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London, United Kingdom, May 13th, 2026, Chainwire Following the successful completion of its private testing phase, BASIS is now officially live, with the platform publicly accessible at basis.pro as the company moves to address what industry participants increasingly describe as a structural gap in digital asset infrastructure. The platform, developed with engineering support from Base58 Labs, has been tested under live market conditions with a select group of institutional participants. While reported metrics included sub-50 microsecond p99 execution latency, throughput exceeding 100,000 operations per second, and 100% uptime, the evaluation extended beyond peak performance benchmarks. Testing was designed to observe…

Zurich, Switzerland, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire The fintech project SNC Scandic Coin (SNC) was launched by the global Scandic Finance Group (SFG). In an interview with the Neue Zürcher Nachrichten, Uwe Sellmer, a specialist in the financial sector, explained how the SNC token differs from speculative cryptocurrencies: it will serve as a regulated payment, access and loyalty instrument integrated into the SFG Group’s services, rather than merely being an object of speculation. Specifically, users within the network can pay for media apps, private jet flights, yachts, cars, AI products and domains, amongst other things, and benefit from loyalty programmes. This…

Zug, Switzerland, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire As part of a broader initiative to expand access to essential banking infrastructure across Africa, Cantor8 has revealed plans to bring leading mobile money systems such as M-PESA and EVC Plus onchain via Yiksi Limited. Cantor8 has secured exclusive MOUs with Yiksi Limited, outlining plans to bring leading mobile money systems onchain and enable direct digital money services-to-crypto conversion via blockchain rails. Through its partnership with Taran App, a leading African fintech platform, and Yiksi, Taran App’s cryptocurrency exchange, Cantor8 will leverage Taran App’s infrastructure to bring two of Africa’s most widely used forms…

Monad is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain that introduces parallel execution to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem. Launched in late 2025, it aims to solve the “sequential bottleneck” that slows down traditional blockchains, allowing for up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining full compatibility with all existing Ethereum applications and tools. Solving the Sequential Bottleneck Most established blockchains, including Ethereum and its many Layer 2s, process transactions one by one. If you send a payment at the same time someone else swaps a token, the network handles them in a single line. This is “sequential execution,” and…

Zug, Switzerland, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire Bitcoin Suisse (International) Ltd., an affiliate of the Bitcoin Suisse Group, has received a Class F license under Bermuda’s Digital Asset Business Act and Class B registration approval under the Investment Business Act from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, authorising regulated digital asset management and investment advisory services for professional and institutional clients. The Bitcoin Suisse Group today announced that its affiliate Bitcoin Suisse (International) Ltd. has obtained a Class F digital asset business license under Bermuda’s Digital Asset Business Act and Class B registration under the Investment Business Act 2003 from the Bermuda Monetary…

ZUG, SWITZERLAND, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire Nine protocol initiatives that target EVM compatibility, gasless transactions, compliant security tokens, transaction privacy, AI agent micropayments, and quantum-safe cryptography The Casper Association today published the Casper Manifest, a multi-year technical roadmap designed to make Casper Network the infrastructure layer for regulated real-world asset tokenization and the emerging machine-to-machine economy. The Manifest was introduced by Casper Association President & CTO Michael Steuer at the Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda, before an audience of leaders from Web3, traditional finance, and institutional finance. Building on major protocol releases delivered since mid-2025, including Casper 2.0 with deterministic…

Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to its latest Securities and Exchange Commission filing.The bank said it raised its holdings in Ether (ETH) ETFs, including BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) and the Bitwise Ethereum ETF (ETHW), according to its latest Form 13F filing released on Monday.ETHA rose 63.5% from about 672,600 shares in Q4 2025 to roughly 1.1 million shares in Q1 2026, while ETHW increased by 37% from about 186,800 to more than 257,000 shares, showing a broad-based increase across Ether-linked…

Dubai, UAE, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire NEXST, the AI-driven entertainment infrastructure building the next generation of immersive fan engagement, today announced that its native token, $NXT, will begin trading globally on May 12, 2026 across major crypto trading platforms, including OKX Boost, KuCoin, MEXC, and LBank. The $NXT TGE will mark the launch of the core utility asset powering the NEXST AI Entertainment ecosystem and its on-chain fan economy. By integrating immersive VR experiences featuring Tier-1 artists, Japanese idol IP-based social gaming, and AI-powered social platforms, NEXST is bringing the multi-trillion-dollar entertainment economy on-chain. $NXT Official Listing Schedule The $NXT…

Victoria, Seychelles, May 12th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of Race to Zero Season 2, where participants have the chance to win from a prize pool of up to 2,000g of gold bars. The event reflects MEXC’s commitment to 0-fee trading, where the in-game race to zero echoes the platform’s 0-fee philosophy and its vision of infinite opportunities for all. Season 1 of Race to Zero drew strong participation, attracting over 130,000 registered users and generating more than $62.8 billion in futures trading volume and $574 million in spot trading volume over…

Bitcoin’s BTC$81,244.55 transparency was once considered one of its greatest strengths. Now, Ray Dalio says, it may be the very reason central banks won’t adopt it as a reserve asset, even though corporations and institutional investors have embraced it.The billionaire hedge fund manager, who is also a bitcoin investor, said on X that, “Bitcoin lacks privacy. Transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, which is why central banks aren’t looking to hold it.” Ray Dalio has previously said he allocates about 1% of his portfolio to bitcoin.Bitcoin, the world’s largest blockchain network, operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer system built on…