SaintQuant, an Australian tech company based in Cairns, has launched its AI-powered crypto trading bot platform aimed at the cryptocurrency market. The platform uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning models to handle trading automatically, without needing constant human oversight. It scans real-time market data and executes trades across major crypto exchanges.

The convergence of traditional finance ("TradFi") and decentralized finance ("DeFi") is moving from concept to implementation, as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization begins to establish a new foundation for global capital markets.

Soter Insure, a provider of institutional-grade insurance for the digital asset economy, today announced the launch of the world's first Ethereum-denominated slashing insurance product. Developed in collaboration with Galaxy Digital, this innovative policy provides a critical safety net for Ethereum validators and institutional stakers.

The wealth and trust industry is at an inflection point. Rising client expectations, growing regulatory complexity, and increasing operational demands are pushing banks, wealth management firms, and trust organizations to seek smarter, more efficient ways to operate. For firms that manage sensitive financial data and high-stakes client relationships, the pressure to modernize, without sacrificing security or governance, has...

Rain, the decentralized prediction markets protocol, announces the launch of its AI agent-ready SDK and a $5 million grant program to support developers and creators worldwide in building, launching, and monetizing their own independent prediction market platforms. Open to builders and creators globally, the initiative aims to accelerate the growth of decentralized prediction markets by giving builders access to the funding and...

Orbs today announced the launch of Orbs Agentic, a dedicated execution layer designed to power autonomous DeFi agents with secure, verifiable onchain trading infrastructure. Built on Orbs' existing Layer-3 blockchain architecture, Agentic introduces cosigned oracle verification to help ensure agent-initiated transactions meet predefined execution constraints before being broadcast onchain.

Ironlight Group, Inc. ("Ironlight"), a financial technology company developing infrastructure for tokenized securities, today announced the close of its $21 million Series A financing.

Velotrade, founded by former institutional derivatives traders from JP Morgan, Dresdner Kleinwort, and Bank of America, today announced the launch of its crypto funded trading platform. The firm offers traders the opportunity to operate a prop trading account without risking their own capital. The account sizes range from $5,000 to $200,000, with considerable profit splits.

SEMIFIVE, a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor (ASIC) solutions, announced today that it has signed a turnkey design contract worth KRW 18 billion (approximately USD 12.5 million) with an AI semiconductor fabless company. This contract marks a follow-on project with the customer and covers the development of a high-performance AI NPU based on Samsung Foundry's advanced 4nm (SF4X) process technology.

Databricks, the Data and AI company, today launched Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent that fundamentally changes how data work gets done. Genie Code can carry out complex tasks such as building pipelines, debugging failures, shipping dashboards, and maintaining production systems. On real-world data science tasks, Databricks found Genie Code more than doubled the success rate of leading coding agents.