FTX Establishes Local Presence in Australia

Confirmo today announces that its Irish entity, Confirmo Limited, has received authorisation as Payment Institution

Global Settlement Holdings Inc. ("GSH") today announced it will acquire a controlling stake in AKIBA International Limited ("AKIBA") to build a regulated broker-dealer and exchange platform for tokenized infrastructure, mining assets, and trade finance instruments in Uganda. The joint venture will target up to US$1.5 billion in capital commitments for real-economy tokenization projects and will operate under the Bank of Uganda's Regulatory Sandbox Program with banking integration through local banking partners.

Noah, the global payments infrastructure provider, has partnered with on-chain banking layer, Hyperbeat to give Hyperliquid users a faster, easier way to move money between bank accounts and on-chain trading for the first time.

The Open Network (TON) Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the development of TON Blockchain, is partnering with SCRYPT, Switzerland’s largest stablecoin infrastructure partner, to provide businesses with institutional-grade infrastructure to access USDT on TON Blockchain.

Merge announced the launch of Named EUR IBANs, a major enhancement to its API-first payments infrastructure

SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) ("SOL Strategies" or the "Company"), one of the first publicly traded companies dedicated to growing and building the Solana Economy, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs Pte. Ltd. ("Darklake"), a Solana-native zero-knowledge technology company, for USD $1.2 million, payable primarily in common shares of the Company (the "Acquisition").