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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC), today announced that UpsideOnly, its risk-free trading and market prediction platform, has seen a surge in new user sign-ups, surpassing the important milestone of 100,000 traders within weeks of its launch on May 19. UpsideOnly lets users make predictions about where global equity, commodity, forex, and crypto markets are heading without ever placing a real trade themselves. Perpetuals uses its own capital to trade on the strong...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC) today reported strong early results for its breakout UpsideOnly trading and market prediction platform and announced an agreement with Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) to list tokenized real-world commodity assets on the Perpetuals platform. In its first two weeks, traders flocked to the UpsideOnly platform, attracting more than 30,000 active users, generating $4.5 billion in cumulative platform volume across 186,000 fills and 25...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Modern Treasury today announced an integration on Polygon to support USDC. The integration will help more businesses move between Polygon and the U.S. financial system without managing separate systems for fiat and stablecoins. Polygon has emerged as a leading blockchain for payments, with over $2.4 trillion transferred on the network to date. Live for five years with 99.999% uptime and millions of users, Polygon offers the performance and reliability required fo...

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the landmark announcement by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) regarding its plans to launch a blockchain-based platform for 24/7 trading of tokenized securities, BEX Mauritius Block Exchange (BEX), the world’s first regulated 24/7 direct-access security token exchange, has issued a statement welcoming the "Goliath" of Wall Street to the digital frontier. The NYSE’s recent move signals a fundamental shift in global capital markets, confirming t...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ant Group today announced the release of Ling-2.5-1T, its newest trillion-parameter large language model, and Ring-2.5-1T, the world’s first hybrid linear-architecture thinking model. Both models represent the latest evolution of the Ling 2.0 series unveiled in October 2025, and are now available under open licenses on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Ling-2.5-1T is the latest flagship in Ant Group’s Ling model series. It is designed to deliver higher reasoning eff...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens: Understanding new Technologies and the Relevant Law Training Course (May 20, 2026)" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Blockchain is a new technology that could potentially have major impacts in a wide range of industries. It has the potential to dramatically change how business is conducted - but there is no one central authority controlling blockchain, everyone has access to the same information. Are...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Crypto Payment Gateways - Global Strategic Business Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global market for Crypto Payment Gateways was valued at US$1.5 Billion in 2024 and is projected to reach US$3.5 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 15.6% from 2024 to 2030. This comprehensive report provides an in-depth analysis of market trends, drivers, and forecasts, helping you make informed business decisions. The growth in the crypto payment...

CHEYENNE, Wyo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kraken today announced a major expansion of its strategic partnership with Alpaca that will accelerate the global adoption of xStocks outside of the United States. xStocks is the gold standard for fully collateralized tokenized equities and one of the fastest-growing tokenization products in the industry. Under the expanded agreement, Alpaca will become Kraken’s preferred venue for sourcing and custodying the underlying equities that back xStocks on a 1:1 basis....

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumera Protocol, the AI-first Layer-1 blockchain evolved from Pastel Network, today announced the rollout of the Lumera Hub, a dedicated user and developer interface that serves as the gateway to the Lumera ecosystem. Following Lumera’s mainnet debut, the Hub introduces a streamlined and powerful way for users to access, deploy, and build on Lumera’s decentralized AI and data infrastructure. Through the Lumera Hub, users can store data permanently with Cascade, run an...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (“Bakkt” or the “Company”) (NYSE: BKKT) today announced the appointment of Mike Alfred to its Board of Directors. This addition strengthens Bakkt’s governance and positions the Company to capitalize on the generational transformation in global financial infrastructure – redefining what money is, how it moves, and how markets trade and operate. “We’re doubling down on our mission to build next-generation financial infrastructure by bringing world-c...