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ABU DHABI, UAE, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Aurra Markets, a global multi-asset CFD brokerage, concluded its diamond sponsorship and participation at Money Expo Abu Dhabi 2026. Held at the ADNEC Centre from the 8th to the 9th of July, the financial exhibition served as a primary platform for the broker to connect directly with retail traders, institutional partners, and financial leaders across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Showcasing Institutional-Grade Liquidity at Money Expo In a digital financial landscape, Aurra Markets continues to prioritize face-to-face engagement. The broker’s presence at Booth 33 highlighted its focus on clear communication between…

Following investment from Circle Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Circle

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, today announced a landmark operational milestone: surpassing $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume during its initial period of operation. This rapid ascent is supported by over 8.6 million total trades, positioning AFX as one of the fastest-growing decentralized derivatives platforms in the 2026 Web3 landscape. The most distinctive feature of AFX’s growth is its superior capital efficiency. While many decentralized protocols rely on massive Total Value Locked (TVL) to attract volume, AFX has achieved its $1.1 billion milestone with a lean TVL…

New York, USA, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire TrueDAO announced today the completion of a $10 million strategic funding round. The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital. The proceeds will primarily fund core AI protocol development, AI-driven risk control, security audits, global compliance efforts, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. The journey to this milestone began a year ago when the TrueDAO team set out to build a decentralized financial infrastructure driven by smart contracts, on-chain reserves, dynamic adjustment mechanisms, and community governance. The initiative aimed to address challenges in the…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of its VVIP Futures Loss Coverage Program 2.0 from July 10 to July 30, 2026 (UTC), an upgraded initiative offering enhanced trading protection and a 1,000,000 USDT prize pool for futures users to share. The Loss Coverage Program 2.0 introduces three key enhancements. Losses Covered Instantly gives eligible VVIP users same-day compensation on qualifying losing trades, with coverage chances and limits tiered according to VVIP level. Elite VVIP users with a credit score of 800 or above enjoy real-time compensation upon triggering loss…

New York, USA, July 9th, 2026, Chainwire New VIP Trading Badges give high-volume traders access to CEX-style fee discounts, card rewards and expanded spending power—without surrendering custody of their assets Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, today became the first platform to bring VIP trading to self-custody, giving high-volume traders access to institutional-style trading rewards without giving up ownership of their digital assets. For years, active traders have faced a tradeoff. The deepest fee discounts and richest rewards were available only on centralized exchanges, where users had to relinquish custody of their assets. Self-custody offered control, but not comparable VIP…

Eightco treasury composition as of July 8, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $397 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), expanding access to millions OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 9th, 2026, Chainwire  Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, reported that Bybit’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) BTC fund products have recorded a comprehensive annualized return of approximately 4.9% over the past 60 days, with select individual funds delivering 30-day annualized percentage rates exceeding 40%. Through its BTC-invested, BTC-settled fund structure, Bybit PWM’s BTC strategies offers a more advanced allocation solution to users holding larger BTC positions. Launched in September 2025, Bybit PWM manages over $239 million in assets across over 160 portfolios. In June 2026, Bybit introduced PWM 2.0, expanding direct dashboard…

Key Insights Phemex’s perps exchange averaged $1.69 billion in daily volume from January to June 2026, 2.41x its spot average of $0.70 billion, underscoring its positioning as a derivatives-first platform. Both spot and perps trading peaked on February 6, as Bitcoin dropped roughly 14% to its yearly low, with spot hitting $1.19 billion and perps reaching $2.71 billion on that day. Post-February, spot volume continued to recover and grow through May, while perps volume moderated, a potential sign of traders becoming more risk-averse as the year progressed. Exchange reserves declined 14.4% from $325.4 million to $278.4 million between January and…

The ChatGPT app crossed 1 billion monthly active users by June 2026, the fastest application in history to reach that scale. That milestone reframes the category: a small cluster of systems now serves consumer audiences the size of continents, while a second tier competes on revenue depth and use-case fit. The picks below rank eight platforms by usage scale, revenue run-rate, and independent benchmark standing, then map each to the job it does best. Key Takeaways ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users by June 2026, the fastest app to that milestone. Google’s Gemini app surpassed 900 million monthly active…