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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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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.
Contact
Chianti LinCanton Foundationchianti@canton.foundation Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

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.

Singapore, Singapore, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
The invitation-only summit on October 8 brings 400 executives from banks, exchanges, payment networks and funds to Suntec City to examine how AI agents are entering trading, payments and compliance.
More & More will host the Agentic Finance Summit on October 8, 2026 at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, an official side event of TOKEN2049 Singapore. etoro is the summit's lead partner.
The invitation-only programme brings together 400 senior decision-makers from banks, exchanges, payment networks, funds and regulators working on AI agents that hold wallets, execute trades and move payments. Participating companies include etoro, Coinbase, Pantera Capital, AWS, KPMG, Chainlink, Aave, Fireblocks, Alpaca and Gate.
Confirmed speakers include Yoni Assia, Co-Founder and CEO of etoro; Scott Lawin, President of Pantera Capital; Stani Kulechov, Founder and CEO of Aave Labs; Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer of Chainlink Labs; Itai Turbahn, VP of Embedded Wallets at Fireblocks; Yoshi Yokokawa, Co-Founder and CEO of Alpaca; Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Marketing and Global Expansion at Base, Coinbase's onchain network; and Anton Ruddenklau, Head of Financial Services at KPMG Singapore. Joanna Ossinger of CNBC and Jacquelyn Melinek of StrataMedia will moderate sessions.
The headline event of the day is a fireside conversation with Yoni Assia, alongside sessions on agentic wallets and vaults, agentic payments and commerce, autonomous trading, institutional capital, and the technical and regulatory requirements for connecting AI agents to banks. A security block will include live demonstrations of compliance, KYC and KYT, and agent security tools.
Two AI agents will operate on site. One will greet attendees at the entrance and direct them to relevant meetings. A second will take part in discussion on the main stage alongside the speakers.
"Agentic AI is leveling the playing field between retail and institutional players in finance. Agents can digest an enormous amount of data, react quickly, and are already managing real portfolios. That changes how people invest, trade and manage money," said Yoni Assia, Co-Founder and CEO of etoro. "TOKEN2049 puts the platforms, financial institutions, and builders shaping that shift in one city for a week, and Agentic Finance brings them into one room."
"Banks, exchanges and payment networks are deciding right now how AI agents will handle client money," said Tal Mor, Founder and CEO of More & More. "The summit is built around that decision, with an invitation-only room and pre-scheduled meetings between the people making it."
Summit partners include etoro, Coinbase, Fireblocks, Alpaca, Pantera Capital, Aave, AEON, Atlas Capital Team, Limitless, AWS, KPMG Singapore, Nethermind, Zengo and the Blockchain Association Singapore, with CNBC Asia as media partner. The summit is co-located with The Odds: Prediction Markets Live, More & More's prediction markets conference, featuring CJ Hetherington of Limitless Labs and Pär Helgosson of Paris Saint-Germain's PSG Labs.
The Agentic Finance Summit runs from 14:00 to 20:00 SGT on October 8, a short walk from TOKEN2049 at Marina Bay Sands. Attendance is by application at luma.com/8oxs8lco.
About More & More
More & More produces invitation-only conferences, side events and executive delegations across Web3, fintech and institutional finance, with events in Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Paris, Manila and Tel Aviv. Its brands include Agentic Finance and The Odds: Prediction Markets Live. The next Agentic Finance edition takes place during Abu Dhabi Finance Week in December 2026. More at mnm.live.
Contact
Founder and CEOTal MoreMore & Moretal@mnm.live Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Singapore, Singapore, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
Multi-chain stablecoin wallet combines simpler transfers, flexible gas-fee options, security features, and practical use cases with one ambition: to become the world’s easiest stablecoin wallet.
Changer+ today announced the launch of its self-custodial stablecoin wallet, built to make holding, moving and using stablecoins simpler.
Changer+ supports major stablecoins including USDT and USDC across Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain and Solana, with more networks and stablecoins planned.
To celebrate its launch, Changer+ is offering new users three free transactions per device on each chain - Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain from October 6 to November 6, 2026.
Changer+ is built around a simple belief: people should not need to understand every blockchain, gas token, or transaction mechanic just to use the stablecoins they already have.
Stablecoins Should Just Work
Using stablecoins can still mean figuring out which network a token is on, choosing the right transfer route, sourcing a separate gas token, and navigating unfamiliar transaction steps. Changer+ is designed to move more of that complexity into the background.
“People should not have to become blockchain experts just to use stablecoins,” said Leon Gao, CEO of Changer+, with over a decade of experience in product development in the fintech and payment industry
“The technology underneath can stay sophisticated. What users see should feel simple, clear and dependable.”
Simplicity Without Giving Up Control
Making stablecoins easier to use should not mean taking control away from the user.
Changer+ is self-custodial, meaning users retain control of their private keys and authorize their own transactions.
For Yun Han Wong, CGO of Changer+, who has spent years working in Web3, preserving that principle is fundamental to trust.
“Trust is everything in Web3,” Yun Han said. “The early crypto idea of ‘being your own bank’ was really about ownership — having control over your own assets instead of simply handing that control to another intermediary.”
“We want to preserve that ethos while making stablecoins much easier to use. Convenience should not mean giving up control.”
Technology and Security Built around the User
Changer+ is designed to remove common friction from everyday stablecoin use.
On supported transactions, Changer+ lets users cover network-related transaction costs without first having to acquire the blockchain’s native gas token.
For example, a user holding stablecoins does not necessarily need to separately acquire ETH, TRX, BNB, or SOL before completing a supported transaction.
Changer+ has also completed an independent security audit, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing (VAPT) conducted by Echo Pulse, a CREST-accredited and Singapore-licensed cybersecurity service provider.
These capabilities are led by Zack Chen, CTO of Changer+, an NUS-trained technopreneur with years of software development experience overseeing Changer+’s multi-chain architecture and security development.
“Good engineering should reduce the complexity users have to manage while keeping the experience clear and reliable,” Zack said.
Making Stablecoins More Useful
Changer+ goes beyond holding and transferring stablecoins by giving users more ways to put them to practical use.
Current capabilities include global eSIM data plans, a lifestyle ticket marketplace, and security risk signals that help users identify suspicious activity and potentially unsafe addresses, with more use cases planned.
“Our ambition is not to build another wallet people download and forget,” Leon said. “We want to make the whole stablecoin experience easier — from holding and transferring to actually using them.”
As stablecoins increasingly move beyond crypto trading into payments, remittances and everyday digital commerce, the experience of using them remains fragmented across networks and wallets.
Changer+ was built to close that usability gap.
Backed by a private family office, Changer+ is taking a long-term approach to building the product. Rather than centering the platform around a project token or speculative rewards, the company is focused on usability, self-custody, security, and practical stablecoin utility.
“Stablecoins should just work,” Yun Han added. “Fewer unnecessary crypto steps, more useful things you can do with them, and the user stays in control.”
Changer+ is available on iOS and Android.
Download IOS app：https://apps.apple.com/us/app/changer-stablecoin-wallet/id6744874111
Download Android app：https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=plus.changer.app&hl=en
Learn more: www.changer.plus
Join communities: https://linktr.ee/ChangerPlus
Contact: pr@changer.plus
Launch Special
Enjoy three free transactions on each chain - Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain from October 6 to November 6, 2026.*
Available only to new users who install the Changer+ app and register during the campaign period. Network fees are covered for three eligible transactions per device. Terms and conditions apply. Changer+ reserves the right to amend or withdraw the offer.
About Changer+
Changer+ is a Singapore-incorporated, self-custodial stablecoin wallet built to make stablecoins easier to use.
With multi-chain stablecoin support across major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain and TRON, Changer+ brings together simpler transfers, flexible gas-fee options, security risk signals and practical use cases — while users remain in control of their private keys.
Backed by a private family office, Changer+ combines payments experience, Web3 expertise and security-led engineering with one ambition: to become the world’s easiest stablecoin wallet.
Contact
Changer+pr@changer.plus Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tokyo, Japan, October 6th, 2026, Chainwire
The landmark issuance brings yen-denominated stablecoin payments into real-world corporate finance, with both interest and principal redemption paid in JPYSC
Startale Japan today announced Startale Bond, Japan’s1 first digital corporate bond to pay both interest and principal redemption in a yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin. Simply, the corporate bond pays out to bondholders over its lifecycle in a yen stablecoin rather than through traditional payment rails.
The issuance puts JPYSC, a yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank, directly into corporate financing transactions. Both scheduled interest payments and the final principal redemption will be made in JPYSC, marking the first time this structure has been used for a digital corporate bond in Japan.
Startale Japan Co., Ltd. is the legal issuer of the Startale Bond. The bond is limited to individual investors and companies in Japan and is not being offered to overseas investors.
The issuance is a new use case for JPYSC beyond blockchain transactions, bringing a yen-denominated stablecoin into an established corporate financing structure. By using JPYSC for both interest and principal redemption payments, Startale Japan is demonstrating how stablecoin infrastructure can connect with traditional financial instruments and Japan’s existing capital markets.
“By bringing finance onchain, we want to create new options for corporate fundraising and individual investment,” said Sota Watanabe, CEO, Startale Group Pte. Ltd. “With this bond issuance, we are piloting JPYSC for actual interest and principal redemption payments. Learnings from this initiative will allow us to eventually expand this mechanism to a wide range of businesses across Japan, creating new mechanisms where people can continuously support companies through investment. We will continue pushing this frontier with the hope that, looking back in the years to come, this initiative will be remembered as a major turning point in finance.”
Stablecoins have largely been associated with crypto trading, payments and remittances. Startale Bond extends their use into corporate finance by making JPYSC the payment mechanism across multiple stages of a bond’s lifecycle.
That includes both scheduled interest payments and the final repayment of principal. The structure creates a real-world example of how onchain settlement can operate within a conventional financial instrument rather than as a separate blockchain-native product.
For Startale, SBI and Japan’s wider financial sector, the issuance also establishes a model for how yen-denominated stablecoins could play a role in future capital-market activity. The experience gained through Startale Bond can inform potential applications involving businesses, financial institutions, tokenized assets and other forms of onchain finance.
JPYSC was developed through a collaboration between SBI Group and Startale Group. SBI Shinsei Trust Bank issues JPYSC and manages the trust assets backing it, SBI VC Trade serves as the issuance trustor and leads issuance and distribution, while Startale Group is responsible for the technology supporting JPYSC.
The Startale Bond brings those pieces together in a corporate financing transaction for the first time, demonstrating how a regulated yen stablecoin can move beyond digital-asset markets and become part of the infrastructure supporting established financial instruments.
About JPYSC
JPYSC is Japan's first2 trust-type yen-denominated stablecoin, issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank. It is designed to track the Japanese yen 1:1 and qualifies as a Type 3 Electronic Payment Instrument under Japan's Payment Services Act.
JPYSC was developed through a collaboration between the SBI Group and Startale Group. SBI Shinsei Trust Bank issues the stablecoin and manages the trust assets backing it, SBI VC Trade leads issuance and distribution as the issuance trustor, and Startale Group is responsible for the technology. The aim is to expand its use across remittances, payments, digital securities, and a wide range of other financial transactions.
About Startale Japan
Startale Japan Co., Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based Startale Group. The company leads blockchain research and development and business development in the Japanese market, working with financial institutions and operating companies to plan and build financial services using blockchain technology.
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1. As a digital corporate bond that pays both interest and principal redemption in a yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin. As of September 30, 2026, based on Startale Japan research.
2. As a trust-type yen-denominated stablecoin in Japan. As of September 7, 2026, based on research by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank and SBI VC Trade.
Contact
Startale Marketing Teammarketing@startale.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Singapore, Singapore, October 5th, 2026, Chainwire
fractl, the founder and capital network behind a world tour of investor events in 18 cities, hosts two back-to-back invite-only events in Singapore on Wednesday, October 7, during Token2049 week. fractl's gatherings run independently of the conference.
The day opens with the Founders & Investors Brunch, which brings together 150 blockchain and AI startup founders and investors, personally invited or selected from applications. Rime Salmi, founder and CEO of fractl, opens the program, followed by presentations from the partners. The brunch closes with a pitch competition judged by Ivan Patriki, fintech marketing specialist and Forbes contributor.
In the afternoon, the private VCs & LPs Cocktail Hour gathers 60 invited fund managers and limited partners from venture capital firms, funds of funds, family offices, ultra-high-net-worth investors, and institutional allocators, hosted with The Rodman Law Group and Fund Collector by Filip Srdoc. Regular fractl attendees include a16z, Sequoia, Paradigm, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital, Dragonfly, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Grayscale Investments, HashKey Capital, and many more of the most prominent investment firms in the blockchain and tech space.
"Every fractl event has one clear mission: find the most promising founders and fund managers, and connect them with the world's best investment firms and individual investors who have the power to fuel their vision," said Rime Salmi. "We review every application with our partners' goals in mind, so each partner, and every guest, meets the blockchain and AI founders and investors they most want to meet, in one curated environment."
The Partners
Skynet Trading: a market maker established in 2019, with more than 500 clients and infrastructure across 60+ centralized and 20+ decentralized exchanges.
InstaSwap: a privacy-first, non-custodial cross-chain execution platform, live since 2018 and trusted across 66+ chains.
The Rodman Law Group: legal counsel to the Web3 ecosystem, from fundraising and structuring to regulatory strategy, mergers and acquisitions.
Minds by Animoca Brands: puts a personal agent to work for users through email and the messaging apps they already use.
TokenQuest: a white-labeled gamified Discord bot that creates token utility and builds real communities for crypto projects.
Fund Collector by Filip Srdoc: a deal flow channel with a network of around 300 venture capital funds, high-net-worth individuals, and key opinion leaders.
Media partners: Chainwire, Cryptopolitan and Cryptonite UAE.
fractl has hosted more than 40 investor gatherings, drawing more than 66,000 applicants, has worked with more than 60 partners, and built a network of 19,000 startup founders and 5,000 investors.
Next stop: New York, November 16, during SuperReturn week, followed by Abu Dhabi Finance Week and the Family Office Super Summit in Fort Lauderdale in December. All fractl events are by invitation, with a few seats reserved for applicants: lu.ma/fractl
About fractl
fractl is a founder and capital network. It hosts exclusive brunches for startup founders and investors, followed by private cocktail hours for venture capital firms, funds of funds, family offices, ultra-high-net-worth investors, and institutional allocators, as side events at the world's major crypto and fintech conferences. fractl has hosted events in 18 cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Denver, Austin, Nashville, Toronto, Paris, Brussels, Cannes, Davos, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul and Bangkok. fractl partners with the companies that serve founders and capital: compliance and blockchain analytics firms, smart contract auditors and security firms, digital asset law, tax and accounting firms, fund administrators, custodians, banking and payments providers, tokenization platforms, market makers, exchanges, token launch platforms, and blockchain ecosystems and foundations. Learn more at lu.ma/fractl.
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PartnershipsSarahfractlsarah@fractl.ca Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Seoul, Korea, October 4th, 2026, Chainwire
Private launch goes live October 4 during Korea Blockchain Week with Pokémon, One Piece, and sports cards, instant buyback, physical redemption, up to 6% cashback, and a leaderboard competition featuring 3 exclusive slabs + 8 packs.
Tria, the self-custodial neofinance platform for trading, earning, spending and moving assets, today launched private access to Tria Gacha, a new collectibles experience built directly inside the Tria app that lets users open packs containing real graded trading cards, keep their pulls, sell them back instantly or redeem physical cards for delivery.
Gacha is the first step in Tria’s broader push to bring culturally relevant assets into the same environment where users already spend and manage money.
Selected users from Tria’s mystery pre-launch waitlist are receiving access beginning today during Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul, with additional waitlisted users gaining access in daily batches. The October 4 debut is a private launch ahead of broader availability.
“Collectors were never just playing. These are assets people grade, price, trade and hold, and we wanted to bring that behavior into the same place people already manage their money without losing what makes collecting fun,” said Vijit Katta, CEO and co-founder of Tria. “Trading cards are step one. Culture is a much bigger asset class than finance has traditionally treated it as.”
Gacha was built in response to behavior Tria was already seeing among its users, who were spending meaningfully on Gacha and collectibles outside the app while frequently reaching the higher-rate cashback spend limits on their Tria cards. Tria brought that activity directly into the product rather than treating it as separate from the financial experience.
Eligible Gacha packs purchased with a Tria card can earn up to 6% cashback, depending on membership, without counting toward the card’s higher-rate cashback spend limit. Gacha purchases receive the membership’s base cashback rate; other boosts do not apply.
Every Gacha pull corresponds to a real graded collectible card. Users can hold cards in their Tria collection, sell a pull back directly through the product or redeem eligible cards for physical delivery, creating a native experience spanning discovery, collecting, liquidity and ownership.
To mark the private launch, Tria is also introducing a 14-day Gacha leaderboard competition starting October 4, with 3 exclusive slabs + 8 packs up for grabs across the final top 10 participants. The in-app countdown shows the exact end. Users with Gacha access can participate, with rankings determined by the total dollar value of eligible Gacha pack purchases during the competition, displayed in-app as “Packs Opened ($).”
All Gacha pack types count toward the leaderboard, whether purchased by card or wallet. Participants can follow their position on the live leaderboard as access opens to more waitlisted users throughout the campaign. The value or rarity of cards revealed does not determine leaderboard rank.
Only Tria users who have received Gacha access are eligible to participate. Referring friends can help users move up the Gacha waitlist and receive access earlier, but waitlist position and leaderboard rank are separate: referrals affect access, while eligible pack purchases determine competition rankings.
Interested users can join the Tria Gacha waitlist.
The launch extends Tria beyond traditional financial assets and everyday spending into cultural categories with active collector communities, established grading systems and deeply developed secondary markets. Trading cards are the first category in that strategy.
In the days leading up to Korea Blockchain Week, Tria teased the launch through a mystery waitlist campaign that withheld the product category and dropped clues across social channels. Today’s reveal gives the first wave of waitlisted users access to Gacha inside the Tria app.
About Tria
Tria is a self-custodial neofinance platform for trading, earning, spending and moving assets across chains. Tria combines consumer financial products with infrastructure designed to give users direct control over their assets while making onchain finance usable in everyday life. The platform is available globally across more than 150 countries.
Contact
Jon PhillipsPhillComm GlobalTria@PhillComm.Global Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 3rd, 2026, Chainwire
Trade crypto, perpetual futures, prediction markets and tokenized US stocks from one self-custodial balance. AI prepares every trade, you confirm.
Sparkling, the trading app that comes with an agent, launches today in Telegram. From one self-custodial balance, users can trade perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, take positions on Polymarket prediction markets, buy tokenized US stocks from xStocks and make cross-chain swaps, without moving funds between an exchange, a wallet, a bridge and a prediction market. Getting started takes a Telegram account and any crypto, with gasless deposits and gasless trading on perps and prediction markets. A full web app follows on October 14.
At the core of Sparkling is what the company calls the pre-executed flow: the app prepares every trade, and the tap always belongs to the user. A user types a request in plain language, such as "buy $200 of bitcoin," "long ETH with 3x leverage" or "buy Tesla," and receives a ready-to-sign trade card with the asset, size, venue, price, estimated slippage, fees and a risk check, plus a single Confirm button. The same chat helps new users discover what the app can do and lets them adjust or close open positions, with every change arriving as a new card to confirm.
"Professional traders have a desk behind every decision. Everyone else trades alone, jumping between an exchange, a wallet, a bridge and a prediction market. Every trader deserves an agent, so we built Sparkling, the trading app that comes with one, and left the keys and the final tap with the trader," said Daniil Kotlov, CEO and co-founder of Sparkling.
Sparkling gives traders the markets that already lead crypto, all in one app and one balance. Perpetual futures trade on Hyperliquid. Prediction markets come from Polymarket, where Sparkling is a verified builder, and tokenized US stocks from xStocks. Swaps are powered by Bebop, Sparkling's key swap partner, together with other integrations for wide coverage across tokens and chains. Turnkey keeps every account self-custodial, and 0G will enable private compute, keeping every conversation with the agent confidential. Unlike AI features inside brokerage and neobank apps, Sparkling never holds user funds: the markets traders already use, with keys that stay with the trader.
"We're excited to partner with Sparkling and power their swaps with Bebop RFQ from day one. Their innovative vision of a consumer trading app with a built-in agent is one we share, and guaranteed prices with fast execution are exactly what makes it feel effortless for everyday users," said Katia Banina, CEO of Bebop.
For experienced traders, Sparkling is a full trading app first. A native, mobile-first interface puts every market a tap away: find the setup, size the position, set the leverage and manage it across perpetual futures, prediction markets and swaps without typing a word. The agent is there when it saves time and stays out of the way when it doesn't.
At launch, Sparkling offers four services from one self-custodial balance: perpetual futures on crypto, stocks, indices and commodities via Hyperliquid; Polymarket prediction markets (trade on simple questions like "Will bitcoin be up or down today?": think up — buy, think down — sell; prices move live with the crowd, and you can exit anytime, just like a stock); cross-chain swaps with no bridging step; and tokenized US stocks from xStocks, for dollar exposure to Tesla, Nvidia, Apple and more.
Funding takes about 30 seconds: send any crypto from any supported network, or buy crypto with a bank card in supported regions. Every account is created with a seed phrase the user can export at any time, so it stays self-custodial from the first deposit.
"Sparkling's pre-executed flow, where the app prepares every trade and the user confirms it, delivers the two things traders value most: speed and control. That is a strong value proposition, and a clear one to build a brand around," said Aleksei Voiutskii, founder of NODES, a marketing consultancy and Sparkling's exclusive marketing partner.
Onchain trading has found its consumer apps: Fomo reached 625,000 traders and $4 billion in volume in its first year, and Phantom added perpetual futures and prediction markets to a wallet used by more than 20 million people. Sparkling is the trading app that comes with an agent: perpetual futures, prediction markets, swaps and tokenized US stocks from one self-custodial balance, where AI prepares every trade and the user confirms it.
About Sparkling
Sparkling is the trading app that comes with an agent: swaps, perps and prediction markets from one self-custodial balance. AI preps every move. You confirm. Sparkling also offers tokenized US stocks, connects users to Hyperliquid, Polymarket, xStocks and Bebop, and is built with Turnkey and 0G. Sparkling is live now in Telegram at t.me/sparkling_trade_bot . Users can learn more at sparkl.ing and follow updates on X at x.com/SparklingAI and on Telegram at t.me/SparklingAI.
About NODES
NODES is a premium marketing consultancy and crypto advisor, powered by human expertise and AI technologies. The agency works with companies across industries on positioning, product launches and growth, and runs a dedicated crypto advisory practice for Web3 and fintech teams. NODES is the exclusive marketing partner of Sparkling. Users can learn more at https://nodes.global/
Links
Try Sparkling:https://t.me/sparkling_trade_bot
Website: https://sparkl.ing
X: https://x.com/SparklingAI
Telegram channel: https://t.me/SparklingAI
Disclaimer
Sparkling is a self-custodial interface to third-party markets. It does not hold user funds, does not execute trades without user confirmation, and does not provide investment, tax or legal advice. Trades prepared by the agent are not recommendations; every decision is made by the user. Perpetual futures, prediction markets and tokenized stocks involve substantial risk, including the loss of all funds, and are not suitable for everyone. Some services are not available in certain jurisdictions, including the United States and the United Kingdom, and availability is subject to local restrictions. Tokenized stocks are issued by third parties and do not confer shareholder rights in the underlying companies. xStocks are not available in the US or to US persons. Geo restrictions apply. Read Kraken's xStocks Risk Disclosure athttps://kraken.com/legal/xstocks. Nothing in this release constitutes an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where it would be unlawful.
Contact
Press RelationsMaria KornilovaNODES (on behalf of Sparkling)partners@sparkl.ing Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Singapore, Singapore, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire
A warehouse show with Adam Beyer on October 4 opens a two-event Singapore run, followed by a TOKEN2049 night with OrangeX and Brina Knauss on October 9.
RaveDAO is returning to Singapore this October with two events that move between the scale of a waterfront warehouse and the intimacy of a late-night club. The run begins on Sunday, October 4, when RaveDAO and Singapore nightlife collective Thugshop present Adam Beyer at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Five days later, RaveDAO and OrangeX will present Brina Knauss at MDLR during TOKEN2049 Week.
The October 4 show places Beyer inside a warehouse at 37 Keppel Road overlooking Singapore’s port and CBD skyline. Running from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM, it is a daytime-to-nightfall setting for an artist whose sound has traveled from underground clubs to major festival stages. Thugshop brings its local nightlife experience to the collaboration, while RaveDAO brings another internationally recognized artist to the city’s dancefloor.
Adam Beyer is one of the artists who took techno from underground clubs to the world’s biggest stages. For more than 30 years, the Swedish DJ and producer has shaped the genre through his records and sets, while Drumcode, the label he founded, has become a benchmark for techno releases and events worldwide. In 2026 alone, he has played both weekends at Coachella, returned to RESISTANCE Ibiza and sold out a Drumcode show at London’s Drumsheds. Now, in Drumcode’s 30th anniversary year, Beyer brings that same force to a Singapore warehouse overlooking the port: a chance to hear one of techno’s defining artists in a setting made for his music.
The second event gives RaveDAO’s October return a different shape. On Friday, October 9, RaveDAO and crypto trading platform OrangeX will present Slovenian DJ and EMPATH label founder Brina Knauss at MDLR, with ArkStream Capital as co-host. Held during TOKEN2049 Week, the late-night event centres on Knauss’s atmospheric blend of house and techno in a more intimate club setting.
Together, the two dates continue RaveDAO’s history in Singapore. In 2024, its Singapore Nightopia during TOKEN2049 featured Don Diablo and Bassjackers. In 2025, RaveDAO returned with the ENL1GHT Festival at Pasir Panjang Power Station, featuring Vintage Culture, MORTEN and Chris Avantgarde. This October, RaveDAO’s Singapore return spans two distinct settings from Adam Beyer’s driving techno in a portside warehouse as the sun goes down to Brina Knauss’s hypnotic late-night set at MDLR.
Event details
October 4: RaveDAO x Thugshop Present Adam Beyer, 4:00–11:00 PM, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 37 Keppel Road, #01-01. Tickets and event information.
October 9: RaveDAO x OrangeX Present Brina Knauss, 9:00 PM–3:00 AM, MDLR, 62 Cecil Street, #02-00. Tickets and event information.
About RaveDAO
RaveDAO is the world’s largest Web3-native live entertainment collective, uniting music, culture, creators, technology, and community participation. Since launching its first sold-out event in Dubai in 2024, RaveDAO has expanded across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America through flagship music events, community-led local chapters, artist collaborations, and ecosystem partnerships.
The RaveDAO ecosystem connects live entertainment with digital ownership, rewards, social impact, and token-powered participation through its native token, $RAVE. To date, RaveDAO has brought together more than 100,000 attendees across its events and worked with internationally recognized artists and partners across music, entertainment, lifestyle, and Web3. Through initiatives such as Rave for Light, RaveDAO also channels event energy toward real-world impact, supporting causes including cataract surgeries in Nepal and mindfulness programs in the United States.
Contact
RaveDAOmanagement@ravedao.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Las Vegas, NV, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire
Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs announced the launch of more than 400 cryptocurrency ATMs across the United States. The machines allow customers to purchase Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC with cash at a stated flat 5% fee. Customers can also pre-register online before visiting an ATM.
Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs, a new nationwide low-fee Bitcoin ATM operator, launched today with an initial rollout of more than 400 Bitcoin ATMs across the United States, a footprint that places it amongst the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the country on its first day. It also launched with a name that does most of the marketing department's job for it. The brand charges a flat 5% Bitcoin ATM fee to buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT or USDC with cash, displays the fee and exchange rate on screen before the customer confirms, and, as of today, lets first-time customers register online in about two minutes so they can skip onboarding at the machine entirely.
400+ Bitcoin ATM locations on day one
Most Bitcoin ATM operators in the U.S. run a few dozen machines. Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs opens with more than 400 Bitcoin ATM locations in the convenience stores, gas stations and shopping centers people already visit, with machines in Florida, California, Arizona and Texas among other states, as the first phase of a larger rollout.
"Four hundred machines is not a pilot. It's a network," said Quincy Mathis, Operations Manager at Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs. "We wanted to be one of the biggest Bitcoin ATM operators in the country on the day we opened, because a low fee only matters if there's a machine near you. This is phase one."
Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC with cash: coins, limits and one fee
Every Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATM sells Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC) for cash, all at the same 5% fee, all sent directly to the customer's own wallet. No bank account or credit card is needed. The machines are non-custodial: the company never holds customer funds.
Bitcoin ATM daily limits are set by verification tier:
Tier 1, phone number only: up to $2,000 per day
Tier 2, government ID and Tax ID: up to $50,000 per day
Bitcoin ATM fees compared: what $1,000 buys
The typical Bitcoin ATM in the United States charges roughly 12% to 15% to buy, and some of the largest national brands charge 20% or more. Here is what that looks like when a customer walks up with $1,000 in cash:
Illustrative, based on posted percentage fees only and before exchange rate. Many operators add an exchange-rate markup on top of the posted fee; Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs shows both the fee and the rate on screen before a transaction is confirmed. Industry figures reflect publicly reported U.S. Bitcoin ATM fee ranges. See how the Bitcoin ATM fees compare.
At a 20% machine, one dollar in every five never becomes crypto. At Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs, it's one in twenty. The name is not subtle; neither is a 20% fee.
"We wanted a rate people can look at on the receipt and feel good about, not one they have to make peace with," said Quincy Mathis. "Five percent, shown up front, with the exchange rate right next to it. That's the whole pitch."
Stablecoin ATMs are becoming the way people send money overseas
A growing share of customers are using the machines as USDT and USDC ATMs, buying dollar pegged stable coins to send money to family and friends overseas and to pay suppliers and contractors abroad. A customer inserts cash, the stable coins arrive in the recipient's wallet within minutes, and the recipient holds dollars they can keep or cash out locally. No wire counter, no multi-day wait, and no bank account needed to send.
That makes the fee gap matter more, not less. Someone sending $1,000 home once a month pays about $600 a year in fees at a 5% machine, $1,440 to $1,800 at a typical machine, and $2,400 at a 20% machine. The difference is real money to the people who can least afford to lose it, which is why low fees matter most to remittance customers.
"The people using stable coins to support family abroad are exactly the people who shouldn't be paying 20% for the privilege," said Quincy Mathis.
How to use a Bitcoin ATM: four steps, under two minutes, now with online pre-registration
New with today's launch is online Bitcoin ATM pre-registration. First-time customers can pre-register online before they ever visit a machine, so the first visit is as fast as the tenth. At any of the 400+ machines, they simply enter their phone number.
Register online, once. About two minutes on a phone.
Walk up and enter your phone number. The machine recognizes you. No paperwork at the kiosk.
Pick a coin, scan your wallet, insert cash. Scan your wallet's QR code and feed in the bills.
Check the screen and confirm. The fee and exchange rate are displayed before you press anything. Crypto lands in your wallet within minutes.
Customers who would rather register at the machine still can. It just takes a little longer, and the company would like to gently point out that it no longer has to. A full walkthrough of how a Bitcoin ATM works is on the company's website.
Compliance, briefly
Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs is a FinCEN-registered money services business, and every machine operates in compliance with federal and state regulations. Customer data is encrypted, and transactions are non-custodial and irreversible. No government agency, bank, utility or tech-support line will ever ask anyone to pay them at a Bitcoin ATM; if someone does, it is a scam. Common questions are answered in the company's Bitcoin ATM FAQ.
Find a low-fee Bitcoin ATM near you
Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs are live now at 400+ locations across the United States, with further phases of the rollout to follow. Customers can find a Bitcoin ATM near them and pre-register at lowestfeebitcoinatms.com. New customers can use code LOWEST at the machine for 20% off the transaction fee, which brings the fee on that $1,000 transaction down to $40.
About Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs
Lowest Fee Bitcoin ATMs is a nationwide low-fee Bitcoin ATM operator whose initial network of more than 400 machines ranks among the largest in the United States. Customers can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and USDC with cash for a flat 5% fee, with the fee and exchange rate displayed on screen before every transaction. The company is a FinCEN-registered money services business. Users can learn more at lowestfeebitcoinatms.com.
Contact
Marketing DirectorBrian S. SmithLowest Fee Bitcoin ATMssupport@lowestfeebitcoinatms.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.