The Smarter Web Company (AQUIS: SWC | OTCQB: TSWCF | FRA: 3M8), a London-listed technology company and the UK’s largest publicly traded company holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet, is pleased to announce the appointment of Coinbase Institutional as one of its Bitcoin custody partners. This partnership marks a significant step in strengthening the company’s treasury infrastructure and underlines its position as a market leader in the rapidly evolving Bitcoin ecosystem.

Openbank, continues to expand its product offering by allowing customers to trade cryptocurrency

Meanwhile announced an update to its flagship Ten-Pay Whole Life policy, lowering the minimum from 1.0 BTC to 0.25 BTC

Input | Output (IO), a blockchain infrastructure and research engineering firm dedicated to advancing the Web3 ecosystem, today announced it has joined CryptoUK, the leading trade association for crypto and digital assets in the United Kingdom. The trade body advocates for fair, proportionate regulation and constructive engagement with policymakers, regulators, and the public to foster innovation, consumer protection, and market integrity. The association represents over 100 member organisations across exchanges, blockchain networks, payment providers, law firms, and fintechs.

Finery Markets, a leading provider of non-custodial crypto ECN and SaaS trading solutions, has partnered with Yield.xyz, a DeFi yield aggregation platform serving 25M clients, to simplify institutions’ access to a broad spectrum of native staking and DeFi opportunities.

dLocal, (NASDAQ: DLO), a leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, announced today it has joined the Fireblocks Network for Payments to simplify how institutions access liquidity providers and on/off-ramp with over 2,400 participants.

Black Manta Capital Partners (“BMCP”) - a MiFID II licenced broker-dealer, specializing in regulated asset tokenization across Europe and beyond - today announced two significant developments: it has become an official node operator for the Canton Network and has launched the first-of-its-kind real estate bond in Europe on the Canton blockchain. This premier issuance, a bond for storage service provider BoxDepo, is backed by a high-occupancy, unmanned storage facility in Italy, setting a new standard for bringing real-world assets onto institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure.

VeChain, the leading real-world-application focused Layer 1, today announced the launch of the VeFounder Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to revolutionize the dApps economy with a top-down approach to unlock untapped growth opportunities.

With regulatory demands on financial institutions reaching unprecedented levels in 2025 – including intensified scrutiny on market abuse and electronic communications surveillance – regtech leader eflow Global has accelerated its growth by appointing strategic leadership hires and launching a series of AI-driven product enhancements.

Ripple announced an agreement with BBVA to provide its digital asset custody technology to the Spanish bank

easyGroup announced its entry into the crypto sector with easyBitcoin, a mobile app which makes it simple and affordable for new users to buy and earn bitcoin

Heralding a new era for global capital markets, 21X has today announced the launch of its exchange for tokenized cash and securities. As the world's first exchange to enable smart contract-based matching and settlement, 21X has established a new global benchmark for capital markets, under the oversight of BaFin, Bundesbank and ESMA.

U.S. Bank announces that it has resumed offering cryptocurrency custody services – originally announced in 2021 – as an early access program to Global Fund Services clients. The services are intended for institutional investment managers with registered or private funds who seek a secure safekeeping solution for bitcoin. NYDIG, a vertically integrated bitcoin financial services and power infrastructure firm, will act as the bitcoin sub-custodian.

Amid their growing popularity, 50% of global currencies will feature in the stablecoin market by 2026, according to Fiorenzo Manganiello, co-founder and managing partner of LIAN Group.

Sumsub, Sumsub, a global verification and anti-fraud provider, today announced its partnership with the BNB Attestation Service (BAS) on Binance’s BNB Chain. The launch marks the first use of Sumsub ID to issue on-chain credentials within the BNB ecosystem, enabling users to pre-verify their identity once and securely reuse those credentials across multiple Web3 applications.