aggregated data from NOWPayments shows the industry mix shifting toward businesses that use payments as part of their day-to-day operations. Between January 16 and July 16, 2026, SaaS and web services accounted for 27.78% of classified partners. eCommerce Marketplaces followed at 27.76%. Together, the two sectors represented 55.54% of the sample. During the same period in 2025, their combined share was 48.26%. The increase of 7.28 percentage points represents a 15.08% year-over-year rise in their combined share.
Trading remained an important part of the sample, but its share moved in the opposite direction. It declined from 14.07% in 2025 to 13.15% in 2026, leaving trading in third place behind SaaS and eCommerce.
The clearest upward shift came from SaaS. Its share increased from 15.58% to 27.78% in one year, closing a gap of 17.10 percentage points with eCommerce. The emerging picture is not stablecoins replacing trading. It is stablecoin adoption expanding into the operating infrastructure of digital businesses.
Unless otherwise stated, industry-distribution figures compare January 16 to July 16, 2025, with January 16 to July 16, 2026.
The Partner Mix Is Shifting Toward Operational Use Cases
In 2025, eCommerce marketplaces led the dataset at 32.68%. SaaS and Web Services followed at 15.58%, with Trading close behind at 14.07%.
One year later, SaaS had increased its share by 12.20 percentage points to 27.78%. eCommerce stood at 27.76%, leaving only 0.02 percentage points between the two sectors. Their combined share rose from 48.26% to 55.54%. More than half of the classified partners in the 2026 sample therefore came from two sectors built around digital transactions, recurring services, and online customer relationships.
The rest of the partner mix changed more gradually.
Financial Services moved from 9.00% to 6.35%. Gambling and iGaming increased from 6.20% to 6.87%, and adult platforms rose from 4.99% to 5.89%. Charity declined from 2.27% to 1.40%, while TGE/Presale moved from 2.12% to 1.35%.
These figures measure changes in each industry’s share of the sample. They do not measure absolute partner growth. A category may lose share because another category expanded faster.
Methodology: Each percentage represents an industry’s share of the full aggregated partner sample classified across the same nine categories. The comparison covers January 16 to July 16 in both 2025 and 2026. Each period was normalized independently. Absolute partner counts are not disclosed, and percentages are rounded to two decimal places. The findings describe partner distribution within the NOWPayments dataset, not payment volume, transaction value, or market-wide industry share.
Different Business Models Need Different Stablecoin Workflows
The industry data becomes useful when it is translated into the operating questions each business model may need to solve.
For a SaaS company, stablecoin payments may need to connect with recurring billing, invoice matching, account activation, renewals, settlement, and financial reconciliation.
A marketplace may need stablecoins to work across a longer flow. The payment can begin at checkout and continue through refunds, seller settlement, affiliate commissions, and other payouts.
Trading platforms face a different set of requirements. Their priorities may include asset and network coverage, confirmation policies, liquidity, and treasury controls.
These are potential workflow drivers, not a universal description of every company in each category. The point is that the same stablecoin can serve all three sectors while performing a different operational job in each one.
This is why a business should define the workflow before choosing the asset and network.
The Network Mix Also Changes by Industry
The successful-payment data shows that industry differences extend to network usage.
USDT on TRON accounted for 54.58% of the measured successful-payment sample within eCommerce marketplaces. Its share was 12.04% in trading and 9.60% in SaaS and web services.
Within this dataset, USDT TRC20 was about 4.5 times as prominent in eCommerce as in Trading and 5.7 times as prominent as in SaaS.
The corresponding shares were 4.76% in Gambling and iGaming, 1.85% in Financial Services, 1.49% in Other, and 0.60% in Charity. Adult Platforms and TGE/Presale each recorded a 0% share in the analyzed sample.
The difference supports the same conclusion as the industry data. A stablecoin setup that fits one business model may not fit another.
For an eCommerce business, USDT on TRON may play a visible role in checkout activity. A SaaS company may see a different asset and network mix. Trading platforms may need broader coverage across both.
Businesses should validate these decisions against their own successful-payment data instead of importing the preferences of another industry.
Methodology: Each percentage represents USDT TRC20’s share of the aggregated successful-payment sample within the corresponding industry. Absolute transaction counts are not disclosed. Failed, expired, refunded, and test transactions are excluded. The figures describe activity within the NOWPayments ecosystem and should not be interpreted as market-wide currency shares. A 0% result means that no successful USDT TRC20 payments were recorded in the analyzed sample for that category.
Build the Workflow Before Choosing the Rails
The five operating areas introduced at the beginning provide a practical framework for evaluating stablecoin infrastructure.
Billing: Does the payment need to connect with invoices, subscriptions, renewals, or account access?
Checkout: Which assets and networks produce completed payments for the company’s actual customers?
Settlement: Which asset should the business receive, and when should funds become available?
Payouts: Will funds need to move to sellers, affiliates, contractors, or customers?
Reconciliation: How will the finance team match transactions with invoices, orders, and internal reporting?
Not every business needs all five. A SaaS platform may focus on billing and reconciliation. A marketplace may need checkout, settlement, and payouts. A trading platform may prioritize network coverage, liquidity, and treasury controls.
The company should first identify which workflows apply. Asset and network selection comes after that.
“The mistake is asking which stablecoin is best. The better question is: best for what?” said Kate Lifshits, Commercial Director at NOWPayments. “Businesses should define the billing, checkout, settlement, payout, and reconciliation flow first. The coin and network should serve that workflow – not the other way around.”
Lifshits explores the commercial side of crypto payments in her Cryptopolitan series, Crypto That Works for Business. The first column, The 22% Sales Boost Hiding in Your Crypto Checkout, examined how payment infrastructure can affect checkout performance. Future installments will continue looking at where crypto payments can increase revenue, lower costs, and remove operational friction.
Stablecoin strategy starts with the job the money needs to do. The coin and network come next.
About NOWPayments
NOWPayments is a crypto business ecosystem designed to help companies accept payments, automate mass payouts, manage stablecoin treasury, and scale global digital asset operations through a single infrastructure. The platform supports more than 350 cryptocurrencies, over 30 stablecoins, flexible settlement options, and enterprise-grade APIs.
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Singapore, Singapore, October 7th, 2026, Chainwire
CertiK announced its brand upgrade at TOKEN2049 Singapore, where Chief Business Officer Jason Jiang unveiled the company’s next chapter as “The Trust Layer for Digital Value.” The upgrade reflects CertiK’s broader mission of “Building the Trust Infrastructure for the Digital Economy.”
CertiK began with smart contract auditing and grew into the largest Web3 security services provider. The new positioning builds on that foundation, reflecting the company’s expansion into security and risk management for financial institutions, regulators, and enterprises across the digital asset ecosystem.
“Digital assets are changing how value moves. Institutions offering digital asset services and the regulators overseeing them need security, compliance, and risk visibility to work together,” said Jason Jiang, Chief Business Officer at CertiK. “Our brand upgrade reflects how CertiK has evolved to support those needs, and our ambition to serve as the trust layer for digital value.”
The broader positioning is supported by a portfolio of products and expert services. CertiK’s products include Skynet, CertiK Compliance, CertiK Supervision, and CertiK AI Auditor, supporting continuous security monitoring, compliance risk management, regulatory oversight, and AI-assisted code review.
Its services include Smart Contract Audit, Expert Formal Verification, Penetration Testing, Proof of Reserves, and Validator Services. Together, CertiK’s products and services help clients assess the security of their systems and maintain visibility into digital asset risks.
CertiK also contributes technical expertise to digital asset policy development in jurisdictions including the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UAE. Its work with regulatory authorities and businesses with compliance requirements connects technical security assessments with the demands of regulated digital asset markets.
Founded in 2017 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK brings a foundation in formal verification to this expanded role. The company has served more than 5,500 clients across over 150 countries and regions, identified more than 119,000 code vulnerabilities, and helped secure over $600 billion in digital assets.
The brand upgrade sets the direction for CertiK’s next stage of growth, bringing its security heritage to the broader digital economy. By serving both the organizations building digital asset systems and the authorities overseeing them, CertiK is advancing its mission of “Building the Trust Infrastructure for the Digital Economy.”
CertiK Brand Page: https://www.certik.com/company/about
About CertiK
CertiK is the largest Web3 security services provider, applying academic-grade technical rigor to address the security challenges facing Web3 ecosystems. The company offers full-lifecycle risk management solutions, including blockchain infrastructure assessments, smart contract audits, formal verification, penetration testing, custody architecture reviews, system performance evaluation and compliance support. To date, CertiK has worked with more than 5,500 enterprise clients and contributed to digital asset regulation across multiple jurisdictions.
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SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, October 7th, 2026, Chainwire
Canton Forum Singapore will convene institutions, digital asset leaders, technology providers and ecosystem builders to explore the next phase of on-chain finance in Asia
Canton Foundation, the independent organization supporting the development and adoption of the Canton Network, will host Canton Forum Singapore on October 8 at the ArtScience Museum, bringing together participants from across finance, digital assets, technology and the broader Canton ecosystem.
Held during TOKEN2049 week, Canton Forum will explore how traditional finance, digital assets and decentralized markets are increasingly converging and what that means for the future of financial markets in Asia and globally.
As tokenization moves beyond experimentation, the conversation is also changing. The question is no longer simply whether financial assets can be brought on-chain, but how those assets can interact, access liquidity, settle and move across different markets and applications.
“Asia is becoming one of the most important regions shaping the future of global financial markets,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “We are moving beyond the question of whether assets can be brought on-chain. The focus now is on how those assets can interact, settle and move across markets at institutional scale, while meeting the requirements of regulated finance. Canton Forum brings together the institutions, innovators and ecosystem participants working through those questions today and Singapore is a natural place to have that conversation.”
The program will open with remarks from Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset, followed by a series of conversations examining some of the most important shifts taking place across financial markets today from Asia’s move from tokenization experiments toward institutional adoption, to the growing convergence of traditional finance, DeFi and digital assets, and Singapore’s role as a regional hub for tokenized capital markets.
Bringing together perspectives from across finance, digital assets, technology and the Canton ecosystem, the discussions will explore what comes next as on-chain markets mature including how assets can move across applications, access liquidity and connect with existing financial infrastructure.
The Forum will conclude with remarks from Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation, before transitioning into a dedicated networking session bringing together institutions, digital
asset companies, technology providers, builders, investors and members of the broader ecosystem.
Connecting a Growing Financial Ecosystem Canton Forum reflects a broader evolution taking place across the industry.
Financial institutions are exploring tokenized securities, funds, collateral, payments and settlement. Digital asset companies are creating new forms of liquidity and distribution. Technology providers and builders are developing the infrastructure and applications needed to connect these markets.
Increasingly, these developments cannot happen in isolation.
The Canton Network is designed to enable financial applications and assets to interoperate while allowing participants to maintain the privacy, control and governance required for institutional financial activity.
For Canton Foundation, Asia-Pacific is an increasingly important part of that ecosystem, with Singapore serving as a key hub for supporting engagement and growth across the region.
“Some of the most significant work in digital finance is now happening across Asia,” said Diwakar. “Singapore sits at the intersection of global capital, financial institutions, technology and regulatory innovation. Bringing Canton Forum here reflects both the importance of the market and our commitment to building a broader ecosystem across the region as financial markets increasingly move on-chain.”
Canton Forum Singapore will take place on October 8, 2026, at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Event Details
Canton Forum Singapore
October 8, 2026
ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Forum: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Networking Hours: 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
About Canton Foundation
Canton Foundation is the independent organization supporting the growth, development and adoption of the Canton Network. The Foundation works with participants across the global
financial ecosystem to support network governance, ecosystem development and the adoption of interoperable financial applications and assets.
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Dubai, UAE, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
Firelight Protocol launches on Flare, providing onchain cover for DeFi vaults and enabling XRP holders to supply cover capital through Flare Smart Accounts.
Firelight Protocol is now live on the Flare Network, with its first cover protecting Sentora’s USD Protected Vault and Protected RWA Vaults. Sentora incubated Firelight, while Sentinel Labs develops and maintains the protocol.
Firelight provides an onchain cover layer for DeFi vaults, with cover terms, pricing, capacity and eligible events registered transparently onchain. The protocol is designed to address a growing gap between the amount of capital deployed across decentralized finance and the capital available to protect it.
Addressing the DeFi Protection Gap
Onchain capital increasingly sits in vaults, while protection for that capital has not grown at the same rate. Capital backing onchain cover currently represents approximately 0.14% of the nearly $100 billion deployed across DeFi.
As institutional participation in DeFi grows, this protection gap becomes increasingly significant.
Firelight adds protection at the vault level, allowing depositors in covered vaults to receive protection without researching or purchasing a separate policy. Cover terms are registered onchain, while an independent Risk Consortium comprising Hypernative, Native, Credora, Cyfrin and GFX Labs evaluates each event against criteria published in advance.
Firelight Cover Is Live Across Two Sentora Products
Firelight cover is currently integrated into two Sentora products:
Sentora USD Protected Vault provides diversified access to USD-denominated strategies that operate fully onchain across established DeFi protocols.
Sentora Protected RWA Vaults run strategies built around real-world assets (RWAs), including leveraged looping and lending in markets that accept RWAs as collateral.
The underlying strategies remain unchanged. Firelight adds verifiable onchain protection against defined protocol failures affecting deposits in the covered vaults.
Veda and Upshift are also integrating Firelight at the infrastructure layer, enabling operators building on their infrastructure to activate protection for their own vaults while drawing on the same Firelight Vault.
The Capital Behind the Cover Starts on Flare
Firelight distributes the role traditionally performed by an insurer across stakers. Stakers deposit FXRP into the Firelight Vault, which sits outside the protocols it covers, with the vault’s capital backing the portfolio of elected cover.
XRP is the first asset supporting the Firelight Vault. Through FAssets, part of Flare’s core network infrastructure, XRP can become programmable on Flare as FXRP without relying on a third-party bridge.
The aggregate deposit cap for staked positions is currently $115 million in XRP. Flarebrings the underlying asset, the infrastructure supporting it and the DeFi cover layer together on a single network.
How Firelight Cover Works
Firelight registers the parameters, scope, price and capacity of each cover onchain. Covered technical and economic events are defined in advance and include:
Smart contract exploits
Oracle failures
Governance exploits
Bad debt and depegs caused by mechanism failure
Redemption failures
When an eligible exploit or other covered event is confirmed:
Firelight programmatically identifies eligible active positions in a covered vault within the affected market.
ZeroShadow, Firelight’s designated security partner, publishes an exploit report.
The Risk Consortium independently validates the event, confirms the loss and publishes an onchain attestation.
The Risk Consortium reviews each cover event before a payout can be released, assessing the event against the published cover criteria and authorizing the outcome through a public onchain attestation.
Depositing XRP Through Flare Smart Accounts
Flare Smart Accounts allow XRP holders to deposit into Firelight using XRP in one flow. A supported XRPL wallet can be connected to Flare Smart Accounts to initiate the mint-and-deposit process.
The process does not require FLR, with fees charged in FXRP.
The flow consists of four steps:
An XRPL wallet sends XRP on the XRP Ledger with the deposit instruction attached.
Flare’s Data Connector verifies the transaction.
FAssets mints FXRP 1:1 on Flare.
The FXRP is staked into Firelight, and stXRP is credited to the Flare Smart Account.
The Smart Account is linked to the originating XRPL address, with control retained by that address.
Users initiate the unstaking process on the web application following the applicable unstaking period. As emissions accrue and cover is enabled, the unstaking window increases to align with the 30-day cover periods. Following the unstaking period, FXRP can be withdrawn and redeemed for XRP, with the XRP returned to the XRPL address that opened the position.
Flare Smart Accounts: fsa.flare.network
What Stakers Earn
Stakers provide economic security to the Firelight protocol, with their deposits subject to slashing. In return, stakers receive a share of protocol emissions.
Program operators pay fees to enable cover on their vaults, with those fees funding emissions. Emissions are linked to total protocol revenue and increase as additional operators enable cover.
Emissions are distributed continuously in FXRP. Fees paid in USDC are converted to FXRP and automatically added to each staker’s position, increasing its redemption value over time.
The first protocol emissions will also be distributed to early contributors in proportion to the Firelight Points earned by eligible addresses during the protocol’s development, growth and launch. Firelight will publish eligibility and claim details through its official channels in the coming days. Users should treat claim links from other sources as potential scams.
Understanding the Risks
Firelight Cover is not insurance. Staking into Firelight involves taking on risk in order to provide protection to depositors in covered vaults.
Key risks include:
Staked capital is subject to slashing. Deposits back cover and do not themselves receive cover. Stakers receive protocol emissions for providing economic security.
Rewards carry the same risk. Compounded rewards remain in the vault and are subject to slashing in the same manner as the original deposit.
Exits take time. Deposits support 30-day cover periods, meaning unstaking and withdrawals take longer than during Phase 1. Phase 1 positions convert automatically.
Capacity is capped. Aggregate staked positions are currently capped at $115 million in XRP.
Smart contract risk remains. Depositing through Flare Smart Accounts relies on the FSA, FAssets and Firelight contracts. Audits and monitoring reduce, but do not eliminate, this risk.
Participants should review the Firelight documentation and understand the associated risks before depositing.
Built on Flare
Flare is the blockchain for data. Its enshrined protocols, the Flare Time Series Oracle and Flare Data Connector, enable digital assets that settle elsewhere, starting with XRP, to participate in onchain finance.
FXRP, the first FAsset, represents XRP 1:1 on Flare and has surpassed 150 million FXRP minted, with more than 90% deployed in onchain finance across seven networks. Firelight uses staked FXRP as the capital backing onchain cover against defined risks including exploits, oracle failures and bad debt.
Sentora’s risk infrastructure supports Firelight, applying more than 1,000 proprietary risk models across $2 billion in deployed assets and more than 300 monitored strategies.
Firelight’s contracts have been audited by OpenZeppelin, Coinspect and 0xMacro, and the protocol completed a public bug bounty through Immunefi.
Firelight raised $8 million in seed funding ahead of launch. Gumi Cryptos Capital led the round, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer and Tribe Capital.
Get Started
DeFi cover across chains, capital that starts on Flare.
Firelight documentation: docs.firelight.finance
Stake through Flare Smart Accounts: fsa.flare.network⁠
How to stake XRP on Firelight using FSA: Watch the tutorial on YouTube⁠
About Flare
Flare is the blockchain for data, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 where data and compute expand what capital can do. Its enshrined protocols, the Flare Time Series Oracle and the Flare Data Connector, give smart contracts verified prices and facts from other chains and the internet. Flare Confidential Compute, deployed first on Songbird, adds logic that cannot run in the open, returning signed results that contracts verify onchain and that are authorized by the same provider set. Through products including FAssets and Flare Smart Accounts, Flare enables assets such as XRP to take part in smart contract applications while remaining connected to their native networks.
For more information, visit flare.network⁠.
Contact
Head of MarketingAmi TsangFlaremarketing@flare.network Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
ASICID Inc. has released its IDMINER Series, a new lineup of cryptocurrency mining systems designed for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin mining.
The series includes the IDMINER HomeRack, IDMINER 2 and IDMINER 1, with configurations ranging from 1,150 TH/s to 9,600 TH/s of Bitcoin hashrate and from 350 GH/s to 3,200 GH/s of Litecoin and Dogecoin hashrate.
The three models are designed for different mining setups, from individual and home miners to professional and larger-scale operators.
IDMINER Series Specifications
IDMINER HomeRack
Bitcoin hashrate: 9,600 TH/s
Litecoin/Dogecoin hashrate: 3,200 GH/s
Power configuration: 4 × 1,300W
Estimated monthly mining revenue: up to $25,590*
IDMINER 2
Bitcoin hashrate: 2,400 TH/s
Litecoin/Dogecoin hashrate: 800 GH/s
Power consumption: 1,300W
Estimated monthly mining revenue: up to $6,390*
IDMINER 1
Bitcoin hashrate: 1,150 TH/s
Litecoin/Dogecoin hashrate: 350 GH/s
Power consumption: 700W
Estimated monthly mining revenue: up to $2,790*
*The revenue figures are estimates based on network conditions, cryptocurrency prices, and mining difficulty at the time of publication.
Designed for Simpler Deployment
The IDMINER systems are delivered pre-configured and tested before shipment. Users can connect the miner to power, connect via WiFi or Ethernet, enter their preferred mining pool information, and begin mining.
The systems support major mining pools and also provide access to ASICID's Zero-Fee Mining Pool option.
Other features include thermal management and hardware testing before shipment.
Built for Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin Mining
ASICID develops and manufactures its mining hardware through an integrated production process that includes research and development, hardware engineering, assembly, thermal testing, and quality assurance.
The company is headquartered in Hong Kong with additional operations in the United States and serves individual miners, professional mining businesses, and institutional operators.
With the IDMINER Series, ASICID is targeting miners looking for high-hashrate hardware with straightforward deployment and power requirements suited to ongoing mining operations.
For more information about the IDMINER Series, users can visit www.asicid.com.
Contact
Peter Lammedia@asicid.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Rome, Italy, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
The countdown to AIBC World 2026 has begun, alongside anticipation building ahead of one of Europe’s most significant gatherings dedicated to frontier technology this November. Rome will become the meeting point for leaders across AI, blockchain, fintech, gaming and digital innovation as AIBC World brings together the companies, investors and decision-makers shaping the next stage of the digital economy.
Under the theme of connecting frontier technology with real-world applications and digital scalability, AIBC World 2026 will unite AIBC, SiGMA, FX.World and AGS for a major cross-industry gathering focused on collaboration, innovation and business opportunities.
The event is set to welcome 1,000 exhibitors, 300 speakers and 30,000 delegates, creating a global platform where technology leaders, entrepreneurs and investors can connect, exchange ideas and explore new opportunities across emerging sectors.
AIBC Hall: a dedicated hub for blockchain and AI innovation
One of the major highlights of AIBC World 2026 is the introduction of the new AIBC Hall at Fiera Roma.
Located in Hall 7, the dedicated space will bring together blockchain and AI service provider (PSP) companies in a single, concentrated environment. Recognised as one of Europe’s largest dedicated blockchain expo spaces, the AIBC Hall will provide attendees with direct access to the infrastructure providers, exchanges, custody solutions driving the evolution of the digital economy.
Beyond the exhibition floor, the AIBC Hall will also feature a dedicated AIBC Stage, hosting expert-led panels and discussions covering the latest developments, challenges and opportunities across blockchain, AI and emerging technologies.
By combining exhibition, thought leadership, and industry connections in one space, AIBC Hall will create a dedicated environment for companies, innovators, and decision-makers to exchange ideas, build partnerships, and explore the technologies of digital industries.
A global platform for innovation, business and collaboration
Hosted at Fiera Roma, one of Europe’s largest exhibition venues, AIBC World 2026 will provide the scale and facilities required to welcome thousands of international attendees.
Across the exhibition floor and conference stages, visitors can expect perspectives on the latest developments across blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital assets and emerging technologies. The event will bring together established industry players, innovative startups, and technology pioneers to discuss the trends shaping the global digital landscape.
Confirmed exhibitors include leading names such as Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com, Transak, Gate, CertiK, BitGo, Fireblocks, Chainalysis, TradingView and Alchemy Pay.
The conference programme will feature influential founders, investors, policymakers and technology executives, including Tim Draper, Founder of Draper Associates; Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin, Reeve Collins, Chairman and Co-Founder of STBL & WeFi; Felix Fan, CEO of Trust Wallet; Arthur Breitman, Co-Founder of Tezos; and Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament.
Spotlighting emerging technology startups
AIBC World 2026 will continue to support the next generation of innovators through the AIBC Startup Pitch competition.
Open to startups working across crypto, blockchain, Web3 and artificial intelligence, the competition provides selected founders with the opportunity to present their solutions to investors, accelerators and industry leaders. Six finalists will advance to the live on-stage competition, showcasing high-potential projects from across the global emerging technology ecosystem.
Networking opportunities beyond the exhibition floor
Beyond the exhibition and conference programme, AIBC World 2026 will offer exclusive opportunities for attendees to connect with global technology leaders, investors and innovators.
From the iGathering Networking Cocktail at Lanterna di Fuksas and the SiGMA Nexus Elite Golf Tour to the AIBC & FX Awards, the event will bring together the community through a series of premium experiences. Held in the historic setting of Rome, the AIBC & FX Awards will celebrate the leading performers across AI, crypto, blockchain, fintech and emerging technology, with winners announced during an exclusive ceremony featuring recognition, connection and a charitable art auction.
Join AIBC World 2026 in Rome
As AI, blockchain and digital finance continue to reshape industries worldwide, AIBC World 2026 arrives at a defining time for the technology ecosystem.
With a dedicated exhibition hall, a strong international speaker lineup, leading exhibitors and a programme designed around innovation and collaboration, the event is set to become a key meeting point for those building, investing in and shaping the future of frontier technology.
As Rome prepares to welcome the global technology community this November, now is the time to secure your place at AIBC World 2026 and join the conversations driving the industry forward.
About AIBC
AIBC is a global events and media platform bringing together leaders, innovators, investors and policymakers across artificial intelligence, blockchain, Web3, crypto and emerging technologies. Launched in 2018, AIBC has grown into an international meeting point for frontier technology, connecting global communities through high-level conferences, exhibitions and networking opportunities designed to foster innovation, investment and cross-industry collaboration.
Contact
Aman Pradhanmediarelations@sigma.world Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.