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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Persona has partnered with Chainlink, the industry standard oracle platform, to power compliant on-chain identity via the Chainlink Automated Compliance Engine (ACE). As a core component of Chainlink ACE, the Cross-Chain Identity (CCID) framework helps enable institutions to verify users once with Persona and reuse those credentials across blockchains, protocols, and asset managers without re-running KYC or exposing sensitive data on-chain. Institutions moving ca...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kraken, one of the world’s longest-standing, most secure and most liquid crypto platforms, and MoneyGram, one of the world’s leading global payments networks, today announced a new strategic global partnership. Through this partnership, millions of Kraken customers will be able to withdraw crypto as cash in hundreds of fiat currencies, spanning more than 100 countries worldwide using MoneyGram’s extensive global cash pickup network. Where crypto meets c...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stablecore, the platform enabling community and regional banks to offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products, today announced its official endorsement from Tennessee Bankers Association, the trade association established to serve the needs of the state’s banks, thrift institutions, and trust companies. As an endorsed partner, Stablecore will serve as the preferred digital asset technology provider for the Association which has 175 member institutio...

BOSTON & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY), today announced the launch of the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), a tokenized private liquidity fund designed to enable 24/7 onchain cash management via stablecoin, subject to availability of stablecoin in the fund’s portfolio. The launch represents a milestone in State Street’s digital strategy to offer investment solu...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenWorld Ltd. ("OpenWorld"), a blockchain innovation company advancing real-world asset (RWA) tokenization globally, and Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. ("Figure") (NASDAQ: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS) today announced an agreement to tokenize OpenWorld's equity securities in connection with its proposed NASDAQ listing on Figure’s Onchain Public Equity Network (OPEN). The agreement marks a meaningful step in OpenWorld's tokenization strategy. Additionally, OpenWorld plans to u...

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgo is expanding into the United States. This expansion is enabled by Balance through its regulated trading and custody platform Balance USA....

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenWorld Ltd. ("OpenWorld"), a blockchain innovation company advancing real-world asset (RWA) tokenization globally, and Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. ("Figure") (NASDAQ: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS) today announced an agreement to tokenize OpenWorld's equity securities in connection with its proposed NASDAQ listing on Figure’s Onchain Public Equity Network (OPEN). The agreement marks a meaningful step in OpenWorld's tokenization strategy. Additionally, OpenWorld plans to u...

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tetra Trust Company, via its agent CAD Digital Inc., today announced that CADD, a payment stablecoin backed 1:1 by Canadian dollars, has received regulatory approval from Alberta Treasury Board and Finance. This marks a national first for digital asset infrastructure in Canada by enabling Canadian dollars to move on blockchain rails under a financial services regulatory framework. CADD is now live on Base, Ethereum, and Tempo, and will soon be live on Solana....

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Liberty Financial today filed a defamation lawsuit against Yuchen “Justin” Sun in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Florida. The lawsuit alleges that Sun engaged in a deliberate campaign to publish false and defamatory statements about World Liberty and seeks both damages and a public retraction of the statements Sun published to his nearly four million followers on X. The lawsuit alleges that Sun engaged in prohibited transfers, straw purc...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Union (NYSE: WU) today announced the launch of USDPT, its U.S. dollar‑denominated payment stablecoin, marking a major milestone in the company’s evolution toward regulated, digital‑first financial infrastructure. Fully backed by U.S. dollars and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally regulated crypto bank in the United States, and built on Solana, USDPT is designed to operate within real‑world payment systems, combining blockchain‑based settl...