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Montevideo, Uruguay, August 20th, 2026, Chainwire Aligned allows fintechs and institutions to build financial products on Ethereum, with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and zero-knowledge services. Today, Aligned , a full-stack Ethereum infrastructure project, has launched $ALIGN *, the native token of its ecosystem, with listings on major exchanges. Aligned is working to turn Ethereum into the world's financial backend, and its ecosystem is the single integration fintechs, institutions, and enterprises use to build financial products on Ethereum. Less than one percent of the world's assets are onchain, and most of what has moved sits on Ethereum as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and wrapped assets. Building on top of them is still harder than it should be. A fintech going onchain usually signs with multiple vendors, one for wallets, another for scalability solutions (including rollups and proving systems), then spends months wiring them together...

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...