Presto Digital Fund has won two categories at the Hedgeweek® Global Digital Assets Awards 2026: - Market Neutral Fund of the Year: Annual Excellence - Systematic/Quantitative Fund of the Year: Annual Excellence Both wins reflect fund performance through 30 September 2025, from eight category nominations across the awards. The recognition is underpinned by more than a decade of proprietary quantitative trading infrastructure Presto has built across global markets, now applied to institutional digital asset strategies.

June was an active month at Presto. $23B+ traded across @binance, @Bybit_Official, @okx, and traditional markets. But volume is just one part of the picture: - Anchored Day 1 liquidity for Kioxia (285A) and SoftBank Group (9984) perps on @tradexyz, extending our equity coverage to Japan. - Presto Digital Fund won Market Neutral Fund of the Year and Systematic/Quantitative Fund of the Year (Annual Excellence) at the Hedgeweek® Global Digital Assets Awards 2026.

Presto is making markets in Japanese equities on @tradexyz, starting with KIOXIA (285A) and SoftBank (9984). Cash-settled equity perps tracking the underlying shares: 24/7 trading, 10x leverage, built on @HyperliquidX HIP-3. First Korean blue chips. Then the S&P 500. Now Japan. Institutional depth from the first print, on the names powering the AI and tech supercycle. Real-world assets deserve native on-chain markets.

Tokenization does not create demand. It removes friction. In recent interview with a Korean media, our Head of Presto Research @ClearLensPC shared his insight on where that friction sits: at the border. The benefit of bringing an asset on-chain is largest when it crosses jurisdictions, so the assets that belong on-chain are the ones global investors already want, not those with purely domestic demand. His framing: Asset First, Tokenization Later. Identify real global demand, then tokenize. Read the full interview in Korean: n.news.naver.com/article/018…

Peter Chung (@ClearLensPC), Head of Presto Research, joined a tokenization panel at the Macquarie Asia Conference 2026 last month in Hong Kong, alongside Alessio Quaglini (CEO, @Hex_Trust) and moderator David Sefri. One point came through clearly. Issuance is largely solved. The open question is the layer underneath it: depth, settlement, and the credit rails that let tokenized assets trade as real markets. For full video: piped.video/nMx7x9L_wLE

May brought outside recognition for Presto's systematic track record. Presto Digital Fund was shortlisted in 8 categories at the Hedgeweek® Global Digital Assets Awards 2026, across market-neutral, systematic, multi-strategy, and relative value strategies. Winners will be announced 9 June in London. On the trading side, $25B+ traded across @binance, @Bybit_Official, @okx, and traditional markets over the month.

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A quick look back at April. $26B+ traded across centralized exchanges and traditional markets last month. On the crypto side: $11B on @binance, $3B on @okx, and $2.5B on @Bybit_Official, with the balance across traditional markets.

Presto Digital Fund has been shortlisted in 8 categories at the Hedgeweek Global Digital Assets Awards 2026. Recognition spans market neutral, systematic, multi-strategy, and relative value strategies, across both Annual Excellence and Sustained Excellence tiers. Winners announced 9 June in London.

📊 Presto Data Focus 📊 ICYMI Charts: April 2026 Spot-Led Strength Amid Record DeFi Exploits by @scopicview April unfolded as a continuation of March’s geopolitical regime, but with a more balanced and ultimately constructive tone. Markets continued to oscillate between escalation and de-escalation headlines tied to Middle East conflict, oil supply risks, and central bank expectations, but crypto traded with a clearer upward bias. BTC moved from the high-$60k range to briefly test the high-$70k area before consolidating into month-end, while ETH followed higher but lagged, leaving ETH/BTC weaker over the period. The key tension was that price action looked resilient even as DeFi suffered its worst hack month on record. On-chain activity remained concentrated, capital flows were uneven, and stablecoin growth was selective rather than broad-based. In that context, the April charts suggest not a full return of DeFi risk appetite, but a more tactical rotation of liquidity across chains while security stress remained elevated. The exploit backdrop also helps explain why the recovery in on-chain capital looked fragmented rather than comprehensive. April’s losses were dominated by two large Lazarus-linked attacks, but the wider incident set cut across protocols, bridges, perps, vaults, lending markets, and multi-chain infrastructure. That matters for interpreting the charts: TVL gains on some chains coexisted with sizeable drawdowns elsewhere, stablecoin inflows were concentrated rather than system-wide, and bridge activity showed sharp divergence across networks. Derivatives told a separate but complementary story. Implied and realised volatility both compressed through the month despite persistent macro and security risks, while skew moderated but remained tilted toward downside protection. The result was a market where spot strength improved, but positioning and on-chain flows still reflected caution around both macro tail risk and DeFi infrastructure fragility.

🔥Presto Original🔥 Conflux: Building the Asia-centric Asset Settlement Stack by @stateroot ▪️A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity: Tokenized real-world assets have grown from $85 million in 2020 to over $30 billion on public chains, while stablecoins now carry $320 billion in market cap and processed $33.4 trillion in on-chain volume in 2025. Tokenized assets are projected to reach $9.4 trillion by 2030, with Asia positioned as the fastest-growing region for both RWA and stablecoin adoption. ▪️Asia’s regulatory inflection point: A convergence of regulatory developments has created a window of opportunity. Hong Kong issued its first two stablecoin licenses in April 2026, China clarified a regulated pathway for offshore RWA tokenization of domestic assets, and Singapore’s Project Guardian has progressed from experimentation toward live institutional pilots. These moves unlock trillions in previously inaccessible Asian assets for tokenized global capital markets. ▪️Conflux’s strategic positioning: Conflux Network occupies a niche that no other major blockchain fills. It is the only compliance-friendly public blockchain in mainland China with a live PayFi stack, the first AFSA-approved offshore RMB stablecoin (AxCNH), USDT0 integration, and partnerships with Ant Digital Technologies and China Telecom. Its ambition is to become the primary blockchain settlement rail for China’s $3.3 trillion Belt and Road trade corridor and Hong Kong’s emerging tokenized asset infrastructure. ▪️Execution progress: Key milestones include the March 2025 launch of a green energy battery-swapping RWA project in China (596 stations, 15,000+ batteries), a 500-million $CFX ecosystem fund for PayFi, the BitUnion prepaid card accepted in 183 countries via UnionPay International, the November 2025 integration of USDT0, and April 2026 support for XAUT0 extending Conflux’s settlement stack from stablecoins into tokenized gold. @Conflux_Network

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Presto is integrating @LTP_primebroker RapidX into our execution stack, another step in scaling our multi-venue execution. Unified multi-venue execution, faster cross-exchange capital movement, and automated margin management. Better plumbing means better liquidity for every venue we operate on. More to come.

Elena Kang, Presto's Head of Partnerships, took the stage at ETHCapital Summit in Seoul to moderate a panel on the future of won-pegged stablecoins in Korea. As Korea's stablecoin framework takes shape, the infrastructure connecting traditional finance and on-chain markets matters more than ever. Presto is in the room where it happens.

Day 1: Presto is now live on Japanese equities. ~$3B daily volume, proprietary trading systems, and a decade of institutional execution - now extended to Japan, deepening our coverage across Asian stock markets. You can't build credible RWA infrastructure without actually trading the real-world assets. This is the foundation behind our Day 1 liquidity for on-chain RWA markets. Not narratives. Not slide decks. Real trading infrastructure operating across TradFi and crypto simultaneously. More RWA collaborations in the works. Watch this space.