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MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, August 13, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its July TradFi trading data. Monthly trading volume in Stock and Index Futures increased by 64%, while the number of available instruments exceeded 285. Storage-related Futures volume rose by more than fivefold and accounted for nearly 20% of total TradFi Futures volume for the month, making storage the largest contributor to growth in July. Storage Emerges as the Main Growth Driver in Futures Trading Trading trends across AI-related instruments on MEXC diverged sharply in July. Storage-sector volume increased by 575% month over month, while computing-chip volume declined by 18%, indicating a shift in trading interest from computing chips toward data storage. Growth within the storage segment was concentrated among leading names. SanDisk (SNDK) recorded a 1,573% month-over-month increase and ranked first by trading volume among Stock and Index Futures. Micron (MU) tra...

Tokyo, Japan, October 31st, 2025, Chainwire In a landmark evolution, the ARCS (ARX) project has transitioned from visionary foundations to tangible, real-world impact. Launched in 2019 with a bold mission to empower data sovereignty, enabling individuals to control and monetize their personal data, gaining fair economic value from it, ARCS has now entered its ARCS 2.0 phase. This strategic pivot integrates blockchain with physical assets, forging a decentralized economic ecosystem that bridges digital innovation and everyday utility. Recent milestones affirm the team's unwavering trajectory toward a sustainable, user-centric future. From Vision to Reality: Lessons of ARCS 1.0 ARCS 1.0 introduced a groundbreaking "data bank" model, rewarding users with ARX tokens for anonymous data contributions. While pioneering, it faced hurdles: the "cold start" challenge of simultaneous user and enterprise adoption, limited real-world use cases, and regulatory uncertainties...

George Town, British Virgin Islands, October 31st, 2025, Chainwire Aster , the decentralized trading platform, has generated strong momentum with its innovative product Rocket Launch . In the first six days following the debut of Rocket Launch, Aster recorded approximately $122 million in spot trading volume and $933 million in perpetual trading volume. Within five days after APRO’s $AT token TGE, Aster captured over 90% of the market share in $AT perpetual trading, underscoring Rocket Launch’s significant contribution to overall market activity. Since its debut on October 24, Rocket Launch has meaningfully increased both user activity and engagement on the platform. On October 29, Aster announced a 500,000 $AT Loyalty Bonus distributed to early participants who traded within the first four days of the campaign. The platform also disclosed that the spot trading competition features a reward pool of no less than 1.5 million $AT, followed by a perpetual trading campaign with a...

Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 30th, 2025, Chainwire The crypto payment gateway invites new merchants to experience seamless and cost-free USDT transactions. NOWPayments , a non-custodial crypto payment gateway that also offers custody option has announced a limited-time offer that enables new partners to process USDT(TRC20) transactions with zero network fees*. The initiative aims to encourage businesses across industries – including iGaming, eCommerce, and high-risk sectors – to explore the efficiency of digital payments without added transaction costs. By removing network fees on USDT (TRC20), NOWPayments makes it easier for merchants to experience the convenience and reliability of crypto payments first-hand. “Our goal has always been to make crypto payments accessible and efficient for every business,” said Kate Lifshits, CEO of NOWPayments. “This zero-fee offer gives partners an opportunity to experience how simple and cost-effective crypto transacti...

Dubai, UAE, October 29th, 2025, Chainwire Tokinvest , a VARA-licensed platform for tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), has announced a partnership with Singularry SuperApp , a UAE-based fintech that blends artificial intelligence (AI) with decentralised finance (DeFi) to make digital investing more human-centric and straightforward. Through the partnership, Tokinvest’s regulated investment infrastructure will be integrated directly into the Singularry SuperApp . This will give users secure access to suitable tokenised real-world assets from the app’s all-in-one financial interface. Tokinvest is progressing regulatory approval for a range of tokenised products, including real estate, commodities and private credit products.  The collaboration combines Tokinvest’s strength in regulation and compliance with Singularry’s vision to create the “iPhone moment for Web3.” The result is a new way for users to explore digital assets and real-world invest...

Singapore, Singapore, October 29th, 2025, Chainwire LBank , the leading global crypto exchange, today announced the distribution of 300,000 WLFI tokens to its users as WLFI Season I reward. This airdrop underscores LBank's commitment to rewarding active community members and fostering innovative partnerships in the Web3 ecosystem, ensuring users continue to benefit from exclusive reward opportunities and enhanced trading experiences. As one of the key partnering exchanges with WLFI, LBank has received these 300,000 WLFI tokens as airdrop rewards allocated to participating platforms for the period spanning August to October 2025. The rewards will be distributed proportionally based on user engagement and behavior, prioritizing those who actively trade, stake, or participate in ecosystem activities on the platform. This initiative not only celebrates user loyalty but also amplifies WLFI's mission to drive adoption and value creation across decentralized finance. The partnership b...

Singapore, Singapore, October 28th, 2025, Chainwire Asset manager 21Shares has launched an exchange-traded product (ETP) called APEN based on Pendle — a development that signals deepening institutional recognition of Pendle’s role in bridging traditional fixed-income markets with Decentralized Finance (DeFi). One of the most notable metrics underlining Pendle’s traction is its recent achievement: the protocol has settled $70 billion in yield , effectively creating a bridge between the roughly $140 trillion global fixed-income market and crypto-native infrastructure. This milestone is supported by onchain market behavior that sees Pendle’s approach as an emerging link between traditional finance and decentralized systems. Link here Another indicator of Pendle’s traction is its latest product called Boros, designed for trading funding rates from various centralized and decentralized exchanges in a DeFi-native environment. Boros recently achieved an accumula...

Singapore, Singapore, October 28th, 2025, Chainwire Redacted Group ($RDAC) , a multi-vertical Web3 ecosystem backed by Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, and Polygon Ventures, today announces its strategic merger with Tenset ($10SET) , a proven blockchain infrastructure platform with over $100M raised through public and private ICOs and a $1B+ legacy token peak market cap. The combined entity positions to capture the rapidly expanding Real-World Asset (RWA) market by delivering next-generation opportunities across film financing, real estate, and mezzanine lending, previously accessible only to high-net-worth investors and family offices. The merger unites Redacted's exclusive network and $10M venture backing with Tenset's Launchpad infrastructure and a combined, much larger global community, creating a powerhouse to capture niche markets and untapped growth. By leveraging Tenset's infrastructure, the merged platform will debut with an upcoming CineFi launchpad, introducing ...

Road Town, British Virgin Islands, October 26th, 2025, Chainwire Vultisig , the developer of the revolutionary self-custody MPC (Multi-Party Computation) wallet, today announced the upcoming listing of its ecosystem token, $VULT, on Kraken , one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges. The listing will go live on October 28, 2025 , marking a major milestone in Vultisig’s mission to redefine secure self-custody in the digital asset space. The launch will coincide with the start of a global marketing campaign to drive adoption of both the Vultisig wallet and the $VULT token , as part of a broader effort to make secure self-custody accessible to all.  Furthermore, Kraken users will be eligible to participate in a $VULT airdrop in the future , rewarding early community members and new users who engage with the Vultisig ecosystem from the start. $VULT serves as the utility and governance token powering the Vultisig ecosystem — used to reduce in-app tra...

Singapore, Singapore, October 24th, 2025, Chainwire $RIVER reached a new all-time high $10, up 5x since its TGE on Sept 22, following the token’s Binance Futures listing on Oct 17. The surge was driven by growing market attention on River’s Dynamic Airdrop Conversion , the first time-encoded tokenomics mechanism that connects conversion behavior to time-based value . Dynamic Airdrop Conversion: Time as a Variable Most airdrops that end once tokens are claimed, River’s Dynamic Airdrop Conversion begins at that moment.  The mechanism introduces time-encoded tokenomics — allowing users to convert River Pts (ERC-20) into $RIVER at any time within 180 days after TGE. River Pts , the ecosystem points in ERC-20 format, have risen 40x since launch, reflecting growing market awareness of the arbitrage strategies between River Pts, $RIVER, and perpetual futures. In practice, River Pts function like a call option on $RIVER — their value rises as the convers...

Prague, Czech Republic, October 23rd, 2025, Chainwire Fully wireless hardware wallet introduces the world’s first auditable secure element and quantum-ready architecture for next-generation protection Trezor , the original hardware wallet company, has launched Trezor Safe 7, a new-generation hardware wallet that introduces several industry firsts: a fully auditable secure element (TROPIC01), and a quantum-ready architecture. It also features seamless mobile connectivity, making it easier than ever to manage crypto securely from anywhere. With a vibrant color touchscreen, anodized aluminum unibody, and open-source firmware, Trezor Safe 7 is built to offer transparent, long-term self-custody without compromising on usability or design. First Transparent Secure Element At the core of the device is TROPIC01, the world's first transparent and auditable secure element. Unlike conventional secure elements that rely on undisclosed architecture, TROPIC01 allows the community to inspect, ...

Zug, Switzerland, October 22nd, 2025, Chainwire Ika , the fastest parallel MPC network, today announced a major partnership with human.tech , introducing Wallet-as-a-Protocol (WaaP) , a new category of decentralized wallet infrastructure secured by Ika’s breakthrough 2PC-MPC cryptography. No vendor lock-ins. No more renting your wallet. Full interoperability. This marks the first time in crypto that wallet logic, key management, and access control are decentralized across a zero-trust network, providing the wallet functionality via a decentralized Sui protocol rather than a centralized service. From Wallet-as-a-Service to Wallet-as-a-Protocol So far, Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) solutions have given apps full control over their user's wallets. This has introduced custodial risks, security issues, and prevented wallets from being used on more than one app. With WaaP, human.tech and Ika replace that model entirely. A user’s key share remains local, while Ika’s decentr...

Singapore, Singapore, October 21st, 2025, Chainwire LBank , a leading crypto exchange, reported $4.23 billion in spot trading over 24 hours, with third-quarter volume doubling from the previous quarter. This growth highlights LBank’s strong performance in emerging assets and users’ confidence in its continuously improving trading experience. Data from Messari reveals LBank's 24-hour spot volume jumped 21.98% day-over-day, securing a 4% global market share and propelling the exchange to the 6th spot among centralized platforms worldwide. Year-to-date, daily volumes have increased from $4 billion in January to a peak of $10.5 billion, reflecting a notable 162.5% increase and LBank's consistent competitive advantage. Looking at quarterly performance, LBank continued to record growth in the latest quarter. In Q2 2025, the platform’s average daily spot trading volume was approximately $2.05 billion, soaring to around $3.6 billion in Q3, an increase of 75%. Derivatives volum...

Dash , the leading cryptocurrency focused on everyday payments, is excited to announce the highly anticipated release of its Evolution platform, set to revolutionize the way people use and interact with cryptocurrencies. The Genesis release is scheduled for July 29th, and marks a significant milestone in Dash's mission to make cryptocurrency as accessible and user-friendly enough to compete with, and surpass, traditional payment methods. Dash Evolution aims to transform the way people interact with cryptocurrency by introducing features such as usernames, contact lists, invoicing, recurring payments, and more, directly at the protocol level. This eliminates the need for centralized entities to facilitate money and payments for the masses. This vision was first articulated in 2015 by Dash’s founder Evan Duffield with the goal of making cryptocurrency usable for everyone. Joël Valenzuela, Dash’s business development lead, said: “This is a monumental step fo...