Blockpass, the identity verification and compliance service for blockchain and beyond, is excited to announce the launch of its new and improved On-Chain KYC® 2.0. With the adoption of crypto growing rapidly, Blockpass has created a flexible, powerful solution for blockchain identity verification and attestation which doesn’t compromise on privacy or security.

iPiD, the leading provider in Know Your Payee (KYP) solutions worldwide, today announced it will power payee verification for Triple-A, a Singapore-headquartered and Monetary of Authority of Singapore (MAS)-licensed digital currency payment institution.

Mesh, the leading crypto payments network, today unveiled the future of agentic commerce during a live demo at TOKEN2049, demonstrating an AI agent completing a crypto transaction. The demonstration highlighted how an AI agent can seamlessly complete a real world ecommerce purchase using stablecoins, in this case finishing a purchase of dog food from a retailer.

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the only global source of open, standardized and high-quality legal entity reference data, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced a strategic partnership to create an institutional-grade identity solution for the blockchain industry.

Investing and trading platformIG has been granted a cryptoasset licence by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enabling the firm to significantly expand its crypto offering for customers.

Mesta, the Global fiat + Stablecoin Payment Network, today announced it has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by Village Global, with participation from Circle Ventures, Paxos, and WTI - Western Technology Investment. Existing backers including Garuda Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Everywhere Ventures, and Inventum Ventures also reaffirmed their support.

Today, programmable financial services company Stripe announced new products to help businesses take advantage of AI and stablecoins to grow their revenue. The updates were part of Stripe Tour New York, the company’s annual product showcase in NYC, with over 40 new products and features launched.

Quantoz euro and dollar denominated stablecoins EURQ and USDQ are now integrated with LayerZero and Stargate. The first cross-chain connection is between Ethereum and Polygon, with further blockchain integrations to follow.

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, announces the launch of the Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund

Chainlink announced today a landmark technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows directly from their existing systems using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE). With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can seamlessly access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied upon for decades. This shows how institutions can access blockchains without needing to upgrade to new infrastructure, replace their existing processes, or integrate new identity and key management solutions.

Keel, a new Solana-native onchain capital allocator, has today officially launched to drive the next wave of DeFi and RWA adoption. Launching with an initial roadmap of $2.5 billion, Keel will allocate into DeFi and RWA liquidity, and yield-bearing tokenized assets. These allocations will act as an engine for ecosystem growth, and provide the depth and stability required to support institutional access to Solana’s capital markets.

BTCS, the largest European Digital Asset Treasury Company (DATCO), today announced plans to raise an additional $100 million through a Series G fundraise, coming immediately on the heels of its recently closed Series F. This rapid succession of capital formation highlights strong market confidence in the model of institutional-scale digital asset treasuries.

Integral, a global leader in FX and digital asset technology, today announced the launch of PrimeOne, the world’s first stablecoin-based crypto prime brokerage. Built on the Codex Layer-1 EVM blockchain, PrimeOne delivers institutional-grade credit, trading, and net settlement in a single, integrated platform.

B2BROKER, a global fintech solutions provider for financial institutions, today announced its partnership with Finery Markets, a leading provider of non-custodial ECN and SaaS trading solutions and the first crypto ECN to receive SOC 2 Type 1 & 2 certifications. The collaboration will enhance the institutional crypto OTC offering of B2TRADER, B2BROKER’s multi-asset trading platform, by integrating Finery Markets’ advanced liquidity and infrastructure technology.

Sumsub, a global leader in identity verification and compliance, today announced that Hifi, the programmable payments and stablecoin infrastructure built for the next chapter of the money movement, has adopted its solutions.