Noctura is introducing a new standard for on-chain confidentiality: a compliant privacy protocol on Solana built for speed, security, and institutional confidence. In today’s transparent blockchain environment, every transfer can expose balances, counterparties, strategy, and treasury movements forever. For individuals that can mean safety risks and doxxing exposure; for traders it can mean front-run and inference; for enterprises it can mean leaking confidential operations. Noctura’s mission is simple: make privacy usable and verifiable without forcing the market to abandon compliance.

At the center of Noctura is a shielded privacy layer on Solana paired with a wallet-first experience. Instead of asking users to move to a new chain or accept complicated workflows, Noctura is designed as a privacy overlay that anchors a shielded state directly on Solana. The protocol maintains cryptographic commitments, a nullifier set, and a Merkle root on-chain, while heavy proof generation happens off-chain and is verified on-chain by lightweight programs that update shielded state deterministically. The result is privacy with finality, plus the composability advantages of Solana.

Noctura’s dual-mode wallet is engineered for clarity and control. Transparent Mode behaves like a standard Solana wallet for full DeFi and NFT compatibility. Shielded Mode enables private transfers where sender, receiver, and amounts are hidden, with correctness enforced by zero-knowledge proofs. Users can move between modes through cross-mode transfers designed to break linkability at the proof boundary, making “public to private” and “private to public” flows practical without exposing a complete transaction graph. Noctura also plans developer SDK hooks so applications can integrate shielded transfers, cross-mode flows, and disclosure requests in a consistent way.

Privacy, however, is not enough if it cannot survive the real world of listings, counterparties, and regulated access. That is why Noctura is “compliance-first” by design. The wallet supports selective disclosure mechanisms intended to prove legitimacy without bulk deanonymization. View Keys provide scoped, read-only access (for example: a single transaction, a time window, or proof-of-funds) without granting spend authority, and can be revoked. Audit Tokens are consent-bound, expiring credentials that can validate specific facts (such as a KYC pointer assertion or proof-of-funds) without revealing raw transaction history. This approach is built to reduce friction with exchanges and partners while preserving strong confidentiality for everyday users.

Noctura’s performance posture is deliberately conservative and credibility-driven. The project targets hundreds of shielded transactions per second at launch, with staged scalability via batching, aggregation, and GPU prover lanes. The whitepaper explicitly avoids unrealistic claims about fully shielded throughput and frames scaling as an engineering roadmap, not marketing theater. Noctura’s operational design also includes a prover/relayer participation model with incentives and guardrails, including staking-based registration and slashing hooks for misbehavior, aligning service quality with protocol economics.

Security is treated as a process, not a slogan. Noctura outlines a staged audit approach covering presale/token programs, verifier and state logic, wallet cryptography and SDK flows, and the zero-knowledge circuits themselves, alongside bug bounty planning, anomaly detection signals, and incident response controls. The protocol’s compliance posture is reinforced by transparent-by-default onboarding, opt-in shielded mode, geo-fencing where required, and optional Travel-Rule/KYC integration patterns designed to minimize data exposure while meeting partner requirements.

$NOC is designed as functional infrastructure within the Noctura ecosystem. The total supply is fixed at 256,000,000 tokens, with allocations outlined for community presale, staking rewards, liquidity, marketing, community rewards, team, and reserve. $NOC is intended to power shielded transaction fees and incentivize prover/relayer lanes, while also supporting staking and governance over key parameters, including optional fee-burn settings. Post-TGE staking tiers are described with lock-based APR targets, aligning long-term participation with network growth and operator reliability.

Noctura’s presale is structured as an on-chain, multi-stage distribution with transparent pricing mechanics and broad access, including support for multiple networks and payment methods as described in the whitepaper. The Noctura team has announced that the $NOC presale is scheduled to begin on January 20. Participation details, eligibility requirements, and regional availability will be communicated through official Noctura channels, with an emphasis on verifiability, audit readiness, and responsible onboarding.

More information: https://noc-tura.io/

AEON, the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy, today announced a partnership with United Stables ($U), a next-generation stablecoin designed to enable seamless value flow across payments, trading, and autonomous systems. Through this collaboration, AEON Pay now supports $U for real-world crypto payments, while AEON’s x402 Facilitator integrates $U as a settlement asset on BNB Chain, bridging everyday commerce and AI economy.

Bringing $U Into Everyday Spending

With this integration, users can now pay with $U across a wide range of real-world scenarios using AEON Pay, AEON’s Web3 mobile payment product. By scanning a merchant’s QR code, users can spend $U for offline shopping, dining, and daily purchases, while merchants receive local fiat settlement seamlessly.

AEON Pay currently supports offline payments at over 50 million merchants across Southeast Asia, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Georgia, and Peru, with continued expansion planned across Africa and Latin America. The addition of $U extends its utility beyond digital finance, positioning it as a practical medium of exchange for everyday life.

AEON Pay is accessible via the Telegram MiniApp, as well as through integrations with leading wallets and platforms including Bitget Wallet, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, Solana Pay, OKX Pay, TokenPocket, KuCoin, and Bybit.

Powering AI-Native Settlement With x402 Standard

The collaboration also brings $U into AEON’s AI payment stack. AEON’s x402 Facilitator will support $U as a settlement asset on BNB Chain, enabling AI agents to transact autonomously using a stable, liquid unit of account.

AEON has been an early pioneer of AI payment standards such as x402 and ERC-8004, building infrastructure that allows intelligent agents to request, verify, and settle payments on-chain while connecting directly to real-world merchants. With $U integrated into this flow, AI agents gain access to a stablecoin purpose-built for fluid value movement between humans, applications, and autonomous systems.

Expanding the Real-World Use and AI Economy Together

U is designed to unify fragmented liquidity across use cases, from payments and DeFi to institutional settlement and AI-driven automation. By integrating $U into AEON’s global payment network and AI settlement infrastructure, this partnership connects on-chain liquidity with real-world commerce at scale.

AEON currently operates one of the largest crypto payment settlement networks using QR codes and bank transfers, serving over 20 million merchants and 200,000 users within four months of launch. Its payment infrastructure processes nearly 1 million transactions per month, with over $29 million in monthly volume across 50 million real-world merchants.

By combining AEON’s real-world payment reach and AI settlement capabilities with U’s next-generation stablecoin design, the partnership advances a future where stable value can move seamlessly across people, merchants, and autonomous AI,turning both everyday payments and AI commerce into a unified economic layer.

About U

$U is a next-generation stablecoin backed by fully fluid assets, designed to unify fragmented liquidity across trading, payments, DeFi, institutional settlement, and AI-driven autonomous systems. It is the embodiment of a “fluid” future where value flows seamlessly between humans and AI.

About AEON

AEON is the foundational payment and settlement layer built for the new AI economy. By pioneering support for emerging AI payment standards like x402 and ERC-8004, AEON is actively reshaping the internet’s production relations. Its AI payment and Web3 Mobile Payment solutions AEON Pay have processed 994k transactions with $29M+ in volume across 50M real-world merchants in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

With the massive shift from the attention economy to the call-based economy, AEON provides the financial backbone required to power the next-gen agentic commerce at scale, and accelerate real-world adoption of crypto and AI.

MGC has released updated information regarding recent activity related to its native token, highlighting patterns of holder retention observed during broader cryptocurrency market volatility.

According to internal data shared by the project, MGC’s holder base has remained comparatively stable over the past year, even as several gaming- and metaverse-related tokens experienced declines in participation. Analysts monitoring the sector have noted that MGC has shown fewer abrupt changes in holder distribution than is typically observed during periods of market stress.

During a recent market downturn that followed a sharp decline in Bitcoin prices and coincided with sell-offs across multiple altcoins, MGC did not reflect the same degree of short-term volatility seen elsewhere in the sector. Project representatives stated that the observed price behavior aligned with consistent on-chain holding patterns rather than external market activity.

Utility-driven token use

MGC functions as the native token within the Ranking Platform ecosystem. Within the platform, the token is used for in-platform activities such as game registration, participation in ranking mechanisms, position upgrades, and reward distribution. These functions are designed to support platform operations rather than speculative trading.

Project representatives indicated that usage-based interaction may contribute to longer holding periods, as participants engage with the token in the context of platform activity rather than short-term market movements.

Market stability as a magnet for new investors

Something interesting happens when a token behaves well during market stress: new investors pay attention. In the case of MGC, this effect has become increasingly visible.
When newcomers observe that the token does not collapse during volatility, their perception shifts from “another gaming token” to “a token whose community knows its value.” Stability becomes a narrative, and that narrative becomes a catalyst for new demand.

Community engagement and platform development

MGC representatives stated that ongoing development within the Ranking Platform continues in line with its published roadmap. The project reports steady participation from users engaging with platform features and updates, though it emphasized that adoption levels may vary over time.

The project characterized current activity as reflective of an engaged user base rather than market-driven momentum.

Context within the Web3 gaming sector

As the Web3 gaming sector continues to evolve, MGC positions its recent token metrics as an example of how platform usage and participant behavior can influence observed market activity. The project noted that market conditions remain dynamic and that outcomes depend on multiple external and internal factors.

The transaction was settled and serviced through Membrane’s post-trade credit infrastructure and executed under a GMRA and Digital Asset Annex, establishing the first standardized stablecoin funding market on public blockchains.

Solstice Labs, Cor Prime, and Membrane Labs today announced the successful completion of the first institutional stablecoin-for-stablecoin repurchase agreement (Repo) executed under traditional market documentation and settled on a public blockchain. The transaction marks the creation of a standardized, institutional-grade stablecoin funding market that brings familiar TradFi liquidity tools directly onto public blockchain rails.

The repo was executed bilaterally under a Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA) and Digital Asset Annex, with asset and cash legs transferred directly between institutional wallets on Solana and Ethereum. Membrane’s institutional post-trade credit infrastructure provided onchain settlement, servicing, and lifecycle management, enabling cross-chain movement of assets with full ownership transfer and repo-style unwind.

This structure represents the first time a native stablecoin has served as the asset leg in an institutional repo. Solstice posted its native stablecoin, USX, as the asset leg, while Cor Prime provided USDC as the cash leg. The two legs will unwind at maturity at a price reflecting the agreed-upon repo rate. Unlike smart-contract lending pools, this transaction mirrors the legal, operational, and economic mechanics of traditional repo markets.

A New Funding Primitive for Stablecoins

Stablecoins vary widely in liquidity, regulatory treatment, and institutional adoption. Until now, issuers and traders have lacked the funding tools used in traditional markets to source liquidity, defend pegs, or access short-term financing without selling inventory. Overcollateralized loans and automated lending pools have been the only available models, neither of which resembles institutional repo structures.

By enabling USX to be financed against USDC through a standardized repo, Solstice gains new flexibility in balance sheet management and peg resilience. The structure also opens new avenues for investors to earn structured returns using market mechanics they already understand.

“This repo shows that stablecoins can use the same balance sheet tools as traditional market participants,” said David Plisek, COO of Solstice. “For Solstice and USX, it reinforces peg resilience through disciplined liquidity management and enables surplus capital to enhance structured, low-risk yield for the protocol without compromising stability.”

New Institutional Infrastructure for Onchain Credit Markets

Membrane provided the post-trade credit infrastructure required to execute, margin, settle, and service the repo across chains. Its platform enables institutions to transact using familiar legal documentation while benefiting from the speed and finality of public blockchain settlement.

“This is the first step toward a true institutional repo market for digital assets. Stablecoin collateral can now move with legal certainty, operational discipline, and term structure, all on public blockchains,” said Carson Cook, CEO at Membrane. “Membrane is building the pre-and post-trade credit infrastructure layer that will make this market function at global scale.”

Cor Prime supplied the institutional liquidity required to make the repo functional, acting as the OTC counterparty and enabling the first cross-chain repo settlement between stablecoins on a public network.

“Working in partnership with Solstice Labs and Membrane, this repo transaction demonstrates that systematically integrating off-chain liquidity with on-chain markets strengthens the entire ecosystem,” said Tim Bevan, CEO at Cor Prime. “The result is a more efficient market, where capital can move seamlessly to where it is best utilized.”

A Foundation for a Stablecoin Funding Curve

The successful completion of this transaction establishes the basis for a true funding market for stablecoins across public blockchains. As this structure evolves, issuers will be able to manage liquidity more effectively, market makers will gain access to stablecoin financing aligned with institutional standards, and investors will be able to earn repo-style returns backed by digital assets.

This is the first step toward a standardized stablecoin funding curve, bringing repo-style financing — one of the most important liquidity mechanisms in global markets — into the digital asset ecosystem.

About Solstice

Solstice Finance is a decentralized finance protocol developed by Solstice Labs AG, a Deus X Enterprise company, in partnership with the Solstice Foundation. Collectively they are reimagining asset management for the onchain era. Solstice’s Protocol leverages a licenced approved manager and fund to offer institutional-grade access to DeFi and TradFi investors. Key products include USX, a Solana-native stablecoin alongside Solstice’s YieldVault, a democratized yield-bearing protocol that allows participants to access institutional-grade delta-neutral yields.

Bolstering the group’s crypto credentials, Solstice Labs AG also operates Solstice Staking AG, one of the most trusted infrastructure providers in the industry, securing over $1 billion in assets across 9,000+ validator nodes.

Users can learn more at https://solstice.finance.

About Membrane

Membrane is the leading global provider of custodian- and blockchain-agnostic credit infrastructure. Its patented technology supports end-to-end pre- and post-trade workflows, enabling institutions to discover, execute, settle, and manage loan, repo, and collateral lifecycles with confidence.

Users can learn more at https://membranelabs.com/.

About Cor Prime

Cor Prime is an institutional-grade digital asset credit platform designed to deploy funding using bank-style risk architecture. The firm provides collateralised credit through legally segregated, bankruptcy-remote structures, combining rigorous counterparty due diligence, continuous collateral monitoring, and predefined margining and liquidation processes. Backed by first-loss capital and operating under regulatory oversight, Cor Prime enables institutional investors to access yield in digital asset markets with a strong focus on capital preservation and risk control.

Users can learn more at https://corprime.com/.

BlockSec today announced the launch of Phalcon Compliance 3.1, an upgraded version of its blockchain compliance platform designed to support the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape across the Web3 and digital asset ecosystem. The release introduces a search-first compliance workflow that allows users to conduct KYT screening instantly, without requiring pre-payment, demo-driven onboarding, or account registration before users can run their first compliance checks. Phalcon Compliance 3.1 is aimed at exchanges, OTC desks, cross-border payment providers, compliance teams, and individual Web3 participants operating across multiple blockchain networks who require fast, scalable, and shareable risk intelligence.

Search-First Architecture for Faster KYT Screening

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 introduces a redesigned compliance workflow that lowers the initial barrier to on-chain risk screening (KYT/KYA) by allowing users to start screening immediately. In traditional compliance systems, KYT/KYA screening typically begins only after after registration, onboarding, and pre-sales processes, including booking demonstrations, completing KYB procedures, and finalizing commercial agreements. These steps can delay time-sensitive AML checks and counterparty verification in fast-moving on-chain environments.

With the new release, Phalcon Compliance adopts a Search-First Architecture that allows users to initiate scans directly from the product’s landing page. By entering a wallet address or transaction hash, users can immediately access compliance results without creating an account or completing onboarding, enabling faster access to compliance tools when speed is critical.

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 also introduces a unified Home Page that brings together multi-chain search, risk trend insights, screening history, and sample datasets in a single interface. Built-in sample data, including the Canadian alleged drug trafficker and former Olympic snowboarder Ryan James WEDDING, allows new users to explore platform capabilities before committing any data or setting up an account.

Lite Scan for Instant Risk Assessment

While the Search-First Architecture removes barriers to starting a scan, many real-world scenarios also require immediate access to risk conclusions without committing to a full subscription. For example, an exchange support team may need to quickly validate a withdrawal destination, or an individual user may want to check a recipient address before sending funds. In these cases, delays caused by subscription requirements can slow decision-making and increase operational risk.

To address this need, Phalcon Compliance 3.1 introduces Lite Scan Mode which enables users to view core risk screening results without subscribing to the full platform. Users can submit a wallet address or transaction hash and immediately access essential risk indicators, supporting rapid first-pass assessments.

The lite screening results include core risk labels, such as sanctions exposure, scam involvement, human trafficking, or mixer-related activity, alongside basic financial metrics and indicators of exposure to high-risk entities. By focusing on critical risk signals rather than full investigative detail, Lite Scan enables faster decision-making in scenarios where a complete investigation is not yet required.

Flexible Credit System and Expanded Payment Options

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 introduces a more flexible credit-based usage model aimed at organizations with fluctuating KYT screening volumes, as well as individuals and early-stage teams seeking predictable compliance costs. Rather than committing to fixed subscription tiers, users can purchase only the number of screening credits required at a given time, reducing unused capacity during low-activity periods while retaining the ability to scale screening activity during periods of higher demand.

The update also expands available payment options to accommodate users in different regions. Domestic users can now purchase credits through WeChat Pay, while international users have access to Cash App as an additional payment method. Existing options, including credit card and cryptocurrency payments, remain supported. According to BlockSec, the expanded payment support is intended to lower geographic and operational barriers for accessing professional blockchain compliance infrastructure.

Meeting Global Regulatory Expectations

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 expands the platform’s ability to support FATF-aligned Know Your Transaction (KYT) requirements and a wide range of regional regulatory obligations. The system maintains a database of more than 400 million labeled blockchain addresses and supports screening across major networks including Ethereum, Tron, BSC, Polygon, Base, and Optimism.

The platform’s millisecond-level API performance enables high-frequency, real-time screening workflows, while its integration with MetaSleuth, BlockSec’s crypto fund flow tracking and investigation platform, supports visual fund-flow analysis and investigative use cases. Phalcon Compliance 3.1 also enables one-click generation of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), aligning reporting workflows with international regulatory standards.

BlockSec reports that the Phalcon Compliance and MetaSleuth platform is currently used by more than 500 clients worldwide, including cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase and Bybit, as well as public-sector and regulatory organizations including the United Nations, the FBI, and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).

Referral Program Supporting Ecosystem Adoption

BlockSec has introduced a referral program alongside the Phalcon Compliance 3.1 release, aimed at lowering the cost of access to self-service AML compliance tools and encouraging broader ecosystem adoption. The program provides participants with three scanning credits for each new user.

In addition to scanning credits, the referral program includes a cashback component that offers up to 20% rewards on payments made by referred users. Cashback earnings become withdrawable once they reach 100 USD, with a lifetime cap of 10,000 USD per participant. According to BlockSec, the initiative is intended to support early-stage teams, independent practitioners, and smaller organizations as they begin or scale their compliance workflows.

Availability

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 is now available for all users.

Phalcon Compliance 3.1 Available Now – Ability to start screening in seconds

Referral Program – Earning rewards while sharing compliance tools

For inquiries concerning KYT workflows, DeFi compliance requirements or jurisdiction-specific regulations, users may contact the BlockSec team or consult the official documentation.

About us

BlockSec is a top blockchain security firm. It aims to boost security and compliance, which helps increase blockchain adoption. We blend academic knowledge with top industry solutions. This gives full, end-to-end protection for the ecosystem.

Co-founder of Standard Chartered’s tokenization platform launches GENIUS-compatible protocol addressing critical liquidity gap across $35 billion tokenized asset market, unlocking instant conversions between yielding Treasury funds, illiquid RWAs, and stablecoins

Uniform Labs, a blockchain infrastructure company founded by Standard Chartered and UniCredit veterans and digital banking executives, today announced that Multiliquid, its institutional liquidity protocol, is now live in production following comprehensive build, audit, and testing phases.

Multiliquid enables instant, 24/7 conversion between blue-chip tokenized money market funds and stablecoins, eliminating the days-long redemption delays and illiquidity that have made tokenized assets incompatible with institutional treasury operations.

The protocol currently supports integrations with leading tokenized Treasury assets issued or managed by Wellington Management and other leading asset managers, enabling 24/7 instant liquidity. Available stablecoins include USDC and USDT, with additional assets to follow.

The announcement comes as the GENIUS Act reshapes the economics of dollar-backed stablecoins by prohibiting issuers from paying interest or yield directly to holders. Yield-bearing stablecoin models now face tighter scrutiny, and U.S. bank lobby groups have warned that loopholes allowing affiliates to pay yield could put trillions in deposits at risk.

With hundreds of billions of dollars in stablecoins unable to earn yield directly, institutions are in need of compliant ways to pair regulated, yield-bearing assets with the 24/7 liquidity of stablecoins. Multiliquid is built specifically for this environment – stablecoins remain pure payment instruments, while yield comes from tokenized money market funds and other regulated real world assets (RWAs) connected via Multiliquid’s swap layer.

The protocol is also designed to fix the core weakness in today’s tokenization boom – illiquidity. While the tokenized RWA market has surged to more than $35 billion, non-Treasury assets, including private credit, private equity, real estate, and commodities, are still structurally illiquid, with redemptions tied to issuer-controlled windows rather than continuous secondary markets.

A November tokenization report from global regulator IOSCO notes that tokenized asset adoption remains limited and that efficiency gains are uneven because tokenized products still rely heavily on off-chain trading, settlement, and intermediary infrastructure. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recently warned in its bulletin that tokenized money market funds face a liquidity mismatch between on-chain and off-chain flows. The BIS believes the risk underscores how today’s tokenization boom could amplify stress if illiquidity persists.

Even for flagship tokenized Treasury funds like BlackRock’s BUIDL, redemptions have been constrained by traditional settlement cycles, in contrast to the promise offered by blockchains of 24/7 instant settlement.

Multiliquid is built to close this gap by allowing institutions to swap between tokenized money market funds or other blue-chip RWAs and stablecoins in a single atomic transaction, allowing portfolios to move at blockchain speed without waiting on issuer redemption cycles.

“The tokenization thesis only works if these assets are actually liquid,” said Will Beeson, founder and CEO of Uniform Labs, and previously co-founder of Standard Chartered’s tokenized asset platform.

“There’s essentially zero secondary liquidity for most tokenized assets, whether money market or private credit funds, with investors largely forced to wait for issuer-controlled redemption windows. Right now, most RWAs are just poorly wrapped versions of the same old assets. Multiliquid is the missing liquidity layer between tokenized assets and stablecoins, so that onchain capital markets can actually function in real time.”

Through Multiliquid, holders can access instant liquidity anytime. The protocol’s architecture supports tokenized money market funds, private credit, private equity, real estate, and other RWAs with the same instant settlement capability.

“For large asset owners, tokenization only becomes compelling when it fits cleanly into existing liquidity and treasury workflows,” said Mark Garabedian, Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization Strategy at Wellington Management. “Infrastructure that can reconcile regulated funds with always-on stablecoin rails is an important part of making tokenized portfolios practical at scale.”

Angelo D’Alessandro, COO of Uniform Labs and former CEO of UniCredit’s Buddybank, added: “For decades, institutional finance accepted that yield and liquidity don’t coexist. That was never a law of nature – just a limitation of the pipes. Multiliquid is new pipes, built to run finance at internet speed.”

Use cases span automated stablecoin sweeps, on-chain repos, instant RWA redemptions, on-chain treasury management, and collateral optimization for exchanges and trading platforms seeking to generate risk-free yield on stablecoin balances.

For more information, please visit: https://www.multiliquid.xyz/

0xcapital, an institutional digital-asset lending platform, announced today its expanded suite of crypto-backed credit solutions designed for hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, family offices, and high-net-worth investors.

0xcapital provides fully collateralized credit lines backed by Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins, enabling institutions to unlock liquidity without selling their digital assets.

As institutional demand for transparent, secure, and risk-controlled credit increases, 0xcapital is positioned as a trusted alternative in the evolving digital-asset lending landscape.

Institutional Risk Standards. Zero Rehypothecation.

0xcapital’s lending framework is built on conservative, fully collateralized principles:

• Secure, Segregated Custody: Digital asset collateral is held with institutional-grade custodians in segregated accounts.
• Transparent Risk Management: Borrowers benefit from clear LTV ratios, automated collateral monitoring, and predefined liquidation procedures.

Serving Global Institutional Borrowers

0xcapital supports clients across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, offering credit lines for:

• Market-neutral & arbitrage strategies
• OTC settlement liquidity
• Treasury optimization
• Leveraged directional positions with controlled risk
• Liquidity without triggering taxable events

Loan capacities range from $150,000+, depending on collateral and strategy.

About 0xcapital

0xcapital is an institutional crypto-backed lender headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands, providing secure and fully collateralized credit solutions for hedge funds, trading firms, market makers, family offices, and HNWIs.

With a focus on transparency, segregated custody, and disciplined risk management, 0xcapital offers institutional-grade liquidity backed by Bitcoin, Ethereum, SOL.

Raise debuts the first fully programmable on-chain gift card ahead of the holiday season, now live on mainnet on Solana’s high-speed blockchain; $RAISE token expected in H1 2026

Raise Network, a pioneer in digital payments and loyalty, today announced it has selected Solana as the infrastructure partner for its SmartCard technology—programmable, secure, and interoperable digital gift cards designed to bring brand value on-chain. The strategic partnership reflects a shared vision for scaling, real-world applications on blockchain technology, and accelerating SmartCard development with support from the Solana Foundation.

With SmartCards now live on Mainnet on Solana, Raise is delivering the first fully programmable gift card on-chain, unlocking new possibilities for incentives, loyalty rewards, and multi-brand value, all while giving consumers access to millions of stores worldwide. Consumers will be able to deposit crypto and seamlessly swap it for a SmartCard, allowing them to spend it at nearly any retailer, thereby creating a direct bridge between digital assets and global commerce.

Early components of the Raise One platform are releasing alongside this launch, marking the beginning of an expanded suite of products rolling out through 2026. As part of this roadmap, the $RAISE token is expected in the first half of 2026 to support the Raise Network ecosystem as it scales its on-chain loyalty and payments infrastructure.

“We’ve been building toward this moment for years. Choosing a blockchain wasn’t just about throughput or fees—it was about finding a partner that aligned with our vision of bringing a trillion-dollar industry on-chain in a way that’s scalable, secure, and actually usable by consumers and brands,” said George Bousis, Founder and CEO of Raise. “In many ways, gift cards were the first stablecoin–trusted, transferable, and tied to real value. By bringing gift cards on-chain, we’re unlocking their full potential for the digital economy and reshaping what loyalty and payments can look like for the long term.”

Solana’s high-speed, low-latency Layer 1 network provides the foundation to make this vision possible, enabling programmable features at scale without sacrificing cost or performance. Its developer ecosystem and proven resilience make it uniquely suited to support Raise’s mission. From retail rewards to everyday spending, Raise’s SmartCards demonstrate how Solana can support applications that meet real consumer demand.

“Raise is turning gift cards – a trillion-dollar consumer staple – into programmable money,” added Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation. Solana delivers the global scale, speed, and low cost to make this work for everyday spend. The result is new retail experiences and one unified rail for loyalty, rewards, and payments.”

This launch comes just ahead of the holiday season, when gift cards are the most popular gift and generate over a trillion in sales each year. By eliminating common pain points such as fraud, security risks, and limited flexibility, Raise is introducing a programmable alternative that provides consumers and retailers with greater confidence and more ways to utilize gift cards. To date, Raise has facilitated more than $5 billion in gift card transactions and works with millions of stores worldwide.
To learn more, visit www.raise.com

About Raise

Raise, a renowned pioneer in the gift card industry, has been at the forefront of innovation since its inception in 2013. The company has facilitated over $5 billion in transactions through its Raise consumer app, exchange (GCX), and B2B (Raise for Business) operations. With millions of stores and brand partnerships, Raise offers activation and real-time redemption capabilities across a network of over one million stores, websites, and applications. For more information, please visit https://www.raise.com/.

About Solana

Solana is a blockchain built for mass adoption. It’s a high performance network that is utilized for a range of use cases, including finance, NFTs, payments, and gaming. Solana operates as a single global state machine, and is open, interoperable and decentralized. For more information, please visit https://solana.com.

About Solana Foundation

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network. For more information, please visit https://solana.org/.

1inch, the leading DeFi ecosystem, has been selected as the exclusive swap provider at launch for Ledger Multisig, deepening the collaboration between the two projects. By integrating the 1inch Swap API into its security-first multisig architecture, Ledger, the world leader in digital asset security for consumers and enterprises, enables secure, seamless treasury swaps with full clear signing. This is a major leap forward in the security of on-chain treasuries.

Blind signing has long been a structural weakness in on-chain treasury management, where DAOs, funds, enterprises, and DeFi teams are often required to take unnecessary risk, when approving transactions. The combination of Ledger Multisig and the 1inch Swap API, overcomes this issue, allowing every swap to be reviewed in clear, human-readable form, bringing execution into the light and aligning it with established standards for governance and asset transfers.

Through this integration, there is no need for blind signing, thanks to structured, readable data via EIP-712. Users can review full transaction details on-device. 1inch’s Swap API provides Ledger Multisig users with verifiable swap routes, deep liquidity aggregation for competitive pricing, support for safe-compatible trades across multiple chains, and MEV-resistant execution paths.

Ledger is once again setting a new benchmark for security, this time for treasury operations. By pairing hardware-level assurance with a trusted execution layer, Ledger Multisig eliminates a major security blind spot in DeFi. Organizations can now manage assets, rebalance treasuries, and interact with DeFi with clarity, confidence, and uncompromising security.

In addition to bringing swaps to Ledger Multisig, 1inch is also adopting the signing technology to elevate its own security across its own treasury workflows. By utilizing Ledger Multisig, 1inch is creating and setting the standard for secure and seamless operations.

“For the DeFi industry to mature, we must create self-custody tools that are both safer and simpler. This is something that both, 1inch and Ledger are focused on solving. Treasury management is just another area of crypto that through our collaboration, we have made feel effortless, without compromising on security,” said Sergej Kunz, 1inch co-founder. “Ledger Multisig is the easy solution for businesses moving money on-chain that want to use Ledger’s uncompromising security,” said Sebastien Badault, EVP of Enterprise at Ledger. “1inch has been a strong supporter of Ledger and understands the value of security. 1inch was early to support Clear Signing, direct connectivity with Ledger signers, and we’re delighted to have 1inch as the exclusive Swap provider at launch for Ledger Multisig.”

About 1inch

1inch accelerates decentralized finance with a seamless crypto trading experience for 26M users. Beyond being the top platform for low-cost, efficient token swaps with $500M+ in daily trades, 1inch offers a range of innovative tools, including a secure self-custodial wallet, a portfolio tracker for managing digital assets, a dedicated business portal giving access to its cutting-edge technology, and even a debit card for easy crypto spending. By continuously innovating, 1inch is simplifying DeFi for everyone.

About Ledger

Celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2024, Ledger is the world leader in Digital Asset security for consumers and enterprises. Ledger offers connected devices and platforms, with more than 8M devices sold to consumers in 165+ countries and 10+ languages, 100+ financial institutions and commercial brands. Over 20% of the world’s crypto assets are secured by Ledger.

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Built on FastSet, OmniSet unifies fragmented liquidity across chains into a single verifiable layer, enabling instant, bridge-free movement of assets.

Pi Squared, the company behind FastSet, the fastest decentralized network for instant payments, today unveiled OmniSet, a universal liquidity and settlement layer designed to connect fragmented liquidity across blockchains into a single verifiable environment.

OmniSet is intended to address one of Web3’s longstanding issues: capital fragmentation across siloed chains, requiring bridges, wrapped assets, and slow or risky transfer flows. Instead of treating each network as a separate liquidity venue, OmniSet works as a minimal, secure building block enabling FastSet to orchestrate multi-chain capital safely.

The problem: Liquidity trapped in islands

While DeFi has expanded across dozens of chains, liquidity has not followed in a unified way. Assets often remain isolated within individual ecosystems, and moving them across chains typically requires bridges that introduce latency, operational overhead, and security risks. Without OmniSet all advanced DeFi users, including VCs, DAOs, whales, and AI agents, have to run their own internal brokering via CEXes, bridges, and thus suffer operational overhead just because they have sophisticated strategies.

Pi Squared positions OmniSet as a shared liquidity and settlement fabric that can orchestrate capital across multiple blockchains, while remaining decentralized, fast, and verifiable through parallel settlement.

What OmniSet does

OmniSet functions as a universal liquidity and settlement layer that sits on top of FastSet. When users deposit assets on a blockchain, OmniSet mints a corresponding representation on FastSet. This representation can be used within applications or withdrawn onto another supported chain, with cryptographic proofs guaranteeing correctness.

Because OmniSet is built on FastSet, it inherits FastSet’s performance profile, including sub-100ms finality, high throughput (150,000+ TPS), and verifiability grounded in Pi Squared’s formal verification background. The architecture allows for scalable, parallelized settlement without requiring bridges or additional trust assumptions.

“OmniSet does for cross-chain liquidity what FastSet does for settlement,” said Grigore Roșu, Founder and CEO of Pi Squared. “It turns a mess of isolated pools into one coherent, verifiable layer. Liquidity becomes portable, execution becomes faster, and the underlying complexity disappears for users and apps.”

How it changes cross-chain liquidity

With OmniSet, chains stop competing as isolated venues for capital and instead plug into a shared liquidity fabric.

That unlocks:

Unified liquidity for DeFi
Protocols can tap into a larger effective pool of assets, regardless of where users originally hold them. Capital no longer has to “choose a chain” to be useful.

Frictionless movement
Deposits, transfers, and withdrawals are orchestrated through FastSet’s parallel settlement, rather than slow bridging flows.

Better UX for humans and agents alike
Traders, protocols, and AI agents can treat multiple chains as a single environment for value movement and settlement.

OmniSet also serves as the foundation for OmniSwap, Pi Squared’s upcoming cross-chain DEX aggregator. OmniSwap will route trades across DEXs and chains while settling through OmniSet’s unified liquidity layer.

Built for the next wave: DeFi, institutions, and agents

Pi Squared sees OmniSet as infrastructure for the next stage of the ecosystem, supporting low-latency liquidity movement for DeFi applications, institutions seeking auditability and clear settlement guarantees, and AI agents executing high-frequency transactions across multiple networks.

About Pi Squared

Pi Squared is delivering on Web3’s promise of instant, trustless payments with its FastSet network. As billions of transactions move to decentralized infrastructure, from stablecoin settlements to AI agentic payments, blockchain architecture simply won’t scale. What’s needed is a new paradigm: verifiable, parallel settlement. Unlike blockchains that rely on total ordering, FastSet settles transactions in parallel, delivering theoretically uncapped throughput, sub-100ms finality, and real-time verifiability. To learn more, visit: https://pi2.network/.