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EBC12 brings together speakers from J.P. Morgan, the Financial Conduct Authority, Invesco, Coinbase, Fidelity International, and more than 300 leaders from the banks, regulators, and asset managers shaping Europe's digital asset market.
Barcelona, Spain, July, 2026 — Eleven weeks after the European Union's MiCA deadline, the 12th edition of the European Blockchain Convention (EBC12) returns to Barcelona at a pivotal moment for the industry. It is the region's first major institutional gathering since the world's first comprehensive cross-border digital asset regulation became fully law, and the event where European deal flow happens.
MiCA is now fully in force. For European markets, the focus shifts to what comes next: CASP licensing, stablecoin issuance, and the role of CBDCs in cross-border settlement. EBC12 is where that conversation takes place.
Rather than chasing mandates city by city across London, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, and Barcelona, EBC12 compresses the European digital asset market into a single two-day commercial arena. It takes place on 16–17 September 2026 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya.
Europe has set the pace for compliant digital asset markets, giving the industry a clearer framework for how crypto can scale within regulation rather than around it. The institutional signal is unmistakable: Deutsche Börse has invested $200 million in Kraken; Santander’s digital bank, Openbank, has expanded its crypto trading for customers across Germany and Spain. Both will be among the institutions discussing what comes next in Barcelona this September.
EBC expects 80 of Europe's top 100 banks in Barcelona this September, up from 50 last year. The debate about whether institutions will enter digital assets is over. EBC12 is where they come to work out what comes next.
"Eight years ago, we built EBC because we believed Europe would be where this industry matured. A lot of people thought we were early. In 2026, European banks are deploying capital, institutional products are live across major markets, and the regulatory framework is in place. EBC is where the people driving that change meet once a year to do real business," said Victoria Gago, Co-CEO of European Blockchain Convention and Digital Assets Forum.
Sessions cover institutional capital allocation, real-world asset tokenisation, regulatory market structure, and the future of stablecoins and CBDCs as global settlement infrastructure.
Confirmed speakers include Emma Landriault, Head of Kinexys Labs at J.P. Morgan; Mohamad Zaraket, Head of Digital Assets Strategy EMEA at BNY; Kathleen Wrynn, Global Head of DA, Invesco; Victor Jung, Vice President, Digital Assets & Currencies, Hamilton Lane; Previn Singh from Fidelity and Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at the Financial Conduct Authority, among more than 300 speakers from across banking, asset management, infrastructure, and policy.
Alongside the main programme, EBC12 features 10,000 pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, a Buy Side Breakfast for allocators and institutional investors, and a dedicated press room with direct access to speakers.
EBC12 expects over 5,000 attendees from 90+ countries for two days of market intelligence, strategic networking, and commercial momentum at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, a new premium venue reflecting the event's institutional evolution.
Notes to Editors
Event: European Blockchain Convention 12 (EBC12)
Dates: 16–17 September 2026
Venue: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
About European Blockchain Convention:
Founded in 2018, the European Blockchain Convention has grown into a key driver of European deal flow in digital assets, bringing together banks, asset managers, regulators, infrastructure providers, and builders annually. Alongside EBC, the Digital Assets Forum series extends this reach across London, Abu Dhabi, and New York throughout the year.

Coinfest Asia, The World’s Crypto Festival organized by Indonesia Crypto Network (ICN), will return to Melasti Beach, Bali, Indonesia, on 20–21 August 2026, bringing together institutions, builders, traders, founders, investors, developers, and global Web3 communities in one of Asia’s most dynamic crypto gatherings.
This year, Coinfest Asia will feature dedicated programs for different parts of the crypto ecosystem, helping attendees access relevant insights, networking opportunities, product showcases, and business connections across Asia’s fast-growing crypto and Web3 markets.
What Attendees Can Do at Coinfest Asia
The 2026 edition departs from traditional conference formats by organizing content into three intent-based tracks. This structure is intended to align attendees with specific functional areas of the industry:
Institutional Track
Focused on digital asset adoption, stablecoin integration, and tokenization. Programs include Stablecoins Readiness Workshop, Asia Go-To-Market Sessions, Closed-Door Stablecoins & Tokenization Roundtable, panel discussions, and keynote sessions.Builders Track
Geared toward developers and startups across AI, blockchain, and digital infrastructure. Programs include Gemini AI Masterclass, “What the Hack!” Web3 Developer Course, AI Vibe Code Competition, Asia Go-To-Market Sessions, and sessions focused on product development and ecosystem growth.Traders Track
Created for active traders and market participants looking to understand market narratives, sharpen trading strategies, and connect with trading communities. Programs include Trading Competition by TRIV, Alpha Hunting Masterclass, Yapper Masterclass, Bitcoin Crash Course, Live Degen Experience, trading-focused panels, and keynote sessions.
Through these tracks, Coinfest Asia aims to make the festival easier to navigate while keeping the experience open and connected across the wider crypto industry.
Opening Access to Asia’s Web3 Markets
A core objective of the 2026 event is providing localized insight into Asian markets. The event introduces "Asia Go-To-Market Sessions," which provide briefings on regulatory environments, user behaviors, and growth channels in specific jurisdictions.
These sessions are organized in collaboration with regional ecosystem partners:
Japan GTM Session with WebX 2026Malaysia GTM Session with MYBW 2026Vietnam GTM Session with ConvictionIndonesia GTM Session with Indonesia Crypto NetworkTaiwan GTM Session with FutureModeIndia GTM Session with India Blockchain Week 2026
Through these sessions, attendees can better understand local user behavior, regulatory direction, community dynamics, partnership opportunities, and distribution strategies across Asia.
“Asia is not one single market. Each country has its own users, regulations, culture, and growth channels,” said Joditha Winatajaya, Head of Event at Coinfest Asia. “Through Asia Go-To-Market Sessions, we want to connect the audiences with the right local ecosystems, all in one place.”
A Foundation Built on Industry Leadership
Coinfest Asia 2026 will feature speakers from across blockchain infrastructure, exchanges, wallets, stablecoins, payments, data, AI, institutional finance, venture capital, to Web3 communities.
Confirmed speakers include Charles Hoskinson (Founder, Input Output Group), Felix Fan (CEO, Trust Wallet), Alexander Svanevik (CEO, Nansen), Nick See Tong (APAC & Singapore Lead, Base), Iñaki Moreno (Strategic Partnerships Lead, Web3 & AI, Google), William Sutanto (CEO, INDODAX), Ploy Boonyavee (Thailand/Indochina Country Manager, Tether), Gabriel Rey (CEO, TRIV Group), Calvin Kizana (CEO, Tokocrypto), Angela Ang (APAC Managing Director and Singapore President, BitGo), Tianwei Liu (CEO, StraitsX), Thomas Chou (Head of APAC, Canton Foundation), Akshat Vaidya (Co-Founder, Maelstrom) and more.
The event is also supported by leading companies across crypto, fintech, infrastructure, and digital assets, including Binance, Tokocrypto, Indodax, Triv, Duitku, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, BYDFi, Zoomex, FundedXyz, WalletConnect, GOIDR, GudangKripto, and more partners to be announced.
Since its launch, Coinfest Asia has grown into one of the world’s leading crypto gatherings, bringing together global companies, local ecosystems, builders, traders, institutions, and communities in Bali.
The 2026 edition builds on that momentum by combining industry programming with a festival environment designed for more fluid interaction. Beyond the main stages, Coinfest Asia will feature expo areas, curated business matching, networking activations, product showcases, community gatherings, and side events across the festival experience.
Tickets for Coinfest Asia 2026 are now available. Companies looking to expand into Asian crypto markets can also explore partnership and marketing opportunities through the official event channels.
About Coinfest Asia
Coinfest Asia is the world’s largest crypto festival, organized by Coinvestasi, a subsidiary of Indonesia Crypto Network (ICN). Held annually in Bali, Indonesia, the event brings together institutions, builders, and traders to connect, collaborate, and drive the future of digital assets in Asia and beyond.

From Hong Kong to Europe: OSL Clears MiCAR in Austria, Joining the Minority of Platforms to Meet Europe's Stringent Crypto Rulebook
OSL Group, one of the first digital asset platforms licensed in Hong Kong and listed on the HKEX, today announced a major regulatory milestone for its European subsidiary has secured MiCAR authorization from the Austrian FMA. Fewer than one in five previously registered firms successfully transitioned to full authorization. OSL Group now operates under the wider ecosystem across two highly comprehensive regulatory frameworks.
OSL Group (HKEX: 863), a global stablecoin payment and trading platform, today announced that its European subsidiary, OSL EU, has been authorized as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). This authorization grants OSL Group the ability to passport its suite of regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 countries of the European Economic Area, positioning OSL Group one of a very small and elite tier of firms authorized under both Hong Kong's and Europe's licensing regimes.
This milestone lands at the moment MiCAR separates the fully licensed firms from the rest. Of more than 1,200 crypto firms that held national registrations across the EU, only about 210, roughly 17%, converted to full CASP authorization by the regime's 1 July 2026 deadline. The rest have exited or lost the legal right to serve EU clients, and several of the industry's largest names are not among those authorized. Narrowed to trading platforms, the field is smaller still.
“MiCAR is the most demanding test the global crypto industry has faced, and the results are now on the record: fewer than one in five previously registered firms successfully transitioned to full CASP authorization, and some of the largest names in the industry are not on the list,” said Chagri Poyraz, Chief Strategy Officer of OSL Group. “Clearing it is not a marketing line. It is evidence that a firm's governance, controls and compliance actually hold up under a regulator's scrutiny, rather than a promise that they would. That is the standard we have built OSL Group around from our Hong Kong base outward, and it is why institutions can read this authorization as a signal, not a slogan.”
Global Compliance Footprint: From Hong Kong to Europe
OSL Group's starting point is one of the most tightly regulated crypto markets in the world. The group parent company OSL Group Limited is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and it’s subsidiary OSL Digital Securities Limited was among the first virtual-asset platforms licensed by Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), a regime known for setting a high bar on custody, investor protection and market conduct. Securing MiCAR authorization in Austria extends that same licensed model into Europe and places OSL Group in the rare position of operating under two of the most stringent digital-asset frameworks in existence, one in Asia and one in the EU. For institutions choosing a partner for the long term, that dual standing is the differentiator.
“Europe set the global benchmark for digital-asset regulation, and most of the market did not make it through,” said Kevin Cui, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of OSL Group. “Building on our Hong Kong foundation, our recent Australian licence, and our authorizations across Asia and the Americas, this is what long-term, institution-grade infrastructure looks like. As the industry consolidates around the platforms that did the work properly, we intend to be one of the names that lasting trust is built on.”
Unlocking the EEA: One authorization, Thirty markets
Under the FMA authorization, OSL EU is empowered to serve institutional and eligible clients across the European Economic Area (EEA) with custody and administration of crypto-assets, spot trading, on and off-ramp and conversion services, and the transfer of crypto-assets. Because MiCAR replaces 27 separate national regimes with one harmonized framework, a single authorization passports across the entire bloc. In practice, this strengthens OSL Group's ability to open European banking relationships, access local payment rails, and win enterprise counterparties who will only work with fully regulated entities.
The European authorization extends one of the broadest multi-jurisdictional footprints in the sector. OSL Group operates under regulated frameworks across Asia, Australia, the United States, Canada and, now, Europe, and the group holds or is pursuing more than 50 trading and payment licences worldwide. The FMA authorization complements the MiCAR licence already held in the Netherlands by EU Internet Ventures B.V, another OSL Group subsidiary, providing the Group with enhanced operational resilience and a robust regulatory foundation across Europe.
“Securing MiCAR authorization from the Austrian FMA is not a formality. It requires genuine institutional-grade governance, compliance infrastructure and operational controls,” said Marie Winter, Managing Director of OSL EU. “This authorization confirms that our framework meets
the standard EU regulators set, and it lets OSL Group operate consistently and predictably across the European market from day one.”
The Flight to Quality: Leading the Post-Transition European Market
MiCAR is the first fully harmonized crypto framework of its kind, and the 1 July 2026 transition has made it a hard line rather than an aspiration. Regulators have confirmed there is no interim status and no extension. The market that emerges will be more concentrated, more institutional, and anchored by the select number of platforms that hold a licence. This authorization is a deliberate position on the licensed side of that line, consistent with the OSL Group's mission of building compliant infrastructure for stablecoin trading, institutional payments and cross-border value movement, from Hong Kong to Europe and beyond.
Remark:
The legal name of OSL EU is currently still CIGE vierte PGG GmbH. The company is expected to be renamed OSL EU GmbH in the near future, and the corresponding name change process is currently underway.
About OSL Group
OSL Group (HKEX: 863) is a global stablecoin payment and trading platform that strives to provide compliant and efficient digital financial infrastructure services globally, empowering enterprises, financial institutions and individuals to seamlessly exchange, pay, trade, and settle between fiat and digital currencies. Grounded in the core values of Open, Secure, and Licensed, it is committed to building a more efficient ecosystem that connects global markets and enables instant, seamless and compliant value movement worldwide. For media inquiries, please contact: media@osl.com
About OSL EU
OSL EU (legal entity: CIGE Vierte PGG GmbH) is the European subsidiary of OSL Group (HKEX: 863), authorized under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). Under the newly granted authorization, OSL EU will provide custody and administration, spot trading, on/off-ramp and conversion services, and the transfer of crypto-assets to institutional and retail clients across all 30 EEA countries.
Disclaimer
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute, and shall not be construed as, an offer, solicitation, invitation, recommendation, or inducement to buy, sell, subscribe for, or otherwise deal in any digital assets, securities, or financial products. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice and should not be relied upon as such. The views, statements, and information contained herein do not necessarily reflect the official positions or commitments of OSL Group or any of its affiliates.
Any descriptions of future products, services, or operational capabilities are for general reference only. The rollout, provision, and participation in any related products or services are subject to operational readiness, applicable terms and conditions, and ongoing compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
This article may contain forward-looking statements or indicative information. Actual outcomes, operational timelines, and service availability may differ materially from those projected, and OSL Group assumes no obligation to revise or update such forward-looking information.

As a wearable, lifestyle-first hardware signing brand, UKey reimagines crypto backup and recovery with a battery-free NFC ring.
Ukey Limited, a self-custody hardware brand for crypto users, today revealed the Seed Ring, the most distinctive product in its Seed backup line: an NFC recovery ring you can wear every day.
Unlike hardware wallets built to be locked away in a drawer, UKey set out to do something different from day one - to make hardware signing and self-custody something you can wear and fold into daily life. The Seed Ring is the first expression of that idea. It will debut alongside UKey's first product lineup, with availability details to be announced soon.
Why a ring
In self-custody, what usually decides whether your assets stay safe isn't how you sign - it's how you store your seed phrase. Photos, screenshots, and scraps of paper that get lost or damaged remain one of the leading reasons individual users lose or get robbed of their funds. Most hardware wallets pour their effort into signing security and leave the question of how to back up safely to the user and a piece of paper.
The Seed Ring can be worn every day like an ordinary ring - just tap it to your phone to pair and use.
UKey's approach is to split the two apart: signing goes to a dedicated signing device, and backup goes to the dedicated Seed series. The Seed Ring turns your recovery credential from a slip of paper forgotten in a drawer into something worn on your hand - ready with a single tap when you need it.
Three things that define the Seed Ring
Battery-free, no connectivity, nothing running in the background. The ring has no battery; it only draws power passively when held near an NFC-capable phone, and stops responding the moment it's moved away. There are no background processes and no remote connection.Ceramic, built for daily wear. A high-strength ceramic surface resists scratches and everyday wear while never blocking NFC - so you can wear it every day like an ordinary ring, instead of hiding it in a safe.
A high-strength ceramic surface resists scratches and everyday wear - wear it as a ring, or on a chain.
Never stores the seed phrase in plaintext. The ring holds only the index, order, and checksum data needed for recovery - it does not store the full seed phrase in plaintext. Even if the ring falls into someone else's hands, the complete seed phrase can't be read off it.
More of the Seed series is on the way
The Seed Ring is the first product in the Seed series, not the whole story. Two more backup companions are lined up behind it: the Seed Card, a credit-card-sized backup that slips into a wallet or card holder, and the Seed Ti, a titanium backup built to survive fire and water. Different forms, same idea - your recovery credential should fit the way you actually live, and none of them stores your seed phrase in plaintext. Further details on the Seed Card and Seed Ti will follow through UKey official channels in the coming weeks.
UKey's philosophy
The way UKey sees it, something you wear on your hand should be safer than a note in a drawer. The industry has spent years perfecting the signing step, but most people who lose their coins lose them over how they stored their seed phrase. What UKey wants to build is backup and signing that are no longer cold, utilitarian tools - but things you can wear and live with.
About UKey and the Seed Ring
UKey is a self-custody hardware brand for digital-asset users, built on the idea of making hardware signing wearable and lifestyle-first - bringing secure signing of private keys, and low-exposure backup and recovery of seed phrases, into users' everyday lives. The Seed Ring is the first product in UKey's Seed backup line. Details on the Seed series and UKey's full lineup will be announced soon.

Hong Kong, July 8, 2026 — AxBlade, the accountability layer for autonomous AI, co-hosted the exclusive side event "From Agentic AI to Physical AI: What Gets Funded After the Model Wave?" alongside AWS Summit Hong Kong Week. Held at the Hopewell Hotel, the invitation-only gathering brought together 100+ founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and investors from AWS, NVIDIA, Y Combinator, Crypto.com, Roche, Pfizer, SNZ, and City University of Hong Kong to examine the critical infrastructure gap between AI demos and real-world deployment.
From Models to Accountability: The Consensus
The event opened with a keynote by Nick Hau, Founder of AxBlade, who argued that the next wave of AI funding will not go to larger language models, but to the infrastructure that makes autonomous AI accountable in physical environments. This was followed by a keynote from Ian Holtz, Head of Agentic AI at AWS, on the enterprise requirements for deploying agentic systems at scale.
Across three panels, a clear consensus emerged: without verifiable identity, trusted execution, and cryptographically provable behavior records, Physical AI cannot move from laboratory to production.
Panel 1 — "What Gets Funded After the Model Wave?" explored investor appetite for infrastructure over models, with participants noting that capital is increasingly flowing toward compliance-native stacks and real-world deployment tooling.Panel 2 — "AI Goes Real World" addressed the liability, safety, and governance challenges when AI agents interact with physical systems — from robotic process automation to autonomous diagnostics.Panel 3 — "From Demo to Production" closed the session with a technical deep dive on the missing middleware between proof-of-concept and enterprise adoption, emphasizing auditability as a prerequisite for regulated industries.
Curated Networking and Institutional Access
The afternoon transitioned into a Curated Networking & Demo Matching session, connecting AI infrastructure builders with enterprise operators and institutional investors. The evening concluded with a Private Dinner Reception, fostering closed-door discussions on partnership opportunities across AI, healthcare, Web3, and cloud infrastructure.
Why AxBlade
As the only blockchain-native infrastructure layer represented at the summit, AxBlade demonstrated how its compliance-native Layer 2 public blockchain — combining native AI identity (DID), Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), and Zero-Knowledge Proof of Behavior (PoB) — directly addresses the accountability gap identified by every panel.
"We are not building AI models. We are building the trust infrastructure that makes them auditable," said Nick Hau. "Events like this prove that the industry is ready to move from 'what AI can do' to 'who is accountable when it does it.'"
Participating Institutions
The event featured representatives from AWS, NVIDIA, Y Combinator, Crypto.com, Roche, Pfizer, SNZ, City University of Hong Kong, BitRock Capital, Gaorong Capital, HongShan, Beyond Ventures, CTFS, Foresee, Savior of Health, ETHHub, PRIMIT, OpenBuild, INFINI, Publish0x, UpHonest Scouts, YOOV, and other leading organizations across AI, healthcare, and Web3.
Media coverage was supported by Techub News, Monster Block, BlockBeats, Foresight News, TinTin, ChainCatcher, TechFlow, CoinMarketCap, FINBOLD, and additional partners.
About AxBlade
AxBlade is the accountability layer for AI Agents, World Models, and Physical AI. As a compliance-native Layer 2 public blockchain, AxBlade enables verifiable identity, trusted execution, and accountable decision-making by combining blockchain, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZK), and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). Every real-world AI action is captured, structured, and anchored on-chain — making autonomous systems auditable, traceable, and compliant at scale.

LEDE: Partnering with Felix Gill, James Duckworth, and Roman Safiullin, Zoomex reinforces its brand positioning as the "Elite Access Platform" for global sports.
Zoomex, the global digital asset trading platform, is continuing to connect users with elite global sports, pivotal tournament moments, and high-pressure decision-making scenarios under its core brand direction: "Elite Access Platform."
During the Wimbledon 2026 tournament window, Zoomex marked a significant milestone in the elite tennis arena through partnerships with three professional tennis players: Felix Gill, James Duckworth, and Roman Safiullin. This initiative not only extends Zoomex’s global sports footprint but also represents the platform's strategic evolution from transactional environments into premium global sporting and cultural landscapes.
As one of the most iconic fixtures in global sports culture, Wimbledon 2026 provided Zoomex with an ideal window to bridge elite sporting environments with global user sentiment. For Zoomex, elite sports transcend mere brand exposure; they embody focus, discipline, speed, judgment, and execution. These traits align seamlessly with the brand spirit Zoomex aims to deliver: maintaining clarity of judgment in fast-paced environments, identifying critical moments, and executing decisions with precise action.
Through this collaboration, Zoomex brings its core "Elite Access Platform" narrative into authentic sporting arenas. Representing distinct competitive backgrounds and playing styles, Gill, Duckworth, and Safiullin collectively showcase the high-pressure performance, on-court judgment, and relentless execution that extend Zoomex’s brand story from online trading experiences to a world-class sporting stage.
Each player brought a unique narrative to the tournament. British player Felix Gill made his debut in the opening round; James Duckworth battled Flavio Cobolli in a fierce second-round clash; and Roman Safiullin advanced to the Men's Singles Round of 16, setting up a high-profile showdown against Novak Djokovic. According to Reuters reports, Djokovic secured his 106th career Wimbledon victory after defeating Safiullin—a high-stakes duel that perfectly captured the convergence of intense pressure, anticipation, and execution on the grass courts.
The Head of Brand at Zoomex stated:
"What Zoomex is building is not just a trading platform, but a gateway that connects global users with elite sports, elite culture, and pivotal moments. Every single point on a tennis court demands judgment, anticipation, precision, and execution—values that resonate deeply with the core philosophy of Zoomex. By sponsoring these three exceptional athletes, Zoomex brings the brand into real-world elite sporting arenas, allowing our users to intuitively grasp the vision behind the Elite Access Platform."
To coincide with the tournament, Zoomex has simultaneously launched its tennis Predict Market. Users can participate in match predictions via the Zoomex Predict Market, anticipating match trajectories and critical moments ahead of time. By merging tournament engagement with interactive predictions, Zoomex aims to transform users from passive spectators into active participants in the high-pressure decision-making environments of elite sports.
This is the essence of the Elite Access Platform: giving users a gateway into the world of elite sports, bringing them closer to pinnacle tournament moments, and engaging them through predictions, interactions, and community discussions. For Zoomex, sports serve as more than a backdrop for logo placement; they are a vital conduit linking user emotions, global culture, and a high-pressure decision-making mindset.
From tennis courts to the Predict Market, Zoomex is exploring innovative ways to merge digital asset platforms with world-class sporting arenas. Moving forward, Zoomex will continue to leverage the "Elite Access Platform" as its guiding brand direction, connecting global users with more elite tournaments, elite athletes, interactive prediction experiences, and high-pressure decision-making moments.
Zoomex—Your Gateway to the World of Elite Sports.
About Zoomex
Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform with over 3 million users across more than 35 countries and regions, offering 600+ trading pairs. Guided by its core values of “Simple × User-Friendly × Fast,” Zoomex is also committed to the principles of fairness, integrity, and transparency, delivering a high-performance, low-barrier, and trustworthy trading experience.
Powered by a high-performance matching engine and transparent asset and order displays, Zoomex ensures consistent trade execution and fully traceable results. This approach reduces information asymmetry and allows users to clearly understand their asset status and every trading outcome. While prioritizing speed and efficiency, the platform continues to optimize product structure and overall user experience with robust risk management in place.
As an official partner of the Haas F1 Team, Zoomex brings the same focus on speed, precision, and reliable rule execution from the racetrack to trading. In addition, Zoomex has established a global exclusive brand ambassador partnership with world-class goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez. His professionalism, discipline, and consistency further reinforce Zoomex’s commitment to fair trading and long-term user trust.
In terms of security and compliance, Zoomex holds regulatory licenses including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has successfully passed security audits conducted by blockchain security firm Hacken. Operating within a compliant framework while offering flexible identity verification options and an open trading system, Zoomex is building a trading environment that is simpler, more transparent, more secure, and more accessible for users worldwide.

David James said the real pressure on a goalkeeper is not the barrage of shots, it is the silence between them.
Across a career spanning Liverpool, Manchester City, Portsmouth, and 53 England caps, James's principle stayed consistent: preparation decides the outcome before the moment arrives.The trading panel found the same architecture on the other side of the analogy, instinct is only as good as the information that built it.
Zoomex hosted the third episode of its World Cup Edition X Space as part of the Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge, bringing together England goalkeeper David James and a panel of traders: Crypto Kid, Farouk Bashar, and Theo Mercier. Fernando Aranda hosted the session, which covered the knockout round, penalty psychology, goalkeeping philosophy, and England's legitimate chances of winning the whole thing, a position James held without qualification and with obvious enjoyment.
The session continued the five-part charity initiative running across the series. Zoomex is committing 1,000 USDT per episode to a charity of each football guest's choosing, rising by an additional 5,000 USDT if the prediction proves correct. James picked England to win the World Cup and nominated the UEFA Foundation as his charity of choice.
Last Defence. Last Line. Last Save.
The episode opened with a question every keeper answers differently, how do you describe the pressure of facing an unrelenting barrage of shots when your team is being outplayed?
James reframed the premise. "I think the pressure is when you don't have so much to do. When your team's attacking and they're not scoring and it goes down the other end and you've got to make the big save. That's when the concentration has got to be there."
He carried that logic across a career that spanned Liverpool, Manchester City, Portsmouth, and 53 caps for England. The goalkeeper who is in the zone does not fear the next shot. He invites it. The trader who has done the homework does not fear the next candle. The preparation has already decided what happens next.
With the Congo goalkeeper the previous night, the opposite had been true. England were creating chances. The keeper was alert because the game required him to be. "If you're in the zone, then just keep shooting, keep shooting, because I'm going to be there." He was facing volume, but volume keeps a goalkeeper sharp. The danger is the long silence between saves.
The read on the England versus Congo game itself was direct. England won, which was the most important thing, but the Congo goalkeeper was exceptional for sixty or seventy minutes. He had to be, James said, because England were creating the chances that required exceptional saves. When Harry Kane's header went in, and shortly after a thunderbolt from range made it two, the game was decided. "There was a belief that there was going to be a second. And that's where, the best goalkeepers in the world, they accept that goals go in, but don't worry about the scoreline. They just say, OK, that shot beat me. Next shot, I will save. There's no nerves."
He was immediately thinking about the next fixture: Mexico at the Azteca. "Other than the final, it doesn't get much better than that." He meant it as a compliment to the occasion, not a warning about the difficulty.
Penalties Are About Preparation. Until They Are About Instinct.
The panel spent substantial time on penalties, partly because the tournament had already produced defining moments in shootouts, and partly because the psychology maps almost exactly onto what traders describe as system versus gut reaction.
James described the two modes a goalkeeper can operate in during a shootout. The first is pure preparation: the water bottle, the information, the tendencies logged from five or ten previous penalties by the same player, foot placement, the angle of the run-up, which way the non-kicking arm drops, whether there is a stutter in the approach. All of that gets processed and the goalkeeper explodes at the last possible moment.
The second mode is instinct, and instinct, he said, can be wrong. "When I thought I was the best goalie in the world and no one was going to beat me and I dived the wrong way, it was all instinct and sometimes your instincts are wrong. The more information you have, arguably, the better your instincts get."
Crypto Kid connected it immediately. "That phrase is very applicable to trading as well. Like the more information that you have in front of you, the more data that you can analyse, the better your instinct and ability to predict market movements get."
Farouk had asked whether the goalkeeper's rituals and routines in a shootout are natural or practiced. James was clear. "My practice would be imagining the penalty shoot-out, imagining the crowd, even to the point where, if you're playing in the Azteca, then you're imagining being at one end or the other and what this is going to be like. And then you imagine yourself, how do you stand in that goal?" Jordan Pickford's approach has evolved over years from shouting and making faces to something more controlled. Whatever the method, James was confident it was rehearsed, not spontaneous.
On Bono specifically, who had already made a reputation in this tournament for his penalty-saving presence, James was thoughtful. He had watched Bono in the last World Cup doing a particular movement with his feet: stepping one way, going the other. In subsequent shootouts, Bono was doing something slightly different. "Now I'm thinking he's doing something different because he knows everyone's seen what he does. So the next penalty shootout in Morocco, the striker will be saying, "I think I know what you're doing, but are you going to do something?" The reputation itself becomes a variable. By the time the striker has processed what Bono is likely to do, Bono has already changed it.
You Cannot Learn to Jump Higher. You Can Learn to Prepare Better.
Theo asked whether James had ever made a save and known in real time that it was a highlight moment. The answer was yes, occasionally, but less often than people might assume, and for a reason worth sitting with.
"It's very rare, especially with an experienced goalkeeper to be able to do something that you haven't done before. You're not going to be able to jump any higher than you have before. You're not going to be able to spring. There might be some technical points where you've had to move into the position, react." The deflection save the Congo goalkeeper made the night before was one of those moments where instinct and body memory combine into something that looks miraculous from outside but feels like execution from inside. "You look at it and go, OK, I've trained really hard to be able to make that save. I'm just so glad I made that save today. Rather than when you're young and don't know anything and you go, I'm fantastic, because I've never experienced it before."
The same principle applies to mistakes. James described how the relationship with error has changed across his career and across the sport. Twenty or thirty years ago, if you made a mistake, you might never see it properly again. It lived in the mind as an impression. Now, by the hydration break, someone can show you exactly what happened, at what angle, at what moment the decision went wrong. "A lot of it is, what happened there didn't make sense. OK, now I know what happened, and you deal with it rather than thinking that it was something that it wasn't."
The practical outcome: errors become data rather than ghosts. Farouk brought up Uruguay and Bielsa's decision to substitute the goalkeeper at half-time. James had direct experience on the other side of that equation. As a manager, he once brought a player off after twenty minutes. "I knew that the game wasn't going to get any better for the player. So I had to make changes. Fortunately, we ended up winning the game, but I had the conversation and explained why I did what I did." The substitution is not the hard part. The communication is. If the reasoning reaches the player, they move forward. If it does not, the confusion becomes a problem that outlasts the match.
France Has Eight Players Over 35 Kilometres Per Hour.
The question of which teams present the most difficult problems for a goalkeeper led James into statistics in the way he clearly enjoys them. He had been tracking top-speed data across the tournament.
"If you look at players whose top speed in the World Cup is over 35 kilometres an hour, we have four. France have eight." He let the number land. The point was not just the count, but the distribution. "It's not just one or two players in similar positions. France is all over the place. They've got defenders, they've got wingers, they've got forwards." Whoever faces France in the knockout rounds is not defending against a fast team. They are defending against a team where the fast player could come from anywhere on the pitch at any moment.
His read on Mexico and Spain was built around a different kind of pressure: both teams had not yet conceded in the tournament. That sounds like strength. James described it as a form of fragility. "When you haven't conceded, you can think that we are unbeatable. But you can also fear that at some point you will get beaten, and it's how you respond to conceding that first goal." Every other team in the competition had already made the adjustment. They knew what it felt like to give one up and keep going. Mexico and Spain were still waiting for that moment, and it was coming.
The Cape Verde goalkeeper was the standout individual performance in the tournament so far. Forty years old. Three draws. The performance against Spain in the first game, James said, was the reason Cape Verde were still in the competition. "If it wasn't for that performance against Spain in the first game, they're going home. They're going home without that performance. And now they have an opportunity to do something."
He was waiting for the round of sixteen to identify the tournament's best goalkeeper with more confidence. The group stage had been one-sided in too many matches to draw firm conclusions. The round of thirty-two had continued that trend. When the games tighten, distribution becomes the margin. "All the goalkeepers will be at the top level for the distribution, and the slight nuance in the quality of distribution will be the difference."
Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba. Two of the Loveliest Guys You Will Ever Meet.
Fernando asked who made him most nervous across a career: the striker or midfielder who made him want to avoid the fixture.
"I was never nervous. I was just always disappointed."
Then the answer: Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba. "Whenever it didn't matter how good I felt. When I left the pitch, they'd won the game and usually one of them had scored." The frustration was not about fear. It was about the gap between preparation and outcome. He could feel ready. He could feel certain. And by the final whistle, one of them had still scored.
The more difficult detail: "Fernando, they are two of the loveliest guys you're ever going to meet, which is even worse, because you want them to be horrible."
He was clearer on goalkeeping evolution when Farouk raised the question. The rule changes have done more to alter the position than any tactical development. When goal kicks moved from the box to open play, every goalkeeper had to develop a passing range that the position had never previously required. Distribution became structural rather than optional. "When it comes to the actual physical side of goalkeeping, I've not seen any real evolution at all." The jumps are the same. The dives are the same. What has changed is the demand placed on the goalkeeper's feet and decision-making inside the build-up. He is pursuing his coaching badges partly to investigate whether the physical side of the position has scope for genuine development that the sport has not yet found.
Outfield, something has clearly happened. Players like Barcola and Dembélé are doing things at pace and in tight spaces that the best players in the world were not doing ten years ago. Whether the goalkeeping position has evolved to match the players now running at it from eight different directions is a question James does not think has been fully answered.
England Until We Lose. And We Have Not Lost.
On England's tournament prospects, James held the position he had taken before the first ball was kicked and was not moving from it. Every argument that could be made for Spain, France, Brazil, or Argentina, he said, could be made equally for England. Until England lose, England are in it.
"I just think this year, this tournament, it's all about England. So that's my winner."
He had watched Jude Bellingham pick up the Congo goalkeeper after a save, a moment of what he called friendly frustration, the recognition between two professionals that the other had done the job right. Harry Kane had stepped up when it mattered. "For successful teams to be successful, there's moments when the player steps up. And last night, Harry Kane stepped up."
Crypto Kid supplied the external validation from outside the session: it is coming home, as the Prime Minister had apparently confirmed.
The panel's own predictions spread across the obvious candidates. Theo saw Argentina or France one level above the rest. Farouk backed France on the basis of consistent performance across the group stage. Crypto Kid was hoping for Argentina. Theo, asked to defend Brazil, admitted with some resignation that Brazil had the players but possibly not the structure. On the prediction market, Olise was the consensus pick for top assists, with France likely to go deep enough in the tournament to give him the opportunities. Mbappé and Messi split the golden boot votes.
The System Does Not Have Emotions. Neither Should You.
James connected the work of a goalkeeper to the work of a trader in a way that the panel immediately recognised. Preparation decides the outcome before the event begins. Instinct is what preparation becomes when time runs out.
Crypto Kid had been thinking about the same parallel across the session. "The more information that you have in front of you, the more data that you can analyse, the better your instinct and ability to predict market movements get. So it's actually super, super related." The goalkeeper with the water bottle is running the same process as the trader who has backtested the position before opening it. The reading is faster at the moment because the thinking has already happened.
Farouk asked about goalkeeping rituals and whether they are learned or natural. James's answer extended into how the best professionals in any field develop their pre-performance routine: they rehearse the situation before it arrives, including the crowd, the specific stadium, the possible shooter, the possible market condition. The routine is not superstition. It is a prior simulation under controlled conditions so that the real moment does not arrive as a surprise.
James's closing advice to the audience was built on the same structure. "I've done all my homework. Yes, I got the right result, but it's because I've done my homework. Rather than when you're young and don't know anything and you go, I'm fantastic. It's a lesson more about preparing yourself to do that than it is expecting something to happen that you've never practised or prepared for."
He finished with a promise to return to the Zoomex X Space after swimming in Trafalgar Square fountain following England's victory. Fernando said he would take a flight to be there.
The Lesson From the Zoomex Space
The thread that ran through the entire session was the relationship between information, preparation, and the moment of execution.
James's career was built on narrowing that gap. A penalty is not decided when the ball is struck. It is decided in the days of study that precede the shootout, in the mental rehearsal of the crowd, the shooter, the foot placement, the moment of explosion. The moment itself is fast. The preparation is long. When the preparation is thorough, the fast moment goes the right way more often than it does not.
The traders described the same architecture. Farouk and Theo both described coming to the market with a position built before the session opens, and the discipline of not overriding that position when emotion says otherwise. The goalkeeper who dives before the moment of information has arrived goes the wrong way on instinct alone. So does the trader who opens a position without a stop loss because the stomach says to hold.
David James's specific answer to why he was never nervous, only ever disappointed, is worth sitting with. He was disappointed because the preparation was thorough and the outcome still went against him. He was not nervous because nervousness means the preparation was incomplete. The job of preparation is to remove the unknowns that produce nerves, and replace them with a plan that decides what happens when the situation changes. The plan does not eliminate losing. It eliminates panicking while losing.
The Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge continues across two more episodes. England are going to win the World Cup. David James said so, and 1,000 USDT for the UEFA Foundation is waiting on the other side of it.
About Zoomex
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On-chain data confirms 200 solo Bitcoin blocks mined through NiceHash's EasyMining service - a milestone that reflects the broader growth of NiceHash's hashrate marketplace, where live pricing, Virgin Bitcoin access, OTC infrastructure, and USDT settlement are reshaping how miners and institutions transact.
Zug, Switzerland – NiceHash, the hashrate marketplace operating since 2014, has confirmed a milestone in its EasyMining solo mining service: 200 Bitcoin blocks mined since October 2022, verified directly through on-chain coinbase signature data.
Combined, those 200 blocks account for 1,168 BTC in total rewards - 1,103 BTC from block subsidies, and approximately 65 BTC from transaction fees accumulated across the period. The first confirmed block was mined on October 20, 2022 (block height 759,475); the 200th was confirmed on July 1, 2026 (block height 956,165).
Every one of the 200 blocks is independently verifiable on the Bitcoin blockchain - a detail that reflects how NiceHash has positioned itself more broadly: as a marketplace built around verifiable, on-chain outcomes rather than marketing claims, whether that outcome is a solo mining result or a payrate benchmark.
From EasyMining to institutional scale
EasyMining sits at one end of a much larger marketplace. It gives individual miners a direct, verifiable path to a full block reward without operating pool-scale infrastructure themselves. At the other end of the same marketplace, publicly traded mining companies, funds, and treasuries transact in hashrate as a commodity - buying, selling, and hedging exposure at an industrial scale. Both sides ultimately transact on the same underlying market, priced by the same live supply and demand.
That range - from a single miner's package to institutional-scale acquisition - is part of what has shaped NiceHash's marketplace model over the past several years: a single venue where hashrate is priced continuously, rather than fixed in advance regardless of who is transacting.
A marketplace built on live pricing, not fixed rates
The dominant model across major mining pools has long been FPPS - Full Pay Per Share - where miners receive a fixed rate per share submitted, regardless of block outcomes or broader market conditions. It is predictable, but that predictability becomes a ceiling once conditions shift: miners on fixed-rate pools have no mechanism to capture additional value and no flexibility to move when a rate that made sense months earlier no longer does.
NiceHash's marketplace model gives miners a different option - routing hashrate to wherever demand and pricing are strongest at any given moment. That dynamic reflects a broader shift in how the mining industry treats hashrate itself: increasingly as a liquid, tradable commodity rather than a fixed input locked into a single-pool relationship.
Hashrate as financial infrastructure
That commodity framing extends beyond simple buying and selling. NiceHash has built a set of tools around it that increasingly resemble the infrastructure of a mature commodity market.
Buyers - including publicly traded companies alongside individuals - acquire hashrate directly on NiceHash, gaining mining output without owning hardware, securing power contracts, or operating facilities themselves. For institutional buyers, this carries practical operational value beyond cost alone: hashrate purchased on the spot market can bridge the gap between ordering ASICs and their actual deployment, allow scaling during a short-term profitability window without long-term hardware exposure, and cover planned or unplanned facility outages without breaching hosting or co-location uptime obligations. One of the more common institutional use cases on the platform functions effectively as insurance - when a farm falls short of a contractual uptime commitment, operators buy hashrate on the spot market to cover the gap rather than absorb the penalty. For individual users, that same marketplace provides access to hashrate and mining with a low barrier to entry.
NiceHash also supports OTC arrangements, allowing miners and buyers to transact larger volumes of hashrate directly, outside the standard live-pricing flow - a tool aimed at participants managing risk at scale rather than transacting opportunistically. Both OTC and standard marketplace transactions can also be settled in USDT alongside BTC, giving participants an additional option for pricing and settlement.
For compliance-sensitive institutions, NiceHash offers access to Virgin Bitcoin: freshly mined BTC with no prior transaction history. Because it has never passed through another wallet or exchange, Virgin Bitcoin carries none of the transaction history that provenance- and AML-focused institutions typically need to review before acquiring a coin. It is available directly through the marketplace and via OTC arrangements for larger volumes, and has become a relevant option for funds and institutions operating under strict provenance and reporting requirements.
Taken together, live pricing, OTC access, and Virgin Bitcoin availability describe a marketplace that functions less like a single mining pool and more like the settlement and risk infrastructure layer a mature commodity market requires. The marketplace has also recently extended into USDT settlement, giving miners and buyers the option to price and settle transactions in a stable unit alongside BTC.
"Hashrate behaves like a commodity, and the market increasingly treats it that way," said Saša Čoh, CEO of NiceHash. "The EasyMining milestone and the growth of our marketplace tools point to the same thing: we build for outcomes that can be verified on-chain and infrastructure that holds up under real institutional scrutiny, not just claims."
About NiceHash
NiceHash is a global hashrate marketplace founded in 2014, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. The platform connects buyers and sellers of computing power for cryptocurrency mining and related services, offering tools including OTC arrangements, Virgin Bitcoin access, and USDT settlement for institutional and individual participants alike.
Miners and hashrate buyers interested in NiceHash's marketplace tools can learn more at nicehash.com.

Didi Hamann said the most dangerous opponent in football is the team with nothing to lose, not because they are better, but because they have already made peace with losing. That frees them to play without the weight that better-resourced sides carry into every decision.
His approach across a career spanning Bayern Munich, Liverpool, and two Champions League finals was built on the same logic in reverse: stay calibrated. The score does not change how you play. The situation does not change the process. The position on the pitch does not entitle you to do things you would not normally do.The trading panel landed at the same place from a different direction. When a framework is built before the market opens, pressure stops being a variable and starts being information.
Zoomex hosted the second episode of its World Cup Edition X Space as part of the Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge, bringing together Champions League winner Didi Hamann and three traders: Mario from Forex Trading & Investing, Crank, and Joseph. Fernando Aranda hosted the session, which ran across World Cup analysis, the German squad debate, career philosophy, and the kind of crypto-to-football comparisons that only hold together when neither side takes them too seriously.
The session continued the five-part charity initiative launched in the first episode. Across five World Cup episodes, Zoomex is committing 1,000 USDT per episode to a charity of each football guest's choosing, rising by an additional 5,000 USDT if the guest's World Cup prediction proves correct. Hamann backed Japan to beat Sweden and nominated a homeless support charity in Munich, a cause he backs regularly.
Nothing to Lose. Nothing to Fear.
Fernando opened by asking which is harder, a match you must win, or a match you cannot afford to lose. Hamann said the question had never been put to him that way before, and his answer repositioned the difficulty entirely.
"I always say in football, the hardest thing in football is when you play against a team that has nothing to lose. If that makes sense, because we've seen a lot of upsets. When a team has nothing to lose, they're the most dangerous because they just go for it. And if they lose, they lose. It doesn't matter. But if they win, they can win all or gain everything."
That is a different pressure to manage than needing to win. A team chasing a must-win result still operates inside a calculation. A team that only stands to gain has discarded the calculation entirely. From that point of view, he said, having to win is probably the easier of the two situations to be in.
Morocco against Italy was the recent example the panel kept returning to. South Africa against South Korea was another. "Nobody gave them a chance, and here they are in the last 32."
Crank had watched the same dynamic unfold in markets many times. Traders who enter without a prebuilt plan are playing from the same emotional state as a team with nothing to lose: exposed, reactive, and without the protection that structure provides. The difference is that in trading, the cost of that freedom comes directly out of your account.
The Game Does Not Change at 3-0 Down.
As a holding midfielder, Hamann gave himself one instruction regardless of what the scoreboard said, and he never deviated from it.
"I always felt in my position I couldn't afford to give the ball away because we have players who need to take risks. They give the ball away more often naturally because they have to take chances. And I always felt in my position I had to play the same way whether we are 3-0 up or 3-0 down because I wasn't the one changing games, scoring goals or setting up goals. It wasn't my job and I couldn't do it. But we had players to do that."
The players around him were Steven Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Cissé, Baros. His job was to win the ball, protect the structure, and put it in their feet as quickly as possible. Getting carried away when the scoreline was comfortable, or trying to do things that were not in his nature when 3-0 down, both produced the same result: a team that had lost its shape.
Istanbul in 2005 is the case study. Hamann came on at half-time, three goals down against an AC Milan side regarded at the time as the best club team in the world. He was warming up on the touchline when the second half was about to begin, and his read was simple.
"I was sure, warming up at half-time, because obviously I came on at half-time, I was sure if we scored one, I'm sure we scored a second one. And then if it's 3-2, even the most experienced teams do make mistakes. And then after that first goal, the stadium came, there were 40,000 or 50,000 Liverpool fans. And I think AC Milan all of a sudden thought, maybe it's not over."
Three goals in six minutes. Penalties after that. He acknowledged luck was part of it, but the more durable point was that the process did not change. Win the ball. Do not concede the wrong goal. Give the ball to the people with the license to take risks.
Cissé had been a guest the previous week and described the same locker room from the other side. Joseph in this session brought the parallel into trading directly: "I always start with a plan, like a coach picks his starting eleven before the match. But if the market moves against me, don't wait too long. Just like a coach, make a quick substitution when the team is losing control. I exit my position early instead of hoping for a comeback. Sticking to a plan is good, but being too stubborn can really hurt you. At the end of the day, the best traders are not the ones who are always right. They are the ones who know how to manage risks when they are wrong."
Attack Is Not Enough.
Fernando raised the old argument: attack wins games, defence wins championships. Hamann agreed, then sharpened it.
"It's almost impossible to outscore teams on a regular basis. I do think just attack won't win. You need a good defence, you need a balance in your team, and a good-holding midfielder. You might get to the quarters, you might get to the semis, you might even get to the final. But I don't think you win the whole thing."
The Barcelona side that most people reach for as the purest attacking team of the modern era, Messi, Suárez, Neymar, still had Puyol and Piqué in central defence and Busquets holding midfield. That Busquets point is the sharper one: the best attacking team of the generation was built around arguably the best defensive midfielder of the same generation. France in this tournament ticks the same boxes from the other direction. Mbappé at the front, two of the best centre-backs in the world behind him, a holding structure that does not give teams the space to breathe.
Real Madrid is the present-day example of what happens when the balance is off. The attacking quality is not in question. The defensive midfield structure lags, and at the tournament stage, one bad half against the right opponent ends everything.
On the type of error he finds hardest to watch, Hamann drew a precise distinction. "I don't mind the technical fault or mistake. You know, if a ball bounces, if you misplace a pass, it shouldn't happen, but it happens. But what I don't like is when teams, especially in the Champions League or now in the World Cup, make mental mistakes. You see it all the time when they give the ball away in areas where they shouldn't play, where they get a bit too smart and think they get away with it. You shouldn't make a mistake because you don't think. This is what drives me crazy."
A technical error can be explained by the surface, by fatigue, by a fraction of a second lost to distraction. A mental error has no comparable excuse. At the highest level, with everything on the line, the only reason to stop thinking is overconfidence.
The trading panel had the same split. Mario put it cleanly: "The market is the man and we follow the market. It doesn't make sense not to change your view if the market is against you. You only lose money when you do it like that." The stop loss is the instrument that enforces honesty when the mind is arguing for one more minute, one more candle, one more reason to stay in. Mario gave it the most useful name of the session: "The stop loss is like being a good defender. Maybe like the libero. The last man. If you kick him, then you get a red card. That's the stop loss. Last line of defence."
Joseph extended the metaphor into position sizing: "It's just like a football defence. If your back line is not organised, even a great goalkeeper cannot save you every time. In trading, protecting your capital is like protecting your goal. If you defend well, you will always have another chance to win."
Brazil to Win. Angelotti to Manage.
Hamann had made his tournament pick before the first game was played, and he was not changing it now.
"I said at the start of the tournament, I said Brazil, because I think it's a long tournament. It's 48 teams now, so it's a week, 10 days longer than it was before. And there will be at times, there will be a few problems within the team, and you need somebody to handle it and manage it. And I think in Angelotti, they've got the perfect man."
The best defence. A very good attack. An open question in midfield. And the right coach for a campaign that will test squads not just tactically but in terms of internal management. His second breath went to France. "I stick with Brazil, but I think it will take a very, very good team to beat France."
Germany occupies a different kind of space in Hamann's thinking, somewhere between professional assessment and obvious personal investment. The read on the squad was honest. Undaf, used so far as the impact substitute, should stay there.
"He's probably the best sub, the super sub of this tournament. He's probably the best player coming on in this tournament. So why change it? Because everybody knows when he comes on, there's a boost going around the ground. There's a boost going through the team and everybody goes, oh, he's coming on. We've got a chance."
That psychological effect disappears the moment he becomes expected from the first whistle. The weapon works because it has been withheld. Sané has not delivered on the first two games. Wirth is settling in. Musiala, five months back from a serious injury, has been anonymous by his own standards. Schlotterbeck's absence has cost the defensive structure its balance with the left foot. Mecha has been the best German player in the tournament and may emerge from it as one of the most watched midfielders in Europe.
On the group stage as a concept, Hamann was pragmatic. "You just have to get out of the group. Nobody talks. Once you get to the last 32, last 16, nobody cares how you got out of the group, how you played in the group. That's when it matters."
Crank's read on the Bitcoin market was built with the same long-cycle logic. He described taking short positions near the top, closing them on the way down, and watching the four-year cycle move toward what he sees as a floor. "Bitcoin is exactly where it should be. My levels right now are golden pocket between 54 and 57. I'm waiting for one more big capitulation, scare you pretty bad, and then we can, based off of four-year cycle theory, start our accumulation phase and bottoming out, which for me is between 41 to 46,000." Mario put his own range at 43,000 to 45,000 and believed the bottom would arrive within 100 days of the session. Joseph agreed with the range. The disagreement was mostly about timing.
Dark Horses and an 18-Year-Old Who Plays Like a Veteran
Among the nations that had caught his attention, Hamann pointed first to the home contingent. Canada had been exceptional. Mexico against England at the Azteca, with altitude and a full home crowd, would be nobody's idea of a comfortable draw. "That won't be an easy game. If they play Mexico City, the Azteca with altitude, it's not an easy thing to beat them there."
South Africa had made the sharpest impression. "The way they played yesterday. It was absolutely brilliant. Nobody gave them a chance, and here they are in the last 32."
Japan was his most dangerous selection from outside the traditional powers. "I think Japan is really a dangerous team. Beat Germany four years ago in Qatar. I think they beat Spain as well. They've got that vision. They want to, I think before 2050, they want to be world champions. They want to win the World Cup. Not sure it's going to happen this year. But this is a nation that improves year after year after year."
Ivory Coast came up without prompting. "The first 60 minutes against Germany, I think they played exceptionally well. Germany was second best in every aspect." A team that outplays Germany for an hour in a major tournament is not an accident. They are a dangerous team going forward.
On Morocco, Hamann pointed to an 18-year-old central midfielder without being asked. He had heard about the player before the tournament. He saw him play. Then he looked up the age again.
"Brilliant. 18 years of age, the maturity he plays with, I couldn't believe. I heard of him before, then I saw him, then I had to look again. How old is he? 18 years. Because usually, central midfielders, they get into the best age, 22, 24, because experience counts for a lot. But the way he plays, how composed. At 18 years of age, unbelievable."
The Hardest Opponents. The Best Teammates.
On the midfielder who made his career most uncomfortable, Hamann did not hesitate. There were players across the years who tried to get inside his head, who wanted him in a conversation on the pitch, who looked for ways to make him react. "I never spoke to the opposition and very rarely spoke to the referee. So that didn't really bother me."
The frustration with Patrick Vieira was entirely different: it was purely about quality.
"The most frustrating was probably the best one I played against because he was like a Rolls-Royce. He was quick, he was strong, he could pass, he played in an exceptional team with Arsenal. It was no joy playing against him because he was so good. For me, he was the best and I had never fun playing against him."
That Arsenal side was the backdrop that made it worse. Vieira in an average team is one problem. Vieira in one of the best club sides he faced across his entire career is a different afternoon entirely.
On the other side of the ledger, the question of superstars and teams produced one of the clearest statements of the session. Messi, Mbappé, Ronaldo, Haaland: are they the reason teams win, or is it the other way around?
"It's got to be the team. But I think all these guys, they all know that they couldn't succeed without the team. On your own, you're nothing. As good as they are, but you need 10 other players. And I think the best example was the last World Cup, where really 10 players worked for Messi and then he made the difference. And that's how it should be, because you need to cover all the bases as a team."
On the next German superstar, Hamann was direct. "I said he's too good to fail because it's the best player I've seen in the last 20 years in a German shirt." Wirth had a difficult debut season at Liverpool. A new manager changes the conditions. Mecha he views as deeply undervalued. "He's not a flash player, but he does the things nobody wants to do. He makes it really very efficient. He's got pace, he's got physicality, he can score a goal. I think Mecha was very underrated in the last few years. We might even see him at a huge club after the World Cup because now everybody took note of him."
No Emotions. No Exceptions.
Fernando drew the bridge between the two halves of the session: coaches change systems mid-game when the plan stops working, and traders change positions when the market moves against them. The panel each described how they handle that moment.
Crank's answer was the most absolute. "No emotions in day trading. You are up against robots. Within these algorithms, emotions do not exist. And anybody that trades for a living or is just getting started needs to understand that you're going to be so numb that you do the same thing every single day. But it's a system. And once you have it to where it works in your favour and you have it dialled in, you don't make those adjustments."
His summary of the choice at the centre of trading was the most direct line of the session: "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be rich?"
Mario agreed without qualification. "No emotions in trading. That's the worst thing you can do. You have to just shut down your emotions. Just stick to your plan. Every day doing the same thing that works. And emotions don't work."
Joseph described what happens after a stop loss gets hit, a moment most traders find more disorienting than the loss itself. "Getting stopped out and watching the price go back up, that's one of the most annoying things in trading. But I have a personal rule: after a stop loss, I take a short break, maybe 15 to 30 minutes before opening any new trade. This stops me from revenge trading. It's like a player who misses a penalty. The best one would take a breath before playing on, not react emotionally. Every loss is a lesson, but revenge trading usually turns one mistake into two."
Crank closed on the cycle and what it means for the audience watching right now. "Now's the time more than ever to exit out all the noise and really focus because this is where you separate the boys and girls from the men and women. Be violent with your education right now because this is where lives are changed."
Which Team Is Bitcoin?
Fernando asked the panel to map the major assets to national teams in the tournament.
Brazil collected the Bitcoin allocation from most of the panel. The longest track record, the deepest global fanbase, the benchmark that everything else gets measured against regardless of current charts. Joseph assigned it to Argentina, with a specific reason: the 2022 World Cup, where ten players organised themselves entirely in service of one, and the one delivered. That, in his view, is the most accurate representation of how Bitcoin's entire ecosystem functions around a single thesis.
France drew Ethereum from most voices, technically foundational, expected to perform at the highest level, measured against a standard that was set years ago and has not yet been surpassed. Portugal went to Solana: fast, direct, talent-driven, with a single player whose presence changes every calculation. Mario broke from the group and pointed to Spain or the Netherlands as the surprise allocations, teams that could outperform expectations the way an asset can when its narrative catches up with its fundamentals.
On which of the major tournament favourites exits earliest, France drew the most votes, followed by Germany. Mario, thirty years a German football supporter, crossed his fingers rather than naming names.
The Lesson From the Zoomex Space
The thread connecting both halves of the session was what holds together when the situation changes and the original plan no longer applies.
Hamann's philosophy as a midfielder, do not vary the process at 3-0 up or 3-0 down, is the same discipline the traders described as the line between consistent performance and emotional reaction. It is not about suppressing the awareness that the situation has changed. It is about having decided in advance what you do when it does.
The 2005 Champions League final is not a story about hope or momentum or the magic of a particular night. It is a story about a team that kept doing the right things in the right order while three goals down, until the conditions changed. "If there were no mistakes, there wouldn't be any goals," Hamann said. That applies to both sides of the ball. The team that keeps its structure in a crisis does not create the opening. It creates the conditions for the opening to appear.
Crank's question applies equally. In football and in markets, the answer to the question of whether you want to be right or rich determines how you behave when the scoreline, or the chart, tells you something you do not want to hear.
The Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge continues across three more episodes, each with a new football guest, a new charity selection, and a prediction on record. Brazil is going to win the World Cup. Didi Hamann said so, and the charity pool for Munich's homeless depends on Japan clearing the first hurdle.
About Zoomex
Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform with over 3 million users across more than 35 countries and regions, offering 600+ trading pairs. Guided by its core values of "Simple × User-Friendly × Fast," Zoomex is committed to fairness, integrity, and transparency in delivering a high-performance, low-barrier, trustworthy trading experience.
As an official partner of the Haas F1 Team and global brand ambassador partner of goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, Zoomex brings the same focus on speed, precision, and discipline from the racetrack and the pitch to trading. The platform holds regulatory licenses including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has passed security audits conducted by Hacken.

The new partnership will support migrant children and children at risk of poverty and exclusion by strengthening resilience systems in the Western Balkans through community-based services working alongside well-established local NGO partners.
PANAMA CITY, June 30, 2026 – BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3-AI company, has partnered with Save the Children Hong Kong to enable Save the Children's "Safety Nets and Resilient Families" thematic work in the Western Balkans, supporting children in underprivileged settings in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina affected by migration, poverty and social exclusion.
This partnership marks Save the Children Hong Kong's first collaboration with a cryptocurrency company and reflects a shared commitment to leveraging innovation to create meaningful social impact for children and families affected by poverty, displacement and social exclusion.
Implemented in collaboration with Save the Children, the initiative will provide humanitarian assistance to refugee and migrant children through cash vouchers and essential non-food items. As children and families seek refuge in Europe, many transit through a key country on the so-called Balkans route, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they often face significant hardships at every stage of their journey. Save the Children is the only organization providing cash voucher assistance as a core component of its child protection response, helping families meet their essential daily needs while preserving dignity and choice.
Through the partnership, BingX will also support comprehensive protection and education services for children at risk of poverty and exclusion through community-based drop-in centres run by local NGO partners with proven expertise in the communities they serve. With one in five children living at risk of poverty and exclusion in Serbia, and one in three children living in consumption-based poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina*, these community centres are of critical importance. They support children facing a range of challenges, including those living in substandard conditions in informal settlements, children engaged in street work, and those at risk of violence and child marriage—all of whom are disproportionately affected by extreme poverty, discrimination, and social exclusion.
At these centres, children have access to safe and supportive environments managed by experienced child protection professionals. Services include nutritious food, hygiene assistance, psychosocial support, educational guidance, legal aid, counselling, and family-strengthening programs.
Nevena Milutinovic, Save the Children Northwest Balkans Country Director, said: "Every child deserves to be protected and have a chance at a better future—and together with our partners, we work to make sure they grow up supported and included. Through our partnership with BingX, we can continue reaching children and families who need support and strengthen community drop-in centres—places that make a real difference for children facing some of the greatest barriers in the region. Children tell us that support like cash vouchers and community centres means much more than basic services. These are interventions that ensure they feel seen and supported by caring adults, make friends, feel secure, gain access to education and new opportunities, and reclaim their childhood."
"Innovation creates its greatest value when it helps address real-world challenges. At BingX, we are committed to fostering a safe and secure future—not only within the digital asset ecosystem, but also within the communities around us. Children are the foundation of tomorrow, and every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. Through our partnership with Save the Children, we are proud to help protect the future by supporting children facing poverty, displacement, and social exclusion," said Pablo Monti, BingX Spokesperson. "This partnership also forms part of BingX's broader commitment to supporting education, inclusion, and community resilience initiatives globally, reflecting the company's belief that technological innovation should create positive impact beyond the digital economy." *Source: Child Poverty: The Cost Europe Cannot Afford Save the Children, 2025;
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/child-poverty-the-cost-europe-cannot-afford-2025
Notes to editors The "Safety Nets and Resilient Families" thematic programme supports populations at risk in the Balkans through integrated protection, education and resilience-building interventions designed to support and strengthen locally led and community-based solutions.
About BingX Founded in 2018, BingX is a leading crypto exchange and Web3-AI company, serving over 40 million users worldwide. Ranked among the top five global crypto derivatives exchanges and a pioneer of crypto copy trading, BingX addresses the evolving needs of users across all experience levels.
Powered by a comprehensive suite of AI-driven products and services, including futures, spot, copy trading, and TradFi offerings, BingX empowers users with innovative tools designed to enhance performance, confidence, and efficiency.
BingX has been the principal partner of Chelsea FC since 2024, and became the first official crypto exchange partner of Scuderia Ferrari HP in 2026. About Save the Children North West Balkans Country Office Save the Children in North West Balkans (SCiNWB) operates for more than a decade in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bih), Serbia and Montenegro, and oversees migration trends across the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. The office is deeply rooted in local communities, which is reflected in staff structure and office presence in three locations: Sarajevo (BiH) as the headquarters, Belgrade (Serbia), and Bihać (BiH), while in Montenegro, we are implementing partner-led programming. Our presence in Serbia includes the Balkans Migration and Displacement Hub providing evidence and knowledge about children affected by migration and displacement and delivers robust advocacy with and for children.
We work in development and humanitarian contexts, working closely with communities to generate evidence to inform our learning, programming and advocacy work, support national child protection systems but also build regional/cross-border initiatives. This approach enables us to reach vulnerable populations - children affected by migration, displacement, poverty or discrimination - across multiple countries, promoting social & integrity values, safe access to services and equitable participation in policy making. About Save the Children Hong Kong Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Hong Kong and around the world, we do whatever it takes – every day and in times of crisis – so children can fulfil their rights to a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. With over 100 years of expertise, we are the world’s first and leading independent children’s organisation – transforming lives and the future.
Established in 2009, Save the Children Hong Kong is part of the global movement which operates in around 100 countries. We work with children, schools, families, communities and our supporters to deliver lasting change for children in Hong Kong and around the world.

The annual gathering connects developers, founders, and innovators building the future of Web3 and AI.
TORONTO, ON – The 5th Annual ETHToronto returns on July 22, 2026, bringing together builders for an afternoon of sessions, panels, and networking. Presented by Autheo and held as part of Canada Crypto Week, the event is designed to connect the people building the future of Web3 and AI.
ETHToronto opens with Whitepaper Reading Club, where attendees can participate in a discussion-first session exploring blockchain whitepapers, and technical concepts shaping the future of Web3.
This is followed by speaker sessions featuring Edward Johnson of Autheo, Ben Greenberg of Arbitrum, Arman Mamyan of Animoca Brands, Jerry Qian of OPTN Labs, Matthew Glezos of Toronto DAO, Elizabeth McFaul of Solana Foundation and Charles St. Louis of Ethereum Foundation.
Autheo joins ETHToronto as the Top Sponsor, supporting the developers driving the next generation of Web3. Autheo is a Layer-0 Operating System with an integrated Layer-1 blockchain that combines identity, compute, storage, developer tooling, and AI capabilities into a single interoperable platform.
"Builders and developers are the foundation of every major innovation in Web3," said Edward Johnson
Chief Product Officer of Autheo. "We're proud to support ETHToronto and help bring together the community creating the next generation of sovereign decentralized applications, infrastructure, and AI-powered technologies."
Following the sessions, attendees are invited to Devs & Bevs, an evening networking event designed to bring together developers, founders, and builders for meaningful conversations and new connections.
World Boss Media will also be onsite conducting live interviews with leaders throughout the event. As a leading Web3 marketing agency, World Boss Media helps companies grow through branding, influencer marketing, and community-driven campaigns.
ETHToronto takes place on July 22, 2026, as part of Canada Crypto Week and alongside Blockchain Futurist Conference, Canada's largest Web3 and AI event.
Looking to attend ETHToronto, apply for a free ticket at ETHToronto.ca
About ETHToronto
ETHToronto is an annual gathering of developers, founders, and innovators building the future of Web3. Held as part of Canada Crypto Week, the event brings together the builder community through technical discussions, networking opportunities, and collaborative learning in the city where Ethereum was born.
About Autheo
Autheo is a Layer-0 Operating System with an integrated Layer-1 blockchain that unifies identity, compute, storage, developer tooling, and AI capabilities into a single interoperable environment. By simplifying infrastructure and providing powerful tools for builders, Autheo is helping accelerate the next generation of Web3 innovation.

A full day of networking, learning, and community takes over July 22 as part of Canada Crypto Week.
TORONTO, ON – ETHWomen returns on July 22, 2026, bringing together women from across the Web3 and AI industries. As part of Canada Crypto Week, the event features networking, educational sessions, and community-driven experiences designed to foster connection and collaboration.
Now in its fifth year, ETHWomen continues to bring together an incredible community of women who are helping shape the future of Web3 and AI. Featured speakers include:
• Eve Lam, Morgan Stanley
• Jaime Leverton, ReserveOne
• Dr. Guneet Kaur, CCN
• Lalla Asmaa Alaoui, Hello Agentic
• Amber Scott, Outlier Ventures
• Laura Leparulo, Futurist Conference
• Ashley Wright, The Wright Success
• Karin Kusano, Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
Along with more than 30 women speakers from across the Web3, AI, finance, and technology industries. In addition to speaker sessions, ETHWomen will feature a series of community experiences including:
• SheFi Morning Social Breakfast presented by SheFi.
• Facilitated Networking presented by the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC)
• Book Signings with Amanda Wick, Audrey Nesbitt, and Annelise Osborne
The SheFi Morning Social Breakfast presented by SheFi kicks off ETHWomen with breakfast and community-building alongside one of the largest women's networks in Web3. SheFi is known for its 8-week MBA-style program, global community events, and career development opportunities designed to help women grow in the Web3 industry.
ETHWomen is proud to bring together a growing network of organizations supporting women in Web3, including CryptoChicks, SheFi, the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC), FemTech, Babes Net, Women in Blockchain Canada, and ShibWomen among many others.
Attendance is free and open to women, allies, founders, builders, investors, students, and professionals interested in the future of technology.
To learn more and register, visit ETHWomen.com.

Road Town, Virgin Islands, June 29, 2026 — BloFin, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has published an announcement from the BloFin Whaleness Charity Foundation outlining relief measures for users and communities affected by the earthquakes in northern Venezuela.
Following the devastating earthquakes that struck on June 25, 2026, BloFin will donate 12 million VES in direct cash relief through the Red Cross, distributed in local currency so that affected users in the hardest-hit regions can address immediate recovery needs on the ground. In addition, BloFin provides a $1 Million USDT futures bonus pool. According to the announcement, existing users in Venezuela who have already completed KYC will each receive a 30 USDT bonus, with distribution completed within the next 24 hours. BloFin also noted that both new registrants and existing users who complete KYC by July 10, 2026 (23:59 UTC-4) will be eligible to receive the 30 USDT bonus. All bonuses will be distributed before July 13, 2026 (UTC).
About BloFin
BloFin is a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange that specializes in futures trading. The platform offers a wide range of trading options, including 550+ USDT-M perpetual pairs, Coin-Margined Perpetual Contracts, spot trading, copy trading, API access, unified account management, and advanced sub-account solutions. Committed to security and compliance, BloFin integrates Fireblocks and Chainalysis to ensure robust asset protection. By partnering with top affiliates, BloFin delivers scalable trading solutions, efficient fund management, and enhanced flexibility for professional traders. As a constant sponsor of TOKEN2049, BloFin continues to expand its global presence, reinforcing its position as the place "WHERE WHALES ARE MADE."

Competition in the AI era is shifting — predictive capability is becoming the new core productive force
Over the past two decades, the internet created the information era. Over the past decade, blockchain accelerated the era of digital assets. Now, as artificial intelligence enters large-scale adoption, a new era is quietly emerging.
More industries are realizing that the most critical resource of the future may no longer be data, traffic, or even computing power itself, but the ability to predict the future. Whether in financial markets where price movements are determined, in enterprise operations where demand is forecasted, in supply chains where resources are allocated, or in AI Agents making autonomous decisions — all fundamentally depend on prediction.
The stronger the predictive capability, the higher the efficiency of resource allocation. The more accurate the prediction, the greater the value creation. As AI becomes deeply involved in production, decision-making, and coordination, the importance of prediction is further amplified.
Future competition will no longer be solely about model capability or compute scale, but about predictive intelligence. Those who can identify trends earlier and understand the future more accurately will capture greater growth potential. Predictive capability is becoming one of the most important productive forces in the AI era.
From Information Economy to Prediction Economy: A Trillion-Dollar New Market is Emerging
For a long time, prediction has been treated merely as a tool.
Enterprises use prediction to formulate strategies, investors use it to assess markets, and platforms use it to optimize operations. However, the value generated by prediction has rarely been systematically captured, and even less often formed into an independent economic system. Predictors contribute cognition, models contribute computation, and users contribute behavioral data — yet most of this value ultimately remains at the platform level.
With the continuous advancement of AI technologies, this situation is changing.
Large models, AI Agents, and intelligent collaborative networks are enabling prediction to become scalable and continuously optimizable for the first time. Prediction is no longer just an output, but a continuous value-creation process. Every data input, every model training iteration, and every agent collaboration continuously enhances predictive capability and generates new value accumulation.
Over the next decade, competition may no longer be about who owns more information, but who owns stronger predictive capability. Prediction is evolving from a tool into an asset. The prediction economy is transitioning from concept to reality, and the new value networks built around predictive capability will become critical infrastructure in the AI era.
manadia: The World’s First Trusted AI Prediction Ecosystem Enters the Global Stage
It is precisely against this industry backdrop that manadia is building a new AI value network. Positioned as the world’s first trusted AI prediction ecosystem, manadia is constructed on an AI-native compute collaboration network. By connecting AI Agents, prediction markets, and yield networks, it enables predictive capability to truly become a core asset that continuously generates value, accumulates value, and circulates value.
Unlike traditional prediction platforms, manadia does not merely provide prediction outputs. Instead, it builds a comprehensive ecosystem centered on predictive capability itself. Every model invocation, every AI Agent collaboration, every predictive action, and every value interaction can generate verifiable, traceable, and settlement-ready value contributions, which are continuously accumulated into the network through ecosystem mechanisms.
Within manadia’s framework, AI Agents are responsible for generating intelligence and predictive capability, prediction markets are responsible for discovering and validating value, global payment systems are responsible for enabling value circulation, and yield networks are responsible for completing value distribution. These four core modules are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing, forming a continuously operating value loop centered on predictive capability.
As more users, developers, and AI Agents join the network, a true prediction economy ecosystem is gradually taking shape.
Top-Tier Capital and Ecosystem Resources Are Betting on the Prediction Economy
Beyond narrative, the market is focused on execution.
manadia has completed a $7 million funding round, with participation from OKX Ventures, Polygon ecosystem, Pillar VC, One Way Ventures, Quasar Holding, and other leading institutions.
In today’s market environment, investment in AI and Web3 is becoming increasingly disciplined. Projects backed simultaneously by top-tier funds, leading ecosystems, and experienced industry investors are rare. The capital support behind manadia reflects not only confidence in the project itself, but also strong conviction in the long-term potential of the AI prediction sector.
At the ecosystem level, manadia receives support from OK Ventures, the Polygon ecosystem, and AUR Labs. As AI Agents, prediction markets, and on-chain value networks continue to converge, more industries are recognizing the strategic importance of predictive capability in the future digital economy. manadia is building precisely the kind of value network that operates continuously around prediction.
In essence, manadia is not merely building a product — it is attempting to define a new economic system for the AI era.
UMXM Completes Global Liquidity Deployment, Ecosystem Fully Opens
For any ecosystem, liquidity infrastructure is essential to value formation.
As the core token of the manadia ecosystem, UMXM plays a key role in value circulation, network incentives, prediction market interaction, and yield distribution. As AI Agent networks, prediction markets, global payment systems, and yield layers gradually open, UMXM will become a critical value carrier of the entire ecosystem.
UMXM is already listed on Bitget, Kraken, MEXC and KuCoin, providing global liquidity access for users participating in ecosystem growth. This marks not only a key infrastructure milestone, but also manadia’s readiness for global expansion.
As ecosystem scale grows, prediction demand increases, and AI Agents expand in number, the network value carried by UMXM will continue to strengthen. In a prediction-driven ecosystem, value circulation and ecosystem growth form a continuously reinforcing feedback loop.
Global Launch: A New Cycle of the Prediction Economy is About to Begin
After extensive development and ecosystem construction, manadia is approaching a major milestone.
In June, the manadia ecosystem will officially open to the global market. Core modules including the AI Agent network, prediction markets, global payment systems, and yield networks will gradually go live, marking the official launch of a global ecosystem built around trusted AI predictive capability.
For the AI industry, this represents more than the launch of a project — it signals the first time predictive capability enters the global market in an ecosystemized, networked, and value-driven form. As more users, developers, institutions, and AI Agents join the network, a new prediction economy era is accelerating.
In the past, information defined the internet. Later, assets defined blockchain. In the future, predictive capability may define the value network of the AI era.
When prediction becomes an asset and begins to create value, a new cycle of the AI Value Internet begins. manadia goes global — a new world built on trusted predictive intelligence is about to emerge.

AI is creating value, but the Value Internet is still missing
In recent years, the development of artificial intelligence has far exceeded market expectations. From breakthroughs in large-scale models to the rapid rise of AI Agents, from enterprise AI applications to continued investments in global computing infrastructure by major tech giants, AI is shifting from a technological revolution to an industrial revolution. Increasingly, work is being performed by AI, decisions are being assisted by AI, and value is being generated by AI.
However, a critical question is being repeatedly raised across the industry: when AI begins to create value, who records that value? Who verifies it? And who distributes it?
Most current AI systems remain at the stage of “content generation” and “task execution,” lacking a complete value-bearing framework. AI can generate predictions, produce business insights, and execute intelligent decisions, yet the value behind these capabilities is difficult to continuously record and accumulate.
In the future, competition in the AI industry may no longer be solely about model capability, but about who can build a new network that carries AI-generated value. Among them, predictive capability is becoming one of the most important entry points to value in this era.
From Predicting the Future to Creating Value: manadia Redefines the Prediction Economy
Prediction has never been a simple problem. Whether in capital markets, corporate operations, or societal systems, all fundamentally rely on judgments about the future. Stronger predictive ability leads to higher resource allocation efficiency; more accurate predictions lead to stronger value creation.
In traditional systems, predictive power is concentrated in a small number of institutions and professional groups. In the AI era, however, large models, AI Agents, and intelligent collaborative networks are making predictive capabilities scalable and continuously optimizable for the first time.
It is in this context that manadia was born. As the world’s first trusted AI prediction ecosystem, manadia is built on an AI-native computing power collaboration network, connecting AI Agents, prediction markets, global payment systems, and yield networks to create a new value system centered around predictive capability.
In manadia’s view, prediction is not only an outcome but also a value-generating behavior. Every model invocation, every agent collaboration, every predictive action, and every ecosystem interaction can form verifiable, traceable, and accumulative value contributions that continuously flow back into the network.
Prediction capability is evolving from a tool into an asset, and the prediction economy is moving from concept to reality.
AI-Native Compute Collaboration Network: Building the Next-Generation Intelligent Economy Infrastructure
With the arrival of the AI Agent era, the future AI landscape will no longer be dominated by a single model. A large number of specialized AI Agents will participate in prediction, analysis, decision-making, and execution, collaboratively completing complex tasks in real time. How to organize these agents, coordinate different models, and enable value sharing has become a core infrastructure challenge for the AI industry.
The AI-native compute collaboration network proposed by manadia is designed precisely for this trend. Through a unified collaborative architecture, different AI Agents can perform prediction, validation, execution, and value distribution within the same network, forming a continuously improving intelligent collaboration system.
As more agents join the network, predictive capability strengthens; as predictive capability improves, ecosystem value expands; and as ecosystem value grows, more participants are attracted into the network.
This reinforcing network effect is driving manadia’s evolution from a prediction product into foundational infrastructure for the AI Value Internet.
Top-Tier Capital and Ecosystem Resources Are Converging Around manadia
For any emerging sector, technology defines the ceiling, while ecosystem determines the speed.
manadia has completed a $7 million funding round, with participation from OKX Ventures, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, Pillar VC, One Way Ventures, Quasar Holding, and other prominent institutional investors and industry figures. The project has also been listed on RootData. In addition, it has received ecosystem support from OK Ventures, Polygon ecosystem, and AUR Labs.
These institutions span AI, Web3, infrastructure, and global venture investment. Their participation reflects not only financial validation but also a strong belief in the long-term potential of the AI prediction sector. As AI and blockchain convergence enters a new phase, predictive capability, intelligent coordination networks, and value internet infrastructure are becoming key industry focus areas.
manadia stands at the intersection of this trend.
UMXM Completes Global Liquidity Deployment, Ecosystem Opening in June
As the core token of the manadia ecosystem, UMXM plays a key role in value circulation, network incentives, prediction market interactions, and yield network coordination. UMXM has been listed on Bitget, Kraken, MEXC and KuCoin, completing its global liquidity infrastructure deployment and providing essential support for ecosystem expansion and user growth.
As the AI Agent network, prediction markets, and global yield systems gradually open, UMXM will play an increasingly important role in the overall value cycle of the ecosystem.
The manadia ecosystem will officially open globally in June. At that time, a global value network built around trusted AI predictive capability will be launched.
In the past, the internet connected information. Later, blockchain connected assets. In the future, AI will connect value. As prediction begins to create value and value begins to flow freely, a new era of the AI Value Internet is emerging.
manadia goes global — a new world driven by prediction, powered by intelligent collaboration, and connected by value is about to begin.

Djibril Cissé said the difference between confidence under pressure and paralysis is whether you actually want to be the one who decides the outcome.Across setbacks, fractured legs, and missed tournaments, Cissé's philosophy stayed the same: stop looking at what didn't happen and work with what did.The trading panel agreed that timing is the real edge, though how you define it depends entirely on the time frame you operate in.
Zoomex hosted the first episode of its World Cup Edition X Space as part of the ZoomX World Cup Impact Pledge, bringing together Champions League winner Djibril Cissé and four crypto traders: Dieguito Charts, Bitsofwealth, Mega, and 5.0 Trading. Fernando Aranda hosted the session, which ran across pressure management, football analysis, career philosophy, and the kind of crypto-to-football comparisons that only hold together when neither side takes them too seriously.
The session also launched a five-part charity initiative. Across five World Cup episodes, Zoomex is committing 1,000 USDT per episode to a charity of each football guest's choosing. If the guest's World Cup prediction proves correct, that figure increases by an additional 5,000 USDT. Cissé picked France and nominated Maël et C'est Thérapie, a cause he has supported personally for some time.
Before the Penalty. Before the Click.
Aranda opened by asking what happens in the moment before a critical decision, for Cissé, the penalty in a Champions League final; for the traders, the second before pressing the button on a large position.
Cissé's answer arrived without hesitation.
"Me, as a striker, I like the pressure. I like the excitement of being the one who's going to make the team win. The stress, the extra pressure, that's what I lived for."
He described taking a penalty at the 2005 Liverpool-Milan final in front of 70,000 people as something that felt ordinary. Not because the stakes were low, but because he had spent a career building toward exactly that kind of moment. For some players, he acknowledged, the same situation is unmanageable. The difference is not preparation. It is whether the person in front of the goal wants to be there.
The traders described the same split from a different position. Dieguito Charts said professional traders lose their stress not by becoming bolder, but by eliminating ambiguity before they enter. "When you enter, you already know how much you're going to lose if you lose and how much you're going to win if you win. It's not random." Bitsofwealth added that the shift from stress to execution happens when trading stops feeling like a casino and starts feeling like a job. The system is built. You are executing it.
5.0 Trading was the most direct. "If you're getting stressed in trading, you're doing something wrong. You either oversize, over-leverage, over-risk."
Timing Is the Edge. Speed Is Just the Button.
Aranda asked the traders which mattered more: speed of execution or timing of entry.
Timing won the room.
Bitsofwealth described the logic clearly, being too early and being too late produce the same outcome. The zone of entry is the whole game. Dieguito agreed. Mega agreed. Then 5.0 Trading offered a caveat that reframed the question entirely.
He trades above the three-day timeframe, where split-second execution becomes irrelevant. "Timing is relative to your time frame," he said. "Someone trading under 15 minutes is living on a completely different calendar than I am." For the short-term trader, speed and timing collapse into the same thing. For the longer frame, the zone matters more than moment.
Cissé, asked what his most dangerous weapon had been, answered without pause: pace. Lightning quick, by his own description. But he also noted that goals are what define a striker, not the quality of the tools used to score them. Karim Benzema spent years being criticised for not scoring enough despite being the most complete player on the pitch. Kylian Mbappé scored more than 40 goals in his first season at Real Madrid and still faced criticism.
"Statistics are really important in modern football. You have to be decisive."
The weapon is secondary to what it produces.
3-0 Down at Half-Time
Aranda asked Cissé about Istanbul. The 2005 Champions League final. Liverpool against an AC Milan side widely regarded as one of the best club teams assembled in that era. Three goals down at the break.
Cissé described the locker room not as a place of crisis but as a reset.
"We came back with different intentions and in a different mood. Really: let's try it and we'll see what happens."
Liverpool came back to 3-3 and won on penalties. Cissé scored one of them. It remains, by his own account, the most important game of his career.
The lesson he drew was not about tactics or fitness levels. It was about what a team is prepared to attempt when the rational calculation says the game is over. The sides that persist into a losing position with deliberate intention, rather than desperation, tend to find exits others do not see. The same applies in trading when a position moves against you. Panic and plan produce different outcomes. The difference between them is usually built before the session starts.
Injuries Are Part of the Game. So Coming Back is Also.
Aranda raised Cissé's two serious leg fractures. Both ended seasons. Both threatened to end more than that. Cissé's response was the clearest expression of his underlying philosophy in the entire conversation.
"I had to put myself in a positive state of mind. I'm not going to cry, I'm going to focus, I'm going to do everything properly, and I'm going to come back."
He extended the principle outward. In sport, in trading, in life: the question after a loss is not whether it happened but what you do with the information it produces.
"When something bad happens to me, there's always good behind the bad. I'm trying to analyse things and to make it better."
Bitsofwealth observed later in the session that fewer than one percent of traders are consistently profitable year over year. The ones who remain are not the ones who avoid errors. They are the ones who analyse and do not repeat them. Cissé arrived at the same conclusion through a broken tibia.
The Hardest Opponents
Cissé named the defenders who gave him the most trouble during his career, Nemanja Vidić, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, and the Chelsea backline as a collective. Their method was consistent. They identified his speed as the primary threat and collapsed space before he could use it.
"They knew that if they gave me space, it would be difficult for them, so they came tight on me and tried to stop me running."
On goalkeepers, he was careful and then candid. He named a technically excellent PSG goalkeeper, noting the quality of the footwork, the reflexes, the aerial game, the penalty-stopping record, before adding that loyalty to Marseille made objectivity harder than it looked on paper.
"I work on TV as well and I have to separate my love for my team. Even if Argentina hurt us really badly, he's a good keeper."
The discipline to evaluate something honestly when it conflicts with allegiance is the same one required to close a losing trade when the narrative you entered on has stopped being true.
What Didn't Happen, Didn't Happen
Aranda asked whether France would have won the 2006 World Cup if Cissé had been fit.
Cissé declined the question, cleanly and completely.
"I don't dream things. I don't overthink other things. I wasn't there. It never happened. I might have scored own goal in the quarterfinal. We'll never know."
France lost the final to Italy. That is the event. The alternate version, the one in which Cissé played and things went differently, does not exist. Reconstructing it produces nothing actionable. He acknowledged it hurt to watch from the stands with his teammates. That hurt is real. The speculation is not.
Traders who replay missed entries and missed exits rarely improve from the exercise. Cissé has been applying that same principle to his career for over twenty years. The instruction is simple. Work with what is in front of you. Leave the scenarios that did not happen where they are.
Who to Watch
With the group stages underway, Aranda asked Cissé for his standout performers and names to follow.
He pointed to Michael Olise as a player without an obvious contemporary comparison, describing him as unique in style and difficult to map onto anyone currently playing. Rayan Cherki also earned a mention as a talent that deserves more playing time at this level.
For current form, he praised Harry Kane. a striker who stays in the box, scores in the moments that matter, and represents a type of pure number nine that has become increasingly rare. He also acknowledged Messi's continued output at 38 or 39 as something worth appreciating regardless of allegiances.
His sharpest observation was saved for the smaller nations. Congo drawing against Portugal. Curaçao conceding seven against Germany and still having two games to play for a best-third-place qualification. Countries reaching a World Cup for the first time and competing.
"I like stories like this. I like nice stories."
On Spain's opening draw, he was measured. Lamine Yamal had returned from injury at less than full fitness. Nico Williams the same. "Even 30% of Yamal can make the difference," he said. The tempo will come.
Which Team Is Bitcoin?
The session's lighter section asked the traders to map each major cryptocurrency to a national team.
Bitcoin landed on the Brazil and France, with Mega making the case for Brazil most precisely, track record longer than anyone else's, deepest global fanbase, talent pool that keeps regenerating, and the quality of being the benchmark that everything else gets compared against regardless of what the current charts say.
The meme coin category produced more debate. Mexico earned the clearest consensus: enormous community, recurring cycles of hype and expectation, genuinely passionate supporters, and a historical gap between the noise entering tournaments and the results coming out of them. Japan drew votes from multiple traders, with 5.0 Trading making the more serious point underneath the joke.
"Within the next few World Cups, we're going to see either Japan or South Korea winning. The way they have improved in the last 10, 15 years and they play as a team. That's something you don't see in many European setups."
Ethereum's assignment revealed the most about the traders making the case. England landed on the list twice: expensive, foundational, reliably present, and somehow still yet to fully deliver on its whitepaper. Germany drew a vote for methodical adaptability. 5.0 Trading assigned Italy, which did not qualify for this World Cup, on the basis that Italy's absence from the tournament was approximately as useful as ETH's recent price action.
Solana went to France (fast, explosive, talented), the Netherlands, and the United States.
The Lesson From the Zoomex Space
The thread connecting the football and trading conversations was not the surface-level analogy between penalty kicks and trade entries. It was about how people respond when the outcome is uncertain and the stakes are real.
Cissé walked into those situations throughout his career and preferred them. The traders who have stayed consistently profitable described the same state from a different direction: once a system is built and tested under live conditions, pressure stops being a warning sign and starts being information.
The sharper point was Cissé's refusal to inhabit the 2006 alternate history. The conversation around high performance, in football and in markets, does not live in the scenarios that failed to materialise. It lives in the one that did. The one that can still be worked on, adjusted, improved. What happened is the only material available.
The Zoomex World Cup Impact Pledge continues across four more episodes, each with a new football guest, a new charity selection, and a prediction already on record. France is going to win the World Cup. Djibril Cissé said so, and the charity pool depends on it.
About Zoomex
Founded in 2021, Zoomex is a global cryptocurrency trading platform with over 3 million users across more than 35 countries and regions, offering 600+ trading pairs. Guided by its core values of “Simple × User-Friendly × Fast,” Zoomex is also committed to the principles of fairness, integrity, and transparency, delivering a high-performance, low-barrier, and trustworthy trading experience.
Powered by a high-performance matching engine and transparent asset and order displays, Zoomex ensures consistent trade execution and fully traceable results. This approach reduces information asymmetry and allows users to clearly understand their asset status and every trading outcome. While prioritizing speed and efficiency, the platform continues to optimize product structure and overall user experience with robust risk management in place.
As an official partner of the Haas F1 Team, Zoomex brings the same focus on speed, precision, and reliable rule execution from the racetrack to trading. In addition, Zoomex has established a global exclusive brand ambassador partnership with world-class goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez. His professionalism, discipline, and consistency further reinforce Zoomex’s commitment to fair trading and long-term user trust.
In terms of security and compliance, Zoomex holds regulatory licenses including Canada MSB, U.S. MSB, U.S. NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, and has successfully passed security audits conducted by blockchain security firm Hacken. Operating within a compliant framework while offering flexible identity verification options and an open trading system, Zoomex is building a trading environment that is simpler, more transparent, more secure, and more accessible for users worldwide.

Canada's largest week-long gathering of conferences, networking events, and community experiences.
TORONTO, ON – Canada Crypto Week returns July 20–26, 2026, for its sixth year, bringing together dozens of events across Canada focused on cryptocurrency, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. The week connects entrepreneurs, builders, investors, and institutions through a diverse lineup of events taking place across the country.
The flagship event of Canada Crypto Week is Blockchain Futurist Conference, Canada's largest Web3 and AI event. Taking place July 21–22 at Rebel Entertainment Complex and Cabana Pool Bar in Toronto, the conference attracts thousands of attendees and serves as the hub for many of the week's featured events and experiences.
Canada Crypto Week kicks off with Web3TO Toronto Conference 2026. Taking place on July 20, 2026, the event brings together the Web3 community for a full day of insights on the future of the industry.
Returning to Canada Crypto Week, Cayman Finance will host its annual Rum Bar Cayman Experience in the VIP Cabana Area on July 21 and 22. The activation gives VIP attendees an opportunity to experience Cayman hospitality, connect with companies from the Cayman Islands, and learn more about doing business in one of the world's leading financial jurisdictions.
A key addition to this year's conference is the Compliance Breakfast on July 22, 2026. Presented by VerifyVASP, Inca Digital, XReg Consulting, Crystal Intelligence, and Cloudburst Technologies, the invite-only event brings together regulators, policymakers, compliance leaders, and industry executives for meaningful discussions on digital assets, AI, regulation, and the future of innovation.
Another popular event is Agentic Day presented by Hello Agentic on July 21, 2026. The dedicated afternoon program explores the future of AI agents and autonomous intelligence, bringing together innovators building the next generation of agentic AI.
This year's lineup includes:
• Agentic Day presented by Hello Agentic
• Cayman Finance Rum Bar Experience
• Compliance Breakfast by VerifyVASP, Inca Digital, XReg Consulting, Crystal Intelligence, & Cloudburst
• Invest Hong Kong Workshop: The Global Hub for Digital Assets
• Pudgy Penguins Vibes Card Game Event
• SheFi Morning Social at ETHWomen
• House of Intelligence: Where Institutions Meet Web3 by House of ZK
• AWIC Facilitated Networking presented by the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency
• Whitepaper Reading Sessions by Whitepaper Reading Club
• Book Signings with Amanda Wick, Audrey Nesbitt, and Annelise Osborne
• ETHToronto presented by Autheo
• The 5th Annual ETHWomen
• Bored Ape Meetup
• Doginal Dogs VibeZone
• Solana VibeStation
Canada Crypto Week is made possible through the support of sponsors, community organizations, and media partners from across the industry. Stablecorp and QCAD joins as a leading sponsor as the Official Stablecoin Partner of Canada Crypto Week, supporting the growth and adoption of digital assets in Canada. CryptoNomads supports Canada Crypto Week as a sponsor, helping connect global Web3 professionals and digital nomads through its worldwide network. CCN (Crypto Citizens Network) will be conducting live interviews and capturing insights from some of the leading voices across Web3 during the week.
"Canada Crypto Week is where Canada's Web3, digital asset, and AI communities come together to connect, collaborate, and build the future," said Tracy Leparulo, Founder of Canada Crypto Week.
To view the full schedule of events, register for activities, or submit your own event, visit CanadaCryptoWeek.com
For additional event listings and registrations, visit luma.com/canadacryptoweek.
About Canada Crypto Week
Canada Crypto Week is Canada's largest week-long celebration of cryptocurrency, blockchain, Web3, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. Now in its sixth year, the initiative brings together more than 50 independent events, conferences, meetups, networking experiences, educational sessions, and community gatherings designed to connect and grow Canada's innovation ecosystem.

From tokenization and stablecoins to artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, industry leaders come together to discuss the next generation of financial systems.
TORONTO, ON – Blockchain Futurist Conference returns July 21–22, 2026, with a focus on the future of finance. From digital assets and stablecoins to tokenization and artificial intelligence, the event explores the technologies reshaping financial systems in Canada and around the world.
Blockchain Futurist Conference is a showcase of digital asset innovation designed to foster networking and business development. Its famous outdoor VIP Cabana area features more than 50 private cabanas hosted by institutions, investors and policymakers driving digital asset adoption in Canada and globally.
Featured discussions will explore the most important issues shaping the future of finance, including digital asset regulation, institutional adoption, compliance, stablecoins, and tokenization.
Sessions include Parliament, Policy & Regulation: Canada's Digital Asset Future featuring leaders from the Canadian Web3 Council, Shakepay, the Canadian Securities Exchange, Parliament, and the legal sector; Institutional Adoption: What's Next for Digital Assets? featuring speakers from Bloomberg, Messari, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and zkSync; and Digital Assets & Compliance: The New Competitive Advantage featuring experts in compliance, regulation, and risk management.
A top sponsor this year is AiraPay, a company building next-generation payment infrastructure that bridges traditional banking, global payments, and digital assets. AiraPay will be featured on stage and in the expo hall, showcasing how modern financial infrastructure is enabling faster, more efficient global money movement.
"We're seeing growing demand for infrastructure that connects traditional banking rails with digital asset and stablecoin networks. At AiraPay, we're building the technology that helps businesses move money globally with greater speed, flexibility, and efficiency as finance becomes increasingly interconnected."
Featured programming includes House of Intelligence: Where Institutions Meet Web3, a forum dedicated to exploring the intersection of finance, artificial intelligence, privacy-preserving technologies, and digital assets. The event is organized by House of Intelligence and co-hosted by House of ZK.
Global participation will be highlighted through Invest Hong Kong's workshop, The Global Hub for Digital Assets, exploring Hong Kong's role as a leading destination for digital asset innovation, investment, and regulatory development.
The evolution of digital money will also be a key topic throughout the event. Stablecorp joins as the official Stablecoin Sponsor, showcasing the growing role stablecoins are playing within modern financial systems and digital asset markets.
Roundtable will be onsite conducting interviews in the backstage VIP Speaker Lounge with industry leaders from across the digital asset ecosystem. Through live conversations and media coverage, the platform will help spotlight the trends, companies, and innovators shaping the future of finance.
Additional discussions will explore topics including real-world asset tokenization, digital identity, decentralized finance, artificial intelligence, and the growing role of institutional capital within the Web3 ecosystem.
"Finance is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in its history," said Tracy Leparulo, Founder of Blockchain Futurist Conference. "We're seeing digital assets move from niche technology into real-world financial infrastructure. It's exciting to bring together the people building it and the people adopting it."
Blockchain Futurist Conference take place July 21–22, 2026, bringing together thousands of attendees from across the technology, finance, and digital asset industries.
To learn more, visit FuturistConference.com.
About Blockchain Futurist Conference
Blockchain Futurist Conference is Canada's largest Web3 and AI event. Since 2018, the conference has brought together innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and industry leaders to explore the technologies shaping the future. Known for its immersive experiences, Futurist transforms an entertainment complex into a living showcase of Web3, AI, digital assets, and emerging technology.

YZi Labs Leads Renaiss’ First Round
Renaiss, an RWA liquidity infrastructure project for real-world collectibles built on BNB Chain, has secured $1.5 million in funding, with YZi Labs leading the first round and participation from Gate Ventures, Hash Global, XIN Family, Redline Labs, and angels from Mask Network, Far East Group, Logoman, Hoopi, and Legit App.
The funding will support Renaiss as it scales its vault network, expands into new collectible verticals, strengthens product and ecosystem integrations, improves capital efficiency, and grows its global presence.
Building RWA Liquidity Infrastructure for Collectibles
Renaiss is building infrastructure that brings real-world collectibles on-chain through verifiable custody, standardized settlement and deeper liquidity.
At the core of its stack is RenaissOS, which turns independent vaults and card shops into on-chain verification nodes. Assets are co-signed through cryptographic multi-sig, reducing reliance on any single party and allowing custody status to be independently verified.
Renaiss started with trading cards as its first major collectible category, with Renaiss.xyz serving as the application layer for users to access collectible markets, trading and on-chain ownership. Its broader goal is to support more real-world collectible categories and ecosystem partners through on-chain rails.
With verified custody on-chain, collectors can access permissionless trading without requiring the physical asset to move each time ownership changes.
The Infrastructure Gap in Real-World Collectibles
High-value collectibles already have strong global demand, active secondary markets and deep cultural relevance. However, the market remains fragmented. Authentication, custody, pricing, settlement and cross-border transactions are often handled through separate offline processes, creating friction for both buyers and sellers.
While RWA tokenization has largely focused on treasuries, credit and real estate, collectibles represent a more consumer-native RWA category. These assets are shaped by financial value, culture, scarcity, identity and community demand.
Renaiss addresses this gap with a verifiable multi-region custody and liquidity layer, enabling physical collectibles to trade permissionlessly on-chain through trustless infrastructure.
Early Traction Since Beta
Since launching its beta in November 2025, Renaiss has surpassed $20 million in revenue in roughly six months. The platform has also grown to more than 260,000 users, with strong activity across Asian markets including South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Growth has been driven by primary collectible distribution, marketplace activity and increasing user participation around on-chain collectible assets. Secondary marketplace activity has also become an important signal, showing early liquidity beyond one-time drops.
Renaiss has also gained visibility within the BNB Chain ecosystem. In December 2025, the project was named a winner at Binance Blockchain Week Dubai Demo Night, presenting its approach to RWA infrastructure and on-chain collectible liquidity to a broader global Web3 audience. It has also ranked as the No. 1 RWA on BNB Chain, further reflecting its early position in the on-chain collectibles category.
In May 2026, Renaiss graduated from EASY Residency Season 3, a YZi Labs-backed incubation program, further strengthening its connection with the BNB Chain and YZi Labs ecosystem.
Scaling Infrastructure for the Taste Economy
With the new funding, Renaiss plans to scale its vault network, expand into new collectible categories, strengthen product integrations and support broader ecosystem growth through Renaiss SDK, DeFi integrations and AI agent infrastructure.
Its Trustless Leverage Engine is designed to improve capital efficiency as more verified, vault-backed supply moves on-chain.
For Renaiss, collectibles are expressions of taste, culture and ownership. By making physical assets verifiable, liquid and globally accessible on-chain, Renaiss aims to build the trustless infrastructure layer for the emerging taste economy.
About Renaiss Protocol
Renaiss Protocol is RWA liquidity infrastructure for real-world collectibles.
Built on BNB Chain and graduated from YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3, Renaiss is building a verifiable possession layer for physical assets by turning independent vaults and collectibles stores into on-chain verification nodes. Through cryptographic multi-sig, every asset is co-signed so no single party has control and anyone can verify. This trustless foundation powers vault-backed liquidity, instant trading, DeFi composability, open SDK distribution, and AI-agent plus custody-yield infrastructure – enabling collectors anywhere to trade physical collectibles permissionlessly, based purely on taste.

BTTInferGrid is a decentralized GPU computing network purpose-built for AI inference. By bridging the global supply of idle GPU capacity with the surging demand for AI workloads, BTTInferGrid delivers an open-access, verifiably secure, and pay-as-you-go computing infrastructure for AI developers worldwide.
On June 17, BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized technology, announced the strategic launch of BTTInferGrid to capture the rapidly growing AI inference market. Utilizing a decentralized, edge-computing architecture, the platform aggregates fragmented, underutilized GPU resources globally. By eliminating friction between hardware providers and AI developers, BTTInferGrid offers a highly scalable inference engine featuring plug-and-play access, on-chain verification of computation results, and flexible utility-based billing.
By leveraging decentralized orchestration, BTTInferGrid solves the inherent bottlenecks of traditional centralized cloud providers, such as high-concurrency latency and rigid pricing models during demand spikes. On the supply side, the network redefines the economics of idle hardware, optimizing resource allocation across the entire computing ecosystem.
This launch marks a strategic expansion of BitTorrent's utility beyond its core BitTorrent File System (BTFS) storage protocol. By combining its proven expertise in large-scale decentralized resource scheduling with high-performance computing, BitTorrent is positioning itself as a foundational infrastructure layer for the decentralized AI era.
From Training to Inference: BTTInferGrid Reengineers the AI Compute Supply Chain
The structural demand for AI compute is undergoing a fundamental shift from training to inference. BTTInferGrid is launching at this critical juncture to transform the supply side through its decentralized infrastructure, addressing prohibitive costs and resource bottlenecks to deliver cost-effective, high-performance compute.
Industry consensus projects that over 70% of future AI compute workloads will be dedicated to inference—the critical phase where AI models transition from development to production-grade deployment. While training is a one-time capital expense, inference is a continuous operational cost that directly impacts user experience and business viability. Oracle forecasts that the inference market will ultimately dwarf training in scale. Academician Zheng Weimin also notes that the vast majority of computing power is now consumed during daily user interactions with large models. This is reflected in operational budgets: inference now accounts for up to 95% of LLM compute expenses. Daily costs reach $700,000 for legacy platforms like ChatGPT, while even optimized models like DeepSeek V3 incur $87,000 daily.
As AI development democratizes, expanding beyond tech giants to millions of independent developers, traditional centralized infrastructure is failing on three fronts:
Inflexible Allocation vs. Volatile Workloads: Inference demand is inherently spiky, with peak-to-trough utilization ratios fluctuating by orders of magnitude within a single day. Centralized data centers force operators into a costly dilemma: over-provision hardware to guarantee peak availability—resulting in expensive idle capacity—or under-provision and risk service degradation. This systemic inefficiency, compounded by massive data center overheads like power and maintenance, keeps rental costs artificially high.Prohibitive GPU Pricing Hinders Innovation: Despite the surge in open-source models, practical deployment remains constrained by the cost of stable, accessible hardware. Rather than scaling down, GPU access costs have surged. On specialized clouds, secondary market rates for mainstream H100 GPUs rose from $1.70/hour in October 2025 to $2.35/hour in March 2026—a nearly 40% spike that leaves developers with sophisticated models but no viable compute to run them.Supply-Demand Mismatch and Isolated Compute Pools: A massive volume of GPU capacity sits idle within private networks, academic labs, and regional data centers worldwide. Due to the lack of standardized access and unified orchestration, these scattered resources remain locked out of the global inference market. This creates a market paradox: developers face chronic hardware shortages while vast reserves of computing power sit dormant.
In summary, the AI inference market is trapped in a triple squeeze: rigid centralized architectures lack elasticity, skyrocketing GPU rental fees stifle innovation, and fragmented global compute remains stranded. To break this deadlock, BTTInferGrid leverages decentralized technology to offer a new solution.
Specifically, the platform dismantles centralized monopolies and infrastructure bottlenecks by establishing a direct, decentralized corridor between global developers and idle GPU resources. First, BTTInferGrid aggregates fragmented, underutilized hardware into a highly unified and open-access computing commons. Second, it bypasses legacy intermediaries to eliminate artificial entry barriers and opaque pricing, facilitating a frictionless transaction environment. Driven by robust DePIN incentives and coordination protocols, the network guarantees continuous access to high-performance, cost-effective inference capacity, neutralizing stifling financial barriers and supply constraints at the source.
BTTInferGrid: Redefining Computing Power Allocation with a Decentralized Network for AI Inference
BTTInferGrid is architected with a singular mission: to establish the definitive decentralized infrastructure for AI inference. By bridging the global divide between idle GPU supply and escalating inference demand, the platform provides a permissionless gateway to high-performance compute that pairs verifiable execution with a flexible, pay-as-you-go model.
Leveraging a robust DePIN architecture, BTTInferGrid empowers both sides of the AI computing marketplace: On the supply side, it aggregates fragmented, idle GPUs to build an open, shared computing foundation. Powered by tokenized incentives and intelligent routing, the network enables resource providers to seamlessly monetize their idle hardware—transforming it into yield-generating assets while ensuring a stable, scalable supply of compute. On the demand side, it equips global AI developers with accessible, on-chain verified, and on-demand inference services. Compared to traditional centralized cloud providers, BTTInferGrid delivers a highly cost-efficient and scalable alternative. This significantly lowers the barrier to entry for small and medium-sized teams, accelerating product development cycles while funneling value back into the supply-side ecosystem.
BTTInferGrid is driving a powerful, self-sustaining growth flywheel: an expanding network of idle GPU nodes drives down computing costs, which in turn accelerates developer adoption. This surging demand further incentivizes new hardware suppliers to join the ecosystem, ultimately transforming scarce, high-cost AI computing power into an inclusive, on-demand decentralized infrastructure.
While most decentralized GPU platforms are currently hindered by prohibitive barriers to entry, opaque service reliability, and unsustainable business models, BTTInferGrid is engineered from the ground up to deliver three strategic breakthroughs, establishing a clear competitive edge:
Permissionless Access and Rapid GPU Aggregation: Any individual or organization possessing idle GPUs that meet baseline performance and reliability standards can seamlessly connect to the network. This friction-free approach drastically lowers supply-side barriers to entry, rapidly consolidating distributed global compute into a unified network.Verifiable Service Quality and Trustless Execution: To overcome trust deficit inherent in distributed networks, BTTInferGrid leverages advanced blockchain architecture to cross-validate all participant behavior. By integrating intelligent task routing, cryptographic spot checks, dynamic reputation scoring, and smart contract-based incentive and slashing mechanisms, the network effectively neutralizes fraud risks and ensures that all AI inference outputs are reliable, tamper-proof, and highly verifiable.Demand-Driven Economics for a Sustainable Ecosystem: BTTInferGrid is anchored by authentic AI inference demand and performance-based node incentives. Rather than relying solely on inflationary token emissions, compute suppliers generate real yield directly from developers paying for active network utilization. This utility-first mechanism mitigates speculative farming, ensuring the robust, long-term viability of the ecosystem.
The strategic breakthroughs achieved by BTTInferGrid—dismantling traditional barriers to entry, mobilizing global idle GPUs into a borderless computing grid, and engineering an end-to-end trustless verification loop—are fundamentally redefining the decentralized compute landscape. By anchoring its tokenomics strictly to authentic AI demand, the network pioneers a new standard for how computing resources are aggregated, verified, and equitably monetized.
The BTTInferGrid Roadmap: Scaling on Real-World Demand
BTTInferGrid is more than a hardware aggregator; it is a full-stack decentralized compute protocol that seamlessly integrates intelligent task routing, dynamic supply-and-demand matching, and automated on-chain settlements.
The ecosystem is powered by the synergy of three core participants. Compute Providers (Miners) provision their idle GPUs to the network in exchange for tokenized rewards; Compute Requesters (AI Developers) access scalable computing power via unified APIs; and Validators verify service quality and enforce consensus to maintain network integrity. This tri-party architecture delivers cost-efficient, reliable AI inference for developers while generating sustainable, utility-backed yield for hardware providers.
BTTInferGrid follows a clear, robust, demand-driven phased launch strategy. Rejecting the industry trend of unsustainable, brute-force expansion, the network prioritizes optimal resource utilization, economic viability, and the systematic scaling of its technical architecture.
Phase 1: Network Bootstrapping (2026)Onboard core nodes and validate distributed inference services. The primary objective is to scale the GPU node network and successfully navigate the cold-start phase. Phase 2: Ecosystem Diversification (2027)Strengthen network stability and privacy while expanding support for diverse AI model architectures. During this phase, the protocol will broaden its utility to accommodate complex scenarios, including decentralized model fine-tuning. Phase 3: Foundational AI Infrastructure (2028 and beyond)Establish BTTInferGrid as a native Web3 infrastructure layer, providing scalable compute for large-scale AI applications. The ultimate vision is the seamless convergence of decentralized compute, storage, and smart contracts into a unified ecosystem.
At launch, the network will prioritize professional-grade GPUs. To ensure initial stability, supply-side onboarding (miners) will initially be a permissioned process, while developers will retain seamless, on-demand access to inference services. BTTInferGrid will subsequently evolve into a fully permissionless supercomputing grid, supporting consumer, professional, and data-center-grade GPUs through a performance-based tiered pricing model. Node operators will benefit from open access secured by a staking mechanism to guarantee Service Level Agreements (SLA). Simultaneously, developers will gain access to unified APIs compatible with major model formats and inference frameworks, ensuring maximum deployment flexibility.
Crucially, BTTInferGrid is built on the battle-tested foundation of BitTorrent and the BitTorrent File System (BTFS). Having operated at a global scale, BTFS has already validated the DePIN model, demonstrating mature capabilities in hardware orchestration, tokenomic incentives, on-chain settlements, and decentralized governance. As the flagship initiative for BitTorrent’s expansion into Web3 AI, BTTInferGrid represents an evolutionary upgrade of the BTFS ecosystem. By migrating these proven operational frameworks into the AI inference domain, BTTInferGrid leverages a significant structural advantage to drive rapid, sustainable growth.