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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.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire
First application enables verifiable Proof of Reserves for Hex Trust’s USDX stablecoin
Flare, the blockchain for data, has brought Flare Confidential Compute (FCC) to Songbird, its canary network. FCC processes private institutional data and returns signed results that smart contracts can verify onchain, without the data itself becoming public. The first institutional application is a Proof of Reserves extension, with Hex Trust’s USDX becoming the first stablecoin to use the technology.
Smart contracts can only act on data they can verify. While public information is supported on Flare through the Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO) and the Flare Data Connector (FDC), institutional data such as reserve balances, fund NAVs, collateral positions, credit information and compliance records often needs to remain private.
FCC processes private inputs inside a registered Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and returns a signed result that contracts can verify before relying on it. The underlying data remains private, with only the resulting aggregate conclusion published onchain.
Proof of Reserves for USDX
The first FCC application is a Proof of Reserves extension designed for assets whose backing includes both public and private components. Hex Trust is using the extension for USDX, its 1:1 USD-referencing stablecoin.
Hex Trust provides USDX reserve data from two sources, including a public reserves amount and a restricted cash reserves amount. The extension reads the data inside the TEE, checks the combined total against USDX supply across the ecosystem, and signs a result showing whether USDX is backed 1:1 or better. Only the result is published, without exposing the underlying reserve balances.
USDX is a collateral asset in the FAssets system on Songbird, and its feed is migrating to this reserve-based reference. The same result provides decentralized exchanges with a basis for pricing USDX, while feed metadata indicates whether reserves meet the required coverage threshold at each update.
“Integrating Flare Confidential Compute enhances the trust layer for institutional adoption by enabling real-time, onchain verifiability of USDX reserves and thus manifesting its position as a trusted stablecoin in the Flare ecosystem” said Ben Usinger, Head of Stablecoins at Hex Trust.
How FCC verifies the result
FCC is designed so that a contract can verify not only the result, but also the conditions under which that result was produced.
Songbird data providers relay and sign each instruction under Flare’s signing policy. The TEE executes an instruction only after it carries a weighted majority of provider signatures. The provider set is the same one that operates the FTSO and FDC.
Each supported FCC code version is represented by the hash of a reproducible container image that has been approved onchain. A machine running unapproved code cannot register with the network, while new versions must pass the same approval process before they can be used. This makes code upgrades an onchain event.
A TEE joins an extension by presenting a hardware attestation showing that it is running an approved code version. The attestation is verified through the FDC and recorded onchain. The machine’s signing key is generated inside the enclave at boot and does not leave it.
The TEE then signs the resulting output using its registered identity. A verifier contract, the TEE registry, checks that signature before the result can be stored or used by other contracts.
For Proof of Reserves, FCC combines public reserve components, private reserve records and token supply in a single calculation. The extension applies a defined coverage rule, which can range from a single threshold to a multi-condition policy. The resulting conclusion is published without exposing the private figures that contributed to it.
Bringing public and private data together
FCC extends Flare’s data infrastructure to information that cannot be published directly onchain. The FTSO provides public market data, while the FDC verifies information from other blockchains and Web2 systems. FCC adds confidential data and computation under the same network-level provider set and signing policy.
This creates a common framework for applications that need verified results from private information. Beyond Proof of Reserves, potential applications include lending markets that combine public asset prices with private coverage information, tokenized funds that calculate verifiable NAVs from undisclosed holdings, and credit or compliance applications that require a verifiable conclusion without exposing underlying records.
FCC is initially live on Songbird, Flare’s canary network, following the acceptance of STP.13 in July 2026. A deployment on Flare will follow separately.
The initial Songbird deployment is supported by TEE machines running on Google Cloud confidential computing and operated by the Flare Foundation. The architecture is designed to support a broader distribution of operators and hardware vendors over time.
The FCC extension framework will open to builders later in the bootstrap period. Developer documentation covering the architecture, extension development, registration and onchain verification is available through the Flare Dev Hub.
To learn more about Flare Confidential Compute and begin building, visit the Flare Dev Hub: https://dev.flare.network/fcc/overview.
About Hex Trust
Established in 2018, Hex Trust offers regulated institutional digital asset custody, staking and markets services to builders, investors and service providers. Get access to Hex Trust's comprehensive, secure and regulated suite of services built on its fully integrated infrastructure.
For more information, visit hextrust.com or follow Hex Trust on LinkedIn, X, and Telegram.
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.
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London, UK, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire
Recognition in the inaugural ranking reflects OpenPayd’s sustained growth as it builds the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy
OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has been recognised among the Financial Times’ UK’s Fastest Growing Companies 2027.
For the first edition of the ranking, the Financial Times and Statista identified 150 independent UK companies with the highest compound annual revenue growth between 2022 and 2025. Statista screened more than 8,000 businesses as potential candidates, with participating companies required to submit verified revenue figures.
Fintech, Financial Services & Insurance was the largest industry group in the ranking, representing 21.3% of the companies recognised. The result reflects the growing role of financial technology and infrastructure businesses in supporting the UK’s digital economy.
Through a single API, OpenPayd enables more than 1,200 businesses to move and manage money globally across traditional finance and digital assets. The company now processes more than $300 billion in annualised payment volume, while continuing to expand its regulatory footprint and financial infrastructure capabilities.
OpenPayd’s inclusion builds on its recognition among CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 in the Enterprise Fintech category. Together, the two recognitions underline OpenPayd’s growth and the increasing importance of the infrastructure connecting payment rails, currencies and digital assets.
About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Ozan Ozerk, its rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API.
OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, OpenPayd processes more than $300 billion in annual volumes for over 1200 businesses. It is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
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SEOUL, South Korea, September 30th, 2026, Chainwire
LBank Labs, the Web3-focused initiative of global cryptocurrency exchange LBank, successfully concluded its exclusive VIP Game Night in Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2026, bringing together a select group of VIP guests, industry participants, partners, and members of the Web3 community for an evening of private networking, premium hospitality, and curated entertainment.
Held as an invitation-only gathering, the event offered a more relaxed and intimate setting away from the pace of large-scale industry conferences. As guests arrived throughout the evening, conversations moved naturally between the lounge, dining area, and game tables, creating a setting where industry participants could connect more personally, exchange perspectives on the market, and explore potential opportunities for future collaboration.
The evening combined networking with a carefully curated hospitality experience. Guests enjoyed champagne, spirits, and gourmet bites while taking part in classic casino-style entertainment including Roulette, Baccarat, and Blackjack. Around the tables, conversations continued between rounds, with investors, builders, partners, and community members sharing views on emerging market trends, new projects, and the broader evolution of the Web3 industry. Exclusive gifts and limited-edition merchandise were also prepared for invited guests, adding a more personalized touch to the evening. All games were provided strictly for entertainment purposes and did not involve cash prizes or monetary rewards.
More than a social gathering, the VIP Game Night created a dedicated space for deeper relationship-building across the Web3 ecosystem. The smaller format encouraged more meaningful conversations and direct interaction among participants, reflecting LBank Labs’ broader approach to ecosystem engagement — creating opportunities for people to connect beyond formal meetings, panels, and conference schedules.
With Seoul continuing to play an important role in Asia’s blockchain, digital asset, and Web3 landscape, the event further deepened LBank Labs’ engagement with the Korean market. By bringing together members of its global network alongside local industry participants during KBW 2026, LBank Labs created a direct touchpoint between international and Korean Web3 communities while strengthening relationships with partners and ecosystem participants in the region.
The event received support from leading crypto and Web3 media and data partners, including LCIRCLE, TheNewsCrypto, CryptoRank, LiveBitcoinNews, The Blockopedia, DroomDroom, Coinscapture, The Crypto Updates, Cryptic, Cryptovate, Chainwire, and Allconfsbot. Their support further extended the visibility of LBank Labs throughout KBW 2026 and across the broader global digital asset community.
The Seoul VIP Game Night forms part of LBank Labs’ ongoing efforts to build meaningful connections across the global Web3 ecosystem. Through investment activities, ecosystem partnerships, industry initiatives, and curated offline experiences, LBank Labs continues to connect the people, ideas, and opportunities shaping the next generation of digital assets and blockchain innovation.
About LBank Labs
LBank Labs is a global Web3 venture capital firm with over $100 million in assets under management, focused on early-stage investments across compliant blockchain infrastructure, regulated DeFi applications, AI integration, and institutional-grade decentralized solutions. Its portfolio includes leading projects and funds contributing to the development of the next generation of regulatory-aligned and scalable digital technologies.
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New York, USA, September 30th, 2026, Chainwire
Integration lets users hold XRP, RLUSD, and USDC and use XRP to fund Tria cards and Hyperliquid or Decibel trading accounts without manually bridging or swapping.
Tria, the self-custodial neofinance platform for trading, earning, spending and moving assets across chains, today announced native support for the XRP Ledger, making XRP directly usable across Tria’s wallet, card and trading products.
Users can now receive, hold and send XRP, RLUSD and USDC on the native XRP Ledger, use XRP to book or top up a Tria card, and fund futures trading accounts on Hyperliquid or Decibel—all from inside Tria.
The integration removes the manual bridging and swapping that typically sits between an onchain balance and where a user wants to put it to work. Tria handles the underlying routing, allowing users to move from holding XRP to spending or trading without navigating multiple networks and applications themselves.
“XRP has one of the largest and most established communities in digital assets, but holding an asset and being able to use it seamlessly are still very different things,” said Vijit Katta, Co-founder and CEO of Tria. “With XRP Ledger support inside Tria, users can keep control of their assets while moving directly into spending or trading without stitching together bridges, swaps and separate apps.”
For card users, XRP can be used for both initial card booking and subsequent top-ups. For traders, XRP Ledger balances can fund futures accounts on Hyperliquid or Decibel. Tria displays both an estimated amount and guaranteed minimum before users confirm a card or trading top-up.
Transactions directly on the XRP Ledger typically settle in approximately three to five seconds, while cross-network card and trading top-ups generally take between one and three minutes.
The launch supports XRP, RLUSD and USDC on the native XRP Ledger. New XRP Ledger accounts require a 1 XRP reserve, with an additional 0.2 XRP reserve for each enabled token. Those reserves remain in the user’s account and are not paid to Tria. Tria recommends an initial deposit of at least 2 XRP to allow for reserve requirements and transaction fees.
Support is limited to the native XRP Ledger. XRP transferred through Ethereum, BNB Chain or the XRPL EVM sidechain is not supported by the integration.
The launch expands Tria’s broader push to make digital assets usable across financial products without forcing users to manage the infrastructure underneath each transaction. Tria brings spending, trading and cross-chain money movement into a single self-custodial interface designed to make assets portable across networks and applications.
XRP Ledger support is available now in the Tria app, with no access code required.
Get started on Tria.
About Tria
Tria is a self-custodial neofinance platform that lets users trade, earn, spend and move assets across chains from a single interface. Tria combines consumer financial products with cross-chain infrastructure designed to make digital assets usable without requiring users to manually navigate bridges, networks and fragmented applications.
For more information, visit tria.so.
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Hong Kong, China, September 30th, 2026, Chainwire
Moca Network’s AIR identity product layer is built on Moca Chain to provide decentralized identity, payments, and programmable rewards
Moca Foundation and Moca Network, a flagship project by Animoca Brands, today announced the launch of the Moca Chain mainnet. Moca Chain is a blockchain network built specifically for digital identity, enabling users to transport verified and trusted credentials, such as verified identity or membership status, across applications while minimizing data exposure.
Concurrent with the Moca Chain mainnet launch, AIR, which is the Moca Chain-based integration layer for identity, payments, and loyalty, has continued to onboard enterprises, infrastructure, and data partners.
AIR provides businesses with a single integration point to onboard users and their AI agents, and share data in a privacy-preserved manner, maximizing collaboration via data sharing while minimizing the volume of personal information they are required to custody.
Currently, most digital identity systems require users to duplicate verification processes across disparate platforms, leading to data fragmentation and elevated security vulnerabilities. This structural inefficiency is compounding as agentic web traffic and commerce continue to grow. As AI agents increasingly shop, book, and register on behalf of users, merchants and businesses need reliable ways to securely verify agents’ mandates and their owners’ identities.
Moca Chain addresses this problem through a decentralized verification model that enables a wide range of organizations, including financial platforms, telcos, retailers, and ticketing services, to verify users’ data, and issue tamper-proof verifiable credentials on Moca Chain, under a unified digital identity. Users custody these credentials themselves and decide where to share them, with cryptographically enforced consent. When an application queries a user’s identity status it receives a digitally certified confirmation instead of a copy of the underlying identity documentation. Credentials can be updated or revoked, with state changes reflected network-wide on Moca Chain, allowing all integrated applications to detect modifications without requiring users to submit updated proofs or entire identity documents for every platform they interact with.
Moca Network’s AIR works bidirectionally: companies can convert existing customer verification checks into credentials on Moca Chain, or accept credentials issued by trusted partners to streamline user onboarding and automate conditional access based on verified data.
AIR extends this identity framework to AI agents by giving users control over agent permissions and authorization rules. As agentic commerce volume continues to increase, businesses can utilize AIR to verify the identities of AI agents and their human owners, validating the authorization scope of agents before offering any access, pricing, services, or offers.
The ecosystem of Moca Network and AIR includes integration partners across various consumer platforms, fintech providers, loyalty programs, and agentic commerce environments, including SK Planet, Biletinial, Oyunfor, Open Campus, OneFootball, Automobili Lamborghini, Inveo Kripto, Plume, and Nansen.
Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said: “Users should not be forced to surrender sensitive personal information redundantly every time they use a new service and platform—not only is the process time-consuming and tedious, but it also stifles competition by erecting barriers to alternative merchants and providers, keeping users locked in to the platforms where they are already authenticated. As more and more AI agents navigate the digital economy on behalf of more and more people, Moca Chain is ideally positioned to provide individuals with sovereign ownership of their credentials, and to give businesses a mechanism that can establish trust without unnecessary data custody.”
Kenneth Shek, CEO of Moca Network, said: “Moca Chain is the foundational infrastructure for availability of identity data and auditability of identity states. Scalable data sharing is necessary for AI agents to act on behalf of humans, however the trust framework for delegation and authority is lacking. In the past, platforms have compromised user privacy to enable agent automation. AIR solves this by keeping users in control of their data while enabling AI agents to execute tasks safely and seamlessly via secure, scalable, and privacy-preserved data sharing.”
Businesses interested in integrating AIR can learn more at air3.com and apply for partnership at air3.com/partner-with-us. Developer documentation is available at docs.air3.com.
About AIR
AIR provides infrastructure for decentralized identity, money and loyalty through a single modular integration stack for businesses and AI agents. AIR Identity simplifies user acquisition and verification via selective attribute disclosure; AIR Money enables the integration of third-party services for payments, payouts, and settlement; and AIR Loyalty powers programmable rewards with fixed-rate point settlement. AIR extends this same capability to AI agents, granting them scoped, user-defined permissions to execute actions for users and enterprises.
AIR is built by Moca Network, the identity network of Animoca Brands. Website: https://air3.com
About Moca Network
Moca Network is building the world’s largest chain-agnostic decentralized identity network, with privacy-preserved infrastructure for identity verifications, and interoperability of users and data across industries and ecosystems. As the premier identity ecosystem created by Animoca Brands, Moca Network brings together over 600 portfolio companies, more than 700 million addressable users, and a diverse range of enterprise partners. Moca Network utilizes MOCA Coin as its utility and governance token.
Website: https://moca.network
X: https://x.com/Moca_Network
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moca-network/
About Moca Foundation
MOCA Foundation is the community-owned foundation that supports the development, adoption, and sustainable growth of Moca Network and Moca Chain. Its mission is to empower unity and collaboration while driving innovation in decentralized governance, culture, and growth. MOCA Foundation is governed by Moca DAO, where participants co-create improvement proposals and engage in cross-DAO empowerment through unique delegation models.
Website: https://www.moca.foundation
X: https://x.com/MOCAFoundation
About Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands Corporation Limited (ACN: 122 921 813) is a global digital assets leader building and investing in impactful technologies and ecosystems to reimagine future economies through AI and the agentic web. It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top 50 Blockchain Game Companies 2025, Financial Times’ High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and Deloitte Tech Fast. Animoca Brands is recognized for building digital asset platforms such as the Moca Network, Open Campus, Anichess, and The Sandbox, as well as institutional-grade platforms; providing digital asset services to help Web3 companies launch and grow; and investing in frontier Web3 technology, with a portfolio of over 600 companies and digital assets. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok.
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NEWPORT BEACH, California, September 29th, 2026, Chainwire
Proposed acquisition would bring a gold-backed decentralized financial ecosystem, including decentralized financial infrastructure targeting retail, institutional, and blockchain markets.
A retail and institutional platform designed for the rapidly growing stablecoin industry, delivering compliance-focused infrastructure for payments, yield, lending and open-ecosystem, industry-wide decentralized financial applications.
Institutional gold-based infrastructure spanning gold as a currency, gold-collateralized USD products and gold-backed financial products, anchored to an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network designed as a stable foundation for the next generation of industry products.
Proprietary yield engines designed to power institutional products targeting competitive returns by bridging traditional and decentralized markets.
Amaze Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: AMZE) (“Amaze” or the “Company”) today announced it has entered into a binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) to acquire the assets of BullionFX, including its core platform Alchemy (collectively, the “BullionFX Assets”), for stock valued at approximately $155 million.
The BullionFX Assets comprise the technology, infrastructure and intellectual property behind a blockchain financial ecosystem built around auditable physical gold. If completed, the acquisition would mark a strategic expansion for Amaze beyond creator commerce and into gold-backed digital-asset infrastructure. The transaction comes amid a broad resurgence in cryptocurrency markets, rapid growth in volume within the stablecoin industry, renewed institutional engagement with digital assets, and continued strength in gold as a long-established store of value. Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume hit $1.79 trillion in June 2026, up 125% year on year, according to Visa Onchain Analytics (Allium).
“Crypto’s renewed momentum and gold’s enduring role as a store of value have opened a rare window for infrastructure built on both,” said Joel Krutz, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Amaze. “Alchemy is a full-stack, gold-backed financial ecosystem, and we believe bringing it into the public markets can create meaningful long-term value for our stockholders.”
The acquisition gives Amaze the technology, infrastructure and intellectual property behind a comprehensive decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem in which every unit of digital value is tied to physical gold held by independent custodians. The platform's architecture supports lending and borrowing protocols, yield products, cross-chain interoperability, and an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network that links traditional and decentralized finance while offering the rapidly growing market of gold- and USD-backed stablecoins users’ broad functionality, including access to yield opportunities.
Following closing, Amaze intends to prioritize activation of the self-custody retail wallet and yield engines and, as an initial institutional application, to pursue a listed Stable Asset Treasury (“SAT”) vehicle for gold and USD, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.
“We have seen traditional financial markets adopt blockchain, and more recently stablecoins, as a direct result of retail users seeking more control, custody, and transferability of their own assets. We believe traditional finance will increasingly bridge with decentralized finance to extract the ideal attributes of both industries. Alchemy is well-positioned to compete in bringing to market a range of bridged traditional and decentralized financial products to introduce innovative financial offerings on a retail and institutional level while seeking to mitigate certain risks associated with traditional stablecoin models,” said Stephen Moss, Founder, BullionFX. "Joining a publicly listed company gives Alchemy the access and institutional credibility to accelerate our mission. That mission is a stable, transparent financial ecosystem for retail users that bridges traditional and decentralized finance."
INSIDE THE ALCHEMY PLATFORM
$GOLD, Backed by Physical Gold. Alchemy’s core $GOLD token is designed to be backed one-to-one by vaulted, independently custodied and audited physical gold, with reserves intended to be subject to real-time attestation through third-party, institutional-grade audit mechanisms. $GOLD is designed to serve as the network’s settlement asset, combining the stability of a hard asset with the speed and transparency of blockchain settlement.
Built for the Stablecoin Industry. Alchemy is a retail and institutional platform designed for the rapidly growing stablecoin industry. Its compliance-focused architecture is built to support gold-linked payments, yield, lending and borrowing, cross-chain interoperability and open-ecosystem DeFi applications that third-party developers can build on.
Institutional Gold Infrastructure on Ethereum Layer 2. For institutions, Alchemy provides gold-based infrastructure spanning gold as a currency, gold-collateralized USD products and gold-backed financial products. Running on an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network, it is designed to bring gold’s stability on-chain as a foundation for future industry products.
Proprietary Yield Engines. Alchemy’s proprietary yield engines for gold and USD are designed to power institutional products targeting competitive returns by bridging traditional and decentralized markets.
Self-Custody for Retail. A planned self-custody retail wallet is designed to give users direct access to gold-linked payments, yield and DeFi applications while keeping control of their own assets.
“Stablecoins have proven the demand for digital money. The next question is what that money is anchored to,” said Simon Rahme, Co-Founder and CTO, BullionFX | Alchemy. “We engineered Alchemy’s Layer 2 so that gold sits inside the settlement layer itself rather than on top of it. That gives developers and institutions a base for payments, lending and yield products, with reserves designed to be verifiable on-chain.”
Transaction Terms
Under the LOI, which contains certain binding provisions, the parties will work toward definitive agreements. The transaction, if consummated, will result in significant issuance of Amaze common stock to BullionFX. Final terms are subject to due diligence, regulatory review, approval by each party's board of directors and other customary closing conditions.
About Amaze Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: AMZE)
Amaze Holdings, Inc. is an end-to-end, creator-powered commerce platform offering tools for brand development, product creation, advanced e-commerce, audience growth and scalable managed services. By helping people turn what they know, create and share into sustainable income, Amaze enables creators to build deeper audience relationships and more flexible paths to a better life. Discover more at www.amaze.co.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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Singapore, Singapore, September 29th, 2026, Chainwire
The partnership combines DayOneDream's K-pop IP and entertainment expertise, delivered through its tokenization platform WAVIST, with Soneium's onchain infrastructure to unlock new ways to access, participate in, and enjoy value from the idol groups people love.
Soneium, the leading blockchain powering an onchain ecosystem for entertainment and IP, has partnered with DayOneDream, a renowned entertainment powerhouse behind K-pop artists, global concerts, and IP management, including BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI, and 2F.
At the center of the collaboration is WAVIST, DayOneDream’s K-pop IP tokenization platform, designed to connect entertainment IP with real-world financial infrastructure.
In May, WAVIST completed the full lifecycle of a tokenized IP bond issued to finance K-pop IP, from issuance through final redemption and burning, demonstrating its ability to bring real-world entertainment assets into an end-to-end onchain framework.
Together, Soneium and DayOneDream bring this capability into Soneium’s next era: combining a purpose-built entertainment blockchain, an expanding global ecosystem and institutional-grade tokenization expertise to explore how K-pop IP and its associated economic value can move onchain at scale.
“K-pop is a market unlike any other, yet the way capital reaches it has barely changed. Our partnership with Soneium sits where RWA, IP, and K-pop meet, and it opens a real path to investing through the IP itself. With the world watching this industry, we intend to make it the most compelling product out there,” said Dylan Cho, RWA Lead at DayOneDream.
Soneium and WAVIST will continue to bring tokenized K-content assets and their associated revenue streams onchain, giving eligible users new ways to access the IP they support while creating additional monetization opportunities for IP owners, subject to applicable regulatory and eligibility requirements.
“Entertainment IP is one of the clearest opportunities for bringing real-world value onchain,” said Yuji Kumagai, Head of Soneium Protocol. “Soneium brings creators and IP owners who already have a strong following, like DayOneDream, together with the fans and investors who want to back them. Creators get a new way to raise funds for the work they want to make, and their supporters share in the value it creates, which helps the IP grow further. K-pop is a great place to start, and we will keep bringing more entertainment IP onto Soneium.”
K-pop has grown into a major global cultural industry, but the financial value created remains largely accessed through traditional ownership and investment structures, leaving the millions of people who follow and support K-pop with few opportunities to participate in the economics behind the entertainment they love. Soneium and DayOneDream are among the early movers in opening up this opportunity. By bringing these assets onchain, fans and users get new ways to access and participate in the IP they already support.
The partnership was announced to the community during Tokenizing K-Pop: WAVIST Night by DayOneDream x Soneium, held in Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week 2026. With partnerships such as DayOneDream bringing real-world entertainment assets into the ecosystem, Soneium is building the infrastructure and ecosystem for a new era of onchain IP, Beyond simple registry and attribution layers, Soneium opens direct, tangible economic pathways: enabling fans and investors to participate in premium, globally recognized entertainment IP, while giving creators the tools to raise capital and build alongside their audiences by leveraging the deep production experience, commercial pipelines, and global networks of its core contributors.
About Soneium
Soneium, developed by Sony Group and Startale Group, is the global entertainment ecosystem built to bring intellectual property (IP) onchain as tokenized IP. On Soneium, every creation becomes a living asset that can be owned, licensed, and grown to power a shared economy for creators, studios, and fans. Built for the AI era, the network provides the infrastructure for human creators and autonomous agents to build, distribute, and settle IP value at scale.
About DayOneDream
DayOneDream is a K-content entertainment group that directly manages the full lifecycle of artist businesses, operating across music production and publishing, video content, artist IP management, live entertainment, and IP commerce through its in-house ecosystem.
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Chicago, United States, September 28th, 2026, Chainwire
AlgoQuant will deploy Liquid Mercury's institutional-grade trading technology to scale its multi-strategy investment platform and enhance execution capabilities across global digital asset markets.
Liquid Mercury, a leading technology provider for digital asset marketplaces and crypto trading, announced today that it has been engaged by AlgoQuant Asset Management, an investment manager focused on solving inefficiencies in fast-evolving markets, to provide trading technology and infrastructure services.
The engagement will enable AlgoQuant to leverage Liquid Mercury's institutional-grade trading technology and infrastructure to enhance its multi-strategy investment platform. AlgoQuant will gain access to deep liquidity, advanced execution capabilities, and professional-grade trading tools that support the firm's commitment to quantitative excellence, risk integrity, and operational resilience.
Liquid Mercury's battle-tested platform combined with AlgoQuant's sophisticated quantitative strategies provides a powerful foundation for executing complex digital asset trades across global markets. This technology integration allows AlgoQuant to maintain 24/7 trading operations while scaling talent, capital, and technology without compromising precision.
With a team spanning key global financial and digital asset markets, AlgoQuant operates as a multi-strategy investment platform designed to perform across diverse market environments. Through Liquid Mercury's platform, AlgoQuant will benefit from access to top-tier liquidity providers, low-latency infrastructure, and comprehensive middle and back-office tools designed to meet the demands of institutional asset managers operating in digital asset markets.
"AlgoQuant came to us with very specific infrastructure requirements that are unique to their sophisticated quantitative strategies," stated Liquid Mercury CEO, Tony Saliba. "What sets Liquid Mercury apart is our ability to shape our tech stack to meet each client's distinct needs. This level of customization isn't something firms can always find off the shelf, but our battle-tested platform was built with the flexibility to adapt while maintaining institutional-grade standards. We're honored to provide the tailored technology infrastructure that will support AlgoQuant as it continues to scale its investment platform."
“Liquid Mercury has been an excellent technology partner for AlgoQuant Asset Management,” said Alexander Goncharov, President of AlgoQuant Asset Management. “We are very pleased with their sophisticated technology stack, collaborative approach, and willingness to tailor the platform to our specific needs. Their infrastructure delivers the speed, reliability, and precision required in today’s digital asset markets while integrating seamlessly with our proprietary systems and workflows.”
About AlgoQuant Asset Management
AlgoQuant is an investment manager with a clear mission: to solve inefficiencies in fast-evolving markets. From day one, the firm has been focused on building a platform that can scale talent, capital, and technology without compromising precision. At the heart of AlgoQuant's model is a commitment to quantitative excellence, risk integrity, and operational resilience.
AlgoQuant operates as a multi-strategy investment platform with global reach, featuring team members and trading teams based in key global financial and digital asset markets. The firm's structure supports 24/7 execution, oversight, and engagement with global allocators.
Further information can be found at www.aq.io
About Liquid Mercury
Liquid Mercury powers professional crypto trading and digital asset marketplaces. Founded by legendary trader Tony Saliba, who was featured in Jack Schwager's "Market Wizards," Liquid Mercury is the #1 choice for sophisticated buy-side and institutional sell-side trading professionals moving into crypto.
Mercury Pro is an institutional-grade trading platform designed specifically for professional traders navigating crypto derivatives and spot markets. The platform offers sophisticated trade execution tools including DMA routing, staging, execution algorithms, and anonymous multi-dealer RFQ to source block liquidity. Traders can manage all orders and trade data in a single platform with real-time views of balances and account positions.
Key capabilities include access to crypto derivatives at leading onshore and offshore exchanges, institutional-sized pricing with top OTC liquidity providers, and a wide range of spot products across leading exchanges. The platform supports both single-leg and multi-leg orders in net price structures, with low-latency infrastructure built for high-frequency and algorithmic trading strategies.
Liquid Mercury integrates with world-class custodians including Fireblocks, Gemini, and BitGo, and provides comprehensive APIs (FIX, WebSocket, and REST) for automated trading and workflow customization. Built by professionals for professionals, Liquid Mercury combines battle-tested trading technology with deep liquidity access and best-in-class workflow automation.
For more information about Liquid Mercury and the $MERC token, users can visit www.liquidmercury.com or merc.liquidmercury.com.
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This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities or fund interests in any jurisdiction. Any offer or solicitation of interests in any fund managed by AlgoQuant Asset Management Corp will be made only by definitive offering documents, and only to eligible investors in accordance with applicable law. No statement in this press release is, or should be construed as, a representation as to the past or future performance of any fund or strategy managed by AlgoQuant.
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George Town, British Virgin Islands, September 28th, 2026, Chainwire
Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, today announced the launch of its Liquidity Pool Mining campaign, a four-week incentive campaign featuring a total reward pool of up to 140,000 $ASTER and running from September 28 to October 25, 2026 (UTC). To celebrate the launch of Perpetual Grid 2.0, the program is open to all Aster users running Perpetual Grid strategies on eligible trading pairs.
Rewards will be distributed hourly based on each eligible Grid’s share of trading volume. The base reward pool is set at 10,000 $ASTER per epoch, with additional rewards available based on market conditions and trading activity on the platform. Participation is automatic, with no registration required.
“As Aster continues to bring more emerging assets and opportunities onchain, we’re also focused on building the tools traders need to navigate increasingly dynamic markets. Perpetual Grid offers a flexible way to capture opportunities amid market volatility, and Grid 2.0 takes this experience further with greater flexibility and independence. This upgrade is another step toward our broader vision of building the frontier of onchain trading,” said Leonard, CEO at Aster.
Incentivizing Automated Perpetual Trading
The campaign builds on Aster’s expanded Perpetual Grid infrastructure, giving users a new way to participate in automated trading while earning additional $ASTER rewards from eligible Grid activity. Both Maker and Taker volume count toward the campaign, while manual trading and activity outside the Grid strategy are excluded.
An Estimated Bonus APY is also displayed to provide an indication of potential annualized $ASTER rewards based on recent campaign activity. The estimate can change as trading volume, participating Grids and other campaign conditions change, and does not guarantee future rewards or returns.
Grid 2.0 Separates Automated and Manual Strategies
Alongside the campaign, the newly upgraded Perpetual Grid 2.0 enables Grid strategies to operate independently from users’ regular Perpetual trading. Each Grid runs through a dedicated Grid Bot subaccount, keeping its positions and margin separate from the main Perpetual account.
With support for both Cross and Isolated Margin, users can run automated Grid strategies while continuing to trade Perpetuals manually, including on the same trading pair. Isolated Margin supports up to 50 independent Grid strategies per account, with no per-pair limit.
Discover Strategies Through Grid Marketplace
Aster’s Grid Marketplace further simplifies strategy discovery by allowing users to browse active Grid strategies and review metrics such as PnL, ROI, runtime, price range, leverage and trading activity.
Users can use an existing strategy as a starting point through Copy, or switch its direction through Reverse, turning a Long strategy into Short or vice versa. Copied or reversed strategies remain independent from their source and do not automatically synchronize with the original Grid.
The Liquidity Pool Mining campaign is available on designated eligible trading pairs, with the Week 1 eligible pairs including OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1, and META/USD1. The reward pool is shared across participating pairs. Individual rewards are determined by each Grid’s eligible trading volume relative to the total eligible volume generated during the relevant hourly period.
More eligible trading pairs may be added in subsequent weeks to reflect the latest market trends. For more information about the campaign, eligible trading pairs and current campaign parameters, please visit the official campaign page.
About Aster
Aster is a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, with unique features like Hidden Orders to protect user trading activity. It pioneers the frontier of on-chain trading through perpetual futures, spots, and earn products for top-trending assets, including RWAs, memes, and core crypto markets. It is powered by Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built to power the future of decentralized finance.
Users can learn more about Aster on the official website or follow Aster on X.
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Limassol, Cyprus, September 25th, 2026, Chainwire
Teams at Agentic Commerce Pioneers Edition II have built working prototypes on the GoBTC Pay protocol.
GoBTC Pay, the Bitcoin payment protocol built by GoMining, has joined Agentic Commerce Pioneers Edition II: The Shopping Agent Challenge as a Diamond Sponsor, with a dedicated branded track and a seat on the judging panel. The hackathon, hosted by Agnic.AI, ran as a remote build sprint from September 10 to 20, 2026 and closed with a hybrid Demo Day in Toronto, Canada, on September 21.
The brief set by the organizers is to build an AI agent that can buy from almost any merchant. Teams on the GoBTC Pay track work from a specific GoBTC Pay case study and ship a functional prototype on the protocol rather than a concept deck. The field includes student developers, machine learning engineers, independent specialists and corporate teams.
The track exists because agent-driven commerce breaks an assumption built into card rails: that a person is standing at the checkout to approve the payment. It also creates a transaction type that barely exists today, one agent paying another for a service it has just performed. Those payments are small, frequent, often cross-border, and they have no cardholder, no shared banking hours and no dispute desk to fall back on.
Roman Yermoshin, General Manager at GoBTC Pay and a judge at the Agnic.AI hackathon, emphasized the importance of the hackathon’s topic:
“Before long, people will stop placing orders themselves. Their AI agents will take that routine over: the agents will choose the products and pay for the orders on our behalf. Agents will also start settling up with each other for the services they provide to one another, and they will do it in Bitcoin, a genuinely independent international currency. GoBTC Pay gives agents a way to make those payments instantly and at minimal cost, with no banks or intermediaries in between. The hackathon with Agnic.AI is a demonstration of how that will work in practice.”
GoBTC Pay settles directly on the Bitcoin base layer instead of converting to fiat currency by default. Payments are free for the payer, and merchants pay a 0.2% fee that is split between the wallet provider and the miners that process the settlement. The protocol uses a 2-of-3 multi-signature setup shared between the user, GoMining and a regulated third-party custodian, so the payer holds a key throughout the transaction. Transactions are routed through GoMining’s private mempool, built on the Stratum V2 mining protocol, which gives them priority inside GoMining’s own pool.
About GoBTC Pay
GoBTC Pay is a Layer-1 Bitcoin payment protocol developed by GoMining, a bitcoin mining company serving over 5.5 million users and running its own mining pool and data center capacity. The product launched in May 2026 and opened to third parties in June 2026 with the Gen1 SDK and API, moving it from a closed demonstration into open infrastructure that merchants, wallet providers and ecosystem partners can integrate.
https://gobtcpay.com/
About Agnic.AI
Agnic.AI builds the identity, authorization and payment layer for AI agents: a wallet that gives an agent a verifiable identity and a cardholder-signed spending mandate, and completes checkout at merchants with no integration on their side. It implements open standards including AP2, x402 and MCP, and runs the Agentic Commerce Pioneers hackathon series in Toronto.
https://www.agnic.ai/
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Gurugram, India, September 25th, 2026, Chainwire
CoinGape is set to host the Global Onchain Summit 2026 in Singapore on October 6. The summit will bring together senior executives from banks, asset managers, financial infrastructure firms and digital asset companies as web3 moves deeper into its institutional phase.
The Global Onchain Summit will focus on how traditional financial institutions are adopting blockchain infrastructure. It will feature sessions across tokenization, stablecoins, digital asset custody, payments and on chain markets.
Meet the Speakers at Global Onchain Summit
The speaker lineup for Global Onchain Summit includes executives from Franklin Templeton, State Street, BNY, Swift, OCBC, WLFI, Coinbase, S&P Global, Kalshi, Alpaca, Galaxy Digital, Robinhood, Wintermute, Triple-A, DCS and AmericanFortress, among others.
Among the confirmed speakers are Arthur Hayes, Chief Investment Officer at Maelstrom; Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President at Franklin Templeton; Zahid Mustafa, Managing Director at State Street; Andy Ross, Head of Institutional at Kalshi, Doni Shamsuddin, Head of Asia Pacific at BNY Investment; Avalon Ingram, Digital Assets Business Lead at Swift; Steven Hu, Head of Digital Assets at OCBC; Nick See Tong, APAC Regional Lead at Base; Arush Sehgal, Head of Digital Assets at Alpaca; Leonard Hoh, Bitstamp by Robinhood; and Andrew O’Neil, CFAMD, Analytics Lead of Digital Assets at S&P Global.
Agenda for the Global Onchain Summit
A central theme of the Global onchain summit will be how financial institutions are approaching the transition to on chain markets.
The key “Wall Street Goes Onchain: How Institutions Are Entering the Digital Asset Era” panel will bring together Franklin Templeton, BNY and Swift. The trio will discuss institutional adoption, tokenization, digital asset infrastructure, settlement and the changing role of blockchain in global financial markets.
The agenda will also look at several areas where traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure are increasingly overlapping.
A dedicated session on tokenized stocks and 24/7 markets will examine whether capital markets are ready for continuous trading. The industry leaders and experts will also share insights on how financial infrastructure needs to evolve around tokenized securities.
The summit will also feature the keynote on “The Stablecoin Century,” exploring the role of stablecoins in global financial flows.
Another session will focus on agentic payments. It will explore how AI agents could interact with wallets, payment networks and transform how industry works.
The agenda further covers prediction markets, institutional DeFi and on chain liquidity infrastructure. With over 150+ audience presence having representatives from VCs, family offices, banks, traffic giants, it will provide a wholesome view of how different parts of the digital asset market are developing beyond traditional crypto trading.
Building a conversation around what comes next
Abhinav Agarwal, Co-Founder and COO of CoinGape, said: “The institutional conversation around digital assets has changed. The question is no longer only whether institutions will participate in this market. We are now seeing institutions build the infrastructure around tokenization, stablecoins, custody, payments and on chain markets. Global Onchain Summit is designed to bring the people driving that shift into one room and have a direct conversation about what comes next.”
The event will also host the Global Onchain Awards 2026. The awards recognize companies and leaders across categories including tokenization, institutional DeFi, stablecoins, custody, payments, compliance and digital assets.
About CoinGape
CoinGape is a global digital asset media platform with over 25 million readers worldwide. Since 2016, it has been covering cryptocurrency markets, blockchain, tokenization, regulation and the institutional digital asset ecosystem. As the industry leader, its work spans editorial coverage, executive conversations, research, industry events and the Block of Fame platform.
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New York, New York, September 24th, 2026, Chainwire
Led by Left Lane Capital, the round will extend HIFI's stablecoin settlement platform into tokenized capital markets and card issuance.
HIFI, the financial infrastructure company for stablecoin payments and tokenized assets, today announced $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital. The financing will support the scaling of HIFI’s tokenized capital markets infrastructure and the expansion of its broader product suite, including stablecoin payments and card products.
HIFI was selected as a participant in DTCC's July production trades using DTC-tokenized assets, alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Nasdaq. In September, the company announced a partnership with Visa to expand money movement and card capabilities using its stablecoin settlement platform, beginning with stablecoin-funded payouts to over 4 billion Visa cards worldwide.
HIFI's infrastructure moves over $7 billion in annualized volume and has onboarded more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users while its payment capabilities reach across 87 countries. Sumitomo, a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate, is rebuilding its cash management and trading operations on HIFI's rails; Dapper is building new digital marketplaces on the platform; and Arival Bank is powering stablecoin payment experiences for its customers.
Citi projects the stablecoin market could reach $1.9 trillion by 2030, up from roughly $300 billion today, underpinning as much as $100 trillion in annual onchain settlement volume. Public equities are expected to lead capital markets onto that infrastructure, with Citi estimating approximately 3% of the U.S. equity market will be tokenized by the end of the decade. Rules for digital assets are arriving market by market rather than all at once, and each new jurisdiction adds its own banking partners, stablecoin issuers, payment networks and compliance requirements. HIFI absorbs that coordination so its customers can build once and operate across every rail and jurisdiction it supports.
“We think of settlement as one problem, not three,” said Zach Walsh, CEO of HIFI. "Whether it's a stablecoin settling a payment, a tokenized receivable funding a card, or a tokenized security clearing a trade, the underlying event is identical: value moves and settles at the same instant, instead of moving now and settling days later. Payments, spending, and capital markets have historically needed separate infrastructure. We built one layer that solves it for all three.”
“The growth HIFI has demonstrated reflects both the strength of the team and the speed at which stablecoins have become a core part of global financial infrastructure," said Matthew Miller, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, which led HIFI's Series A. “HIFI is building an important layer in that market, giving developers the infrastructure to create products that can operate across networks and borders. We believe HIFI will become a foundational platform for the next generation of financial applications.”
About HIFI
Founded in 2022, HIFI is a New York-based financial technology company building entirely new infrastructure for money in the internet economy. Its composable API platform enables developers, fintechs and global businesses to build next-generation financial products that move, convert, route and program value across stablecoins, bank rails and payment networks through a single integration. HIFI brings together global money movement, programmable controls, compliance and settlement infrastructure, allowing companies to build products with tokenized money. HIFI’s infrastructure serves over 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users today, with payouts supported across 87 countries.
Users can learn more at HIFI.com.
About Left Lane Capital
Founded in 2019, Left Lane Capital is a New York and London-based venture capital and growth equity firm investing in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses globally. Left Lane's mission is to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs who create category-defining companies across growth sectors of the economy. Select investments include Bilt Rewards, Lemfi, Kast, M1 Finance, Wayflyer, Talkiatry, Blank Street, and more.
For more information, users can visit www.leftlane.com.
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Miami, Florida, September 24th, 2026, Chainwire
A Metalayer Capital strategy backed by an initial institutional allocation uses GLDY as the long leg of a delta-neutral gold trade, creating a new channel for demand for Streamex’s yield-bearing tokenized gold, with follow-on investments anticipated.
Streamex Corp., a Nasdaq-listed a technology company building the future of the commodity markets through tokenization, has secured a commitment of institutional capital, a test of whether tokenized commodities can draw buyers beyond individual investors.
A leading institutional investor has made an initial $1 million allocation, with follow-on investments anticipated, to a relative-value strategy that uses GLDY, Streamex’s gold-backed token, as its long gold position, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who isn’t authorized to speak on behalf of the company. The strategy is run by Metalayer Capital, a systematic investment manager, through its Aureon Relative Value Fund, the person said. Metalayer Capital was founded by former Two Sigma executives. Metalayer Capital declined to comment.
The strategy pairs GLDY with an offsetting short position in gold-linked perpetual futures, so it is designed to be largely indifferent to whether gold prices rise or fall, the person said. It aims instead to earn the yield GLDY pays, which Streamex targets at 3.5% a year in additional gold generated through a gold-leasing program.
For Streamex, the significance lies in the mechanics: money deployed into the long position goes into GLDY, adding to the assets under management on which the company earns fees.
The initial allocation of $1 million is final, with follow-on investments anticipated, and its significance lies in who is buying: it suggests that tokenized securities such as GLDY are drawing interest not only from accredited individual investors but also from the institutional investor community.
In August, Streamex laid out a list of goals for the following 90 days. “Converting the first institutional allocations into GLDY was at the top of that list,” said Henry McPhie, the company’s co-founder and chief executive. He called the arrangement “a fundamentally different growth channel than selling to one investor at a time.”
Beyond the initial $1 million, the rest of the commitment remain at the purview of the investor, and there is no assurance that any additional amount of GLDY will be bought.
The companies have other ties. Metalayer also acts as a liquidity provider for GLDY on certain trading venues and can mint and redeem the token directly with the issuer, the person said. Streamex doesn’t manage or sponsor the fund and isn’t compensated based on money the fund raises.
GLDY is offered only to eligible investors under exemptions from securities registration, and its holders to date have largely been accredited investors seeking yield. Streamex has made six consecutive monthly distributions on the token, most recently in September, and publishes its gold reserves through a Chainlink proof-of-reserves feed.
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San José, Costa Rica, September 24th, 2026, Chainwire
Guardis, an on-chain trading and security platform that detects scams and tracks smart money, today announced the addition of tokenized stocks and commodities to its platform. The expansion lets traders track and trade equities and commodities issued on-chain, including assets from xStocks and Ondo.
The new section ranks tokenized stocks and commodities by price change, market cap, trading volume, and liquidity, using the same interface users can already access for Solana token discovery, smart money signal tracking, and Warden AI scam protection. As more traditional assets move on-chain, this gives traders a single place to monitor both stocks and crypto on Solana rather than switching between separate platforms.
"Traders have been asking for a way to watch tokenized equities and commodities with the same tools they use for everything else on-chain," said a Guardis spokesperson. "Bringing stocks and commodities into the same workspace as our smart money signals and security scoring means people don't have to leave the platform, or lose visibility."
The expansion builds on Guardis's existing platform, which combines real-time smart money and whale tracking, Warden AI's automated token safety scoring, a professional trading terminal, and native Telegram integration for alerts and execution. Guardis does not custody user funds or private keys, relying on social-based authentication so traders retain full control of their assets at all times.
Users can begin to trade tokenized stocks and commodities here.
About Guardis
Guardis is an on-chain trading and security platform built to help crypto traders move faster, identify smarter opportunities, and avoid scams before they happen. The platform combines real-time token discovery, wallet intelligence, AI-powered trading signals, and automated threat detection into a unified non-custodial trading experience. Initially launched on Solana, Guardis enables users to analyze, monitor, and trade tokens directly on-chain while maintaining full control over their assets.
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VICTORIA, SEYCHELLES, September 16th, 2026, Chainwire
Bitget has published its August 2026 Proof of Reserves report, marking the 45th consecutive monthly disclosure since the program began in December 2022, with a total reserve ratio of 122% for the month. Separately, Bitget's August 2026 Protection Fund valuation report recorded an average monthly value of $382 million, backed by 5,500 BTC held as a separate protection reserve.
Bitget publishes both monthly Proof of Reserves and monthly Protection Fund valuation reports — two separate disclosures providing visibility into different parts of the platform's asset-protection framework. The August PoR reserve ratio of 122% means Bitget's reported reserves for tracked assets exceeded the corresponding user balances included in the snapshot. A full per-asset breakdown is available on Bitget's Proof of Reserves page.
A reserve ratio above 100% reflects the position captured in a particular reporting snapshot and should not be interpreted as a financial audit or a guarantee of future solvency.
The Protection Fund's August valuation ranged from approximately $345.3 million on Aug 1, 2026 to $441.5 million on Aug 27, 2026, with an average monthly valuation of $382 million. Its dollar value fluctuates with Bitcoin's market price because the fund is backed by 5,500 BTC. Bitget established the fund in 2022 with an initial $300 million commitment, and its valuation remained above that level throughout August.
How Is Bitget's Reserve Ratio Verified?
Bitget's Proof of Reserves uses a Merkle-tree structure that allows users to independently verify whether their balances were included in the reserve snapshot without exposing other customers' account information.
Users can perform their own verification through Bitget's open-source MerkleValidator and Proof of Reserves tools on GitHub, while publicly disclosed wallet information can also be reviewed independently on blockchain explorers.
Full details are available on Bitget's Proof of Reserves page.
What's New in Bitget's Proof-of-Reserves Coverage?
In a recent PoR upgrade, Bitget expanded the range of assets available for viewing and verification on its Proof of Reserves page from four cryptocurrencies to more than 20 major assets. The expanded coverage includes assets such as BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, BGB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, BNB and others.
The upgrade also broadens the coverage of users' actual holdings and allows users to check whether their assets are included through Bitget's Personal Proof of Assets feature. The broader asset coverage adds another layer of visibility alongside Bitget's monthly reserve snapshots.
About Bitget
Bitget is a global cryptocurrency exchange operating as a Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to crypto assets alongside tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, precious metals and other financial products. Bitget has published monthly Proof of Reserves disclosures since December 2022.
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Hong Kong, CHINA, September 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Cregis, an enterprise digital asset infrastructure platform, is marking two years of growth in the Middle East following its participation in Forex Expo Dubai 2026, where it met with forex brokers, financial institutions, fintechs and payment companies exploring digital asset infrastructure.
The Middle East was Cregis’ first major step beyond its Asia-Pacific roots. Since entering the region, the company has built a base of around 200 long-term enterprise clients with active deployments. More than half of them now come from forex and other traditional financial businesses, reflecting a broader shift in how digital asset infrastructure is being adopted across the financial sector.
Over the past two years, Cregis has seen digital asset infrastructure move further into the day-to-day operations of traditional financial businesses. For many companies, digital assets are no longer treated as a standalone crypto function, but increasingly as part of existing payment, treasury and cross-border operations.
This shift is also reflected in Cregis’ growing global client base, which spans forex brokers, digital banks, payment providers and fintech companies, including ATFX Group, Bison Bank and Interlace. Globally, Cregis has served more than 4,000 businesses across 50+ countries, with more than $300 billion in cumulative transaction volume.
“Two years ago, much of the conversation was about whether businesses should use digital assets. Today, the conversation is much more practical: how do you operate them properly, and how do you fit them into an existing financial business?” said Shawn Yan, Founder and CEO of Cregis. “That change is particularly clear in the Middle East. Forex brokers and financial institutions are not trying to become crypto companies. They are looking for reliable infrastructure that can support payments, treasury and asset operations alongside what they already do.”
Cregis has built its platform around a unified infrastructure layer covering three core capabilities: Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS), fund flow orchestration and regulated custody, supported by operational hubs and settlement networks. Together, they provide the infrastructure for businesses to manage wallets, move funds and govern digital assets across multiple networks and use cases.
For financial institutions, the focus is not simply on moving assets on-chain, but on controlling how those assets are accessed, transferred and managed. Cregis’ infrastructure supports role-based access, approval workflows, transaction policies and audit trails, allowing businesses to build digital asset operations around established governance and compliance processes. Cregis Payment Engine supports collections, payouts and settlement, while its custody infrastructure is designed around key management, policy enforcement and controlled access.
This approach has enabled Cregis to serve businesses that operate in regulated and compliance-sensitive environments, including banks, forex brokers, payment providers and fintechs. Rather than requiring these businesses to build a separate crypto operation, Cregis provides infrastructure that can be integrated into existing financial workflows while maintaining institutional controls.
Security is a core part of that infrastructure. The platform is independently audited against internationally recognised standards, including SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Its security architecture also incorporates MPC, HSM and TEE technologies, supporting the protection and controlled management of digital assets at scale.
Cregis established Dubai as its Middle East hub in 2024, building a local team and using the UAE as a base to serve businesses across the region and surrounding markets. Its location also provides a bridge to Europe, Africa, South Asia and the CIS, supporting the company’s wider international expansion. As the regional business has matured, the Middle East has also become an important base for developing local partnerships, understanding market-specific requirements and supporting customers across multiple financial markets.
The company has since expanded into Europe, Latin America, Africa and the United States, taking with it the experience gained from building and operating in the Middle East.
“The Middle East was our first real test of whether what we built in Asia-Pacific could work across a very different market,” Yan said. “The lesson has been straightforward: global infrastructure needs to be secure and scalable, but it also needs to fit the way businesses operate in each market. That is the standard we are taking into our next stage of international expansion.”
About Cregis
Cregis is a digital asset infrastructure platform, providing technology for digital asset collections, payouts and fund operations. Its offerings include wallet infrastructure, fund flow orchestration and regulated custody capabilities. These solutions help businesses manage digital assets with greater security, efficiency and control. Founded in 2017, Cregis serves financial institutions, payment service providers (PSPs), foreign exchange (Forex) brokers, fintechs and Web3 businesses. The company operates across Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Today, Cregis supports more than 4,000 businesses across over 50 countries.
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London, United Kingdom, September 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Single API integration delivers USD SWIFT connectivity, virtual IBANs, and FX across institutional settlement and on/off-ramping
OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has been selected by Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and home to over 80 million users globally, to support its global fiat operations and settlement flows.
Through a single API integration, Bybit is leveraging OpenPayd's platform across its global operations to access virtual IBANs connected to international payment rails, including USD SWIFT, alongside foreign exchange capabilities. The infrastructure supports both institutional settlement flows and retail client on/off ramping within a unified environment, enabling Bybit to enhance how funds are collected, converted and settled consistently across its operations.
For an exchange operating at Bybit’s scale, handling high volumes of deposits, withdrawals and treasury movements across jurisdictions introduces operational complexity. By consolidating USD settlement, account infrastructure and FX within OpenPayd, Bybit standardises these flows within a single environment, improving reconciliation, reducing reliance on multiple providers and creating a more consistent framework for global money movement.
This integration comes as digital asset platforms face increasing demand for reliable fiat connectivity, particularly in USD, which remains central to trading, liquidity provision and stablecoin settlement. As institutional participation deepens, exchanges are prioritising infrastructure that can support predictable, compliant and scalable movement between fiat and digital asset markets without fragmentation.
Lux Thiagarajah, Chief Commercial Officer at OpenPayd, said: “Bybit operates at an impressive scale, where it becomes increasingly important that moving between fiat and digital assets is supported by financial infrastructure that can keep pace. Supporting both institutional settlement and customer on/off-ramping requires accounts, global payment rails and FX to work together, rather than as fragmented functions. By bringing these capabilities into a single infrastructure layer, we’re proud to support Bybit in managing increasingly complex money flows efficiently as it continues to operate at global scale.”
Victoria Kilikyan, Bybit’s Deputy Head of Fiat, said: “Fiat access remains a critical part of the crypto experience, and improving the connection between traditional banking and digital assets is key to broader adoption. Our integration with OpenPayd gives eligible users a more direct way to fund their Bybit accounts in USD and access global crypto liquidity, while providing the reliable infrastructure needed for both retail and institutional use. This is another step toward making moving between fiat and crypto as seamless as possible.”
The integration highlights how exchanges are evolving their infrastructure to treat fiat and digital assets as part of a single financial system. As global trading activity increases and user expectations rise, the ability to unify banking rails, account structures and currency conversion into one platform is becoming a core component of digital asset market infrastructure.
About Bybit
Bybit is The New Financial Platform.
We believe every person should have access to every financial opportunity on earth. That's why we're building the first intelligent platform that connects anyone, anywhere to the world's finance.
Trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, Bybit brings together investing, trading, payments, and wealth-building in a single secure and intelligent ecosystem. Through the combination of AI-powered technology, deep global liquidity, robust security, and transparent operations, Bybit makes global finance more accessible, efficient, and empowering for everyone.
Built for everyone. Powered by intelligence. Open to the world.
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About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Ozan Ozerk, its rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API. OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, OpenPayd processes more than $300 billion in annual volumes for over 1200 businesses. It is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
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Singapore, Singapore, September 22nd, 2026, Chainwire
Tujamo confirmed for a 3,000-capacity night at one of Asia's most storied venues, with a headliner announcement still to come.
The Best Event, the production house behind more than 130 events across 24 cities globally, will bring AFTERDARK to Singapore's Capitol Theatre on October 5 — a single, standalone night built for the week Token2049 and the Singapore Grand Prix collide on the same calendar. Tujamo is confirmed on the lineup, with a headliner announcement still to come and additional artists to be named in the following weeks.
The Best Event is expecting more than 5,000 registrations for a room that holds 3,000. GA is free, but entry isn't guaranteed — VIP is the only way to lock your spot, and doors open early for everyone else on a first come, first served basis.
Tickets are live now at luma.com/tbe-afterdark.
AFTERDARK lands ten minutes from Marina Bay Sands, the same week The Best Event also runs CoinFerenceX × The Best Event Singapore during the day on October 5th and 6th— giving the city back-to-back marquee events during the industry's most concentrated week of the year.
"AFTERDARK is where we're going all in," said Tobias Bauer, Co-Founder of The Best Event and General Partner at TBV. "We built this night from the ground up for the people who travel around the world and trust our events to meet the leaders of our industry — builders, investors, institutions, creators who are tired of the same formula and want a night that matches the scale of what they're building. Capitol Theatre, a headline lineup, and the full weight of our production behind it. This sets the bar for what a Web3 event night looks like in Singapore, our home market."
Two Nights in One
The evening opens with two hours of VIP-only networking, anchored by a KOL Awards ceremony on the main stage — before doors open to General Admission, first come, first served.
The lineup is confirmed so far by Tujamo, the German electro-house producer behind chart-topping collaborations with Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, and Plastik Funk, and a fixture on festival mainstages worldwide, and Ariel Estrella, the Afro House DJ and producer who's built a global following from Europe to Asia. A headliner announcement — along with more tier-one names — is coming in the weeks ahead.
The Best Event is planned for a crowd of more than 5,000, with VIP networking, global press and media coverage on the night to match. It's shaping up to be one of the most talked-about nights of Token2049 week.
The Venue
Capitol Theatre isn't a standard rental — it's Singapore's restored art deco landmark, and one of the only venues in the region built with a fully convertible, rotational seating system that flips from tiered theatre to open dance floor in under eight minutes. The stage has hosted private performances from Ed Sheeran, Eric Prydz, Calum Scott, Tinashe, Yungblud, The Darkness, Passenger, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. It's the rare room built for both spectacle and a proper dance floor — which is exactly what this night needs.
Event Details
Event: The Best Event: AFTERDARK
Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
Location: Capitol Theatre, 17 Stamford Road, Singapore 178907
Lineup: Tujamo, Ariel Estrella, and more tier-one artists to be announced
Tickets: https://luma.com/tbe-afterdark
Admission: GA is free, but capacity is limited to 3,000 and 5,000+ registrations are expected — entry is not guaranteed. VIP ticket holders get guaranteed priority access; GA is first come, first served, so arrive early. VIP is strongly recommended while early bird pricing lasts.
About The Best Event
The Best Event is the global event series where Web3 comes to life. With over 130+ events organised across 24+ cities, and 60,000 guests, The Best Event is a leader in the space. From bespoke and intimate meetups, to large-scale parties at the likes of Marquee and E11even Miami, we bring together the boldest creators, top brands, and visionaries shaping the future for unforgettable experiences.
For partnerships and sponsorship inquiries, email Mihir Odhrani at mihir@tbv.xyz.
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Seoul, South Korea, September 22nd, 2026, Chainwire
HSC Conference, a premier event dedicated to bridging cryptocurrency and institutional finance, will return to Seoul on October 1, 2026, bringing together global leaders from financial institutions, crypto investment funds, and technology companies. Hosted by Mpost Media Group in partnership with Z Venture, the event will take place at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Gangnam.
Headline speakers include Arthur Hayes, Chief Investment Officer at Maelstrom; Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Chairman of Animoca Brands; and Ed Felten, Co-Founder of Offchain Labs. They will be joined by:
Charles Jansen, Managing Director, DeFi and Digital Assets at S&P Global;
Matthew Dawson, Co-Founder of Ethereum Institutional;
John Cahill, COO Asia at Galaxy Digital;
Eunice Giarta, Co-Founder of Monad Foundation;
Steven McClurg, Founder and CEO of Canary Capital;
Jeffrey Tchui, Executive Director and Head of APAC at Hashgraph;
Tomer Weiss, Head of Global Partnerships at Hypernative.
The roster extends beyond these names, with more than 50 professionals taking part, including representatives from Z Venture, Zero Gravity Labs, ZKsync, RedStone, Ledger Enterprise, IBM Digital Asset, Bybit, Tether, Base, C² Ventures, Steakhouse Financial, Cactus Custody, AEON, STON.fi, Ether.fi, and BNB Chain, among others.
The lineup reflects the growing convergence of digital assets and global capital markets, as financial institutions increasingly engage with stablecoins, tokenization, and blockchain-based financial rails. Against this backdrop, HSC Conference Seoul will examine the forces shaping the next phase of digital finance, from investment and market structure to the intersection of blockchain and AI, with an Asia-Pacific focus reflecting the region's central role in the industry.
The full-day agenda will feature panel sessions, a roundtable, and keynote addresses. Key themes include:
Investments Today;
Financial Infrastructure in the Digital Economy;
Infrastructure: Building Web3's Rails;
Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets;
Welcome to the Trillion-Dollar Agentic Economy;
Tokenization: The RWA Opportunity;
Stablecoins: The New Global Rails;
Agentic AI: Infrastructure, Payments, and the Future of the Agentic Economy;
Mainstream Web3 Adoption.
Beyond the agenda, attendees will have access to a networking zone open throughout the event, creating opportunities to connect with global and regional capital, explore curated projects, identify potential partners and market-entry pathways, and strengthen their institutional credibility.
"Seoul has become one of the most dynamic meeting points for digital asset innovation, and HSC Conference is where that energy meets institutional capital. Our goal is to create a space where founders, investors, and financial institutions can discuss the latest trends, exchange ideas, and build the relationships that turn those ideas into real outcomes." — Vadim Krekotin, Managing Partner, HSC Asset Group
Supported by Credit Scend, Everwood Capital, QR Wallet, Sonic Labs, Mercuryo, STON.fi, Interlace, Addressable, Hypernative, Battle Town, AI PET, Velvet, TiDB, Fomoscan, Izora Capital, AEON, AutoLinta, and Rewardy Wallet, the event is expected to draw over 2,000 attendees.
Registration
To register for HSC Conference Seoul 2026, visit: https://luma.com/HSC_Seoul
About HSC
HSC Asset Group operates two complementary event series: HSC Conference and HSC Asset Management.
HSC Conference connects institutional and digital-native market participants worldwide, providing a platform for innovators to present their vision and engage with leading investors, asset managers, and industry executives. The series delivers insights on the trends shaping digital assets and on-chain finance, spanning AI, DeFi, tokenized RWAs, payment solutions, stablecoins, and blockchain infrastructure. To date, more than 15 editions have been held globally.
HSC Asset Management is a dedicated dealmaking series connecting global funds, including venture capital, hedge funds, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and public companies, with visionary founders building across Web3, AI, RWA tokenization, DeFi, and fintech infrastructure. Across three editions, it has drawn over 5,000 participants and been supported by more than 150 partners.
For more details, visit: https://hackseasons.com/
https://luma.com/HSC_Seoul
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