Seoul, South Korea, September 14th, 2026, Chainwire
Tom Lee, Arthur Hayes, Joseph Lubin and global policy and industry leaders join KBW2026 with Upbit
KBW (Korea Blockchain Week), Asia’s leading digital asset and blockchain conference, will return to Seoul from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, bringing together global leaders across crypto, finance, technology and public policy for KBW2026 with Upbit.
Headline speakers include Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine; Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer at Maelstrom; Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder and CEO of Consensys; Kyoungsuk Oh, CEO of Upbit (Dunamu); and Jeff Yan, CEO of Hyperliquid Labs.
They will be joined by Bo Hines, CEO of Tether USA₮; Harry Jung, former deputy director at the White House; Brian Quintenz, former commissioner of the CFTC and Monica Long, President of Ripple.
The lineup reflects the growing convergence of digital assets, global capital markets and public policy as governments and financial institutions increasingly engage with stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
“KBW2026 will bring together the leaders defining how digital assets move into the next phase of institutional adoption,” said Andrew Park, CEO of FactBlock. “The conversation is increasingly being shaped not only by founders and investors, but by policymakers, financial institutions and governments engaging directly with stablecoins, tokenization and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. Seoul is a natural place for that dialogue, connecting global decision-makers with one of the world’s most active and sophisticated digital asset markets.”
South Korea has long been one of the world’s most active digital asset markets and is becoming an increasingly important hub for institutional adoption. KBW2026 will explore the forces shaping the next phase of digital finance, including market structure, stablecoins, tokenized assets, regulation and the growing intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence.
The conference will open Sept. 29 with the Upbit Institutional Summit, a private, invitation-only session co-hosted by Upbit and FactBlock. The main conference of KBW2026 with Upbit, will take place Sept. 30 through Oct. 1 at Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts.
Now entering its ninth year, KBW was founded and has been hosted by FactBlock since 2018. Last year’s main conference attracted 28,000 attendees over two days, including 35% from outside Korea, with more than 5,200 companies represented and over 400 side events held across Seoul.
Additional speakers and programming will be announced ahead of the event.
About KBW
KBW (Korea Blockchain Week) is an annual global digital asset conference held in Seoul, South Korea, since 2018. It serves as a platform for leading blockchain companies, developers, investors, policymakers and ecosystem stakeholders to engage in structured dialogue and knowledge exchange. Each year, KBW hosts a series of high-level programs and forums designed to facilitate global industry collaboration, advance technical and market understanding, and strengthen connections between the Korean market and the global digital asset ecosystem.
About FactBlock
FactBlock is an ecosystem builder focused on strengthening the integrity of the digital asset and blockchain industry. Since 2018, FactBlock has reduced information asymmetry, connected global blockchain companies with the Korean market and supported the global positioning of domestic projects. FactBlock is the owner and organizer of KBW (Korea Blockchain Week) and provides strategic consulting and advisory services to support organizations in global expansion and ecosystem development.
Contact
Youngil Jung
[email protected]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire
The appointment brings a veteran of regulated digital-asset and brokerage businesses to a firm turning its focus from growth alone to the foundations that sustain it.
Tag Markets today announced the appointment of Craig Lund as Chief Executive Officer. Lund will lead the company’s executive team and its next phase of development, working alongside the firm’s founders and existing stakeholders.
Lund brings more than fifteen years of experience across financial services, regulated digital assets, operations and governance, with senior leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, M2, MidChains, BitOasis, and Property Finder. He has helped take multiple regulated financial businesses from formation to licensing across several jurisdictions, has led teams numbering in the hundreds, and has worked within organisations responsible for several billion dollars in trading volume. His experience spans risk, regulatory engagement, cross-border settlement, product infrastructure and the building of executive teams.
At BitOasis, he was part of the leadership team that scaled the business many times over and contributed to securing one of the first in-principle approvals granted by Abu Dhabi Global Market to a digital asset exchange and custodian. At MidChains, he helped build an over-the-counter desk that reached multi-billion-dollar volume within its first year. At M2, he led the group operational structure that took a globally regulated exchange and custody platform from a standstill to launch within months, under multiple global regulated frameworks.
The appointment comes as Tag Markets turns its attention to the part of a brokerage that clients experience most directly. Spreads and platforms are compared in an afternoon; a client’s view of a firm is formed by how quickly a withdrawal is processed and how promptly a support question is answered. Lund’s brief places those measures at the centre of the firm’s priorities and treats them as standards to be defined, measured and continuously improved.
“A broker earns trust in the moments a client feels, not in the ones it advertises,” Lund said. “The next chapter for Tag Markets is defined less by how fast it grows than by how well it runs. My focus is on the operating discipline, the governance and the client experience that let a firm grow across markets without losing the confidence of the people it serves.”
Three priorities define the agenda. The first is operating discipline: clear operating standards and escalation thresholds across the business, so that decisions are taken at the right level and are visible after the fact. The second is the resilience of execution, from order routing and pricing through to the controls that govern how changes reach live trading environments. The third is client service treated as management information, with feedback recorded, measured and reviewed so that patterns are seen early and acted on.
As Tag Markets grows across markets, the demands on its internal systems, its governance and its regulatory engagement grow with it. Lund’s background at the intersection of regulated finance, operational scale and technology reflects the capabilities that matter most at that stage.
About Tag Markets
Tag Markets is an online trading services provider offering access to foreign exchange, commodities, indices and other markets through leading trading platforms. Tag Markets is the trading name of “T.M. Financials Ltd”, incorporated in Mauritius (Company No. C185265), and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius as an Investment Dealer (License No. GB21026474). Further information is available at tagmarkets.com.
Contact
Craig Lund
Tag Markets
[email protected]
Poznań, Poland, September 14th, 2026, Chainwire
Bitcoin Poland, Poland’s first Bitcoin-only conference, will take place at the Poznań Congress Center as part of Invest Cuffs, one of the country’s leading investment events.
The new format will bring Bitcoin Poland into the wider Invest Cuffs environment, giving participants access to both events with one ticket. The conference will feature a dedicated Bitcoin Poland area, shared exhibition space, and stages accessible to attendees of both Bitcoin Poland and Invest Cuffs.
By becoming part of Invest Cuffs, Bitcoin Poland aims to create a bridge between the Bitcoin ecosystem and the broader world of investing, traditional finance, fintech, entrepreneurship, and capital markets. The format is designed to bring Bitcoin-focused content to an audience that includes both crypto-native participants and professionals from more established financial sectors.
Bitcoin Poland is being launched under the theme “Hard Money, Bright Future” and aims to put Poland on the global Bitcoin map. The event will have an international character, bringing together Bitcoin entrepreneurs, investors, builders, educators, media, institutions, and people interested in Bitcoin’s role in the future of finance.
Unlike broader digital asset events, Bitcoin Poland is focused specifically on Bitcoin. The programme will explore Bitcoin as a financial, technological, social, and infrastructural phenomenon, with discussions designed for both experienced market participants and those seeking a more structured understanding of Bitcoin.
Key topics expected to be covered include:
- Bitcoin in the global macroeconomic environment,
- institutional adoption,
- Bitcoin ETFs and capital flows,
- corporate treasury strategies,
- regulation in Europe,
- self-custody and asset security,
- payments and practical Bitcoin use cases,
- mining and energy,
- privacy and digital sovereignty,
- Bitcoin’s role in investment portfolios,
- the relationship between Bitcoin and traditional finance.
The conference will feature both Polish and international voices across the Bitcoin, investment, fintech, and financial markets landscape. Announced speakers include Michael Terpin, Giovanni Santostasi, Arash Nasri, Yves Choueifaty, Valentin Kosanovic, Adrian Zduńczyk, Paulina Tylus, Filip Pawczyński, Krzysztof Piech, and other experts from Poland and abroad.
The integration with Invest Cuffs gives Bitcoin Poland a distinctive position in the Central European market. It places Bitcoin-focused education, debate, and networking directly within a broader investment conference environment, allowing attendees from both communities to meet, exchange perspectives, and explore where Bitcoin fits within the future of finance.
“Bitcoin Poland was created to connect two worlds: Bitcoin and traditional finance. By taking place as part of Invest Cuffs, we can bring the Bitcoin conversation into a setting where investors, entrepreneurs, and financial market participants already meet. This creates an opportunity to discuss Bitcoin in a serious, international, and business-oriented context,” says Zuzanna Henshaw, who is involved in developing media partnerships for Bitcoin Poland.
Bitcoin Poland will take place on 5–6 October 2026 at the Poznań Congress Center as part of Invest Cuffs.
More information about the event:
bitcoin-poland.com
Tickets:
bitcoin-poland.com
About Bitcoin Poland
Bitcoin Poland is Poland’s first Bitcoin-only conference, taking place on 5–6 October 2026 at the Poznań Congress Center as part of Invest Cuffs. The event brings together the Bitcoin community, investors, entrepreneurs, fintech leaders, traditional finance professionals, institutions, builders, media, and people interested in Bitcoin’s role in the future of finance.
The conference was created with the ambition of putting Poland on the global Bitcoin map and building a bridge between the Bitcoin ecosystem and the wider investment and financial community in Central Europe.
Contact
Zuza Henshaw
[email protected]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire
Tech entrepreneur and angel investor Alessio Vinassa today announced the expansion of his investment framework focusing on the convergence of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, applying strategic risk-mitigation model lessons derived from managing high-pressure financial turnarounds to emerging enterprise technologies. Before he began investing across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Web3 and innovative finance, he faced a financial collapse that changed how he understood risk.
Alessio reached a point where approximately €180,000 was due while only about €2,200 remained in his bank account. The situation left him facing the possibility of bankruptcy and forced him to confront the consequences of growth without sufficient protection, diversification or structural discipline.
The experience became more than a difficult chapter in his entrepreneurial career. It influenced how he would later evaluate businesses, support founders and approach emerging technology.
Today, Alessio has more than fifteen years of operating and investment experience and has backed more than 40 ventures across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, Web3 and innovative finance. His current work reflects a strategic reality that businesses can no longer afford to ignore artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are becoming increasingly intertwined.
Artificial intelligence is changing how companies interpret information, automate work and make decisions. Each capability can also introduce another form of dependence. Systems require access to data. Automated tools may influence customer interactions, financial activity and internal operations. The more authority companies give these technologies, the more important security, transparency and accountability become.
For Alessio, this is where innovation must meet discipline.
“AI should amplify executive judgment, not replace it,” he says.
Technology can increase speed and capability, but leaders remain responsible for determining how that capability should be used, which risks are acceptable and where human oversight must remain.
Cybersecurity provides part of the foundation for that trust. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in important business processes, security extends beyond protecting networks from external threats. Companies must also understand who can access information, how automated actions are monitored and what happens when a system produces an unexpected result.
Businesses that address these questions early may be better positioned to earn the confidence of customers, investors and commercial partners. Those that treat security as an addition after adoption risk allowing operational exposure to grow alongside their success.
Alessio’s technology and investment perspective was shaped by learning what can happen when momentum is mistaken for stability. His financial collapse revealed that creating value and protecting it require different capabilities. A company may appear successful while becoming increasingly dependent on favourable conditions, concentrated decisions or systems that have not developed at the same rate as its growth.
The same lesson applies to emerging technology. A product can attract attention and investment before proving that it can operate securely, respond to failure or sustain customer trust.
Alessio evaluates opportunity through more than technical novelty. His approach considers whether a technology addresses a meaningful problem, whether customers can adopt it consistently and whether the company has the governance required to support expansion. In his published investment commentary, he has identified cybersecurity, artificial intelligence governance, identity solutions and enterprise automation as areas where technology is addressing essential infrastructure needs.
The leadership teams behind these products are equally important. Alessio has spoken about the value of founders who can identify where their businesses are exposed, explain how their systems will respond under pressure and recognise which evidence would require them to change direction.
“Good governance makes companies faster, not slower,” Alessio says.
Governance is sometimes treated as a restriction on innovation. Alessio views it as the structure that allows innovation to scale responsibly. Clear decision rights, reliable reporting and defined accountability enable companies to move without depending on one person to resolve every issue.
This perspective has particular relevance as businesses adopt artificial intelligence at increasing speed. Competitive pressure can encourage companies to introduce tools before they fully understand the information those tools access or the decisions they influence.
Alessio does not argue that innovation should slow by default. His position is that speed becomes commercially valuable only when the systems supporting it can be trusted. The objective is not to eliminate every possible risk. It is to understand exposure before customers, employees and operations become dependent on the technology.
His progression from financial collapse to investing across emerging technology also informs his broader work on leadership. The lesson was not simply that an entrepreneur can recover after losing money. Recovery became meaningful because it changed the structures and decisions that followed.
Alessio is developing these ideas further in his book, No One Is Coming: The Mental Operating System for Leaders Under Pressure. The book examines how founders, executives and operators make consequential decisions when certainty is unavailable and responsibility cannot be transferred to someone else.
As artificial intelligence and cybersecurity continue to converge, that responsibility will extend beyond technology teams. Investors will need to examine the security behind innovation. Boards will need to understand the systems on which their organisations depend. Founders will need to build trust as deliberately as they build capability.
The €180,000 turning point gave Alessio’s investment philosophy a personal foundation. It taught him that unmanaged exposure can remain hidden while confidence is high and growth is still visible. His work today applies that lesson to a new technological era: innovation creates lasting value only when the structures protecting it are built to endure.
About Alessio Vinassa
Alessio Vinassa is an entrepreneur, angel investor, technology builder and author with more than fifteen years of experience across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, Web3, innovative finance and business leadership. He has backed more than 40 ventures and works with founders and executives on investment, strategy, organisational development and leadership under pressure. He operates between the UAE and Europe.
Contact
Alessio Vinassa
[email protected]
Toronto, Canada, September 4th, 2026, Chainwire
CoinRabbit has been named Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 by International Business Magazine, highlighting a lending product that has issued more than $1.45 billion in loans since 2020.
About the International Business Magazine Award
The International Business Magazine Awards recognize companies and executives making a significant impact across global industries. The selection process combines public nominations with jury review, with nominees assessed on their work, progress, and contribution to their respective industries.
For CoinRabbit, the award comes at an important stage in the company’s development. It is moving beyond borrowing against crypto and building a broader ecosystem for managing digital-asset capital.
Why CoinRabbit Was Named the Best Crypto Lending Platform
The Best Crypto Lending Platform 2026 award recognizes the work CoinRabbit has put into its ecosystem. The platform provides borrowers with fast access to liquidity and confidence that their funds remain secure. CoinRabbit maintains a clear no-rehypothecation policy, giving clients greater certainty that their collateral is not being reused or lent out elsewhere.
That focus on a predictable borrowing experience has remained central as CoinRabbit has expanded the product. There is no traditional credit check because crypto collateral does the underwriting, and the lending process takes about 10 minutes whether a client is borrowing a few hundred dollars or managing a six-figure position.
The award jury also highlighted CoinRabbit’s Private Program as a high-touch approach for clients with significant balances. Designed for portfolios of $500,000 and above, it offers a more personalized way to manage assets around each client’s financial goals, liquidity needs, and timing. As part of CoinRabbit’s broader digital-asset ecosystem, the program gives clients a more private banking-style experience.
Capital Preservation at the Core
CoinRabbit is expanding into capital management, but lending remains at the core of the business. By giving clients access to liquidity without a need to sell their crypto, it helps preserve capital and keep assets invested for the long term.
Walter Barrett, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at CoinRabbit, commented:
“We’ve spent years building and refining the product, and it’s rewarding to see that work recognized. At the same time, CoinRabbit is becoming more than just a lending platform. With the Private Program, we’re bringing a private credit approach to managing crypto. Clients can work directly with a success manager to find the right strategy for their needs, with a more tailored way to build crypto capital. We also continue to improve the core lending product, keeping it simple. For us, the goal is to make both sides of the business stronger as we grow.”
As CoinRabbit evolves, capital preservation remains a central idea behind the company’s products and services.
About CoinRabbit
CoinRabbit is a crypto asset management platform built for long-term capital preservation. It provides flexible liquidity management across multiple environments. Instant payments and lending, yield and trading products, and also the Private Program are available from a single platform. Since 2020, CoinRabbit has maintained a 100% capital reserve model, ensuring that client assets are fully reserved and never rehypothecated.
Contact
CoinRabbit
[email protected]
Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, September 3rd, 2026, Chainwire
DWF Labs, an established, market-tested investor and market maker built to strengthen digital asset market infrastructure at scale, today announced an expansion of its global regulatory footprint with a group entity granted Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulatory approval from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC).
Granted under the BVI’s Virtual Assets Service Providers Act 2022, the approval authorizes DWF Labs as a registered VASP, to provide the exchange of one or more forms of virtual assets, as well as to participate in, and provide financial services related to an issuer’s offer and/or sale of a virtual asset.
The approval enables institutional clients access to DWF Labs’ integrated OTC trading and market making capabilities, including spot trading across thousands of digital assets and stablecoins, through a regulated BVI entity. It also strengthens the company’s ability to deliver investment, incubation and ecosystem development services to support token issuers and digital asset projects on a global scale.
The BVI has established itself as a leading jurisdiction for decentralized ledger deployments and structured real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. The territory now represents nearly 10% of the global tokenization US treasuries market, with $1.5 billion in distributed value. BVI-domiciled entities also facilitate more than $1.2 billion in active, circulating stablecoins – figures underpinned by more than 24,700 stablecoin asset holders and weekly transfer volumes of $694.1 million. These figures (Source: rwa.xyz treasuries and stablecoins) reflect the strength of both the regulatory and market infrastructure DWF Labs is now positioned to operate within.
Heng Lee, Managing Director and Partner at DWF Labs said, “The Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) approval from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC) is a key step in responsibly expanding and delivering DWF Labs’ regulated digital asset services to international institutional clients.”
“As the digital asset market and industry continue to mature, and adoption increases, this addition to our regulatory framework will enable us to deliver a broader range of solutions, products, and services, while reinforcing our focus upon transparency and governance.”
DWF Labs will continue to expand its regulatory footprint across key global markets, supporting its international growth strategy and commitment to operating within robust regulatory frameworks.
About DWF Labs
Established in 2022, DWF Labs is an investor and market maker, focused on giving builders the capital, liquidity, expertise, and partnerships needed to take ideas from concept to scale. DWF Labs is among the world’s largest high-frequency digital asset trading organizations, active on more than 80 centralized and decentralized exchanges. The firm supports over 20% of CoinMarketCap’s Top 100 projects and 35% of its Top 1,000, and has worked with more than 1,000 blockchain companies across Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks, DeFi, gaming, AI, payments, infrastructure, and tokenization.
The firm’s work is organized across four business lines: Liquidity (institutional market making and liquidity provision), Investment and Incubation (strategic capital and token advisory for emerging projects), Ecosystem Development (go-to-market support), and OTC and Structured Markets (tailored trading solutions for institutions, funds, and protocol treasuries). DWF Labs also founded and incubated Falcon Finance, a synthetic dollar and universal collateralization protocol.
DWF Labs operates a globally distributed team on a 24/7/365 basis.
For more information, visit www.dwf-labs.com, or follow DWF Labs on X, LinkedIn, and Telegram.
Contact
DWF Labs
[email protected]
George Town, British Virgin Islands, September 1st, 2026, Chainwire
Aster, the privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, today announced the kickoff of USD1 RWA Boost: Phase 1 with World Liberty Financial (WLFI), featuring 125,000,000 $WLFI and 6,250,000 USD1 in rewards.
The campaign builds on AOS-2, Aster’s earlier expansion of its Aster Open Standards (AOS) framework from spot markets to perpetuals.
Leonard, CEO at Aster, said: “AOS-2 is turning Aster from a decentralized perp exchange into an open infrastructure layer where anyone can launch and operate their own perpetual markets on top of Aster Chain. The first USD1 RWA perpetuals show that model is already working.”
AOS-2: A Published Standard for Perpetual Listings
AOS-2 is Aster’s standardized, onchain framework for initiating perpetual market listings, enabling projects to propose new markets through a transparent and automated process.
Applicants stake 1 million $ASTER, locked for four years with no early exit, before the proposal goes to an onchain validator vote. If approved, Aster’s risk team configures the market and the perpetual can go live as early as T+1; if rejected, the stake is returned in full.
Listing access runs on published onchain rules, while leverage and other trading parameters stay under Aster’s risk controls, letting Aster bring new markets to traders faster without giving up risk management.
USD1 RWA Boost Phase 1: 125M $WLFI + 6.25M USD1 in Rewards
The campaign runs from August 31 through December 31, 2026, covering SPCX/USD1, CL/USD1, XAU/USD1, SNDK/USD1, SKHYNIX/USD1, and MU/USD1.
Users earn Trading Points through taker volume on eligible USD1 pairs, which determine their share of the USD1 reward pool, while Open Interest (OI) Points are earned by holding eligible positions and determine their share of the $WLFI reward pool. Traders using Single Asset Mode with USD1 as collateral receive a 2x boost on OI Points. Rewards are calculated across weekly epochs and distributed the following week.
“When real-world assets trade onchain, the settlement asset matters as much as the market itself. Perpetuals on gold, energy, and equities, all denominated in USD1, give traders one dollar instrument across every one of these markets, and that is what stablecoins were built to do. We are supporting these markets because this is where onchain market structure is heading, and Phase 1 is only the start,” said Zach Witkoff, Co-Founder and CEO at World Liberty Financial.
Building the Frontier of Onchain Trading
AOS-2 gives Aster a repeatable, onchain path for bringing new markets to the platform, and the first USD1 RWA perpetual listings show that path is already at work. Paired with the ecosystem support from Aster and WLFI, the launch turns a new listing framework into real trading activity from day one.
As more real-world and crypto-native assets move onchain, Aster aims to become a leading venue for bringing new asset markets onchain. The map gets bigger from here.
About Aster
Aster is a privacy-first onchain trading platform backed by YZi Labs, with unique features like Hidden Orders to protect user trading activity. It pioneers the frontier of on-chain trading through perpetual futures, spots, and earn products for top-trending assets, including RWAs, memes, and core crypto markets. It is powered by Aster Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain built to power the future of decentralized finance.
Users can learn more about Aster on the official website or follow Aster on X.
*Disclaimer: Eligible pairs, reward parameters, and campaign rules are subject to change during the campaign. Please refer to the official campaign page for the latest eligible pair list and campaign details. Trading cryptocurrencies and leveraged products involves significant risk and may result in the loss of capital. This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or financial advice.
Contact
Marketing Manager
Lola Chen
Aster DEX
[email protected]
London, London, September 1st, 2026, Chainwire
ALKEMYA METACORE SCSp SECURES INITIAL USD 50 MILLION INVESTMENT AHEAD OF LISTING OF TOKENISED EQUITY NICKEL OFFERING
Alkemya Luxembourg S.à.r.l. (“Alkemya”), the sponsor, is pleased to announce that Alkemya Metacore SCSp has secured USD 50 million in a pre-launch capital raise for its precision industrial nickel wire business backed by Class 1 nickel wire. It is announcing the sale of additional ALKN tokens in a new tranche (the “Token”) at USD 1.0 per Token.
The offer, which is being arranged by Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd, will take place on Bitfinex Securities. The offer is available to institutional and professional investors and will close on 15 October 2026.
The Tokens are issued by Alkemya Metacore SCSp (“Alkemya Metacore”), a special limited partnership based in Luxembourg, which is registered as an Issuer with CNAD (National Commission of Digital Assets) in El Salvador.
Alkemya Metacore is a Luxembourg-based investment and operating platform focused on the industrial development, commercialisation, and financial structuring of high-technology metals. It owns approximately 7 million metres of 99.99% ultra-pure nickel wire with 0.025 mm diameter, which has been independently verified and valued at approximately USD 1.64 billion. The asset is held in institutional custody in Lugano, Switzerland.
Alkemya will use part of the initial capital raise and further funds raised in additional tranches to invest working capital in Alkemya Metacore to finance its commercialisation strategy of transforming its ultra-pure wire into engineered mesh products tailored to high-growth applications across seven sectors: EMI shielding, aerospace and defence, marine and desalination, power and industrials, semiconductors, green hydrogen and rare/precious metals recovery.
The successful capital raise, before secondary market listing, represents a major milestone for the offering and demonstrates confidence in the underlying exposure to high-purity nickel and the structure of the issue. The Token affords investors a combination of an asset-backed investment and a thematic play on energy transition and electronic security technologies.
The listing on Bitfinex Securities of the Token will enable Alkemya to leverage tokenisation to access a wider pool of global investors and be part of a regulated, 24/7 trading venue.
The Tokens aim to provide long-term investment value linked to real-world applications and technology.
Cash distributions will be governed by a strict waterfall that first returns investor capital in full, cumulative distributions equal to a 6% per annum compound interest calculated annually (i.e., the preferred return) on the investor capital at any time outstanding, from the date of payment of the same up to the date of final repayment of the invested capital and an additional 80/20 profit split with a carry partner in favour of Token holders from the commercial business.
Carlo Guido Della Peruta, Manager of the General Partner of Alkemya Metacore, commented: “Securing this initial investment is a significant milestone for Alkemya and validates both the quality of our asset and the strength of our commercialisation strategy. We chose to list on Bitfinex Securities because tokenisation offers us access to a genuinely global investor base within a regulated framework, and because it reflects the innovative approach we are taking across all aspects of our business. This raise will allow us to begin transforming our nickel wire asset into high-value engineered products serving some of the fastest-growing sectors in the global economy, and we look forward to welcoming further investors as the listing progresses.”
Jesse Knutson, Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, commented: “Bitfinex Securities exists to connect exciting investment opportunities with a broader and deeper investor base, giving more people access to investments that were previously out of reach and giving businesses access to a wider pool of capital. Alkemya Metacore will represent yet another example of how we’re using blockchain technology to bring previously inaccessible asset classes to market within stringent regulatory guardrails, and Alkemya’s initial $50 million capital raise is a sign of appetite for this exciting opportunity.”
Arvinder Sood, CEO and Director at Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd, said: “Hanover Square Capital is delighted to announce this transaction in collaboration with Bitfinex Securities and its successful pre-launch close of USD 50 million investment, which not only underscores the evolving direction of global capital markets but also establishes a compelling foundation for a groundbreaking transaction with the launch of ALKN tokens. This milestone reflects a broader structural shift in how financial assets are created, accessed, and exchanged, as traditional frameworks increasingly converge with digital innovation. By embracing tokenised equity, the transaction highlights a more efficient, transparent, and accessible model for capital formation, one that is better aligned with the demands of modern investors and issuers alike, with the capacity to trade on a peer-to-peer basis.
Hanover Square Capital believes that this transaction not only validates that trajectory but also signals the growing importance of blockchain-enabled solutions in redefining how assets are issued, managed, and traded on a global scale.”
Bitfinex Securities provides a regulated venue for the issuance and trading of tokenised securities, combining blockchain technology with regulated market access for issuers and eligible investors.
The offering was advised by the following law firms: CMS DeBacker in Luxembourg (as regards Luxembourg law aspects), Dentons El Salvador (as regards El Salvador law aspects), Foley and Lardner in the US (as regards US law aspects), and CNPLaw LLP in Singapore (as regards Singapore law aspects). Winston Taylor acted for Bitfinex Securities. The Edison Group advised on investor relations and issued a pre-IPO research note. The ALKN tokens will be available for trading across three regulated exchanges: Bitfinex Securities, AGX (operated by LabyrinthX Technologies Pte Ltd, a company in the Hydra X group) and Archax Ltd. HydraX Digital Assets Pte. Ltd. is the custodian and distribution partner in Asia, with Archax playing a similar role in the UK. Scytale, the technology firm, is providing onboarding technology services for compliance to Alkemya Metacore under Luxembourg and EU law.
About Hanover
Hanover Square Capital (UK) Ltd (“HSC”) is an independent, regulated advisory firm headquartered in London, comprising a small team of highly experienced finance professionals. The firm provides strategic advice across a broad range of areas, including energy transition and climate-related solutions, public and private debt and equity placements, bank financing, and both project and commodity finance, alongside advisory services on financial investments. HSC brings deep sector expertise spanning environment-related projects, infrastructure development, next-generation technologies with applications to electromagnetic shielding and efficient green energy production, with a particular emphasis on sustainability and the global energy transition.
As a member of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), the firm is closely aligned with leading sustainability practices. Its client base is global, encompassing large and mid-cap corporations, government and state agencies, selected institutional investors, and professional investors. HSC is further supported by its connected company, Hanover Square Investments Pte. Ltd, based in Singapore.
About Bitfinex Securities
Bitfinex Securities provides a regulated platform for the issuance, listing and trading of tokenised securities. Licensed in El Salvador and Kazakhstan, Bitfinex Securities gives issuers and eligible investors access to digital securities markets within established regulatory frameworks.
The platform supports capital raising and secondary market trading for tokenised securities, including real-world asset-linked opportunities. By combining market infrastructure, technology and regulatory oversight, Bitfinex Securities aims to make capital formation more efficient, transparent and accessible for issuers and investors.
Media Contact:
Richard Morgan Evans
Jonathan Batchelor
Sapience Communications
+44 (0) 203 841 7610
Disclaimer:
No offering is being made in the European Union or the European Economic Area, and no retail investors within the meaning of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”) will be admitted as purchasers of the ALKN Tokens. The ALKN Tokens are also exempt from the obligation to publish a prospectus for offers to the public under Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended (the “Prospectus Regulation”), as the offering will only be addressed to qualified investors in the EEA/EU. The offering is limited to institutional investors in Singapore. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of any of the ALKN Tokens in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. These securities have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the securities laws of any U.S. state or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction outside El Salvador, nor is such registration contemplated. The ALKN Tokens will only be offered and sold outside the United States (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”)) in offshore transactions pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S and in accordance with any other applicable securities laws where such offers and sales are made. The ALKN Tokens have not been and will not be offered or sold within the United States.
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Jonathan Batchelor
Sapience
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Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire
As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them.
Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City opened a probe into both leading venues, a Washington judge ordered Kalshi to halt most wagers in the state, and the CFTC began an internal review of so-called “mention markets.”
Amid that scrutiny, a simpler question has gone largely unexamined: when two venues list the same question, do they agree on the answer?
Often, they do not. On identically worded midterm markets tracked by Predictions.io, “Blue tsunami in 2026?” was priced at 44.5% on Polymarket and 36.0% on Kalshi. “Blue wave in 2026?” showed 82.5% against 74.0%. Both gaps are 8.5 percentage points — on questions whose wording is identical on the two venues. Across a sample of directly comparable binary markets live on more than one venue, the median gap was more than four points, and nearly half of the pairs differed by five points or more. (Prices as of 05:08 UTC on 28 August 2026; both venues’ live prices are shown side by side on Predictions.io.)
Those gaps matter to anyone quoting a single number. A market priced at 44.5% on one venue and 36.0% on another does not have one “market-implied probability” – it has two, and which one gets cited is arbitrary unless the reader is told both.
“A single venue’s price is a data point. The spread between venues is the information. When the two biggest markets in the world disagree by seven points on the same sentence, that disagreement is the story – and nobody who runs one of those markets is in a position to report it.” said spokesperson of Predictions.io
Predictions.io aggregates markets from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold, matching equivalent questions across venues so the same event can be compared directly. The platform currently tracks more than 9,700 event pages across 23 categories including US politics, economics, crypto, sport and geopolitics.
Alongside the comparison pages, Predictions.io publishes two free tools:
● Fee Calculator — enter any trade and see the fee, total outlay and effective all-in price on each venue, including Kalshi’s 0.07 × P × (1−P) taker formula and maker discount against Polymarket’s zero-fee standard markets.
https://predictions.io/tools/fee-calculator
● Odds Converter — convert American, decimal and fractional odds into implied probability and prediction-market prices, and see the vig-free line.
https://predictions.io/tools/odds-converter
A direct venue comparison is available at https://predictions.io/compare/polymarket-vs-kalshi, and live midterms markets at https://predictions.io/lobby/us-politics.
Predictions.io operates no market and takes no position in any contract. It is a data and comparison service, not an exchange, broker or investment adviser.
About Predictions.io
Predictions.io is an independent aggregator of prediction markets, bringing prices from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold into a single view so the same question can be compared across venues. It publishes free tools for traders and journalists, including a cross-venue fee calculator and odds converter.
Users can learn more about Predictions.io here: https://predictions.io/
Predictions.io socials: https://bio.site/predictions.io
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Spokesperson
Predictions.io
[email protected]
Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire
TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed.
TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund.
The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy vaults, tens of millions of dollars in total value locked and more than 1.5 million registered wallets. Keyrock, Hardcore Labs, Edge Capital and Origami serve as Curators, managing strategy vaults on the protocol. The $TMX token completed its TGE on August 25.
The investor’s own public position points to the gap this investment is meant to fill. In an August 14 post describing what it wants to see built, YZi Labs wrote that tokenized blue-chip equities have reached meaningful volume, but that the financial application layer around them — credit, collateral management, risk transfer and structured products — remains underdeveloped, and that options and other risk-transfer products in particular remain conspicuously absent.
YZi Labs placed this investment precisely where that gap sits.
“When I left banking, there were a few hundred billion dollars of assets sitting on-chain without a single directly observable interest rate curve between them. In traditional markets, that would be unheard of. That is what made me decide to build this infrastructure on-chain.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.
Tokenized equities are the fastest-growing asset class on-chain, now at $2.48 billion, with holder count up 165% in 30 days.
TermMax integrated Ondo Global Markets in January 2026 to launch the first fixed-rate borrowing market to accept tokenized U.S. equities as collateral, then added Binance’s bStock. In August it went live on Robinhood Chain, where QQQ, SPY and NVDA can be posted against USDG.
But financing is only half of what tokenized equities need. Nearly all of this year’s tokenized-equity infrastructure has gone into perpetual futures, and almost none into options.
TermMax Alpha is where that changes: physical delivery options, with no liquidation before expiry. The conversion price is fixed when the position is opened, and the position is settled by physical delivery at expiry. A directionally correct position therefore cannot be knocked out by a few minutes of volatile trading in thin liquidity — the failure mode that makes perpetuals unsuitable at the illiquid end of tokenized equities.
This no-liquidation design rests on a choice running through the whole protocol: when liquidation does happen, it settles by physical delivery, with collateral delivered directly to the lender rather than sold into the market. The usual assumption — that collateral can be sold at fair value on demand — holds for ETH and fails for a tokenized equity with a few million dollars of depth.
On the institutional side, TermPrime completed its first live trade on Canton Network at the end of June and has since grown its counterparty network to nine institutions.
TermMax runs an early validator node on Canton, and TermPrime is ready to support lending business for institutions there through open markets.
TermMax holds a DeFiSafety Process Quality Review score of 93%, matching Aave V3.
“What we set out to do is not to teach traditional institutions DeFi. It is to let DeFi grow into something professional enough to genuinely serve finance.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.
What TermMax wants to be is not another lending protocol, but the on-chain interest rate curve itself.
About TermMax
TermMax is a fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending marketplace built by Term Structure Labs, live on mainnet since April 2025 and deployed across 10 EVM-compatible chains, where it runs 60 fixed-rate markets and 40 strategy vaults. The protocol splits debt into three tradable tokens: FT (principal), XT (interest and option value) and GT (an ERC-721 receipt for leveraged positions). Professional Curators set target APR ranges across isolated markets and manage strategy vaults, and liquidations settle by physical delivery of collateral. Co-founder and CEO Jerry Li has 25 years in global financial markets and served as Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, running fixed income and FX for Greater China.
Website: https://ts.finance/
About YZi Labs
YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets globally. Our investment philosophy emphasizes impact first — we believe that meaningful returns will naturally follow. We invest in ventures at every stage, prioritizing those with solid fundamentals in Web3, AI, and biotech. YZi Labs’ portfolio covers over 300 projects from over 25 countries across six continents. Some notable portfolios include Trust Wallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, SafePal Wallet, Better Payment Network, Aster, XAI, and more. More than 65 of YZi Labs’ portfolio companies have gone through our incubation program, EASY Residency. For more information, follow YZi Labs on X (@yzilabs).
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TermMax Marketing Team
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