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Stronghold today announced that SHx, the native token of the Stronghold ecosystem, is now live on BitTrade, a crypto asset exchange licensed by Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA). The listing gives users in Japan direct access to SHx through Buy/Sell trading and Auto-Invest. Crypto lending and order-book exchange trading are also planned for the platform. Why it matters With BitTrade, SHx becomes available to Japanese traders through a fully licensed domestic exchange. Japan runs one...
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, today announced that it intends to deploy onchain perpetual futures markets for US clients, starting with Hyperliquid HIP-3* markets, the protocol’s first builder-deployed permissioned perpetual markets. Payward has run open financial rails since 2011 for clients in more than 190 countries and territories. As of June 30, 2026, it held 6.6 million funded accounts, and its Proof of Reserves, reviewed by an independent third-party accountant, showed client ...