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Kyoto, Japan, June 24th, 2026, Chainwire
IVS2026, Japan’s largest startup event, will take place over three days from July 1 to 3, 2026, in Kyoto. In addition to the main venue at Miyako Messe, IVS introduces "IVS CORE"—an exclusive, invite-only zone tailored for C-level executives hosted at the Hotel Okura Kyoto. The IVS KYOTO Executive Committee has curated three days of rich programming designed to showcase the great potential of Japan's startup ecosystem to the world.
Following IVS Crypto in 2024 and the IVC Summit in 2025, the Crypto Stage returns to the main IVS venue this year. Powered by renowned crypto venture capital firm IVC (Infinity Ventures Crypto) and Japanese crypto media outlet Nada News, the track assembles a premier lineup of domestic and international experts to explore shifting market dynamics and uncover the industry’s next growth vectors.
Traditional Finance vs. On-Chain Innovation: Reshaping the Global Infrastructure and Japan’s New Web3 Playing Field
IVS2026 Crypto Stage is dedicated to the adoption of blockchain technology across global financial infrastructure and the Japanese market. Reflecting this year’s core theme—The Deep Convergence of Traditional Finance and On-Chain Technology—the panel examines the scaling and utility of digital assets amid changing regulations and technological evolution. Key discussions spinning around Bitcoin ETFs, RWA and MMF tokenization, and the highly competitive global stablecoin market. Additionally, a dedicated spotlight on 'AI Agents × Stablecoins' will explore how intelligent automation and on-chain capital are driving a cross-border payment revolution, establishing crypto as the foundational infrastructure for the broader economy.
With the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) triggering a new regulatory era, the Crypto Stage offers a front-row seat to Japan's Web3 transformation as it bridges with international markets. Highlights Japan’s collaborative efforts with major industry players to build the next-generation financial system. Over ten curated panel sessions will dissect critical milestones on the road to mass adoption, from stablecoin frameworks and the evolution of digital wallets into the next generation of Super Apps, to sharp market dispatches from leading crypto VCs and the integration of DeFi within Web3 gaming. The stage is set to spark vital dialogue and cross-pollination between top-tier global capital, multinational conglomerates, and the rising startup ecosystem.
Global Visionary & Japanese Pioneers: Building a World-Class Web3 Speaker Lineup
The stellar speaker lineup bridges top-tier government policymakers, traditional financial institutions, and founders of leading global Web3 projects. The lineup includes:
Government & Regulatory Representatives:
Seiji Kihara (Member of the House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan / Secretary-General of the Headquarters for Japan's Growth Strategy)
Nobuchika Imaizumi (Counsellor for Crypto-Assets, Blockchain and Innovation, Strategy Development and Management Bureau, Financial Services Agency, Financial Services Agency of Japan)
Traditional Finance & Digital Payments:
Yuki Tanaka (BlackRock Japan)
Mitsunori Yuasa (Franklin Templeton Japan)
Emi Hidaka (Nomura Holdings)
Akio Isowa (SMBC Group)
Daniel Heffernan (Representative Director, Stripe Japan)
Yusuke Jinguuji (PayPay)
Jin Lee (LINE NEXT)
Michihiko Kasai (Coincheck Digital Assets)
Takeshi Chino (Binance Japan)
Top Web3 Project Leaders & VCs:
Sebastien Borget (CEO, The Sandbox)
Hilmar Pétursson (CEO, Fenris Creations)
Manuel Beaudroit (Co-Founder, Belo)
Noritaka Okabe (CEO, JPYC)
Jonathan M. Hayashi (CEO, Backseat)
Gary Mao (Co-Founder, Orange Cap Games)
Edward Chen (Co-Founder, Seeds Labs)
Tatsuya Saito (CEO, Progmat)
Kelvin Koh (Co-Founder, The Spartan Group)
Simon Kim (CEO/Managing Partner, Hashed)
...as well as multiple core partners and executive representatives from organizations such as IVC (Infinity Ventures Crypto), BitGo, Circle, and the Canton Foundation.
When Traditional Kyoto Collides with Cutting-Edge Web3 Innovation
Where a thousand years of heritage collides with the future of innovation, Kyoto sets the stage for an unique gathering. The official IVS2026 Crypto Stage networking reception—hosted by IVC and sponsored by BitGo—brings an exclusive, invite-only experience to The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto.
Disconnect from the daily tech hustle and immerse yourself in the quiet elegance of this historic city. This is your exclusive opportunity to align with premier industry leaders and map out the next frontier of Web3 finance. Celebrate the powerful synergy of past and future, and share an unforgettable night in Kyoto with IVS.
IVS 2026 Event Details
Dates: July 1(Wed) - July 3 (Fri), 2026
Venue: Miyako Messe (Kyoto International Exhibition Hall)
Organizers: IVS KYOTO Executive Committee (Headline Japan Inc., IVC, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City)
Official Website: https://www.ivs.events/en/
Official Social Media (X): https://x.com/IVS_Official
International Attendees Special Ticket: https://4s.link/en/tickets/f25a14aa-5374-4054-87b2-4f88c1e8fd23
About IVS
Launched in 2007, IVS is one of Japan's largest startup conferences, bringing 10,000+ founders, investors, and industry leaders around Japan each year. Through high-level sessions, startup markets, and the legendary IVS LAUNCHPAD pitch arena, we exist to be the catalyst for the next generation.
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London, United Kingdom, June 24th, 2026, Chainwire
OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has secured authorisation under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, strengthening its ability to deliver regulated stablecoin infrastructure across Europe.
The milestone comes one year after OpenPayd launched its stablecoin infrastructure, enabling businesses to move and manage fiat and digital assets through a single platform. Since launch, adoption has expanded across treasury, settlement and cross-border payment use cases as businesses increasingly seek regulated pathways into the digital asset economy. Today, OpenPayd processes more than $240 billion in annualised volume for over 1,100 businesses globally, including Kraken, eToro, OKX and B2C2.
The MiCA authorisation enables OpenPayd to operate as a regulated crypto-asset service provider (CASP) under a unified European regulatory framework, allowing the company to provide regulated crypto-asset services to clients across the EEA through a single licence.
Through the authorisation, OpenPayd can offer regulated digital asset services including fiat-to-stablecoin on and off-ramping, custody, wallet infrastructure and global stablecoin transfers across major blockchain networks. Through a single API, businesses can seamlessly move and manage money across both traditional financial rails and digital assets.
Iana Dimitrova, CEO of OpenPayd, said, “Stablecoins are rapidly becoming part of mainstream financial infrastructure. MiCA is a major step forward for Europe because it gives businesses the assurance to leverage digital asset technology to improve their payments and treasury and to grow.
At OpenPayd, we are building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. This authorisation strengthens our ability to help businesses move and manage money globally through a single platform that seamlessly connects traditional finance and digital assets.”
The MiCA approval forms part of OpenPayd’s broader investment in regulatory infrastructure and global connectivity across both fiat and digital asset services. Together with its existing regulatory permissions and banking network, OpenPayd is building one of the industry’s most comprehensive regulated infrastructures for global money movement.
About OpenPayd
OpenPayd is building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Ozan Ozerk, its rails-agnostic platform enables businesses to move and manage money globally – across fiat and digital assets – through a single, powerful API. OpenPayd provides embedded accounts, FX, domestic and international payments, Open Banking, and stablecoin on/off ramps – delivering interoperability between traditional finance and digital assets. With one of the most comprehensive banking networks in the market, OpenPayd enables real-time money movement, everywhere.
Trusted by global brands including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and B2C2, OpenPayd processes more than $240 billion in annual volumes for over 1100 businesses. It is the infrastructure layer powering the next generation of financial services.
Contact
OpenPaydpress@openpayd.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
Sui aims to transition more of Bitcoin’s $1.2T market cap into verifiable, productive onchain products.
Hashi, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, gains more institutional support ahead of the scheduled launch of its global testnet this July.
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that Cumberland, Fluid, and SwissBorg have joined the Hashi ecosystem, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, weeks ahead of its scheduled global testnet launch this July. The expanding coalition addresses a critical bottleneck in crypto: solving the persistent capital inefficiency by unlocking over a trillion dollars of immobile BTC into DeFi safely.
Previous market cycles demonstrated the systemic dangers of relying on opaque, centralized credit intermediaries such as Celsius, Voyager, and Genesis to generate utility from dormant assets. Hashi replaces centralized balance-sheet trust with verifiable smart contract logic.
But with a strict separation for safety by design, Bitcoin remains securely on the native Bitcoin blockchain. Sui smart contracts handle the cryptographic and programmatic rights to enable its use as financial collateral.
“Hashi was built to unlock the productive use of Bitcoin at a scale the industry hasn't seen before,” Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui. “We believe Bitcoin will become one of the largest sources of collateral in finance as the world moves onchain, and Hashi provides the foundation to make that possible on Sui.”
Built for Institutional Bitcoin Finance
Hashi is a foundational primitive setting a new standard for how builders can create bespoke, Bitcoin-backed financial products with risk parameters and loan terms that are fully verifiable onchain. In just a few weeks’ time, institutions, custodians, wallet providers, and developers can begin freely testing the infrastructure that will support Bitcoin-backed lending, borrowing, and credit origination on Sui.
Expanded Institutional Support
Three new powerhouses join the growing Hashi ecosystem, broadening support for institutional liquidity providers, market makers, and digital asset platforms:
Cumberland: One of the digital asset industry's largest institutional market makers, Cumberland joins the Hashi ecosystem to evaluate the protocol’s structural frameworks and prepare for eventual onchain liquidity provisioning.
SwissBorg: A European wealth management app with over one million users, is exploring opportunities to connect its network of European high-net-worth Bitcoin holders and liquidity providers to Hashi, creating new pathways for Bitcoin-backed borrowing and lending.
Fluid: A major DeFi lending protocol with a strong record of efficient, safe trades, is now building in preparation for mainnet institutional services. Fluid's participation would provide institutional-grade lending markets and deepen access to Bitcoin-backed credit on Sui.
These new builders join an industry-leading group of infrastructure providers, custodians, and DeFi protocols already working together to build a native Bitcoin financial ecosystem on Sui.
“Bitcoin is the world’s most liquid digital asset, but without native utility, it remains an off-chain asset,” said Paul Kremsky, Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland. “Hashi is exciting because it introduces a transparent, institutional-grade framework for BTC-backed credit that will replace synthetic workarounds with a product we are excited to use ourselves.”
“Our community has consistently sought native ways to lend and borrow against their Bitcoin,” said Cyrus Fazel, Founder & CEO at SwissBorg. “We’re thrilled to see Hashi delivering innovative solutions that make this a reality.”
“The next phase of the industry's growth will come from bringing larger pools of capital onchain through infrastructure institutions can actually trust," said Samyak Jain, Co-Founder & CEO at Fluid. “Hashi gets this right: Bitcoin stays on its native chain while verifiable contracts make it productive as collateral. Fluid's lending infrastructure is built to turn that into deep, capital-efficient Bitcoin-backed credit markets on Sui.”
These additions expand the growing consensus of many partners announced earlier this year that Sui is where Bitcoin finance will take flight, thanks to Hashi:
Custody & Wallet Access
BitGo: Institutional custody clients.
Blockdaemon, Cobo, Fordefi (by Paxos): Institutional wallet and infrastructure providers.
Cubist: Cross-chain collateral infrastructure and transfer engine.
Ledger: Retail/institutional self-custody.
SwissBorg: UHNW European retail/institutional asset management and wallet interface.
Lending, Trading & Liquidity Providers
Bullish: Institutional digital asset platform supplying liquidity.
Cumberland: Leading institutional crypto market maker and liquidity provider.
Erebor: OCC-chartered bank providing liquidity.
FalconX: Institutional prime brokerage supplying liquidity.
DeFi & Lending Applications
AlphaLend, Bluefin, Current, Scallop, Suilend: Native DeFi protocols enabling retail lending and borrowing on day one.
Fluid: Connecting lending, borrowing, liquidity and more financial products into a capital-efficient system.
Navi: One of Sui’s largest and longest running DeFi protocols slated for Hashi lending.
Vaults & Asset Management
Concrete by Blueprint Finance: Yield-infrastructure vault platform.
Inveniam Capital: Real-World Asset (RWA) yield strategies.
Wave Digital Assets LLC: SEC-registered investment adviser working with industry partners to facilitate the issuance of Bitcoin-collateralized bonds.
Index Oracle, Insurance & Security Auditing
CF Benchmarks: Crypto index provider distributing pricing data via oracles.
Soter Insure: Native, Bitcoin-denominated institutional insurance.
Asymptotic, Certora, OtterSec: Smart contract security and formal verification auditors.
The activation of the global testnet this July represents the ultimate rehearsal for fully changing Bitcoin Finance. This sandbox environment is designed for institutional engineers, Sui protocols and developers, and custody partners to test integration parameters, stress-test the code under simulated market volatility, and verify cryptographic integrity ahead of mainnet release.
Technical documentation and testnet access configurations will be hosted at https://www.sui.io/hashi.
About Sui
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for scalable finance and global payments. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and ownable. Sui’s primitives offer builders everything they need to create high-performance payments and financial applications, including instant agentic payments. Users can learn more at sui.io.
Contact: media@sui.io
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Zug, Switzerland, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
The Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority has granted Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR. The European entity of Bitcoin Suisse can now serve clients across selected EEA markets, with Roman Przibylla appointed CEO to lead the expansion.
After more than a decade as Switzerland's crypto pioneer, the Bitcoin Suisse Group ("Bitcoin Suisse") is expanding across Europe. Its European entity, Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG, founded in 2018, has been granted a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA), building on its long-standing registration under the Token and TT Service Provider Act (TVTG).
Across Europe, Bitcoin Suisse operates with a clear ambition: to be the first choice for high-net-worth individuals, corporates and institutional investors. This ambition is built on more than a decade of operational experience, proven across multiple market cycles in which the company’s business model has consistently demonstrated its resilience.
Its core services of trading, custody and staking rest on two pillars that clearly differentiate Bitcoin Suisse in the market: a robust, proprietary infrastructure and a unique service philosophy that provides every client with a dedicated relationship manager.
As a result, clients benefit not only from institutional-grade technology and regulatory clarity, but also from personal attention, deep expertise and continuity in the relationship. In a market that is often complex, fast-moving and fragmented, Bitcoin Suisse offers clients a trusted partner that combines technical strength with human accessibility.
“We are very proud of this milestone. The MiCAR authorization marks a decisive step on our journey towards a global brand and eventually becoming a global wealth management platform. Together with our presence in Switzerland and Bermuda, we now have the regulatory foundation to serve clients across some of the world’s most important financial centers,” says Andrej Majcen, Co-Founder and Group CEO, Bitcoin Suisse.
Roman Przibylla Appointed to Lead European Business
Roman Przibylla leads the European expansion as CEO of Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG. He brings more than 15 years of distribution experience from senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, HSBC, Vontobel and Maverix Securities.
“The MiCAR license gives Bitcoin Suisse access to one of the largest and most sophisticated investor markets in the world. We can now bring high-net-worth and institutional clients in Europe what they truly need: infrastructure at the highest level and, at the same time, direct, personal points of contact with genuine crypto expertise. That combination is not a given in this market,” says Roman Przibylla, CEO Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG.
About the Bitcoin Suisse Group
Bitcoin Suisse is a leading premium provider of crypto financial services for institutional clients, crypto foundations, family offices, asset managers and high-net-worth individuals. Headquartered in Zug and founded in 2013 by crypto natives, Bitcoin Suisse employs over 200 people across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the United Arab Emirates and Bermuda. www.bitcoinsuisse.com
Contact
Lukas MettlerBitcoin Suissel.mettler@bitcoinsuisse.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

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

Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026, Chainwire
PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org
PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub for decentralized prediction markets, perpetual futures and Web3 poker, giving crypto users one wallet-native destination to create markets, trade outcomes, access perps and participate in on-chain poker without relying on a centralized custodian.
PremiumBlock is built around a simple idea: the next generation of crypto speculation will not be limited to order books or one-directional prediction markets. Users want to price real-world events, express conviction with leverage, trade crypto volatility, and control their bankroll from the same wallet. PremiumBlock brings those use cases together in a single interface designed for speed, maximal liquidity and instant withdrawals.
The platform’s prediction market layer allows users to create and participate in markets around crypto, sports, politics, culture, macro events and world news. Unlike platforms where market creation is tightly curated, PremiumBlock is designed for user-created markets, giving communities the ability to surface the questions they believe deserve liquidity.
PremiumBlock also supports leveraged prediction-market positions, with up to 2.5x leverage available on selected markets. The feature gives experienced users a way to express stronger conviction on event outcomes while operating inside a defined collateral framework. As with any leveraged product, participants should understand volatility, liquidation risk, and market-resolution rules before entering a position.
Alongside prediction markets, PremiumBlock offers crypto perpetual futures for traders who want long or short exposure without traditional expiry dates. The perps layer brings a familiar derivatives format into the same wallet-native environment as the platform’s event markets, reducing the need for users to move capital between separate prediction-market, exchange and gaming applications.
PremiumBlock’s Web3 poker product adds a third pillar to the platform’s risk ecosystem. Built for crypto-native users who value bankroll control, the poker experience is designed around fast deposits, instant withdrawals and non-custodial fund management. The goal is to offer a transparent alternative to legacy poker rooms where withdrawal delays, account controls and operator custody can create unnecessary friction.
“PremiumBlock was built for users who want direct market access without waiting on approvals, custodians or withdrawal queues,” said Baqir Hussain at PremiumBlock. “Prediction markets, perps and poker all revolve around information, timing and risk. Bringing them together in one non-custodial environment gives users a more flexible way to participate in the markets they understand.”
PremiumBlock enters the market as prediction platforms continue to move further into mainstream crypto conversation. Polymarket helped popularize event markets for crypto-native users, while Kalshi brought regulated event contracts into broader public discussion. PremiumBlock expands the category with a model focused on user-created leveraged markets, perpetual futures and wallet-based bankroll control.
The platform is available now for users seeking a crypto-native environment where event markets, leverage, perps and poker can exist side by side. PremiumBlock does not provide investment advice. Users are responsible for understanding applicable laws, smart contract risk, market volatility and the rules of any market or game before participating.
About PremiumBlock
PremiumBlock is a non-custodial risk hub for decentralized prediction markets, perpetual futures and Web3 poker. The platform combines user-created event markets, up to 2.5x leverage, crypto perps and instant withdrawals in a wallet-native experience designed for crypto users who want direct control over funds.
Contact
FarhatChadiPremiumBlockteam@premiumblock.org Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire
Playnance, the blockchain-powered web3 igaming ecosystem behind the "Be the Boss" program, announced that its native token, $GCOIN, was listed on KoinBX on June 18, expanding access to one of its fastest-growing communities.
The listing comes as Playnance continues to gain traction in India, where more than 130 partners in Playnance’s Be the Boss program have joined the platform and built communities that collectively engage thousands of active players. Through the ecosystem’s "Be the Boss" model, participants can create and manage their own gaming communities while earning rewards tied to their community activities.
"India has become one of the most engaged markets in the Playnance ecosystem," said Pini Peter, CEO of Playnance. "We've seen community leaders embrace the 'Be the Boss' model and build thriving player networks around it. The KoinBX listing is a natural next step that will make $GCOIN more accessible to the growing community helping drive our ecosystem forward."
Among those participants is Dr. Nicolas, a Be The Boss partner, who has earned more than $57,000 through the program over the last few months. "What attracted me to the platform was the opportunity to build something of my own," he said. "The rewards have been significant, but more importantly, I've been able to grow an engaged community and participate in an ecosystem that continues to expand. The KoinBX listing is another milestone that reflects that growth."
At the center of that ecosystem is $GCOIN, which serves as the ecosystem’s core utility token. The token is used to reward participation, align incentives between players and Bosses, and support activity across the broader Playnance network. As adoption grows, $GCOIN helps connect community growth with ecosystem engagement, creating a model where users are incentivized to contribute to the platform's long-term success.
The KoinBX listing represents the latest step in Playnance's expansion strategy as it continues to strengthen its presence in key international markets. By combining community ownership, gamified engagement, and blockchain-based rewards, the company aims to create new opportunities for players and community leaders while increasing the utility and accessibility of $GCOIN worldwide.
About Playnance
Founded in 2020, Playnance is a Web3 iGaming infrastructure company developing live, non-custodial, on-chain products designed to onboard mainstream Web2 users into blockchain environments. The company builds consumer-facing platforms powered by shared wallet systems and high-volume on-chain execution, currently processing approximately 1 million transactions per day. Playnance focuses on removing friction between user experience and blockchain infrastructure by abstracting complexity while maintaining full on-chain transparency and non-custodial architecture.
Contact Details
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Sarah Peter
press@playnance.com
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CMOSarah Peterpress@playnance.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire
Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital.
The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation.
Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun, Linera, Vanta Trading, Streamex, PolyData, Horizen Labs, World Foundation, Zipcode, OpenLedger, Onyx, Definitive, Notalone Ventures and more.
The Founders Table format is intentionally simple: a selected guest list, a private room and no stage agenda. The goal is to bring the right people together in a setting where conversations can happen naturally.
The dinner was hosted by Stratosphere with Pudgy Penguins and Streamex. Stratosphere brought its network across founders, operators, investors and institutional teams. Pudgy Penguins added one of the strongest consumer brands and communities in digital assets. Streamex brought the institutional and real-world asset side of the conversation, with its focus on tokenized gold and commodity markets.
The Stratosphere team and its CEO, Hassan Shaikh, have continued to build Founders Table into a private dinner series around major industry conferences. After previous editions during Digital Asset Summit and Consensus, the New York dinner continued the same idea: high-quality rooms, selected attendance and conversations that are hard to recreate on a conference floor.For Stratosphere, the dinner reinforces the company’s position as an ecosystem partner for leading brands across tech, finance and digital assets. Established projects work with Stratosphere to deepen cultural relevance, strengthen market narratives and connect with founders, investors, institutions and operators across the industry.
"I’m optimistic about the next phase of digital assets, especially around the tokenization of commodities," said Hassan Shaikh, CEO of Stratosphere. "These dinners give us a way to bring funds, institutions, and founders into the same room to talk about where the market is heading."
The Founders Table series is expected to continue around major global conferences throughout the year, with future editions focused on bringing together founders, capital, institutions and leading brands in private, relationship-driven rooms.
For those interested in attending or getting involved in future Founders Table editions, reach out to the Stratosphere team.
About Stratosphere
Stratosphere is an ecosystem partner and growth consultancy for industry leaders in tech and finance, building the narratives, ecosystem partnerships, and distribution flywheels that create sustainable, repeatable growth.
Website: www.stratosphere.vip
X: @StratosphereVIP
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Yaroslav Provadamax@movimentum.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire
Digital asset infrastructure platform Cregis is accelerating its expansion across Europe as demand for compliant stablecoin payments and digital asset operations continues to grow. The announcement follows a series of engagements across the region, including Paris Blockchain Week, Money20/20 Europe, and iFX Expo International Cyprus.
The move marks the company's next phase of international growth after nearly a decade serving enterprise customers across Asia-Pacific and building a profitable business in the Middle East.
Founded in 2017, Cregis provides digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, payment service providers (PSPs), foreign exchange (Forex) brokers, fintechs, and Web3 businesses. The company today supports more than 4,000 enterprises across more than 50 countries and has secured over $300 billion in transaction volume.
Before expanding into Europe, Cregis spent years operating across Asia-Pacific, where it developed and tested its infrastructure through thousands of real-world enterprise deployments. That experience later became the foundation for its expansion into the Middle East and, now, Europe.
In 2024, the company expanded into the Middle East, establishing Dubai as its regional hub. Positioned between Europe, Africa, South Asia and the CIS region, the UAE provided a strategic base for international growth. Cregis built a multinational local team, strengthened its compliance capabilities and expanded its engagement with regional regulators as the business scaled.
The strategy has since delivered tangible results. Cregis has built a profitable regional operation serving more than 150 enterprise clients, including companies such as GTCFX. The company also developed a strong foothold in the brokerage and payments ecosystem across Dubai and Cyprus. The experience provided a proven framework for scaling in regulated and globally connected markets.
Europe is now emerging as one of the most active markets for institutional digital asset adoption. As MiCA moves toward full implementation, regulatory clarity is improving across the region. Meanwhile, growing demand for cross-border payments, treasury automation and stablecoin settlement is prompting financial institutions to evaluate new infrastructure models.
For many businesses, the conversation has shifted beyond digital asset adoption itself to the operational systems required to manage digital assets securely, efficiently and in compliance with regulatory expectations.
“Across Europe, we're seeing a clear shift from experimentation to implementation,” said Shawn Yan, Founder and CEO of Cregis. “Institutions are moving beyond digital asset adoption as a concept and focusing on how to integrate payments, treasury operations and custody into their existing financial workflows.”
Unlike infrastructure providers focused primarily on custody, Cregis has spent the past nine years supporting real-world operational workflows across thousands of enterprise deployments. Its infrastructure combines wallet technology, payment orchestration, treasury management and compliance controls within a single operating environment.
For enterprise customers, this means greater flexibility in how digital asset operations are deployed and managed. Businesses can customize approval workflows, access permissions, treasury structures and payment processes according to their own operational requirements rather than adapting to rigid platform architectures. The platform also supports enterprise risk controls, access management and audit-ready operational records, helping businesses meet internal governance and regulatory requirements.
As stablecoins continue evolving from trading instruments into payment rails, Cregis expects payment infrastructure to become one of the fastest-growing segments of the digital asset industry. The company's Payment Engine is designed to support collections, payouts, settlement and treasury flows across multiple networks and jurisdictions, helping businesses streamline global fund operations.
“Europe is entering a new phase of digital asset adoption, where infrastructure matters as much as innovation,” Yan added. “We've spent years helping businesses operate digital assets in production environments. Our focus now is to bring that experience to European institutions as the market continues to mature.”
About Cregis
Cregis is a digital asset infrastructure platform, providing technology for digital asset collections, payouts and fund operations. Its solutions include wallet infrastructure, Wallet-as-a-Service and fund management capabilities. These tools help businesses move, manage and operate digital assets securely and efficiently. 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.
Disclaimer
This article is for informational purposes only. Statements regarding products, services, regulatory matters, business performance and future plans are based on information available at the time of publication and may be subject to change. Product availability may vary by jurisdiction and remain subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, Chainwire
Landmark transaction brings real operating company equity to Solana-based tokenised capital formation
First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real- world operating business
Onpharma's medical device technology for dentistry brings recurring revenue, high gross margins and a significant market opportunity to a tokenised capital raise
This offering is available for investment at sto.onpharma.com
First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering ("STO") for an established U.S. operating business, a structural turning point in the modernisation of global private markets.
The Tokenisation Framework
The STO deploys Solana blockchain infrastructure combining atomic settlement technology, programmable ownership architecture, and digital distribution capabilities, structured within existing U.S. securities law. Where traditional private markets have struggled with fragmented, multi-intermediary processes, the tokenised framework enables issuance, settlement, and cross-border distribution to qualified investors quickly, transparently, and at low cost. Secondary transactions occur on-chain across compatible wallets subject to KYC controls, delivering near-instantaneous settlement, secondary trading liquidity, and international accessibility under Regulation S and other applicable frameworks.
The STO Structure
A Security Token Offering represents and transfers ownership rights in a company's common stock via blockchain-based digital tokens rather than traditional share registers. The Onpharma STO is structured as a Regulation S offshore issuance to non-U.S. investors, combining the legal certainty of an exempt securities offering with the operational efficiency of Solana infrastructure, settling and distributing at speed and cost traditional private markets cannot match.
Onpharma: The Investment Case
Onpharma occupies a distinctive position in global dental technology. Its Onset EZ local anaesthetic buffering product is already used to buffer millions of dental injections annually, addressing the slow, uncomfortable, and unreliable performance of dental local anaesthetic that has remained largely unsolved for decades. The Onset EZ Pen requires no assembly or specialist training, integrating directly into existing workflows for an improved patient experience.
Onpharma sits at a post-validation, pre-scale inflection point: infrastructure, supply chain, regulatory compliance, and initial commercialisation are complete, while the growth phase is beginning. Septodont's February 2025 market entry has validated anaesthetic buffering as an emerging standard of care, reducing category risk and increasing awareness. The disposable Onset EZ Pen provides operational leverage through scalable direct marketing, customer conversion, and repeat consumable revenue. The global dental anaesthesia buffering market is valued at $2bn and projected to reach $2.65bn by 2030. Capital raised will extend field sales and expand direct selling via the company's recently deployed AI marketing tools.
The Infrastructure
First Block's digital securities architecture underpins the transaction from issuance and compliance through to Solana-based settlement and distribution, compressing conventional private placement infrastructure, fragmented custodial arrangements, manual processing, multi-intermediary chains, into a single programmable, blockchain-enabled system built for the scale, speed, and wallet-level accessibility international investors increasingly require. Crito Capital LLP, an FCA-authorised investment banking and advisory platform focused on institutional capital formation, is providing structuring and advisory for the offering.
"This is larger than a traditional financing," said Daniel P. Cannon, CEO of First Block. "We believe this transaction represents the beginning of the convergence between capital markets and Solana-based securities infrastructure. The STO itself is the story, but it starts with a real operating company, a real product, and exceptional revenue growth potential."
"Onpharma has spent years building a real operating business around a simple clinical objective: making local anaesthetic better for dentists and patients," said Matt Stepovich, Onpharma’s CEO. "This offering allows us to present a validated, revenue-generating medical device platform to a wider base of qualified international investors via a structure that reflects how capital markets are evolving. Combining Onpharma's real-world commercial traction with First Block's Solana-based securities infrastructure is an important step in making growth capital formation more efficient, accessible and transparent."
Additional details regarding offering structure and participation frameworks are available on the landing page for the STO offering linked here – sto.onpharma.com
About First Block Inc.
First Block Inc. is a blockchain infrastructure and digital securities company focused on compliant tokenisation, STOs, real-world-asset digitisation and Solana-based settlement architecture for global markets.
About Onpharma Company
Onpharma Company develops dental technologies focused on improving local anaesthetic in dentistry. Its Onset EZ Pen buffering platform improves anaesthetic reliability, accelerates onset time, and makes the dental anaesthetic injection more comfortable.
About Crito Capital LLP
Crito Capital LLP is a UK-based investment banking and advisory firm authorised and regulated in the UK, focused on institutional capital markets, strategic advisory, and emerging fintech.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Onpharma Company’s (the “Company”) business strategy, anticipated growth, market opportunity, product development, commercialization efforts, expected revenues, financing plans, digital asset initiatives, tokenization initiatives, regulatory matters, and future operations. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions, and projections that involve significant risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, market conditions, regulatory developments, financing availability, competition, technological developments, product adoption, operational execution, and other risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
This press release is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Any offering of securities referenced herein will be made solely pursuant to definitive offering documents and in compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations. The offering referenced herein is intended solely for non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act and is not directed to, or intended for, U.S. persons or investors located in the United States.
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New York, United States, June 16th, 2026, Chainwire
New in-app competition rewards users for match predictions and real financial activity across the Tria ecosystem, with a $15,000 prize pool
As billions of fans around the world tune in to the FIFA World Cup this summer, Tria is turning the tournament into an interactive financial experience.
Today, the self-custodial neofinance platform announced the launch of Tria FC, a tournament-long prediction competition built directly into the Tria app. Running from June 16 through July 19, Tria FC allows users to predict match outcomes, earn bonus Tria Points, climb a live leaderboard, and compete for a share of a $15,000 prize pool.
Major sporting events have long been a centerpiece of financial marketing campaigns. Banks, card networks, and payment companies routinely offer sweepstakes, giveaways, and promotional rewards tied to global tournaments. The World Cup drives billions of dollars in consumer spending every tournament cycle, making it one of the most valuable engagement moments in global commerce. Tria is taking a different approach. Rather than building a marketing campaign around the World Cup, the company has integrated the tournament directly into the product experience itself.
Users earn points through a combination of successful match predictions and activity across the Tria ecosystem, including card spending, trading, and referrals. The result is a competition that rewards both engagement with the tournament and participation within the platform.
"For decades, financial companies have treated major sporting events as marketing opportunities," said Vijit Katta, Co-Founder of Tria. "We saw an opportunity to make the event part of the product itself. Tria FC rewards users for engaging with the tournament while participating in the financial ecosystem they're already using every day. That's what neofinance looks like in practice."
The competition features a live leaderboard and covers every remaining World Cup match from launch through the final. Winners will share a $15,000 prize pool distributed across three categories:
Overall leaderboard rankings
Most correct match predictions
Social sharing competition
To ensure the competition rewards active users, participants must meet a minimum points threshold generated through activity on the platform. Prediction accuracy alone is not enough to secure the top prizes.
Tria FC runs alongside the company's Season 3 rewards program, which includes Tria Points, Mystery Boxes, referral rewards, membership tiers, and enhanced cashback opportunities for Tria Card users.
The launch also serves as one of the clearest examples yet of Tria's vision for neofinance, a category that combines spending, trading, earning, payments, and rewards into a single self-custodial financial experience. Rather than forcing users to move between disconnected apps and services, Tria brings those activities together in one platform while allowing users to retain control of their own assets and private keys.
Unlike traditional financial promotions built around sweepstakes entries or raffles, Tria FC ties rewards to both tournament predictions and real activity across the Tria ecosystem, creating an experience that blends entertainment, competition, and finance during one of the world's largest sporting events.
The competition is available to eligible Tria users through the Tria mobile application beginning June 16.
About Tria
Tria is a self-custodial neofinance platform that combines trading, payments, earning, and spending into a single unified experience. Users can trade assets, potentially earn yield, make purchases with the Tria Card, and manage their finances while maintaining control of their own funds and private keys. Users can learn more at the blog: https://www.tria.so/en/blogs
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Road Town, British Virgin Islands, June 15th, 2026, Chainwire
Wallet V, a self-custody Web3 wallet, launched a public performance benchmark for the AI trading agents that its users have configured on the third-party decentralized derivatives platforms Hyperliquid and Aster. The benchmark publishes aggregate cohort performance and is hosted on the Wallet V website.
The benchmark covers 688 agents created by Wallet V users over the prior two months. Each agent was configured by the user, used a large language model selected by the user to generate trading decisions, and executed on Hyperliquid or Aster. Wallet V aggregates the on-platform performance of those agents by underlying model. Performance is refreshed as new agents are deployed.
The cohort spans seven large language model families. Across the cohort, 42 percent of agents recorded a profit and loss balance of zero or higher over the period. Peak agent-level return on investment in the dataset ranged from negative 30 percent on the lowest-performing model to positive 307 percent on the highest. Models represented by fewer than 10 agents in the cohort are reported as directional rather than statistically conclusive.
Agents in the cohort executed strategies as perpetual futures across four asset classes available on Hyperliquid and Aster. These include major digital assets such as BTC, ETH, and SOL; equities, including pre-initial public offering equity exposure; commodities including gold, silver, and oil benchmarks; and major foreign exchange pairs. All instruments are accessed through third-party venues.
“At Wallet V, the focus has been on building infrastructure for the next phase of crypto. This benchmark is what that next phase looks like up close. Users now decide which AI model to configure their agent in the same way institutions evaluate managers, by reviewing observable performance over time,” said Adam Cai, Founder & CEO of Virgo Group.
Wallet V plans to extend the benchmark in subsequent releases. Future releases include the addition of newer model families, support for prediction markets, advanced analytics features for copilot trading and personalized AI prompt generation tailored to each user’s trading style.
The Wallet V applications for iOS and Android are available at dl.walletv.io.
About Wallet V
Wallet V is a Web3 self-custody wallet that gives users access to third-party AI models to configure AI agents and execute user-defined trading strategies. The application connects to third-party platforms supporting cross-chain swaps, perpetual futures, prediction markets, and onchain exposure to tokenized equities.
Wallet V is an incubation project by Virgo Group, a digital asset service provider led by CEO Adam Cai. Virgo Group is backed by investors including Draper Dragon, OKX Ventures, Vaulta Foundation, Cobo Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and Sora Ventures.
Disclaimer
Trading crypto, perpetual contracts, tokenized assets, and prediction markets involves significant risk of loss and is offered by third-party platforms. Wallet V is a software provider that connects to external platforms and does not offer trading services or AI automation tools directly or indirectly. Wallet V does not provide investment, tax, or legal advice. Access to certain products may be restricted in some jurisdictions.
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Gilbert, Arizona, June 15th, 2026, Chainwire
MakeInfinite Labs brings enterprises the same AI and Azure data engineering capabilities behind Space and Time, an M12-backed data platform
Trenez, a leading Oracle business partner with decades of experience serving the homebuilding, land development, real estate management, projects and service, and financials industries, today announced a strategic partnership with MakeInfinite Labs, the research and development firm that builds verifiable data infrastructure for some of the most demanding data environments in the world.
Enterprises modernizing decades-old systems struggle to store, trust and move data in real time across platforms that were never built to work together. Closing that gap requires two things most firms can't offer together: data and AI engineering built to perform under real load, and people with deep expertise of the systems it has to connect to. The partnership between Trenez and MakeInfinite Labs brings both.
MakeInfinite Labs brings engineering credentials earned at the frontier of data and AI infrastructure. The firm originally developed Space and Time, the verifiable data platform backed by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. The team also invented Proof of SQL, a patented method for cryptographically verifying data, now integrated in Google BigQuery and powering verifiable data across institutional finance and AI. In 2025, MakeInfinite Labs integrated Space and Time's blockchain data with Microsoft Fabric, putting trusted, real-time data directly inside the Azure ecosystem. The same team and the same standard of engineering sit behind the Azure delivery in this partnership.
Under the partnership, Trenez will provide overall engagement leadership and accountability, enterprise and integration architecture ownership, industry expertise and domain translation, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne alignment, downstream business integration, program governance, roadmap alignment, and client enablement.
"Enterprise modernization is no longer just a technical initiative," said Chad Holewinski, CEO of Trenez. "Our clients need partners who understand their business, their ecosystem, their data, and the cloud platforms that will support their future growth. With MakeInfinite Labs, we are bringing our clients engineering of a caliber that most enterprises rarely get access to, applied directly to their modernization roadmap."
The two firms will operate as strategic partners under a single delivery model. Trenez leads engagement strategy, enterprise and integration architecture, downstream business integration, program governance, and client enablement. MakeInfinite Labs delivers Azure Integration Services implementation, Data Hub architecture, ETL and ELT engineering, real-time data pipelines, API infrastructure and Azure API Management, DevOps automation, observability, performance optimization, and Azure cost optimization.
"Enterprise modernization succeeds when the right expertise comes together under accountable teams," said Nate Holiday, CEO of MakeInfinite Labs. "Pairing our world-class data engineering team with Trenez's industry depth lets us modernize clients' data infrastructure as one effort, with no gaps between the architecture and the systems it has to serve."
About Trenez
Trenez is a leading Oracle business partner with decades of experience helping clients modernize, optimize, and extend Oracle EnterpriseOne and related enterprise systems. The firm serves clients across homebuilding, land development, real estate management, projects and services, and financials industries, bringing deep industry knowledge, enterprise architecture experience, and practical delivery leadership to complex transformation initiatives.
For more information, visit www.trenez.com | LinkedIn
About MakeInfinite Labs
MakeInfinite Labs is a frontier protocol research lab contributing to some of the most prominent protocols and ecosystems, including the creation of Space and Time. MakeInfinite Labs raised $50 million from Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and other leading investors to build the infrastructure
that enables developers and creators to build data-driven applications, tokenize and monetize and win in the AI economy.
For more information, visit: Website | X | LinkedIn
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Catherine Dalymarketing@makeinfinite.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Paris, France, June 12th, 2026, Chainwire
XRPL Commons is pleased to announce that after two years leading Corporate Adoption, Odelia Torteman now serves as Head of Digital Assets at XRPL Commons. Under her role she will be leading initiatives with industry players across finance and Web3 to accelerate XRP Ledger adoption by bringing DeFi, tokenization, and payments use cases to the XRPL. Odelia brings 15 years of global experience across digital finance, spanning strategy and technology consulting, corporate development, and venture investments.
Her background includes roles at leading financial and public institutions including The World Bank, IFC, Head of FinTech & Blockchain at Deloitte, the EU Technology and R&D Directorate under the Ministry of Economy, among others. Recognised for her industry impact, she was named one of the Most Inspirational Women of Web3 and AI of 2025.
As the XRP Ledger matures into the core infrastructure for 24/7 programmable finance, XRPL Commons continues to support partners with the practical frameworks, ecosystem connections, and hands‑on guidance needed to launch compliant products on‑ledger.
About XRPL Commons
Our mission is to nurture a strong and vibrant XRPL ecosystem. We empower and expand the XRPL community through training and active collaboration.
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Odelia Tortemanodelia@xrpl-commons.org Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Las Vegas, Nevada, June 11th, 2026, Chainwire
Rare Evo, one of the fastest-growing conferences at the convergence of blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital assets and financial technology, today announced that General Admission registration for Rare Evo 2026 is now available at no cost to attendees.
Scheduled for July 28-30, 2026, at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Rare Evo will bring together founders, developers, investors, enterprise leaders, policymakers and innovators to explore the technologies transforming global finance, digital ownership, decentralized infrastructure and the future of the internet.
The 2026 event will feature an impressive lineup of speakers, including U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno, Stephen Gregory of Binance.US and Kyle Rojas of the Ethereum Foundation, alongside dozens of additional leaders from blockchain, artificial intelligence, fintech and enterprise technology organizations shaping the future of innovation and finance.
"Rare Evo was founded on the belief that the biggest breakthroughs happen when builders from different ecosystems come together," said Rand McHenry, co-founder of Rare Network. "By making General Admission free, we're removing barriers to participation and creating even more opportunities for collaboration, education and innovation."
Attendees can expect three days of keynote presentations, fireside chats, panel discussions, workshops, networking events and product showcases covering blockchain infrastructure, artificial intelligence, tokenization, decentralized finance, digital identity, payments, cybersecurity, institutional adoption, real-world assets, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), Web3 gaming and next-generation financial systems.
As global interest in blockchain and AI continues to accelerate, Rare Evo has become a destination for conversations shaping the future of digital economies. The event creates a collaborative environment where startups, enterprises, venture capital firms, regulators and technology pioneers can connect, exchange ideas and build strategic partnerships.
The conference will provide attendees with direct access to emerging trends in tokenization, stablecoins, on-chain finance, autonomous AI systems, decentralized infrastructure and the broader innovation ecosystem driving the next wave of technological transformation.
Free General Admission registration is now open at RareEvo.io.
Event Details
Dates: July 28-30, 2026
Location: ARIA Resort & Casino, Las Vegas
Registration: Free General Admission
Website: RareEvo.io
About Rare Evo
Rare Evo is a premier emerging technology conference focused on blockchain, artificial intelligence, fintech and digital innovation. The event brings together industry leaders, investors, enterprises, policymakers, developers and creators to foster collaboration, education and the advancement of transformative technologies. Rare Evo serves as a platform for exploring the future of digital assets, decentralized systems, AI-powered applications and next-generation financial infrastructure.
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Co-founderWes ParkinsonRare Evocontact@rarenetwork.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

TORONTO, ON, June 11th, 2026, Chainwire
Canada's largest week-long gathering of conferences, networking events, and community experiences.
Canada Crypto Week returns July 20–26, 2026, for its sixth year, bringing together dozens of events across Canada focused on cryptocurrency, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. The week connects entrepreneurs, builders, investors, and institutions through a diverse lineup of events taking place across the country.
The flagship event of Canada Crypto Week is Blockchain Futurist Conference, Canada's largest Web3 and AI event. Taking place July 21–22 at Rebel Entertainment Complex and Cabana Pool Bar in Toronto, the conference attracts thousands of attendees and serves as the hub for many of the week's featured events and experiences.
Canada Crypto Week kicks off with Web3TO Toronto Conference 2026. Taking place on July 20, 2026, the event brings together the Web3 community for a full day of insights on the future of the industry.
Returning to Canada Crypto Week, Cayman Finance will host its annual Rum Bar Cayman Experience in the VIP Cabana Area on July 21 and 22. The activation gives VIP attendees an opportunity to experience Cayman hospitality, connect with companies from the Cayman Islands, and learn more about doing business in one of the world's leading financial jurisdictions.
A key addition to this year's conference is the Compliance Breakfast on July 22, 2026. Presented by VerifyVASP, Inca Digital, XReg Consulting, Crystal Intelligence, and Cloudburst Technologies, the invite-only event brings together regulators, policymakers, compliance leaders, and industry executives for meaningful discussions on digital assets, AI, regulation, and the future of innovation.
Another popular event is Agentic Day presented by Hello Agentic on July 21, 2026. The dedicated afternoon program explores the future of AI agents and autonomous intelligence, bringing together innovators building the next generation of agentic AI.
This year's lineup includes:
• Agentic Day presented by Hello Agentic
• Cayman Finance Rum Bar Experience
• Compliance Breakfast by VerifyVASP, Inca Digital, XReg Consulting, Crystal Intelligence, & Cloudburst
• Invest Hong Kong Workshop: The Global Hub for Digital Assets
• Pudgy Penguins Vibes Card Game Event
• SheFi Morning Social at ETHWomen
• House of Intelligence: Where Institutions Meet Web3 by House of ZK
• AWIC Facilitated Networking presented by the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
• Whitepaper Reading Sessions by Whitepaper Reading Club
• Book Signings with Amanda Wick, Audrey Nesbitt, and Annelise Osborne
• ETHToronto presented by Autheo
• The 5th Annual ETHWomen
• Bored Ape Meetup
• Doginal Dogs VibeZone
• Solana VibeStation
Canada Crypto Week is made possible through the support of sponsors, community organizations, and media partners from across the industry. Stablecorp and QCAD joins as a leading sponsor as the Official Stablecoin Partner of Canada Crypto Week, supporting the growth and adoption of digital assets in Canada. CryptoNomads supports Canada Crypto Week as a sponsor, helping connect global Web3 professionals and digital nomads through its worldwide network. CCN (Crypto Citizens Network) will be conducting live interviews and capturing insights from some of the leading voices across Web3 during the week.
"Canada Crypto Week is where Canada's Web3, digital asset, and AI communities come together to connect, collaborate, and build the future," said Tracy Leparulo, Founder of Canada Crypto Week.
To view the full schedule of events, register for activities, or submit your own event, visit CanadaCryptoWeek.com
For additional event listings and registrations, visit luma.com/canadacryptoweek.
About Canada Crypto Week
Canada Crypto Week is Canada's largest week-long celebration of cryptocurrency, blockchain, Web3, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. Now in its sixth year, the initiative brings together more than 50 independent events, conferences, meetups, networking experiences, educational sessions, and community gatherings designed to connect and grow Canada's innovation ecosystem.
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Singapore, Singapore, June 11th, 2026, Chainwire
Travala, the world’s leading crypto-native travel booking service, today announced the launch of the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol. This protocol enables autonomous agents to search, book, and pay for over 2.2 million hotels — including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and other leading hotel chains- without human intervention until payment authorization. To accelerate adoption, Travala is offering a 10% cbBTC (Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin) rebate to developers who build and integrate AI agents with the Travala Travel MCP, rewarding bookings executed through those agents.
The agentic economy has experienced rapid acceleration in the last 12 months, with the total value of agentic commerce transactions projected to reach $8 billion in 2026 before scaling to an estimated $3.5 trillion by 2031. Morgan Stanley Research forecasts that "agentic shoppers" could account for up to 20% of all online retail spending by 2030, driven by a shift toward autonomous, intent-based digital behavior. By launching the industry's first travel protocol for this ecosystem, Travala is establishing a universal standard that allows agents to navigate global inventory with precise accuracy, effectively replacing manual search-and-book cycles with significantly more efficient machine-led execution.
The Travala Travel MCP, a Model Context Protocol designed for agentic commerce, uses the Base blockchain and the x402 protocol, an open payments standard that enables instant stablecoin payments directly over the internet for APIs, apps, and AI agents without manual checkout flows. This infrastructure removes the friction of traditional booking and payment processes, allowing for gasless USDC transactions on Base with near-instant settlement times and transaction costs of approximately $0.01 per booking.
For travelers, this technology powers an AI travel concierge capable of planning and executing entire trips within a single chat thread in Claude. The concierge functions in a conversational style, maintaining context for searches, bookings, and cancellations. Security is maintained utilizing ERC-7715 session keys, which ensures that while an agent can request payments, final signing authority remains isolated within the user’s secure wallet environment.
Developers gain access to an automated revenue stream via the Travala developer rebate programme that provides a programmatic 10% cbBTC rebate on every successful booking, settled onchain directly to their developer wallet without the need for manual invoicing. The Travala Travel MCP also utilizes ERC-8004 to anchor an agent's reputation to verified real-world outcomes, creating a machine-verifiable 'trust layer' that rewards high-performance agents and protects the integrity of the ecosystem.
As the protocol scales, new features will be added to the protocol alongside additional travel products, such as flights. The AVA token — the native cryptocurrency used within the travel loyalty program on Travala — is also expected to provide additional utility and support the growing use cases of the Travala Travel MCP.
“The launch of the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol marks the death of the checkout button and the beginning of a truly autonomous travel economy,” said Juan Otero, CEO of Travala. “By combining our global travel inventory with the industry’s first machine-to-machine settlement protocol, we’re effectively hardcoding Travala as the default travel rail for the agentic web.”
“Base is built to be the home of the onchain economy, and Travala's Travel MCP is exactly what that looks like in practice, devs using our infrastructure to power machine-to-machine commerce that's seamless, autonomous, and global. We're thrilled to see Travala lead the charge on real-world use cases for agentic payments,” adds Sam Frankel, Head of Partnerships at Base.
The rise of agentic commerce represents a fundamental shift in the travel industry by moving beyond traditional user interfaces to a protocol-level infrastructure designed for autonomous agents. As the first travel provider to offer a comprehensive toolkit for AI-powered bookings, Travala is positioning the Travala Travel MCP as the foundational protocol for a future where travel is executed seamlessly by machines.
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Sam Woollardsam@travala.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tel Aviv, Israel, June 11th, 2026, Chainwire
Orbs, the decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure focused on advanced on-chain trading, today announced Orbs Institutional, a new offering that provides trading desks, OTC firms, treasuries, custodians and financial platforms with direct access to its on-chain execution infrastructure.
The launch builds on technology that has processed more than $2.5 billion in spot trading volume since 2023 across more than 30 decentralized exchange integrations and over 10 blockchain networks. Previously available through leading decentralized trading venues including PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, QuickSwap and THENA, the infrastructure is now being made directly accessible to institutional market participants.
As institutional adoption of decentralized finance continues to grow, firms are increasingly exploring on-chain execution as part of their trading operations. However, many institutions still face challenges around execution quality, custody requirements, and transparency when operating in decentralized markets.
"Institutions shouldn't have to choose between the efficiency of decentralized markets and the standards they expect from professional trading infrastructure," said Ran Hammer, Chief Business Officer at Orbs. "We've spent years building and refining execution technology that now powers some of the most active trading venues in DeFi. With Orbs Institutional, we're making that infrastructure directly accessible to trading desks, treasuries, custodians and platforms looking to execute on-chain with greater transparency, competitive pricing and full control over their assets."
At the center of the offering is Liquidity Hub, Orbs' liquidity aggregation protocol, which sources liquidity from decentralized exchanges and professional market makers through a private RFQ layer designed to improve execution quality while reducing exposure to MEV and front-running. Institutions also gain access to Orbs' suite of execution tools, including dTWAP, dLIMIT and dSLTP.
Assets remain under client control throughout the execution lifecycle and orders can be signed using existing custody, treasury or MPC infrastructure that supports the EIP-712 standard. The protocol operates through audited smart contracts with no admin keys and has remained live in production since 2017 without any known exploits.
Orbs Institutional supports two primary integration paths. Institutional users can connect directly through APIs to access the execution stack, while wallets, custodians, exchanges, MPC providers and prime brokers can integrate Orbs' execution capabilities into their existing products through white-label or co-branded deployments.
As institutional participation in digital asset markets continues to expand, Orbs expects demand for transparent, self-custodied and automated execution infrastructure to increase. The company believes the next phase of DeFi adoption will be driven by professional market participants seeking direct access to on-chain liquidity and execution tools.
About Orbs
Orbs is a decentralized Layer 3 blockchain designed for advanced on-chain trading. Using a Proof-of-Stake consensus, Orbs acts as a supplementary execution layer, enabling complex logic and scripts beyond the capabilities of standard smart contracts. Orbs-powered protocols, including dLIMIT, dTWAP, Liquidity Hub, and Perpetual Hub, bring CeFi-level execution to decentralized markets. With a global team spanning multiple locations, Orbs continues to innovate at the frontier of blockchain infrastructure. Learn more at www.orbs.com.
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New York, United States, June 10th, 2026, Chainwire
Shotgun.fun, a new trading terminal, launches today with a model that returns every fee back to the trader, ending an industry standard that has quietly extracted billions.
Every trade ever placed has made someone else money: not the market and not the protocol, but the terminal sitting between traders and execution. The fee paid on every buy, every sell, and every limit order became the status quo. Shotgun’s the paradigm shift.
Shotgun.fun is a high-performance trading terminal that returns up to 100% of trading fees to traders. Cashback starts at 50%, already higher than any other trading terminal offering, and scales with volume. Tiers are built to unlock fast. Getting to 100% is not an out-of-reach theoretical ceiling, it’s the destination.
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Paris, France, June 10th, 2026, Chainwire
Proof of Talk, held annually at the Palais du Louvre, has concluded its 2026 edition after three days that produced a landmark series of industry announcements, strategic partnerships, and research releases all delivered from a single stage in Paris.
The event convened 2,500 senior decision-makers across digital assets, traditional finance, AI, and regulation from June 2–3, 2026, and was preceded by a Day 0 prelude in Versailles. Coverage spanned Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, The Block, and Wall Street Bets, with the Louvre Palace serving as the global news desk for the digital assets industry for 48 hours.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
Franklin Templeton and MoonPay announced a strategic partnership to make Franklin Templeton's tokenized financial products more accessible and usable across the onchain financial ecosystem. The partnership was announced live from the Proof of Talk Main Stage by Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, who subsequently appeared live on Bloomberg Crypto alongside Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back, broadcasting from inside the Palais du Louvre.
Citi unveiled its GPS Tokenization 2030 report — Wall Street On-Chain — publicly for the first time anywhere in the world from the Proof of Talk stage. The report places the current global market for tokenized digital investments at $17 billion, underscoring the scale of institutional opportunity ahead. Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Future of Finance at Citi, presented the report.
Euroclear confirmed that its Pythagore tokenization project, covering Europe's €300 billion commercial paper market, is on track to go live in Q4 2026, one of the largest tokenization deployments ever announced publicly.
Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer confirmed on stage that the sale of Zodia to a traditional finance entity represents a milestone for institutional-grade crypto custody entering mainstream finance. Manifold Labs CEO Robert Myers announced Targon Pro, the company's flagship enterprise-grade compute hardware. Ampersend, announced the launch of real-time pre-settlement compliance screening powered by TRM Labs, the first enforcement infrastructure of its kind built for the agentic economy. Base MPC was shared on stage by Xen Baynham-Herd, Director of Growth at Base, marking a key step in scalable onchain infrastructure development. CertiK released its latest Skynet report from the conference floor, identifying stablecoins as a critical and growing financial infrastructure across global markets.
And many more, shared throughout more than 10 articles from CoinDesk, more than 20 announcements from Cointelegraph, the BeInCrypto 100 Institutional Awards 2026 ceremony and two full days of livestreaming from TheBlock and WallStreetBets. Peak has been the Bloomberg Crypto broadcast live from the Palais du Louvre featuring Jenny Johnson and Adam Back.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
The 2026 edition featured three days of programming across the Main Stage, Bittensor Track, Masterclass Stage, B2B Networking Lounge, Lunches & Dinners, the Media Lounge, as well as the StableDay on Day 2.
On Main Stage, Proof of Talk 2026 brought together the global leading voices in tokenized finance, investments AI - from Jenny Johnson and Adam Back to Stani Kulechov, Tom Lee, Caroline D. Pham, Ken Moore, Ronit Ghose, Jorgen Ouaknine, Jody Mettler, Emma Landriault, and more - across two days of unfiltered, C-suite-only programming.
The event also hosted the two co-founders of Bittensor, Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves, who brought the decentralised AI thesis to the centre of the institutional conversation for the second time.
The 2026 Stablecoin Roundtable, convened 50 senior figures, including representatives from Aave, the Bank of England, Blackrock, Paxos, and Robinhood, to address the liquidity and interoperability of Stablecoins.
Proof of Pitch, with the Bittensor live crowdfunding competition by Bitstarter and General and Canton Track powered by Spectrum Nodes, named ReplyCorp (Jordan Feinstein) and Parthenon (Lindsey Girkin) as its 2026 winners.
ABOUT OUR PARTNERS
Proof of Talk 2026 would not have been possible without the support of its partners, whose commitment made every moment of this edition possible. Special thanks to Hecto, Taostats, NowPayments, Edge & Node, Spectrum, XBTO and CertiK.
Hecto is building new market infrastructure for the pre-IPO economy. Hosted on Canton, it offers on-chain pre-IPO exposure via prediction markets, tradable tokens and institutional vaults.
Taostats is the leading analytics, intelligence, and transparency platform for the Bittensor ecosystem, providing real-time network data, subnet insights, validator and miner analytics..
NOWPayments is a global crypto payments ecosystem enabling businesses to accept crypto payments and send scalable payouts in 350+ cryptocurrencies and 30+ stablecoins, including Zero-Fee Ecosystem Payouts via ChangeNOW Pro wallets.
Edge & Node is the original team behind The Graph, building verifiable data infrastructure for enterprises and AI agents.
Spectrum Nodes is an enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure provider delivering high-performance RPC services across 200+ networks, processing over 700 million daily requests.
CertiK is the largest Web3 security service provider, offering a wide range of products and services spanning the entire lifecycle of project development.
XBTO helps clients capture opportunities in the age of digital assets, from asset management to capital markets.
ABOUT PROOF OF TALK
Proof of Talk is held annually at the Louvre Palace in Paris and convenes C-Levels and senior leaders across digital assets, finance, policy, and media. The event operates without pay-to-speak arrangements and emphasizes a journalist-led agenda focused on substantive institutional discussions, market structure, and emerging financial infrastructure.
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Contact
Chiara Munarettoevents@proofoftalk.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.