• Hanwha invests KRW 18B ($13M) in Kresus to expand digital asset infrastructure.
• Funding supports enterprise wallets, RWA tokenization, and on-chain workflows.
• Deal follows MoU signed at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in December 2025.

Kresus Labs, a US-based digital wallet and blockchain infrastructure company, has raised about KRW 18 billion (roughly$\$13\text{ million}$) in a strategic investment from Hanwha Investment & Securities.

The deal highlights how traditional finance is increasingly looking beyond crypto trading and toward the “plumbing” behind digital assets: secure wallets, enterprise systems, and tokenized products that can fit into existing financial services.

Strategic capital targets the infrastructure layer of digital assets

Kresus said the investment will support product development, enterprise deployments, and global partnerships, areas that typically require long implementation timelines and rigorous security standards.

The company builds digital asset tools for both consumers and institutions, and it operates enterprise-grade platforms for digital wallets and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, along with on-chain financial workflows.

The investment follows a memorandum of understanding signed by Kresus and Hanwha Investment & Securities at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in December 2025, according to the companies.

That sequencing matters: MoUs are often used to formalize intent, outline collaboration areas, and set up technical and commercial work before funding or deeper integration plans are finalized.

Kresus also emphasized its security approach.  It offers seedless wallet recovery technology, designed to reduce reliance on a single recovery phrase that can be lost or stolen.

It also uses MPC-based security systems which broadly refers to splitting sensitive signing or authorization steps across multiple components so there is less dependence on one device or one key.

In practice, these designs aim to make wallets harder to compromise and easier to recover, two pain points that have limited mainstream adoption.

“This investment validates both our technology and the direction Kresus has taken as a company,” Trevor Traina, founder of Kresus, said in a statement.

He added that Kresus has focused on infrastructure that works in real-world conditions, from consumer applications “used at scale” to enterprise solutions built for institutional requirements.

RWA tokenization becomes a practical focus for financial firms

For Hanwha Investment & Securities, the partnership is framed as a way to strengthen client-facing digital asset services and to pursue tokenization initiatives linked to existing financial products.

RWA tokenization generally means creating blockchain-based representations of real-world financial claims or instruments, with the goal of improving how assets are issued, tracked, or transferred inside digital systems.

“Kresus’s unique wallet security technology and RWA infrastructure will play a core role in advancing Hanwha Investment & Securities’ digital asset capabilities,” said Son Jong-min, chief strategy officer at Hanwha Investment & Securities.

He said the firm will continue collaborating with global technology companies as it seeks to evolve into a specialized digital asset securities firm.

The announcement fits a broader industry pattern: established financial institutions are showing more interest in controlled, enterprise-ready blockchain use cases than in retail speculation.

Wallet technology and tokenization platforms are increasingly treated as building blocks, tools that can be integrated into existing product lines, rather than standalone consumer brands.

Binance Junior introduces festive Red Packet gifting, Merchant Pay, and educational tools to foster financial literacy for kids and teens under parental supervision.

Binance has introduced new features to its Binance Junior platform, launched in December 2025. The news features focus on making saving and learning about crypto more accessible for families.

Binance Junior is a program designed for kids and teens aged 6 to 17 that offers a parent-controlled platform that encourages savings habits and financial literacy from an early age.

The newly added features include Red Packet gifting, Merchant Pay options, and seamless integration of the educational “ABCs of Crypto” eBook directly inside the Binance Junior app. These updates aim to create an interactive experience for families to delve into the digital assets world.

Parents can use the Binance Junior platform to guide their children through the world of digital assets while maintaining full control and the ability to enable or disable selected features. Parents can also monitor account activity through the platform’s interactive interface.

With parental approval, children now have permission to receive crypto gifts, make payments, and access education content that present crypto concepts in a fun and interesting way.

Parents can also now enable non-parental transfers from adult Binance accounts to Junior accounts, such as Red Packet gifting and regular peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers, allowing relatives and family friends to send crypto gifts to their children’s Binance Junior accounts. 

Commenting on the matter, Yi He, Binance co-CEO, said that Binance Junior is designed to help children manage their allowance with savings and payment features. According to He, the company’s goal is to empower families build a solid foundation for their financial future by helping children develop good money management habits whilst they are still young.

Binance sees Binance Junior as a platform for users to grow in line with its broader goal of nurturing a new generation well-prepared for a financially digital future.

Eric Trump doubled down on his $1 million price prediction for bitcoin BTC$66,451.05 and said he has never been more bullish during the World Financial Forum that took place in Mar-a-Lago.

President Donald Trump’s younger son doubled down on his long-term optimism for bitcoin, calling it “one of the greatest performing asset classes” of the last decade in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday.

“I’m a huge proponent because I do think it hits $1 million dollars,” Trump said. “Go back two years. Bitcoin was at $16,000. Where is it at right now, $70,000?”

In August of 2025, Eric Trump, who described himself as a “bitcoin maxi, said bitcoin would reach $175,000 before the end of the year and, eventually climb to $1 million.

BTC closed 2025 at about $88,750, having fallen sharply from an all-time high of more than $126,000 in early October, according to CoinDesk data.

Trump also said that over the past 10 years, bitcoin has climbed roughly 70% annually on average, challenging viewers to “name an asset class that has performed better than Bitcoin.”

While acknowledging the asset’s volatility, Trump framed it as a trade-off for upside potential. “You’re going to have volatility with something that has tremendous upside,” he said. “But I’ve never been more bullish on bitcoin in my life. I’ve never been more bullish on cryptocurrency in my life.”

The post comes as bitcoin trades just below $67,000, after failing to reclaim the $70,000, a level it has not visited since Feb. 15.

The World Liberty Financial forum, held Wednesday at Mar-a-Lago, is tied to World Liberty Financial, a crypto-focused venture backed by the Trump family.

Bitcoin (BTC) has four new key support levels to watch as a fresh wave of bearish BTC price action aims to push the market price below $50,000.

Key points:

• Bitcoin’s realized prices remain important milestones as the market forms a long-term floor.

• Binance users’ deposit cost basis is next up as a safety net, says analysis.

• Realized losses reach levels unseen since the end of the 2022 bear market.

BTC price analysis puts focus on Binance traders

New analysis from Burak Kesmeci, a contributor to onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, sees $58,700 as Bitcoin bulls’ next line in the sand.

“Which 4 levels am I watching in Bitcoin? 4 key realized price levels — essential for tracking the long-term trend in my view,” he wrote in one of CryptoQuant’s Quicktake blog posts on Wednesday, titled “Bitcoin’s Roadmap to the Bottom.”

Realized price refers to the aggregate cost basis of the BTC supply or a subset of it. When BTC moves onchain, its realized price becomes that at which it was last involved in a transaction.

Realized prices that involve larger groups of coins can often function as market support or resistance zones.

“Bitcoin has been dropping ever since it lost the New Whales’ cost basis — a classic bear cycle signal,” Kesmeci noted.

Newer Bitcoin whales’ aggregate buy-in price stands at $88,700, but with the price now far below, three others are on the radar. Older whales’ realized price is the lowest of the selection at $41,600, while Bitcoin’s overall cost basis now sits at $54,700.

Between the current spot price and those two levels, however, lies the realized price for deposit addresses (UDA RP) on major global crypto exchange Binance.

“From here, the 2 key supports I’ll be watching in order are Binance UDA RP and Bitcoin RP (58.7K and 54.7K),” Kesmeci added. 

“The reason: once Bitcoin falls below New Whales’ cost basis, it historically tends to at least test the Realized Price. And the only support standing between here and there is 58.7K.”

Bitcoin losses echo 2022 bear market bottom

While panic selling from exchange users has cooled since BTC/USD rebounded from 15-month lows near $59,000 at the start of February, CryptoQuant data underscores the risk of further capitulation.

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The proportion of the BTC supply currently held at an unrealized loss has reached 46%, its highest reading since the end of Bitcoin’s 2022 bear market.

“It is worth noting that the correction has been so severe that the increase in supply held at a loss has occurred very rapidly,” CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost commented on X during the $60,000 swing lows.

Last week, meanwhile, Darkfost reported similarly conspicuous levels of realized losses from Bitcoin investors — coins moving at a lower price than in their previous transaction.

“At its peak, on February 5, realized losses exceeded 30,000 BTC,” he confirmed. 

“This remains well below the extreme levels observed during the last bear market, when realized losses reached 92000 BTC and 80000 BTC on separate occasions. Nevertheless, it is still a clear sign that a capitulation phase has taken place.”