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XRPL-based DePIN device built by KOSDAQ-listed Kweather in the spotlight; Tria, DCENT, and Biconomy join the lineupU.S. brokerage and crypto platform Robinhood and the longest-running crypto exchange Bitstamp join the lineup, alongside Thailand's SCBXOctober 3 at Grand Hyatt Seoul during KBW2026 week, with Ripple as Title Sponsor
From KOSDAQ-listed weather company Kweather and Tria, the global finance app used across more than 150 countries, to Robinhood, the global brokerage and crypto platform, and Bitstamp, the longest-running crypto exchange founded in 2011, global companies spanning weather data, digital asset payments, and trading in securities, tokenized stocks, and crypto are gathering at ‘XRP Seoul 2026,’ Asia's largest XRP/Web3 conference held during Korea Blockchain Week 2026 (KBW2026 with Upbit).
XRPL Korea, the event's host, unveiled its third speaker lineup on September 18, featuring Kweather, Tria, DCENT, Biconomy, Robinhood, and Bitstamp by Robinhood. This follows earlier announcements of Ripple President Monica Long and other Ripple executives, along with global speakers from Doppler Finance, t54 Labs, Flare, and Evernorth. The lineup brings a Korean listed company, global exchanges, and Asian financial institutions onto one stage.
XRPL in Everyday Life: DePIN Devices, Payments, and Wallets
Kweather's keynote will be delivered by Sunghwan Kim, CEO and Founder of Wellbian Labs. Founded in 1997 as Korea's first private weather company, Kweather operates its own weather sensors at more than 30,000 indoor and outdoor sites nationwide. Wellbian Labs runs Wellbian, the Weather Data Token Generator platform, with Kweather as its technology and device partner. The Weather Data Token Generator, which Wellbian put on sale on September 15, is an indoor measurement device manufactured and certified by Kweather. Air and climate data collected at homes and workplaces is verified on the XRP Ledger (XRPL)-based platform and rewarded in WLBN tokens. The device can be purchased on Wellbian's official website in RLUSD or Korean won, and visitors to the booth on the day will be able to see it in operation, with on-site purchase also planned.
Tria sends Chief Strategy Officer John Lilic. Tria is a global finance app that offers a self-custodial wallet and digital-asset-linked payment features. According to company disclosures, it serves users in more than 150 countries and supports more than 20,000 digital assets. Operating data released in late August 2026 showed cumulative payment volume above $150 million, more than $300 million in volume through its BestPath routing system, and cumulative trading volume above $2 billion. Tria is preparing a pre-event campaign and an on-site program for Korean XRP communities together with XRP Seoul. Details of the benefits and how to take part will be announced in stages once both sides finalize them.
DCENT is represented by Chief Business Officer Wankyu Kim. DCENT is a fingerprint-authenticated hardware wallet launched in 2018. It is used by about 1 million people in over 220 countries and supports more than 100 blockchain networks and over 10,000 digital assets. In May it launched the XRP Alliance with Flare Network, giving users a path into XRP yield vaults with two XRPL signatures and no new chain, wallet, or gas token.
Biconomy is represented by Founder Aniket Jindal. Biconomy pioneered smart contract wallets and chain abstraction, and runs a Modular Execution Environment (MEE) that settles operations across multiple blockchains with a single signature. In Korea it has partnered with Girin Wallet to upgrade wallet infrastructure for the XRP ecosystem.
Robinhood and Bitstamp Share a Global Market View
Robinhood will be represented by Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto and International. Kerbrat runs Robinhood's entire crypto business and launched Robinhood Chain, the company's own blockchain, which opened its public mainnet on July 1. Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer-2 that tokenizes U.S. stocks and ETFs such as Apple and NVIDIA for 24/7 trading, weekends included. Market data show it passed $50 billion in cumulative decentralized exchange (DEX) volume in just over two months. Since tokenized stock trading picked up in late July, real-world assets and stablecoin supply on the chain have grown rapidly. Robinhood entered the institutional crypto business with its acquisition of Bitstamp in June last year, and its second-quarter total net revenues rose 32% year over year to $1.31 billion.
Leonard Hoh, President of Bitstamp Asia Pacific, will travel to Seoul. Founded in 2011, Bitstamp is the longest continuously operating crypto exchange, holding more than 50 licenses and registrations worldwide and recording $10.1 billion in notional trading volume in August. It secured a Singapore license in July last year, establishing its Asia-Pacific base, and this year launched multi-asset perpetual futures that let traders access commodities, FX, equity indices, and crypto from a single pool of capital. In August, Robinhood began rolling out trading in more than 50 cryptocurrencies to its UK app through Bitstamp.
Digital Assets Through the Eyes of Asian Banking
Ruam Siratanapanta, Head of Digital Asset Business at SCBX, the financial technology group behind Thailand's Siam Commercial Bank, joins the speaker roster. Siratanapanta drives blockchain and digital asset strategy at SCBX. Additional speakers, sponsors, and the detailed program will be announced on a rolling basis.
A representative of XRPL Korea said, “We have brought together companies leading global markets in payments, trading, and asset tokenization. This will be the closest look anyone can get at the future of the blockchain market.”
Last year, XRP Seoul 2025 drew some 3,000 attendees from more than 100 companies at COEX, Seoul. This year, the event moves to the Grand Hyatt Seoul on October 3 in an expanded format. Tickets are available via Moove Ticket, YES24, and Ticketlink. [End]
[About] Kweather
Founded in 1997, Kweather is Korea's first private weather company and a KOSDAQ-listed firm. With three decades in weather observation, it operates its own air observation network across more than 30,000 indoor and outdoor sites nationwide, has supplied more than 30,000 heat-index sensors to Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor, and runs IoT weather-sensor networks across 38 Hyundai Motor facilities, more than 10 Samsung C&T construction sites, and POSCO E&C sites. As the technology and device partner of the Wellbian platform, it manufactures the measurement device (ARC-600DA), holds its KC and performance certifications, and handles domestic distribution, sales, and after-sales service.
[About] Wellbian
Wellbian is a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) platform on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) that verifies, values, and rewards the indoor air and climate data individuals produce with their own measurement devices. Operated by Wellbian Labs, it runs the blockchain and tokenization technology, data verification and valuation, and reward policy, while Kweather manufactures and distributes the devices in Korea. It opened pre-orders on September 7, 2026 and general sale on September 15, with verified data earning the reward token WLBN under platform rules. The collected data is set to feed AI weather forecasting, autonomous driving, smart cities, energy, logistics, insurance, and robotics.
[About] Tria
Tria is a global finance app that offers a self-custodial wallet and digital-asset-linked payment features. According to company disclosures, it serves users in more than 150 countries and supports more than 20,000 digital assets. Operating data released in late August 2026 showed cumulative payment volume above $150 million, more than $300 million in volume through BestPath routing, and cumulative trading volume above $2 billion.
[About] DCENT
DCENT is a fingerprint-authenticated hardware wallet brand that IoTrust has operated since 2018. It supplies hardware cold wallets and card-type models, and is used by about 1 million people in over 220 countries. It supports more than 100 blockchain networks and over 10,000 digital assets. On May 19, 2026, it launched the XRP Alliance with Flare Network, letting users deposit into XRP yield vaults from a hardware wallet with two XRPL signatures and no new chain, wallet, or gas token. It changed its official notation from D'CENT to DCENT in September 2026.
[About] Biconomy
Biconomy is a Web3 execution infrastructure company that pioneered smart contract wallets and chain abstraction. Through its Modular Execution Environment (MEE), it combines account abstraction and chain abstraction to settle operations across multiple blockchains with a single signature. In Korea, it has partnered with Girin Wallet to bring account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and cross-chain transfers to wallet infrastructure for the XRP ecosystem.
[About] Robinhood
Robinhood is a U.S. financial platform offering commission-free trading in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. In June 2025 it completed its roughly $200 million acquisition of the crypto exchange Bitstamp, entering the institutional crypto business for the first time and extending its reach into the EU, UK, and Asia through Bitstamp's 50-plus global licenses. In the second quarter of 2026, total net revenues rose 32% year over year to $1.31 billion with 28.4 million funded customers, while prediction markets revenue grew more than tenfold to $156 million. In July 2026 it launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, its own Layer-2 blockchain, bringing 24/7 trading of tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs.
[About] Bitstamp by Robinhood
Founded in 2011, Bitstamp is the longest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchange. It holds more than 50 licenses and registrations worldwide, including MiCA approval from Luxembourg's CSSF in the European Union and licenses in the United States and United Kingdom, and recorded $10.1 billion in monthly notional trading volume in August 2026. Acquired by Robinhood in June 2025 and now operating as Bitstamp by Robinhood, it secured a Singapore license in July of the same year, establishing its Asia-Pacific base. In 2026 it launched multi-asset perpetual futures covering commodities, FX, equity indices, and crypto from a single pool of capital.

Apia, Samoa, September 17 – HTX Research, the dedicated research arm of HTX, has released a new report titled Stock-Linked Memecoins: Issuance, Liquidity, and the Emerging AMM Stack, a systematic study of a new asset category that emerged following the launch of Robinhood Chain. These memecoins are paired directly with stock tokens representing names such as NVDA, TSLA, HIMS, and MU, using them as quote asset, narrative anchor, or liquidity base. The report finds that they combine public-equity price discovery, crypto attention, AMM inventory, and continuously traded sentiment into a single market structure — the short-term growth case holds, but durability depends on four conditions being met simultaneously.
A New Market Structure
A stock-linked memecoin is a second-order equity exposure. The stock token provides a first-order price anchor, while the memecoin trades the culture, events, and sentiment surrounding that stock, often with volatility far exceeding the underlying. It resembles an attention derivative on an equity theme rather than a legally structured equity derivative.
Robinhood Chain is unusually well suited to this experiment. Robinhood brings a recognized retail-equity brand and stock tokens carrying familiar company symbols rather than an abstract RWA narrative; Uniswap became a major liquidity venue from launch; and O1 Launchpad productized the process of selecting a stock token, creating a memecoin, opening a Uniswap v4 market, and allocating trading fees. As of September 8, 2026, DeFiLlama reported approximately $901 million in Robinhood Chain TVL and $1.727 billion in 24-hour DEX volume.
Multi-Hop Routing and Toll Collectors on Attention
Value capture extends beyond the memecoin itself. A trader buying a stock-linked memecoin may travel from WETH to USDG to a stock token and finally to the memecoin, with a single order generating fees for several pools along the way. During a short-lived attention spike, volume rises sharply while liquidity remains thin, and liquidity providers become the ecosystem's most direct toll collectors on attention.
High fees, however, do not imply high net returns. Risks including out-of-range positions, one-sided inventory, impermanent loss, stock-market closures, stock-token premiums or discounts, and incentive-token depreciation can all outweigh headline fee income. As HTX Research emphasizes, fees are compensation for risk, not free interest — LPs bear the risk of continuously filling at the wrong price, while traders bear the risk of picking the wrong token.
The 100,000% APY Illusion
Market commentary has cited displayed APY above 100,000% for supplying high-fee Uniswap v4 liquidity to stock-linked memecoins. The report dismantles this figure, noting that a short observation window, sudden volume surge, small TVL base, and compound extrapolation are all it takes to display an extreme annualized rate. If a $100,000 position earns $200 in one hour, simple annualization produces approximately 1,752%, and hourly compounding turns it into an astronomical number. Annualized metrics also ignore denominator effects — when a memecoin collapses, dividing unchanged fees by a smaller ending TVL inflates the displayed yield.
The report proposes a more robust test: the fee-coverage multiple – realized fees and monetized incentives divided by losses relative to a simple hold portfolio, rebalancing costs, and hedging costs. Only a multiple above one indicates that market making has compensated for its risk. High APY still carries information value as a signal of dense order flow relative to effective depth, and professional LPs can treat it as a flow radar rather than a return promise.
Four Conditions and the Real Questions
HTX Research identifies four questions that will determine whether stock-linked memecoins evolve from an onchain experiment into a durable market structure:
Are Robinhood's native users actually moving onchain?Do stock-token redemption and pricing remain stable during extreme moves and market closures?Does issuance from O1 and comparable platforms turn into markets with two-sided depth after seven and thirty days?Can AMMs preserve effective depth and organic volume as subsidies fall?
If the answer to each is yes, stock-linked memecoins can become a high-volatility front end for the internetization of equities, with issuance platforms and AMMs forming a new market stack. If not, the current heat is more likely a temporary experiment driven by low float, heavy subsidies, cheap issuance, and transient attention.
Either way, 100,000% APY should never be the endpoint of research. As HTX Research points out, the relevant questions are who pays the fee, who carries the inventory, who can exit, who controls protocol parameters, and whether revenue survives after incentives stop. This reflects HTX Research's consistent approach to emerging market forms — dissecting structure, fee attribution, and risk sources before drawing conclusions from headline figures. HTX Research will continue tracking issuance, liquidity, and user-composition shifts across Robinhood Chain and comparable ecosystems, providing structural analysis grounded in onchain data.
About HTX Research
HTX Research is the dedicated research arm of HTX Group, responsible for conducting in-depth analyses, producing comprehensive reports, and delivering expert evaluations across a broad spectrum of topics, including cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and emerging market trends. Committed to providing data-driven insights and strategic foresight, HTX Research plays a pivotal role in shaping industry perspectives and supporting informed decision-making within the digital asset space. Through rigorous research methodologies and cutting-edge analytics, HTX Research remains at the forefront of innovation, driving thought leadership and fostering a deeper understanding of evolving market dynamics.

Summary: Positioned squarely between foundation models and AI agents, B.AI is integrating compute routing, decentralized settlement, and full-stack agent infrastructure to establish itself as an undoubted spearhead in AI infrastructure.
Just five months after its launch, B.AI has already set a new industry record with a daily throughput of over 1.51 trillion tokens—a 71,500x-plus increase since inception.
B.AI achieved in just over 100 days what took OpenRouter, an early aggregation pioneer, roughly two years. Driven by the integration of settlement networks with core infrastructure, the exponential growth pulled off by B.AI highlights the viability of its full-stack commercial strategy while also demonstrating to the global market that the platform has risen to be the absolute leader in the next-generation AI infrastructure stack.
B.AI has secured its leadership thanks largely to its ability to capture and cater to the global demand for cost-effective, high-performance Chinese LLMs. While offering homegrown LLM products a critical gateway for international adoption, the platform has also gained a head start by positioning itself as a global compute distribution hub. B.AI's ability to rise in this tailwind is rooted in its unique ecosystem design.
Co-incubated by TRON and YZi Labs, B.AI disrupts the market via a dual engine of settlement and distribution, plus its complete infrastructure for the emerging agent economy. The platform enables global access to top-tier LLM compute while equipping AI agents with native resource scheduling and execution capabilities—unlocking liquidity and value exchange across the global agent economy.
Unprecedented Infrastructure Growth: B.AI Builds Global Distribution Hub for LLMs
To reach 1.51 trillion tokens in its daily throughput, simply seizing the tailwind is far from enough. B.AI has also responded swiftly to two macro trends in the AI industry: the cost-performance advantage of leading Chinese LLMs and the surging demand for high-throughput, low-cost inference in the agentic era.
Over the past year, Chinese LLM developers like DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and GLM have matched top global benchmarks at a fraction of the API cost. This unbeatable cost efficiency makes adoption virtually inevitable for developers worldwide.
As a global, next-generation infrastructure, B.AI aggregates top international models like GPT and Claude alongside rising Chinese LLMs. The platform has established close partnerships with Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Kimi, and MiniMax—all top LLM players in the Chinese market—to build a comprehensive model portfolio. This all-star model lineup has, in turn, made B.AI the default launchpad for Chinese LLMs seeking global expansion.
Chinese LLMs, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash, and GLM-5.3 Flash, have stood out as top-performing models on B.AI with the highest usage. Building on the momentum, B.AI continues to drive adoption through model discounts, limited-time free access, tiered API pricing (with discounts up to 90%), and developer incentives, aiming to convert model cost efficiencies into usable throughput for developers worldwide. The traction from this strategic positioning is clearly backed by the numbers: B.AI's daily token throughput has breached 1.51 trillion—a massive 71,500x-plus surge since its first day upon launch.
Beyond its organic growth momentum, ecosystem partner YZi Labs serves as B.AI's core distribution engine, continuously onboarding early-stage projects and developer communities. This ecosystem support enables B.AI to penetrate diverse real-world use cases, driving a steady influx of incremental traffic and commercial demand.
For foundation model providers, B.AI's multi-trillion, high-concurrency architecture provides a fast track to high-value global workloads. Within this massive pool of demand, B.AI has evolved from a simple distribution channel into a primary facilitator—scaling the commercial reach of leading LLMs while reshaping the global AI landscape.
Beyond Aggregation and Routing: B.AI Builds Closed-Loop Infrastructure for the Agent Economy
Yet for this super amplifier to truly sustain a trillion-dollar agent economy, front-end compute routing is nowhere near enough. Building on the API aggregation foundation pioneered by early movers like OpenRouter, B.AI recognized a critical insight: fully unlocking massive agent collaboration requires a closed financial loop at the foundational layer.
To achieve this, B.AI bridges models and agents, creating a global settlement layer for intelligence. This core differentiator transforms the platform from a simple traffic conduit into the central master ledger for the entire agent economy, ensuring every cross-region call and task allocation is seamlessly routed, precisely metered, and automatically settled.
To achieve this vision, B.AI embeds settlement directly into the infrastructure layer, creating a dual-track Web2 and Web3 payment network. Built on Web3 principles, the architecture maintains backward compatibility with traditional Web2 payment systems. On the Web3 front, B.AI leverages on-chain settlement channels to provide global developers with decentralized, verifiable, and low-friction options that enable fully automated transactions and micropayments between agents. On the Web2 front, it preserves legacy gateways like WeChat Pay, Alipay, UnionPay, and Visa, ensuring effortless integration into existing enterprise workflows. Together, this dual-track model delivers a single integration point for frictionless global capital flow.
At the heart of this global liquidity is B.AI's deep integration with TRON. As the world's largest stablecoin transfer network, TRON offers B.AI a native payment rail through its massive USDT ecosystem, built for maximum liquidity and minimal friction. As of September 10, total TRC-20 USDT supply surpassed 94.2 billion, continuing to set record highs. Backed by TRON's battle-tested on-chain capacity, B.AI provides the essential infrastructure required to scale cross-border compute scheduling and high-frequency automated agent micro-transactions.
The true ambition of this architecture is to capture the emerging landscape of automated transactions in the agent economy ahead of the pack. The coming explosion in agent adoption will inevitably drive agent-to-agent (A2A) collaboration and autonomous commerce. Yet, fully unlocking this automated A2A synergy requires far more than just a foundational payment rail. B.AI builds beyond its Web3 smart settlement network by deploying a dedicated full-stack runtime environment for agents. This establishes an end-to-end, high-precision technical loop bridging compute scheduling, task execution, and financial settlement.
At the scheduling layer, B.AI drives fine-grained compute allocation. Its tiered API system fundamentally reshapes compute procurement logic, offering structured invocation plans that allow developers to match specific business demands with optimal compute resources.
At the execution layer, B.AI constructs a native agent collaboration ecosystem. It endows agents with direct operational capabilities to act across the digital world. Powered by embedded toolchains like Skills and Agent Wallet, alongside natively integrated AI assistants BAIclaw and BAI code, agents evolve into fully fledged digital workers capable of autonomous data acquisition and execution, laying a solid engineering foundation for multi-agent synergy.
At the protocol layer, B.AI establishes foundational transaction standards for A2A commerce. This marks B.AI's most strategically profound move. By natively integrating the x402 payment protocol and the 8004 identity authentication protocol, the platform paves a standardized path for mutual trust, identity verification, and high-frequency automated settlement between agents.
From fine-grained model scheduling to intelligent collaboration systems and standardized transaction protocols, this architecture seamlessly fuses perception, reasoning, action, and settlement. This holistic infrastructure propels B.AI into a central hub for the agent economy, engineered to handle micro-transactions and compute settlement at scale. Crossing into the trillion-token era is merely a new starting point for B.AI. As next-generation AI infrastructure, its core value extends beyond distributing intelligence to powering transactions. By establishing foundational standards for high-frequency A2A collaboration, B.AI is reshaping the global flow of compute value, driving AI infrastructure into a new era built explicitly for agents and machine intelligence.

Justin Sun Establishes the Justin Sun Prize: “My Wealth Came from Mathematics and Will Return to Mathematics”
Geneva, Switzerland — September 16, 2026 — The Office of Justin Sun today announced the establishment of the Justin Sun Prize, a zero-trust, decentralized academic bounty mechanism based on a “problem list,” with breakthroughs in fundamental disciplines and machine formal verification as the criteria for awarding prizes, and a top prize of up to US$1 million for a single problem. The prize seeks to redefine scientific rewards in the AI era and accelerate fundamental scientific research through collaboration between humans and AI.
The first list of Justin Sun Prize winners was also announced, recognizing solutions and formalized proofs involving 66 mathematical problems. The top prize, worth US$1 million, was awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of its solution and formalized proof for the Existence and Smoothness of the Three-Dimensional Navier–Stokes Equations problem. According to information published by OpenAI, the relevant proof was produced by its internal model, and the Lean formalization and verification were completed by GPT‑6 Astra.
This problem concerns the Navier–Stokes equations, which describe the motion of fluids and are commonly abbreviated as the N–S equations. The equations were developed in the 19th century by French physicist Claude-Louis Navier, Irish-born British mathematician George Gabriel Stokes, and others, and have a history of approximately two hundred years. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute listed the Navier–Stokes Existence and Smoothness problem as one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems and offered a US$1 million reward for its solution.
The Justin Sun Prize does not use traditional nominations or credential thresholds as barriers to entry, nor does it operate on a four-year cycle or the rhythm of lifetime achievement. Instead, it ties the prize directly to mathematical problems and machine-verifiable formalized proofs. Anyone can receive the prize as long as they are the first to achieve a qualifying breakthrough.
The vision of the Justin Sun Prize is to become the “Nobel Prize of the AI Era,” responding to the profound transformation of scientific research and incentives in the new era in a more decentralized, formalized, and machine-driven way. The repository of mathematical problems and formalized code will be maintained and publicly updated on an ongoing basis. Once a problem is listed, it is locked in: problems can be added only, never removed; awarded prize funds do not need to be returned under any circumstances.
The current problem list already includes formal verification of the Poincaré Conjecture, the Riemann Hypothesis, Goldbach’s Conjecture, and a large number of unsolved problems proposed during the lifetime of the late mathematician and Wolf Prize laureate Paul Erdős.
In addition to the prize, winners will also receive a certificate and a medal. The edge of the medal is inscribed with the Latin phrase “Quod probatur, solvitur,” meaning “Proved, then paid.”

The Justin Sun Prize adheres to three core principles: openness, public benefit, and open source. It is open to all eligible contributors, with no restrictions based on nationality, institution, or identity, and makes no distinction between humans and AI; funds are used exclusively for prize awards and open initiatives and are not intended for profit; the problem list, confirmation standards, proofs, and verification materials are all made available to the public through GitHub, while prize disbursement records are recorded on-chain for permanent traceability and immutability.

“An award named after a person is the least political thing in the world,” said Sun. “More importantly, it gives me an answer to myself—my wealth is rooted in mathematics. It came from mathematics, and it will return to mathematics.”
According to public records, Sun has donated more than US$45 million across technology, environmental protection, disaster relief, and other fields. The Justin Sun Prize will become a central focus of Sun’s philanthropic efforts, continuing to support breakthroughs in fundamental science through an open and verifiable model.
The prize will be paid out in either USDT on TRON (TRC-20) or USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20) based on the recipient’s choice. For more information, please visit www.hejustinsun.com/prize.
About the Office of Justin Sun
The Office of Justin Sun supports Justin Sun’s global business, philanthropic and public initiatives across technology, blockchain, artificial intelligence, scientific research, investment, art and space exploration.
Justin Sun is the Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the World Trade Organization and the Founder of TRON. TRON is the leading blockchain for the stablecoin revolution, processing over $13 trillion in volume since its inception. In the world’s emerging markets, people rely on USDT on TRON to access the global financial system.
A protégé of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Sun has been recognized internationally for his work in the digital asset industry, including a Forbes cover profile in April 2025 and multiple appearances on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. In August 2025, he flew aboard Blue Origin’s NS-34 mission, becoming the 712th person in history to travel to space. His broader interests span technology, investment, philanthropy, art, gaming, and space exploration.
About Justin Sun Prize
The Justin Sun Prize is an academic initiative established by Justin Sun to support advances in mathematics, formal verification, and AI-assisted scientific discovery. The prize is decentralized and built around the principle that mathematical work should be judged by the strength, rigor, and verifiability of the proof itself, not the prestige or reputation of those submitting it.
Justin Sun established the prize in his own name as a long-term commitment to return wealth created through mathematics and technology back to mathematics itself. Its legacy is intended to be defined by the body of work it recognizes and the laureates whose discoveries stand the test of time. The prize links clearly defined mathematical challenges to machine-verifiable proof. Its guiding principles are openness, public benefit and open-source access.

Upbit joins as Presenting Partner, with 0G and BRV confirmed as Official Conference PartnersStable and Tria join as Diamond Sponsors, while BitGo comes on board as Official Institutional SponsorKyoungsuk Oh, Michael Heinrich, Brian Mehler, John Lilic and Mike Belshe among featured speakers
Korea Blockchain Week 2026 with Upbit (KBW2026), Asia’s leading digital asset conference, has unveiled its partner lineup, bringing together major players across exchanges, blockchain infrastructure, stablecoins and institutional digital assets.
FACTBLOCK, the organizer of KBW2026, announced on August 31 that Upbit, 0G, BRV, Stable, Tria and BitGo will participate as key sponsors of this year’s event. Beyond brand partnerships, CEOs and founders from the participating companies will also take the stage as speakers to discuss some of the most significant shifts shaping the global digital asset industry.
Upbit is the Presenting Partner of KBW2026. Kyoungsuk Oh, CEO of Upbit, will also speak at the conference, sharing his perspective on changes in the global digital asset market and the role of Korea. Through its partnership with Upbit, KBW2026 will broaden the conversation around Korea’s digital asset market beyond retail investors to include institutional participation and global financial markets.
Decentralized AI infrastructure company 0G and global venture capital firm BRV will participate as the Official Conference Partners. Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G Labs, will take the KBW2026 main stage to explore the rise of the agent economy and how decentralized infrastructure is creating a new foundation for AI.
0G is the trust layer for AI, bringing together verifiable compute, private inference, decentralized storage and an AI-native blockchain to power the next generation of AI applications and autonomous agents. BRV will also join as a Conference Partner, further strengthening KBW2026’s global investment and industry network.
Global digital asset infrastructure company BitGo will participate as the Official Institutional Sponsor. BitGo Korea, whose strategic shareholders include Hana Financial Group and SK Telecom, recently secured acceptance of its Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration from Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU), establishing a regulatory foundation for its domestic operations. Mike Belshe, Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo, will also speak at KBW2026.
Stable and Tria will participate as Diamond Sponsors. Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable, and John Lilic, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Tria, will each take the stage at KBW2026. Stable is building blockchain infrastructure optimized for stablecoin payments and transfers, while Tria is building financial infrastructure enabling businesses and AI agents to transact across blockchains and digital assets, powering its growing stablecoin neobank.
This year’s sponsor lineup reflects the continued expansion of the global digital asset industry beyond trading and investment into institutional finance, payments, stablecoins, AI and next-generation infrastructure. With senior executives from many of these companies participating not only as sponsors but also as speakers, KBW2026 will offer attendees a firsthand look at the strategies of companies driving the industry’s next phase of growth.
KBW2026 will take place in Seoul from September 29 to October 1. The Upbit Institutional Summit (UIS), an invite-only gathering focused on institutions and the financial sector, will be held on September 29, followed by the KBW2026 main conference from September 30 to October 1.
Andrew Park, CEO of FACTBLOCK, said, “This year, KBW is bringing together key partners that are shaping the next stage of the industry, spanning exchanges, institutional digital asset infrastructure, AI, stablecoins and next-generation financial services. With senior executives from these companies also taking the stage as speakers, KBW2026 will provide a valuable opportunity to see where the most important changes in the global digital asset market are emerging.

Geneva and Lisbon, Sept. 11, 2026 – TRON DAO (“TRON”) and Ethena Labs (“Ethena”) today announced that USDe and sUSDe are live on the TRON network, expanding access to Ethena’s digital dollar products across one of the world’s largest stablecoin settlement networks.
Users can now bridge USDe and sUSDe to TRON through Stargate Finance and hold or transfer both assets across the network. Support across TRON’s core DeFi applications, including JustLend DAO and SUN.io, is expected to roll out over the coming weeks, with broader adoption across wallets, exchanges, and payment applications to follow. USDe on TRON will also remain connected to liquidity across Ethena’s other supported networks, supporting interoperability across Ethena’s broader multichain ecosystem.
USDe brings an additional dollar-denominated asset to TRON, while sUSDe gives TRON’s global user base exposure to Ethena’s rewards-bearing digital dollar product. In turn, Ethena connects with TRON’s global base of over 403 million accounts, where dollar-denominated assets already move at significant scale.
“Millions of people rely on the TRON network every day to make payments, save, and move value globally,” said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. “Bringing USDe and sUSDe to TRON broadens the options available to users and further strengthens the network as decentralized infrastructure for everyday use.”
“TRON has a massive user base that already holds and moves digital dollars in significant size,” said Guy Young, Founder of Ethena Labs. “Bringing USDe and sUSDe to that ecosystem means those users can hold a dollar that accrues rewards on the network they already use. This integration is the latest step in our effort to bring our digital dollar products to as many people as possible, and we look forward to continuing to work with the TRON DAO team to find new ways to bring value to TRON’s users.”
The integration marks the latest step in USDe’s multichain expansion, with the asset now supported across more than a dozen networks and integrated with leading centralized exchanges and DeFi applications.
About Ethena Labs
Ethena Labs is the development team behind USDe and USDtb and a contributor to the Ethena protocol. Ethena’s USDe is the fastest growing USD-denominated crypto asset in history, encompassing integrations across some of the largest centralized exchanges and major DeFi applications. Ethena is backed by Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Dragonfly, Binance Labs, Bybit, and OKX among others.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of September 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 403 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”

CoinFactory AG has announced the development of RZ Oasis, a large-scale Web3 project led by the company’s founder, Rasoul Rezvani, and designed to bring gaming, blockchain, token economies, digital platforms and real-world economic activity into one connected ecosystem.
The project is being developed by CoinFactory AG and reflects an idea Rezvani and his team call “Country 196.”
The name does not describe a political or geographical country. Instead, it represents the vision of a new digital-economic territory without conventional borders, designed to connect people, businesses, technology, digital ownership and real-world economic activity within one ecosystem.
For Rezvani, the project is the latest stage of a journey that began long before Web3 entered the mainstream.
His background stretches back to the gaming industry, including the development of gaming businesses, competitive platforms and large-scale tournaments. Over time, that work expanded into blockchain, digital assets, token economies, financial technology and tokenization.
That progression is important to the thinking behind RZ Oasis.
Rather than approaching Web3 as a collection of individual tokens or applications, Rezvani's work has increasingly focused on the economic systems connecting them: how digital assets interact with platforms, how businesses can enter tokenized economies, and how blockchain-based ownership can connect digital participation with real-world activity.
RZ Oasis brings those ideas together on a much larger scale.
The project is envisioned as a functioning digital economy where people can work, play, create companies, develop projects, attract investment and participate in ownership. Existing businesses will also be able to bring economic activity and real-world assets into the environment through Web3 and tokenization infrastructure.
Gaming and AI companies could operate alongside technology startups, financial platforms and tokenized businesses from sectors such as real estate, hospitality, tourism, sports and industry.
The underlying ambition is not simply to place different industries inside a metaverse.
It is to connect them economically.
Instead of building another collection of disconnected Web3 products, the aim is to connect them into an economy.
That ambition draws on an expanding infrastructure already developed across CoinFactory and the wider RZ ecosystem, spanning blockchain, tokenization, gaming, digital assets, payments, financial technology and platform development.
CoinFactory is also expanding its physical presence beyond Switzerland. The company has opened a new office in Palo Alto, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley, which will take on part of the group’s growing operational activities and support its technology and international development. The expansion is part of a broader strategy to build a more distributed global presence rather than concentrating the company’s operations in a single location. Additional offices in other international markets are expected to follow as CoinFactory continues to expand.
For Rezvani, those individual systems are increasingly becoming pieces of a larger architecture.
RZ Oasis is also expected to extend beyond the digital environment. Future phases envision physical locations bringing together gaming, innovation, startups, technology, business and community, creating real-world gateways into the ecosystem.
The complete RZ Oasis environment remains planned for a future launch. CoinFactory intends to introduce the project progressively, making individual platforms, infrastructure and other usable components available as they become ready rather than waiting for the entire environment to be completed.
Further details covering its economic architecture, physical initiatives, technology and individual components are expected to emerge progressively as development continues.
For CoinFactory, RZ Oasis represents a major long-term project.
For Rezvani, it represents something broader: the convergence of the industries and technologies he has spent years working across into a single economic vision.
RZ Oasis may be the name of the project. “Country 196” may describe the scale of its ambition. But the story behind both begins with a much longer effort to understand how gaming, technology, blockchain and ownership can become parts of the same economy.
About Rasoul Rezvani
Rasoul Rezvani is an entrepreneur and the founder of CoinFactory AG whose work spans gaming, blockchain, token economies, digital platforms and tokenization. His career began in the gaming industry and subsequently expanded into the development of blockchain-based products and economic infrastructure designed to connect digital assets, platforms and real-world activity.
He is leading the development of RZ Oasis and the broader “Country 196” vision through CoinFactory.
About CoinFactory
CoinFactory AG is a Swiss Web3 technology company registered in Zug and headquartered in Zurich, with a growing international presence that now includes its new office in Palo Alto, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The company develops platforms, blockchain infrastructure, tokenization systems and digital economic technologies designed to connect businesses, assets and real-world activity with Web3.
As CoinFactory expands its portfolio of platforms and infrastructure, it is also building a more distributed global operational presence, with further international offices planned as part of its continued growth. This combination of technology development, tokenization expertise and expanding global infrastructure forms part of the foundation being brought together through RZ Oasis.
Further information on RZ Oasis and the platforms and technologies being developed across the CoinFactory ecosystem is available through the Platforms section of CoinFactory.

Geneva, Switzerland, September 10, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced expanded support for MetaMask across the TRON ecosystem, with B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO and BitTorrent now supporting MetaMask connectivity through their respective dApps. MetaMask, one of the world’s largest consumer platforms for onchain finance, gives users direct control over their money and access to the onchain economy. Earlier this year, MetaMask launched native support for the TRON network across both its mobile and browser extension platforms. Building on that launch, users now have more ways to interact with applications across the TRON ecosystem using MetaMask.
B.AI is a financial infrastructure platform designed to give AI agents their own identities and the ability to transact independently, powering autonomous payments and on-chain execution for the emerging agent economy. SUN.io, TRON's leading decentralized platform with over $650 million in total value locked (TVL), enables users to connect with MetaMask to access its high-performance SunSwap V4 decentralized exchange and automated market maker. JustLend DAO, TRON's lending protocol, holds more than $7 billion in TVL and supports borrowing, lending, and staking. BitTorrent provides cross-chain interoperability through BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) and decentralized storage through the BitTorrent File System (BTFS).
“By expanding MetaMask dApp connectivity across TRON ecosystem applications, we’re giving users more ways to interact with TRON through a wallet they already know and use,” said Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson of the TRON DAO. “By expanding MetaMask connectivity across TRON’s dApp ecosystem, we are enabling millions of users worldwide to experience TRON’s speed, affordability, and ecosystem depth without changing the tools they already rely on.”
“Native TRON support in MetaMask gives users greater flexibility to interact with the TRON ecosystem using the wallet they already know,” said Dan Rosario, Ecosystem Engagement Manager at MetaMask. “As more applications across the TRON ecosystem implement MetaMask connectivity, users have more ways to engage with the network while maintaining the control that comes with self-custody.”
TRON is a leading global settlement layer for stablecoins, processing more than $23 billion in average daily transfer volume and hosting more than $94 billion of circulating USDT on-chain. Native TRON support in MetaMask enables users to manage TRON-based assets and connect their wallet to supported applications across the TRON ecosystem. As more TRON applications implement MetaMask connectivity, users have additional ways to interact with the network through a familiar self-custodial wallet.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of September 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 402 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $27 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
About Consensys
Consensys is the leading Ethereum software company, building the infrastructure, tools, and protocols that power the world’s largest decentralized ecosystem. Founded in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys has played a foundational role in Ethereum’s growth, from pioneering products like MetaMask, Linea and Infura to shaping protocol development and staking infrastructure. Today, Consensys continues to lead Ethereum’s evolution through strategic R&D, and direct contributions to network upgrades like the Merge and Pectra. With a global product suite, and deep roots across the ecosystem, Consensys is uniquely positioned to accelerate Ethereum’s role as the trust layer for a new global economy, one that is decentralized, programmable, and open to all. To learn more, visit consensys.io.

Singapore, September 10, 2026 — B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent, four leading decentralized applications (dApps) across the TRON ecosystem, now support MetaMask connectivity. MetaMask, one of the world's largest consumer platforms for onchain finance, giving users direct control over their money and access to the onchain economy. This gives MetaMask users direct, in-wallet access to these dApps through a single, familiar interface, simplifying complex on-chain workflows and lowering the barrier to entry for global users.
Bringing TRON's Leading dApps to MetaMask
B.AI, a financial infrastructure platform designed to give AI agents their own identities and the ability to transact independently. Its architecture includes the x402 payment protocol, the 8004 identity authentication protocol, a MCP Server, and BAIclaw which enables AI agents to verify one another, transact autonomously, and execute high-frequency financial operations on-chain. Access via MetaMask extends these capabilities to a broader global user base.
SUN.io, TRON’s leading decentralized platform with over $650 million in total value locked (TVL) and more than 26,000 liquidity pools, enables users to connect with MetaMask to access its high-performance, low-cost automated market maker (AMM), SunSwap V4, which features programmable hooks that allow developers and AI agents to embed custom logic directly into liquidity pools.
JustLend DAO, TRON’s leading lending platform with over $7 billion in TVL, provides capital-efficient infrastructure for on-chain borrowing, lending, and staking. Through MetaMask, users can access energy rental services and yield opportunities, optimizing transaction costs and supporting sustained high-frequency activity.
BitTorrent completes TRON's on-chain and autonomous systems stack by providing cross-chain and data layers that allows the ecosystem to scale. BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) enables seamless interoperability between TRON, Ethereum and BNB Chain, while the BitTorrent File System (BTFS) delivers secure, low-cost decentralized storage. Together, supporting scalable, cross-chain operations for both users and AI agents.
Expanding a Global Web3 Gateway
With MetaMask connectivity now supported across these dApps, users can manage TRON-based assets, transfer tokens such as TRX and USDT, and execute swaps directly within MetaMask. The addition of MetaMask connectivity across B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent shifts user access to a unified wallet-based experience, improving usability and connectivity across blockchain networks.
As decentralized finance and AI-driven applications continue to converge, this milestone positions TRON's ecosystem to scale alongside global user demand. By aligning high-performance infrastructure with a widely adopted Web3 gateway, the ecosystem is better equipped to drive liquidity, improve capital efficiency, and accelerate adoption of DeFi and AI use cases at scale.
About B.AI
B.AI is a financial infrastructure built for the AI Agent era, designed to address the core challenges agents face in model access, payments, settlement, identity, and coordination. Through a unified API and settlement network, B.AI enables AI Agents to connect more freely to leading global models and services, while using agent wallets to pay, get paid, and exchange value autonomously. At the same time, B.AI builds verifiable identity and credit primitives for agents through on-chain accounts, helping AI evolve from software tools into economic actors that can transact, collaborate, and operate continuously at scale. By lowering barriers to model access, enabling seamless value transfer, and establishing an economic framework for intelligent agents, B.AI aims to accelerate the maturation of the AI Agent ecosystem, advance the real-world development of AGI, and make the benefits of AI more accessible to a broader range of users and developers.
About SUN.io
SUN.io is the first decentralized autonomous platform on the TRON blockchain, distinguished by its integration of stablecoin trading, comprehensive token exchange, and liquidity mining capabilities. As a cornerstone of the TRON ecosystem, SUN.io is dedicated to optimizing trading liquidity and asset returns for its users. The platform empowers participants to stake SUN tokens, earning veSUN, which unlocks a suite of exclusive benefits, including enhanced rewards and voting rights in the platform's governance.
About JustLend DAO
JustLend DAO is TRON's decentralized financial platform where users can earn yields through supplied assets, borrow digital assets against collateral, participate in TRX staking, and rent Energy. Committed to developing TRON-based DeFi protocols and providing all-in-one financial solutions to its users, there is now more than $7.6B Total Value Locked in the JUST Network.
The JustLend DAO provides a forum for its users to participate in governance and directives, while empowering its users with decentralized authority, trustless transactions, smart-contract automation, and security with transparent accountability.
Tokens in the JustLend DAO markets (TRX, BTT, JST, NFT, USDT, TUSD, USDD) are granted statutory status as authorized digital currency and medium of exchange in the Commonwealth of Dominica. JustLend DAO exists to provide stable and convenient financial lending services for all users.
About BitTorrent Chain
BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) is the world’s first heterogeneous cross-chain interoperability protocol, which adopts the PoS (Proof-of-Stake) mechanism and leverages sidechains for the scaling of smart contracts. It now enables interoperability with the public chains of Ethereum, TRON, and BNB Chain. Fully compatible with EVM, BitTorrent Chain facilitates the seamless transfer of assets across mainstream public chains. The governance token BTT, also known as BTTOLD on TRON Protocol was granted statutory status as authorized digital currency and medium of exchange in the Commonwealth of Dominica on October 7th 2022.

Live on Canton mainnet since April, past 71,000 trades, now clearing $1 million a day. Every figure sits on a public Dune dashboard.
Cancore has moved from announcement to activity, and it can show the receipts.
The company describes itself as the Liquidity OS for Tokenized Finance, an execution and automation layer connecting the Canton Network with public chain liquidity. It has been operational on Canton mainnet since April 2026 and was approved as a Featured App on Canton on April 4, 2026.
The distinguishing feature of this update is verifiability. Cancore publishes its volume, trade count, and protocol revenue on a public Dune dashboard.
Key facts, as of September 7, 2026
Lifetime volume: $30+ millionLifetime trades: 72,000+Lifetime protocol revenue: $380,000+Daily volume, seven-day average: Over $1MDaily trades, seven-day average: 500+Live on Canton mainnet since April 2026; Featured App since April 4, 2026Four modules: Wallet, Trade, Strategies, AutopilotFirst liquidity pool: CC/USDCx on CantonDashboard: dune.com/cancore_dune7504/cancore
With a strong growth trajectory, Cancore added $8.37 million in volume between August 28 and September 5, which is more than a quarter of everything it has settled since April. Daily volume has crossed $1 million repeatedly, more than 5-fold growth vs earlier months.
Trade size tells the same story. Through early September, individual trades averaged roughly $1,850, rising from a lifetime average nearer $445. The platform is not just handling more trades, but materially larger ones, at a steady 550 to 650 per day. That combination, more trades and bigger trades at once, shows early product-market fit on a settlement layer.
What is live
Cancore makes tokenized assets liquid, accessible, and programmable across Canton and public chains. The platform is organized as four modules.
Wallet handles asset management and self-custody, with a unified Canton and EVM portfolio. Trade provides execution and exchange through a unified quote, routing, an order book, and AMM pools. Strategies covers capital deployment, including the Canton Liquidity Strategy, Stable Reserve, and Balanced Portfolio, each with transparent TVL, performance, risk, and fees. Autopilot adds automation: recurring buys, price triggers, portfolio rebalancing, automatic allocation, limits, execution history, and a natural-language rule builder.
Auto Trading and liquidity pools are operational. The first pool pairs CC with USDCx on Canton, and additional pairs are in development.
How settlement works
Cancore settles trades using atomic swaps and HTLC mechanics. Value moves entirely or fails cleanly.
The design uses no custody layer and no relay validator networks, and users keep self-custody through the transaction. That reduces the trust assumptions a user takes on compared with bridge designs that hold assets in transit. These mechanics sit inside the Liquidity OS as its settlement engine.
Built on Canton
Cancore is built natively on the Canton Network and operates as a validator and a Featured App on it. Canton is the institutional core of the platform, and EVM connectivity is already live for reaching public liquidity.
The choice tracks where institutional value settles. Canton publishes three headline figures on its own site: more than $6 trillion in tokenized real-world assets, over $300 billion in daily US Treasury repo trades, and more than 700 connected firms across financial services and crypto. Separately, Canton Strategic Holdings, a listed company that operates on the network, stated in an SEC filing that Canton carries more than $9 trillion in monthly transaction volume and more than one million daily transactions.
Super Validators on the network include Visa, Chainlink, Circle, and Franklin Templeton. DTCC and Euroclear are both members of the Canton Foundation, whose board is chaired by Dr. Johnna Powell, Managing Director and Head of Technology, Research and Innovation at DTCC.
Featured App status on Canton now carries an on-chain capital commitment. Under CIP-0116, approved by Canton validators on May 20, 2026, Featured Apps must lock 5 million CC per PartyId, rising to 25 million CC for asset issuers, with a 30-day grace period for apps that already held the status. Locking, not staking, is the correct description of that mechanism, and it replaced Foundation governance as the qualifying test.
Community and access
Cancore runs the Genesis Program, an ongoing points program that records on-chain and community activity as a reference for future ecosystem rewards.
The team behind it
Cancore is led by three founders with backgrounds in blockchain security, banking, and engineering.
Wasif Rashid, Co-founder and CEO, founded BlockApex, a blockchain security and engineering firm that has completed more than 125 audits and helped secure over $3.2 billion in value across EVM, Solana, and cross-chain ecosystems. He has close to a decade in blockchain security, infrastructure, and product, covering cross-chain security, liquidity systems, custody risk, and stablecoin payments. He leads vision, strategy, fundraising, and institutional positioning.
Aleksei Sdvizhkov, Co-founder and COO, has more than 15 years across enterprise technology, banking, and fintech, including investment products for a digital platform with over 2 million monthly active users, plus 6 years in crypto. He leads operations, business development, partnerships, and institutional growth.
Mikhail Shukshin, Chief Technology Officer, has more than 10 years in full-stack and blockchain development and has scaled infrastructure for startups, DeFi protocols, and high-performance financial products. He oversees technical architecture, protocol development, and engineering execution.
Where to look next
The most useful next step for a reader is to look at the data rather than the announcement. The Dune dashboard is public and updates as volume and protocol revenue accrue. More than 250+ trading pairs live on Cancore already for anyone who wants to watch settlement happen.
Aleksei Sdvizhkov, Co-founder and COO: "Getting to mainnet was one milestone. Getting close to 70,000 trades at an average size that tells you these are real users rather than a few large tickets, is a different one. That is what we have been building toward operationally."
About Cancore: Cancore is the Liquidity OS for Tokenized Finance, an execution and automation layer connecting the Canton Network with public chain liquidity. Through one platform, users can move, trade, invest, and automate tokenized assets across networks. Cancore is a validator and Featured App on the Canton Network, with mainnet operational since April 2026. Learn more at cancore.io.

Brand name changes from D’CENT to DCENT, accompanied by a new wordmark and signature color, “DCENT Lime”DCENT X and the Recovery Card enhance the convenience of backup and recoveryBusiness scope expands from personal hardware wallets to DCENT Enterprise for businesses and institutions
South Korea-based digital asset wallet company IoTrust, led by CEO Sangsu Baek, unveiled a new brand identity for DCENT on September 8, marking the first major rebranding since the brand was launched eight years ago.
As part of the rebranding, the English brand name has changed from “D’CENT” to “DCENT,” removing the apostrophe, while the Korean brand name remains unchanged.
The new slogan, “Own your future. At ease.”, reflects DCENT’s commitment to keeping ownership of digital assets in the hands of users while reducing the burden associated with storing and managing them. The new wordmark and signature color, “DCENT Lime,” visually represent this direction.
Beyond the Name: Expanding the Digital Asset Experience
The rebranding goes beyond changes to the brand name and visual identity. Hardware wallets have evolved from devices used primarily for asset storage into access points for approving transactions, participating in staking, and using a wide range of digital asset services.
In line with this evolution, DCENT is expanding into a brand that provides a comprehensive digital asset experience encompassing storage, backup, management, and utility.
The key phrase behind the rebranding is “Beyond Storage.” It represents DCENT’s commitment to making the entire digital asset journey more convenient—from secure storage to backup, recovery, management, and use.
Unveiled alongside the rebranding, DCENT X is a premium hardware wallet that embodies this direction through its product experience.
DCENT X is a cold wallet that allows users to clearly review what they are signing on its 2.4-inch AMOLED display and approve it with a single fingerprint. With the addition of the touchscreen- and fingerprint-enabled DCENT X, DCENT now offers a broader range of options suited to different storage preferences and usage environments, alongside its biometric hardware wallet and the card-style DCENT S.
DCENT S and DCENT X both feature a backup and recovery method using the Recovery Card. This approach reduces the inconvenience of manually writing down and storing a recovery phrase and allows users to manage their recovery information through a separate physical card, improving the convenience of digital asset storage.
From Personal Wallets to Enterprise and Institutional Solutions
DCENT is also expanding beyond individual users to provide digital asset management environments for businesses and institutions.
DCENT Enterprise is an institutional solution designed to help businesses and institutions securely store and manage digital assets. It supports internal control mechanisms such as multi-level approvals, enabling organizations involving multiple authorized personnel to manage digital assets according to their internal policies.
Connecting personal hardware wallets and organization-level digital asset management solutions under a single DCENT brand represents the direction of the company’s business expansion through this rebranding.
“This rebranding marks the beginning of DCENT’s expansion beyond an asset storage device into a digital asset experience brand that connects backup, recovery, management, and utility,” said a representative of IoTrust. “We will continue to expand our business by broadening the options available to individual users through DCENT X and DCENT S, while supporting the digital asset management environments of businesses and institutions through DCENT Enterprise.”
DCENT currently supports more than 100 blockchain networks and over 10,000 tokens, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Solana, and Stellar (XLM).

Canary Capital Group LLC ("Canary Capital"), a digital asset investment management firm, today announced the launch of the Canary Staked TRX ETF (Ticker: TRXS). The Fund seeks to provide exposure to the spot price of TRX, the native utility token of the TRON blockchain network. In addition, the Fund also seeks to earn additional TRX through participation in the TRON network's delegated proof-of-stake validation process, with net staking rewards reflected in the Fund's net asset value.
"The Canary Staked TRX ETF brings investors exposure to one of the world's largest blockchain settlement networks through a registered exchange-traded structure, while also enabling investors to benefit from potential staking rewards," said Steven McClurg, CEO of Canary Capital. "As stablecoin adoption continues to grow globally, TRON has become a critical piece of the infrastructure powering digital asset payments and settlement. We believe investors are increasingly looking beyond digital assets themselves and toward the networks driving real-world blockchain adoption."
TRON has emerged as one of the leading blockchain networks for stablecoin activity, supporting more than $94 billion in circulating Tether (USDT). The chain also processes the highest USDT transfer volume of any blockchain, totaling approximately $5.6 trillion year-to-date. Known for its speed, scalability, and low transaction costs, the TRON network serves as critical infrastructure for decentralized finance, global payments, and blockchain-based applications. The TRON network is governed by TRON DAO, the community-governed Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps).
"The launch of the Canary Staked TRX ETF demonstrates the growing recognition of the TRON network as critical infrastructure for the global digital economy and provides institutional investors with a new way to access a network that is already powering real-world financial activity at scale," said Justin Sun, Founder of TRON. "We appreciate Canary Capital's leadership in bringing TRX to the ETF market and welcome innovations that broaden investor participation in the TRON network while advancing the integration of blockchain infrastructure into traditional financial markets.”
With the launch of the Canary Staked TRX ETF (TRXS), Canary Capital continues its mission to make digital asset investing simple, secure, and accessible while expanding investor access beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum into the next generation of blockchain infrastructure.
About Canary Capital
Canary Capital is an investment management firm that blends rigorous risk management, strategic foresight, and innovative thinking to deliver private placement strategies, crypto hedge fund solutions, treasury management solutions, and publicly traded funds, with a focus on enterprise technology.
About TRON DAO
TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps.
Founded in September 2017, the TRON blockchain has experienced significant growth since its MainNet launch in May 2018. Today, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether (USDT) stablecoin, which currently exceeds $94 billion. As of September 2026, the TRON blockchain has recorded over 403 million in total user accounts, more than 15 billion in total transactions, and over $28 billion in total value locked (TVL), based on TRONSCAN. Recognized as the global settlement layer for stablecoin transactions and everyday purchases with proven success, TRON is “Moving Trillions, Empowering Billions.”
Disclosures and Risk
The Canary Staked TRX ETF (Ticker: TRXS) is an exchange-traded product that is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") and therefore is not subject to the same regulations and protections as ETFs and mutual funds registered under the 1940 Act. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. An investment in TRXS is subject to a high degree of risk and heightened volatility and is not suitable for investors who cannot afford the loss of their entire investment.
The Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses should be considered before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information, and it may be obtained at https://canaryetfs.com/trxs/prospectus/. Read it carefully before investing.
An investment in TRXS is not a direct investment in TRX. Staking rewards are not indicative of the Fund's performance, are not guaranteed, and may change frequently, including experiencing significant declines.Digital assets, such as TRX, are a relatively new asset class, and the market for digital assets is subject to rapid changes and uncertainty. Digital assets are largely unregulated and digital asset investments may be more susceptible to fraud and manipulation than more regulated investments.
TRXS is subject to rapid price swings, including as a result of actions and statements by influencers and the media, change of assets, and other factors. There is no assurance that TRXS will maintain its value over the long-term.
Staking provides the Trust with the opportunity to create and earn additional TRX. The Trust will be entitled to all TRX generated by the Trust’s staking, after deduction of certain staking-related expenses. This additional TRX will increase the net assets of the Trust, benefiting Shareholders. Certain of such TRX may be treated as income to the Trust and may be held for future distribution to Shareholders, subject to procedures and requirements disclosed elsewhere in the Prospectus.
Staking comes with a risk of loss of TRX. None of the Fund’s assets, including any staked assets, are subject to the protections enjoyed by depositors with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or SIPC member institutions. The staked assets may also be subject to “slashing” penalties. Slashings occur when a validator attests to two different histories of the chain and penalties occur when a validator is offline for a prolonged period of time. The Fund itself will not engage in staking activities, including the operation of a validator node. Instead, the staking program will be administered by the Fund’s sponsor, who will utilize service providers including the custodians and staking providers. While the Fund’s sponsor does not expect the activities of the staking providers to result in slashing penalties, there can be no guarantee that slashing penalties will not occur. Furthermore, the custodians’ and staking providers’ liability to the Fund for the actions associated with the Staking Program is limited, and the custodians and staking providers may lack the assets or insurance in order to support the recovery of any losses incurred. Accordingly, there can be no guarantee that the Fund would recover any of its staked assets, or the value thereof, if it is subject to slashing or penalties.
The Fund is new with a limited operating history.
Paralel Distributors LLC, Marketing Agent. Paralel is unaffiliated with Canary Capital.
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Apia, Samoa, September 9, 2026 - In August, leading global cryptocurrency exchange HTX marked its 13th anniversary with a major anniversary celebration. In an industry where leading projects come and go rapidly, few platforms have continued delivering quality services to users worldwide for 13 consecutive years. Even fewer have continued expanding their capabilities after weathering multiple bull and bear cycles.
Centered around the “Resilience Reveals the Future” campaign and Trading Championship #3, HTX delivered a series of anniversary rewards for global users throughout August. At the same time, the platform continued to expand its asset offerings and enhance its trading tools and yield products. On-platform balances grew 6.6% month over month, supported stock trading assets reached 210, and cumulative TradFi trading volume surpassed $4 billion, resulting in a strong August performance.
13th Anniversary “Resilience Reveals the Future”: Rewards All Month Long
At 13:13 (UTC+8) on August 13, HTX's 13th anniversary carnival month campaign, “Resilience Reveals the Future,” officially kicked off. The campaign allowed users to complete designated Growth Challenge tasks, light up Future Gems, and unlock anniversary rewards step by step. The Grand Prize included a 2,000 USDT Future Exploration Fund, an all-inclusive trip to Singapore TOKEN2049 (flights & hotel included), and an HTX 13th Anniversary premium limited-edition gift. At the same time, a referral campaign was launched with a mega prize pool, covering multiple trading scenarios including spot, futures, and margin trading. Users who completed designated tasks will share in the rewards.
As of August 31, “Resilience Reveals the Future” campaign had distributed more than 130,000 prizes to users. The campaign is still ongoing and will run through 13:13 (UTC+8) on September 13.
Throughout the anniversary month, various platform services also rolled out their own rewarding programs. HTX Earn launched its 13th Anniversary Earn Bonanza, attracting more than 30,000 subscribers to Earn products during the month. Both the subscriber count and subscription amount for popular new-crypto products grew by more than 10% month over month. Featuring campaigns across its three major products, Collateral Swap, margin trading, and institutional lending, unlocked user asset potential through low-interest loans and drove a 19% month-over-month increase in daily average margin trading trader count.
Trading Championship #3 Returns with Over 40,000 Participants
Coinciding with its 13th anniversary, HTX’s flagship trading competition, the Trading Championship, returned for its third season. The competition featured three consecutive stages, including Points Contest, Individual Challenge, and Team Battle, with a total prize pool of 800,000 USDT. By the end of August, the competition had attracted more than 40,000 participants, generating over 1.25 billion USDT in spot trading volume and more than 4.17 billion USDT in futures trading volume.
The three stages offered different ways to participate. The Individual Challenge featured three tracks based on trading volume, PnL, and PnL percentage, giving users with different trading styles a chance to compete for the leaderboard. The spot trading volume champion recorded nearly 150 million USDT in cumulative trading volume and took home the 25,000 USDT first-place prize. The Team Battle added a stronger social element, turning individual competition into team-based competition through features such as one-click team building, team leader guidance, and one-click copy trading. The Team Battle is currently underway and will run through September 15.
Whether through "Resilience Reveals the Future" or Trading Championship #3, the combination of user rewards and enthusiastic global participation highlights the core drivers behind HTX's resilience and enduring leadership across multiple market cycles.
Expanding Asset Listings: Cumulative TradFi Trading Volume Surpasses $4 Billion
In August, HTX continued to expand its futures product lineup, adding 56 new assets, including 41 popular stocks and index products and 15 new cryptocurrencies. The platform now supports 210 stock assets, covering U.S. equities, major global indices and ETFs, unicorn pre-IPO equities, and leading companies in Japan and South Korea. This further strengthens HTX’s position in multi-market stock coverage.
This month’s asset expansion focused on four key areas of AI hardware and semiconductor computing, global e-commerce and internet companies, major Asia-Pacific companies and indices, and high-dividend blue-chip stocks. Key assets including Zhongji InnoLight (ZHONGJI), GigaDevice (GIGADEV), Unitree Robotics (UNITREE), Shein (SHEIN), PDD Holdings (PDD), SoftBank (SOFTBANK), Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SAMSUNGEM), Nikkei 225 (JP225), and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KR200/KODEX200) were added successively. The addition of Japanese and Korean markets and global indices further expanded the platform’s asset coverage beyond U.S. equities, giving users more direct access to opportunities across global markets.
As the asset matrix expanded, trading volume grew accordingly. By the end of August, cumulative TradFi trading volume on HTX had surpassed $4 billion, with $1.6 billion added in August alone. In terms of trading costs, the platform also completed a fee-rate upgrade, bringing its TradFi net fee rates into the industry’s top tier.
The spot market also continued adding trending assets. In August, HTX became the first platform to list the Chinese memecoin 牛来 (Niu Lai), which gained as much as 460% after listing. AI-related assets TAO and DOS were also listed during the month, with TAO ranking among the industry’s leading assets by market capitalization. HTX consistently demonstrates agility in capturing trending market assets.
HTX SmartEarn's APY Surpasses 13%, Trading Bots' Trading Volume Rises
For users who plan to stay in the market long term but do not want their funds sitting idle, HTX SmartEarn was one of the month’s standout products. In August, SmartEarn launched a limited-time APY boost campaign offering up to an additional 11% APY. With an average daily basic APY of 2.71%, it offered a maximum APY of over 13%.
Automated trading tools also continued to grow. In August, HTX Futures Trading Bots trading volume increased 36% month over month, with growth momentum continuing. Copy Trading and Trading Bots also supported more than 20 TradFi assets, including U.S. equities, precious metals, crude oil, and indices, significantly expanding the range of assets available for automated trading.
Risk management was a key focus of August’s product upgrades. Trailing TP/SL and MMR TP/SL were launched simultaneously. Trailing TP/SL automatically adjusts the stop-loss level as the market moves, raising the level to lock in gains when prices move favorably and triggering an exit when a pullback reaches the preset threshold. This reduces the need for users to monitor the market manually. MMR TP/SL uses the maintenance margin ratio as the trigger. Once traders' account margin level reaches their preset threshold, the system automatically executes orders. It is suitable for large positions and high-leverage trading.
Copy Trading also conducted upgrades in transparency. The Copy Trading details page now provides itemized execution records, while the community page allows users to view creators’ actual trading records and copy-trading performance, giving users more information when evaluating whom to follow. Additional experience improvements, including K-line charts, leaderboard categories, multilingual search, and app performance, were also rolled out in August.
Global Expansion Continues as Localization Capabilities Grow Stronger
Over the past 13 years, HTX has built a user base across major markets worldwide. Entering new markets and staying close to local users have remained key focuses of the platform’s investment in recent years.
Compliance is a prerequisite for global expansion. In late August, Pakistan officially released regulatory provisions for virtual asset service providers and launched a licensing application mechanism, marking a shift toward institutionalized implementation of local virtual asset regulation. HTX has been actively aligning with the latest regulatory requirements, advancing local entity establishment, preparations for formal license applications, and compliance infrastructure, while maintaining communication with regulators and local professional institutions. These efforts lay a solid foundation for conducting related businesses in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Southeast Asia was another key focus in August. From August 14-15, HTX Ventures participated in Conviction Vietnam, connecting with local Vietnamese users and Web3 ecosystem partners through on-site activities, community engagement, and content initiatives. Vietnam has one of the world’s highest levels of cryptocurrency adoption and remains one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic digital asset markets. HTX will continue expanding localized brand content and community partnerships to build closer connections with local users, developers, and industry partners.

13 Years On, Moving Forward
Looking back at the milestone of HTX's 13th anniversary, the industry continues to evolve, while platforms capable of supporting users over the long term remain rare. What has carried HTX through the past 13 years is its commitment to putting users first and treating every user who chooses the platform with sincerity. Market ups and downs are impossible to predict, but providing users with a reliable trading experience is something the platform can control and must continue to do well.
Anniversary campaigns including “Resilience Reveals the Future” and Trading Championship #3 Team Battle are still in full swing, with more surprises to come in September. For 13 years, HTX has weathered multiple bull and bear market cycles alongside its global users, and it remains committed to forging ahead hand-in-hand with its international community for the journey ahead.

Liquidity Arena 2026, an AI quantitative trading competition organized by global institutional prime broker LTP, will enter its dual-track main competition on September 9, bringing together AI developers, research teams, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, high-frequency trading teams and professional traders.
The competition has attracted more than hundreds of teams across its two tracks. During Track A Phase 1, held from July 20 to August 21, participating AI agents executed more than 70,000 trades. Thirty teams advanced to the final stage.
Two Tracks, Different Measures of Trading Performance
Beginning September 9, Liquidity Arena will run two distinct tracks designed for different types of trading talent and strategies.
Track A — Logic Frontier
Track A enters its final stage with the 30 teams that advanced from Phase 1.
Designed for AI developers, agent builders, universities, research labs and professional traders, Logic Frontier goes beyond conventional PnL-based competition. Teams are required to use LTP's RapidX environment, while the competition incorporates MCP-based Reasoning Log verification to examine how autonomous agents interpret market information and make trading decisions.
The competition therefore evaluates not only trading outcomes, but also the reasoning quality, consistency and market interpretation behind those decisions.
The core question is no longer simply who makes the most money? — but how reliably can an autonomous trading system reason and perform under changing market conditions?
Track B — Liquidity Pro
Launching on September 9, Track B is designed for hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, HFT teams and professional traders.
Liquidity Pro puts the emphasis on performance, capital capacity, execution quality and slippage control. Teams can deploy their strategies through flexible trading infrastructure, including DMA, RapidX and other supported venues.
The objective is straightforward: prove that a strategy can perform effectively in live market conditions while managing execution and scale.
Registration for Track B remains open until 23:59 GMT+8 on September 23, 2026.
More Than $300,000 in Total Prize Value
Liquidity Arena 2026 features a total prize pool of more than $300,000, combining cash rewards with AI incentives, institutional trading benefits, partner products and career opportunities.
The reward structure includes:
$100,000+ in cash prizes for the top three teams in each trackAI agent credits and token incentives to support AI usage and reward outstanding performanceLTP VIP trading tiers and clearing-fee benefits for eligible teams after the competitionProducts and benefits from sponsors and ecosystem partnersCareer opportunities, including internship opportunities from LTP and additional opportunities from partners
The goal is to create a reward ecosystem that extends beyond the competition itself — giving high-performing teams access to capital-efficient trading infrastructure, technology, ecosystem resources and potential career opportunities.
Institutional-Grade Infrastructure and Global Ecosystem
Liquidity Arena is organized by LTP, with AWS and Calais serving as co-organizers. MiniMax, SoSoValue and AIVIX support the competition across AI, market data and analytics. 1ndex by 1Token serves as an Ecosystem Engine Partner, while Amsterdam Investment Club and THEO QUANT are Community Partners.
The competition is also supported by more than 20 academic and institutional partners and more than 20 media partners.
During the competition, LTP provides the institutional-grade trading infrastructure and operational support for participating teams. Teams will test and evaluate their strategies in trading environments designed to reflect market conditions, where performance is influenced not only by theoretical returns or backtested results, but also by liquidity, execution quality and slippage.
For AI-focused teams, the environment provides a setting to evaluate autonomous reasoning and decision-making in financial market scenarios. For professional quantitative teams, it provides a framework for assessing strategy performance under practical considerations, including capital scale, market impact and execution costs.
About LTP
LTP is a global institutional prime broker, purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of digital asset market participants. By applying traditional financial standards to blockchain innovation, LTP provides end-to-end prime services spanning trade execution, clearing, settlement, custody, and financing. Its offerings further extend to institutional asset management, regulated OTC block trading, and compliant on/off-ramp solutions — delivering a secure and scalable foundation for institutions across the digital asset ecosystem.
The Group operates under a multi-jurisdictional regulatory framework, holding licenses and registrations in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and the British Virgin Islands, among other jurisdictions, enabling it to serve institutional clients globally on a compliant basis.

B.AI, a next-generation AI infrastructure platform, recently set off a developer frenzy by offering free access to top-tier models. Within days, daily token throughput across the platform crossed 1.33 trillion—a historic milestone.
The record-breaking figure underscores the campaign's explosive rollout, but it marks only the first step in B.AI's broader strategic roadmap. Moving beyond traditional compute distribution pipelines, B.AI aims to build the global settlement layer for intelligence: a core infrastructure hub engineered to power cross-node collaboration, orchestration, and value distribution for AI agents across complex business workflows.
Positioning itself strategically above all models, below all agents, B.AI deeply integrates a diverse range of top-tier models with full-stack components, laying an unshakable, irreplaceable foundation for the mass adoption of autonomous agents and the productivity boom that follows.
Daily Token Throughput Tops 1.33 Trillion: B.AI's Free Access Rollout Fuels Usage Boom
B.AI's recent move to open free access to premium AI models has captivated developers and quickly taken over industry conversations. The push for accessible compute has not only fueled a surge in platform activity but also shattered usage records.
In a matter of days, soaring API demand pushed the platform's daily token throughput past a staggering 1.33 trillion. Over a 15-day window, cumulative volume reached 8.19 trillion tokens, drawing in more than 220,000 new API users. As of September 3, B.AI's total user base had officially surpassed 2.3 million.
That massive adoption traces directly to the platform's zero-cost model lineup, a strategic rollout built to erase developers' cost concerns. With every barrier removed, B.AI now offers unlimited free access to six leading frontier models: DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Tencent Hy3, Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5, GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha), and Qwen3.8-Flash.
Notably, on September 3, B.AI rolled out a new pricing structure for DeepSeek-V4-Flash and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, introducing tiered discounts. Developers now receive a 50% discount during peak hours, with off-peak rates dropping to just 25% of standard peak pricing. At the same time, the platform has kept zero-cost access in place for GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha), Qwen3.8-Flash, Tencent Hy3, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5. Despite the shift toward commercialization, developer momentum hasn't wavered, with platform-wide token throughput continuing its steady climb.
This sustained momentum proves the campaign was far more than a short-term compute giveaway—it is a bellwether for the broader evolution of AI infrastructure. Cracking 1.33 trillion daily tokens makes one thing clear: AI applications are moving past basic chatbots. Powered by a high-performance technical stack and flexible service mechanics, B.AI is laying the groundwork for the next frontier—autonomous AI agents operating at scale.
Powering the "AI Grid": B.AI Anchors the Global Settlement Layer for the Agent Economy
For B.AI, democratizing compute is only the prelude. Looking further ahead, the platform is committed to building full-stack infrastructure for the agentic era, cementing its position as the global settlement layer for intelligence.
In the agent era, a typical agent task calls for constant switching between models. No single provider can power a complete workflow on its own, so developers are left juggling fragmented API protocols, disjointed billing systems, and conflicting rate limits.
B.AI's settlement layer bridges this exact gap. Positioned strategically "above all models, below all agents," B.AI abstracts models across different providers, capabilities, and cost structures into a unified pool of schedulable resources.
Powered by a dual-tier API structure offering official-route reliability alongside lowest-cost custom channels, developers can choose between guaranteed direct connections and deeply discounted options across a broad lineup of models. Combined with smart routing on the Chat interface, B.AI operates as a full-stack "AI grid," ensuring every agent request lands on the optimal model to deliver reliable performance at maximum cost-efficiency.
On the settlement front, this power grid seamlessly bridges both Web2 and Web3 models. For Web2, developers can rely on familiar traditional payment methods to top up with minimal friction. For Web3, B.AI leverages on-chain payment rails to offer global developers decentralized, verifiable, and low-friction payment options.
With dual payment systems running in parallel, B.AI enables developers and agent applications across any infrastructure setup to find their optimal settlement path on the grid, providing single-point integration with borderless global reach.
Driving Core Productivity: B.AI Reshapes Agent Collaboration
Beyond building a foundation for compute routing and global settlement, B.AI is moving past base infrastructure to power real-world productivity. By enabling seamless agent collaboration across complex workflows, it delivers the missing execution layer for the agent economy.
At the heart of this execution layer is native Codex integration. Full compatibility with the Responses API means developers can now use a single B.AI key inside Codex to run flagship GPT models and DeepSeek favorites side by side.
Engineers can now bring these powerhouse models straight into their daily dev stack. From code generation and reasoning to debugging and refactoring, B.AI unifies the entire workflow under one roof—delivering a direct line from model selection to shipped code.
Beyond coding, to keep agents running reliably in real-world production at scale, B.AI has built a full-stack infrastructure powered by five core components, equipping agents with a fine-tuned operational engine:
x402 Payment Protocol: Introduces an innovative "pay-before-response" model that executes high-frequency, on-chain micro-settlements in the background during cross-agent API calls and compute orchestration.8004 Identity Protocol: Issues verifiable on-chain credentials for every agent, logging execution history and credit scores to establish a reliable layer of trust for cross-node collaboration.Skills Matrix: Plug-and-play, standardized building blocks that interface directly with MCP servers to equip agents with instant, modular tool-calling capabilities.BAIclaw and BAIcode: Built-in platform assistants engineered for end-to-end execution. BAIclaw manages all-in-one terminal operations and multi-agent workflows, while BAIcode serves as an advanced developer engine that streamlines the full pipeline from task analysis and architecture design to coding and testing.
From the token surge sparked by zero-cost model access to its positioning as the global settlement layer for intelligence; from seamless Codex integration to full-stack infrastructure powered by x402, 8004, Skills, and native assistants—B.AI delivers far more than a battle-tested technical stack; it unveils a clear blueprint for what lies ahead. B.AI is building not just accessible compute today, but the definitive launchpad for a thriving agent economy. The future is here—and this is only the beginning.

Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with the full dataset, training code, and benchmarks publicly available. V1 is built from more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks and 60,000+ scene variants on a simulated Franka Research 3 arm.
This dataset drew over 160,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded open-source simulation Franka manipulation dataset on Hugging Face. In benchmarks, continual pretraining on V1 lifted π0.5 and beat a volume-matched RoboCasa baseline, with every result open and verifiable.
Axis Robotics is building the ultimate compounding data engine for Physical AI, a vertically integrated system spanning large-scale simulation, egocentric real-world capture, humanoid loco-manipulation, and human-gated DAgger post-training. The company raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and angel investors.
A Bet Against "Clean Data Only"
A common assumption in robotics is that demonstrations must be near-optimal to begin with — filter down to expert trajectories, standardize the setup, and discard anything noisy before it is safe to imitate. Axis's thesis runs the other way: data quality lives at the distribution level, not the single trajectory. When a large and diverse enough crowd produces noisy, suboptimal trajectories and their errors are uncorrelated, the noise averages out and a working policy survives during training.
Axis Sim Dataset V1 puts that thesis to a public test. Its trajectories span pick-and-place, stacking, pouring, articulated-object manipulation, and tool use, all collected through Axis's browser-based teleoperation platform, Axis Hub, by a distributed crowd rather than a single expert team. The dataset was built with researchers from UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, and other institutions.
Results That Scale
On LIBERO-Plus, continual pretraining on V1 lifts π0.5 from 83.9% to 88.8% success and outperforms a volume-matched RoboCasa365 baseline by 37.3%. Performance improves consistently as pretraining data scales from 25% to 100% of the dataset, with no saturation in sight, evidence that the gains come from diversity and coverage rather than a one-off bump. The largest improvements appear under camera, sensor-noise, and layout perturbations, the exact axes Axis randomizes during generation.
The team says V2 is already underway, scaling to 1.2 million trajectories across 1,200 tasks, with cross-embodiment generalization and results across multiple VLA models showing that suboptimal simulation data trains robust policies.
The Engine Behind the Dataset
The dataset is one output of a larger, actively compounding data engine. Where a traditional data vendor collects to a fixed spec and stops, Axis uses model performance and failure cases to determine what should be collected next, so every training round informs the next. That engine runs on a hybrid strategy across four data lines, and all four now run at scale:
Simulation: over 200,000 distributed contributors on Axis Hub, a top-3 dApp on Base, producing 4.7M+ trajectories across 13 embodiments.Egocentric: a managed network of 1,000+ full-time, QC-trained collectors capturing first-person activity in real homes and businesses across 14 industries: 200,000+ hours already banked and growing by 4,000+ hours every day, with Vicon-verified hand pose.Loco-manipulation: 500+ hours combining mobility and dexterity on real humanoids (Unitree G1, Booster T2) through hardware-agnostic teleoperation.Human-gated DAgger post-training: 500+ hours of human-in-the-loop correction targeted at deployment edge cases.
Every task and trajectory is recorded on-chain on Base for provenance, and contributors are rewarded for verified work quality.
From Open Data to Commercial Deployment
Beyond open-sourcing simulation data, Axis works directly with robot embodiment companies to build customized, embodiment-specific data pipelines and model priors.
As Booster Robotics' first sim-data partner, Axis rebuilt Booster's real workspace as a task-aligned digital twin, had distributed contributors collect 42,000+ simulation episodes on it, and distilled them into a Booster-specific model prior. With just 30 real-robot demos, that prior reached 87.5% success versus 37.5% for an out-of-the-box π0.5, matching π0.5 using half the real-world demonstrations.
Other partners span embodiment companies (Feagine Robotics), model companies (Manycore Tech, Dexmal) and industrial automation (Lotus Cars, Geely Auto). Axis also supplies on-chain robotics networks: BitRobot on Solana and OpenRoboto on Bittensor.
Redefining Physical AI's Data Foundation
"The future of Physical AI isn't a static dataset you download once," said Chris Feng, founder of Axis Robotics. "It's an engine that keeps producing the data the model needs next. Scale gets you broad coverage. Diversity keeps the noise unbiased. The closed loop turns every failure into progress. That's what compounds."
Axis was founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Georgia Tech, and SJTU, alongside serial founders who have scaled consumer platforms to over 30 million users. Its research is advised by Jiachen Li, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech.

Amid a pivotal reshaping of the global financial architecture and the deep convergence of frontier technologies, decentralized autonomous organization HTX DAO today officially announced the launch of the Genesis Program, backed by an initial $10 million HTX DAO Ecosystem Fund. Driven by the real-world needs of developers and builders across its global community, the initiative goes beyond individual products and token-focused metrics. By leveraging cryptography and decentralized networks, it seeks to establish a full-scale business footprint across crypto and AI and build an open, transparent, and permissionless global ecosystem of financial freedom.
Beyond Asset Trading: Advancing a New Global Era of "Financial Freedom"
HTX DAO’s mission has never been confined to the market performance of governance tokens, nor does it seek to build a closed ecosystem around an exchange. Its fundamental objective is to drive a freer, more open global financial order unshackled by centralized monopolies.
The foundational value of crypto extends far beyond asset pricing and speculative trading. Cryptography, blockchain, and decentralized networks are systematically restructuring asset classes, global settlement protocols, and human collaboration paradigms. HTX DAO is committed to deeply participating in this infrastructure reconstruction, empowering global users to claim inviolable asset sovereignty and enjoy the seamless, borderless flow of value.
Crypto Meets AI: Catalyzing New Productivity and Collaboration Models
Global technology is currently approaching a critical inflection point. AI has unleashed an exponential leap in productivity, while crypto provides an open network environment, an asset ownership framework, and a trustless collaboration mechanism.
As AI agents transition from assisted generation to autonomous execution, decentralized networks will emerge as foundational infrastructure for settlement and attribution, spanning on-chain micro-payments between machines, Decentralized Identifier (DID) authentication, cross-sovereign settlement, and data asset ownership confirmation. The deep symbiosis of crypto and AI will inevitably catalyze a new generation of business models, underlying protocols, and decentralized organizational forms. Driving the engineering implementation and commercial closure of Crypto-AI stands as HTX DAO’s core strategic priority for the present and the long term.
A Multi-Million-Dollar Fund for Comprehensive Empowerment
Rather than acting as a top-down, unidirectional design, the Genesis Program originated directly from the genuine technical demands and operational pain points of creators, developers, and builders within the ecosystem.
To coalesce fragmented innovative forces into a long-term, evolving collaborative network, HTX DAO has established an initial $10 million ecosystem development fund. Eschewing traditional, indiscriminate grant models, the Genesis Program relies on a rigorous, verifiable milestone-delivery mechanism to provide selected teams with a three-dimensional support system encompassing development capital, foundational technical support, full-chain liquidity injection, real-world business scenarios, and global market expansion.
A Clear Value Loop: From Milestone Releases to Ecosystem Reinvestment
The $10 million fund is by no means an unconditional, unidirectional subsidy. Rather, it is built upon a framework of rigorous engineering management: fund allocation tied strictly to verifiable milestone delivery; the injection of deep ecosystem resources including liquidity, technology, and market access; translating project deployments into self-sustaining commercial business models; and ultimately, establishing a long-term positive feedback loop that channels project growth back into the broader HTX ecosystem. This mechanism maximizes capital efficiency while ensuring that every resource injection genuinely translates into sustainable on-chain productivity.
Industrial Depth: Seamless Integration into Leading Industry Networks
Teams accepted into the Genesis Program gain far more than isolated financial backing. Rather, they gain an industry-grade collaborative network with high entry barriers.
Project teams will directly access HTX's expansive global user base and regulatory-compliant gateways, seamlessly tap into the TRON network's daily hundreds-of-billions-dollar on-chain liquidity base, and coordinate with top-tier global investment institutions, academic think tanks, developer alliances, and industrial strategic partners. This deep industrial synergy empowers early-stage innovations to rapidly bypass the cold-start phase and achieve robust, scaled commercial deployment.
By fostering real-world business scenarios such as on-chain payments, AI services, DeFi, RWA, and AI agents, the Genesis Program will continuously expand HTX's practical application boundaries across the external ecosystems. It will drive a long-term, bidirectional positive cycle between project growth and HTX's ecosystem value, evolving HTX from a mere exchange infrastructure into a core value node of the global free finance and decentralized collaborative network.
Genesis Core Matrix: A Full-Lifecycle Empowerment Architecture of Discover, Support, and Connect
Transcending the boundaries of traditional unidirectional grants, the Genesis Program focuses on building a sustainably iterating global builder collaborative network anchored by three pillars across project lifecycle:
● Discover: Leveraging global hackathons, open-source technical communities, and university research networks to proactively identify early-stage teams in the prototype verification stage that are focused on breaking through foundational technical bottlenecks.
● Support: Establishing a verifiable milestone mechanism based on deliverables, backed by the $10 million ecosystem fund. Beyond initial capital, it delivers comprehensive access to full-chain liquidity, foundational tech architecture consulting, global community cold-start assistance, and multi-regional market resources.
● Connect: Acting as a connector for decentralized innovations under the philosophy of a free financial port to facilitate efficient closed loops among capital, tech developers, AI agents, and end users.

The ultimate destination of the Genesis Program is not a one-way invitation to "join us," but an invitation for global builders to integrate into an open, co-built collaborative network where everyone shares in the ecosystem dividends.
Embark Now: Entering an Open Global Builder Network For More Than Just a Grant
The next decade of the crypto industry will not be defined by any single entity. It belongs to every technical pioneer solving real-world problems through code.
The HTX DAO Genesis Program and its $10 million ecosystem development fund are now officially open for global applications:
● Official Application Portal: https://www.htxdao.com/en-us/genesis
HTX DAO looks forward to collaborating with global technical builders to advance foundational innovation, jointly constructing a more resilient, transparent, and globally liquid next-generation financial technology ecosystem.
About HTX DAO
HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) collaboratively built by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. Supported by HTX Exchange and the TRON blockchain ecosystem, HTX DAO is committed to establishing an open governance ecosystem led by users, governed by transparent rules, and driven by efficient collaboration, serving as a key engine in advancing decentralized finance (DeFi).
HTX DAO embodies the principle of “token holders govern”, aiming to inspire global consensus and participation, align community interests with platform value, and explore a new order in the world of crypto finance.

In H1 2026, TRON bucked broader market headwinds through a twin-track strategy: solidifying its core DeFi engine while aggressively expanding into AI. As recurring deflationary mechanics anchored value across DeFi protocols, a rapid wave of AI product launches unlocked new vectors for ecosystem growth.

Throughout the first half of 2026, global crypto markets faced a macro-driven cooldown. Tightening market liquidity and capital rotations into traditional AI tech pushed many crypto sectors into stagnation. TRON, however, carved out a distinct counter-cyclical rally. From expanding its stablecoin settlement layer and upgrading core DeFi asset value, to strategically positioning itself across the Web3 AI stack, TRON delivered ecosystem-wide growth that significantly outperformed industry benchmarks.

At the heart of this performance is TRON's stablecoin infrastructure, which serves as the primary liquidity engine for the entire network. During H1 2026—even as global USDT market cap held relatively flat—circulating USDT on TRON expanded rapidly, breaking through $90 billion and setting consecutive all-time highs as it approaches the $100 billion milestone. This sustained liquidity depth cements TRON's role as the leading settlement network for digital dollars, providing low-cost, capital-efficient liquidity for applications building on top of the layer.

Building on its stablecoin dominance, TRON pursued a cohesive strategy throughout H1 2026: fortify the DeFi foundation and expand the AI front. In DeFi, key protocols introduced recurring buyback-and-burn mechanics alongside steady feature upgrades, sharpening the network's overall value-capture capability. Simultaneously, TRON executed a rapid rollout of foundational AI products—building a full-stack Web3 AI ecosystem that spans unified multi-model access layers, AI agent infrastructure, and distributed compute networks.

DeFi Ecosystem: Synergizing Token Deflation with Protocol Innovation
Against industry headwinds in H1 2026, TRON's DeFi sector advanced a dual-track strategy: value empowerment via buybacks and burns, and continuous product iteration. On one hand, the ongoing execution of buyback and burn mechanisms by core projects across multiple tracks established a normalized, ecosystem-wide deflationary system. On the other, the relentless refinements to the functionality and user experience of core protocols enhanced both token value and protocol fundamentals.
To drive sustainable tokenomics, core ecosystem projects established programmatic buyback-and-burn mechanisms, forming a network-wide deflationary matrix across liquidity infrastructure, lending, oracles, and decentralized storage:
SUN.io (Liquidity): Expanded its SUN buyback revenue streams. Starting with its 50th buyback and burn round in April, revenue from SUNX derivatives was permanently added to the burn pool alongside existing fees from SunSwap V2 and SunPump. The protocol completed its 50th and 51st token burn rounds in April and July, respectively. JUST (DeFi): Executed scheduled, multi-round JST token burns. The protocol completed its 2nd and 3rd large-scale buyback and burn rounds in January and April, followed by a record-setting 4th round in July that marked the largest capital allocation to date. WINkLink (Oracles): Launched a dedicated WIN buyback-and-burn program in July, allocating 100% of oracle service revenue toward repurchasing and burning WIN tokens. BitTorrent (Storage & Compute): Initiated a BTT buyback-and-burn program in July, funneling all revenue from decentralized services directly into token burns.

Parallel to these value-accrual mechanics, TRON protocols pushed aggressive feature upgrades across trading, lending, data feeds, and decentralized compute:
SUN.io completed a strategic rebranding in January by introducing a dedicated Chinese brand to accelerate global adoption, followed by the launch of SunSwap V4 in March to deepen liquidity and enhance user experience. JustLend DAO deployed SBM V2 in June, introducing isolated collateral pools to support long-tail assets while enhancing risk management. Concurrently, the network's gasless transaction solution, GasFree, saw exponential adoption across stablecoin transfers.WINkLink upgraded its price feed portal in March, adding an integrated "Market Statistics" dashboard to enhance on-chain analytics. BitTorrent formally entered the AI space in June with BTTInferGrid, a decentralized AI compute marketplace that unlocks long-term demand for the network.

This dual engine of consistent token deflation and protocol innovation not only drove a steady surge in on-chain DeFi activity, but also established a robust bedrock for long-term token value.
According to DeFiLlama, TRON's DeFi TVL climbed past $5.18 billion by September 1, placing it firmly in the top five public chains globally—narrowing the gap with Solana and BSC, and even overtaking them during peak trading periods. TRON's lead is even more pronounced in user engagement: the network logged over 3.88 million 24-hour active addresses, nearly double that of second-place BSC, underscoring its unmatched real-user adoption.
SUN.io: Enhancing DEX Efficiency via SunSwap V4 and Expanding Burn Pools
In H1 2026, SUN.io rolled out major updates across its branding, product suite, and tokenomics. By expanding brand awareness, upgrading protocol capabilities, and strengthening its value-accrual mechanics, the platform significantly sharpened its competitive edge.
To support global adoption, SUN.io launched a dual-brand strategy in January. This included introducing a dedicated Chinese brand identity, "Sun Wukong" (孙悟空), alongside a localized official website. The core product suite was seamlessly unified under this new framework: the DEX platform SunSwap became "Wukong Swap", the memecoin launchpad SunPump became "Wukong Launch", and the derivatives platform SunX became "Sun Wukong". This approach allows SUN.io's comprehensive DeFi matrix—covering spot DEX trading, meme issuance, and perpetuals—to effectively engage both Western and Asian user bases.
On the product side, SUN.io continued to iterate on its core protocols, leveraging technical upgrades to lower trading barriers and reduce costs for users. On March 2, SunSwap V4 went live with six core architectural innovations:
Singleton Design: Unified pool management for maximum capital efficiency.Native TRX Swaps: Direct trading pairs without the need to wrap TRX.Flash Accounting: Net balance settlements that dramatically cut transaction costs.Hooks: Customizable smart contract plugins for novel trading strategies.Custom Accounting: Tailored settlement logic for specialized pools.Subscribers: Real-time event notifications for active position monitoring.
These features pushed the protocol's customizability to new heights, unlocking possibilities for innovative DeFi scenarios. Within five months of launch, SunSwap V4 saw rapid adoption: peak liquidity stabilized at $108 million, and 24-hour trading volumes frequently surpassed $70 million during peak periods.
Capital efficiency was further improved in May with an upgraded Universal Router contract, which automatically executes trades across the most optimal multi-pool paths.

As of September 1, SUN.io reports a total TVL of ~$650 million across more than 26,500 active liquidity pools. Over the past seven days, total platform trading volume exceeded $514 million across 112,000+ individual transactions, maintaining a steady upward trajectory across all metrics.
Finally, SUN.io accelerated the deflation of the SUN token by expanding its buyback revenue streams. Starting with its 50th buyback and burn round on April 25, revenue from the SunX derivatives platform was permanently added to the burn pool, complementing existing fees from SunSwap V2 and SunPump. To make this deflationary process more transparent and predictable, the platform also standardized its execution schedule, shifting to a unified announcement in the middle of the first month of each quarter.
Since launching its buyback-and-burn model in December 2021, SUN.io has executed 51 consecutive burn rounds without interruption, permanently removing 678,547,188.32 SUN from circulation—bringing the token rapidly toward the 700 million deflation milestone.


JustLend DAO: Real Yield Fuels JST Deflation as Product Matrix Expands
Powered by the protocol's sustained revenue growth in H1, JustLend DAO has executed multiple rounds of JST buybacks and burns. This established a complete closed-loop value model: real business revenue drives programmatic deflation, which fundamentally reinforces JST's value proposition. Driven by this deflationary flywheel, JST's price charted strong growth, surging from $0.04 at the start of 2026 to a peak of $0.11—a 275% cumulative gain. This rally catapulted its market cap from $400 million to over $868 million, marking its highest valuation since 2022. As of September 1, JST remains strong, trading at $0.101.
Concurrently, JustLend DAO's diversified product suite—spanning lending, liquid staking, Energy rental, and smart wallets—unlocked new vectors for long-term ecosystem growth.
Since the start of 2026, JST has completed three large-scale scheduled burn rounds, each deploying over $20 million. In H1 alone, more than $70 million was allocated to buybacks, with nearly 90% derived from JustLend DAO's real operating net revenue:
Round 2 (January 14): 525 million JST burned (equivalent to $21 million), accounting for 5.3% of the total JST supply.Round 3 (April 15): 271 million JST burned (equivalent to $21.3 million), accounting for 2.74% of the total JST supply.Round 4 (July 17): A record-breaking 355 million JST burned (equivalent to $34.59 million).
Funded by robust protocol revenue alongside accrued USDJ stability fees, this milestone burn accounted for 3.59% of the total JST supply.
To date, the protocol has completed four major buyback and burn rounds, permanently removing 1.711 billion JST from circulation. This accounts for 17.29% of the total token supply and represents over $94.62 million in cumulative capital deployed. Excluding the $10.39 million special burn from accrued USDJ stability fees in Round 4, 100% of routine buyback funds are sourced directly from JustLend DAO's real business revenue.
According to official data, JustLend DAO has generated over $94.2 million in cumulative net revenue to date. When combined with stability fees, the total capital generated for repurchases approaches $105 million. This deflationary engine is primed to continue: the protocol has already reserved an additional $10.34 million in accrued revenue to fund the next scheduled buyback and burn event.
As the core protocol of the JUST ecosystem, JustLend DAO has built a robust, diversified product suite covering Supply & Borrow Markets (SBM), Liquid Staking (sTRX), Energy Rental, Gas-Free Transfers (GasFree), and Energy Purchasing (Buy Energy)—maintaining a top-tier industry position across all respective verticals.

In the decentralized lending sector, JustLend DAO remains a dominant global force. According to DeFiLlama data as of September 1, the SBM platform boasts a Total Value Locked (TVL) of $3.38 billion, firmly securing its rank as the #4 decentralized lending protocol worldwide. Innovation continues to drive this growth: the launch of SBM V2 in June introduced isolated vaults, a critical architectural upgrade that expanded asset coverage while substantially reinforcing platform security. To further enhance capital efficiency during H1, the protocol also rolled out a dedicated $U lending market, continuously broadening its asset support to meet growing user demand.

In the liquid staking track, the sTRX product has accumulated over 9.73 billion staked TRX across more than 17,000 unique addresses, maintaining a steady upward trajectory in both TVL and user adoption. Building on this liquid staking foundation, the Energy Rental market introduces a highly flexible, pay-as-you-go model. This solves the pain point of requiring users to lock up large amounts of TRX long-term to lower on-chain gas costs, attracting a cumulative user base of over 80,000 participants.
Further expanding this utility ecosystem, JustLend DAO launched the Buy Energy feature in August. This pay-as-you-go service allows users to purchase TRON Energy on-demand, saving users up to 64% in transaction fees compared to the traditional method of burning TRX for on-chain resources.
Driven by a core mission to eliminate friction and democratize on-chain access, JustLend DAO has engineered a comprehensive utility suite comprising Energy Rental, Buy Energy, and GasFree Transfers.
GasFree Transfers, in particular, has emerged as a primary growth catalyst for the platform. By allowing users to pay gas fees directly in their target token—bypassing the necessity of holding native TRX—it drastically lowers the barrier to entry for decentralized transactions. Currently supporting fee deductions in USDT and USDD (following its strategic integration in August), the feature is experiencing accelerating user adoption and transaction velocity.
Recent data underscores this robust traction. According to CryptoQuant's TRON Q2 report, GasFree transfer volume in the final week of June reached $2.9 billion, closely approaching the $3 billion all-time high established in early May. As of September 1, cumulative GasFree stablecoin transfers have surpassed 7.7 million transactions, representing $132.6 billion in total transfer volume. By saving users over $8.48 million in cumulative transaction fees, GasFree Transfers has rapidly solidified its position as an indispensable utility and a significant new growth vector for JustLend DAO. 
Beyond rapid product iteration and steady growth in core business metrics, JustLend DAO is actively expanding its strategic partnerships to bridge external ecosystems and onboard new users. On July 6, JustLend DAO was officially integrated into the Binance Web3 Wallet DeFi hub, launching dedicated liquidity pools to tap into the leading CEX's massive global user base. Hot on the heels of this integration, JustLend DAO teamed up with USDD and SUN.io to co-host the "TRON DeFi Summer" campaign alongside Binance Wallet, backed by a $4.5 million prize pool. This cross-ecosystem alliance is highly strategic: it not only injects substantial fresh capital and new user cohorts, but it also establishes a seamless conversion pipeline moving users from a top-tier CEX directly into TRON ecosystem DeFi. Ultimately, this frictionless acquisition funnel broadens the protocol's foundation for sustainable revenue generation.
BitTorrent: Expanding into Decentralized AI via BTTInferGrid and Launching Long-Term BTT Buybacks
BitTorrent advanced its core value proposition in H1 2026, achieving landmark breakthroughs across compliance, product development, and tokenomics. By resolving long-standing regulatory headwinds, accelerating core product iteration, expanding into artificial intelligence, and instituting a multi-phase BTT buyback and burn initiative, BitTorrent has executed a comprehensive strategic transformation from the ground up.
This shift began with the total clearance of a multi-year regulatory overhang. On March 6, the U.S. SEC officially dropped all charges against Justin Sun, the TRON Foundation, and the BitTorrent Foundation. This resolution brought a definitive end to a three-year dispute, eliminating the policy uncertainty that had previously constrained the ecosystem's growth and strategic roadmap. Capitalizing on this regulatory clarity, BTT secured a fiat listing on Bitkub, a leading Thai cryptocurrency exchange, with the launch of the BTT/THB trading pair. By enabling local users to trade BTT directly with Thai Baht, the listing significantly bolsters BTT's regional market liquidity and deepens its strategic footprint in Southeast Asia.
Simultaneously, BitTorrent continues to iterate on its core infrastructure. On June 5, the team rolled out BitTorrent Neo, a specialized client designed natively for macOS. Delivering a lightweight, intuitive user interface without compromising performance, BitTorrent Neo modernizes the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing experience and reinforces the protocol's position in decentralized distribution.
Expanding into high-growth verticals, BitTorrent officially entered the decentralized AI compute sector with the June 17 launch of BTTInferGrid. Built as a DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) tailored specifically for AI inference workloads, BTTInferGrid aims to optimize traditional compute supply. This launch signals BitTorrent's strategic expansion into the Web3 AI landscape, unlocking a new growth vector for the entire ecosystem.
To complement this expansion, BitTorrent has activated a comprehensive BTT buyback and burn mechanism designed to drive long-term value. In a strategic update announced July 6, 100% of the revenue generated from its decentralized businesses is now routed into a dedicated pool for routine quarterly burns. This enhances BTT's value capture logic—upgrading it from a standard utility and governance token into a deflationary asset anchored by real protocol yield. Ultimately, this ensures the community shares directly in the growth of BitTorrent's expanding network.


WINkLink: Core Oracle Services Upgrade as New Buyback Program Bolsters Token Value
As the premier oracle infrastructure powering the TRON ecosystem, WINkLink executed comprehensive upgrades throughout H1. These enhancements touched every layer of the protocol, spanning core product functionalities, broader asset coverage, and updated tokenomics. By fortifying its on-chain data services and deploying a dedicated token buyback and burn mechanism, WINkLink is actively translating its operational success into sustainable, long-term value for token holders.
On the product front, WINkLink upgraded its Price Service page on March 27, introducing a new Market Statistics module. This feature visualizes key metrics—such as market cap ranking, circulating and total supply, and 24-hour and 7-day price ranges—substantially improving data completeness and readability to better support the diverse needs of developers and financial protocols.

In terms of asset coverage, WINkLink steadily expanded its oracle price feeds. It integrated $U price feeds alongside U/TRX and U/USD trading pairs on April 13, followed by KGST price feeds and the KGST/TRX pair on June 9, continuously enriching on-chain price data across a broader range of asset classes.
To empower token value, WINkLink launched a long-term WIN buyback-and-burn initiative on July 6. Under this program, 100% of the revenue generated from providing oracle services to the TRON ecosystem is allocated to buying back and burning WIN tokens, with burn data publicly disclosed around the middle of the following quarter. By directly linking ecosystem revenue to token value, this mechanism continuously optimizes token supply dynamics, fostering a positive feedback loop between protocol utility and token value. Following the announcement, WIN surged from ~$0.00002055 to $0.00002514 on July 29, marking a 22.5% gain that clearly demonstrates the value appreciation driven by deflationary mechanics.
Additionally, WINkLink secured exchange recognition early in the year. WIN was officially listed on Thailand's leading crypto exchange, Bitkub, on January 30, followed by Baltex on February 28, expanding its global market footprint ahead of schedule.


TRON's AI Matrix: Rapid Product Rollouts Drive Expansion
While a mature DeFi ecosystem serves as TRON's financial anchor through market cycles, its strategic expansion into Web3 AI forms the core pivot for capturing the dividends of the next technological revolution. In H1 2026, TRON entered a major growth phase for its AI ecosystem: Bank of AI, a dedicated financial infrastructure for AI Agents, launched in February; B.AI, a unified multi-model service gateway, debuted in April; and BTTInferGrid, a decentralized AI computing network, went live in June—marking a rapid succession of milestone product rollouts.
Today, TRON's AI ecosystem features a robust product matrix anchored by B.AI, Bank of AI, AINFT, and BTTInferGrid. Spanning large language model (LLM) service gateways, AI Agent infrastructure, AI Agent financial trading, and distributed compute supply, each layer boasts distinct positioning, complementary capabilities, and functional synergies. Together, they form a complete multi-tier architecture connecting top-layer service gateways, middle-layer core infrastructure, and bottom-layer computing power, creating a highly efficient and well-structured decentralized AI ecosystem.
At the top layer, B.AI serves as a unified multi-model gateway bridging Web2 and Web3. Positioned as premier AI infrastructure, B.AI functions as a global settlement layer for intelligence, operating above all models and below all agents to route, compute, and settle every call. Its LLM offering integrates conversational capabilities and standardized API services from multiple mainstream models, supporting one-click model switching and rapid integration through a single API. The platform has also introduced essential ecosystem tools, including the desktop AI agent BAIclaw, the coding assistant BAIcode, and foundational protocols like the x402 payment standard and 8004 identity protocol. Together, these solutions deliver a frictionless user experience while drastically lowering technical barriers for developers, providing a unified LLM foundation for all applications across the ecosystem.

At the middle infrastructure layer, Bank of AI and AINFT power two central pillars for AI agents: financial service onboarding and trading strategy validation. Bank of AI provides dedicated financial infrastructure, leveraging native components such as the x402 payment standard, 8004 identity protocol, MCP Server, and Skills to deliver one-stop Web3 integration. This allows AI agents to seamlessly access mature DeFi functions like trading and lending out of the box, positioning Bank of AI as the primary bridge between AI agents and TRON's DeFi ecosystem. Meanwhile, AINFT plans to build an AI trading hub by introducing standardized evaluation infrastructure, providing strategy verification and benchmarking to foster trust and value flow across the AI trading landscape.
At the foundational layer, BitTorrent's BTTInferGrid decentralized AI inference network powers the entire ecosystem. Drawing on BitTorrent's 20-plus years of global distributed node infrastructure, the platform uses crypto-economic incentives to aggregate idle GPU compute and bandwidth resources. By transforming fragmented hardware into a standardized, unified compute pool, BTTInferGrid delivers low-cost, high-availability, and on-chain-verifiable AI inference services for all upper-layer applications. This directly challenges the monopoly of centralized providers while significantly reducing compute costs for Web3 AI projects.

Beyond product rollouts, TRON has also secured a forward-looking position in industry standards. In March, TRON joined the Agentic AI Foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, taking a seat alongside global tech and finance leaders, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Circle, and JPMorgan Chase, to shape industry governance. This strategic move further reinforces TRON's influence and competitive edge in decentralized AI, bolstering its position to lead the next technological revolution.


B.AI: Full-Stack AI Infrastructure and the Go-To Gateway for Global Users
Officially launched in April, the platform has rapidly evolved into a breakout Web2 and Web3 AI product through high-frequency iterations and constant feature rollouts. Serving as TRON's core unified gateway for both everyday users and developers, B.AI surpassed 2.2 million registered users by September 1, reaching a multi-million scale in just four months. Momentum reached a new high on August 31, when daily token throughput crossed 1.1 trillion, ushering the platform into the era of 1T+ compute orchestration and solidifying its position among the industry's fastest-growing AI platforms.
In just four months, B.AI has built a full-stack infrastructure spanning consumer interactions and developer tools. Its multi-tiered architecture features a unified LLM platform at its core, practical applications like the desktop AI agent BAIclaw and coding assistant BAIcode, and foundational components such as the x402 payment standard, 8004 identity protocol, and Skill modules. Together, these layers form an end-to-end framework connecting unified access, real-world applications, and underlying capabilities.

At the core service layer, B.AI aggregates dozens of leading global AI models, pairing premier international flagships with highly cost-effective options. The catalog includes global benchmarks including ChatGPT (GPT-5.4/5.5/5.6 series), Claude (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku series), Gemini (Flash/Pro series), and Grok (4.5 series), alongside competitive Chinese models like MiniMax (M2.7/M3), DeepSeek (V4 series), Kimi (K2.5/K2.6/K3), Zhipu GLM (5.1/5.2/5.3), Qwen (3.6/3.8 series), Tencent Hy3, and MiMo (V2.5/V2.5 Pro). With new models continuously integrated, users can freely toggle across options within a single interface, eliminating the hassle of switching platforms.
To solve the complexity of model selection, B.AI introduced Auto Smart Routing, which automatically pairs user tasks with the optimal model based on task type, complexity, and cost. This drastically lowers the barrier to leveraging multi-model AI. Additionally, a dedicated Leaderboard tracks real-time usage volume and user ratings, enabling new users to quickly identify top-performing models tailored to their needs.
For API integrations, B.AI launched a unified API key interface that enables developers to access every model on the platform with a single key. To accommodate varying user scales, budgets, and operational needs, B.AI API offers dual operating modes:
Official Mode: Connects directly to native provider APIs and offers discounted resource pools with 10% to 40% off across models like GLM-5.2, Grok, Gemini, and GPT, with model coverage expanding continuously.
Custom Provider Mode: Allows users to select model providers based on specific business needs and unlock flexible tiered pricing. Featuring discounts up to 90% off across mainstream models like Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, and GLM, this mode regularly adds new providers and pricing tiers to offer developers even more diverse choices for API integration.
For authentication and payments, B.AI supports dual Web2 and Web3 rails, ensuring frictionless onboarding for users across all ecosystems. On the login side, the platform supports one-click Web2 sign-in via Google accounts alongside multi-chain Web3 wallet access across TRON, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Optimism, Arbitrum, and non-EVM networks like Solana. On the payment side, B.AI bridges traditional fiat and crypto ecosystems: Web2 users can pay via Visa, WeChat Pay, Alipay, and UnionPay, while Web3 users can connect through dozens of major global wallets including TronLink, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, MetaMask, and Trust Wallet. By pairing full wallet compatibility with unified fiat-crypto payments, this hybrid approach delivers a smooth interaction and payment experience worldwide.
To expand its ecosystem, B.AI has partnered with dozens of tech and Web3 leaders, including cloud giants Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, AI unicorn MiniMax, and Web3 innovators like Biconomy, MoonPay, Pundi X Labs, KuCoin Web3 Wallet, Symbiosis, CROSS, and deBridge.
To boost adoption, B.AI launched a limited-time free-access campaign on August 17, offering zero-threshold, unlimited access to six top LLMs: GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha), Qwen3.8-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Tencent Hy3, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5.
Official data shows this promotion drove explosive usage growth. On August 31, B.AI's daily token throughput topped 1.1 trillion, marking a new milestone in 1T+ compute scale. In the campaign's first 14 days, cumulative throughput reached 6.86 trillion, bringing in over 196,000 new API users.

Bank of AI: One-Click On-Chain Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents
Unveiled in February, Bank of AI serves as a financial protocol hub connecting AI and Web3. By equipping AI agents with autonomous execution capabilities, it transforms them from passive chatbots into active, decision-making economic actors.
Designed as an all-in-one toolkit, Bank of AI provides standardized, out-of-the-box financial modules. It integrates foundational standards like the x402 payment protocol and 8004 identity protocol, alongside developer tools such as the MCP Server, Skills plugin framework, and OpenClaw Extension. With simple code snippets or plain natural language prompts, developers and no-code users can equip any AI agent with automated payments, identity verification, and DeFi operations—no smart contract expertise required.
Currently, Bank of AI's MCP Server and Skills framework support TRON, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. Connected agents can fetch real-time data and interface seamlessly with top DeFi protocols—including SUN.io, JustLend DAO, Uniswap, and PancakeSwap—to autonomously handle swaps, lending, yield farming, and cross-chain arbitrage. This grants AI agents true asset management autonomy, laying an extensible financial execution layer for the Web3 AI economy.
AINFT: Trading Hub & Standardized Trust Layer for AI Agents
AINFT plans to provide standardized infrastructure and serve as a financial trading hub for AI agents. For developers, AINFT will launch a dedicated trading benchmark platform to turn investment concepts into audited, quantitative backtesting results, establishing clear performance standards and validation frameworks for AI agent trading strategies.
Specifically, developers can evaluate strategies with zero financial risk using simulated real-market data for core assets like BTC and ETH. The platform provides objective quantitative assessments across key metrics—including returns, risk control (loss limits and maximum drawdown), operational stability, alpha generation, and end-to-end decision logic. This allows top-tier strategies to stand out through market competition, building an industry-recognized capability rating and trust credential system for AI agents.

While AINFT has not officially launched, a preview version is currently live on its website. For further product updates, please follow @AINFT on X.

BTTInferGrid: Decentralized AI Compute Network Reshaping the Economy
Launched by BitTorrent in June, BTTInferGrid is a flagship DePIN decentralized compute network designed for AI inference. Serving as the compute foundation for TRON's AI ecosystem, it connects global idle GPU resources with AI developers to build an open, accessible next-generation compute infrastructure.
Powered by cryptoeconomic incentives and distributed consensus, BTTInferGrid aggregates fragmented, underutilized GPU capacity into a standardized, schedulable resource pool that precisely matches developer inference demands. This approach reshapes the production, distribution, and value flow of compute power, dismantling traditional centralized monopolies.
Currently, BTTInferGrid supports key open-source models—including Qwen3.6 27B, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct, and Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct—which developers can access with one click via B.AI. The platform will soon release standardized APIs for flexible, on-demand compute scheduling, further shortening AI application development cycles.
Longer term, BTTInferGrid aims to become a fully AI-native infrastructure. By 2028 and beyond, it plans to deliver an integrated network combining compute, storage, and smart contracts to power AI agents and automated applications, establishing itself as the go-to decentralized compute network for global open-source AI.


TRON's DeFi + AI Engine: Building Resilience Across Market Cycles
Amid an industry-wide downturn, TRON achieved counter-cyclical growth by solidifying its DeFi foundation while expanding into AI. Its DeFi sector maintains market leadership, while a rapidly maturing AI ecosystem unlocks new growth vectors. Together, these complementary drivers power TRON's long-term competitiveness, setting a proven blueprint for Web3 growth.
TRON has established a mature DeFi ecosystem spanning trading, asset management, and infrastructure. SUN.io provides a full suite of trading services, including SunSwap (DEX), SunPump (meme launchpad), and SUNX (perpetuals). The JUST ecosystem delivers integrated asset solutions via JustLend DAO—covering SBM lending, sTRX liquid staking, and energy rental—alongside the GasFree smart wallet and USDD stablecoin. Supporting the entire network, WINkLink oracle and BitTorrent offer essential data and file transfer capabilities.
Backed by real protocol revenue, ongoing product iteration, and token deflation, this robust DeFi base provides both the revenue and user foundation needed to power TRON's expansion into AI.
In AI, TRON has secured a strong first-mover advantage through rapid product rollouts and practical execution, establishing a full-stack, closed-loop ecosystem. Built around four core products—B.AI, Bank of AI, AINFT, and BTTInferGrid—TRON has structured a three-tiered architecture spanning top-layer model entry, middle-layer agent infrastructure, and bottom-layer compute. Rather than standalone tools, these components operate as a cohesive system: B.AI serves as the portal for user traffic and model services; Bank of AI and AINFT empower AI agents with financial capabilities; and BTTInferGrid provides distributed compute. Working in synergy, these products drive TRON's competitiveness in Web3 AI and lay the groundwork for deep AI-blockchain integration.
At Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026, TRON Founder Justin Sun highlighted TRON as a cornerstone for converging AI and finance. He noted that DeFi, TradFi, and AI are accelerating convergence across shared assets, payment rails, and user bases. In a future financial landscape shaped by institutions, open blockchains, and AI, TRON's infrastructure will play a central role.
Just as TRON's 2019 vision established its global stablecoin leadership and its 2020 push built its DeFi foundation, its systematic deployment of AI now serves as the growth engine for its next era, driving the ecosystem into new technological frontiers.

Gemhead Capital, Archer Capital, M2M Capital and Mayer Venture back the round as MBTC passes 2.4 million wallet decryption attempts
MemeBitcoin (MBTC), the Bitcoin-native project that turns the race to reach Satoshi's wallet into something anyone can join, has raised $8 million in a strategic round backed by Gemhead Capital, Archer Capital, M2M Capital and Mayer Venture.
The round will fund the project's next phase of growth, including a global community campaign, full public launch and preparation for exchange listings.
A deadline crypto has never taken seriously
MBTC is built on one of crypto's oldest unanswered questions. An estimated 1,096,361 BTC sits in Satoshi-era wallets whose public keys have been visible on-chain since 2009. For most of Bitcoin's history that exposure was a theoretical concern. Progress in quantum computing is what has changed the timeline.
MBTC's answer is to make the problem participatory. Through the project's web app, users generate and test candidate private keys against Satoshi's public key, complete missions and share content, with every action logged as a contribution. No tokens are pre-allocated to the team; the entire supply is distributed through participation.
The project describes its goal in two parts: to generate enough public pressure that Satoshi-era coins are moved somewhere safer before quantum hardware matures and, if they are never moved, to get there first using the data and collective effort its community builds along the way.
Key metrics
MBTC reported the following figures as of late August 2026, all reached without paid advertising:
With 18,350 of 23,700 registered users active on a given day, roughly 77% of the user base returns daily — unusual at this stage, when large registration spikes typically fade within days. Most of that growth has come from referrals by existing participants rather than paid acquisition.
"Quantum computing is the problem crypto has spent fifteen years assuming someone else would solve later," said Rodney Uesaka, Co-Founder of MemeBitcoin. "But the public keys in Satoshi-era wallets have been exposed since 2009, and if those keys are ever broken, the industry Bitcoin created is what stands to lose the most."
"You don't need to be an expert to care about this. What has been missing is a way for ordinary people to take part," Uesaka added. "Tens of thousands of people now join this race every day, and the community that has formed around it is MBTC's single biggest asset. This round is about giving them a better place to do it, and pushing the conversation about how we protect Satoshi-era Bitcoin across the industry before it is too late."
Use of proceeds
The capital will go toward MBTC's whitelist early access phase, which opens the full site, forum, wallet connect and PoV (Proof of Viral) activation, followed by a global KOL campaign, full public launch and preparation for spot and futures listings on centralized exchanges.
The team behind MBTC has done this before. Its previous token went from launch to listings on Binance Alpha, Binance Futures, Bybit Futures, Bitget, Kraken, HTX and HashKey, and into the global top 50 by market capitalization.
About the investors
Gemhead Capital
Gemhead Capital has built a reputation for identifying and investing in projects that go on to list on Binance. Its portfolio includes COOKIE (Binance Spot), NILLION (Binance Spot) and PRAI (Binance Futures), as well as Whitebridge, RCADE and AIAV, across more than 70 total investments. That consistent track record of backing projects that reach top-tier exchange listings has made the firm a sought-after partner for early-stage teams.
Archer Capital
Archer Capital has built its reputation on early-stage project selection and strategic investment, focusing on projects with long-term growth potential and industry influence. Its most prominent investment is Ethena, where the firm participated in the early round alongside global top-tier crypto investors including Dragonfly, Binance Labs, Bybit, OKX Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Hashed, GSR, Amber Group and Gemini. Ethena went on to grow rapidly from an early-stage project into one of the industry's leading protocols, with its synthetic dollar product USDe becoming one of the most recognized products in the market and protocol TVL surpassing $4 billion at its peak. Ethena was subsequently listed on both Binance Spot and Coinbase, and entered the top 100 by market capitalization on CoinMarketCap.
Archer Capital was also an early investor in Renzo Protocol. Renzo raised $3.2 million in its seed round, with Archer Capital investing alongside well-known institutions including Maven 11, Figment Capital, SevenX Ventures, OKX Ventures, Mantle, Paper Ventures, Robot Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Protagonist and Re7 Capital, joined by more than 30 individual investors from leading DeFi protocols, node operators, funds and the DeFi veteran community. Renzo has since become one of the core projects in Ethereum's restaking sector, further validating Archer Capital's early-stage judgment.
This history of co-investing with top-tier institutions reflects the reputation Archer Capital has built in the industry, the breadth of its institutional network, and its ability to identify strong projects at an early stage.
M2M Capital is an investment and strategic advisory firm focused on Web3 and AI, aiming to identify potential unicorn projects and support their ecosystem and capital growth. It operates a comprehensive support structure spanning early-stage investment, ecosystem building and strategic advisory. Among the projects it invested in or incubated in 2026, several — including Nexst, 2u2.ai, Swarmbase and Metya — have received OKX listing offers.
Mayer Venture
Mayer Venture focuses on strategic investment in high-potential projects and frequently co-invests with other professional investment firms to support projects at the intersection of AI and Web3. A recent example is its $1 million strategic investment in VitalChain together with M2M Capital. As the firm puts it, "Investment is not only capital — it is access to institutional networks, strategic resources and long-term ecosystem opportunities."
About MemeBitcoin (MBTC)
MemeBitcoin is a Bitcoin-native meme project centered on an open, collective attempt to reach Satoshi's wallet before quantum computing does. MBTC runs on BNB Smart Chain with 8 decimals and a total supply of 210,000,000,000 — exactly 10,000 times Bitcoin's 21 million — released on a 10-minute cadence with a halving every four months. Emission has been live since January 2026, and all tokens are distributed through participation rather than pre-allocation.

On August 24, next-gen AI infrastructure platform B.AI hit a major milestone: cumulative token throughput across its sitewide free-access campaign officially crossed the 2 trillion threshold. The record-breaking run follows a series of aggressive, developer-first plays that have turned heads across the industry.
While rising prices from leading model providers have sparked cost anxiety across the ecosystem, B.AI took an opposite approach. The momentum kicked off on August 17, when B.AI opened up free access to DeepSeek V4 Flash—shattering platform throughput records at 220 billion tokens in a single day. That was followed by sitewide free access to Tencent Hy3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5. The resulting traffic surge didn't just showcase developer demand; it proved B.AI's underlying architecture can comfortably handle massive, concurrent production loads at scale.
Anchored in its strategy as a global compute distribution hub, B.AI is stepping up as an industry disruptor to unleash the full efficiency of underlying infrastructure. It guarantees enterprise-grade availability while driving costs down by up to 90% through its hybrid API model featuring direct official routing for stability alongside budget-optimized custom pipelines. Backed by seamless Web2 and Web3 dual-rail payment integrations and ongoing user rebates, B.AI is building a seamless pipeline for truly accessible AI compute.
B.AI Unveils Super Compute Distribution Hub to Overhaul AI Infrastructure via Tiered APIs and Smart Routing
As compute demands become increasingly specialized, B.AI is cementing its status as the foundational infrastructure for next-gen AI development. To solve the exponential inference costs tied to AI Agent workloads, B.AI is moving beyond basic API aggregation—evolving into a high-throughput distribution hub that dynamically routes compute across global networks.
To back this vision, B.AI introduced a dual-tier API access model, Official and Custom Provider, offering developers flexible compute options that maximize cost efficiency and lower the cost barrier for building the foundation of tomorrow's AGI.
Designed for core production environments and complex inference tasks, B.AI's Official channel features direct API connections, guaranteeing maximum platform availability. Leveraging massive economies of scale, B.AI passes raw volume discounts directly to developers—offering baseline price cuts from 10% up to 40% off market rates. This allows enterprise teams to slash base compute overhead while securing iron-clad operational stability.
For non-critical workflows that prioritize cost control over absolute uptime, B.AI introduces the Custom Provider option. Developers can route traffic directly through vetted third-party vendors—including Mix, Nebula, and OL Station—at live-discounted rates. With seven discount tiers available, rates can plunge as low as 90% off standard pricing. This dual-option approach gives users total routing granularity, slashing total compute spend to the absolute floor.
Beyond rock-solid, developer-facing API infrastructure, B.AI streamlines everyday frontend user workflows with its native Auto mode embedded in the Chat interface. Tailored for natural language chat, text analytics, and daily business tasks, the system analyzes user intent per prompt and dynamically routes queries to the optimal underlying model in real time. This eliminates wasted capacity while making enterprise-grade AI models easier to use for non-technical users.
Crossing the 2-Trillion Token Milestone in 7 Days: How B.AI Is Democratizing Compute Through Radical Subsidies
B.AI has never wavered from its core thesis: building the definitive hub for accessible, high-performance compute. By consistently rolling out zero-cost campaigns for flagship foundational models and aggressively discounting API pipelines, B.AI delivers real, bottom-line savings to lower the barrier for enterprise AI deployment—earning widespread adoption and market validation along the way.
When DeepSeek recently announced price hikes, B.AI tapped its deep resource aggregation and ecosystem liquidity to make a bold market response. On August 17, B.AI made DeepSeek V4 Flash completely free for a limited time period, opening up both Web and API access so enterprises could run production-grade AI workloads with zero overhead.
This contrarian move sent shockwaves through the market. Within 24 hours of launch, B.AI's core performance metrics shattered all-time highs across the board, with daily token volume surging past the 220-billion mark.
The momentum didn't stop there. On August 21, Tencent's highly anticipated Hy3 model went live on B.AI—fully free and open to all users. The very next day, on August 22, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp followed suit, bringing cutting-edge visual reasoning into the zero-cost tier to further lower the compute cost for enterprise multimodal pipelines.
As access expanded, developer demand exploded. On August 24, B.AI hit a major milestone: cumulative token throughput across its sitewide free-access campaign officially crossed the 2 trillion threshold. Beyond setting new records for developer traction, these raw numbers deliver concrete proof of B.AI's resilience, scalability, and dynamic load-balancing power under sustained, ultra-high concurrency, which is engineered into its core infrastructure.
In fact, B.AI has consistently operated at an aggressive, high-frequency pace of delivering value back to the community. Prior to this, the platform continually shared value with the market through major initiatives like limited-time free access to MiniMax M3 and Qwen-3.8 MAX, the exclusive 10% discount on GLM 5.3, and generous top-up bonuses. But this is just the beginning. Moving forward, B.AI will continue to scale its ecosystem perks, rolling out multi-tiered free access events and deep-discount campaigns. Working side by side with developers, B.AI remains committed to driving down AI deployment costs with a steady stream of subsidized compute.
This expanded commitment goes beyond standalone model promotions—it runs straight through core daily API operations. Recently, B.AI's official API services underwent a major upgrade, expanding steep price discounts across mainstream foundation models. While guaranteeing direct-from-source stability, B.AI delivers significantly more cost-efficient compute configurations for enterprises and builders alike.
To serve a global, diverse developer ecosystem, B.AI has fully unified Web2 and Web3 payment rails, breaking down financial barriers worldwide. The platform integrates traditional fiat channels like Visa, WeChat Pay, Alipay, and UnionPay alongside high-efficiency crypto settlement networks—enabling builders worldwide to secure the compute resources they need with minimal transaction friction.
In an era where tokens are currency, B.AI is dedicated to serving as the foundational compute layer for AI innovators, continuously strengthening its super-compute hub to power thousands of industries. Here, accessible compute is no longer just a narrative—it is tangible infrastructure driving productivity and intelligent transformation for enterprises worldwide.