Author: Ethan Lewis

Florida, United States, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire Streamex is making commodities easy to acquire and trade, and the latest step puts it in regular brokerage accounts. Buying gold has long meant choosing between two inconveniences: take physical delivery and pay to store and insure it, or buy a fund and accept the fees and market-hours trading that come with it. A run of moves by Streamex Corp. (NASDAQ: STEX) is aimed at dissolving that trade-off, and the latest landed on June 29, when the company announced its gold-backed, tokenized yield-bearing security $GLDY can now be bought through an ordinary brokerage account. This brings Streamex another step closer to offering exposure with modern features & benefits to the $13 trillion global gold market, like yield, 24/7 markets and digit...

Florida, United States, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire The new platform enables traders to compare prop firms side by side using hundreds of funding rules, account features and trading conditions, making it one of the most comprehensive futures prop firm comparison tools available. Prop Firm Compare has announced the launch of its new advanced comparison engine, offering futures traders a faster, more transparent way to compare funded trading firms before purchasing a challenge. Built specifically for the futures prop trading market, the new tool allows users to compare firms across the criteria that have the biggest impact on long-term success, rather than relying on headline account sizes or promotional offers alone. As the number of futures prop firms continues to grow, traders face incre...

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, July 1st, 2026, Chainwire VCT combines blockchain transparency, agribusiness intelligence, export-finance infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on BNB Smart Chain. Valle Capital Token (“VCT”) today announced the development and expansion of its blockchain-powered ecosystem designed to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agribusiness operations and international commodity exports. Built on BNB Smart Chain, Valle Capital Token combines utility-token functionality with a real-world asset-focused model intended to support greater transparency, operational visibility and digital infrastructure across agricultural production, commodity financing, logistics and export activity. The project is structured around a British Virgin Islands tokeniz...

Road Town, British Virgin Islands, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire 1inch joins as a launch partner on Robinhood Chain, the Arbitrum-based network built for real-world asset (RWA) trading Eligible users will be able to trade tokenized stocks, funds and other RWAs at any hour, including when traditional markets are closed  Robinhood Chain’s testnet has already reported more than $2 billion in RWA transfer volume 1inch, a leading DeFi ecosystem, today announced its integration of Robinhood Chain, Robinhood’s newly launched blockchain for tokenized real-world assets. As a key launch partner, 1inch will be among the first major routing and swap ecosystems to integrate the chain. To date, Robinhood Chain has processed in excess of $2 billion RWA transfer volume through its testnet, highlighting t...

Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire Former McKinsey Senior Partner and Co-Leader of the Global Banking Sector joins Performativ following the company’s $14 million Series A led by Deutsche Börse Group  Performativ, the next-generation operating system for wealth management, today announced the appointment of Jacob Dahl as Chair of its Board of Directors. Dahl, a former Senior Partner and Co-Leader of the Global Banking Sector at McKinsey & Company, brings more than three decades of experience across global banking, financial services, technology transformation, risk and compliance.  Dahl’s appointment follows Performativ’s recent $14 million Series A funding round, led by Deutsche Börse Group, with participation from Rabo Investments, Jacob Dahl and existing investors inc...

Istanbul, Türkiye, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform expands into DeFi and equities, integrating Hyperliquid perpetuals, Polymarket option markets, and US and Turkish stocks in a single app  Paribu, Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform, has launched DeFi access, covering DEX trading, perpetual contracts via Hyperliquid, and option markets via Polymarket and has opened an equity trading waitlist. The moves mark a strategic shift for the nine-year-old exchange as it builds toward a single app covering crypto, DeFi, yield, and equities. Paribu is the first regulated exchange to deliver both Hyperliquid perpetuals and Polymarket option markets directly inside a CEX interface, without a separate wallet app. Users access all DeFi features from within the e...

The AI intelligent agent and RWA real-world asset sectors are experiencing explosive growth, marking a significant milestone in AiNO1’s ecosystem upgrade! The global airdrop permanently ends on July 15th, simultaneously launching node staking and AI mining; in late July, both CEX and DEX channels will be fully open, officially completing the project’s value loop and entering a fast track for large-scale implementation. AiNO1, leveraging its self-developed layered sharding and intelligent symbiotic node technologies, achieves high TPS, ultra-fast block generation, and ultra-low transaction fees, perfectly addressing the pain points of traditional public chains such as poor performance, high transaction fees, and severe inflation, creating a dedicated underlying public chain for AI+RWA in t...

Istanbul, Turkey, July 1st, 2026, FinanceWire Regulatory approval marks a key milestone toward building Freedom’s full-service financial platform in Türkiye Freedom Finansal Hizmetler A.Ş., a subsidiary of Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), an international diversified financial services group operating in more than 20 countries, today announced that Türkiye’s Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) and Competition Authority of Türkiye has approved its planned acquisition of 99.32% of the share capital of Turkish Bank A.Ş. BRSA approval is an important step toward completing the transaction and supports Freedom Holding Corp.’s strategy to build integrated financial services platforms in selected growth markets. Upon closing, Turkish Bank A.Ş., a Turkish banking institution wit...

This summer, global comfort-fashion brand EKOUAER welcomes Hollywood actress and style icon Vanessa Hudgens as its Brand Friend. Rooted in a shared belief that true comfort empowers rather than constrains, the partnership champions confidence, authenticity, and female strength—rejecting fleeting trends in favor of clothing that genuinely supports women in their daily lives. From Icon to New Mom For Vanessa, 2026 marks a turning point: from the teenage icon of High School Musical to a new mother and working woman, she moves effortlessly between multiple roles while maintaining her signature natural ease. This perfectly mirrors the brand spirit of EKOUAER. The collaboration, themed “My Comfort Era,” reflects both her life philosophy and the brand’s enduring conviction—that when women stop ...

PersonalHour is a Pilates equipment and wellness technology company based in Dublin, Ohio. The company designs and manufactures home Pilates reformers, including the Janet Elite Plus, and provides fulfillment, delivery, and customer support services to buyers across the United States. DUBLIN, Ohio PersonalHour, a Pilates equipment and wellness technology company, has opened a dedicated manufacturing workshop for a walnut-wood version of its Janet Elite Plus Pilates reformer and expanded its fulfillment operations to serve customers in 16 states. The walnut workshop and the fulfillment expansion are intended to address two areas the company has identified as priorities: product construction and delivery times for large equipment shipped to customers’ homes. “A Pilates reformer is not just a...