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Abaxx Exchange Reports Record Weekly Trading Volume
Weekly trading volume rose 343% last week to a record 54,740 contracts, with 7 active markets and record gold and LNG trading volumes.
TORONTO, March 23, 2026 -- Abaxx Technologies Inc. (CBOE:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx” or the “Company”), a financial software and market infrastructure company, majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd., the owner of Abaxx Commodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, “Abaxx Exchange” and “Abaxx Clearing”), today announced that Abaxx Exchange reached a new weekly trading volume record of 54,740 contracts during the week of March 16 - March 20, 2026.
Highlights
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A new single-day exchange-wide volume record of 15,718 contracts was reached on March 20, surpassing the previous daily record of 11,675 contracts set on March 18, 2026.
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Gold Singapore futures (GKS) reached a record weekly volume of 48,786 contracts, capped by a new all-time daily high of 13,390 contracts on March 20.
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Total Abaxx Exchange volume for Q1 2026 reached 149,779 contracts through March 20, representing a 55% increase over the total volume of 96,456 contracts reported in Q4 2025.
Quarter-to-Date Product Performance Highlights (as of March 20, 2026):
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Gold Singapore futures (GKS): Quarter-to-date volume increased 60% to 102,939 contracts, compared to 64,082 contracts in Q4 2025.
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LNG Futures (GOM FOB and NPA DAP): Quarter-to-date volume increased 18% to 37,886 contracts, compared to 32,114 contracts in Q4 2025.
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Carbon futures (CP1 and RD1): Quarter-to-date volume increased to 8,904 contracts, compared to 250 contracts in Q4 2025.

This record activity reflects the success of efforts to build initial liquidity in these markets. These efforts continue as Abaxx Exchange expands connectivity across clearing firms, ISVs, data distribution partners, brokers, liquidity providers, financial trading participants, and commercial trading participants. The Company anticipates this initial liquidity will continue to attract additional participants as liquidity begets liquidity, setting the stage for further market development and maturation.
About Abaxx Technologies Inc.
Abaxx Technologies is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society, including the energy transition.
In addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make communication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is the majority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore Pte. Ltd., the owner of Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx Clearing, and the parent company of wholly owned subsidiary Abaxx Spot Pte. Ltd., the operator of Abaxx Spot.
Abaxx Exchange delivers the market infrastructure critical to the shift toward an electrified, low-carbon economy through centrally-cleared, physically-deliverable futures contracts in LNG, carbon, battery materials, and precious metals, meeting the commercial needs of today's commodity markets and establishing the next generation of global benchmarks.
Abaxx Spot modernizes physical gold trading through a physically-backed gold pool in Singapore. As the first instance of a co-located spot and futures market for gold, Abaxx Spot enables secure electronic transactions, efficient OTC transfers, and is designed to support physical delivery for Abaxx Exchange's physically-deliverable gold futures contract, providing integrated infrastructure to deliver smarter gold markets.
Adaptive Infrastructure closes critical gaps in post-trade infrastructure by providing a unified custodial foundation across environmental markets and digital title assets. Incorporated in Barbados and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Barbados, the company delivers institutional-grade custody, settlement, and transfer agency services designed to reduce risk and improve reliability across asset classes.
For more information please visit abaxx.tech, abaxx.exchange, abaxxspot.com and smartermarkets.media.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” and “forward-looking information” (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as “believe”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “project”, “intend”, “expect”, “may”, “will”, “plan”, “should”, “would”, “could”, “target”, “purpose”, “goal”, “objective”, “ongoing”, “potential”, “likely” or the negative thereof or similar expressions. In particular, this press release contains forward-looking statements including, without limitation, Abaxx’s objectives and future plans, the development and expansion of Abaxx’s market infrastructure, increased liquidity across Abaxx Exchange’s futures contracts and Abaxx’s role in the development of commodities and energy markets. Forward-looking statements are based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates, analyses and opinions of management made in light of its experience and its perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as other factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances at the date that such statements are made, but which may prove to be incorrect. Such factors impacting forward-looking information include, among others: risks relating to the global economic climate; changes in global weather patterns; changes in the price of commodities; capital market conditions; dilution; future capital needs and uncertainty of additional financing; the competitive nature of the industry; currency exchange risks; the need for Abaxx to manage its planned growth and expansion; the effects of product development and need for continued technology change; the effect of government regulation and compliance on Abaxx and the industry; acquiring and maintaining regulatory approvals for Abaxx’s products and operations; the ability to list Abaxx’s securities on stock exchanges in a timely fashion or at all; network security risks; the ability of Abaxx to maintain properly working systems; reliance on key personnel; global economic, financial, energy or commodity market deterioration impeding Abaxx’s operations, growth or access to capital or increasing the cost of capital; and volatile securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to operating performance. In addition, particular factors which could impact future results of the business of Abaxx include but are not limited to: the failure of collateral use cases for Abaxx Digital Title to develop according to the expectations of Abaxx; Abaxx’s operations in foreign jurisdictions; protection of intellectual property rights; contractual risk; third-party risk; clearinghouse risk; malicious actor risks; third- party software license risk; system failure risk; risk of technological change; dependence of technical infrastructure; restrictions on labor and international travel and supply chains, and the risk factors identified in the Company’s most recent management’s discussion and analysis filed on SEDAR+. Abaxx has also assumed that no significant events occur outside of Abaxx’s normal course of business. Abaxx cautions that the foregoing list of material factors is not exhaustive. In addition, although Abaxx has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, or intended. When relying on forward-looking statements and information to make decisions, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Abaxx has assumed that the material factors referred to in the previous paragraphs will not cause such forward-looking statements and information to differ materially from actual results or events. However, the list of these factors is not exhaustive and is subject to change and there can be no assurance that such assumptions will reflect the actual outcome of such items or factors. The forward-looking statements and information contained in this press release represents the expectations of Abaxx as of the date of this press release and, accordingly, is subject to change after such date. Abaxx undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements and information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and information. Cboe Canada does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
