OilXCoin has taken a major step toward bringing energy markets onchain. The project launched secondary trading on regulated platforms Archax and Assetera while securing its first U.S. oil & gas lease in Kansas.

Tether is expanding beyond stablecoins. A $150M stake in Gold.com and a USD₮-powered payments rail via t-0 show it building real-world financial infrastructure at scale.

Japan’s $74B financial group SBI Holdings is leaning further into digital assets. Revenue jumped 47% to ~$9.5B, profits surged 245% to ~$2.23B, and its crypto unit delivered $460M in revenue with $141M in pre-tax profit.

CoolWallet has integrated TRON’s energy rental system to lower transaction costs for TRX and TRC-20 transfers, giving users faster, cheaper payments without sacrificing self-custody.

This week, Tether announced the release of Mining OS (MOS), an open-source BTC mining management platform designed to replace the proprietary, vendor-locked systems that dominate the industry today. The software is built to scale.

Bitnomial has launched the first-ever U.S.-listed Tezos (XTZ) futures, giving institutional and retail traders access to a CFTC-regulated derivatives market with crypto or USD margining.