Fireblocks Trust Company, the New York State-regulated qualified custodian powered by the Fireblocks platform, today announced that it has partnered with Bakkt, Castle Island, FalconX, Galaxy, and others, offering its custody solutions to support regulated digital asset strategies across the financial ecosystem. As digital asset ETFs and digital asset treasuries (DATs), protocol launches, and collateralized lending move into the regulatory spotlight, Fireblocks Trust Company has become a critical enabler for institutions seeking compliant, secure infrastructure.

Blockdaemon, a leading U.S. headquartered institutional-grade crypto infrastructure company, today announced a strategic partnership with Aave Labs, a core technology contributor to the Aave Protocol, to bring seamless institutional access to decentralized finance (DeFi) lending markets. Together, two trusted names with long-standing security track records are joining forces to set a new benchmark for institutional DeFi.

XION, the first consumer-centric Layer-1 blockchain designed for mainstream adoption, today announced a strategic integration with Fireblocks, the industry-leading digital asset infrastructure provider trusted by 2,200 institutions to secure over $10 trillion in digital asset transactions.

CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares'' or “the Group”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), a leading global asset manager specialising in digital assets with over $10 billion in AUM, today announced the launch of the CoinShares Altcoins ETF (ticker: DIME), an innovative U.S. ETF designed to capture the altcoin opportunity through investors' existing brokerage accounts.

Jiko, the only platform built 100% on U.S. T-bills to power the world’s liquidity, today announced strategic backing by Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Blockstream Capital Partners. Alongside this investment, Jiko is entering new strategic partnerships with leading industry players, including Crypto.com, Blockstream Capital Partners, Bitso, and Coinbase. These strategic partners will join a growing number of institutions adopting Jiko as a banking partner to utilize its U.S. T-bill-based model for storage, settlements, and payments.

Together with Scan to Pay’s 650,000 merchants and Luno Pay’s existing network of over 30,000 merchants, this expansion unlocks access to major household retailers, including Checkers, Makro, Vodacom, and Shoprite, bringing crypto payments into the mainstream and marking a major step for cryptocurrency adoption.

Fasset, a leading global financial superapp, has secured approval from Malaysia to provide banking services. The license completes Fasset’s ability to provide full-service digital banking to its existing global user base of 500,000 within a regulated sandbox for Islamic fintech innovations, establishing Fasset as the world’s first stablecoin-powered Islamic digital bank.

Milo, the leading crypto lender behind the world’s first crypto mortgage, announced today that its clients have increased their wealth by over $100 million through its crypto mortgage offering. Using Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral, Milo’s clients have acquired more than $80 million in property without liquidating their holdings. This approach enables them to purchase homes while continuing to benefit from the long-term growth of their digital assets.

The crypto industry is facing a fresh reckoning over security following a series of high-profile breaches. Some of the largest breaches included hackers stealing $1.5bn from Bybit, Phemex losing out on $69m in a crypto heist, and WazirX losing £230m. Despite the rapid mainstreaming of digital assets, vulnerabilities in exchange infrastructure continue to leave billions of pounds at risk.

dtcpay, a licensed Major Payment Institution (MPI), today announced a strategic partnership with WalletConnect , the connectivity layer for the financial internet. The collaboration will accelerate the adoption of secure, frictionless onchain payments and reinforce dtcpay’s role in shaping the next generation of onchain finance.

Global-leading exchange traded product issuer 21Shares and new personalised wealth management platform, Stratiphy have partnered to unlock regulated access to cryptocurrencies and digital assets for UK investors once the FCA changes have been introduced to UK investors.

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.

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.

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.