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Ibiza, Spain, February 8th, 2026, Chainwire

Investing Yachts today introduced its real-world asset (RWA) yacht charter model, a blockchain-based approach designed to tokenize exposure to potential double-digit revenue generated by luxury yacht charter operations via their upcoming $YATE token. Being their ultimate goal to democratize access to all private equity sectors.

Positioning itself at the intersection of yachting and on-chain finance, Investing Yachts is built to remove traditional barriers associated with yacht investing—such as high minimum capital requirements, illiquidity, and operational complexity—by offering a token-based structure intended to be tradable on markets and supported by a managed charter fleet.

How the model is designed to work

At the core of the Investing Yachts model, the $YATE ecosystem connects charter activity to tokenholder incentives through a rules-based framework:

Charter profit distribution: Up to 65% of annual net charter profits is intended to be distributed to tokenholders who lock $YATE into protocol “vaults,” with different lock periods associated with different maximum shares of the profit pool.

Buyback & burn: A defined portion of net profits, 10%, is earmarked for buying back tokens and burning them, aiming to reduce circulating supply over time.

Asset-tied issuance: New tokens are being minted in connection with acquiring additional yachts or other real-world assets, using a NAV-based issuance framework designed to align token supply with the underlying asset base and charter activity.

$YATE Token Pre-Sale

Investing Yachts states that the $YATE pre-sale is scheduled to open on February 25, 2026, with the goal of expanding community participation ahead of broader exchange availability.

As described on the website and in the whitepaper documentation, the pre-sale pricing is structured as follows:

Initial price: 0.10 USDT per $YATE

Dynamic increase: +0.75% price increase every 24 hours

Duration: 9 months

Target post–pre-sale listing price: 1.00 USDT

The documentation also outlines vesting terms for pre-sale tokens, as well as other mechanisms aligned to provide sustainable growth stability for the project, rewarding long-term holders and early adopters.

Broker Network and Market Positioning

The global yacht charter and yachting services market represents a multi-billion-dollar industry, traditionally limited to a small group of high-capital participants. Investing Yachts aims to use its RWA structure to broaden access by enabling community participation through $YATE, bringing a token-based framework to a segment that has historically remained offline and illiquid.

Investing Yachts has established relationships with experienced yacht brokers and industry intermediaries to support fleet sourcing and charter deployment. These connections are intended to strengthen the project’s ability to identify acquisition opportunities, negotiate terms, and access vessels aligned with demand in key charter regions. 

Community and updates

Investing Yachts is publishing updates via social channels and encourages supporters to follow the project for pre-sale announcements, documentation updates, and roadmap progress:

X: https://x.com/Investingyachts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/investing.yachts/

Telegram: https://t.me/+kLdobl6TM2kzYzJk

About Investing Yachts

Investing Yachts is a blockchain platform described as an RWA project focused on tokenizing exposure to luxury yacht charter economics through the $YATE token (Ethereum ERC-20). 

Investing Yachts lists a management team and advisory group spanning technology, yacht operations, finance, media, and international legal expertise. It counts on leadership with backgrounds in algorithmic trading, yacht charter operations, and institutional markets, including experience at major international banks.

Disclaimer: This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.

Contact

Media Manager Alvaro Reyes Investing Yachts info@investingyachts.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tel Aviv, Israel, February 6th, 2026, Chainwire

Fhenix, a pioneering developer of encrypted smart contracts with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), has achieved a new milestone for blockchain privacy with the development of its cutting-edge Decomposed BFV technology. It’s a groundbreaking new cryptographic technique that’s poised to transform the performance and scalability of exact FHE schemes and enable robust, high-throughput privacy-preserving computation for real-world applications. 

FHE makes it possible to perform computations on encrypted data without ever having to decrypt it. It has tremendous promise for data privacy, potentially enabling the secure processing and analysis of sensitive information. However, FHE has yet to live up to this promise, for the technology has always been constrained by a key performance bottleneck – namely, the catastrophic scaling of computational costs and noise when performing arithmetic on large numbers. 

The scaling challenge of FHE is especially acute in exact schemes such as BFV and BGV, which are essential for computing financial logic due to the requirement of perfect precision. As plaintext integers grow, noise management costs escalate rapidly, rendering real-world, high-volume applications impractical. 

Accelerated computational throughput

Fhenix’s DBFV represents a paradigm shift for encrypted arithmetic. By decomposing single, large plaintext data into smaller, independently-managed BFV ciphertexts or “limbs” during the encryption process, DBFV dramatically improves the throughput and scaling behavior of FHE.

For years, running exact FHE on larger integers simply wasn’t viable. While the mathematics were sound, developers would quickly crash into a performance wall when running real-world production workloads. The excessive bootstrapping costs made it impractical for any application.  

By enhancing the noise management process, DBFV supports the use of deeper circuits before costly bootstrapping is required. It manages noise more efficiently across multiple “limbs,” expanding the useful depth of computation. While some operations, such as multiplication, become slightly more expensive compared to standard BFV, DBFV’s avoidance of frequent bootstrapping significantly reduces the overall computational cost of noise remediation. For the first time, it enables the cost-effective computation of sustained encrypted workloads, making FHE viable for decentralized finance protocols and enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. 

DBFV will support the development of a new generation of FHE applications that require speed and precision, including financial logic, stateful applications and high-volume data aggregation. 

Fhenix intends to integrate DBFV as a foundational element of its infrastructure later this year, weaponizing pure cryptography to eliminate a bottleneck that many thought could never be overcome. It will redefine how precision, noise and circuit depth interact, making FHE a deployable reality and paving the way for developers to build complex, privacy-preserving financial applications without sacrificing performance on precision. 

About Fhenix

Fhenix is a research and development company pioneering encrypted smart contracts with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Starting with a laser focus on Private DeFi, Fhenix is building the infrastructure to bring FHE everywhere - empowering developers, institutions, and users to create and use financial applications without sacrificing confidentiality or composability. Learn more at www.fhenix.io.

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Washington, DC, February 6th, 2026, Chainwire

ai.com, a new AI platform founded by Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, today announced the launch of its Autonomous AI agent offering for consumers. With a few clicks, anyone can now generate a private, personal AI agent that doesn't just answer questions, but actually operates on the user's behalf - organizing work, sending messages, executing actions across apps, building projects, and more. The key differentiating feature is the agent's ability to autonomously build out missing features and capabilities to complete real-world tasks. Such improvements will subsequently be shared across millions of agents on the network, massively increasing the utility of each agent for ai.com users.

With ai.com, users will soon be able to deploy their agent to do a range of actions on behalf of their user, like trade stocks, automate workflows, organize and execute daily tasks with their calendar, or even update their online dating profile - all while remaining private, permission-based, and fully under the user's control. All user agents operate in a dedicated secure environment where data is segregated and encrypted with user-specific keys and agents are restricted to their user's capability limits.

Marszalek built Crypto.com from the ground up to become one of the largest global crypto platforms in the world with over 150 million retail users, the industry's leader in licenses, registrations and certifications, and the world's leading USD-supporting crypto exchange. With ai.com, Marszalek is working to mainstream AI agents and AGI in the same way he led mass consumer adoption of cryptocurrency. Marszalek will lead both ai.com and Crypto.com as CEO.

Since acquiring the ai.com domain in 2025, a transaction believed to be the single largest domain purchase in history, Marszalek has been steadily building out its AI-dedicated offering and team. ai.com will officially launch its new agentic AI product on February 8, 2026 alongside its commercial broadcast premiere during Super Bowl LX on NBC.

"We are at a fundamental shift in AI's evolution as we rapidly move beyond basic chats to AI agents actually getting things done for humans," said Kris Marszalek, Founder and CEO of ai.com. "Our vision is a decentralized network of billions of agents who self-improve and share these improvements with each other, vastly and rapidly expanding agentic capabilities and accelerating the advent of AGI."

While agentic AI's have typically required specific hardware, high technical capabilities, and complex operating protocols, ai.com's offering is truly a first-of-its-kind to provide consumers a best-in-class agentic AI experience with no complexity and no technical knowledge required - all seamlessly through their ai.com profile.

ai.com is specifically designed to provide a premium experience for all users, going from zero to AI agent in 60 seconds by removing all of the technical barriers. Users can get started at ai.com for free, with additional paid subscription tiers available to provide more enhanced capabilities and increased input tokens. Users simply choose their user handle, AI handle, and generate their agent immediately.

ai.com is actively exploring additional product offerings for users in the near future, including financial services integrations, agent marketplaces, human and agency co-social networks, and much more.

For more information and to get started, visit ai.com.

About ai.com

ai.com is on a mission to accelerate the arrival of AGI by building a decentralized network of autonomous, self-improving AI agents that perform real-world tasks for the good of humanity.

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, February 6th, 2026, Chainwire

Institutional Onchain: Stablecoins, RWAs & AI, a private, invitation-only forum, will take place during Consensus Hong Kong, convening institutions, funds, market makers, and protocol teams actively building and deploying real on-chain financial infrastructure.

The event will bring together 100–150 curated participants, including senior operators from institutional funds, crypto-native protocols, AI and data infrastructure providers, cross-chain networks, DeFi liquidity platforms, and security firms operating at the intersection of stablecoins, real-world assets (RWAs), and AI-driven onchain systems.

Designed as a high-signal gathering for decision-makers, Institutional Onchain focuses on what is live and operational today, rather than speculative narratives—higMedia contacts thlighting real deployments, institutional use cases, and the infrastructure required for the next phase of onchain adoption.

Participating Entities

The forum is supported by a strong group of infrastructure, capital, and ecosystem partners, including teams building institutional-grade settlement rails, tokenized asset infrastructure, liquidity systems, AI-enabled execution layers, and compliance-ready onchain frameworks.

Participating partners span:

AI & Layer-1 / Layer-2 Infrastructure: Kite AI, Metis, Pharos, QuarkChain

Oracles & Cross-Chain Infrastructure: RedStone, Lagrange, deBridge

Institutional Markets & RWAs: ST0x, HF Intech

Liquidity, DeFi & Payments: 1inch, Rapidz

Capital & Investment: Jsquare

Security & Audits: Quill Audits

Together, these participants represent a cross-section of the institutional on-chain stack—from infrastructure and execution to capital, compliance, and security.

Media Partners and Ecosystem Amplification

The event is supported by a group of established Web3 and digital asset media platforms onboarded as official media partners, collaborating on amplification, editorial coverage, and community engagement around the forum.

Confirmed media partners include Yellow Media, The BlockPedia, CoinGabbar, 0xMedia, CoinEasy, and Chainwire.org. Collectively, these platforms reach a global audience of builders, investors, and institutional participants across crypto, DeFi, RWAs, and onchain infrastructure.

Through coordinated coverage before, during, and after the event, media partners will help surface key insights, discussions, and narratives emerging from Institutional Onchain to the broader ecosystem.

A Focus on What’s Live Today

Unlike narrative-driven conferences, Institutional Onchain is designed to address operational realities—what institutions are already deploying onchain, and what is required next across settlement, intelligence, risk management, and capital efficiency.

Key discussion areas include:

Stablecoin infrastructure and settlement rails

Tokenized real-world assets and institutional RWAs

AI-driven onchain intelligence and automation

Institutional DeFi and liquidity design

Compliance, custody, and risk frameworks

Cross-border payments and onchain treasuries

Format and Agenda

The event combines curated networking, a focused institutional panel, and open roundtable discussions in a high-signal, low-noise environment designed for meaningful conversations and partnership-driven outcomes.

Indicative Agenda:

16:00 – 16:45 | Networking

16:45 – 17:00 | Opening Remarks

17:00 – 18:15 | Panel: Stablecoins, RWAs & AI in Institutional Markets

18:15 – 20:00 | Open Roundtable & Networking

Positioning Institutional Onchain Adoption

Institutional Onchain: Stablecoins, RWAs & AI—co-hosted by The Unpaid Company—aims to enable direct dialogue between institutions and builders, highlight live institutional deployments, facilitate partnerships and pilots, and position participating partners at the center of the next phase of on-chain adoption.

The event will take place on February 11, from 16:00 to 20:00, in Hong Kong, with venue details shared privately with confirmed attendees.

About Unpaid Company

The Unpaid Company is a creative studio based out of MENA, focused on helping Web3 brands gain mindshare through creative campaigns and content to crack and build retail-specific distribution pipelines into SEA & MENA.

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Tel Aviv, Israel, February 5th, 2026, Chainwire

Playnance today made its first public announcement, introducing itself as a Web3 infrastructure and consumer platform company that has been operating a live ecosystem focused on onboarding mainstream Web2 users into on-chain environments.

Founded in 2020, Playnance spent several years developing and operating its technology and consumer platforms without public exposure. The company’s products are built to let users participate in on-chain systems without needing to understand blockchain mechanics, using familiar Web2 interfaces such as standard account creation and login flows, while the underlying blockchain functionality runs seamlessly in the background.

Playnance reports that its live platforms currently process approximately 1.5 million on-chain transactions per day and serve more than 10,000 daily active users. According to the company, a majority of these users originate from Web2 environments and onboard without using traditional crypto-native tools such as external wallets or manual key management, indicating sustained on-chain activity from non-crypto-native audiences.

The ecosystem is powered by G Coin, the utility token that powers every transaction across the Playnance ecosystem. Like BNB for exchanges, G Coin serves as the operational engine behind a high-volume digital entertainment ecosystem - powering every bet, trade, prediction, and spin.

As ecosystem activity grows, G Coin usage increases accordingly, directly aligning the token with real demand from users. Currently under pre-sale mode and available on the Playnance official website. The company operates several consumer-facing platforms that serve as proof points for this approach, including PlayW3, Up vs Down and more. These platforms run on shared on-chain infrastructure and wallet systems, enabling users to move across products without repeating onboarding processes. All user activity is executed and recorded on-chain while remaining non-custodial.

“Our focus was on building systems that people could use without needing to understand blockchain mechanics,” said Pini Peter, CEO of Playnance. “We prioritized live operation and user behavior over public announcements, and this is the first time we are formally introducing the company after reaching scale.”

Playnance’s infrastructure is designed to support high-volume consumer activity and continuous on-chain execution, reflecting a broader trend in the industry toward practical applications of blockchain technology beyond early adopter audiences. The company states that it plans to continue expanding its ecosystem based on observed user behavior and platform performance rather than speculative adoption models.

About Playnance

Playnance is a Web3 infrastructure and consumer platform company founded in 2020. The company develops and operates live, non-custodial, on-chain platforms designed to enable mainstream users to interact with blockchain systems through familiar Web2 experiences. Playnance focuses on reducing friction between user behavior and on-chain execution by operating consumer products at scale.

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San Francisco, California, February 5th, 2026, Chainwire

Cronos, the non-custodial trading venue and blockchain powered by Crypto.com, has announced a strategic integration with Fireblocks, the enterprise platform for secure digital asset operations.

The integration brings a comprehensive suite of capabilities required for institutional trading activity on Cronos including native custody for tokenized assets on Cronos. 

“We are evolving Cronos into a leading global venue for active traders. For retail, this means access to the volatility they demand, whether in equities, sports, or crypto.” said Zain Bacchus, CPO of Cronos Labs. “Fireblocks provides the institutional infrastructure required for market makers and other FIs to connect to Cronos’ market structure.”

Fireblocks, which has secured more than $10 trillion in digital asset transactions, provides trusted digital asset infrastructure used by thousands of organizations, including financial institutions, to manage digital assets securely. The Fireblocks integration marks the latest milestone in Cronos’ evolution to becoming a leading venue for global markets.

“Cronos is focused on creating a global venue for trading: stocks, crypto, sports outcomes, and prediction markets,” said Adam Levine, SVP, Head of Corporate Development and Partnerships at Fireblocks. “By connecting secure digital asset operations with a high-performance network, this integration supports a more reliable experience for institutional flow.”

About Cronos Labs

Cronos is a vertically integrated blockchain and non-custodial trading venue powered by Crypto.com, one of the world's largest exchanges for crypto, stocks, and prediction markets.

Cronos Labs serves as the network's core architect, building both the underlying high-performance infrastructure and the critical first-party applications that drive the economy. We prioritize a unified network experience to bridge the gap between retail trading and deep onchain liquidity.

By leveraging the distribution of Crypto.com’s 150 million users, Cronos delivers a cohesive, experience for consumers and institutions alike. We are building the compliant, efficient future of onchain markets, where user activity and revenue contribute directly back to $CRO.

For more information, visit https://cronos.org or follow @cronos_chain on X.

About Fireblocks

Fireblocks is the world's most trusted digital asset infrastructure company, empowering organizations of all sizes to build, manage and grow their business on the blockchain. With the industry's most scalable and secure platform, we streamline stablecoin payments, settlement, custody, tokenization, and trading operations enabling - everything from institutional finance to consumer-facing digital experiences across the largest ecosystem of banks, payment providers, stablecoin issuers, exchanges and custodians. Thousands of organizations - including Worldpay, BNY, Galaxy, and Revolut - trust Fireblocks to secure more than $10 trillion in digital asset transactions across 150+ blockchains. Learn more at fireblocks.com 

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George town, Cayman Islands, February 4th, 2026, Chainwire

Tramplin, a premium staking platform built on Solana, backed by iTreasury Ventures, today announced its public launch, introducing a proven real-world savings model rebuilt for crypto.

Built on Solana’s native staking architecture, Tramplin features a premium bonds-inspired reward redistribution mechanism designed to give smaller SOL holders access to meaningful upside without compromising capital safety.

By collecting staking rewards and redistributing them probabilistically, Tramplin creates opportunities for potential outsized returns while ensuring users retain full control of their principal.

The project’s mission is to empower SOL holders—the backbone of the Solana ecosystem—by offering upside potential previously accessible only to large stakeholders. During its test phase, Tramplin observed periods of elevated effective APY for small stakers, driven by initial committed stake and redistribution dynamics.

Market Context

The idea behind Tramplin originated in a broader concern about how retail users have participated in crypto over the past market cycles.

Since 2021, a significant share of new activity has been driven by memecoin speculation, extreme leverage, and short-term trading models where smaller participants consistently enter late and exit at a disadvantage.

Rather than creating long-term value, much of the market has become optimized for volatility and rapid capital redistribution, often resulting in systematic losses for retail users.

Built on Native Staking, Without Added Risk

Tramplin operates entirely within Solana’s native staking framework, with users delegating directly to the validator node and no smart-contract custody or counterparty risk.

By combining provably fair randomness (via VRF), Merkle-based transparency, and the security of native staking, Tramplin is designed to make staking more engaging, equitable, and accessible, without introducing new risk vectors.

Public Launch and Partner Program

Alongside its launch, Tramplin is opening its Strategic Partner Program, inviting creators, analysts, auditors, and ecosystem builders to participate in reviewing, validating, and sharing the protocol with their communities.

The Partner Program is designed to offer a low-overhead, transparent alternative to running a private validator, while preserving Solana’s native security model.

The program features audit-first transparency, lifetime revenue sharing, and community Boost Points. Additional details about Tramplin and its Partner Program are available at https://tramplin.io

About Tramplin

Tramplin is a premium staking platform built on Solana with verifiable and random distribution of outsized rewards.

Founded in early 2025, Tramplin’s mission is to empower SOL holders — the backbone of the Solana ecosystem — with opportunities traditionally reserved for whales, without compromising capital safety.

Tramplin is backed by iTreasury ventures, an early investor in Solana, Polkadot, and several other category-defining blockchain projects.

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Marketing team Validator LLC pr@tramplin.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Austin, Texas, February 4th, 2026, Chainwire

DitGold announced that its native DITAU token will be listed for spot trading on Biconomy, with the DITAU/USDT trading pair scheduled to go live on Feb. 4, 2026, at 12:00 UTC. The listing expands market access for DITAU and supports DitGold’s strategy to build a decentralized ecosystem centered on data as a store of value.

DitGold is built on the premise that data has emerged as the most valuable resource of the digital age—surpassing traditional commodities such as oil and gold. Through its DITAU token, the platform aims to recognize, tokenize, and democratize the economic value generated by data assets, positioning data as a non-depleting, infinitely scalable form of wealth that underpins innovation, economic growth, and societal advancement in the 21st-century global economy.

To view the announcement on X, visit https://ibn.fm/weJcQ

About DitGold

By leveraging the transparency and security of blockchain technology, DitGold is creating a robust, decentralized mechanism for capturing, valuing, and exchanging the most potent commodity of the digital age. The DITAU token is the key to participating in this new, perpetual gold rush, shifting power from centralized data monopolies to a distributed, community-owned ecosystem.

For more information, visit the DitGold Profile

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New York, New York, United States, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

Superform brings a familiar mobile experience to onchain finance, helping users grow their money while keeping full control of their assets.

Today, Superform, the first user-owned neobank, announced its mobile app launch,marking a key milestone in its efforts to build a user-owned neobank. The app extends the reach of Superform’s SuperVaults: non-custodial onchain vaults that automatically deploy user capital across high-performing DeFi strategies such as stablecoin lending and liquidity provisioning. The launch makes DeFi more accessible by delivering a user experience that feels like seamless internet banking while providing access to powerful DeFi returns. The app allows users to earn more yield on their USD, BTC, and ETH, marking the company’s official expansion into the U.S. market.

The app is designed for users who want a simpler way to grow their money without the stress of managing wallets, understanding protocols or navigating multiple chains. Users can create an account, onramp with fiat, and start earning in minutes. Beyond earning, users can swap, send, and manage their money across chains, all while maintaining full custody and control of their assets. 

Deposits are routed through SuperVaults, Superform’s automated savings products that deploys capital across high-performing DeFi strategies such as stablecoin lending and liquidity provisioning. The experience is built to feel familiar to anyone who has used a fintech app while delivering yields that consistently outperform traditional benchmarks. SuperVaults have generated average returns of 8.4% APY, compared to just 4.3% for T-Bills.

“You should not need to be technical to earn more onchain,” said Vikram Arun, Co-Founder and CEO of Superform. “The mobile app is the next step in our mission to make crypto-native strategies feel like standard financial products. It offers a true set and forget experience where users can deposit once and earn automatically without needing to manage or monitor anything.”

While DeFi has matured significantly, consumers still lack a complete financial alternative to traditional banks. Traditional savings options provide near-zero returns after inflation, while crypto-native yield remains fragmented across multiple tools and protocols. Users are forced to choose between the simplicity of custodial platforms that control their assets, or the complexity of self-custody solutions that require technical expertise.

Superform addresses this by building infrastructure that consolidates and simplifies. SuperVaults offer users exposure to curated opportunities through a single, scalable product, eliminating the need to stitch together tools or analyze protocols. With features like boosted APYs, Superform Points, and tiered rewards, the platform combines the performance of DeFi with the usability of traditional financial apps. The mobile app builds on traction from Superform’s desktop platform, which currently manages over $180 million in user deposits across 1000+ vaults, with strategies spanning more than 70 protocols. 

This launch marks the first in a series of major product rollouts and upgrades coming to the Superform ecosystem through the end of the year. For updates, users can visit superform.xyz or follow @superformxyz on X.

About Superform

Superform is the first user owned neo-bank to effortlessly grow your crypto portfolio. Superform helps users maximize returns on their crypto by providing access to over 800 earning opportunities with $10B in TVL across 50 protocols. Superform’s SuperVaults product offers single-transaction deposits into multi-protocol, yield bearing vaults. These “set and forget” opportunities are focused on earning users stablecoin yields. SuperVaults have been audited by yAudit and multiple independent security researchers from Spearbit.

Since launching in Q2 2024, Superform has delivered secure and optimized yield to over 180,000 depositors. Currently, users are earning an average APY of over 8.4%. Backed by $11M in funding from leading investors including VanEck Ventures, Polychain Capital, Circle Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Maven11 Capital, CMT Digital, and Arthur Hayes, Superform Labs is simplifying the path to onchain wealth.

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PR Manager Aarya Shah aarya@serotonin.co Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Vaduz, Liechtenstein, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

A globally respected investor and founder of Real Vision brings decades of financial market insight to xMoney’s leadership team

xMoney, a leading provider of compliant payment infrastructure bridging traditional finance and digital assets, today announced that Raoul Pal has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor.

Raoul Pal is one of the most widely respected macro thinkers of his generation. An investor, entrepreneur, and financial commentator, he has spent decades analyzing how money moves, how markets evolve, and how technological shifts reshape global financial systems. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment, as global payments transition toward regulated digital rails, stablecoins, and on-chain settlement.

With Raoul’s strategic guidance, xMoney aims to further strengthen its position at the intersection of payments, regulation, and digital assets - building infrastructure that enables seamless value transfer across traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins.

A Career Spanning Global Finance and Digital Assets

Raoul began his career in traditional finance, holding senior roles at Goldman Sachs, where he led hedge fund sales for equities and derivatives in Europe, and later at GLG Partners, where he co-managed a global macro fund alongside some of the world’s most respected hedge fund managers.

In 2005, he founded Global Macro Investor (GMI), which has since become a trusted research platform for hedge funds, family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, registered investment advisors, and high-net-worth investors worldwide. GMI is widely recognized for its independent macro research and strong long-term performance track record.

Raoul co-founded Real Vision in 2014, transforming financial media by making institutional-grade market intelligence accessible to a global audience. What began as a video-first platform evolved into a global financial knowledge network with millions of users across nearly every country.

The new xMoney advisor is also the co-founder of Exponential Age Asset Management (EXPAAM), an investment firm built specifically for the digital asset economy. Its flagship fund, the Exponential Age Digital Asset Fund, provides curated exposure to top crypto hedge funds by combining macroeconomic frameworks with deep digital asset research.

Supporting the Future of Payments

Raoul’s long-standing belief is that the world is experiencing a structural shift in money, technology, and market infrastructure - not a temporary trend. Payments, in particular, are undergoing one of the most significant transformations in decades.

​​Unlike many payment platforms that expand globally first and retrofit compliance later, xMoney has taken a regional-first approach, building its infrastructure within Europe, one of the most highly regulated financial environments in the world. This strategy enables xMoney to meet stringent regulatory standards from day one, while creating a scalable foundation for global expansion aligned with frameworks such as MiCA.

“Crypto only fulfills its promise when it disappears into the background,” said Raoul Pal. “The real winners will be the platforms that make global payments simple, compliant, and invisible. That’s what excites me the most about xMoney.”

As Strategic Advisor, Raoul will work closely with xMoney’s leadership team, focusing on long-term strategy, market structure, and anticipating how global money movement will evolve as regulated stablecoins, compliant on-chain settlement, and hybrid payment models become foundational financial infrastructure.

“We’re building payment rails for the future, starting in the most regulated markets first,” said Gregorious Siourounis, Co-Founder & CEO of xMoney. “That discipline gives us a structural advantage as digital assets move into mainstream finance. Raoul’s depth of experience, macro insight, and clarity of thought reinforce our belief that long-term winners in payments will be compliant, scalable, and globally interoperable.”

The appointment underscores xMoney’s commitment to building a compliant, scalable payment infrastructure that bridges traditional finance and Web3, enabling businesses and consumers to transact seamlessly across borders, currencies, and technologies.

About xMoney

xMoney is a pioneering payments company with strategic European licenses, focused on building a seamless, secure, and future-ready payments ecosystem. By combining cutting-edge technology, strong regulatory compliance, and a broad product suite spanning traditional and digital assets, xMoney bridges traditional finance and next-generation payment rails.

Website: www.xmoney.com 

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Hong Kong, Hong Kong, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

Program kicks off in Hong Kong with focus on on-chain financial infrastructure

Pharos Network, an inclusive financial Layer 1 blockchain designed to host billions of dollars in real-world assets, today announced the launch of Native to Pharos, a $10+ million builder incubator program aimed at accelerating innovation across its on-chain financial ecosystem.

The Native to Pharos incubator is designed to support early-stage teams building decentralized financial applications and infrastructure on the Pharos blockchain. Backed by $10+ million in funding and supported by partners including Hack VC, Draper Dragon, Lightspeed Faction and Centrifuge, the program targets projects operating at the intersection of real-world assets, DeFi, and blockchain infrastructure.

Participants accepted into the incubator will receive hands-on technical mentorship, strategic guidance for product launch and scaling, and access to a network of investors and ecosystem partners. Specifically, we equip builders with AI-driven resources to optimize efficiency, offering developer-friendly tools that make integration simple and seamless. The program is structured to provide long-term support, enabling teams to build sustainable businesses while contributing to the growth of Pharos’s on-chain financial ecosystem.

“Pharos is committed to building a thriving RealFi ecosystem and empowering builders who share our vision,” said Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos. “The Pharos Incubator is designed as a full-spectrum partnership, offering mentorship, technical resources, go-to-market support, fundraising guidance, and access to financial and legal expertise. Our goal is to help teams succeed while fostering collaboration across the broader Pharos community.”

The incubator’s first recruitment drive will kick off in Hong Kong, where Pharos will host its initial cohort launch activities. In partnership with Web3Labs and Consensus, Pharos will participate in GWDC, Hong Kong’s first large-scale Web3 hackathon, as part of its builder outreach and ecosystem expansion efforts.

For its inaugural cohort, Pharos is prioritizing projects that can uniquely benefit from its core architecture, including native deep parallel execution and a modular, compliance-aware design optimized for real-world assets. The program is actively seeking teams building decentralized perpetual and spot exchanges, yield and vault infrastructure that integrates tokenized RWAs, and prediction markets focused on real-world outcomes.

Through the incubator, Pharos aims to attract builders developing high-performance financial applications that require low latency, composability, and scalable on-chain execution. By aligning technical support, capital, and ecosystem access, the program is intended to accelerate the deployment of production-ready financial protocols on Pharos.

The Native to Pharos program is now open for applications. Additional details and application information are available at Pharos Website.

About Pharos

Pharos is an inclusive financial Layer 1 blockchain built for RealFi, where institutional-grade and real-world assets circulate on-chain and remain composable with decentralized assets. The network combines modular architecture, deep parallel execution, and built-in compliance to support real-time on-chain finance at scale. Built by leadership and engineers from Ant Group, Pharos is backed by Hack VC, Faction VC, and other global traditional finance investors.

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Michelle Kang michelle@pharoslabs.xyz Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Los Angeles, California, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

Backed by Top Consumer, Crypto and Cultural Investors, BLUFF Quickly Emerges as a Fast-Growing Betting Platform Boasting More Than 125M Bets in Beta

BLUFF, the next-generation betting and entertainment platform, has raised $21 million in strategic investment led by global blockchain technology fund 1kx, with participation from Makers Fund, Maximum Frequency Ventures, Delphi Ventures Founders and other high-profile backers, including sports champion & tech investor, Tristan Thompson. The team includes former senior executives from Stake, Bet365, William Hill and Bodog, drawing on experience operating the world's leading betting platforms to deliver a truly novel gaming experience. The team will use the funds to advance the innovative betting platform and launch at scale. 

BLUFF is building a social centric betting platform and sportsbook designed for the next generation of players. The platform prioritizes speed, transparency and player alignment, with instant onboarding, real-time settlement, provably fair games and reward systems that allow users to participate directly in the ecosystem they help grow.

“When we began building BLUFF, we set out to create a betting platform for the new generation of betters who prioritise fast, high-engagement gameplay, real-time experiences, real stakes and the social energy that defines how players engage online today,” said BLUFF’s Founder. “This funding, and the investors who have backed us, validates our mission of what the future of online betting can look like. Novel content, user-experience obsessed, deep community focus, and hyper-engaging for all users.” 

The raise follows an exceptional pre-release phase, during which BLUFF has attracted over 600,000 sign-ups, sustained tens of thousands of daily active users and processed over 125,000,000 bets through its beta in 3 months alone. This early traction positions BLUFF as one of the fastest-scaling new betting platforms in the market with strategic partners across crypto, gaming and consumer entertainment.

“The speed of execution and level of organic demand we’ve seen from BLUFF is rare,” said Peter Pan, Partner at 1kx. “They’re building a category-defining platform with the potential to become the number one destination in betting and entertainment. BLUFF is exactly what the next generation of users is demanding.”

Beyond traditional iGaming and sports betting, BLUFF is building a unified experience that blends betting, live prediction markets, binary outcomes, and creator-led community events within a single platform. Bluff also provides a VIP matching program to make the transition from legacy platforms such as Stake, Shuffle and Rollbit to Bluff as seamless as possible, offering market-leading bonuses, rewards and world-class VIP service through a 24/7 VIP concierge. 

“We are thrilled to back the BLUFF team,” said Andrew Willson, Partner at Makers Fund. “They bring a deep, nuanced understanding of player needs combined with an innovative approach to company building and platform design. By prioritizing players and offering a differentiated experience, we expect BLUFF to become a disruptive brand in the betting space.”

To learn more and play now, visit Bluff.com.

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About BLUFF

BLUFF is built for the new generation of players. A global sports betting and iGaming platform where gaming, real stakes, culture, and community merge into a single, continuous loop to meet today’s users' demands. It starts as a betting platform and sportsbook and evolves into something much bigger, with novel bet types, loot boxes, and trading that make for a unique betting experience. Backed by global blockchain technology fund 1kx, the founding team includes senior executives and operators from Stake, Bet365, William Hill, Bodog, YOLO and other category-defining platforms, bringing decades of experience at the highest levels of betting and gaming.

About 1kx

1kx is a research-driven, fundamentals-focused global investment firm. Founded in 2018 by tech entrepreneurs Lasse Clausen and Chris Heymann, 1kx invests at key inflection points for blockchain technologies to create breakthrough opportunities across industries. The firm’s mission is to develop the domain expertise and thought leadership required to accelerate the most consequential markets emerging at the intersection of blockchain and the broader economy. As one of the top-performing and most institutionalized funds in the blockchain space, 1kx partners with a diverse global investor base, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, foundations, fund of funds, corporations, and family offices. Renowned for its hands-on approach, technical rigor, and unwavering long-term commitment to founders, 1kx has empowered over 150 visionary startups to scale transformative projects while delivering enduring returns for its investors.

To learn more, visit https://1kx.capital/ or @1kxnetwork on X.

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BLUFF press@bluff.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Paris, France, February 2nd, 2026, Chainwire

Europe’s premier blockchain conference returns to Paris, bridging finance, regulation, and digital asset infrastructure.

Paris Blockchain Week 2026, Where Institutions and Digital Assets Finally Meet, will take place on April 15–16, 2026, at the Carrousel du Louvre, marking its most institutionally focused edition to date. The event brings together global leaders from finance, regulation, and blockchain technology to explore how digital assets are being integrated into traditional financial systems.

Recognized for its focus on institutional adoption, regulatory compliance (MiCA), and digital asset integration, the event continues to attract a global audience of policymakers, financial institutions, and infrastructure providers shaping the future of blockchain in regulated markets.

Widely regarded as Europe’s leading blockchain conference, Paris Blockchain Week 2026 shifts its focus toward institutional adoption of digital assets. Discussions will center on market structure, custody, compliance, and regulation, moving beyond speculation to explore how blockchain is shaping real-world finance.

"Our strength has always been in how we build trust across industries, and in our ability to recognize the needs of the market. Rather than offering ready-made answers or imposing narratives, we focused on creating meaningful solutions and opening space for different perspectives. That is how Paris Blockchain Week earned its place as a trusted platform for institutions" said Michael Amar, Chairman of Paris Blockchain Week.

An invitation-only gathering at the Château de Versailles will convene policymakers, asset managers, infrastructure providers, and financial institutions shaping the future of regulated digital markets. The agenda reflects the growing demand for clarity around the institutional adoption of digital assets, MiCA regulation, and blockchain regulation in Europe.

Confirmed participants and partners include S&P Global, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Invesco, the European Commission, Circle, Ripple, Cardano, and Bybit. Their presence underscores the growing intersection between traditional finance and blockchain technology, positioning digital assets within regulated capital markets rather than as a parallel ecosystem.

The 2026 conference agenda is explicitly institutional, bringing together banks, regulators, and blockchain foundations to discuss digital asset regulation in Europe, tokenization, custody, and market data standards. As frameworks such as MiCA take effect across the European Union, Paris Blockchain Week serves as a reference point for policymakers and market participants to align on standards, interoperability, and long-term governance.

Paris has become a focal point for financial and regulatory dialogue in Europe, offering a neutral environment where public and private sectors can collaborate. This year’s conference builds on that reputation, providing a space where institutions approach blockchain with operational rigor, regulatory compliance, and long-term intent.

For institutions exploring digital asset adoption and Web3 firms adapting to enterprise standards, Paris Blockchain Week 2026 has become a defining meeting point for the industry’s next phase.

Event Details:

Dates: April 15–16, 2026

Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

Official Website: https://www.parisblockchainweek.com

About Paris Blockchain Week

Paris Blockchain Week, organized by Chain of Events, is Europe’s largest institutional event for digital assets and traditional finance. Hosted annually at the Carrousel du Louvre, and expanding now for the exclusive invite only VIP dinner to the Royal Château de Versaillesf, PBW convenes the world’s leading voices in finance, policy, and technology to drive meaningful dialogue and collaboration across the digital economy.

In 2025, PBW welcomed 9,500+ attendees, 420+ speakers, and 300+ sponsors, including executives from AWS, Ripple, Circle, Animoca Brands, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank.

Be part of the future of blockchain technology, experience its transformative impact across various sectors firsthand, and connect with the visionaries driving the next wave of innovation in the space.

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Leora Schreiber parisblockchainweek@marketacross.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Tel Aviv, Israel, February 2nd, 2026, Chainwire

Chainwire, the leading press release distribution platform for the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, is proud to announce it has been voted "Best PR Wire" at the CoinGape Awards. This accolade highlights Chainwire’s continued leadership in providing automated, high-impact PR distribution for Web3 projects globally.

The CoinGape Awards recognize excellence and innovation across the cryptocurrency landscape. Chainwire’s victory in the PR Wire category underscores the market's demand for a specialized distribution infrastructure that goes beyond generalist newswires. Unlike traditional platforms, Chainwire offers niche relevance, ensuring news is published directly on the trusted outlets that Web3 investors and developers actually read,.

This recognition follows a period of significant momentum for the platform, which recently earned 8 badges in G2’s Fall 2025 Grid® Reports, including "Leader" and "Momentum Leader," based on a 4.8/5 rating from verified user reviews,.

"We established Chainwire to serve as the much-needed bridge between Web3 brands and Web3 media," said Nadav Dakner, Founder and CEO at Chainwire. "The industry needed a dedicated infrastructure that understands the nuances of blockchain technology and guarantees that project milestones are not just distributed, but truly seen by the right communities. This award validates our commitment to connecting innovators with the media platforms that matter most".

Owned by MediaFuse, a specialized PR newswire group, Chainwire has grown to serve over 2,000 paying clients, distributing more than 10,000 press releases since its inception,.

Key drivers behind Chainwire’s selection as "Best PR Wire" include:

Guaranteed Homepage Visibility: Chainwire secures front-page real estate on top-tier crypto publications, ensuring news isn't buried in hidden footers,.

AI Discoverability Optimization: By publishing on sites with high topical authority, Chainwire ensures news is scraped by models like ChatGPT and Gemini, influencing how AI defines a brand's narrative.

Global Reach: The platform offers native market penetration through 25+ regional packages, translating and placing news on leading local outlets in markets like Japan, Korea, and Turkey,.

Direct API Integrations: Chainwire connects directly to the Content Management Systems (CMS) of hundreds of publishers via API, allowing for automated, same-day execution without the uncertainty of traditional pitching

About Chainwire

Chainwire is the leading crypto-native PR distribution platform, integrated with over 100 top crypto media outlets and supporting 25 regional PR bundles. Purpose-built for Web3, it enables guaranteed, same-day publication with multilingual reach, homepage visibility, and real-time performance tracking. Trusted by 2,000+ companies, Chainwire has distributed more than 10,000 press releases globally.

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CMO Alon Keren Chainwire Alon@chainwire.org Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

London, United Kingdom, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Extended support for the Tezos ecosystem, building on the existing Tezos Layer 1 integration and extending it to Etherlink, is now available on LedgerTM signers and Ledger WalletTM, with Tezos’ EVM-compatible smart rollup. The integration brings full support for Etherlink and the tez (XTZ) token across Ledger’s ecosystem with Ledger signer integration, Ledger Wallet functionality, and upcoming native staking support. Ledger has supported Tezos delegation since 2019, with more than 10 million tez (XTZ) delegated via Ledger Wallet for voting power. The introduction of native staking promises to further strengthen participation from Ledger users in securing the Tezos network while unlocking opportunities for extra yield.

Following today’s announcement, Ledger users can also avail of Ledger’s tried-and-tested secure self-custody for their Etherlink-based tez (XTZ) and benefit from Clear Signing for tez transfers on Etherlink. Users of the network will now have the ability to send, receive, and manage their assets directly through Ledger Wallet’s desktop and mobile applications, including full account visualization with balance tracking and transaction history. The integration also provides swap functionality through Ledger Wallet.

 Via Ledger Wallet, users will also be able to interact with the Etherlink DeFi ecosystem and enjoy access to established protocols, including Curve, Morpho, and Uniswap, as well as emerging asset platforms like uranium.io, bringing tokenized physical uranium and other innovative assets directly into self-custody wallets.

As staking becomes a core part of how users participate in blockchain networks, demand for secure, native staking under self-custody continues to grow. Users want to engage with emerging ecosystems without compromising on security. Governance and network security are core pillars for Tezos users, and extended Ledger support for Etherlink and native Tezos staking reflects user demand, bringing EVM compatibility and staking into a self-custody environment that users already trust.

“Uncompromising security is an essential for users of Tezos and Etherlink, and this made enhanced support in the Ledger ecosystem a top priority. With hardware-enforced clear signing for every Tezos and Etherlink transaction, users can confidently interact with DeFi knowing their assets are protected by Ledger’s uncompromising security,” said Charles Guillemet, CTO at Ledger.

The timing aligns with Etherlink's explosive growth as enterprises seek alternatives to Ethereum's high fees. With sub-second confirmation times and transaction costs under $0.01, Etherlink has emerged as the go-to option for cost-conscious DeFi applications. Signer support is particularly appealing to institutions seeking secure solutions for managing their digital asset portfolios.

"This integration represents a significant step in making Tezos and Etherlink assets more accessible to users who prioritize security," said Anthony Hayot, Head of DeFi Partnerships at Nomadic Labs. "With this Ledger integration, we're ensuring that our ecosystem benefits from industry-leading hardware wallet protection while maintaining the seamless user experience that drives adoption."

About Ledger

Celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2024, Ledger is the world leader in Digital Asset security for consumers and enterprises. Ledger offers connected devices and platforms, with more than 8M devices sold to consumers in 165+ countries and 10+ languages, 100+ financial institutions and commercial brands. Over 20% of the world’s crypto assets are secured by Ledger.

Ledger is the digital asset solution secure by design. The world’s most internationally respected offensive security team, Ledger Donjon, is relied upon as a crucial resource for securing the world of Digital Assets. With over 14 billion dollars hacked, scammed or mismanaged in 2023 alone, Ledger’s security brings peace of mind and uncompromising self-custody to its community.

Don’t buy “a hardware wallet.” Buy a LEDGER signer.

About Tezos

Tezos is an open-source and energy-efficient blockchain designed to empower institutions, developers, and businesses, and facilitate value transfer in a digital environment. It is designed for the scalable deployment of decentralized applications. As one of the first Proof of Stake blockchains, Tezos is globally supported and valued for its strong governance, long-term upgradability, and smart contract capabilities. For more information about Tezos, visit http://www.tezos.com.

About Etherlink

Etherlink is an EVM-compatible blockchain powered by Tezos Smart Rollups technology. It empowers developers to smoothly deploy any EVM codebase and migrate users and assets from Ethereum and other interoperable chains, enabling seamless interaction and asset transfers across different networks. Learn more: https://www.etherlink.com/

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Sara Moric sara.moric@trili.tech Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Davos, Switzerland, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire

The 4th Edition of the Institutional Investor Gathering, an exclusive, invitation-only forum hosted by Sagar Barvaliya, Blockchain Founders Capital (BFC), has gathered global leaders from politics, finance, and the digital asset ecosystem to discuss a question that increasingly defines the future of markets: how blockchain, tokenization, and regulation are converging to reshape the global financial system.

Sagar Barvaliya, Host and General Partner at Blockchain Founders Capital, said: “One of the clearest signals from Davos is that the speculation-driven phase of crypto is maturing. What comes next looks far more like traditional finance—disciplined capital, conservative risk frameworks, and real use cases. As tokenization advances, digital assets won’t feel experimental anymore; they’ll simply become part of how global markets function.”

Antony Scaramucci argued that, beneath the noise of U.S. politics, meaningful progress is being made. “Despite some reality TV drama that is always part of a Trump presidency, this administration has been way better than the Biden administration,” he said, pointing specifically to the importance of passing the Clarity Act. According to Scaramucci, enabling yield-bearing stablecoins is critical for U.S. competitiveness, even as banks lobby against them to protect margins. “Like Uber—something nobody wanted initially—yield-bearing stablecoins are simply better instruments. If the U.S. doesn’t move, China will.”

Understanding such structural shifts requires the ability to translate complexity—something Matt Hougan traced back to philosophy. “Philosophy is basically the exercise of reading incomprehensible text and translating it into plain English,” he said. “That’s exactly what we do in crypto.” Hougan argued that philosophical training—drilling down to first principles—helps investors identify long-term opportunities in an industry often obscured by jargon and speculation.

From theory, the discussion turned to real-world implementation. David Burt, Premier of Bermuda, reflected on how early regulatory conviction can create lasting impact. He recalled Davos 2019, when Bermuda first laid out its roadmap for a digital asset regulatory framework. “Today,” Burt noted, “Bermuda is home to some of the largest and most influential digital asset finance companies in the world,” including Coinbase, Circle, and Kraken—evidence that regulatory clarity attracts serious builders.

Ownership and incentives emerged as a recurring theme throughout the day. Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands, described tokenization as inevitable. “The world will be tokenized—everything will be tokenized,” he said, positioning Bitcoin as “digital gold” and altcoins as the frontier economy of the internet. Drawing parallels to the early days of the web, Siu warned that picking winners will remain difficult—but essential. He also shared Animoca’s own volatile journey, from unicorn valuation to a €40 million low after delisting in Australia, and back to multi-billion-dollar valuations more recently. “When you don’t own your digital assets,” he cautioned, “you’re at the mercy of platforms that get to decide whether you exist or not.”

Siu also highlighted a cultural gap holding Europe back. “When I grew up in Austria, I never learned anything about money,” he said. “That’s one of Europe’s biggest problems. In places like Hong Kong, people talk openly about money from an early age—and they’re not afraid of it.”

These themes came together in the panel discussion “The Institutional Stack: Tokenisation, Liquidity & On-Chain Settlement,” moderated by Clara Tao of the Filecoin Foundation. Panelists explored how institutions are navigating a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Christoph Hock described the moment as a rare convergence of disruptive forces. “We are in a massive disruptive environment,” he said, citing blockchain, AI, and quantum technology. Hock noted that digital asset companies are now achieving valuations that rival—or exceed—those of traditional financial institutions, signaling that the transformation is already underway.

Still, adoption remains uneven. Philipp Zentner argued that much of the industry is still stuck in experimentation. “We’re living in a proof-of-concept phase,” he said. “Banks aren’t truly interested in open technology—they prefer to lock clients into proprietary platforms.”

Yet progress is visible. Jan Sell highlighted how far the conversation has moved. “The fact that banks are even considering launching stablecoins is already a big step,” he said, pointing to Qivalis, a bank consortium issuing a stablecoin. “These banks are serious.”

Regulation, however, remains the pacing factor. John Medel warned of uncertainty in the U.S. political process. “There’s concern that the U.S. Senate won’t get Clarity through—and that a future administration could reverse course,” he said. At the same time, he acknowledged an emerging consensus: “Technology will always move faster than regulation.”

Notably, Hock added that regulators are increasingly accepting public blockchains—an important signal for institutional adoption.

Taken together, the conversations in Davos painted a clear picture: digital assets are no longer a fringe experiment. They are a philosophical challenge, a regulatory test, and an institutional reality unfolding in real time. The only open question is which jurisdictions—and which institutions—will move fast enough to shape what comes next.

About Blockchain Founders Capital

Blockchain Founders Capital is a Germany-based early-stage venture capital fund focused on backing mission-driven founders building at the intersection of Web2, Web3, and digital finance. The fund has made 22 investments to date and operates on an equal partnership model, aligning long-term interests between founders and investors. BFC invests primarily across the United States and Europe.

For more information, users can visit www.bfc.vc

Contact

Director of PR Alnura Belyalova INPUT Global alnura@input.global Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Zug, Switzerland, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Status, one of Ethereum’s longest-running open-source projects, has re-entered the spotlight with USS Status, a satirical sci-fi cartoon that turns crypto’s chaotic past into comedy, along with the launch of a unified privacy super-app and gasless L2 network.

An Old Giant Awakens

Status, the open-source privacy super-app, has launched an overhauled unified app, a gasless L2 network, and a new identity personified in an irreverent and satirical web cartoon.

One of the oldest established projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, Status has weathered the industry’s volatility while continuing to quietly build an open-source platform that combines a secure crypto wallet, privacy messenger, and web browser within a single application.

Founded in 2017, Status has lived through ICO mania, regulatory whiplash, centralised exchange collapses, memecoin cycles, and repeated attempts to rebuild the internet with better primitives.

Now they’re back with a mission to make privacy accessible to everyone.

Crypto’s First Cartoon Series?

To celebrate the renewal of its app and the upcoming rollout of Status Network, the project is launching USS Status – an animated web series that follows a crew of meme misfits navigating a chaotic galaxy plagued by surveillance, centralisation, and bad governance. 

The satirical sci-fi series pokes fun at the colourful history of the crypto space, featuring allusions to characters, tokens, and projects that will be immediately familiar to crypto-native viewers.

Episode 1 sees the return of an infamous crypto figure, although USS Status insists that any likelihood is strictly coincidental.

The show is available on X, YouTube, and TikTok, with the Status team hinting that more episodes are on their way soon: https://youtu.be/478Bjdcswo0

“Over the past decade, crypto has traded its sense of fun and freedom for market hype and profit-first narratives,” said Volodymy Hulchenko, Status App Lead.

“USS Status is our way of laughing at the chaos while reminding people that it’s still possible to build tools that defend privacy, free speech, and digital freedom - without losing the cypherpunk spirit that started it all.”

Those interested in following the USS Status journey can join the project’s X Community:

https://x.com/i/communities/1998042195463479359

The Platform Behind the Punchline

The USS Status fictional spaceship runs on the Ethereum blockchain (for now), and uses the same tech built into the Status privacy super-app that’s available today.

Status allows users to chat, transact, and browse privately – all in one place, and they’ve just launched a new unified app for mobile and desktop.

They’re not the only team building a super-app, but their focus is to provide unrivaled privacy using Logos’ peer-to-peer messaging technology (prev. Whisper) and decentralised smart contracts.

The app features anonymous profiles, a built-in multi-chain crypto wallet with swaps, end-to-end encrypted messaging, censorship-resistant Community spaces, and a privacy-preserving web browser.

The app is available at: status.app

As innovators in the privacy space since 2017, Status is also taking things one step further with the launch of Status Network, the world’s first natively gasless L2 blockchain.

Built on the zkEVM Linea stack, Status Network removes the need for gas with a reputation-based Karma system funded by native yield, unlocking gasless private accounts.

Will the combination of gasless zkEVM infrastructure and a privacy super-app create a new standard for privacy? We’ll have to wait and see until their mainnet launch in Q1.

In the meantime, pre-deposit vaults for staking on Status Network are now open: https://hub.status.network/

About Status Network

Status Network is the first Ethereum L2 with gas-free transactions at scale. Funded by native yield and app fees, it redistributes 100% of net revenues to its community, powering sustainable liquidity incentives, a public funding pool, and SNT buy-backs. Built on the Linea zkEVM stack, it enables frictionless onboarding for games, social apps, and DeFi while remaining fully aligned with Ethereum security and values.

Users can follow Status for updates: https://x.com/StatusL2

Contact

Public Relations Laura Guzik Status Network laura@status.im Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

New York, United States, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire

The onchain launch protocol now powers the majority of new DEX pools on Base, with over $1.5B in value created and $1B+ in trading volume in just nine months

Doppler, the default launch protocol for teams raising capital onchain, today announced a $9 million seed round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Variant, Figment Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. The funding comes as Doppler has rapidly emerged as the core market infrastructure for new onchain assets, powering the majority of token launches and DEX pools on Base.

Since launching nine months ago, Doppler has become the default path to market for new onchain assets. Over 90% of new DEX pools on Base now launch via Doppler, and its infrastructure supports tokens created by leading applications including Zora, Base App, Paragraph, FxHash, and more. Today, more than 40,000 assets are created daily using Doppler, representing over $1.5 billion in value and more than $1 billion in cumulative trading volume.

Launching a token today is closer to running an IPO than deploying a website - except there are no banks, no underwriters, and no established playbook. Teams often spend months preparing launches, only to see snipers extract value, liquidity fail to materialize, and charts collapse within days. When 80–90% of tokens seek similar outcomes, yet each team continues to roll its own launch infrastructure, something is fundamentally broken.

“Capital formation has not fundamentally changed in over a century, despite how broken the IPO process has become,”  said Austin Adams, creator of the Doppler Protocol and founder of Whetstone Research. “Tokenization of markets will finish what electronification started in the 1990s - leaping forward in efficiency and creating new markets while simultaneously lowering costs and barriers. In this new reality, the mechanism determines the outcome. That’s why we invented Doppler.”

Doppler compresses months of infrastructure work - token deployment, vesting, liquidity bootstrapping, governance, and fee routing - into a single, unified interface. At the core of the protocol are price discovery auctions designed to protect launches from snipers while generating protocol-owned liquidity from day one. This allows teams to focus on building applications and communities, rather than reinventing fragile and complex launch mechanics.

With customizable auctions for nearly any asset type, Doppler’s infrastructure supports tokenized equities, commodities, TGEs, content, art, creators, and ideas. Assets launched via Doppler are immediately tradeable across any interface supporting the underlying DEX, ensuring maximum distribution from day one.

The results have been significant. Since launch, more than six million pools have been deployed through Doppler, representing 93% of Uniswap v4 pools on Base and 91% across all supported networks. In total, this activity represents over 40,000 assets launched daily, with more than $1.5 billion in value created and over $1 billion in trading volume.

The $9 million seed round will enable Doppler to expand into self-serve markets, support larger token generation events, and deepen integrations across the onchain ecosystem. The team includes engineers with backgrounds at Uniswap, Primitive Finance, and Aztec, bringing experience building AMMs and market infrastructure at scale.

Already the default launch infrastructure for coins on Base, Doppler’s broader mission is to become the default infrastructure for entirely new asset classes that could not have existed before. Doppler helps teams build apps, not auctions - and is redefining how capital formation works onchain.

About Whetstone Research

Whetstone Research is building the future of onchain markets. Their first product is Doppler, a hyper-efficient price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping Protocol for projects that are meant to last. Their second product is Pure Markets, a launchpad for serious projects and trading terminal.

Contact

Bridgett Frey media@whetstone.cc Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Hong Kong, China, January 28th, 2026
The Best Event (TBE), the premier global Web3 event series, today announced a strategic partnership with Consensus, the world’s largest and longest-running crypto festival, and CoinDesk, the leading media and events company in the digital asset space. Together, they will present the Official Consensus Hong Kong Closing Night Afterparty, set to redefine the conference experience by merging a curated, deal-focused VIP ecosystem with a large-scale global music celebration. The official DJ lineup, featuring headliners Tujamo, Monochrome, Ariel Estrella, Spell Lace, and Kim Sane, was also revealed.
This flagship event, scheduled to take place just five minutes from the main conference venue with a capacity for over 1,300 attendees, is designed as the definitive closing chapter of Consensus Hong Kong. It represents a significant evolution in crypto events, shifting from passive attendance to active, outcome-driven participation.
From Conference Floor to Curated Deal Hub
The evening will commence as an exclusive, high-intent networking session for founders, venture funds, exchanges, market makers, and top-tier ecosystem leaders. This pre-party gathering is engineered to foster meaningful connections in a signal-rich environment before seamlessly transitioning into a full-scale concert powered by a world-class DJ lineup and production.
“The future of crypto is built in rooms where trust, capital, and culture merge,” said Tobias Bauer, Co-founder of The Best Event. “This partnership with Consensus allows us to create an environment where meaningful conversations happen first, then the entire ecosystem comes together to celebrate what's next.”
Solving the Side-Event Dilemma
The announcement addresses a common industry challenge: major crypto conferences are often surrounded by fragmented side events organized by entities without core event expertise, leading to inconsistent experiences and missed opportunities. By establishing an official, professionally curated afterparty, this partnership brings the most significant ancillary event directly into the Consensus orbit, offering attendees a guaranteed premium experience and unique networking and branding benefits.
Signal Over Scale in a Maturing Web3
As the Web3 ecosystem matures, the focus is shifting from sheer scale to the quality of connections and outcomes. This event embodies the principle that “signal matters more than scale.” By prioritizing curated guest lists, intentional programming, and a dual-purpose format, TBE and Consensus are creating a new template for how business, relationships, and culture intersect in the digital asset space.
The event also highlights the evolution of crypto from niche meetups to full-spectrum experiences where professional deal-making and global culture converge. The model is set for global expansion, with a follow-up Official Consensus Afterparty already planned for Miami later this year in May, and the Official ETHDenver Afterparty also on deck just after Hong Kong. These partnerships reinforce TBE’s commitment to connecting the world's leading crypto hubs.
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What: The Official Consensus Hong Kong Closing Night AfterpartyWhen: Closing night of Consensus Hong Kong, Thursday Feb 12th, 2026Where: A premier venue located 5 minutes from the conference centerFormat: Curated VIP networking session followed by a full-scale concert.Lineup: Tujamo, Monochrome, Ariel Estrella, Spell Lace, Kim Sane, and more.Capacity: 1,300+ attendees.
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New York, United States, January 28th, 2026, Chainwire

QXMP Labs announced that it has registered approximately USD $1.1 trillion of certified real-world, in-ground assets on its proprietary Layer-1 blockchain, QELT. The announcement follows the activation of QXMP’s proprietary oracle infrastructure, which is designed to ingest and verify qualified geological and scientific documentation and record the data on-chain as cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves. The development marks a step toward enabling large-scale, compliant real-world asset tokenisation and settlement using blockchain-based infrastructure.

Addressing the missing Liquidity in Tokenised RWAs

Tokenising real-world assets (RWAs) requires more than price stability. It requires deep, predictable, and continuously replenished liquidity that can scale as issuance grows. Most stablecoin models rely on static reserves, external trading demand, and fragmented liquidity pools. As tokenisation volumes increase, these dynamics can limit liquidity depth and consistency. QXMP Labs approaches the problem differently by designing liquidity into the system itself.

30% of Tokenisation Flows, Routed by Design

At the core of the QXMP Labs ecosystem is a structural mechanism rarely seen in tokenisation:

30% of all tokenisation proceeds across a seven-year pipeline of 44 planned events $1.1 Trillion pipline are contractually routed into the QXMP Labs ecosystem, settling through QELT Blockchain, its purpose-built Layer-1 for real-world assets.

Instead of liquidity arriving later —liquidity is embedded from the start. Each tokenisation event reinforces the same settlement and reserve layer, transforming isolated issuances into a recurring liquidity engine. This directly targets the systemic liquidity gap that has limited RWA adoption globally.

$1.1 Trillion in RWAs Registered On-Chain

QXMP Labs has already registered $1.1 trillion in real-world assets on-chain, spanning commodities, strategic resources, and in-ground reserves across multiple jurisdictions.

These assets are:

not wrapped

not mirrored

not synthetically referenced

They are cryptographically verified on-chain using regulated reporting standards such as NI 43-101 and JORC, via QXMP’s proprietary Proof-of-Reserves Oracle — the only system capable of parsing regulated geotechnical disclosures to bring in-ground assets on-chain. This is based on documented on-chain registration and verification processes.

QELT Blockchain as the Liquidity Gravity Layer

QELT Blockchain functions as the coordination layer where:

tokenisation flows converge

reserve logic is enforced

settlement liquidity accumulates

ecosystem demand compounds

As more tokenisation events settle through the system, liquidity density increases rather than fragments, addressing the structural weakness that has held back RWA markets to date.

Under a base-case scenario applying a conservative infrastructure multiple, provided by Messari Research’s published Layer-1 blockchain valuation methodologies, the cumulative effect of these flows implies a current indicative base valuation of approximately USD $43.6 billion for the QELT ecosystem — derived from throughput, settlement economics, and recurring liquidity inflows rather than speculative assumptions.

Execution and Deployment

The liquidity architecture underpinning QXMP Labs is being executed by a team with a proven track record of delivering high-visibility liquidity activations in live market conditions. That same execution discipline — liquidity sequencing, demand-side engineering, and market coordination — is now being applied to institutional-grade real-world asset infrastructure. This is a live deployment, executed at scale with tier one partnerhsips soon to be announced.

Liquidity Activation Now Entering Its Public Access Phase

As the QXMP Labs ecosystem transitions from infrastructure readiness to active deployment, the platform has now entered a controlled liquidity activation phase aligned with its real-world asset settlement framework.

This phase marks the first opportunity for ecosystem participants to engage with the liquidity layer underpinning QELT Blockchain, ahead of broader market visibility and downstream tokenisation flows entering the system.

Further details on ecosystem access and activation mechanics are being made available via QXMP Labs’ official portal:

Registration is open

Historically, these early access windows — where infrastructure is live, assets are verified, and liquidity rails are being switched on — have often marked the early stages of new financial systems.

QXMP Labs is now entering a controlled activation phase:

infrastructure is live

assets are verified

liquidity rails are being switched on

broader market awareness is only beginning

This phase is associated with early-stage deployment, initial participant onboarding, and broader market awareness developing over time. Additional information is available at https://presale.qelt.ai/.

The Line the Market Is Approaching

The tokenisation industry is approaching a fork. One path continues to digitise assets and hope liquidity appears later. The other builds reserve-grade liquidity rails first, then allows scale to compound naturally. QXMP Labs has chosen the second path — and has committed $1.1 trillion on-chain to support this approach.

For those seeking to understand how this system is being activated, further information is available via the QXMP Labs ecosystem access portal.

Reference Points

Infrastructure overview

QELT blockchain explorer

Early Ecosystem Access

Liquidity Presale Updates

Disclaimer: Messari Research has not authored or endorsed this valuation.

About QXMP Labs

QXMP Labs is a blockchain and financial infrastructure company focused on verifying and registering real-world, in-ground assets on-chain. Its proprietary oracle ingests qualified scientific and geological reports and records them as cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves to support compliant real-world asset tokenisation. The company operates QELT, a live, purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for asset registry, settlement, and reserve integrity, and is advancing a seven-year programme of 44 planned tokenisation events.

Contacts

CEO & Founder Phil Ryan QUANTUM ENHANCED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY QELT LLC phil@qxmp.ai Head of Global Assets Acquisitions Joe Tomaszewski QELT ENHANCED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY QELT LLC joe@qxmp.ai Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.