Delaware Life Insurance Company will offer a BlackRock-built index across three fixed indexed annuities, blending U.S. equities with a risk-managed Bitcoin allocation sourced via the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, so investors do not own BTC directly. The approach targets roughly 12% volatility while preserving principal under annuity terms, and the company reported topping $40 billion in cumulative annuity sales as of November 2025.

At a closed-door World Economic Forum workshop in Davos, Hong Kong Finance Secretary Paul Chan reaffirmed the city's "same activity, same risk, same regulation" framework for digital assets and called for guardrails to match financial innovation. He highlighted Hong Kong's licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms, upcoming stablecoin licenses in the first quarter and the issuance of $2.1 billion in tokenized green bonds since 2023.

Injective's community approved governance proposal IIP-617 with 99.89% support, reducing INJ issuance while preserving the network's buyback-and-burn mechanism. The changes are live and aim to accelerate supply removal; roughly 6.85 million INJ have already been burned. INJ fell about 8% that day, with its price down nearly 80% year-on-year and TVL at $18.67 million.

Revolut has applied for a full banking license in Peru as part of its Latin American expansion, aiming to target remittances and cross-border payments. The neobank plans to compete with established lenders in markets including Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, while building on strong growth in its crypto and stablecoin offerings. Its strategy comes as regional fintechs such as Mercado Libre, Nubank and Lemon ramp up dollar-pegged stablecoin products across Latin America.

Uniswap has gone live on OKX's X Layer, an Ethereum layer-2 network launched in 2024, where it will function as the chain's preferred decentralized exchange. The integration connects X Layer users to Uniswap's token pairs and liquidity pools at layer-2 transaction costs, with no additional fees from Uniswap Labs, and forms a key part of OKX's phase-two DeFi rollout strategy.

According to the company's Monday announcement, Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 24,266 ETH over the past week, raising its treasury to about 4.17 million ETH, or roughly 3.4% of circulating supply. Chair Tom Lee is urging shareholder approval to increase authorized shares ahead of Thursday's annual meeting in Las Vegas to support a 5% supply target.

Nexo introduced "Zero-interest Credit", a fixed-term borrowing product for Bitcoin and Ether holders with no interest. Borrowers set size and duration upfront, face no liquidation before maturity, and can settle in stablecoins or with collateral; the structured model previously facilitated over $140 million in 2025 via private and OTC channels.

Temple Digital Group has introduced a private institutional trading platform on the Canton Network, offering round-the-clock access to cryptocurrencies and stablecoins through a non-custodial, central limit order book model. The live venue supports asset managers, market makers and financial institutions, with support for tokenized equities and commodities targeted for 2026. Recent activity on Canton also includes tokenized US Treasury financing trials and plans to bring JPM Coin and tokenized Treasurys onto the network.

Babylon, a protocol for native Bitcoin staking and lending, received $15 million via a BABY token sale to fund its trustless collateral infrastructure on Wednesday. The team is building vaults that let BTC serve as onchain collateral without wrappers or custodians, with Aave V4 testing planned for Q1 2026 and a joint launch targeted for April 2026.