Distichain, a SaaS provider of digital B2B ecommerce marketplaces is partnering with SECDEX Digital Custodian (SECDEX), Africa and the Middle East’s first regulated fully operational digital custodian. 

Northern Trust and BondEvalue have completed the first trade of a fractionalized blockchain-based bond.

Binance has launched Perpetual Futures contracts margined with bitcoin, and with leverage of up to 125x. The contracts are listed on Binance Futures, the leading crypto-derivative exchange, and offers users greater diversification. 

Huobi Group, a leading blockchain company, has established, Huobi DeFi Labs, a platform for DeFi (Decentralised Finance) research, investment, and incubation and eco system building in DeFi space. 

Brave New Coin and BTSE are teaming up to deliver five new institutional-grade indices tracking the real-time market performance of crypto assets  by the end of the year. 

Copper, a London based digital asset infrastructure provider, has expanded its ClearLoop digital asset trading framework to include collateral management for crypto derivatives. 

Digital asset financial services group BCB Group and Circle, a global financial technology firm, have formed a new partnership that will see BCB implementing the full range of Circle platform functionality to improve the speed, efficiency and cost of client payments and settlement across select parts of BCB Group. 

Digital asset financial services company Diginex has appointed Chi-Won Yoon as Chairman. Yoon currently serves on the board of Hyundai Motor Company and previously served on the executive board of UBS AG. 

ECXX Global (ECXX) has secured admission from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to the Fintech Sandbox Express under the Recognised Market Operator (RMO) regime.

Komainu is to serve as the custodian for the digital assets held by CoinShres to physically back the XBT Provider family of ETPs.