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New York, New York, October 23rd, 2026, Chainwire
New integration enables users to move USDC across networks, fund Tria cards and access trading accounts without separate bridging steps.
Tria, the self-custodial finance platform unifying trading, payments and digital asset management, today announced the integration of Arc, Circle’s newly launched Layer 1 blockchain, bringing new spending, trading and cross-chain capabilities to USDC holders.
The integration allows Tria users to send and receive USDC on Arc, convert funds between supported blockchain networks, top up their Tria cards and fund trading accounts directly within the platform. Users can move from holding digital dollars to spending or trading them without navigating separate applications or arranging manual bridge transfers.
Launched on September 16, Arc is Circle’s blockchain infrastructure designed for stablecoin payments, financial markets and real-time settlement. Its integration with Tria extends those capabilities into everyday financial activity, connecting USDC on Arc to practical uses across payments, trading and personal finance.
“Stablecoins become much more powerful when people can actually use them across every part of their financial lives,” said Vijit Katta, CEO of Tria. “Arc is building infrastructure for the next generation of digital money, and Tria is making that infrastructure accessible. Users can now take USDC from Arc straight into their card balance or trading account, or move it across supported networks, without leaving Tria.”
The integration introduces four core capabilities:
USDC transfers: Send, receive and hold USDC on Arc through Tria’s self-custodial wallet.
Cross-chain conversions: Move funds between Arc and other supported networks directly within Tria.
Card funding: Use USDC on Arc to top up a Tria card for everyday purchases.
Trading access: Fund supported trading accounts using USDC on Arc, without arranging a separate bridge transfer.
The integration is available across Tria’s web and mobile platforms. Users can select Arc in their Tria wallet to receive USDC, initiate conversions or fund their card and trading balances. Available routes, processing times and fees vary by transaction.
The launch advances Tria’s broader effort to make digital assets usable across financial applications, allowing users to manage, move, spend and trade their funds through a single self-custodial experience.
To access Arc on Tria, visit app.tria.so.
About Tria
Tria is a leading self-custodial finance platform serving more than 600,000 users, bringing digital asset trading, yield opportunities, payments and everyday spending into one application. Through its integrated wallet, trading infrastructure and payment card, Tria enables users to manage and use digital assets across supported blockchain networks without surrendering control of their funds.
Users can start using Tria: https://link.tria.so/4i5Tmab
Learn more about Tria: https://link.tria.so/4hZbgeK
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Jon PhillipsPhillComm GlobalTria@PhillComm.Global Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

New York, NY, October 22nd, 2026, Chainwire
Cypherium, a Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure company with patented consensus technology, has unveiled COLOSSUS-X, a new Proof-of-Work (PoW) architecture designed to help AI infrastructure providers turn idle GPU capacity into a potential source of revenue.
The announcement comes as AI data center operators face growing financial pressure from the enormous costs of computing infrastructure, energy and operations, raising questions about how the industry can sustain its rapid expansion.
Rather than relying on specialized mining equipment, COLOSSUS-X is designed around high-memory AI computing hardware, potentially allowing operators to earn blockchain mining rewards when their computing resources are not being used for AI training or inference.
The development builds on Cypherium's established technology. Cypherium Blockchain Inc. holds U.S. Patent No. 12,443,569 B2, granted in October 2025, covering validator committee selection in distributed systems. Its blockchain technology has also been featured in an official Google Cloud case study involving global staffing company Randstad, while Cypherium previously appeared in the Federal Reserve's FedNow Service Provider Showcase.
Turning Idle GPU Capacity Into Revenue
Traditional Proof-of-Work networks, including Bitcoin, rely heavily on specialized ASIC mining hardware that generally cannot be repurposed for AI computing.
COLOSSUS-X takes a different approach, requiring a 32 GiB memory dataset that grows approximately 10% annually, making memory capacity and bandwidth central to mining performance.
The architecture is designed to reduce the economic advantages of specialized mining equipment while aligning blockchain security with commercially available AI accelerators.
Cypherium's broader roadmap introduces a dual-track consensus system combining COLOSSUS-X with Proof-of-Useful-Training (PoUT), designed to enable verifiable AI training and inference workloads to contribute to network participation.
At the center of this model is a proposed compute reservoir, a system that would allow infrastructure operators to shift computing capacity between blockchain mining and AI workloads based on market demand.
By monetizing otherwise idle computing resources, the model could help AI infrastructure providers improve hardware utilization, recover a portion of their operating expenses and reduce their dependence on a single source of revenue.
“The AI industry is investing enormous amounts of capital into computing infrastructure, but keeping that infrastructure financially sustainable is becoming a major challenge,” said Sky Guo, Founder of Cypherium. “With COLOSSUS-X, we want to turn idle GPU capacity into a revenue-generating asset, giving AI infrastructure providers another way to recover costs while supporting blockchain security. Our broader vision is to connect physical computing power with financial markets, creating new opportunities to monetize and hedge the economics of AI infrastructure.”
Connecting AI Computing to Financial Markets
Beyond mining, Cypherium's whitepaper introduces the Cypherium Compute Index, a proposed on-chain reference price for standardized computing capacity, combining network rental prices, mining economics and external AI compute market data.
The index aims to establish a transparent pricing reference for computing power, positioning it as a new category of real-world assets (RWA) and creating a foundation for blockchain-based financial instruments.
In the future, it could serve as a settlement reference for perpetual derivatives tied to computing prices, potentially allowing AI infrastructure providers to hedge GPU costs, manage market volatility and reduce financial exposure.
By connecting physical computing resources with decentralized financial markets, Cypherium aims to expand the role of AI computing power beyond infrastructure, opening the door to new RWA-based financial products backed by the economics of computing capacity.
What's Next
COLOSSUS-X builds on Cypherium's hybrid consensus architecture, which combines permissionless Proof-of-Work validator selection with HotStuff-derived Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus for fast, deterministic transaction finality.
The roadmap includes AI hardware optimization, activation of the dual-track consensus mechanism, deployment of the compute reservoir and independent security analysis. These capabilities remain subject to implementation and validation.
About Cypherium
Cypherium is a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure company developing patented consensus technology for financial and enterprise applications. Its hybrid architecture combines Proof-of-Work with Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus to support decentralized participation and fast transaction finality. Cypherium's technology has been documented in a Google Cloud case study involving Randstad, and the company provides the underlying blockchain infrastructure for DeepSigma, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange focused on real-world assets.
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Austin, TX, October 22nd, 2026, Chainwire
AEREDIUM, a digital asset infrastructure company, has launched two AI products designed to help organizations control what autonomous AI agents can do with their software and money.
The products, The Chair and MCP Connector, are now available through the company's newly launched aeredium.ai platform. Both are built around a policy engine that evaluates actions before they are executed, allowing organizations to define what AI agents can and cannot do without human approval.
As AI agents increasingly take on tasks such as writing software, processing payments and executing trades, organizations face a growing challenge: ensuring that automated systems operate within clearly defined boundaries.
AEREDIUM's approach places a control layer between AI agents and the systems they interact with. Every proposed action is evaluated against rules established by its owner and receives one of three outcomes: approved, denied or held for human review. Each decision is signed and recorded, creating a verifiable history of agent activity.
“AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They're writing code, moving money and making decisions that have real consequences,” said Albert Dadon, CEO and Founder of AEREDIUM. “The challenge isn't just making these agents more capable, but making sure they operate within the rules we set. With The Chair and MCP Connector, we're giving organizations a way to put AI to work without giving up control over what it can do.”
The Chair: Controlling AI Agents That Write Code
The Chair is designed for software development teams using AI coding agents to work on organizational systems and repositories.
The product sits between an AI agent and an organization's development environment, evaluating each tool call before it runs. Actions such as executing commands, modifying files, merging code or pushing changes are checked against the organization's policies.
Actions covered by existing rules can be automatically approved or denied. Requests that fall outside those rules are held for human review through a control panel, where authorized users can approve or reject them.
Every decision generates a signed receipt documenting what the agent attempted, which policy applied and who authorized the action.
The Chair supports Claude Code through a dedicated plugin and provides a governed shell for other coding agents, including those from OpenAI. Organizations can establish their own policies through a questionnaire, rather than writing the rules directly in code.
The product is available with a 30-day free trial.
MCP Connector: Giving AI Agents Access to Money Without Giving Up Control
While The Chair focuses on software development, MCP Connector applies the same policy-based approach to AI agents handling financial transactions.
The product combines a policy engine with a digital asset wallet, allowing agents to execute approved payments and trades while remaining subject to limits established by their owners.
Each agent operates through its own wallet, policy and designated owner. The owner defines the agent's role, approves its mandate using a passkey and can halt or delete the agent at any time.
Two agent roles are currently available:
Payer: Allows an AI agent to send USDC, USDT, PYUSD and EURC to addresses approved by its owner, without permission to trade.
Trader: Allows an AI agent to trade on designated exchanges within its own wallet, without permission to send funds to external recipients.
The wallet uses threshold signatures generated inside secure enclaves, meaning no complete private key is created and AEREDIUM does not hold a key to the owner's funds.
MCP Connector currently supports Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base, with transaction records retained for seven years.
The product is designed for Claude and is open to OpenAI and other AI frameworks.
Bringing Institutional Controls to Autonomous AI
Both products build on AEREDIUM's existing infrastructure for institutional digital asset security, including its threshold-signature technology and policy engine.
The same underlying approach is used across the company's custody and blockchain infrastructure: transactions must satisfy predefined rules before they can be signed, and decisions are recorded for subsequent verification.
By extending these controls to AI agents, AEREDIUM aims to give organizations a way to use autonomous systems for increasingly sensitive tasks while maintaining oversight of their actions.
The launch also expands AEREDIUM's offering beyond digital asset custody and settlement into the governance of AI-driven financial and software operations.
Availability
The Chair and MCP Connector launched on October 13, 2026, and are available through AEREDIUM's new AI platform.
For more information:
AEREDIUM AI: https://aeredium.ai
The Chair: https://aeredium.ai/the-chair
MCP Connector: https://aeredium.ai/connector
About AEREDIUM
AEREDIUM Holdings Inc. builds The Trust Layer: blockchain infrastructure for institutional settlement in which correctness is enforced by hardware, cryptography and autonomous oversight rather than promised by intermediaries. AEREDIUM operates from Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Austin, Texas.
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Madrid, Spain, October 21st, 2026, Chainwire
MERGE Madrid will take place from October 27 to 29 at the Madrid Stock Exchange and Cibeles Palace, with an expected turnout of more than 3,000 attendees and 250 international speakers
Euro and dollar stablecoins, the transformation of payments, and asset tokenization will take center stage in debates among banks, investment platforms, and remittance companies
Coty de Monteverde from Santander and Francisco Maroto from BBVA are among the key participants, alongside representatives from Trade Republic, Western Union, Qivalis, Mastercard, and Ripple
The event will kick off on the 27th with the Institutional Summit and a private VIP cocktail reception at the Madrid Stock Exchange; on the 28th and 29th, Cibeles Palace will host the main conference
The battle for digital money will have its next destination in Madrid. From October 27 to 29, MERGE Madrid 2026 will bring together banks, investment platforms, payment providers, and digital asset ecosystem representatives to explore how stablecoins and blockchain technology are reshaping payments, international transfers, and investing. Santander, BBVA, Trade Republic, and Western Union will participate in an edition expected to gather over 3,000 attendees and 250 international speakers.
With just one week to go, the event will address critical questions shaping the future of the financial sector: what role euro- and dollar-pegged digital currencies will play, who will build the new payment infrastructure, and how these innovations will reach businesses and everyday consumers. The agenda will combine perspectives from traditional banking, digital platforms, and companies connecting digital assets with daily economics.
Four Approaches Anticipating the Future of Digital Money
BBVA, Banca Sella, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Cecabank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Kutxabank, Piraeus Bank, Raiffeisen Bank, and Bankinter will highlight their role in Qivalis, an alliance bringing together 37 financial institutions across 15 European countries to drive a euro-denominated stablecoin. The project aims to offer faster, lower-cost, 24/7 payments and transfers, as well as streamline digital asset settlements within a regulated environment. Commercial launch is slated for the second half of 2026, subject to regulatory authorization.
Santander will discuss the initiative it is exploring alongside Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, MUFG, TD Bank, and UBS to issue digital currency backed 1:1 by reserves and accessible on public blockchains. The project is examining currencies pegged to G7 fiat currencies and demonstrates how international banking is working to establish common standards for operating digital money securely and in compliance with regulations.
Trade Republic will share insights from one of Europe’s leading investment and savings platforms on integrating digital assets into everyday financial services. Its participation will provide analysis on retail investor demand, facilitating simple and regulated access to crypto assets, and the pivotal role digital platforms will play in adopting next-generation financial infrastructure in Europe.
Western Union will showcase USDPT, its dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and built on Solana. The company is integrating this asset into its Digital Asset Network to bridge digital money with real-world utility: 24/7 transfers, payments, and local currency conversions across its global network. The initiative illustrates how stablecoins can complement existing cash and remittance infrastructures rather than functioning as an isolated system.
“For the first time, banks, fintechs, and major payment providers aren’t gathering to debate whether stablecoins have a place in the financial system, but rather to explain how they are building and integrating them and which specific problems they intend to solve. MERGE Madrid will be the platform where we can compare these models and understand the shape digital money will take in Europe and Latin America,” explains Paula Pascual, founder of MERGE.
Everyone’s Push to Launch a Stablecoin Right Now
This momentum arrives at a pivotal moment for the industry. The MiCA regulation has established a clear European framework for issuing and offering crypto assets, while the rapid growth of US dollar-linked stablecoins has sparked important discussions on monetary sovereignty and Europe’s capacity to develop its own payment infrastructure.
For financial institutions, these tokens open opportunities for near-instant cross-border transfers, programmable payments, continuous operating hours, and tokenized asset settlements without reliance on legacy market hours. For payment platforms and remittance services, they offer a path to minimize intermediaries and connect digital currency directly to merchants, bank accounts, and cash pickup locations.
Discussions at MERGE Madrid will go far beyond tech specs. Speakers will evaluate who should issue these digital assets, how reserves are safeguarded, necessary consumer protections, co-existence with traditional bank deposits and the future digital euro, and which models hold the strongest promise for mass adoption.
Three Days Across the Madrid Stock Exchange and Cibeles Palace
The agenda brings together leaders in banking, payments, investing, regulation, blockchain infrastructure, and digital assets. Confirmed speakers include Coty de Monteverde, Global Head of Crypto & Digital Assets at Banco Santander; Francisco Maroto, Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at BBVA; alongside executive teams from Trade Republic, Western Union, Qivalis, Mastercard, Ripple, and other pioneering firms shaping future financial infrastructure.
The program opens Tuesday, October 27 at the Madrid Stock Exchange with the Institutional Summit for bankers, investors, regulators, and industry leaders, followed by a private VIP networking reception. On Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29, Cibeles Palace will host the main conference, drawing participants from across Europe and Latin America for keynotes and breakout sessions on evolving financial services.
Beyond stablecoins and digital payments, discussions will cover tokenization, custody, regulation, capital markets, Bitcoin, AI in finance, and next-gen blockchain infrastructure. MERGE reinforces its role as the premier bridge connecting traditional banking with the digital asset ecosystem across both sides of the Atlantic.
About MERGE
MERGE is the leading institutional platform for digital assets, blockchain, and Web3 connecting Europe and Latin America. Through flagship events in Madrid, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, it brings together banks, regulators, corporations, investors, fintechs, startups, and native Web3 leaders to foster collaboration and advance new business models.
For more information, agenda details, and tickets: https://www.mmerge.io/es/merge-madrid-2026?utm_source=nota_prensa&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=mm26_PR_septiembre
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CXOAna ÁvilaWildcomaavila@wildcom.es Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Singapore, Singapore, October 20th, 2026, Chainwire
The discretionary buyback represents close to 1% of circulating supply and precedes four planned product milestones culminating in Grvt 2.0.
Grvt, a self-custodial trading platform built on its own zero-knowledge (ZK) chain, announced that the Foundation's token issuer has completed its first GRVT token buyback, purchasing and burning 1.1 million GRVT tokens on the open market.
The transaction permanently removed close to 1% of GRVT's circulating supply at the time of purchase. It marks the first of five milestones ahead of the planned launch of Grvt 2.0 at the end of November 2026.
A Discretionary Buyback with On-Chain Verification
The Foundation's token issuer intends to conduct further buybacks on a monthly basis. Each transaction remains entirely at the issuer's discretion, with no predetermined purchase amount or guaranteed schedule.
Buybacks are executed through an independent execution partner, with purchased tokens transferred to a designated burn address and permanently removed from circulation.
The transactions can be independently verified through the public buyback dashboard, which records the number of tokens purchased and burned, the percentage of circulating supply represented, cumulative burns and on-chain transaction hashes.
"The GRVT token is an important part of the ecosystem we are building," said Hong, co-founder and CEO of Grvt. "We welcome the issuer's buybacks as a demonstration of its long-term commitment to the ecosystem and community. Grvt is expanding its products and markets, and the issuer’s buybacks sit alongside that as a supportive mechanism aimed at reducing circulating token supply."
Grvt Outlines Four Product Milestones
The announcement follows GRVT's token generation event in July 2026 and precedes a series of planned launches.Grvt Earn, scheduled for the End of October, will introduce yield opportunities backed by tokenized assets, with target yields of up to 11%. Potential returns are expected to derive from underlying asset cash flows, including interest, premiums and invoice-related income. Asset-supplying partners will be announced at launch. Target yields are not guaranteed.
Stable Funding Perps, scheduled for November, will introduce perpetual futures linked to commodities, stocks, foreign exchange and indices. The contracts are planned to carry zero trading fees and use once-daily funding. Grvt aims to list more than 1,000 markets by the end of December 2026.
Yield as Margin, also scheduled for November, will allow eligible Grvt Earn balances to support trading positions while continuing to accrue yield, subject to applicable product terms and risk parameters.
Grvt 2.0, scheduled for the End of November, will consolidate these capabilities into a single self-custodial app, alongside a new name, visual identity, and the company's 2027 roadmap.
Addressing Idle Capital
The expansion follows a survey of Grvt traders conducted earlier in 2026. Six in ten respondents reported keeping at least a quarter of their capital on the platform idle, while many reported moving funds elsewhere to pursue yields of 8% or more.
Grvt's upcoming products aim to reduce the separation between earning yield and deploying capital for trading.
"Traders shouldn't have to choose between putting their capital to work and keeping it ready to trade," Hong said. "Grvt 2.0 is designed around a single self-custodial balance that can support both activities."
Founded in 2022, Grvt currently supports perpetual futures across approximately 200 cryptocurrency and real-world asset markets.
The GRVT token launched in July 2026 and confers no ownership, profit or other economic rights.
Further details are available in the full announcement.
About Grvt
Grvt is a self-custodial trading platform operating on its own zero-knowledge chain. The platform supports cryptocurrency and real-world asset perpetual futures and is developing products that allow eligible balances to earn yield while supporting trading activity.
Learn more at grvt.io.
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Head of MarketingLesner ChuaGRVT ASIA PTE. LTDlesner.chua@grvt.io Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

San Francisco, CA, October 20th, 2026, Chainwire
After researchers found that nearly every fingerprinting method they tested could be evaded, including Sentient’s own, the new Fingerprinting Leaderboard will openly test which techniques can actually survive copying, fine-tuning, distillation and attack.
AI models can cost millions of dollars to train, yet once they are copied, fine-tuned or distilled into another model, proving where they came from can be remarkably difficult.
Sentient researchers recently tested ten proposed techniques designed to solve that problem and found that nearly all could be evaded by a sufficiently sophisticated attacker while preserving the model’s usefulness. That included Sentient’s own fingerprinting method.
Now, Sentient Foundation is launching the Fingerprinting Leaderboard, an open benchmark designed to measure which approaches actually work, how much they affect model performance, and ultimately whether their fingerprints can survive attempts to remove them.
The problem is becoming increasingly important as more capable AI models are released, fine-tuned, distilled and repackaged. Model weights can be copied and metadata can disappear, leaving developers with few reliable ways to demonstrate that another model originated from their work.
Fingerprinting offers a different approach: put the proof of origin inside the model itself.
“AI models are becoming some of the most valuable intellectual property in the world, yet once a model is copied or distilled, proving ownership becomes incredibly difficult,” said Sachi Kamiya, Director of Venture and Growth at Sentient Foundation. “Fingerprinting puts the proof inside the model. Think of it as the AI equivalent of the hidden marks Renaissance painters used to establish authorship.”
A Hidden Signature Inside the Model
Developed by researchers at Sentient Labs and others across the field, model fingerprinting refers to techniques that create, discover or verify distinctive signals associated with a model, allowing its identity or lineage to later be tested.
Sentient’s own approach embeds hidden behavioral signatures during training. Later, an owner only needs API access to a suspected derivative model. By sending the secret challenge prompts and checking its responses, they can test whether traces of the original model remain.
In simple terms, the model carries evidence of where it came from.
“The mark is a behavioural signature encoded during training, and verified later through challenge prompts that reveal whether a suspect model still carries traces of the original. “ said Eduardo Contente, AI Researcher at Sentient Labs
This creates something AI has historically lacked: model provenance that can be verified from the model itself, rather than relying solely on logs, metadata or external investigation.
24,576 Fingerprints in a Single Model
Sentient researchers have already demonstrated that fingerprinting can scale far beyond earlier approaches.
Its Perinucleus method, spotlighted at NeurIPS 2025, embedded 24,576 fingerprints into Llama-3.1-8B with minimal utility loss, with many fingerprints surviving downstream fine-tuning.
That scale matters. More fingerprints mean stronger statistical confidence, more chances to verify provenance, and greater resilience as models are copied or distributed.
But scale is only half the problem. The harder question is whether those fingerprints can survive someone actively trying to remove them.
Sentient Tried to Break the Fingerprints, Including Its Own
Sentient Labs’ latest research shows that many existing fingerprinting and watermarking methods remain vulnerable to a sophisticated attacker.
In research presented at SaTML 2026, Sentient researchers built adaptive attacks against ten recently proposed fingerprinting schemes and found that nearly all could be evaded by a sufficiently sophisticated adversary while preserving model usefulness.
That included Sentient’s own Perinucleus method.
Rather than hiding those weaknesses, Sentient published them.
The Fingerprinting Leaderboard is designed to turn that adversarial process into an open benchmark. Its first release evaluates how effectively different techniques embed fingerprints without degrading model performance. A forthcoming release will add adversarial robustness, testing how well those fingerprints survive deliberate attempts to remove or evade them.
The goal is simple: a fingerprint should not just survive a research benchmark. It should survive someone actively trying to destroy it.
Opening the Test to the Research Community
Alongside the leaderboard, Sentient is releasing mlprints, an open-source library that brings fingerprinting techniques and attacks into a common evaluation framework.
Researchers can implement new schemes, develop new attacks, reproduce existing results and compare approaches under common conditions as the field advances.
The Fingerprinting Leaderboard is designed to evolve with the research community, turning model fingerprinting into an open testing environment where claims about robustness can be independently evaluated rather than simply accepted.
Open Models Without Giving Up Ownership
Fingerprinting could help solve one of open-source AI’s hardest problems.
Today, builders often face a trade-off: keep model weights closed and maintain control, or release them openly and lose visibility into how they are copied and reused.
Fingerprinting introduces another possibility.
Instead of preventing copying, it creates evidence of where a model came from after copying occurs. That evidence could eventually support attribution, licensing enforcement, economic guarantees and other systems built around verifiable model provenance.
By making model provenance verifiable, Sentient’s fingerprinting research and Fingerprinting leaderboard aim to create an open AI ecosystem where models can be shared and built upon without creators automatically surrendering their ability to prove where the technology originated.
The longer-term goal is even harder: a fingerprint that is so deeply tied to a model’s capabilities that removing it would also damage the model itself.
Provable IP. Know Your Model.
Learn more: https://fingerprint.sentient.foundation
About the Sentient Foundation
The Sentient Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring Artificial General Intelligence remains open-source and aligned with humanity. Operating with neutrality and transparency at its core, the Foundation promotes global adoption of open-source AGI, champions alignment and safety standards, distributes grants to developers worldwide, and coordinates governance frameworks for responsible AI development. For press enquiries, contact: marketing@sentient.foundation
Website: https://sentient.foundation
X: https://x.com/sentient_found
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentient-foundation/
About Sentient Labs
Sentient Labs is the technical research and product organisation of Sentient Foundation.
Pioneering applied research in reasoning, alignment, and multi-agent coordination, the Labs build open-source frameworks and models - including but not limited to ROMA, OML and Arena - that demonstrate the power of community-driven artificial intelligence. This includes enabling monetization of open-source tools, improving the quality and utility of the open-source AI ecosystem through ecosystem-wide coordination, and providing the distribution needed to make open-source the default standard in AI.
Website: https://sentient.xyz
X: https://x.com/sentientAGI
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sentientagi
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Sachi KamiyaSentient Foundationmarketing@sentient.foundation Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.

Castries, Saint Lucia, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire
PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset broker and crypto asset service provider, has introduced a new VIP Welcome offer, giving all new clients automatic VIP4-tier status for their first 14 days. Activated upon registration with no additional action required, the offer provides immediate access to lower trading costs and enhanced conditions without first meeting the usual trading-volume requirements.
During the welcome period, clients receive 33% off Crypto Futures taker fees on broker’s PXTrader 2.0 platform, up to 50% on Bitcoin CFD spreads, and 10% off Exchange spreads. VIP 4 tier also includes access to 10% cashback on eligible trading costs through the Rewards Center, and 24/7 priority support.
PrimeXBT’s VIP Tiers program offers five levels of progressively lower fees and enhanced conditions, with VIP status normally earned based on trading volume over the previous 30 days. Tier upgrades are automatic, and traders can track their progress in real time. The VIP Welcome offer gives all new clients immediate access to VIP 4 without first meeting these volume requirements. After the 14-day welcome period, clients who meet the relevant thresholds can maintain VIP 4 or progress to VIP 5. At VIP 5, Crypto Futures taker fees fall to 0.015%, while Bitcoin CFD spreads start from $19. Clients can also unlock VIP tiers using their Rewards Center balance, earned through tasks and trading milestones. The balance can also be used for cashback or trading bonus.
“Sharp price swings, like those recently seen in Bitcoin, can lead traders to enter and exit positions more frequently. With more trades, even small differences in costs can add up quickly,” said Jonatan Randin, Senior Market Analyst at PrimeXBT. “The VIP Welcome offer helps new clients reduce those costs from day one, giving them access to our premium trading conditions alongside the charting and risk-management tools to plan and manage their positions.”
The offer covers PrimeXBT’s range of over 170 Crypto Futures, spanning major cryptocurrencies, Layer 1 and Layer 2 projects, Payment tokens, Memecoins, and tokens across DeFi, AI, Gaming, the Metaverse and NFTs. It also extends to Forex and CFDs on indices, commodities, shares and crypto, which clients can trade using their crypto as trading capital through the same PXTrader 2.0 account. Clients benefit from low spreads and commission-free CFD trading, with VIP4 Welcome spread discounts of 15% on Forex and CFDs and up to 50% on Gold.
PrimeXBT continues to strengthen its position in multi-asset trading through competitive pricing and professional tools. The VIP Welcome offer reinforces this priority, making market-leading trading conditions accessible to everyone from the very first trade.
To learn more, users can visit PrimeXBT website.
About PrimeXBT
PrimeXBT is a global multi-asset broker and crypto asset service provider trusted by traders in more than 150 countries. The platform bridges traditional and digital markets within one integrated environment, redefining versatility and innovation in online trading. Clients can access Forex, CFDs on indices, commodities, shares, crypto, and Crypto Futures, as well as buy, store and exchange cryptocurrencies. This unified experience extends across both the native PXTrader 2.0 platform and MetaTrader 5, supported by advanced risk-management tools and a wide range of funding options in crypto, fiat and local payment methods. Since 2018, PrimeXBT has focused on empowering traders through broad multi-asset access, fair and transparent conditions, professional-grade technology and dedicated human support. By combining expertise, trust and a client-first approach, PrimeXBT sets a benchmark of excellence in the financial industry and provides traders with the tools they need to trade, grow and succeed with confidence.
Disclaimer: The content provided here is for informational purposes only and is not intended as personal investment advice and does not constitute a solicitation or invitation to engage in any financial transactions, investments, or related activities. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The financial products offered by the Company are complex and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. These products may not be suitable for all investors. Before engaging, you should consider whether you understand how these leveraged products work and whether you can afford the high risk of losing your money. The Company does not accept clients from the Restricted Jurisdictions as indicated on its website / T&Cs. Some products and services, including MT5, may not be available in your jurisdiction. The applicable legal entity and its respective products and services depend on the client’s country of residence and the entity with which the client has established a contractual relationship during registration.
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Paris, France, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire
Limited to 10 institutional allocators, the program combines curated stablecoin lending strategies with institutional onboarding through Anchorage.
Frgmnt, an institutional onchain yield infrastructure company, today announced its Founding Allocator Program, designed to give professional investors access to stablecoin lending markets without having to build and operate the underlying DeFi infrastructure themselves.
The program will initially be limited to 10 institutional allocators and provides access to non-custodial Morpho Vault strategies curated by Frgmnt. These strategies have generated an average annualized yield of 6.80%, with program participants eligible for an enhanced yield of up to 10% APY. Participants will pay no program fees during the Founding Allocator Program, with no lock-up period and same-day withdrawals under normal operating conditions.
The launch addresses an operational barrier to institutional participation in onchain finance: accessing yield strategies requires custody arrangements, reporting and processes for evaluating and managing allocations, alongside the underlying technology.
Institutional onboarding will be supported through Anchorage, allowing eligible participants to access the program through an institutional custody environment. Frgmnt will provide strategy curation, dedicated reporting, regular strategy reviews and direct access to its team.
“Institutions increasingly understand the opportunity in onchain finance, but accessing it still requires a significant operational and infrastructure effort,” said Aurélien Roussel, CEO and Co-Founder of Frgmnt. “We built the Founding Allocator Program to bridge that gap — combining professionally curated onchain strategies with the infrastructure institutional investors need to evaluate, access and manage an allocation.”
As stablecoins expand beyond crypto trading and payments, onchain lending markets offer another route for institutions to deploy capital. Accessing these markets, however, requires more than an attractive yield. Custody, liquidity, transparency, operational processes and ongoing risk management remain central considerations for professional allocators.
Frgmnt combines transparent onchain strategies with an institutional framework for accessing and monitoring those opportunities. Participants can review their allocations and underlying activity through onchain data alongside dedicated reporting, while retaining flexibility to increase or withdraw their allocations.
The limited initial cohort will allow Frgmnt to work closely with each participant throughout onboarding and as they evaluate and scale their onchain allocation.
Applications for the Founding Allocator Program are now open.
About Frgmnt
Frgmnt is building institutional infrastructure for accessing onchain yield. The company curates non-custodial Morpho Vault strategies designed to provide professional investors with structured access to stablecoin lending markets. Frgmnt focuses on strategy curation, risk parameters and the institutional product layer surrounding onchain yield, while custody and institutional access are provided through specialized infrastructure partners.
Frgmnt's protocol and strategy activity are transparent onchain, with relevant information and performance data made available through its website and blockchain analytics platforms.
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Zug, Switzerland, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire
StakerX's AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch
StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform
StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG, has passed $40 million in assets staked on Solana less than three months after its public launch on July 13, 2026. Users fund their stakes with more than 40 cryptocurrencies from most major blockchains, and StakerGPT, the platform's agentic trading agent, puts that capital to work in crypto perpetual futures markets every day.
An AI agent that shows its work
An agentic system is AI software that carries out a multi-step task on its own. StakerGPT is built on rare-access Claude Mythos: it monitors crypto markets around the clock, reasons over potential trade setups, filters them through risk controls and routes the approved trades for execution, without a human placing each order.
Every trade is public. StakerX publishes the full record daily at stakerx.ai/trades, with the market, direction, entry and exit prices and return of each position, including both live-executed and signal-derived trades. As of October 18, 2026, the record holds 804 trades across 139 trading days since June 1, 2026, so anyone can check what the agent did on any given day instead of relying on summary figures.
Fund it with almost any coin
Users can deposit USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX and more than 30 other cryptocurrencies from Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Tron and other networks. Each deposit is converted and credited as USDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on Solana, so users do not need to bridge or swap anything themselves. Stakes start at $10 and run for 30 days.
Three months of growth
As of October 18, 2026, StakerX.ai reports:
$40 million currently staked on the platform
More than 8,200 registered users, of whom more than 3,000 have funded an account
804 trades published across 139 trading days
More than 27,700 completed withdrawals, totalling $10+ million
Nearly $12 million in yield credited to users since launch
Coming to the App Store and Google Play
StakerX is preparing native mobile apps for iOS and Android, expected in December 2026, which will bring the dashboard, deposits and the live StakerGPT trade record to the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is available today on the web at stakerx.ai.
About StakerX
StakerX is an agentic trading platform built and operated by StakerX Strategies AG, a quantitative trading and investment firm based in Switzerland. Its AI trading agent, StakerGPT, is built on rare-access Claude Mythos and evaluates crypto markets, applies risk filters and routes trades, and the platform publishes every trade in its record daily. Its goal is to make agentic trading accessible to anyone who holds crypto, from any chain, with every trade on the record. StakerX launched publicly on July 13, 2026. More information is available at stakerx.ai.
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New York, New York, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire
The three-month championship brings Hyperliquid and Decibel traders together for cash prizes and exclusive Ferrari Formula 1 experiences at Suzuka, as tokenization expands access to global financial markets.
Tria, the self-custodial financial platform unifying trading, yield, and payments, today announced the launch of the Tria Grand Prix, a three-month global perpetual futures trading competition featuring $120,000 in prizes and an extraordinary grand prize: three-day Ferrari F1 Paddock Club experiences for the competition's two top eligible traders at the 2027 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.
Running from October 16, 2026, through January 16, 2027, the championship brings together perpetual futures trading on Hyperliquid and Decibel through a single competition on Tria. Participants will compete across nine cash-prize rounds and a season-long leaderboard, culminating in two winners receiving exclusive Ferrari Paddock Club access for the April 9–11 Formula 1 race weekend at Suzuka Circuit, including premium hospitality overlooking the Ferrari team garage, pit-lane access and other F1 experiences.
How the Tria Grand Prix Works
The Tria Grand Prix combines eligible trading activity across Hyperliquid and Decibel, two decentralized perpetual futures exchanges integrated into the Tria application. Qualifying trades executed through either venue on Tria contribute to the same championship standings, enabling participants to compete across supported cryptocurrency and traditional-asset-linked markets without switching between separate applications.
Prizes and Rewards
The competition features nine cash-prize rounds, season-long championship rewards and daily Gacha raffles:
$90,000 in USDC prizes: Nine competition rounds, each awarding $10,000 in USDC.
Ferrari F1 Paddock Club: One three-day Ferrari Paddock Club experience for each of the top two qualifying championship traders at the 2027 Japanese Grand Prix.
Championship rewards: Gacha packs awarded according to qualifying championship rank, plus one month of VIP 7 status for the top 20 qualifying traders.
Daily raffle: One $50 Gacha pack awarded each day through a raffle.
Eligibility and Championship Rankings
Participation is automatic. Eligible users enter the competition by placing qualifying, fee-paying perpetual futures trades through Tria on Hyperliquid or Decibel, with no separate registration required. Only eligible trades executed through the Tria application count toward competition standings.
Season-long championship rankings are determined by total eligible trading volume. To qualify for any championship reward, including Ferrari Paddock Club experiences, rank-based Gacha packs and VIP 7 benefits, participants must generate at least $5 million in cumulative eligible trading volume during the competition. This threshold refers to aggregate trading activity, not a minimum deposit or account balance. The nine individual cash-prize rounds have separate qualification requirements.
The two highest-ranked qualifying traders will receive three-day Ferrari Paddock Club experiences at the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, April 9–11, 2027. The Suzuka finale will bring the championship to one of Formula 1's most celebrated circuits, giving its winners access to Ferrari's race-weekend hospitality and an extraordinary vantage point on the action.
A Global Championship for a New Era of Financial Markets
The Tria Grand Prix launches as tokenization and onchain financial infrastructure expand access to markets traditionally separated by geography, financial intermediaries and local trading systems. Tria is seeing this shift firsthand, with traders in Japan and South Korea using the platform to access U.S. equity- and commodity-linked markets, while users in markets such as the United Arab Emirates can gain exposure to Korean stocks through onchain trading instruments.
These cross-border opportunities illustrate a broader transformation in global finance: investors increasingly expect access to markets outside their home countries without navigating separate brokerage relationships, fragmented infrastructure or multiple trading applications. By integrating Hyperliquid and Decibel into one self-custodial environment, Tria connects cryptocurrency trading with opportunities linked to traditional financial assets, bringing participants from different markets into a shared global competition.
"Someone in Japan or Korea can trade exposure to American stocks and commodities, while someone sitting in Dubai can access markets linked to Korean equities. That is a profound change in how global financial participation works," said Vijit Katta, Co-Founder and CEO of Tria. "Tokenization is breaking down the geographic barriers that have historically determined which markets people can access. We're building for a world where capital can move across markets as easily as information moves across the internet. The Tria Grand Prix brings that vision to life by putting traders from different parts of the world into the same championship, with the chance to finish the season inside Ferrari's F1 Paddock Club at Suzuka."
The championship also demonstrates how Tria's broader financial platform connects activities that have traditionally operated through separate services. Users can trade across supported markets, manage digital assets, earn yield and make payments through the same self-custodial application, supported by Tria's cross-chain infrastructure.
Tria has grown to more than 600,000 users across over 150 countries, reflecting increasing demand for financial applications that combine global reach, asset control and access to multiple markets. The Grand Prix will bring this international user base together in a single competition while providing further insight into how participants across different regions engage with onchain trading and traditional financial markets.
About Tria
Tria is a self-custodial neofinance platform bringing trading, yield, payments and cross-chain asset management into one application. Through integrations with platforms including Hyperliquid and Decibel, and its BestPath routing infrastructure, Tria enables users to access digital assets and onchain financial markets while maintaining control of their assets. The platform serves more than 600,000 users across over 150 countries.
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Tokyo, Japan, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire
Both companies to explore pilot connecting yen-denominated stablecoin JPYSC with U.S. dollar stablecoin Open USD (OUSD), marking the first step toward frictionless yen–dollar settlement, onchain and in real time
SBI Holdings, Inc. ("SBI") and Startale Group Pte. Ltd. ("Startale") today announced they have joined Open Standard, the fast-growing alliance of more than 140 leading global companies, including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Coinbase, driving the adoption of Open USD (OUSD), a U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin built for global-scale settlement.
As part of this move, the two companies will explore interoperability between OUSD and JPYSC, the yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank. The public launch of OUSD onchain provides a foundation for this partnership, with the companies working toward faster, more efficient settlement between the world’s two most-traded currencies.
A Pivotal Moment for Onchain Finance
The move comes as the global financial system undergoes a historic shift toward blockchain-based settlement. Landmark U.S. legislation, namely the GENIUS Act, has accelerated the build-out of regulated, enterprise-grade stablecoin infrastructure worldwide. In June 2026, this momentum culminated in the launch of Open Standard, uniting more than 140 companies spanning finance, payments, and technology behind a single mission: establishing OUSD as a common settlement layer for the onchain economy.
SBI and Startale have been at the forefront of this transformation in Asia. In July 2026, SBI Global Asset Management, DigiFT Tech Pte. Ltd., and Startale unveiled a proof-of-concept for settlement and distribution payments on tokenized securities, a project designed with JPYSC's future utility in mind. Startale has continued to broaden JPYSC's real-world use and to build institutional-grade trading infrastructure, extending onchain finance well beyond payments.
Against this backdrop, SBI and Startale see growing interoperability between JPYSC and OUSD as a powerful lever, one capable of streamlining yen-dollar settlement and unlocking new use cases for stablecoins across the onchain financial landscape. With OUSD now publicly launched, the companies will explore concrete opportunities to advance this vision.
Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, Chairman and President, SBI Holdings, Inc. "As onchain finance continues to evolve, cross-border transactions will become increasingly prevalent. SBI Group is working to establish the ‘SBI APAC Digital Economic Zone,’ and believes that enabling seamless transactions across borders and currencies lies at the heart of this vision. In particular, ensuring seamless convertibility between yen-denominated and U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins is essential. Our participation in Open Standard and exploration of a proof of concept for interoperability between OUSD and JPYSC represent an important step toward achieving this goal. SBI Group has already become the first in Japan to offer the U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins USDC and RLUSD, and will continue to promote the broader adoption of digital assets through collaboration with leading partners in Japan and overseas."
Sota Watanabe, CEO, Startale Group Pte. Ltd. "Our participation in Open Standard reflects the shared conviction of SBI and Startale that the future of finance is onchain, borderless, and interoperable by design. We see the opportunity to pilot interoperability between JPYSC and OUSD as highly significant. The yen and the dollar are two of the world's strongest and most trusted currencies and enabling them to be exchanged and utilized seamlessly onchain could unlock significant opportunities. By working closely with the SBI Group and Open Standard’s partner companies, we aim to connect Japanese assets and financial services with global onchain markets through the creation of concrete use cases and help build that future.”
Looking Ahead
By joining Open Standard, SBI and Startale are positioning JPYSC for deeper integration with global stablecoin infrastructure, a move aimed at strengthening the international liquidity of yen-denominated assets. The companies will continue to deepen collaboration with Open Standard's global partner network, working within applicable regulatory frameworks to build a safe, trusted, and truly interoperable stablecoin ecosystem for the onchain era.
Note: This announcement relates solely to the exploration of a pilot. It does not represent the launch of a new commercial service, nor the start of production settlement or trading activity

About Open USD (OUSD)
Open Standard is the company behind Open USD (OUSD). Our mission is to build internet-native money, enabling all businesses to move money on infrastructure that’s cheaper, faster, more global and more programmable. Over 200 financial institutions, fintechs, banks, and global businesses have signed up to add OUSD to their platforms and benefit from low fees, shared rewards, and representative governance. Open Standard was started in 2026 and its founding partners include Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe, and Visa.
About JPYSC
JPYSC is a yen-denominated, trust-backed stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank, Limited, structured in full compliance with Japan's Payment Services Act and trust law framework. Designed as core infrastructure for onchain yen settlement, funds transfer, and distribution, JPYSC is positioned to support tokenized asset trading and cross-border payments at scale.
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Panama City, Panama, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire
Pixagram announces free account creation for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. Built on the standalone Layer-1 Pixa blockchain, Pixagram is an anti-hierarchy social network where every post, vote, and comment is recorded as a signed on-chain transaction, with no ads and no cryptocurrency purchase required to get started.
Pixagram will cover the 20 PIXA network fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026. New members can claim a free @username at Pixagram.com and join the platform’s on-chain community for creators.
► Quit Renting the Spotlight — Users can register at http://pixagram.com
An On-Chain Username and Wallet Address
Opening a Pixa chain account normally costs around 20 PIXA. Pixagram is covering this fee for up to 250 new members daily through the end of 2026.
Username and wallet address: Each @username serves as an on-chain wallet address, replacing a randomly generated string of characters with a recognizable handle.
Blockchain-based registration: Once registered on the blockchain, an @username remains associated with its on-chain record, subject to the network’s rules and technical conditions.
Phone verification and privacy: One-time phone verification helps limit bot abuse of the daily account offer. A public @username can separate a creator’s online identity from their legal name, although public blockchain records may limit privacy.
Not Really Anti-Social, Truly Anti-Hierarchy
Mainstream social media serves advertisers while gatekeepers decide who sees your work. Pixagram—alongside platforms like Hive and Mastodon—is a SIGMA platform built for creators who prefer agency over status games. Your posts, art, followers, and feeds live directly on-chain with nothing in between, allowing you to reach every follower automatically.
NFT Platform Storage and Artwork Permanence
On many NFT platforms, the token sits on-chain while the image lives on a cloud server or IPFS—meaning a token can easily outlive its art.
On Pixa, every artwork is stored directly on-chain inside its post as a lossless image. Compact pixel art lives permanently on the blockchain and renders up to 4K resolution as a painting, CRT filter, hexagonal shapes, or square pixels.
Zero upfront cost: Every new account receives a starter delegation of stake (Resource Credits fuel) to cover posting and voting from day one.
Build Mode Note: Direct on-chain art sales launch in 2027, so everything you publish today builds your permanent portfolio ahead of the marketplace release.
► Less Lurking. One Original Post. Start at Pixagram.com
Proof-of-Brain and Community Curation
Instead of relying on the computational process used in Proof-of-Work systems, Pixagram uses Proof-of-Brain, a mechanism that allocates rewards based on posting, commenting, and voting activity.
Community reward distribution: 70% of newly issued PIXA is allocated to community-voted content, with 60% distributed to authors and 40% to curators after seven days.
Staking and governance mechanisms: Authors can receive Pixa Power, which determines voting weight and supports governance participation, and Pixa Supra (PXS), a unit referenced by an oracle to a agnostic purchasing power index (without a fixed dollar value). Curators can also receive Pixa Power.
Censorship-Resistant by Design
Built on the Hive codebase with Steem lineage, the Pixa chain started from a clean genesis block with no airdrop and produces a block every three seconds. While an application interface can hide a post from its view, it can never erase the transaction record from the chain.
Furthermore, every artwork is checked for copies using PAPH-X (an open-source perceptual fingerprint for pixel art) and indexed by the Search V4 engine.
"The old internet wants you trapped in feed fog, renting reach from gatekeepers who track every click. Today information is king, and Pixagram operates outside that hierarchy... Don't believe the hype. Create it." — Matias Affolter, Co-Founder of Pixa
"The strongest rebellion is a working alternative. We're covering the network fee for 250 new accounts a day so any creator can step into build mode at zero cost. Claim your permanent @username now—because once a handle is written to the chain, it's gone forever." — Mathiew Estepho, Co-Founder of Pixa
Pixagram Account Registration and Developer Resources
Pixagram offers fee coverage for up to 250 new accounts daily through the end of 2026. Eligible new members can register and claim an @username at Pixagram.com. Additional technical information is available in the developer documentation at pixa.org.
About Pixagram
Pixagram is an on-chain pixel art and blog network developed by Pixagram AG (Zug, Switzerland) and operated by Pixa Rex S.A. (Panama City, Panama).
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Willemstad, Curaçao, October 15th, 2026, Chainwire
1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has launched the two-week public sale for $1WIN, a Solana-based token that extends the company’s existing gaming ecosystem with Web3 utility, user rewards, and revenue-linked token mechanics.
The public sale is now live, with 130 million $1WIN available at $0.03 USDC per token through an oversubscription model, with the Token Generation Event (TGE) occurring on October 30th. Participants can deposit USDC into the sale pool during the two-week sale window, with a minimum contribution of $10 and no maximum contribution.
Rather than operating on a first-come, first-served basis, final token allocations will be determined proportionally after the sale window closes in order to encourage fair distribution for all users. If demand exceeds the number of tokens available, each participant will receive a proportional allocation based on their contribution, with any unused USDC refunded.
$1WIN is being introduced into a platform that serves 100 million registered players across international markets. 1win’s existing business operates independently of the token and already generates revenue through its gaming and entertainment products.
The token has a fixed total supply of 1 billion $1WIN, with no additional minting after TGE. It is designed for use across 1win products including gaming, lottery, rewards, and other ecosystem functions. Two mechanisms connect the token directly with activity on the existing platform: open-market buybacks funded by gaming revenue and the permanent burning of 10% of $1WIN spent through supported platform products.
The sale marks the debut of $1WIN, the token introduced by 1win, a gaming and entertainment platform that has operated since 2016 and built its business without relying on a token. At the public sale price of $0.03 per token, $1WIN has a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of just $30 million. Issued as a native Solana token, $1WIN is compatible with standard Solana wallets and decentralized exchanges and is designed for use across the 1win ecosystem.
CertiK and Halborn also conducted independent security assessments of the token's smart contract infrastructure ahead of the sale and TGE. The audits reviewed the Solana-based smart contracts supporting the $1WIN ecosystem, including token, sale, and burn functionality.
The sale is the latest step in 1win’s broader expansion into Web3. The platform supports multi-chain cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and introduced wallet-based authentication through Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect earlier this year, allowing users to register, sign in, and deposit through a connected crypto wallet.
The $1WIN public sale is now open. Users can participate and learn more about the token here.
About 1win
Founded in 2016, 1win is a crypto entertainment platform in the global gaming industry. Operating across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, 1win offers a wide range of entertainment products adapted to regional audiences. The brand collaborates with international public figures, including UFC legend Ilia Topuria, Olympic champion and UFC fighter Gable Steveson, professional boxer Ryan Garcia, rapper Tyga, reggaeton star Nicky Jam, and UFC interviewer Nina Drama, all of whom are 1win VIP community members. 1win also partners with the football legend Luis Suárez.
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Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients.
In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up with a new product for foreign clients.
The launch of A7 International marks a new stage in A7’s journey. In response to requests from foreign entrepreneurs, the company is expanding its positioning and creating an export offering for businesses in various countries. It is a remote service compliant with local legislation on digital assets and available only in those jurisdictions where cryptocurrency circulation is permitted.
“We are presenting not just a new product in the lineup, but a new image of A7. We have adapted our service so that it can be used remotely from anywhere in the world. This is precisely the key demand of market participants today. They want to be able to transfer money around the world in a few clicks in the shortest possible time – directly from your smartphone, without lengthy paperwork, hidden fees, or unjustified holds on funds. And we are packaging this demand into a convenient and competitive form,” said Chairman of Bank PSB Petr Fradkov.
The mechanics of the service are simple: the client transfers USDT, and A7 arranges a bank transfer via SWIFT using the counterparty details specified in the invoice. The recipient does not need to accept cryptocurrency or open a crypto wallet: the funds arrive in their bank account.
To submit an application, you need to register in your personal account on the website a7.biz. Individuals undergo identity verification (KYC), and companies undergo corporate data verification (KYB). Then the client uploads the invoice and the necessary documents. The built-in algorithm automatically recognizes the invoice data and helps fill out the application.
“The system operates as follows. AI analyzes the sender and beneficiary, jurisdictions, and key risk factors of the transaction. Based on the verification results, a risk profile of the payment is formed and the available options for processing it are determined. The system compares compliance requirements with the capabilities of the existing payment infrastructure. After that, it recommends the optimal payment route taking into account its cost, speed, reliability, and applicable restrictions. Routing dynamically adapts to changes in conditions and the availability of payment channels. Data accumulated over the years makes it possible to continuously improve the quality of decisions made by the system,” noted A7 CEO Ilan Shor.
At launch, A7 International accepts USDT on the TRON network. Bank transfers are available in US dollars, euros, Chinese yuan, and UAE dirhams. Other currencies are available by prior agreement. The commission is 0.3% for both businesses and individuals. After uploading the invoice, the client sees the final cost of the payment, including commission, in advance.
Payment execution time is from one business day. After the operation is completed, the client receives a SWIFT message or another confirming document. For currency and customs control, the service also provides closing documents.
The presentation of the service took place on a symbolic date and time — October 13 at 13:13.
Video of the official presentation and Customer journey here.
About A7
A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank.
A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes.
A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA.
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Willemstad, Curaçao, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has announced the upcoming public sale of $1WIN, a new Solana-based token designed to extend the company’s existing gaming ecosystem with Web3 utility, user rewards, and revenue-linked token mechanics. The token sale starts here on October 15th at 4 pm BST.
The public sale marks the next stage in the rollout of $1WIN, which is being introduced to a platform serving 100 million registered players across international markets. Unlike token projects built around a future product roadmap, 1win’s existing business operates independently of the token and already generates revenue through its gaming and entertainment products.
$1WIN will have a fixed total supply of 1 billion tokens, with no additional minting after TGE. The token is being developed for use across 1win products, including gaming, lottery, rewards, and other ecosystem functions.
Two mechanisms will connect the token directly with activity on the existing platform: open-market buybacks funded by gaming revenue and the permanent burning of 10% of $1WIN spent through supported platform products.
Rather than financing buybacks from a finite pool of token reserves, 1win plans to fund regular $1WIN purchases using revenue generated by its existing gaming business. Separately, 10% of $1WIN spent through supported products will be permanently removed from supply through a smart contract.
The majority of the token supply is also allocated around user participation. 51% of the total supply is designated for user-facing mechanisms, including 25% for platform game reward pools, 18% for Wager Rewards, and 8% for distribution through the 1win Telegram Mini App.
$1WIN will be issued as a native token on Solana, allowing it to integrate with standard Solana wallets and decentralized exchanges alongside its planned use within the 1win ecosystem. The upcoming public sale will provide the first broader opportunity for users to access $1WIN ahead of its wider ecosystem rollout.
The token forms part of 1win’s broader expansion into Web3, and its structure is designed to make the token an extension of an operating business. The platform already supports multi-chain cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals and introduced wallet-based authentication through Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and WalletConnect earlier this year, allowing users to register, sign in, and deposit through a connected crypto wallet.
To learn more about $1WIN, users can look here.
About 1win
Founded in 2016, 1win is a crypto entertainment platform in the global gaming industry. Operating across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, 1win offers a wide range of entertainment products adapted to regional audiences. The brand collaborates with international public figures, including UFC legend Ilia Topuria, Olympic champion and UFC fighter Gable Steveson, professional boxer Ryan Garcia, rapper Tyga, reggaeton star Nicky Jam, and UFC interviewer Nina Drama, all of whom are 1win VIP community members. 1win also partners with the football legend Luis Suárez.
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New York, NY, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
DeepSigma, a new decentralized perpetual futures exchange for real-world assets (RWAs), today unveiled its platform with a live paper-trading demo spanning 77 markets across U.S. equities, indexes, commodities, sector ETFs and Treasury yields.
Powered by the Cypherium blockchain, DeepSigma is being built to bring the perpetual futures model that has grown rapidly in crypto to traditional financial markets. Rather than tokenizing or taking custody of the underlying assets, DeepSigma's perpetual contracts track their respective real-world markets through external price data, allowing traders to gain long or short exposure without owning or taking delivery of the underlying asset.
The platform is being developed by a team spanning traditional finance, quantitative trading and blockchain infrastructure, with experience at Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google and Uber.
DeepSigma has also been designed around U.S. regulatory frameworks from day one. The company is working with specialized digital-asset counsel and views regulatory readiness as a market-entry advantage rather than an issue to address after achieving scale.
“Crypto has already demonstrated the demand for perpetual markets, but you cannot simply take the same model and put a stock or commodity ticker on it,” said Sky Guo, CEO of DeepSigma and founder of Cypherium. “Real-world markets have different trading hours, liquidity conditions, pricing sources and regulatory considerations. We started DeepSigma with those differences in mind.”
Building Perpetual Markets for Assets That Don't Trade Like Crypto
DeepSigma's live demo currently supports paper trading across 77 RWA perpetual contracts, including leading U.S. equities; the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite, Russell 2000 and VIX; S&P sector ETFs; commodities including WTI and Brent crude oil, gold, silver, natural gas and copper; and U.S. Treasury yields.
Unlike crypto assets that trade continuously on largely crypto-native venues, real-world assets can stop trading overnight or over weekends while related markets continue moving. They can also face fragmented price discovery and periods of thin liquidity.
DeepSigma's technical architecture is being designed around those differences. Its risk framework includes multi-source external pricing, mark-price mechanisms intended to reduce the impact of short-term manipulation, position and exposure limits, circuit breakers, partial liquidations and an insurance mechanism for stressed market conditions.
The platform uses a central limit order book model, with a clearing layer responsible for positions, collateral, margin and settlement.
“The hardest part of bringing real-world assets on-chain isn't creating another market symbol. It's making sure the market still behaves sensibly when the underlying asset is closed, liquidity disappears or an external price moves sharply,” said Guo. “Those are market-structure problems, and they have to be part of the architecture from the beginning.”
DeepSigma's trading terminal currently combines paper-trading functionality with market data, technical indicators, asset-specific news, portfolio tracking and a competitive leaderboard. An AI Market Analysis Desk can analyze markets and generate potential trading strategies, but operates entirely off-chain with zero authority to execute trades or move user assets.
Prove Eligibility, Not Identity
Identity is another area where DeepSigma is taking a different approach from fully permissionless perpetual venues.
The company is developing decentralized identity infrastructure around the principle of “prove eligibility, not identity.” The proposed architecture uses zero-knowledge proofs to allow a participant to demonstrate that they meet required criteria without publishing the underlying personal information on-chain.
The approach forms part of DeepSigma's broader strategy of designing around U.S. regulatory frameworks from the beginning while preserving as much of the privacy and user control associated with decentralized markets as possible.
Powered by Cypherium and Patented Blockchain Technology
DeepSigma is powered by Cypherium, the open, permissionless Layer 1 blockchain founded by Guo.
Cypherium's technology is protected by four granted U.S. patents covering blockchain consensus and related technology: U.S. Patent Nos. 12,443,569; 11,907,174; 11,516,006; and 11,411,721.
Its architecture combines Proof-of-Work with HotStuff-derived Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus. The technology provides the underlying blockchain infrastructure on which DeepSigma is being developed. Cypherium is designed to process hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, providing the throughput needed to support high-frequency, on-chain financial activity.
Guo, a named inventor on Cypherium's patented technology, previously co-authored DLT Options for CBDC with Thomas Moser of the Swiss National Bank and has spoken at the United Nations Headquarters and Nasdaq.
DeepSigma's wider leadership team includes Albert Xu, CFO, a former FICC portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs and serial technology founder; Chaoran Wang, CTO, a former Google and Uber engineer and founder of quantitative trading firm UmiUmi; and Jenny Chen, Chief Quant Director, a quantitative macro trader, Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance honoree and most recently at Citadel Securities.
“DeepSigma brings together two areas that have largely developed separately: the market structure and risk discipline of traditional finance, and the open infrastructure that has made on-chain perpetuals successful,” Guo said. “The opportunity is not to copy one market into the other. It is to build infrastructure specifically for where the two meet.”
About DeepSigma
DeepSigma is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange for real-world assets, powered by the Cypherium blockchain. Designed around U.S. regulatory frameworks from day one, DeepSigma is developing perpetual markets spanning equities, indexes, commodities and rates, with infrastructure built around the distinct pricing, liquidity and market-structure requirements of real-world assets. Its live demo currently supports paper trading across 77 RWA perpetual markets, alongside market data, technical analysis and AI-powered trading insights.
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Steinhausen, Switzerland, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire
Holders of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin can now pay suppliers, staff and landlords worldwide directly from self-custodial wallets through TrustLinq, with recipients receiving ordinary bank transfers in their local currency.
TrustLinq CH AG, a Swiss-regulated crypto-to-fiat payment platform, has expanded its partnership with Ripple by enabling third-party fiat payments funded from Ripple USD (RLUSD), the US dollar-denominated stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York Department of Financial Services trust charter. TrustLinq clients holding RLUSD (ERC-20) can now pay any third-party bank account in more than 190 countries and over 80 currencies directly from self-custodial holdings, with recipients receiving standard bank transfers in their local currency.
The expansion builds on the companies' existing collaboration, under which Ripple Payments settlement infrastructure powers TrustLinq's global fiat payouts.
RLUSD was designed for enterprise-grade payments and institutional use, and the new capability gives holders a direct route into real-world settlement. Funds remain in the client's own wallet, connected to a dedicated payment vault, until the moment a payment executes. TrustLinq converts the required amount and delivers a bank transfer to the recipient through SEPA, Faster Payments, ACH, local payment corridors or SWIFT, with most transfers arriving the same or next business day. Recipients need only a bank account and do not interact with cryptocurrency at any point.
The capability addresses a structural gap in stablecoin usage. Analysis published by McKinsey and Artemis Analytics in January 2026 found that of approximately USD 35 trillion moving over stablecoin rails annually, roughly USD 390 billion, about one percent, constituted real-world payments such as payroll, invoices and remittances, with business-to-business payments the fastest-growing segment. TrustLinq's model targets that gap by settling obligations in fiat directly from self-custody, rather than requiring holders to sell through an exchange and transfer funds onward from a personal bank account.
"Stablecoin holders have never lacked ways to trade; they have lacked ways to pay," said Lili Metodieva, Co-Founder of TrustLinq. "RLUSD was built as regulated, enterprise-grade digital money, and this expansion gives it the last mile: a supplier invoice in Vietnam, a salary in Germany, rent in Dubai, paid straight from self-custody and arriving as ordinary bank transfers. Swiss regulation is what makes that possible at global scale."
TrustLinq operates as a Swiss financial intermediary subject to anti-money-laundering supervision through SO-FIT, a self-regulatory organisation recognised by FINMA, which gives recipient banks a regulated Swiss counterparty on every transfer. Clients verify once at onboarding; from then on, initiating a payment takes minutes. The platform supports payments funded from USDT (ERC-20 and TRC-20), USDC, EURC and RLUSD, serving individuals and businesses for use cases including supplier invoices, payroll, contractor payments, rent and tuition.
RLUSD support is available immediately to all verified TrustLinq clients, with no integration required. Coverage by destination and currency is published on the company's supported countries and currencies page.
About TrustLinq
TrustLinq is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary bridging cryptocurrency and traditional banking. The platform enables individuals and businesses holding cryptocurrency to send fiat payments to anyone, anywhere in the world, across 80+ currencies. Operating under Swiss regulation and compliant with Swiss AML, TrustLinq seamlessly enables crypto-to-fiat and executes payments globally while maintaining local payment efficiency via methods including SEPA, SWIFT, Faster Payments, ACH, and upcoming debit card solutions. The company prioritises security, compliance, and user control through a non-custodial intermediary model that does not hold client funds.
For more information, users can visit https://trustlinq.com
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Moscow, Russia, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire
On 13 October, the Russian international settlement system A7, created by Bank PSB, is set to present A7 International, a service enabling payments for a foreign counterparty's invoice in USDT, with the funds arriving via a standard SWIFT bank transfer in the required currency.
The service will cater primarily to foreign trade operators, but individuals are also eligible customers. The fee remains fixed at 0.3 percent.
Petr Fradkov, Chairman of PJSC Bank PSB, and Ilan Shor, CEO of A7, will provide a glimpse into its new offering on 13 October at 13:13.
To join the live broadcast and learn about the new project, follow the links:
https://a7.biz/live
About A7:
A7 is a global financial technology company specializing in international payments and settlement solutions for international trade. It was established in 2024 with the involvement of PSB Bank.
A7 is developing an independent global payment infrastructure across more than 100 countries, combining global financial expertise, advanced technology and regulatory compliance. The company’s products include international payments, digital financial assets and promissory notes.
A7 Group works with 15,000 clients, with around 2,000 transactions processed through the system every day. In 2025, approximately 19% of Russian companies’ cross-border trade settlements were processed through A7. In October 2025, A7 received an AA(RU) credit rating with a Stable outlook from ACRA.
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Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire
Trace, the onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data with more than 250 million verifiable receipts, brings its training data to Sui and Walrus to power the next generation of AI models.
Sui Foundation and The DATA Foundation today announced that the DATA Network and its Trace registry are joining the Sui stack, bringing a live supply of rights-cleared AI training data onto the infrastructure Sui has built for AI workloads. Walrus, the data platform with integrity proofs anchored on Sui, becomes the default storage layer for applications operated by DATA Foundation. Separately, the DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui.
The upgrade gives AI labs a single place to source real-world training data they are allowed to use, with its provenance recorded by Trace and the original file stored and access-controlled on Walrus.
The data AI needs next
The next generation of AI models is constrained by access to real-world data. The open internet has been scraped, and the data that comes next must be sourced from people, with consent and with provenance that regulators and legal teams will accept. The EU AI Act and ongoing litigation over training data have made provenance a procurement requirement for labs.
The data those models need sits with people rather than on the open web: a nurse describing a patient’s night in her own words, a dashcam recording of a rainy commute in Jakarta, a factory technician’s hands as they diagnose a fault, or a customer call conducted in Bengali. It is personal and often regulated, and it belongs to the people who generated it.
Trace, launched by DATA Foundation in June as an onchain registry for AI training data, was built for exactly this kind of data. It records the origin of each contribution and the rights attached to it, and settles payment to the person who contributed it. It has registered more than 250 million contributions since launch and now processes over 3M receipts per day on average. Applications writing to Trace include Kled, the largest opt-in human data marketplace with over 1.5 billion records being onboarded, along with Numo and Oto, applications that already license data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies.
Why Sui and Walrus
Sui represents every asset as a programmable object, allowing datasets and their licenses to be managed onchain like tokens. Independent transactions execute in parallel and settle in under a second, making the network capable of handling millions of daily registrations. Walrus extends this capability to large files: it stores massive AI datasets efficiently and ensures data is only readable by licensed buyers. No other network offers storage, access control, and ownership tracking built natively into a single ecosystem, together with verifiable compute.
Trace now adds a flagship supply of rights-cleared data, with existing demand from the AI labs that license it today. The result of the integration will be stronger provenance guarantees and tamper evidence. Today a Trace record proves that a file was registered and when, and with Walrus, Trace will be able to hold an encrypted, immutable copy of the contributed file itself as a reference guarantee. The hash of the record can be regenerated from the data itself rather than from metadata an application supplied, and any later processing of the file can be checked against the original.
The upgrade is backed by a long-term strategic investment. Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in the DATA Network, establishing the largest institutional stake in the network, alongside the continuing holdings of PIP Labs and the DATA Foundation. Furthering the alignment, SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, joins Sui Foundation as Strategic Advisor.
The protocol upgrade
DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired. $DATA continues as the token of the DATA protocol on Sui, carried over one-to-one, with holder economics and governance rights at least equivalent to today. Locked and vesting positions carry over unchanged. In parallel, Walrus becomes the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications.
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, the original contributor to Sui and Walrus, said: “The AI industry has reached the point where the open internet has been read, and the next frontier is defined by access to datasets with the consent and provenance that regulators require. Sui and Walrus were built to be the home where AI data is stored, licensed, and paid for, capable of operating at the scale these systems demand. The migration of DATA Network and Trace to our stack now brings massive volumes of high-quality, rights-cleared data that is already serving the world’s frontier AI labs.”
SY Lee, Chairman of Poseidon and CEO of PIP Labs, said: “The next generation of AI will be trained on data that lives with people rather than on the open web, and that data needs consent and provenance built in, along with a way to pay the people it comes from, and Trace was built to be that layer. It now becomes part of the Sui stack alongside Walrus, backed by one of the strongest engineering organizations in the industry and with Sui Foundation as the network’s largest strategic holder. This is the right home for the network we built, and I am looking forward to helping Sui make it the data layer for AI.”
Andrea Muttoni, CEO of DATA Foundation, said: “Training data is critical for continuously expanding the frontier, and making sure it is traceable, auditable and cleared to use is just as important for AI safety as it is a precursor for data quality. With Trace, we have been tracking hundreds of millions of data assets. Joining forces with Sui now allows us to build out more of the stack, offering more than just an audit trail, like encrypted reference file storage and potentially fully verifiable TEEs for evals and fine tunings in the future.”
The existing DATA Network will continue to operate until the upgrade is complete, and a detailed timeline and holder transition plan will be published prior to the upgrade.
About DATA Foundation
DATA Foundation supports the DATA Network, the protocol for tracking provenance of the real-world data AI models need. Through Trace, each contribution is registered with its provenance receipt and a full audit trail. Applications building on the network include Kled, Numo, Oto, and others. Formerly Story Foundation, the organization refocused on AI training data in June 2026. The DATA Network is being upgraded to run as a protocol on Sui.
About Sui
Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain built for onchain finance and agentic infrastructure. Founded by the core team behind Meta’s stablecoin initiative and powered by an object-centric model, Sui makes assets, permissions, and user data programmable and verifiable. Sui’s primitives offer everything necessary to create high-performance finance and AI-native applications. Learn more at sui.io.
About Walrus
Walrus is the data platform built for the demands of AI. It lets builders, enterprises, and AI agents move data across apps and models, protect it with built-in access rules, and make it verifiable by anyone. As AI takes actions with consequence, the data it runs on has to be provable. Created by the cryptographers and distributed systems engineers behind Sui and Meta’s first stablecoin initiative. walrus.xyz
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Singapore, Singapore, October 9th, 2026, Chainwire
OceanBase’s international business launched EvolvingX, a dedicated database solution for next-generation digital platforms, at the TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 event. Built as a full-lifecycle data foundation, EvolvingX is designed to support the evolving needs of a wide range of businesses, particularly next-generation digital platforms, while delivering always-on performance — scaling freely with traffic fluctuations, supporting both high-throughput transactions and complex queries in one architecture, and helping teams move from early-stage development to global operations with lower cost and less architectural friction.
Digital asset platforms typically run workloads that resemble financial-grade platforms, where order management, market data, risk control, and ledger systems must operate together without interruption. Because these services serve users around the world, they cannot afford downtime, data inconsistencies, or slow responses during peak demand. Many teams also struggle with the complexity of sharded databases, cross-database transactions, and frequent infrastructure upgrades as their businesses expand. At the same time, they need to protect user and transaction data while keeping operational costs under control. And because the landscape of such platforms changes rapidly, their data platforms must be able to evolve without forcing constant architectural overhauls.
EvolvingX is built to address those challenges with a set of targeted optimizations:
High throughput with millisecond-level latency: Under a 3-node configuration (32C128G per node), the solution can sustain 150,000 high-frequency writes per second. Among these, 99% of writes complete within 1 millisecond, and 99% of queries finish within 20 milliseconds, with end-to-end API latency controlled below 100 milliseconds (representing a 30% reduction in latency compared to traditional architectures). Furthermore, the system supports linear scaling of read/write throughput by adding nodes; the largest production deployment built on this solution has been shown to continuously handle tens of millions of read/write operations per second.
Balanced performance across the cluster: EvolvingX completely eliminates the “single-point hotspot” issue commonly seen in traditional sharded architectures. Powered by OceanBase’s automatic load-balancing technology, tests on a six-node cluster show that CPU utilization is evenly distributed between 14% and 22%, with total cluster load staying below 30%, effectively preventing any single node from becoming overloaded.
Simpler architecture and lower infrastructure costs: By replacing cross-generation heterogeneous instances with a standardized homogeneous cluster, EvolvingX can reduce monthly infrastructure costs by nearly 70%.
Strong MySQL compatibility: In a proof-of-concept covering eight categories and 30 scenarios, including complex SQL, transactions, and operations, EvolvingX achieved a 100% pass rate, allowing existing MySQL-based applications to migrate with minimal changes.
Multi-region resilience and data security: A multi-region disaster recovery design helps applications continue operating during regional power or network failures. Layered encryption and security features are designed to protect information such as user identity data, asset addresses, and transaction histories.
The solution supports fast-evolving next-generation digital platforms from early development through global expansion. It allows teams to scale vertically and horizontally at the tenant, server, and cluster levels, and it can handle online transaction processing, hybrid transactional and analytical workloads, and analytical queries within the same platform. Built on OceanBase’s Paxos-based three-replica architecture, EvolvingX provides strong consistency and high availability. Its in-database AI and hybrid search capabilities also allow teams to run AI models directly against live data and build AI agent applications without moving data across multiple systems.
During the past several years, OceanBase has supported digital asset platform-related companies such as HashKey and ChainBase. With EvolvingX, the company plans to expand its support for the broader ecosystem of next-generation digital platforms, offering a database platform that can grow with teams as they move from early traction to large-scale, global operations.
About OceanBase
OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics.
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