Digital Assets

HONG KONG – November 04, 2026 -- HashKey Capital and Nasdaq-listed AMBR (Amber International Holding Limited) have formed a strategic partnership to test AI agents across investment research, operational automation and institutional client services. It is the first major partnership AMBR has announced since its business transformation.

AMBR Founder and CEO Michael Wu and HashKey Capital CEO Deng Chao unveiled the deal on stage at the reception Capital Next: Allocation, Reimagined during Hong Kong FinTech Week.

Partners target multi-step task execution in high-velocity markets

The companies plan to explore how task-oriented AI agent architectures can fit core financial workflows. They describe the goal as deep operational integration, with agents executing complex, multi-step tasks rather than serving as an information overlay.

HONG KONG – October 30, 2026 -- Nasdaq-listed TROOPS, Inc. (TROO) has signed a term sheet with Young Platform S.p.A. to license a proprietary digital asset exchange platform, a deal that becomes binding on November 1, 2026.

License would cover source code, matching engine and wallet systems

The term sheet sets the principal terms for a future license agreement. TROOPS expects access to Young Platform's source code, matching engine technology, wallet management systems, administrative tools, technical documentation and deployment support. The company says these assets will shorten development timelines for its planned exchange.

The two companies also plan to collaborate on configuration, integration, deployment and future development of the platform. TROOPS intends to launch and operate the exchange together with EFFORCE Group.

Leuven – October 29, 2026 -- SettleMint has integrated its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) with IBM Digital Asset Haven, giving financial institutions, governments and other regulated organizations a single environment for tokenized asset issuance, custody and transaction controls. The integration is available now.

DALP and IBM Digital Asset Haven split policy, custody and approval duties

IBM Digital Asset Haven supplies wallet and key management, transaction approvals and governance. SettleMint's DALP applies asset-eligibility and transfer rules. Together they define who sets policy, who approves activity and who resolves exceptions.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Talos, the institutional technology and data provider for digital asset trading and portfolio management, has hired Kelly Ye as Head of Research, putting a dedicated leader over a research program that follows liquidity, market structure and onchain finance.

Ye brings nearly two decades of finance experience, including 14 years in traditional markets

Ye will be based in New York. She held investment leadership roles in digital assets at Avenir Group and Decentral Park Capital. She also held research and product leadership roles at Fidelity Digital Asset Management and CoinDesk Indices. Most recently, she was building Coinbridge, a company focused on bridging the capital gap for tokenized real-world assets.

Ye holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Peking University and a master's degree in Operations Research from MIT. She is a CFA charterholder.

New York – October 29, 2026 -- Ibis, an onchain credit platform, has emerged from stealth with a $250 million credit facility from FalconX, giving eligible crypto trading firms institutional credit capacity from launch. The company also closed its pre-seed round, led by FalconX alongside investors and executives from digital assets, institutional credit, capital markets and financial infrastructure.

FalconX facility anchors Ibis launch for crypto trading firms

Ibis originates, tokenizes, risk-manages and services structured credit facilities. It connects institutional capital providers with companies seeking new sources of scalable credit. The company says traditional lending infrastructure is often not designed for emerging industries with complex risk profiles and rapidly evolving collateral.

Toronto – October 28, 2026 -- The Ontario Securities Commission has issued a receipt for CADC Reserve Trust's final prospectus dated October 22, 2026, qualifying a continuous offering of a Canadian dollar-referenced stablecoin in every Canadian province and territory at a fixed price of C$1.00 per token.

CADC Reserve Trust sells tokens through Authorized Participants

The issuer distributes CADC Tokens, which reference the Canadian dollar on a one-for-one basis, through a network of Authorized Participants. These may include registered crypto trading platforms, Canadian financial institutions and platforms that hold exemptive relief to trade stablecoins on a non-custodial basis. Participation is subject to the eligibility requirements in the prospectus and the applicable exemptive relief. Loon Payments Inc. is the servicer and administrator of the issuer.

New York – October 21, 2026 -- MoonPay, a crypto payments and stablecoin infrastructure company, is pursuing a strategic collaboration with Dunamu to build global financial infrastructure on digital assets, with stablecoin payments, corporate treasury management and Dunamu's GIWA blockchain as the three focus areas.

MoonPay and Dunamu target stablecoin cross-border payments and fund transfers

The two companies will jointly identify business opportunities in stablecoin-based global payments and fund movement. Drawing on both companies' technology and infrastructure, they will review cases in which digital assets can be used for cross-border payments and fund transfers. They will also examine the business potential of new financial service models.

Hamilton – October 19, 2026 -- 24X Bermuda Limited has completed its second consecutive spot cryptocurrency client trade, a Bitcoin (BTC) transaction in which Standard Chartered acted as liquidity taker and Wintermute as liquidity provider.

The trade was executed on 24X's institutional multi-asset platform under its partnership with Standard Chartered, which the source describes as a global systemically important bank (G-SIB). 24X says it is one of a select few global venues offering both crypto spot and FX trading on a single, unified technology infrastructure.

Cumberland DRW provided liquidity on 24X's first spot crypto trade

The BTC transaction follows 24X's inaugural spot crypto trade, in which Cumberland DRW was liquidity provider. 24X says the two trades mark continued development of regulated, institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset markets.

Monett, Mo. – – October 16, 2026 -- Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) will become the first core banking technology provider to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), giving banks and credit unions a route to offer tokenized deposits.

GCUL is a fully managed, distributed ledger service. Financial institutions use it to tokenize and transfer money and assets on a shared, real-time record with programmable, 24/7 settlement.

Community lenders face growing pressure from large banks and fintechs

Jack Henry says consumer and business expectations are shifting toward real-time, programmable financial experiences. Community and regional institutions face growing competition from large banks and fintech providers. The company says tokenized deposit infrastructure inside its ecosystem lets these institutions explore new transactional use cases and enhance digital experiences.

Singapore – October 15, 2026 -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) mined 44 bitcoin in September 2026, lifting its treasury to 1,875 BTC at month-end, while its 8 MW Nordic district heating project became fully operational.

The company's non-JV installed hashrate held steady at 10 EH/s despite rising network difficulty. Its joint venture operations reported installed hashrate of 4.87 EH/s and operating hashrate of 4.18 EH/s at month-end. The JV represents Canaan's 49% stake in the Alborz, Bear and Chief Mountain facilities in West Texas, and its metrics are excluded from bitcoin production and average all-in power cost calculations. Canaan has paused mining in Ethiopia, though that hashrate remains part of installed hashrate.