KuCoin is using a freshly minted MiCA license to wire crypto payments and perks into Tomorrowland’s flagship festivals. KuCoin announced an exclusive multiyear deal with Tomorrowland Winter and Tomorrowland Belgium from 2026 to 2028, making the exchange the music festival’s exclusive crypto and payments partner. The move comes just weeks after KuCoin secured a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) service provider license in the European Union. KuCoin EU Exchange recently obtained a crypto asset service provider license in Austria under the EU’s MiCA regime, giving it a fully regulated foothold in the bloc as Brussels’ new rulebook for exchanges, custody and stablecoins comes into force. Read more
E-Acumulatori.ro, a renewable solutions provider and photovoltaic system installer founded by Dan Tudose, ended the first 10 months of 2025 with 30% higher turnover and expects to cross the EUR10 million threshold by yearend.
Patria Credit IFN S.A., Romania’s oldest non-bank financial institution dedicated to microfinance, has signed a EUR1.8 million grant agreement with the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) for the implementation of the project “Seeds of Change – Building viable businesses for Roma communities and smallholder farmers.”
The proposal seeks a binding social consensus that the funds will never be accessed through future protocol upgrades. The Hyper Foundation proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the Hyperliquid protocol’s Assistance Fund system address as permanently inaccessible, excluding them from the asset’s circulating and total supply. According to the foundation, the Assistance Fund is a protocol-level mechanism embedded in the layer-1 network’s execution. It automatically converts trading fees into HYPE tokens and routes them to a designated system address. At the time of writing, the wallet contains about $1 billion in tokens. The system address was designed without control mechanisms, making the funds irretrievable without a hard fork. “By voting ‘Yes,’ validators agree to treat the Assistance Fund HYPE as burned,” Hyper Foundation wrote. Read more
OMV Petrom, the largest integrated energy producer in Southeastern-Eastern Europe, has announced the completion of an investment in the Petrobrazi refinery for a new sulphur recovery unit, worth EUR45 million.