December 17, 2025

Movement and KAST Unlock Stablecoin Spending at 150M+ Merchants, with 4% Rewards Leave a reply The People’s Chain meets mobile-first payments: Spend crypto anywhere, earn MOVE rewards SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Movement Network today announced its partnership with KAST, the mobile-first payment platform that makes spending crypto as easy as using any payment card anywhere in the world. This partnership marks a major milestone in Movement’s mission to build the People’s Chain: a blockchain designed to solve real problems for real people. Through this partnership, over half a million KAST users can earn $MOVE tokens with every transaction. All KAST card users can spend their crypto in everyday transactions at more than 150 million merchants that accept Visa around the world, all while earning 4% on their spend in $MOVE on top of existing KAST Points incentives. This partnership introduces the first dual-rewards structure of its kind: users earn both KAST Points and $MOVE tokens on every purchase and can claim their $MOVE rewards directly in the KAST app, making this the first spending rewards program in Move history. The timing is significant. Stablecoins have hit an inflection point in real-world usage, processing over $9 trillion in adjusted volume over the past year. That utility is now entering the mainstream fintech sector, with Visa reporting a fourfold increase in stablecoin-linked card spending in Q4. But most crypto cards still operate as one-way bridges, letting users spend crypto without giving them reasons to stay in the ecosystem. Movement x KAST changes that fundamentally, creating a true circular economy between everyday commerce and on-chain participation. KAST is purpose-built for the same audience Movement serves: people who want crypto to work in their daily lives. The platform is mobile-first and designed for seamless real-world payments using stablecoins. “Move is for money – that was always

The People’s Chain meets mobile-first payments: Spend crypto anywhere, earn MOVE rewards SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Movement Network today announced its partnership with KAST, the mobile-first payment platform that makes spending crypto as easy as using any payment card anywhere in the world. This partnership marks a major milestone in Movement’s mission to build the People’s Chain: a blockchain designed to solve real problems for real people. Through this partnership, over half a million KAST users can earn $MOVE tokens with every transaction. All KAST card users can spend their crypto in everyday transactions at more than 150 million merchants that accept Visa around the world, all while earning 4% on their spend in $MOVE on top of existing KAST Points incentives. This partnership introduces the first dual-rewards structure of its kind: users earn both KAST Points and $MOVE tokens on every purchase and can claim their $MOVE rewards directly in the KAST app, making this the first spending rewards program in Move history. The timing is significant. Stablecoins have hit an inflection point in real-world usage, processing over $9 trillion in adjusted volume over the past year. That utility is now entering the mainstream fintech sector, with Visa reporting a fourfold increase in stablecoin-linked card spending in Q4. But most crypto cards still operate as one-way bridges, letting users spend crypto without giving them reasons to stay in the ecosystem. Movement x KAST changes that fundamentally, creating a true circular economy between everyday commerce and on-chain participation. KAST is purpose-built for the same audience Movement serves: people who want crypto to work in their daily lives. The platform is mobile-first and designed for seamless real-world payments using stablecoins. “Move is for money – that was always the vision when Mark Zuckerberg and the Libra team

Bitget Launches Gold, Forex and Commodities Markets for Crypto Users Leave a reply Bitget Launches Gold, Forex and Commodities Markets for Crypto Users Bitget Launches Gold, Forex and Commodities Markets for Crypto Users VICTORIA, Seychelles, Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today announced the launch of the private beta for Bitget TradFi, a new cross-market feature that gives crypto users direct access to global forex, metals, commodities, indices, and stock CFDs using USDT as margin. Selected users are now able to test this new feature with limited early-access capabilities. The addressable market is vast. According to the Bank for International Settlements, global FX turnover has reached around $9.6 trillion per day, up nearly 30% from 2022, while OTC interest-rate and FX derivatives trade in the trillions daily and sit on top of more than $700 trillion in notional outstanding. Retail access to this activity is increasingly delivered via CFDs, with the global CFD broker market estimated at $5.6 billion in 2025 revenues and projected to almost double by 2035. Bitget TradFi positions the exchange to tap into this growing segment by bringing it onto the same rails as digital assets. TradFi allows existing Bitget users to trade major FX pairs, gold and other mainstream CFD products from the same platform they already use for spot, futures, copy trading and tokenized stocks. All positions are margined and settled in USDT, removing the need for separate broker accounts, local bank wires or currency conversions. The product combines deep institutional liquidity, tight spreads and leverage of up to 500x within a framework regulated by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of Mauritius. The platform’s fee structure is also designed to be highly competitive, with rates starting as low as $0.09 per lot and VIP users enjoying some of the industry’s most favorable trading conditions. “The

Nyxoah Announces Commercial Launch of Genio® Breakthrough Therapy in the Netherlands First Genio implants successfully performed at OLVG West and Zuyderland hospitals Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – December 17, 2025, 7:05am CET / 1:05am ET – Nyxoah SA (Euronext Brussels/Nasdaq: NYXH) (“Nyxoah” or the “Company”), a medical technology company that develops breakthrough treatment alternatives for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) through neuromodulation, today announced the commercial launch of its Genio® system in the Netherlands, marked by the first successful Genio implants performed at OLVG West in Amsterdam and Zuyderland Hospital in Heerlen. Commenting on the introduction of Genio in Amsterdam, Dr. Peter van Maanen, ENT surgeon at OLVG West, stated: “Dr. Mayke Hentschel, our sleep department and I are pleased to offer our patients an additional treatment option for OSA when CPAP is not tolerated. With Genio, patients finally have a real choice. The system stimulates both branches of the nerve, has no internal battery, is full body 1.5 and 3T MRI-compatible, and can be easily upgraded via the external activation chip. These features make it a promising long-term solution for both patients and healthcare providers.” At Zuyderland Hospital, Dr. Jos Straetmans, ENT surgeon in Heerlen and Sittard, added: “Introducing the Genio bilateral neurostimulation system expands our ability to tailor therapy to the needs of each individual patient. Its advantages: no implanted battery, and reliable performance in the supine position make it a valuable addition to our treatment arsenal. We are excited to bring this innovative, European developed technology to patients in our community.” “The commercial launch of Genio in the Netherlands marks another important step in our European rollout and reflects growing adoption of our bilateral, externally powered Genio therapy,” commented Olivier Taelman, Nyxoah’s Chief Executive Officer. “We are proud to partner with leading Dutch centers to bring Genio to patients seeking an effective