Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), announced a strategic product partnership with MuleRun, an industry-leading self-evolving AI Agent, to launch a personal AI-powered trading assistant that brings institutional-grade market signals to everyday investors through natural language.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, has expanded its QR payment capabilities across Asia-Pacific, allowing users to pay from a self-custodial wallet by scanning supported local merchant QR codes across one of the world's most established QR payment regions. The rollout positions Bitget Wallet as the first self-custodial wallet to offer crypto QR payments at APAC scale, serving both local spending and cross-border travel use cases.

Creating a new market for small business credit and marking a milestone for real-world asset adoption on institutional blockchain infrastructure NEWITY, a financial technology company transforming how small businesses access capital, today announced it has selected the Canton Network to support on-chain distribution of small business credit, creating one of the first dedicated on-chain markets for small business loans.

Franklin Templeton, a global investment leader, today announced a plan to acquire 250 Digital, an active cryptocurrency investment management firm led by financial industry veterans Christopher Perkins and Seth Ginns of CoinFund Management LLC. The acquisition would include the 250 Digital investment team and all liquid cryptocurrency strategies previously run by CoinFund. Franklin Templeton will invest in the strategies as part of the agreement.

IAMTN, the international trade association representing the global cross-border payments industry, today announced a strategic move to integrate digital assets into its core operations and membership roadmap. Reflecting the growing convergence of traditional finance and decentralised finance (DeFi), IAMTN has entered a forward-thinking partnership with the French-based fintech firm Next Generation NGPES.

Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex Group”), a leading global financial services provider, plans to expand its digital asset servicing capabilities through a new collaboration between the European Depositary Bank (“EDB”), an Apex Group company, and Zodia Custody, the institution-first digital assets platform with shareholders and investors including Standard Chartered, Northern Trust, SBI Holdings, National Australia Bank, and Emirates NBD.

OKX, the blockchain technology and trading company serving more than 120 million people globally, today announced the launch of Aave on X Layer, OKX's Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 network. The deployment marks a significant expansion of X Layer's DeFi ecosystem, giving OKX Wallet users and DeFi-native participants access to battle-tested, institutional-grade lending infrastructure directly onchain.

COINPAYMENTS, a global leader in cryptocurrency payment processing, today announces a partnership with OSL Group (863.HK), Asia’s leading stablecoin trading and payment platform, as part of its strategic expansion in the region.

BNP Paribas' exchange offering already provides access to a wide range of investment products: stocks, bonds, ETFs, SCPIs, and structured products. To meet the interest of certain investors in the crypto-asset market, the bank is expanding its offering to 6 new ETNs that can be accessed through a securities account and in an autonomous manner. These crypto-asset-backed products are now available for subscription under the MIFID2 regulation, which ensures investor protection.

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced that clients can transfer their existing holdings in supported cryptocurrencies to their Interactive Brokers-linked crypto account, enabling them to trade crypto at lower costs while gaining access to global investment markets – all without selling their digital assets upfront.

FalconX has partnered with MoonPay to provide institutional-grade liquidity and execution across supported digital assets on MoonPay’s global platform.

Leading Philippine digital financial services platform Maya is working with Lydian to ensure digital asset payments can be used in everyday commerce in the Philippines safely, compliantly and at scale.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, today unveiled the "Onchain Payments Matrix," a global payment infrastructure designed to connect fragmented financial rails and support stablecoin payments across everyday consumer use and emerging agentic economic activity.

Bitpanda, a leading European platform for crypto and other digital assets, is seeking to address the long-standing infrastructure deadlock in European finance with the launch of Vision Chain. Vision Chain is a dedicated blockchain layer designed to transition tokenized assets from isolated pilots into the mainstream economy. Developed in partnership with the Vision Web3 Foundation and built on the Optimism tech stack, the network provides a standardized environment for institutions to issue and settle tokenized assets in accordance with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and incorporates technical resilience principles that align with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

B2PRIME Group, a global financial services provider for institutional, professional and retail clients, is proud to announce aт expansion of its digital asset ecosystem. By introducing Crypto Spot and Crypto Perpetual Futures (PF), B2PRIME, through its Bahamas-based entity, regulated by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas under the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges Act (DARE) and the Securities Industry Act (SIA), now offers an unprecedented level of market access.