Blockpass, the compliance and identity verification provider, is thrilled to reveal that it is integrating the BNB Attestation Service (BAS), the standard and platform for Binance’s BNB Chain that facilitates the making of attestations for any use case. This news comes after the recent release of Blockpass’ On-Chain KYC® 2.0, and will see the BAS facilitating Blockpass’ use of on-chain and off-chain attestations.

Aster, the high-performance decentralized exchange (DEX), today announced the upcoming listing of the $HEMI token for spot trading. This partnership with Hemi makes $HEMI only the 20th asset available for spot trading on Aster, marking a significant step towards increasing liquidity and expanding institutional access to Hemi, the world's largest Bitcoin programmability layer.

Propy today announced a $100 million expansion to modernize the $25B U.S. title industry and simultaneously debuted Agent Avery, the first AI escrow officer for real estate closings. With a mixed financing package integrating private credit with blockchain-based DeFi loans, the company is acquiring title firms nationwide. It will then upgrade those firms to faster, safer and fully digital closings, all powered by Propy’s groundbreaking AI–powered, onchain model.

BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 AI company, today marked a major milestone for its BingX AI Master product, which now serves over 1 million early adopters worldwide. In response to this growing demand, BingX has introduced 10 new AI Master personas, designed to provide traders with even more personalized, strategy-driven ways to engage with crypto markets.

UK wealth managers are trailing behind their global counterparts when it comes to advising clients on crypto investing, according to new research from Avaloq, a global leader in digital banking solutions and wealth management technology.

Bitget Wallet, the leading non-custodial crypto wallet, has launched a full gas abstraction system across Solana, TRON, and major EVM-compatible blockchains. The update allows users to cover gas fees using stablecoins like USDT and USDC, or the platform’s native token BGB, eliminating the need to top up gas accounts or to hold native tokens such as ETH, TRX, or SOL.

South Africa's appetite for crypto continues unabated, with more than 530,000 new customers signing up to Luno in the past 12 months

Finery Markets, a leading provider of non-custodial ECN and SaaS trading solutions, has expanded its liquidity partnership with Sage Capital Management to provide institutional clients with enhanced access to deep liquidity and competitive spreads across 200+ assets, significantly improving capital efficiency in the fragmented crypto market.

WisdomTree Physical Bitcoin (BTCW) and WisdomTree Physical Ethereum (ETHW) ETPs are now listed on the retail segment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Both ETPs are 100% physically backed, and the underlying assets are professionally secured in ‘cold storage’ by two regulated custodians, Coinbase and Swissquote.

Tap Global Group plc (AIM: TAP), an innovative digital finance hub that brings money payments and crypto settlement services together in a single user-friendly app, is pleased to announce the launch of its Bitcoin Treasury as a Service ("BTaaS"), a comprehensive, institutional-grade platform designed for publicly listed companies adopting Bitcoin as a primary treasury reserve asset.

StableX Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:SBLX) ("StableX" or the "Company"), today announced that it has completed its second strategic token purchase, acquiring Chainlink (LINK) tokens.

Bitvavo has selected German data-provider Crypto Risk Metrics to supply white papers.

RootstockLabs, key contributor to Rootstock, the first and longest-running Bitcoin layer 2, today announced the launch of Rootstock Institutional, a cross-functional team created to explore ways to support professional investors and enterprises in taking advantage of Bitcoin-native DeFi opportunities.

BitMEX, one of the safest crypto exchanges, announced today the findings of its study, "The Anchor and the Ceiling: Understanding the Structure of Funding Rates," which reveals that two structural forces are driving cryptocurrency funding rates to remain positive 92% of the time and that rates above the 0.01% baseline are often short-lived. The report outlines how crypto traders can leverage this predictable dynamic to adopt sophisticated, structure-based trading.

Immunefi – the leading onchain security platform protecting $180 billion in user funds – and Ripple, the leader of enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions and one of the key contributors to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) a public blockchain, announced a collaboration to launch an “Attackathon” on October 13 aimed at securing the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol.