Lisbon, Portugal, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire

Ekiden, the first order book-based derivatives exchange, brings institutional-grade execution, private trading workflows, and on-chain settlement to the Canton ecosystem. 

The launch adds a professional execution layer to Canton’s growing financial ecosystem, enabling market participants to trade and settle derivatives on-chain using infrastructure designed around the requirements of institutional markets. 

Ekiden is built for professional trading firms, market makers, funds, banks, and institutional trading desks that require execution workflows closer to traditional capital markets than to retail-focused decentralized finance venues. 

The platform combines a central limit order book, or CLOB, with request-for-quote execution, PropAMM integration, a professional trading terminal, and API connectivity for market makers, algorithmic trading platforms, aggregators, exchanges, and funds. 

Ekiden also provides a streamlined entry point into the Canton ecosystem, allowing professional market participants to onboard, connect through its API, and begin trading without having to build their own Canton-native infrastructure.

Canton Network provides a privacy-enabled and interoperable environment for regulated financial markets, allowing institutions to coordinate transactions without making commercially sensitive information publicly visible. Ekiden extends that environment into derivatives trading by bringing execution, liquidity, and settlement together within a single venue. 

“Ekiden’s mainnet is a notable addition to Canton’s application layer, bringing order book execution, privacy, and settlement into a single venue designed for professional trading,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “Launches like this act as a catalyst as the network broadens its offerings in on-chain derivatives, and we look forward to seeing a range of venues and participants contribute to that growth over time.”

According to a 2026 Coinbase and EY survey, 73% of institutional decision-makers plan to increase their digital asset allocations. Supporting this growth requires reliable execution, liquidity, price discovery, privacy, and infrastructure capable of handling institutional order flow.

“Tokenization alone does not create institutional markets,” said Vitali Dervoed, founder and CEO of Ekiden. “For tokenized assets to trade at scale, institutions need execution quality, liquidity, privacy, and workflows that reflect how professional trading actually works. Canton provides the institutional environment. We add the trading infrastructure layer for on-chain derivatives.” 

Existing on-chain trading venues have largely developed around retail participation, passive liquidity pools, and public execution environments. Professional trading firms have different requirements, including deterministic execution, low-latency API access, configurable privacy, and the ability to manage positions and capital movements without exposing commercially sensitive information to the wider market. 

Ekiden’s architecture is intended to address these requirements while preserving the operational benefits of on-chain settlement. The platform allows the lifecycle of a derivatives transaction from price discovery and execution through to settlement to take place within Canton’s privacy-enabled environment. 

During its first week on the Canton testnet, Ekiden recorded 1,502 active users, more than 72,000 trades, and approximately $8.9 million in trading volume. The company is working with 11 integration partners and has integrated 12 market makers ahead of its expansion on mainnet. 

Initial liquidity is supported by market makers, including Keyrock, Kappa Lab, and Flowdesk. Ekiden plans to add further liquidity providers, onboard more institutional participants, and expand the range of derivatives available through the platform. 

In May 2026, Ekiden raised $2 million in seed financing to develop institutional-grade infrastructure for on-chain derivatives. The round included investors and strategic participants connected to GSR, Flowdesk, Pyth, Aptos, G20, DCF God, Curiosity Capital, and Keyrock. 

The mainnet launch strengthens Canton Network’s position as infrastructure for institutional digital markets by adding a dedicated venue for derivatives execution and settlement. It also broadens the range of financial activity that can take place across the network while maintaining the privacy and workflow controls required by professional market participants.

About Ekiden

Ekiden operates an institutional derivatives exchange on Canton Network, combining central limit order book and request-for-quote execution with on-chain settlement, privacy controls, and institutional custody workflows. The platform is live and open to proprietary trading firms, funds, market makers, and bank trading desks.

Get started

Onboarding information and API documentation are available at ekiden.fi

Contact

Sofia Bobrik
TechWaves PR
ceo@techwavespr.com

Lisbon, Portugal, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire

Ekiden, the first order book-based derivatives exchange, brings institutional-grade execution, private trading workflows, and on-chain settlement to the Canton ecosystem. 

The launch adds a professional execution layer to Canton’s growing financial ecosystem, enabling market participants to trade and settle derivatives on-chain using infrastructure designed around the requirements of institutional markets. 

Ekiden is built for professional trading firms, market makers, funds, banks, and institutional trading desks that require execution workflows closer to traditional capital markets than to retail-focused decentralized finance venues. 

The platform combines a central limit order book, or CLOB, with request-for-quote execution, PropAMM integration, a professional trading terminal, and API connectivity for market makers, algorithmic trading platforms, aggregators, exchanges, and funds. 

Ekiden also provides a streamlined entry point into the Canton ecosystem, allowing professional market participants to onboard, connect through its API, and begin trading without having to build their own Canton-native infrastructure.

Canton Network provides a privacy-enabled and interoperable environment for regulated financial markets, allowing institutions to coordinate transactions without making commercially sensitive information publicly visible. Ekiden extends that environment into derivatives trading by bringing execution, liquidity, and settlement together within a single venue. 

“Ekiden’s mainnet is a notable addition to Canton’s application layer, bringing order book execution, privacy, and settlement into a single venue designed for professional trading,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “Launches like this act as a catalyst as the network broadens its offerings in on-chain derivatives, and we look forward to seeing a range of venues and participants contribute to that growth over time.”

According to a 2026 Coinbase and EY survey, 73% of institutional decision-makers plan to increase their digital asset allocations. Supporting this growth requires reliable execution, liquidity, price discovery, privacy, and infrastructure capable of handling institutional order flow.

“Tokenization alone does not create institutional markets,” said Vitali Dervoed, founder and CEO of Ekiden. “For tokenized assets to trade at scale, institutions need execution quality, liquidity, privacy, and workflows that reflect how professional trading actually works. Canton provides the institutional environment. We add the trading infrastructure layer for on-chain derivatives.” 

Existing on-chain trading venues have largely developed around retail participation, passive liquidity pools, and public execution environments. Professional trading firms have different requirements, including deterministic execution, low-latency API access, configurable privacy, and the ability to manage positions and capital movements without exposing commercially sensitive information to the wider market. 

Ekiden’s architecture is intended to address these requirements while preserving the operational benefits of on-chain settlement. The platform allows the lifecycle of a derivatives transaction from price discovery and execution through to settlement to take place within Canton’s privacy-enabled environment. 

During its first week on the Canton testnet, Ekiden recorded 1,502 active users, more than 72,000 trades, and approximately $8.9 million in trading volume. The company is working with 11 integration partners and has integrated 12 market makers ahead of its expansion on mainnet. 

Initial liquidity is supported by market makers, including Keyrock, Kappa Lab, and Flowdesk. Ekiden plans to add further liquidity providers, onboard more institutional participants, and expand the range of derivatives available through the platform. 

In May 2026, Ekiden raised $2 million in seed financing to develop institutional-grade infrastructure for on-chain derivatives. The round included investors and strategic participants connected to GSR, Flowdesk, Pyth, Aptos, G20, DCF God, Curiosity Capital, and Keyrock. 

The mainnet launch strengthens Canton Network’s position as infrastructure for institutional digital markets by adding a dedicated venue for derivatives execution and settlement. It also broadens the range of financial activity that can take place across the network while maintaining the privacy and workflow controls required by professional market participants.

About Ekiden

Ekiden operates an institutional derivatives exchange on Canton Network, combining central limit order book and request-for-quote execution with on-chain settlement, privacy controls, and institutional custody workflows. The platform is live and open to proprietary trading firms, funds, market makers, and bank trading desks.

Get started

Onboarding information and API documentation are available at ekiden.fi

Contact

Sofia Bobrik
TechWaves PR
ceo@techwavespr.com

United States, 9th Sep 2026 – ICE recently launched its AI-powered quantitative trading platform globally on September 6th, marking a significant step forward in the platform’s development of digital tools for gold trading.

Leveraging a mature market trading system, the new AI-powered quantitative trading platform aims to provide global gold market participants with intelligent trading assistance tools, optimizing the efficiency of gold trading execution and adapting to the diverse trading reference needs of various market environments.

According to publicly available information from the platform, at the time of the platform’s launch, its assets under management exceeded US$185 million. This new platform integrates technological capabilities with gold spot and futures trading businesses, providing standardized gold trading technical services to market users in different regions around the world.

An ICE representative stated that the company will continue to adhere to industry standards, deeply cultivate the gold trading sector, iterate its intelligent technology products, and collaborate with multiple global industry resources to contribute to the digital development of the gold trading market.

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William Castro’s Korean War memoir, From Paradise to Hell, recounts the experiences of young Hawaiian soldiers who left island life for the front lines in Korea, preserving a personal history of friendship, courage, sacrifice and survival.

United States, 9th Sep 2026 – At eighteen years old, William Castro left the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of young men who had grown up surrounded by the ocean, family, and the traditions of island life. Within months, they would find themselves fighting on the frozen mountains of Korea.

That journey is at the heart of Castro’s new memoir, From Paradise to Hell: Tales of a Group of Boys Who Became Men and One A Giant Under Fire, a firsthand account of friendship, military service, sacrifice, and survival during the Korean War.

When the Korean War erupted in 1950, the conflict quickly became personal for communities across Hawaii as casualties from Hawaii’s own military units began returning home. Castro and other young men from across the islands made the decision to enlist and serve. Most were teenagers, and some had barely begun adulthood.

Among them was Leroy Kauhini, a seventeen-year-old from Oahu whose story becomes one of the book’s most powerful threads. Too young to sign his own enlistment papers, Leroy needed his mother’s permission before joining the group.

Together, the young recruits traveled from Hawaii to Japan and eventually into South Korea, where the war they had heard about in newspapers and on the radio became a terrifying reality. Castro recalls arriving in a country devastated by conflict and encountering civilians fleeing the fighting before being sent toward the front.

The young soldiers were eventually assigned to the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, and introduced to the harsh realities of frontline combat.

Among the most dramatic episodes in the memoir is the battle for Hill 717, where Castro witnesses Leroy Kauhini advancing through intense enemy fire. The battle becomes a defining moment – not only in the war, but in Castro’s understanding of the courage and character of the young men beside him.

Yet From Paradise to Hell is more than a chronicle of battles.

Castro brings readers inside the lives of the men behind the uniforms – their jokes, fears, friendships, memories of Hawaii, and the bond that developed between soldiers who had entered the Army as boys. Humor becomes a means of surviving the unimaginable, while memories of home provide an emotional counterpoint to the violence surrounding them.

The book ultimately asks readers to look beyond military statistics and historical timelines and remember the young people who lived through them.

“This is the story of the boys who went to war,” Castro writes – not simply as soldiers, but as sons, cousins, friends, and brothers whose lives were permanently changed by their service.

The memoir is dedicated to the young men who volunteered and traveled with Castro to South Korea on January 1, 1951, as well as to the men and boys from Hawaii who answered the call to duty and made the ultimate sacrifice.

With From Paradise to Hell, Castro preserves a personal chapter of Korean War history and gives readers an opportunity to experience the conflict through the eyes of the young Hawaiian soldiers who lived it.

About From Paradise to Hell

From Paradise to Hell: Tales of a Group of Boys Who Became Men and One A Giant Under Fire

Author: William Castro
Genre: Memoir / Military History
Publication: 2026

About William Castro

William Castro is a Korean War veteran who served as a young soldier after leaving Hawaii for Korea in 1951. In From Paradise to Hell, he recounts the experiences of his fellow soldiers and the events that transformed a group of young men from Hawaii into combat veterans.

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Singapore, Singapore, September 9th, 2026, FinanceWire

Tradition today announced a strategic partnership with Affin Moneybrokers Sdn. Bhd., one of Malaysia’s leading interbank money brokers, under which Tradition will provide market data infrastructure, pricing technology and distribution capabilities to support Affin’s continued growth in the Malaysian financial markets.

The partnership brings together Tradition’s global expertise in market data, pricing technologies and information distribution with AFFIN Moneybrokers’ established position in Malaysia’s wholesale financial markets. Through the collaboration, Tradition will provide pricing tools, data management capabilities and publication services designed to enhance the creation, management and distribution of market data across foreign exchange, money markets, rates and fixed income products. 

Affin Moneybrokers is the growing brokerage business and part of the Affin Group and plays an important role in Malaysia’s interbank Foreign Exchange, OTC Derivative, Fixed Income and Money Markets, acting as an intermediary between financial institutions supporting price transparency and market efficiency. 

The partnership reflects growing demand across Asia for locally sourced, trusted market data and pricing information. By combining AFFIN’s market expertise with Tradition’s technology, data engineering and distribution capabilities, the two firms aim to further strengthen the availability and quality of Malaysian market data for domestic and international market participants. 

www.traditionasia.com

www.affingroup.com/en/affin-moneybrokers 

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A failed hydraulic hose can bring valuable machinery to a standstill, prompting Completely Hydraulic to highlight the growing importance of mobile repair support across London and the South East.

Essex, United Kingdom, 9th Sep 2026 – For a construction company, warehouse operator or industrial business, the failure of a relatively small hydraulic hose can have consequences far greater than the cost of the component itself.

An excavator can stop digging. A loading machine can become unusable. Access equipment can be immobilised. Work can slow or stop while a business waits for the machinery to be repaired.

It is a problem Completely Hydraulic has been dealing with for more than two decades, and one that has helped shape the company’s mobile approach to hydraulic breakdowns across London and the South East.

Instead of automatically requiring failed hydraulic equipment to be transported to a workshop, the company sends hydraulic engineers directly to construction sites, warehouses, industrial premises and other locations where machinery has broken down.

Its emergency hydraulic hose repair operation is designed around a simple principle: when an essential machine has stopped working, taking the repair capability to the machine can be the most practical way of helping a customer get moving again.

Hydraulic hoses operate under demanding conditions and can fail through age-related deterioration, abrasion, damaged fittings, heat or excessive movement. Although a failed hose may appear to be a relatively straightforward component failure, its position within a hydraulic system means the effect on the machine can be immediate.

For businesses working to schedules, deadlines or production targets, the resulting downtime can quickly become more significant than the original repair.

Daren Partridge, spokesperson for Completely Hydraulic, said: “When a hydraulic hose fails, the hose itself is often only a small part of the customer’s problem. What really matters to them is that a machine has stopped, people may be waiting and a job isn’t getting done.

“That is why mobile hydraulic engineering is so important. If we can take an experienced engineer and the appropriate repair capability to the equipment, we have a much better opportunity to help the customer deal with the breakdown without unnecessary delay.”

Completely Hydraulic’s engineers can assess a hose failure at the customer’s location, identify the hose and fittings required and, where circumstances allow, manufacture and install a replacement hydraulic hose assembly.

The engineer can also consider what may have contributed to the failure. Abrasion against another component, unsuitable routing, deterioration or damage around fittings can sometimes provide useful clues as to why a hose has failed.

This wider engineering capability has become increasingly important as construction, industrial and logistics businesses continue to rely on hydraulically operated machinery.

Construction plant, excavators, cranes, piling equipment, access machinery, loading equipment and industrial systems are among the many applications where hydraulic failure can have an immediate operational impact.

Completely Hydraulic has been operating since 2004 and today supports customers through locations serving London, Essex, Kent and the Heathrow area, including operations in Dagenham, Harlow, Belvedere and Hayes.

The company’s mobile hydraulic engineering service is supported by its workshop and trade counter operations, allowing Completely Hydraulic to deal with requirements extending beyond an individual hose failure.

These include hydraulic hose assemblies, pumps, valves, manifolds, power packs, accumulators, diagnostics, oil filtration and flushing, preventative maintenance and hydraulic ram and cylinder repairs.

Partridge believes the value of an emergency hydraulic service ultimately comes down to understanding what a breakdown means to the customer.

“Nobody plans for a hose to fail in the middle of a working day,” he said. “The customer wants to know that there is somebody they can call who understands hydraulic equipment and can come to them.

“After more than 20 years in hydraulics, keeping machinery moving remains at the heart of what we do.”

With businesses across construction, transport, manufacturing, warehousing and infrastructure continuing to depend heavily on hydraulic equipment, Completely Hydraulic says mobile engineering will remain a central part of its operation throughout London and the South East.

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Blue Meridian Capital (BMC) is advancing the Prime Growth Strategy (PGS) framework in Nigeria, with the initiative entering its live-market execution phase on 8 September. Led by Babajide David Awolowo, the framework focuses on high-frequency quantitative trading, direct market access and disciplined intraday execution as part of a broader approach to structured capital-market participation.

Nigeria, 8th Sep 2026 – As global investors continue to assess opportunities across emerging African markets, attention is increasingly turning towards the role of quantitative infrastructure in improving execution discipline and market participation. In Nigeria, the latest development of the Prime Growth Strategy (PGS) is bringing this discussion into sharper focus.

Led by Babajide David Awolowo, the framework entered its live-market execution phase on 8 September. Its underlying approach combines high-frequency quantitative trading models with DMA-based execution, using predefined rules and data-driven processes rather than relying primarily on discretionary market judgement. 

At the centre of the framework is the analysis of short-term pricing movements and order-book conditions. The system is designed to process market data at high speed, analyse short-term pricing conditions and support execution decisions within predefined parameters. Positions are structured around intraday activity, with the framework designed to avoid carrying positions overnight.

This approach reflects a broader shift within institutional trading towards automated execution, where technology, market data and risk parameters play an increasingly important role in determining how capital is deployed.

Structured capital leverage is also incorporated into the PGS framework to support capital efficiency. Rather than treating leverage as a standalone return mechanism, the model combines it with systematic hedging processes, predefined exposure limits and systematic risk controls intended to manage downside exposure during trading activity.

Awolowo’s recent work has focused on the strategic application of institutional quantitative methods to Nigerian market conditions, including how data-driven execution, risk frameworks and market-access technologies may support more structured participation.

The framework also places emphasis on full-depth order-book data and rapid execution capabilities. These tools are intended to help identify short-lived market imbalances that may be difficult to capture through conventional manual trading processes.

According to the project’s underlying approach, the objective is not to depend on directional market forecasts, but to create a more systematic process around data analysis, execution discipline and risk management.

As technology becomes increasingly embedded in capital-market infrastructure, frameworks such as PGS illustrate how quantitative methods may contribute to a more structured form of market participation. The development also reflects growing interest in how established institutional trading concepts can be adapted to the operational characteristics of emerging financial markets.

About Blue Meridian Capital (BMC)

Blue Meridian Capital (BMC) is a UK-based asset management firm focused on institutional quantitative trading and structured market strategies. Its approach incorporates high-frequency quantitative models, direct market access infrastructure, API-based execution, structured capital management and systematic risk controls. BMC focuses on applying data-driven trading methodologies to different market environments while emphasising execution discipline, intraday positioning and technology-supported risk management. Through initiatives including Prime Growth Strategy (PGS), the firm explores how research, quantitative methods, investment discipline and technology-supported processes may contribute to more structured participation across global and emerging capital markets.

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