Plena Smart Wallet, which is one of the first self-custodial wallets to support Account Abstraction is thrilled to unveil its hotly anticipated referral program that offers rewards worth up to $1,000,000 in $Plena tokens. The program aims to incentivize users to invite their friends and family to join the platform while offering them a chance to earn some significant rewards.

The crypto markets have been recovering over the last two months after a 14-month downtrend, which eliminated many projects launched at the end of the previous bull run. While other projects failed to fundraise or wasted investor money, Acta Finance has been developing its ecosystem minimum viable product (MVP) and recently started marketing its products on the Avalanche testnet.

GMO-Z.com Trust Company, Inc. ("GMO Trust") has partnered with Komainu, a regulated digital asset custody service provider built by institutions for institutions, to offer secure and compliant institutional-grade custody services for GYEN and ZUSD, the regulated Japanese yen ("JPY") stablecoin and the U.S. Dollar ("USD") stablecoin.

MaskEX, a rapidly expanding third-generation crypto exchange, headquartered in Dubai, has announced the launch of its crypto-backed Virtual Card, enabling users to spend their crypto as fiat in more than 176 countries with over 50 million merchants worldwide. This new feature is now available to all ID-verified MaskEX users.

Today, Chainlink Price Feeds are live on Base testnet, a new Ethereum L2 incubated by Coinbase. Base aims to offer developers a secure, low-cost way to easily build decentralized applications. With this integration, developers building on Base can have access to industry-standard Chainlink Data Feeds and other web3 services.

Xapo Bank, a leading Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank, has partnered with Lightspark and integrated with the Lightning Network to enable lightning-fast Bitcoin payments for its customers. Xapo Bank members can now instantly pay for small purchases of up to $100 USD at any vendor which accepts Lightning payments without suffering high transaction fees and long blockchain confirmation waiting times.

Spike has been making headlines recently after completing its seed funding round in January and launching its Spike integrated development environment (IDE) and Spike Engine. This operating system (OS) aims to solve the long-standing issues of Web3 apps by improving interoperability and composability.

ThirdFi announces Web3 infrastructure launch to onboard 1 Billion people in the next 10 years. Built to scale decentralized finance (DeFi), ThirdFi emphasizes interoperability and middleware solutions with developer-friendly tools and all-in-1 API. ThirdFi focuses on building the 'picks and shovels' to enable more developers, fintech, and financial institutions to build on web3.

Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure developer Function X is excited to announce it will be launching the most easy-to-use hardware wallet card at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) set to take place in Barcelona, Spain, from February 27 to March 2.

Aegis Custody, a digital asset custodian offering regulatory compliant solutions and custody services for digital assets and Web3 on-chain transactions, announced today the release of its proprietary MPC based custody platform, Aegis Vault. It has been designed and optimized to provide industry-leading security for its customers as a two-directional custodial solution and regulatory gateway connecting clients to Web3 services, and offers transaction speeds of just 1-2 hours from cold storage, compared to the 48 hours provided by industry players.