Binance invests US$100 million in Circle. The equity investment expands the joint partnership, which will see USDC promoted across the Binance platform, primarily in emerging markets digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Marex partners with Bullish. Marex will leverage connectivity to Bullish across spot, options, perpetuals, and dated futures, arranging trades through both electronic and voice execution digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

IBM expands institutional digital banking infrastructure. Clients using IBM Digital Asset Haven will be able to connect to permissioned blockchain networks, including Swift’s ledger, and the offering now has an on-premises beta deployment... digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

KB Securities, Securitize, and Optimism sign MoU. The Memorandum of Understanding outlines plans to explore the development and distribution of tokenised securities for South Korean institutional investors, starting with tokenised funds digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Bitget partners with Sygnum for off-exchange custody. The milestone represents the latest proof-point that bank-operated, off-exchange custody has transitioned from a specialist safeguard to default market infrastructure, the firms say digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Hana Bank issues DNN through Euroclear. The US$100 million digitally native note transaction occurred on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure, supported by Standard Chartered and Citi digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

AllUnity expands onchain liquidity for CHFAU. The Swiss franc-backed stablecoin will benefit from new liquidity pools on Base’s Aerodrome and Raydium on Solana, supported by Flowdesk’s institutional liquidity and market-making capabilities digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

ACI Worldwide adds intelligent routing to payments hub. The capability will support Swift ledger transactions for ACI Connetic, designed to eliminate the need for separate digital asset payment operations through unified digital asset and... digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Apex Group appoints Ouaknine. Jørgen Ouaknine joins the firm as global head of Digital Markets Infrastructure & Wealth Distribution, where he will focus on expansion of relationships across multiple sectors digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Thredd partners with Velocity to expand payments offering. Thredd’s payments will now include B2B and B2B2B stablecoin money movement capabilities, with Velocity providing wallet infrastructure, connectivity to onchain rails, and the... digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Staveley joins Ctrl Alt board. Amanda Staveley, founder and CEO of PCP Capital Partners — which led the 2008 recapitalisation of Barclays and the 2021 Newcastle United takeover — has joined Ctrl Alt’s board, acting as a strategic adviser digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

ClearToken receives BoE approval for digital securities depository. The DSD will operate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox, allowing ClearToken to issue and settle tokenised versions of existing securities digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

ECB begins preparatory work for investments in tokenised securities. The European Central Bank hopes to gain first-hand experience throughout the whole investment lifecycle, including trade execution, settlement, systems, and portfolio... digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Hou joins Kinexys by J.P. Morgan. Lomi Hou joins Kinexys following almost three years at digital transformation firm GFT Technologies, and will serve as vice president, market and product expansion manager digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Eurosystem launches Pontes. According to the Eurosystem, Pontes is the first initiative in its strategic programme to make central bank money “fit for a tokenised future” digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Bastion receives preliminary OCC approval. Bastion Platforms National Trust Company will offer custody, wallets, payment infrastructure, and white-label issuance — including minting, redemption, and conversion between stablecoins and fiat... digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Curtoni to head digital assets in Europe at Citi. Michele Curtoni has left SIX Digital Assets after five years to join Citi, where his remit spans digital assets, tokenisations, and commercialisation services digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Caceis becomes Crédit Agricole Caceis. According to the firm, this marks a decisive step in the group's strategic trajectory towards Crédit Agricole S.A.’s ACT 2028 medium-term plan digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Galaxy expands vault curation offering. The extension, available through Kamino, adds a Galaxy USDC Vault and a Galaxy USDT Vault, bringing the risk framework to Solana digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets

Circle launches Arc. The open Layer 1 blockchain has native integration into Circle’s full-stack platform, support from a range of validators, and over 100 applications and institutional and ecosystem builders digitalassetsedge.com/digita… #DigitalAssets