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• Safer trades by default. Every instant trade now requires a stable safety key, so a network retry or double-tap can't fire a second trade — replays are de-duplicated instead of executing twice.
• No deposit left behind. Crypto deposits that can't be matched to an account are now held safely in a suspense ledger and resolved by support, instead of being dropped.
• A constant watch over every balance. Continuous reconciliation and crash-recovery hardening across trade settlement — automatic unwinding of partial trades, recovery of stuck trades, and guarantees that a settlement can never debit without crediting.

• Clearer trade history. Failed trades now appear in your history with a clear status and no balance impact, and trades no longer show as two separate rows.
• More accurate trade records. Trade records now carry a precise, consistently-denominated execution rate for clearer display.
• Business wallet fixes. Improved account resolution for business wallets, including more flexible handling of quote amounts.

• Stronger pair controls. Pair availability is now enforced server-side — an unavailable pair is either declined clearly or transparently resolved to the right market, with no change needed on your side.
• Slimmer trading data. Internal operator-only fields are no longer included in the public pairs response; every field the apps read is unchanged.

(A note on integrations: instant trades now require a non-empty safety key — all shipped 80eight apps already send one; only direct API integrations need to check.)

• More assets settle first time. Fixes buys of certain assets (for example, ETH and SOL) that were failing at the final step after a precision regression. Your funds were always released untouched, and the trade now completes.
• A clear message when a trade can't complete. When a trade can't go through, the app now receives a clear, human-readable message instead of a generic server error.

(Operationally after release: two crypto-withdrawal reliability fixes so withdrawals reliably reach custody.)

• More assets settle first time. Fixes a case where buys of certain assets (for example, ETH) could fail at the final step. Your funds were always released untouched, and the trade now completes.

• Nothing left half-done. If a multi-step trade can't be completed after it has already partly executed, the executed part is now automatically unwound — so the platform never holds inventory you didn't ask for, and nothing is left half-finished.

• Trades complete from the latest build. Resolves a case where instant trades placed from the latest app build could fail at the first step. As always, your funds were released untouched — nothing was ever lost — but the trade now completes.
• Accurate display rates. Improves the accuracy of the displayed ZAR exchange rate so it matches the rate trades actually execute at.

(Operationally this window: a crypto-withdrawal reliability fix and recovery for any previously-stuck withdrawal transactions.)

• Smarter venue routing. For the major ZAR pairs, the engine now picks the venue by trade size automatically — small trades execute directly on the local exchange, larger ones via the OTC desk — so trades below the OTC desk's minimum, which previously failed, now complete.
• Two blocking cases hardened. Two upstream-rejection cases that were stopping trades are resolved, with the real reason now surfaced internally when a venue rejects an order.

(Operationally this window: ZAR withdrawal limits raised to R1m per day and R30m per month, and admin crypto approve/reject endpoints documented to fix a tooling error.)

• All-or-nothing trades. For instant trades that route through an intermediate currency (for example, buying an asset with ZAR via USDT), the engine now confirms every leg can be priced before it executes any of them. If a leg can't be priced, the whole trade is declined up front and your funds are released untouched.
• A guaranteed referral code. Every user now has a unique referral code — the code you share so sign-ups attribute back to you. Existing codes are preserved.

• Withdrawals unblocked. Resolves a regression where some mobile users hit "Something went wrong" on every fiat withdrawal — withdrawals work normally again.

• Safer operations. Hardened internal tooling so operator-set states are preserved by default, with safer maintenance routines and a read-only data-integrity audit.

• Trades that can't overspend. Orders to our liquidity layer are now slippage-bounded and attempted on a single assigned venue, so a transient error can never double-execute an order and a buy can never exceed the amount you requested.
• A more secure session model. Clients can now choose how their session token is delivered — browser-only secure cookies, or token-in-body for native apps that hold their own credentials — with native apps able to store a rotating refresh token in a secure device keychain.
• More predictable sign-in. An explicit email-and-password sign-in always authenticates with those credentials rather than a stale session, so you reliably get a fresh token back, with consistent error responses across the auth surface.

• Stronger admin tooling. New internal controls back multi-jurisdiction company settings, push-campaign broadcasts, per-pair fee and trade configuration, and admin reset of two-factor — all internal admin-console APIs, not part of the public contract.

(Every change in this release is additive — clients that send no new headers keep their exact current behaviour.)

• A unique, branded reference. Your account reference — and therefore your bank deposit reference — is now guaranteed unique and 8-prefixed for everyone, generated through a single, consistent path across every sign-up route.
• A careful one-off backfill. A migration tidies up older references and keeps a full record of any change, so deposits sent against a previous reference can always be reconciled.

(No action needed for integrators — note only that an existing user's deposit reference may change when the migration runs.)

• Stronger account security. Sign-in now uses secure, browser-protected sessions with built-in protection against cross-site request forgery — a meaningful step up in how your account and your money are protected.
• More reliable identity verification. We added a second verification provider and consolidated how identity checks work, so getting verified is faster and more dependable.
• Compliance, built in. Expanded regulatory and travel-rule tooling so transfers stay compliant as 80eight grows.
• More to hold and earn. New assets, a refreshed asset experience, and the ZAR8 yield programme.
• Faster wallet and trading. More reliable wallet, trading, and transaction experiences, with more accurate balances and pricing.

• Account protection throughout. Strengthened authentication, two-factor protection, and account-access controls across the platform, with sensitive and money-moving actions protected by additional verification.
• Hardened money movement. Strengthened payments and account data across the board, including safeguards that help prevent duplicate or mistaken transactions.
• A modern foundation. Re-engineered on a modern, fully-typed platform with expanded automated testing, new and more reliable hosting, and a hardened release pipeline.

• New ways to pay. We're putting the finishing touches on major new ways to pay people and businesses, rolling out gradually. (Not switched on yet — watch this space.)