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Bitfinex Securities, a regulated platform for trading tokenized securities, announced today a major update to its account architecture, eliminating separate securities sub-accounts and enabling native support for security tokens on master and standard trading accounts. The El Salvador-based exchange will no longer require users to maintain separate sub-accounts for security tokens. Under the revised framework, tokenized assets will appear alongside digital currencies in exchange wallets, allowing unified portfolio oversight. Existing securities sub-accounts will transition into regular trading sub-accounts without affecting balances, login details, 2FA configurations, and withdrawal permissions, the company stated. The update reflects Bitfinex Securities’ focus on improving accessibility…

Manadia has declared a strategic alliance with OptiView to improve the integrity and reliability of asset management based on AI in Web3 ecosystems. The partnership aims to bridge between artificial intelligence analytics and provable, low-trust settlement infrastructure, developing a safer, smoother system of multi-chain portfolio management. manadia × @optiview_xAI needs intelligence. Intelligence needs verifiable data.manadia is partnering with OptiView to connect AI-powered asset analytics with low-trust, verifiable settlement infrastructure.OptiView simplifies multi-chain portfolio management through unified… pic.twitter.com/7jWhijISmG — manadia (@paywithmana) March 4, 2026 The news is an indicator of an increased change in the digital asset sector, in which AI driven…

TLDR Ether’s price has fallen below its realized price, a historical signal of market capitulation. President Trump’s tariffs and low institutional demand are creating strong selling pressure in the US. Technical indicators suggest a possible further correction that could take the asset down to $1,100. The market’s second-largest digital currency has had a turbulent start to the week. During Tuesday’s session, Ethereum fell, but the psychological support at $1,800 remains firm. Over the last 30 days, it has accumulated losses of 38% due to macroeconomic uncertainty. Industry experts point out that the spot price fell below the realized price, which…

Singapore, February 2026 – Asia’s stablecoin market has transformed into a strategic battleground for digital sovereignty, according to a comprehensive new report from Tiger Research. The region’s financial future now hinges on whether national currencies can maintain relevance in digital payments against overwhelming U.S. dollar dominance. Tiger Research’s “State of the Asian Stablecoin Market in 2026” reveals critical developments across the continent, where governments are implementing diverse strategies to protect monetary autonomy. This analysis comes at a pivotal moment, as the total stablecoin market capitalization approaches $300 billion with astonishing 750% average annual growth since 2018. Asia’s Stablecoin Market: The…

A United States federal judge ruled that Binance cannot force a group of US customers to arbitrate claims over losses on crypto tokens they bought on its global platform before Feb. 20, 2019, keeping a major class action in open court. The decision on Thursday by District Judge Andrew Carter Jr. in the Southern District of New York held that those claims were not bound by Binance.com’s 2019 arbitration clause because users lacked sufficient notice when the company unilaterally shifted its terms of use away from the 2017 version, which contained no arbitration or class action waiver provisions. According to…

Lux Thiagarajah argues that decentralized technology is not displacing banks but “re-platforming” them. According to him, regulated entities will remain essential because governments will not outsource prudential oversight to permissionless systems. From Revolution to Infrastructure For years, the promise of blockchain in finance was draped in the language of revolution. The world was repeatedly told that “crypto-invoicing” would upend the global supply chain. Yet as the dust settles in early 2026, the reality of institutional adoption is proving to be more pragmatic—and arguably more powerful. In a discussion on the structural shift of digital assets, Lux Thiagarajah, chief commercial officer…

TLDR The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) forms the “Privacy Working Group” to advance confidentiality solutions. Leading institutions such as Consensys, EY, and Polygon collaborate to solve the biggest obstacle in blockchain implementation. The group will publish bi-annual technical guides to standardize privacy and regulatory compliance on Ethereum. The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance has created a Privacy Working Group with the goal of accelerating Ethereum adoption in businesses. Through this coalition, they seek to provide technical solutions so that institutions can manage tokenized assets with total confidence. We’re thrilled to introduce the EEA Privacy Working Group!This group brings together industry leaders to…

TruStage pilots TSDA runs through H1 2026, leveraging GENIUS Act-driven stablecoin growth and $2t cap forecasts. Summary TSDA is a dollar-pegged stablecoin with 1:1 cash reserves for U.S. credit unions. Pilot runs through H1 2026, focusing on loans, P2P, cross-border and inter-union settlement use cases. GENIUS Act and forecasts of a $2t stablecoin market by 2028 frame TSDA’s regulatory and macro backdrop. TruStage has announced a pilot program for a dollar-pegged stablecoin targeting US credit unions, representing one of the sector’s largest coordinated efforts to test blockchain-based payments infrastructure, according to the company. You might also like: Hedera price eyes…

SBF argues AI has no way to pass KYC, making crypto the only viable payment layer for autonomous systems. Stripe, Coinbase, and Bitwise are already building the infrastructure SBF is theorizing about. Not everyone agrees. One industry executive called crypto “structurally corrupted” and unfit for AI. Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted FTX founder serving a 25-year sentence for wire fraud and conspiracy, posted a thread on X asking what he called “the biggest question for crypto”: will AI use it? SBF argued that AI models like ChatGPT and Claude need compute, and traditional finance cannot serve them. “How do they KYC?…

It has been only a few months since Kraken, One Trading and Backpack started offering crypto perpetual contracts, better known as perps, to European traders. Coinbase’s website for the same is also live, but it has yet to make any formal announcement about the launch. Other major players in the pipeline to launch the same include Bitstamp, Gemini and Bybit. Is Europe Stretching Its Regulatory Arm Too Much? However, the pan-European regulator earlier this week might have spoiled the ambitious plans of crypto exchanges. Regulators have observed “the increased offering of derivatives, often marketed as perpetual futures or perpetual contracts,…