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OpenWorld Begins Nasdaq Trading as OPNW After Completing VerifyMe Business Combination
OpenWorld began Nasdaq trading as OPNW on October 1, 2026, after VerifyMe completed its business combination with the co...
MoonPay Agrees to Buy North Capital in Tokenized-Securities Expansion
MoonPay has agreed to acquire North Capital, adding regulated private-markets infrastructure as it expands into tokenize...
UK Banks Complete First Live Interbank Transfers Using Tokenised Sterling Deposits
UK banks completed live customer transfers using tokenised sterling deposits, including remortgages and a programmable m...
Raiffeisen Expands Bitpanda Crypto Partnership Across Central and Eastern Europe
Raiffeisen Bank International and Bitpanda will extend digital-asset infrastructure across CEE, with local banks control...
Hana Bank Issues $100M Digital Bond on Euroclear Blockchain With Same-Day Settlement
Hana Bank issued a $100 million five-year digital bond through Euroclear’s D-FMI, completing South Korea’s first T+0 for...
Ondo Becomes DTCC Fund/SERV’s First Tokenization Member Through Oasis Pro
Ondo’s Oasis Pro Markets has joined DTCC Fund/SERV as its first tokenization-platform member, connecting tokenized funds...
Deutsche Bank Plans Institutional Bitcoin, Ether and Stablecoin Custody Launch in Europe
Deutsche Bank plans to onboard European institutions to a regulated custody service for Bitcoin, Ether, USDC, EURC and E...
S&P Global Leads Kaiko Investment as Crypto Data Firm Extends Series B to $110M
S&P Global led a strategic investment in Kaiko that extended the crypto data provider’s Series B funding total to $110 m...
Broadridge Expands Digital-Asset Platform to U.S. Wealth Managers
Broadridge has expanded its digital-assets platform to U.S. wealth firms, linking crypto and tokenized assets to establi...
Metaplanet Cuts Executive Option Pool 41% After Shareholder Backlash Over Dilution
Metaplanet cut its Series 10 executive option pool by 41.1%, removing 131.274 million potential shares after dilution co...