Payward

Payward's co-CEO Arjun Sethi sat down with Will Canny of CoinDesk to unpack the architecture of Payward: shared financial infrastructure spanning trading, banking, asset management and services for other businesses. “We’re not a holding company... It’s one platform, one balance sheet, one regulatory stack.” The same rails that power our own products are increasingly being opened to partners across the financial system. Read the full profile ↓ https://lnkd.in/eRd4jTuE

Payward and Ledger are partnering to bring trading, payments and tokenized equities infrastructure into one of crypto's leading self-custody experiences. Kraken customers will be able to leverage their Ledger signer directly within the Kraken experience. Within Ledger Wallet™, Payward Services will power purchases, sales and trades of hundreds of digital assets and extend access to hundreds of xStocks, the leading tokenized equities product, to Ledger Wallet users worldwide. https://lnkd.in/eJ3ynjqa

We've filed to bring single-stock perpetual futures to US traders on Kraken. Subject to the applicable regulatory process, we'd start with perps tied to ten US equities: TSLA, SPCX, NVDA, AVGO, MU, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, PLTR. We're also working toward 24/5 trading - because stock markets close, and the events that move them don't. The goal is to give traders a way to respond when news breaks, not when the bell rings. https://lnkd.in/eHvfBijC

Would you look at the time? ⏱️ Payward Pulse: Episode 5 is here. → Nasdaq Ventures invests $100M in Payward → Plans to bring onchain perps to the US starting on Hyperliquid → xStocks Vaults go live → Kraken becomes an 𝕏 Cashtag launch partner Catch up 👇

Payward supports the SEC innovation exemption. Technology moves faster than rulemaking. That's not a flaw in either - it's why sensible exemptions matter. US competitiveness depends on Americans being able to participate in cutting-edge technology at home, not watching it get built offshore. We look forward to working with the Commission as this moves forward. https://lnkd.in/evp_NSV8

Onchain perpetual futures, built for US clients. US clients have been stuck watching onchain perpetual futures markets grow everywhere except at home We intend to change that. We're working to bring Hyperliquid HIP-3* markets online through our regulatory stack — a permissioned version of Hyperliquid's perpetual futures framework, built for US clients. This is what it looks like to bring onchain markets onshore the right way.

Today we're expanding our relationship with Nasdaq. Nasdaq Ventures is investing $100M in Payward as we advance tokenization together with the Nasdaq Equity Token (NET) framework. Equities on-chain only works if it's built to institutional standard from day one. We're building it with the company that's run public market infrastructure for decades. → https://lnkd.in/g-KJT99r

Payward Pulse: Episode 4 📡 The latest from Payward, the parent company behind Kraken. → UK equities go onchain with London Stock Exchange → A strategic partnership with SoFi across banking and payments → Two new crypto indices from CF Benchmarks Tune in 👇