Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today launched CFD Copy Trading, expanding access to traditional financial markets and allowing users to automatically follow professional traders across forex, commodities, and indices directly from the Bitget platform.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management announced the launch of Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, an ETP that seeks to track the performance of bitcoin

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched IPO Prime, introducing a new market structure that enables users to access and trade pre-IPO exposure to global unicorn companies such as SpaceX.

PCP (Programmable Credit Protocol), the credit orchestration infrastructure for tokenized assets, today announced partnerships with Digital Asset, the technology company behind the Canton Network, and the Canton Foundation, the independent governing body of the Canton Network, to bring institutional credit infrastructure to the Canton ecosystem.

Technology holding company Hawkeye Systems Inc. (OTC: HWKE) (“Hawkeye” or the “Company”) today announced that an investment group led by David Wachsman, a crypto pioneer and the founder and CEO of Wachsman, has taken a controlling interest in the Company.

RealFi today announced the launch of its platform alongside the introduction of USDr, a decentralised, yield-bearing stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. USDr serves as the entry point into the RealFi ecosystem, enabling investors to put their dormant stablecoins to work, earning real returns.

Global Settlement Holdings Inc. ("GSH") today announced it will acquire a controlling stake in AKIBA International Limited ("AKIBA") to build a regulated broker-dealer and exchange platform for tokenized infrastructure, mining assets, and trade finance instruments in Uganda. The joint venture will target up to US$1.5 billion in capital commitments for real-economy tokenization projects and will operate under the Bank of Uganda's Regulatory Sandbox Program with banking integration through local banking partners.

Noah, the global payments infrastructure provider, has partnered with on-chain banking layer, Hyperbeat to give Hyperliquid users a faster, easier way to move money between bank accounts and on-chain trading for the first time.

The Open Network (TON) Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the development of TON Blockchain, is partnering with SCRYPT, Switzerland’s largest stablecoin infrastructure partner, to provide businesses with institutional-grade infrastructure to access USDT on TON Blockchain.

SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) ("SOL Strategies" or the "Company"), one of the first publicly traded companies dedicated to growing and building the Solana Economy, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs Pte. Ltd. ("Darklake"), a Solana-native zero-knowledge technology company, for USD $1.2 million, payable primarily in common shares of the Company (the "Acquisition").

Plasma, the company behind the first stablecoin-native neobank and the infrastructure powering it, today announced the appointment of Zaheer Ebtikar as Chief Strategy Officer. The appointment reinforces Plasma's commitment to making stablecoins practical for everyday use worldwide, beginning with the launch of its stablecoin-native neobank, Plasma One.

Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), announced a strategic product partnership with MuleRun, an industry-leading self-evolving AI Agent, to launch a personal AI-powered trading assistant that brings institutional-grade market signals to everyday investors through natural language.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, has expanded its QR payment capabilities across Asia-Pacific, allowing users to pay from a self-custodial wallet by scanning supported local merchant QR codes across one of the world's most established QR payment regions. The rollout positions Bitget Wallet as the first self-custodial wallet to offer crypto QR payments at APAC scale, serving both local spending and cross-border travel use cases.

Creating a new market for small business credit and marking a milestone for real-world asset adoption on institutional blockchain infrastructure NEWITY, a financial technology company transforming how small businesses access capital, today announced it has selected the Canton Network to support on-chain distribution of small business credit, creating one of the first dedicated on-chain markets for small business loans.

Franklin Templeton, a global investment leader, today announced a plan to acquire 250 Digital, an active cryptocurrency investment management firm led by financial industry veterans Christopher Perkins and Seth Ginns of CoinFund Management LLC. The acquisition would include the 250 Digital investment team and all liquid cryptocurrency strategies previously run by CoinFund. Franklin Templeton will invest in the strategies as part of the agreement.