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Singapore, Singapore, October 22nd, 2026, Chainwire Travala's monthly AVA Strategic Reserve buyback will now match up to 3x the AVA rewards earned by AVA Smart members Travala , the Binance-backed crypto travel booking platform, and the AVA Foundation—Travala’s loyalty program provider and issuer of the platform’s native AVA token—today announced the AVA Buyback Multiplier, an upgrade to the AVA Strategic Reserve launched in September 2026.  Under the new structure, Travala's monthly match of the AVA Foundation's buyback scales with the AVA giveback rewards earned by AVA Smart members for booking travel, rising from 1x to up to 3x and taking total monthly buybacks to up to four times member givebacks. Each month, the AVA Foundation buys back the AVA given to AVA Smart members as booking rewards in the previous month and returns it to its rewards pool. To date, the AVA Foundation has bought back 5,423,181 AVA through its monthly buybacks. Travala matches the ...

Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire On October 15, with the help of independent security researchers, we found a vulnerability affecting one of the integrations used on the ChangeNOW website. The vulnerability has now been fixed. We currently have no evidence that it was exploited. But we also can’t assume that the researchers who reported it were the only ones to find it. Because of that, we’re looking at the different possible scenarios and warning clients about the information that could potentially have been exposed. This may include email addresses and transaction details. Please note ChangeNOW’s transaction infrastructure was not affected, and customer funds were never at risk. The main thing clients should watch out for now is suspicious or fraudulent messages. A phony message could reference real transactions or support to appear legitimate. If you get an unexpected message that looks like it's from ChangeNOW, please chec...

Tallinn, Estonia, October 8th, 2026, Chainwire SaaS and eCommerce increased their combined share from 48.26% to 55.54%, while Trading moved from 14.07% to 13.15%. Businesses can build stablecoin infrastructure around the wrong problem. The mistake is treating stablecoins primarily as a coin-and-network decision. For a digital business, they may need to support a much broader set of operating workflows, including billing, checkout, settlement, payouts, and reconciliation. Which of those workflows matters most depends on the business model. New aggregated data from NOWPayments shows the industry mix shifting toward businesses that use payments as part of their day-to-day operations. Between January 16 and July 16, 2026, SaaS and web services accounted for 27.78% of classified partners. eCommerce Marketplaces followed at 27.76%. Together, the two sectors represented 55.54% of the sample. During the same period in 2025, their combined share was 48.26%. The increase of 7.28 percentage po...

Frankfurt, New York, October 1st, 2026, Chainwire Partnership to explore the use of Arc for tokenized securities on 21X Group’s trading and settlement systems 21X Group , whose subsidiary 21X AG operates the first fully regulated trading and settlement system for tokenized securities in the EU, today announced that it has been named a Day-1 launch partner in the Arc ecosystem as the network moves to public mainnet in the EU and US. 21X Group and Circle have entered into a collaboration to build use cases for issuers and brokers of tokenized securities on Arc across EU and US markets. Arc is an open, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain built for the world’s financial markets, real-time money movement and agentic economic activity. It uses stablecoins as gas, starting with Circle’s own USDC. In the EU, 21X AG operates a venue where institutional participants can issue, trade and settle tokenized securities through atomic delivery versus payment, reducing settlement time an...