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Tel Aviv, Israel, July 6th, 2026, Chainwire Playnance, the Web3 iGaming protocol behind one of the industry's fastest-growing on-chain gaming ecosystems, today announced its participation at Affiliate World Budapest on July 9-10, where it will unveil new solutions for white-label operators and affiliates while showcasing the scale of its rapidly expanding ecosystem.

Tel Aviv, Israel, July 6th, 2026, Chainwire Orbs, the decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure focused on advanced on-chain trading, today announced the launch of Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0, a new protocol that enables trading venues to deploy fully integrated, white-label perpetual futures exchanges.

Moonbeam is fully migrating its GLMR token from the Polkadot parachain to Base, and relaunching as an AI-agent focused network, the project said in a strategic update posted to its official site. The bridge from Moonbeam to Base is open now, with a deadline of July 31, 2026.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities regulator, said in a statement that many prediction market event contracts may already fall within the bloc's existing ban on marketing binary options to retail investors. The regulator reminded firms they must assess whether newly offered products fall under national product intervention measures already in force.

San Francisco, California, July 3rd, 2026, Chainwire Boardwalk, a launch and market-formation protocol for token economies, announced plans to move its protocol-token systems to Arbitrum and introduce BWS as the successor to its legacy BMX protocol token. Under the planned transition, BWS will anchor Boardwalk’s protocol-token systems on Arbitrum, including staking, Voter Points, Fee Direction, and primary protocol-token liquidity.

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Press Releases London, United Kingdom, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire World Mobile will be one of the headline presences at Rare Evo 2026, taking place July 28-31 at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The company joins the event as a premier sponsor of the conference and will deliver a keynote address featuring Micky Watkins, Co-Founder & CEO of World Mobile.

eToro has become a strategic investor in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange, and said the round begins a partnership with Zengo, the self-custody wallet eToro acquired earlier this year. Neither company disclosed the investment size.

Securitize began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday under the ticker SECZ and simultaneously put its own newly listed common stock onchain, according to a press release the tokenization firm distributed via PR Newswire. Eligible U.S. investors can access tokenized SECZ through Securitize's own regulated platform starting the same day. The launch makes Securitize the first newly public company to bring its own stock onchain at the start of its life as a listed issuer, per the release.

Erik Voorhees pushed back on X against critics who said Venice's $65M Series A undervalued VVV tokens, saying the deal could bring in $131M for 6.5 million tokens locked four years. Markets Erik Voorhees defended the token terms behind Venice's $65 million Series A on Thursday, telling critics on X that investors could ultimately pay $131 million for 6.5 million locked VVV tokens if they exercise an attached option.