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The 25-30 side chain of CTC Civil travel service chain is officially on the chain
On December 23, Daniel Smith, CEO of Singapore Done Fund Management Institution and CEO of CTC, reached a strategic consensus with the heads of the six new side chains after in-depth communication and discussion for many times, and announced that the six side chains of CTC Global Cultural Travel Chain (VEA, LMA, HVA, MCO, WAS and VNC) were officially linked up. Due to the impact of the global COVID-19 epidemic, the strategic press conference that was scheduled to be held in Singapore was not held as scheduled. This multi-party strategic cooperation was finally reached in the form of electronic agreement.
Singapore Done the fund management organ CEO, the chief executive of CTC, Daniel Smith, for six side chain fixed anchor (Vienna, Austria, Lima, Peru, Havana, Cuba, Mexico City, Warsaw, Poland, Venice, Italy), the characteristics of human geography environment and beautiful landscape, said after the outbreak must personally go to feel the unique local customs. It is reported that six new side chain operation centers are set up in the business centers of six cities, and reached strategic consensus with the famous local travel companies.

Vienna, on the Danube river in northeastern Austria, is known as the “capital of music” in the world. Stopping on this city street full of musical notes is always a romantic scene, which makes people easily fall in love unawares, just like the nature of romance in Vienna. Most of Vienna’s tourist attractions are open all year round, such as The Schonbrunn Palace, hofburg Palace, Belfort Palace and the Vienna Museum, of which the Schonbrunn Palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Lima is the capital of Peru and the largest economic and cultural center in the country. It is located on the coastal irrigation oasis. In Lima is always most of the colonial period, South America is the most important political and commercial centers of power, therefore retained a large number of colonial buildings, such as large monasteries catacombs Francis, the central plaza, SAN street plaza and the buildings also earned Lima, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO awarded the “world cultural heritage” of reputation.
Located on the northwest coast of The Island of Cuba, Havana is the capital of the Republic of Cuba. It is located in the tropics, with a mild climate and pleasant seasons. It is known as the “Pearl of the Caribbean”, with many ancient churches, castles, squares, museums, monuments, parks, libraries and so on. The port city of distinctive and lasting appeal, classical and modern, the new world and old world, white and black, high culture and the lowbrow, all elements full of collision, there are telltale signs here, all seemingly independent individuals, together in the sunshine and the vibrant tropical port harmonious unify.
Mexico City is not only the capital of Mexico, but also the largest city in Mexico. Architectural buildings, historical sites, museums, palaces, monuments, shopping malls, government buildings, everything in Mexico City. The water garden on the Hochmirco Canal is the city’s largest tourist attraction, as well as landmark buildings such as the El Angel Daily Independent newspaper and the Angel of Independence Victory Column. Mexico City is the headquarters of many large media companies and Spanish newspapers. About 20% of the Mexican population lives in Mexico City, so this city is also known as the city that never sleeps.
Warsaw is the capital of the Republic of Poland, and the famous Warsaw Convention was signed here. Today, Warsaw still maintains the layout of the old and new cities. Various historical monuments and places of interest are mostly concentrated in the old city, attracting a large number of tourists from abroad every year. The Old Town is located on the west bank of the Vistula River. It is a cluster of majestic and majestic red spire buildings in the Middle Ages. The famous ancient buildings include the former Royal Palace known as the “Polish National Cultural Monument” and the most beautiful and magnificent Baroque building in Warsaw. Base Palace, Lazienki Palace, an outstanding representative of Polish classical architecture, etc.
Venice is the capital of the Veneto region in northern Italy, a world-famous historical and cultural city, and the birthplace of the Venetian school of painting. Its architecture, paintings, sculptures, operas, etc. have an extremely important position and influence in the world. The water city of Venice is the essence of the Renaissance, and it is also the only city in the world without cars. God shed tears here, but made it more crystal clear and tender, just like a romantic dream floating on the blue waves, enjoying “because of water There is the reputation of life, beautiful because of water, and prosperity because of water, and the reputation of “water city”.
In the context of the global epidemic situation is not optimistic and the economy is complex and changeable, the tourism industry is still an industry with stable market demand and a good development momentum in recent years. It has exceeded the global economic average growth rate for 7 consecutive years and has become the fastest growing industry one. With the integration of the global tourism industry and digitalization, the future will gradually achieve leapfrog development, bringing new horizons to the holiday economy and new development opportunities for the digital cultural tourism industry.
The so-called hero sees the same. The heads of CTC and the six new side chains agreed that the future development trend of the cultural and tourism industry will be to integrate blockchain technology into it, which is the need for the in-depth development of the integration of culture and tourism in the new economic environment. By building a new industrial ecological application system through blockchain technology, the cultural tourism industry will accelerate the circulation of assets, empower the growth of the digital economy, and promote the sustainable development of the cultural tourism industry’s digitization, capitalization, and ecologicalization.
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Frank Lauletta on the Warning Signs Business Owners Miss Before Legal Trouble Starts
Pennsylvania, USA, Oct 14, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Frank Lauletta has spent his career advising companies across software, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and professional services. Across those industries, he says the businesses that avoid expensive legal problems are rarely the ones with the most lawyers on retainer. They are the ones that notice small warning signs before those signs become big ones.
“By the time a shareholder dispute reaches a courtroom, the real problem usually started years earlier,” Frank says. “Someone saw it coming and didn’t act on it.”
Sign One: Contracts That Were Never Built to Repeat
A lot of companies grow using whatever agreement worked the last time. Sales terms get copied from one deal to the next, with small edits here and there. Frank says this is one of the clearest signs a business has outgrown its own paperwork.
“If every contract looks a little different, that’s not flexibility. That’s risk sitting in a drawer,” he says. Standardized sales agreements, licensing terms, and terms of use exist for a reason: they remove ambiguity before a negotiation starts, not after it goes wrong.
Sign Two: A Founder Who Is the Only Plan
Frank often works with business owners who built something successful but never wrote down what happens if they step back, sell, or pass the business to someone else. He treats this as a warning sign worth taking seriously, not a distant concern.
“Succession planning isn’t about assuming the worst,” Frank says. “It’s about making sure the business doesn’t depend on one person being available forever.” Companies that wait until a transition is already underway tend to make rushed decisions. Those decisions are harder to unwind than the ones made early.
Sign Three: Disagreements Among Owners That Get Smoothed Over Instead of Resolved
Shareholder disputes rarely start as disputes. They start as disagreements that two partners decide not to put in writing because the relationship feels fine for now. Frank has represented clients on both sides of these situations, including in litigation when a disagreement could not be resolved another way.
“The owners who come to me early, before a disagreement hardens into a position, almost always have more options,” he says. “Once people stop talking and start preparing for a fight, the choices narrow fast.”
Sign Four: Outside Counsel Who Only Hears From You When Something Breaks
Frank frequently serves as outside general counsel to companies, working alongside executive teams on decisions that shape where a business is headed. He says one sign a company is managing legal risk poorly is simple: its lawyer only hears from them after a problem has already happened.
“If the first call I get is the crisis call, we’ve already lost time we didn’t need to lose,” Frank says. “Legal strategy works best when it’s part of the conversation before a deal closes, not after.”
Sign Five: Growth That Outpaces the Agreements Behind It
Fast growth is good news until the paperwork underneath it stops matching the business. Royalty structures, licensing models, and joint venture agreements that made sense at one size can create real exposure at another. Frank says this is a sign that gets missed often, because growth itself feels like proof that everything is working.
“A company can be doing everything right on the business side and still be carrying agreements that don’t fit anymore,” he says. “That gap is where problems start.”
What These Signs Have in Common
None of these signs are dramatic on their own. A copied contract, an unwritten succession plan, a disagreement nobody addressed. Frank says the pattern that connects them is timing: each one is cheap to fix early and expensive to fix late.
“My job isn’t to wait for the fire,” he says. “It’s to help a business notice the smoke.”
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About Frank Lauletta
Frank Lauletta is an attorney and founding member of Lauletta Birnbaum, LLC, based in Sewell, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He advises companies across software, technology, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, and professional services, with a practice that includes outside general counsel work, business transitions, succession planning, and shareholder disputes. Frank earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware and his Juris Doctor with Tax Honors from Rutgers Law School.
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Press Release
Bybit Expands Beyond Crypto as CEO Outlines Next Phase of Financial Platform
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou has outlined the latest stage of the company’s expansion from a crypto exchange into The New Financial Platform, highlighting new products and collaborations across traditional and digital markets.
The updates were presented during Bybit’s latest biannual “Keynote with Ben” session titled “Make Your Move”, where Ben discussed the convergence of financial markets and the company’s approach to building for that shift. Held outside the usual studio format, in a gathering with a live audience, the keynote brought Ben together with selected guests to discuss changes in the financial landscape, new technologies and the products shaping Bybit’s next phase.
Four Years of TradFi Expansion, With Stocks Now Live and mStocks Ahead
Four years after entering traditional finance with contracts for difference (CFDs) in 2022, Bybit has established itself as the largest crypto CFD platform, with trading volume reaching as much as $100 billion at its peak. On Oct. 12, the company expanded further into traditional markets with the launch of stock trading for eligible users, providing access to more than 1,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs. Users can trade using USDC, with fractional shares and 24/5 access covering U.S. pre-market, regular and after-hours sessions.
Bybit is also developing mStocks in collaboration with Mantle, with a targeted launch in November. The tokenized stock product is designed to be backed 1:1 by real stocks, with plans to support round-the-clock conversion between eligible stocks and mStocks on Bybit, as well as decentralized exchange trading through automated market maker (AMM) liquidity pools on Mantle. Converted mStocks are also expected to be transferable into Bybit’s Unified Trading Account (UTA) for use as trading collateral, subject to applicable terms and conditions.
Bybit launched IPO Express in June, giving eligible users access to selected IPO opportunities at the offering price through tokenized representations of the underlying securities. The service launched with SpaceX and is designed to extend Bybit’s access beyond secondary-market trading into selected primary-market opportunities.
The latest developments build on Bybit’s expansion into perpetuals, pre-market products, foreign exchange and options. Its TradFi offering now spans more than 600 products across equities, ETFs, indices, commodities and FX. TradFi perpetuals have recorded more than $180 billion in trading volume, while recent additions include Forex Perps and Perp Options, an industry-first options product built on TradFi perpetuals.
Bybit is continuing to develop new perpetual products linked to AI computing and commodities, extending its range of instruments beyond conventional crypto markets.
Extending the Platform into Payments
Beyond trading and investing, Bybit has expanded its payments infrastructure to help customers move funds with greater flexibility. Bybit Pay and Bybit Card support crypto and fiat transfers, merchant payments and everyday spending. The service now connects users with more than 5,000 merchants across 15+ countries and supports transfers to bank accounts and e-wallets, alongside QR payments and other payment services. Bybit has issued more than 4 million Bybit Cards, extending the platform’s use beyond financial markets into payments and spending.
Security and Regulatory Infrastructure
The expansion has been accompanied by investment in security, compliance and technology infrastructure.
In the first half of 2026, Bybit said it intercepted more than 30,000 suspicious withdrawal requests, protecting users from more than $700 million in potential losses.
Bybit also secured five new licenses and regulatory approvals across European Union, the Cayman Islands, Indonesia, South Africa and El Salvador during 2026. These regulatory developments support the company’s efforts to expand its presence across different markets, subject to local requirements.
The company launched Bybit AI in September as a conversational assistant across trading, account management and customer support, with further development planned around the platform’s wider financial services.
“Bybit is all about giving you the speed and scale you need when you Make Your Move. We have brought trading, investing, payments and AI together, and we are continuing to add more markets and more ways to use them. We built the platform. Now it is about giving people the financial freedom to make their own move,” said Ben Zhou, Co-founder and CEO of Bybit.
Building Beyond the Exchange
Four years after entering TradFi, Bybit now combines crypto markets with stocks and ETFs, derivatives, commodities, FX, selected pre-IPO access, payments and AI-powered services. The company’s focus is increasingly on bringing these capabilities together within a single platform while continuing to expand market access, product depth and the infrastructure supporting them.
For Bybit, the development of The New Financial Platform represents the next stage of its growth beyond crypto and into a broader role across global financial markets.
Watch the full keynote here: https://www.bybit.com/en/press/live/keynote-with-ben-h2-2026

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Meet A7 International, an Innovative Global Platform Designed to Reinvent the International Payments Market
Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients.
In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up with a new product for foreign clients.
The launch of A7 International marks a new stage in A7’s journey. In response to requests from foreign entrepreneurs, the company is expanding its positioning and creating an export offering for businesses in various countries. It is a remote service compliant with local legislation on digital assets and available only in those jurisdictions where cryptocurrency circulation is permitted.
“We are presenting not just a new product in the lineup, but a new image of A7. We have adapted our service so that it can be used remotely from anywhere in the world. This is precisely the key demand of market participants today. They want to be able to transfer money around the world in a few clicks in the shortest possible time – directly from your smartphone, without lengthy paperwork, hidden fees, or unjustified holds on funds. And we are packaging this demand into a convenient and competitive form,” said Chairman of Bank PSB Petr Fradkov.
The mechanics of the service are simple: the client transfers USDT, and A7 arranges a bank transfer via SWIFT using the counterparty details specified in the invoice. The recipient does not need to accept cryptocurrency or open a crypto wallet: the funds arrive in their bank account.
To submit an application, you need to register in your personal account on the website a7.biz. Individuals undergo identity verification (KYC), and companies undergo corporate data verification (KYB). Then the client uploads the invoice and the necessary documents. The built-in algorithm automatically recognizes the invoice data and helps fill out the application.
“The system operates as follows. AI analyzes the sender and beneficiary, jurisdictions, and key risk factors of the transaction. Based on the verification results, a risk profile of the payment is formed and the available options for processing it are determined. The system compares compliance requirements with the capabilities of the existing payment infrastructure. After that, it recommends the optimal payment route taking into account its cost, speed, reliability, and applicable restrictions. Routing dynamically adapts to changes in conditions and the availability of payment channels. Data accumulated over the years makes it possible to continuously improve the quality of decisions made by the system,” noted A7 CEO Ilan Shor.
At launch, A7 International accepts USDT on the TRON network. Bank transfers are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan, and UAE dirhams. Other currencies are available by prior agreement. The commission is 0.3% for both businesses and individuals. After uploading the invoice, the client sees the final cost of the payment, including commission, in advance.
Payment execution time is from one business day. After the operation is completed, the client receives a SWIFT message or another confirming document. For currency and customs control, the service also provides closing documents.
The presentation of the service took place on a symbolic date and time — October 13 at 13:13.
Video of the official presentation and Customer journey here.
About A7
A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank.
A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes.
A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA.
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