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Bitget Appoints MotoGP Champion Jorge Lorenzo as the Security Ambassador of the UEX ecosystem

Bitget Appoints MotoGP Champion Jorge Lorenzo as the Security Ambassador of the UEX ecosystem

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has announced the appointment of MotoGP legend Jorge Lorenzo as its Security Ambassador coinciding with Data Privacy Day. This partnership follows a series of successful season-long activations across major racing circuits in Italy, Germany, Catalunya, and Indonesia. The collaboration focuses on bridging the gap between high-performance sports and the digital asset landscape, emphasizing a philosophy where speed is managed through superior protection.

The initiative centers on a five-part educational video series designed to simplify complex security concepts for the global trading community. These modules address critical topics including phishing prevention, two-factor authentication, risk warnings, and the mechanics of the Bitget Protection Fund and Proof of Reserves. By utilizing Lorenzo’s unique “X-Fuera” perspective—a racing technique defined by calculated exterior overtakes—the campaign illustrates how elevated vision and expanded space can translate into safer trading decisions within the Universal Exchange (UEX) platform.

This campaign also integrates with the platform’s permanent Anti-scam Hub, an education center established in June 2025 to provide continuous resources on industrial security. The hub offers real-time scam indicators and safety kits to help users navigate emerging threats such as AI-driven fraud. Complementing these educational efforts, the platform maintains a Protection Fund valued at over $300 million and publishes monthly Proof of Reserves to ensure 1:1 backing of all user assets.

“In the racing world, every move is a balance of speed and safety. Navigating digital assets requires that same level of precision and the right armor to succeed,” said Jorge Lorenzo.

“Security is a mindset shared between platforms and people. By partnering with a champion like Jorge, the aim is to turn passive users into active defenders of their own digital journey,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget.

The collaboration highlights a move toward institutional-grade transparency, using Merkle Tree verification to allow independent audits of platform solvency. Through this comprehensive approach, the partnership seeks to elevate industry standards and equip traders with the tools necessary for secure participation in the Web3 ecosystem.

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About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Pay hub anchors the redesign as wallets evolve into daily-use financial accounts built on blockchain infrastructure

Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget Wallet has made a strategic shift into an all-in-one everyday finance app, refreshing its interface to place payments at the center of the app experience. The move follows the wallet surpassing 90 million users globally, highlighting the need to support more frequent, real-world financial activity at scale. It reflects a broader transition as crypto wallets move beyond investment-led use cases into daily financial accounts for spending, sending, saving, and money management. The shift comes as blockchain-based platforms increasingly challenge traditional banking apps with faster settlement, lower costs, and borderless access.

The update is built around utility-first usage and a simplified approach to onchain finance, following a clear inflection point in crypto payments. Industry data shows stablecoin transactions surpassed $10 trillion in 2025, while spending across major crypto card programs rose 525% year on year, signaling a shift toward real-world use. This trend is reflected in a new Pay hub added to the app’s main navigation, enabling users to spend and move funds with fewer steps through a unified, mobile-first design.

The Pay hub unifies crypto cards, QR payments, bank transfers, and in-app shopping into a single, front-facing flow, making Bitget Wallet one of the few self-custodial platforms to support all major crypto payment methods in one place. Users can spend crypto globally via cards accepted across Mastercard and Visa networks, pay locally by scanning QR codes, or transfer stablecoins directly to bank accounts where supported. By combining global and local payment options in one app, the wallet gives users the flexibility to pay anywhere while retaining full control of their funds through self-custody.

Central to the update is a streamlined interface designed for frequent use, reducing friction in everyday financial interactions. The redesign introduces Dynamic Panel, a live notification feature that keeps real-time transaction updates visible without disrupting what users are doing. It also adds Today’s View, a new screen accessible with a simple swipe that offers a concise overview of recent activity and commonly used actions. Paired with a cleaner, modular layout, the interface shortens the steps needed to manage funds, helping users complete onchain actions more efficiently.

“People are choosing onchain finance because it’s better aligned with how money needs to work in a digital economy today,” said Jamie Elkaleh, CMO of Bitget Wallet. “Blockchain removes many of the frictions in traditional finance, including slow settlement, opaque fees, and geographic limits. As stablecoins and self-custodial wallets are increasingly used for everyday needs, our focus is making that experience intuitive, allowing people to save, send and spend money globally in real time. By centering payments and designing the app around simplicity, we’re turning the wallet into a daily crypto account that works like modern banking, but onchain.”

The launch follows a year in which wallet usage shifted steadily toward everyday financial activity. Bitget Wallet data shows stablecoin-based spending and yield grew faster than trading, with card spending rising more than 28-fold year on year and earn subscriptions expanding nearly tenfold. Together, these trends point to a new phase of crypto adoption driven by real-world financial utility.

Users can visit Bitget Wallet’s blog for more information.

About Bitget Wallet

Bitget Wallet is an everyday finance app designed to make crypto simple, secure, and usable in daily life. Serving more than 90 million users worldwide, it offers an all-in-one platform to send, spend, earn, and trade crypto and stablecoins through blockchain-based infrastructure. With global on- and off-ramps, the app enables faster and borderless onchain finance, supported by advanced security and a $700 million user protection fund. Bitget Wallet operates as a fully self-custodial wallet and does not hold or control user funds, private keys, or user data. Transactions are signed by users and executed on public blockchains.

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TOKYO, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Anaqua, the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property (IP) management technology solutions and services, today announced that Advantest Corporation, a world-class provider of semiconductor test technology, has chosen Anaqua’s AI-powered AQX® IP management platform for global IP management and drive its robust innovation strategy.

In a semiconductor market that is evolving at an unprecedented pace, particularly with the rise of artificial intelligence, electrification and next-generation devices, Advantest faces an unavoidable need to advance innovation and strengthen its IP management. Advantest chose Anaqua’s AQX platform for its ability to respond to rapid market changes with both flexibility and boldness, helping the company maintain a competitive advantage in an increasingly dynamic environment. By leveraging AQX, Advantest aims to standardize business processes and reduce operational complexity, streamline IP workflows across its global offices, while enhancing its IP operations using data-driven insights.

Additionally, as Advantest seeks to strategically utilize its global IP portfolio to better support its overall business going forward, Anaqua’s AQX platform will enable them to collaborate with IP law firms globally as well as gain access to information from patent office databases worldwide, delivering greater efficiency, accuracy, and strategic insight.

Anaqua’s AQX platform offers:

• Integrated IP data management with patent office connectivity for accuracy and compliance
• AI-driven workflows to automate tasks and reduce dependency on individual expertise
• Advanced dashboards and analytics for strategic decision-making
• Scalable global implementation to support Advantest’s expanding operations

“We are honored that Advantest has selected Anaqua’s AQX IP management platform,” said Justin Crotty, CEO of Anaqua. “This milestone reflects Anaqua’s deepening partnerships with the world’s most innovative companies and underscores our unwavering commitment to deliver flexible, secure and AI-powered IP solutions that help innovators stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.”

“Advantest Corporation has a remarkable 70-year legacy of driving innovation and shaping the semiconductor testing industry,” said Kazuyasu Adachi, President and General Manager, Japan & APAC, Anaqua. “In this era of rapid technological advancement, demand for high-performance, AI-driven semiconductors accelerates. Advantest continues to lead with cutting-edge testing systems, and we are proud to partner with them, delivering AI-powered IP management solutions that protect their valuable intellectual property assets, while supporting their continuous innovation growth.”

Anaqua’s AQX platform is trusted by the world’s leading innovators and brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide. Its end-to-end integration of data, analytics, and execution enables IP professionals to move seamlessly from insight to action, enhancing efficiency, reducing risk, and maximizing the strategic value of IP assets.

About Advantest Corporation
https://www.advantest.com/en/.

About Anaqua
Anaqua, Inc. is a premier provider of integrated intellectual property (IP) management technology solutions and services for corporations and law firms. Its IP management software platforms, AQX®, PATTSY WAVE®, and RightHub® offer best practice workflows with big data analytics and tech-enabled services to create an intelligent environment designed to inform IP strategy, enable IP decision-making, and streamline IP operations, tailored to each segment’s needs. Today, nearly half of the top 100 U.S. patent filers and global brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide use Anaqua’s solutions. Over two million IP executives, attorneys, paralegals, administrators, and innovators use the platform for their IP management needs. The company’s global operations are headquartered in Boston, with offices across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. For additional information, please visit anaqua.com, or on Anaqua’s LinkedIn.

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Dubai Gold District Launches as the Global Epicentre for Gold and Jewellery Trade

Dubai Gold District Launches as the Global Epicentre for Gold and Jewellery Trade

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a landmark moment for the region’s gold and jewellery industry, Ithra Dubai has officially launched Dubai Gold District, a purpose-built destination designed to elevate Dubai’s position as the world’s leading destination for gold and jewellery trade. The launch of Dubai Gold District marks a new phase in Dubai’s development as a global centre for retail, commerce, and trade. Developed as a unified destination, the District brings together the full gold and jewellery value chain in one location, spanning retail, bullion, wholesale trade, and investment. By consolidating these activities, Dubai Gold District strengthens Dubai’s position as one of the world’s most trusted global destinations for gold.

The launch also reflects the UAE’s continued role as a leading global trading nation for gold and precious metals. In 2024–25, the country exported approximately USD 53.41 billion worth of gold, with major trading partners including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, India, Hong Kong and Turkiye, positioning the country as the world’s second-largest physical gold trading destination.

As Dubai’s new ‘Home of Gold’, the District unites the full spectrum of gold and jewellery activity under one destination. It is home to a wide range of established global and regional gold and jewellery brands, offering exceptional variety, quality and value for buyers, traders and investors.

What sets Dubai Gold District apart globally is the unmatched diversity of its audience, bringing together one of the world’s widest mixes of buyers, traders, and consumers within a single destination. In 2025 alone, the District welcomed shoppers from more than 147 nationalities, reflecting Dubai’s unique position as a truly global marketplace for gold and jewellery.

A landmark feature of Dubai Gold District will be the world’s first Gold Street, a street constructed using gold, created as a distinctive attraction for tourists and visitors to the District. Further details will be revealed in phases.

The District comprises more than 1,000 retailers across gold, jewellery, perfumery, cosmetics, and lifestyle categories. The retailer mix includes established jewellery flagships such as Jawhara Jewellery, Malabar Gold and Diamonds, Al Romaizan, and Tanishq Jewellery, with Joyalukkas announcing plans for a 24,000 square foot flagship, set to be its largest in the Middle East.

The District is also supported by six hotels, providing convenient access for international visitors, buyers and trade partners.

For more information, visit www.dubaigolddistrict.com

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Divya Bhatia
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