Limassol, Cyprus – Mark your calendars for WIKIEXPO CYPRUS 2026, taking place on November 6, 2026 at the prestigious Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa. As one of Europe’s most influential gatherings for the foreign exchange and fintech services industry, the event is set to welcome over 5,000 professionals, 50+ distinguished speakers, and 50+ exhibitors from more than 30 countries.

This year’s expo places a strategic focus on the core pillars that drive today’s financial markets, with dedicated tracks on:

• Foreign Exchange & Liquidity Solutions – Institutional FX, prime brokerage, liquidity aggregation, and risk management
• Regulatory & Compliance Frameworks – Navigating MiCA, CySEC regulations, AML/KYC, and cross‑border licensing
• Next‑Generation Payments – Cross‑border remittance, digital wallets, instant settlement, and merchant services
• Platform Building & Brokerage Technology – Trading platforms (MT4/5, cTrader, proprietary), white‑label solutions, CRM, and infrastructure providers
• Fintech Service Providers – B2B technology vendors, data analytics, AI‑driven trading tools, and compliance automation
• Crypto & DeFi – On‑chain liquidity, tokenized assets, smart contract‑based settlement, and the convergence of crypto with traditional FX
• AI in Finance – AI‑powered trading algorithms, predictive analytics, fraud detection, and regulatory technology (RegTech)

Set in the heart of Cyprus – a global hub for forex brokers, payment processors, and regulatory technology firms – this expo offers an unrivalled platform for service providers, brokers, IBs, liquidity providers, payment gateways, and platform vendors to connect, showcase innovations, and forge cross-border partnerships. Backed by CySEC’s stringent oversight and EU-wide passporting privileges, this jurisdiction empowers firms to scale operations across the European Economic Area, all while staying ahead of the crypto and AI waves reshaping the industry.

Attendees will gain actionable insights through keynote addresses, panel debates, fireside chats, and dedicated networking sessions, all designed to address the real‑world challenges and opportunities facing the FX, fintech, and digital asset ecosystem.

“Cyprus has long been recognized as a gateway between Europe, Asia, and Africa, with a robust regulatory environment and a thriving community of financial technology providers,” said Loki So, COO of WikiEXPO. “Our Cyprus edition is uniquely tailored to the FX, liquidity, payments, and platform‑building sectors – but we also recognize that crypto and AI are no longer optional. We aim to bring together the entire value chain of service providers – from traditional brokers to cutting‑edge DeFi protocols and AI‑driven analytics firms – under one roof to drive responsible innovation and sustainable growth in this dynamic region.”

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https://www.wikiexpo.com/Cyprus/2026/en/?c=7iil3INU

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About WikiEXPO

WikiEXPO is a global hub for financial innovation, uniting visionaries and leaders in fintech, forex, and crypto industries. With a worldwide community of over two million followers, our iconic summits are held in global capitals including Dubai, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, South Africa, and beyond. From cutting‑edge startups to industry giants, we connect the brightest minds. After six years of rapid development, WikiEXPO has become one of the world’s largest and most influential event platforms in the forex, fintech, and digital asset space.

Past Speakers at WikiEXPO (selected):

• Dominic Williams – Founder & Chief Scientist, DFINITY Foundation
• Evan Auyang Chi‑chun – Group President, Animoca Brands
• Justin Sun – Founder, TRON; Member, HTX Global Advisory Board
• Reeve Collins – Co‑Founder, Tether
• Cynthia Wu – Founding Partner and CCO, BIT
• Livio Weng – CEO & Executive Director, Bitfire
• Kevin Lee – CCO, Gate
• Mario Nawfal – CEO, IBC Group
• Yiannos Ashiotis – Board Chairman – Revolut Digital Assets Europe
• John Riggins – Partner, BTC Inc
• Loretta Joseph – Policy Consultant, The Commonwealth; Chairman, ADFSAC
• Vít Jedlička, President, Free Republic of Liberland
• Bugra Celik – Director, Digital Assets | Global Private Banking & Wealth, HSBC
• Hassan Ahmed – Country Director, Coinbase Singapore

We look forward to welcoming you to Limassol this November – where the FX, fintech, and crypto communities converge to shape the future of finance!

S&P Global (SPGI) said Thursday it has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a smart-contract security firm whose open-source code library is used across much of the stablecoin and tokenized-fund market. S&P said contracts built with the library have moved more than $37 trillion over time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The deal gives S&P Global access to a part of onchain finance that conventional ratings do not cover: the code that issues, moves and manages stablecoins, tokenized funds and DeFi products. A project can have sound reserves or a strong credit profile but still fail because of a flaw in its smart contracts. S&P is betting banks and asset managers will need common ways to assess that technology risk before they use onchain products at scale.

The $37 trillion figure is a measure of value transferred through contracts using OpenZeppelin’s library over time, not assets the company manages or holds.

“The transaction complements S&P Global’s risk assessment and ecosystem development capabilities in digital asset markets, enhancing its ability to create the next generation of onchain security assessments, benchmarks, and deliver essential intelligence as capital markets transition onchain,” the firm said.

BNB price traded near $721 on Sep. 17 after buyers defended the $709–$710 area, but weakening daily momentum and dense liquidity above $739 leave the token without a clear breakout signal.

BNB price consolidates above $710

BNB (BNB) price was trading at approximately $721 at the time of writing, down 0.63% during the daily session. The token opened near $725.92, reached $729.22, and fell as low as $720.89 on the daily candle.

The wider chart shows that BNB remains in a consolidation phase following its early-September rally. The token climbed from below $700 to nearly $780 before sellers pushed it back toward the $710 region.

Price has since formed a tighter range between roughly $710 and $730. Repeated defenses of the lower boundary show that buyers remain active around $700–$710, but the lack of a sustained move above $730 suggests demand has not yet regained full control.

BNB’s broader structure still includes higher lows from the July bottom near $550. However, the decline from the September high has interrupted the previous bullish momentum and left the token searching for a new short-term direction.

The pullback came against a weaker risk backdrop following the failed procedural vote on the US CLARITY Act and the Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point rate increase. Higher US interest rates can reduce demand for risk assets by lifting returns on cash and government debt.

4-hour indicators point to a neutral setup

The 4-hour Bollinger Bands show BNB trading just above the middle band at $719.39. The upper band stands at $729.15, while the lower band sits at $709.63.

Price near the middle band reflects consolidation rather than a strong directional trend. The narrowing distance between the bands also points to falling volatility after the sharp swings seen earlier in September.

A 4-hour close above $729.15 would push BNB beyond the upper Bollinger Band and could signal renewed upside momentum. Buyers would then need to clear the $737–$740 area to establish a stronger breakout.

The lower band reinforces $709–$710 as immediate support. A decisive close beneath it would show that the current range has broken down and could expose the psychological $700 level.

BNB’s 4-hour relative strength index stood at 50.84, above its moving average of 46.26. The reading places momentum near the center of its range, with neither buyers nor sellers holding a major advantage.

The RSI’s recovery above 50 offers a modest positive signal, but it has not reached the 60–70 area normally associated with stronger bullish momentum. Price therefore needs confirmation from a resistance breakout before the indicator can support a wider recovery scenario.

Daily MACD warns of fading bullish momentum

BNB’s daily chart presents a weaker momentum picture. The moving average convergence divergence line stood at 15.14, below the signal line at 20.18, while the histogram had fallen to -5.04.

The bearish crossover shows that momentum from the late-August rally is fading. The MACD remains above the zero line, meaning the broader recovery has not fully reversed, but the negative histogram signals increasing short-term selling pressure.

Aroon readings also show limited directional strength. The indicator’s two lines had fallen to 14.29% and 0%, suggesting that neither a fresh high nor a fresh low has recently established a dominant trend.

Low Aroon readings often appear during consolidation. In BNB’s case, they support the range-bound structure visible since the price retreated from nearly $780.

For a bullish reversal, the MACD line would need to flatten and move back above the signal line. A stronger Aroon Up reading would provide further confirmation if BNB begins setting fresh short-term highs.

Liquidation heatmap places $740 in focus

The 24-hour liquidation heatmap shows concentrated leverage on both sides of BNB’s current price. The nearest lower liquidity cluster appears around $709–$712, close to the 4-hour lower Bollinger Band.

Larger pockets are also visible near $703–$705 and $695–$698. If BNB loses $709, leveraged long positions around those levels could increase downside volatility and pull the price toward $700.

Above the market, liquidity is concentrated around $727–$730, followed by a brighter and denser cluster near $739–$741. The latter area matches the resistance zone identified by the price charts.

A move through $730 could therefore draw BNB toward $740 as short positions are closed. However, the large concentration at that level may also create resistance if spot demand does not support the derivatives-driven move.

Additional liquidity appears near $747–$755, giving bulls a secondary target if BNB establishes support above $740.

BNB faces breakout test between $710 and $740

BNB’s short-term outlook depends on which side of the current range gives way first. Holding $709–$710 would preserve the consolidation and allow another attempt at $729.

A 4-hour close above $729, followed by a sustained move through $740, would strengthen the bullish case. The next targets would sit near $750 and the September peak around $775–$780.

The bearish case would gain weight if BNB closes below $709. Such a move would break the lower Bollinger Band and could trigger liquidations toward $703, $700, and $695. A loss of $695 would weaken the broader recovery structure and place the late-August breakout area near $680 back in view.

For US investors, the Federal Reserve’s rate path and any further action on crypto market-structure legislation remain potential sources of volatility. Technically, however, $710 support and $740 resistance provide the clearest boundaries for BNB’s next directional move.

The regulator explicitly excluded synthetic security tokens that are derivatives and don’t provide ownership of the shares. The SEC only allows tokens that represent real ownership of the underlying stock, which Atkins said “must provide holders with the same rights and privileges as the traditional securities, including rights to receive dividends and exercise voting rights.”

That may exclude derivatives and debt instruments offered in many of the offshore products, such as from Robinhood.

The time-limited innovation exemption doesn’t require the SEC to formally designate the venues. Instead, any platform that believes it can meet the SEC’s definition and comply with the conditions only needs to provide notice before opening the doors of a tokenization operation, according to the agency.

5 years, to start

Atkins acknowledged the temporary nature of the policy, which he said lets firms operate “in a permissioned environment today while the commission considers the need for additional action to facilitate onchain trading.” He said the measure “must be followed by durable rulemaking to ensure that onchain markets remain a viable pathway as our capital markets continue to evolve.”

Tokenization has become one of Wall Street’s biggest blockchain experiments, giving major weight to the SEC’s opening move. The basic idea is to take familiar assets such as stocks, bonds or investment funds and represent ownership of them on a blockchain, potentially allowing them to move more easily between investors and financial platforms.

Leverton most recently led institutional digital-asset manager ReserveOne. She previously served as CEO of bitcoin miner Hut 8, overseeing its merger with US Bitcoin Corp. and its transition from a Canadian-listed miner into a U.S.-domiciled company with bitcoin mining and high-performance computing operations.

Her appointment comes as Fortitude expands its exposure to Zcash, whose ZEC token has risen more than 2,000% over the past year. Its market capitalization is roughly $21 billion.

Fortitude mined 72,696 ZEC during the six months through June, about 28% of the network’s total production during that period. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $20.9 million.

The miner operates more than 60 megawatts of power capacity across seven sites in South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and New York.

NEAR has surpassed $70 million in confidential total value locked, automatically triggering the first snapshot under its [email protected] incentive program and setting aside 333,333 milestone tokens for eligible users.

According to a Sept. 17 announcement from NEAR shared with crypto.news, the milestone was reached through Confidential Intents, its private execution system for cross chain transactions, with the snapshot determining eligibility for the first reward distribution.

Users who qualify for the first drop must maintain more than $100 in confidential balances and have an active swap history. The milestone tokens will remain locked until NEAR’s three day volume weighted average price reaches at least $3.33, when they can convert into NEAR.

The incentive program places a 2% cap on the amount that can be allocated to any single wallet. NEAR said the restriction is intended to limit concentration and spread the distribution across more participants.

NEAR confidential TVL triggers first token snapshot

Confidential Intents routes transactions through a private NEAR shard, which NEAR says removes transactions from public mempool exposure and protects users from front running, strategy leakage and other forms of maximal extractable value.

The system is designed to provide confidential execution without relying on the computational requirements associated with zero knowledge systems, according to NEAR. Its confidential liquidity can be used for high volume swaps across connected blockchains without publicly linking the activity to the party behind the transaction.

Live data cited by NEAR showed confidential TVL crossing the $70 million threshold required for the first phase of the [email protected] program. Independent NEAR Intents tracking data showed the figure at approximately $70.8 million on Sept. 17.

Alex Shevchenko, general manager of NEAR Intents, said the growth showed demand for confidential execution was extending beyond a specialized segment of the market.

“Confidentiality is quickly becoming a core requirement for the industry, and NEAR is becoming the rail to make it the new default,” Shevchenko said.

He said combining cross chain liquidity with protection against front running, strategy leakage and other forms of MEV gives institutions and decentralized finance users a way to transact at scale while retaining privacy.

The $70 million threshold closes the first phase of the [email protected] campaign. NEAR said Confidential Intents currently supports execution across more than 30 connected blockchains.

NEAR Intents expands cross chain infrastructure

NEAR has been building Intents as an abstraction layer for transactions that move across different blockchain networks. Instead of requiring a user or application to manually determine how a transaction should move between chains, users specify the intended outcome and solvers compete to execute it.

As crypto.news previously reported, NEAR has positioned Intents as part of its infrastructure for autonomous AI agents that may need to transact across several blockchains without separately managing assets and transaction routes on each network.

By June, cumulative fees generated by NEAR Intents had surpassed $35.4 million, while average daily fees during that month were above $125,000. The protocol has connected the system with its plan to provide a common settlement layer for cross chain activity and software agents.

Confidential Intents extends that system by placing privacy around execution. NEAR has developed the feature alongside other privacy tools for areas including onchain treasury management, payroll, multisig operations and balance management.

The network’s cross chain infrastructure has continued to gain integrations. An Aptos integration with NEAR Intents gave users access to one click transfers involving assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP across more than 20 blockchains. Developers were given access through the 1 Click Swap API, which allows applications to integrate Intents without requiring users to manually operate bridges.

NEAR has tied the infrastructure to its work around AI agents, where software may need to execute payments or trades without manually navigating individual blockchain networks.

Confidential execution fits into NEAR’s AI strategy

Privacy has become part of NEAR’s push to build infrastructure for autonomous agents. The network argues that software handling payments, trading strategies and other financial activity may need to keep transaction details or user information from becoming publicly visible.

In July, NEAR introduced a staking based AI payment system that lets users lock NEAR to receive monthly compute credits for its AI platform. The tokens are not spent and can be recovered when users unstake them.

At launch, the mechanism covered 43 AI models available through NEAR AI, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. NEAR said users could access confidential AI inference and hosted autonomous agents without providing a credit card or maintaining a conventional cloud billing account.

The protocol has separately introduced automatic anonymization for personally identifiable information contained in prompts sent to closed AI models. NEAR said the system removes sensitive information before prompts reach external inference infrastructure.

A network upgrade released in June introduced dynamic resharding, allowing blockchain capacity to adjust as transaction demand changes. The same release introduced post quantum secure signatures, giving u