Teams to identify risk, take action, and accelerate the close with intelligent, in-workflow assistance

Trintech, the global leader in AI Financial Close for the Office of Finance, today announced the expansion of embedded, finance-native artificial intelligence, bringing trusted, intelligent, and explainable capabilities directly into core Record to Report workflows.

As finance teams face increasing pressure to close faster, strengthen controls, and operate with leaner teams, automation alone is no longer enough. Trintech’s AI enhances the financial close by identifying risk, recommending next steps, and helping teams execute more efficiently in real time, transforming raw financial data into actionable insight throughout the financial close process.

Embedded AI Across the Financial Close

Designed specifically for finance, Trintech’s AI operates directly within key workflows, including journal entries, reconciliations, transaction matching, and close management. At the center of this experience is Beacon, Trintech’s embedded, AI-powered assistant, which combines agentic automation, contextual guidance, and real-time insights to help teams work smarter and close with greater confidence.

The latest wave of innovation represents a broad set of Trintech AI capabilities introduced over the past six months, helping finance teams further reduce manual effort, strengthen control, and accelerate the close.

Key capabilities include:

• AI-assisted journal entry preparation that reduces manual effort and improves consistency with built-in risk scoring and validation before posting, with Beacon suggesting entries based on historical patterns and supporting data
• AI-driven transaction matching and match rule generation that increases auto-match rates, reduces exception volumes, and minimizes reliance on manual rule creation
• Proactive anomaly and risk detection that identifies unusual balances, reconciliation variances, and policy deviations earlier in the close process
• Intelligent close task prioritization and orchestration that helps teams focus on high-risk and high-impact activities to keep the close on track
• AI-generated reconciliation narratives and documentation that streamline audit preparation and improve transparency
• AI-powered, in-application guidance through Beacon that provides context-aware answers and step-by-step support, reducing reliance on documentation and internal experts
• AI-driven close insights and daily briefings that summarize close status, highlight anomalies, and surface bottlenecks for more proactive decision-making

“AI in finance isn’t about replacing accountants; it’s about giving them their time back and now we’re doing that at a whole new level,” said Tamir Sigal, Chief Marketing Officer at Trintech. “Our approach to agentic AI is different. It’s grounded in trust, transparency, and control because the future of finance depends on teams trusting the agents working alongside them. By embedding that intelligence directly into financial workflows, we’re helping teams move faster, reduce risk, and operate with greater confidence.”

Trintech continues to invest in intelligent automation and AI-driven capabilities that help finance teams move beyond manual processes toward more efficient, insight-driven operations; enabling faster closes, greater confidence in financial data, and improved decision-making.

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About Trintech

Trintech gives people time back for what matters most. Our AI Financial Close solutions enable thousands of clients worldwide to lead productivity transformation across their finance and accounting organizations — driving efficiencies, ensuring accuracy to mitigate risk, and empowering strategic decision-making. Make time count with Trintech.

As the leader in AI Financial Close Management, Trintech is headquartered in Plano, Texas with offices and strategic resellers across the United States, Europe, Australia, South America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. With a strong partner ecosystem, Trintech collaborates with over 100 companies to create a network of interconnected businesses. To learn more about Trintech, visit www.trintech.com.

• 38% of finance professionals who personally hold crypto view it as a growth opportunity with strong upside potential
• 96% of professional investors are optimistic about crypto’s future as an asset, vs just 39% of beginner investors
• 25% of finance professionals describe crypto primarily as a high-risk asset — falling to just 1 in 10 among those who personally invest
• 8% of respondents cite payments utility as a reason to hold crypto, yet wider merchant acceptance and regulatory integration are seen as critical drivers of future adoption
• 42% of finance professionals cite regulatory uncertainty as their primary barrier to greater institutional involvement

Sandmark has today published the first edition of its Crypto Intelligence Report, uncovering how credible and reliable intelligence are building real conviction among finance professionals and investors.

The study captured the attitudes and behaviours of over 5,000 finance professionals and crypto investors across Australia, Brazil, India, Singapore, South Korea, UAE, UK and the US. Conducted in partnership with the global consumer audience insights platform GWI, the report fills a significant gap in existing market research by focusing specifically on the financially literate crypto investors: those working within and alongside the financial industry.

“Most crypto research focuses on retail sentiment. We wanted to understand how finance professionals – people who work with risk and capital every day – actually perceive and engage with crypto. What we found challenges a number of assumptions,” said Michelle Fotopoulou, Chief Marketing Officer at Sandmark.

Experience contextualizes risk

Just one in ten finance professionals who own crypto perceive it as high risk, compared to 25% of the wider professional finance community. Optimism and confidence rise in line with active participation, peaking among institutional investors and long-term holders. Beginners remain the least certain. The data consistently shows that hands-on experience, supported by reliable market intelligence, is what builds genuine conviction.

Regulation is recruitment

Regulatory uncertainty remains the primary barrier to broader institutional participation, alongside volatility and governance concerns. Yet across all respondent groups, crypto is viewed as a long-term strategic asset with strong upside potential, rather than a short-term trade. As regulatory clarity improves, the market’s next growth phase is widely expected to be led by institutions.

Michelle said: “Strong regulation acts as a catalyst for engagement. As jurisdictions put protections in place, activity accelerates, with greater confidence unlocking broader adoption.”

Public figures: formative but divisive

High-profile individuals continue to play an outsized role in shaping sentiment, often in conflicting ways. Among a pre-defined shortlist of public figures, Elon Musk drives the strongest positive sentiment (51%), while Donald Trump generates the most negative (38%), despite also ranking as the second most cited positive influence (17%). Among crypto holders who identify Musk as their strongest positive influence, 77% report high optimism toward crypto’s future as an asset. The study reflects how public figures are capable of simultaneously amplifying enthusiasm and undermining trust.

An evolving but maturing market

Michelle concluded, “It’s fascinating to see the evolution of sentiment in the crypto market, particularly in the case of institutions and finance professionals. While social media drives discovery, real market data is in higher demand. Investors need consistent, actionable market intelligence to understand the evolving crypto ecosystem.”

About Sandmark

Established in 2025 by a Switzerland-based entrepreneur, Sandmark operates internationally with editorial hubs in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Sandmark is led worldwide by traditional and new financial media professionals who have decades of experience covering a range of markets from banking to commodities, and FX trading to equities research.

The Sandmark Team is comprised of 20+ global employees – including journalists, researchers and data analysts – that are united in the mission to deliver clear, credible, and context-rich reporting.

Hoonartek today launched ClearView, an agentic decisioning layer built for enterprises that have invested in modern data platforms but have yet to translate that investment into autonomous, business-driven execution.

Most large enterprises face a common challenge: a mature data estate—lakehouse, cloud warehouse, and years of engineering—combined with a growing stack of point SaaS products, each solving narrow decisions in isolation. The result is rising license costs, fragmented ownership, and AI that operates alongside the business rather than within it.

Hoonartek’s ClearView is designed to change that equation. By treating business decisions as the primary unit of design, it deploys autonomous agents directly above the existing data estate—activating it for real-time decisions while systematically reducing reliance on fragmented SaaS tools.

“Enterprises have already built the data foundation. ClearView is what finally turns it on—agents that execute real business decisions, traceable from intent to outcome, without adding another SaaS layer.” — Peeyoosh Pandey, CEO, Hoonartek

This shift is resonating at the CFO and CDO level, where SaaS rationalization and AI activation are converging into a single strategic priority.

“The biggest gap in enterprise AI hasn’t been technology—it’s been the operating model for how decisions are made at scale. ClearView addresses that directly on top of existing infrastructure.” — Rupinder Bhamra, Former Corporate CTO, MSCI

“Enterprises don’t fail at AI because of bad models. They fail because no one connected the data platform to decisions. ClearView closes that gap.” — Dejan Deklich, Former CTO, Aisera

ClearView operates across three layers: a decision governance layer defining agent authority; RealizeAI, Hoonartek’s AI factory for scaling ML use cases; and BlueFoundry, the execution engine translating business intent into governed agentic workflows. Every decision is traceable from definition to outcome—built-in, not bolted on.

The platform is live across financial services, telecom, and manufacturing. Hoonartek was recognized at the NASSCOM Inspire Awards 2026 for AI Service Excellence.

About Hoonartek

Hoonartek is a global data and AI solutions company with over 15 years of experience and 250+ enterprise deployments across BFSI, telecom, manufacturing, and pharma. The company partners with Databricks, Google Cloud, and Ab Initio to help enterprises activate their data estate and scale AI-driven decision-making.

The team that built Amazon Web Services’ energy infrastructure is enabling data centers to bring their own capacity – accelerating time to power and improving grid flexibility

Soma Energy, the company using AI to unlock existing grid capacity and accelerate time to power for data centers, today announced it has raised $7 million in seed and pre-seed funding. The seed round was led by Category Ventures, with participation from Haystack, RRE Ventures, TO VC, Uncork Capital, and pre-seed investors Panache Ventures and Walter Kortschak.

Make Every Megawatt Matter

Access to timely, reliable power is becoming the primary limiting factor in scaling the AI economy. BloombergNEF projects U.S. data center power demand could reach 106 gigawatts (GW) by 2035, while McKinsey forecasts global data center capacity demand will increase 3.5x between 2025 and 2030. However, building the generation, transmission, and interconnection capacity needed to meet rising power demand takes five to ten years to come online, which is fundamentally incompatible with the needs of AI.

Built by the Team That Solved This Problem at AWS

While most energy software companies operate on one side of the grid, Soma Energy does something structurally different. Its energy intelligence platform leverages AI to optimize across both supply and demand in real time.

Soma Energy was founded by the team that built and operated energy systems at Amazon Web Services a decade ago and collectively brings more than 20 years of experience trading power across CAISO, SPP, MISO, PJM, ERCOT, and WECC. CEO Ath Caramanolis created AWS’s renewable energy optimization program, scaling the portfolio to 10 GW and negotiating over $1 billion in deals. He is joined by CTO Mario Souto, Ph.D., who built the machine learning platform used to manage gigawatts of solar, wind, and storage assets at AWS, and Chief AI Scientist Henrique Hoeltgebaum, Ph.D., who brings deep expertise in AI-driven forecasting and anomaly detection for complex energy systems

At AWS, the team worked on the front lines of this market, navigating grid constraints, interconnection delays, and the operational risk of managing power at scale. That experience shaped Soma Energy’s solution from the ground up, rooted in a practical understanding of what large-scale energy users need as they grow.

“We saw and solved these problems at AWS 10 years ago, the grid constraints, the interconnection delays, the complexity of managing power at scale,” said Ath Caramanolis, CEO and Co-Founder, Soma Energy. “We built the company because we knew there was a better way. The answer is not simply more infrastructure, but better orchestration. By applying AI to power plants and large energy loads in real time, we unlock flexibility that already exists and accelerate time to power today.”

Unlocking What Already Exists

Soma Energy’s platform optimizes how distributed energy resources, battery storage, and generation assets interact with the wholesale electricity market. This helps power producers and data centers operate more efficiently, reduce costs, and unlock additional capacity.

The platform unlocks capacity already present in the grid but currently underutilized, delivering power to energy-intensive facilities in months rather than years, at a fraction of the cost of traditional alternatives.

• For data centers, Soma Energy connects on-site generation, storage, and load into a single control layer, transforming large facilities into flexible grid assets. This allows optimization across an individual site or a pool of data centers, unlocking additional capacity from existing infrastructure for faster time to power.
• For power producers, Soma Energy’s real-time dispatch intelligence determines when to generate, store, or trade across wind, solar, and battery assets to lower cost per MWh and reduce price volatility.

“Soma Energy is changing what’s possible for data center growth,” said Josh Simms, CEO, H5 Data Centers. “By coordinating existing resources, we were able to access capacity significantly sooner than expected, accelerating our time to power and removing a critical constraint on expansion.”

Today, the company is optimizing two GW of electricity for power-producing clients and is actively working with five data center customers. The new funding will be used to expand engineering and commercial teams and accelerate deployments across North America.

“Building new generation and upgrading transmission operates on timelines of five to ten years and requires hundreds of billions in capital investment. This timeline is fundamentally incompatible with the pace of AI infrastructure deployment,” said Villi Iltchev, Partner at Category Ventures. “Having managed hyperscale power systems firsthand, the founders built Soma Energy as if they were the customer themselves, grounded in the operational realities of grid constraints, procurement friction, and market volatility.”

About Soma Energy

Soma Energy unlocks existing grid capacity to power the AI economy, accelerating time to power and building a more flexible, resilient grid. One megawatt at a time. Founded by veterans of AWS and leading AI research institutions, the company’s platform optimizes power plants and loads in real time while helping data centers scale faster and power producers earn more.

Uniblock, the managed infrastructure layer for blockchain applications, has raised $5.2 million in funding ($7.5M to date). The round brings together investors across the US, Japan, India, Singapore, and the Solana ecosystem, including SBI, AllianceDAO, CoinSwitch, Blockchain Founders Fund, Hustle Fund, AAF Management, NGC Ventures, Alchemy, MoonPay among others, with angel participation from executives at Kraken, Uber, and CoinList.

Alongside the raise, Uniblock has shipped a suite of AI-native developer tools built for how blockchain development actually happens today.

The Infrastructure Problem

Blockchain infrastructure has entered a new phase. Stripe has entered the crypto arena in a big way with its $1.1B acquisition of Bridge for stablecoins, Privy for wallets and now Tempo, its own Layer 1 blockchain for payments, with Mastercard, Visa, and UBS already testing on the network. Mainstream media networks broadcast Polymarket prediction market odds in live news tickers alongside war coverage and election results. Tokenized assets trade on regulated exchanges.

At the same time, AI agents are beginning to read and write blockchain data autonomously, and developers increasingly build through AI coding assistants rather than reading documentation line by line.

No single blockchain data provider covers every chain an application may need. No single provider can guarantee uptime. Without a managed orchestration layer, every team builds and maintains its own routing and fallback system. AI agents face the same fragmentation with less tolerance for it.

Uniblock Today

Uniblock operates the managed infrastructure layer between blockchain applications and the 55 data partners they depend on. One API key provides access to over 300 blockchains and more than 3,000 APIs, with patented auto-routing that handles provider selection, failover, and data normalization. Over 3,000 projects and 4,000 developers run on the platform. Customers including Plume Network, Stellar Blockchain, Hypernative, Oku Trade, nReach, and Apechain run production workloads. Plume Network and Apechain run Uniblock as managed RPC infrastructure through ecosystem partnerships.

AI-driven API consumption is a growing segment on the platform. It accelerates Uniblock’s own development, powers the product’s intelligent routing engine, and represents a new category of infrastructure consumer.

AI-Native Developer Tools

Alongside the raise, Uniblock has shipped a suite of AI-native developer tools designed for how blockchain development happens today:

• MCP Server. AI agents call Uniblock’s unified APIs directly with no humans in the loop. Live at a public endpoint.
• LLM-Optimized Documentation (llms.txt). Structured API reference built for AI consumption. When a developer’s AI assistant queries Uniblock integration details, the answer is accurate.
• Agent Skills. Ready-to-paste context for Claude, Codex, Cursor, and other AI coding environments. Developers drop these into their IDE so the AI writes correct Uniblock integration code on the first attempt.

“Two shifts are happening at once. Mainstream companies are bringing production workloads to blockchain, and AI agents are starting to read and write chain data autonomously. Both need the same thing: reliable infrastructure across hundreds of chains. That’s what Uniblock runs.”
Kevin Callahan, CEO and Co-Founder, Uniblock

“The next wave of blockchain adoption will depend on infrastructure that simplifies an increasingly complex ecosystem while maintaining dependable performance. Uniblock is building exactly that through a single API layer that simplifies multi-chain access for developers, enterprises, and AI-driven applications, and we are pleased to support the team as it enters this next phase of growth.”
Eiichiro So, CEO & Managing Director of SBI Ven Capital

“Stripe bought Bridge for $1.1B. Visa is embracing onchain. AI agents are transacting autonomously. All of them need reliable multi-chain infrastructure. Uniblock built it. 3,000 projects already run on the platform and that number only grows from here.”
Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund

Use of Funds

Capital will accelerate platform expansion: deepening chain coverage, scaling the intelligent orchestration engine, and building new API categories including stablecoins, wallets, and prediction markets. Investment continues in AI developer tooling, enterprise go-to-market, and ecosystem partnerships across the US, Japan, India, Singapore, and the Solana ecosystem. The team is scaling engineering and operations from its Canadian headquarters.

About Uniblock

Uniblock is the managed infrastructure layer for blockchain applications. A single API connection provides access to 300+ blockchains and 55 data partners through patented auto-routing with intelligent orchestration. AI-native developer tools, including an MCP server, LLM-optimized documentation, and Agent Skills, are live and in production. 3,000 projects and 4,000 developers run on the platform. Headquartered in Canada. Visit uniblock.dev.

Led by a robust background in leverage executives, OmenX introduces perpetual-style mechanics to the $1B+ forecasting sector, enabling institutional-grade hedging and capital efficiency.

OmenX, a prediction trading platform that turns real-world events into tradable markets, today announced the successful close of its multi-million dollar angel funding round. The announcement marks the official launch of the OmenX Public Testnet, bringing in one of the world’s first leverage mechanics to the rapidly expanding prediction market industry.

The funding round saw participation from a strategic consortium of North American and global venture firms, including Paramita VC, Penrose Ventures, and M77 Ventures, alongside the founders of several centralized exchanges.

While platforms like Polymarket have high volumes, the sector remains hindered by capital inefficiency, often requiring users to lock up substantial liquidity in static positions until settlement. OmenX transforms this experience by introducing a high-performance event based trading environment where capital works harder. By integrating the seamless, high velocity mechanics of crypto perpetuals, OmenX allows traders to amplify their conviction through leverage while maintaining the flexibility to enter and exit positions instantly. This shift from static betting to a fluid, capital efficient marketplace significantly lowers the barrier to entry, enabling users to manage global risk and capture market movements with the speed and seamless action on the platform.

“The world has seen what prediction markets can do for price discovery. Now, OmenX is showing what they can do for professional traders,” remarked James, Founder of OmenX and Former Head of Futures at Binance and Bybit. “We aren’t just building a prediction market; we are building the infrastructure to treat global events as a liquid, tradeable asset class with institutional-grade leverage.

The OmenX team, composed of experts in the scaling leverage ecosystem, has engineered a matching engine capable of handling the volatility of global news cycles. Following the Testnet launch, OmenX will introduce AI-driven forecasting agents, further decentralizing the “truth layer” of the internet.

The OmenX Public Testnet is now open to the global community. Participants are invited to join the OmenX Points System, a rewards framework designed to incentivize the stress-testing of the platform’s leveraged mechanics and liquidity depth. OmenX is positioning itself for a comprehensive Mainnet launch on Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 incubated by Coinbase. By building on the Base ecosystem, OmenX ensures institutional-grade security and high-speed execution for every trade. Further details will be released via official channels.

ABOUT OMENX

OmenX is the foundational infrastructure for the next generation of event-based derivatives. By merging the speed of top-tier exchange engines with the transparency of on-chain data, OmenX makes outcome-based trading liquid, flexible, and accessible to a global audience.

To learn more about OmenX, please visit: https://beta.omenx.com/

I-ON Digital, Instruxi and RAAC partnership illustrates emerging infrastructure linking gold-backed assets, stablecoins, and on-chain liquidity markets

The convergence of traditional finance (“TradFi”) and decentralized finance (“DeFi”) is moving from concept to implementation, as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization begins to establish a new foundation for global capital markets.

For small-cap investors and institutional observers alike, this shift represents a critical inflection point: the emergence of infrastructure capable of connecting regulated, asset-backed financial systems with blockchain-based liquidity and settlement networks.

From Fragmentation to Integration

Historically, TradFi and DeFi have operated in parallel:

• TradFi offers regulatory structure, institutional trust, and deep capital markets
• DeFi delivers programmability, continuous liquidity, and capital efficiency

Bridging these systems has remained a central challenge until the recent rise of tokenized RWAs, which allow tangible assets to be represented, financed, and deployed on-chain.

Market participants increasingly view RWA tokenization as one of the most significant growth vectors in digital finance, with long-term projections ranging into the hundreds of billions, and potentially trillions, of dollars.

Infrastructure in Practice: I-ON Digital and RAAC.io

A growing number of platforms are now moving beyond theory, building integrated systems that connect asset origination, stablecoin issuance, and decentralized liquidity.

I-ON Digital Corp., in partnership with Instruxi (https://www.instruxi.io/) RAAC (https://raac.io), provides a case study in how this convergence is being operationalized.

At the core of this model:

• Digitized Gold-Backed Assets (IONau): Real-world gold exposure is structured into a blockchain-compatible financial instrument designed to align with traditional secured asset frameworks.
• Stablecoin Layer (pmUSD): These assets support the issuance of pmUSD, a stablecoin engineered to maintain stability through structured collateralization tied to underlying real-world value.
• Liquidity Infrastructure: pmUSD is deployed across established decentralized finance protocols and liquidity pools, enabling yield generation, market depth, and continuous capital deployment.

This vertically integrated approach, linking asset backing, issuance, and liquidity, addresses one of the primary limitations of earlier digital asset models: the disconnect between real-world value and on-chain utility.

The Role of Liquidity: From Concept to Market Depth

A defining feature of the next phase of digital finance is not simply tokenization, but liquidity at scale.

Deep, programmatic liquidity pools surrounding instruments like pmUSD are critical for:

• Efficient price discovery
• Scalable yield generation
• Institutional-grade entry and exit pathways
• Reduced volatility through structured collateral frameworks

By establishing liquidity infrastructure alongside asset issuance, platforms can move beyond static token models toward dynamic financial ecosystems capable of supporting meaningful capital flows.

Why It Matters for Small-Cap Investors

For investors focused on emerging growth sectors, the TradFi-to-DeFi bridge represents a foundational shift comparable to the early development of electronic trading or exchange-traded funds.

Key considerations include:

• Early Infrastructure Positioning: Companies building compliant, scalable rails may capture disproportionate value as adoption accelerates
• Institutional Tailwinds: Evolving regulatory clarity around stablecoins and digital assets is lowering barriers to institutional participation
• Expanded Addressable Markets: Tokenization introduces liquidity and accessibility to asset classes historically constrained by geography or structure
• Compounding Network Effects: Integrated ecosystems—combining asset backing, stablecoins, and liquidity—can scale rapidly as usage increases

A Structural Shift in Capital Markets

The integration of TradFi and DeFi is increasingly being viewed not as a replacement of existing systems, but as an extension that enhances efficiency, transparency, and capital mobility.

As real-world assets move on-chain and liquidity infrastructure matures, the ability to seamlessly connect regulated financial assets with decentralized markets may define the next generation of financial leaders.

About I-ON Digital Corp.

I-ON Digital Corp. is a U.S.-based digital asset infrastructure company focused on real-world-asset tokenization, regulated gold-backed digital instruments, and digital asset banking services. The Company’s platform enables institutions to digitize, tokenize, manage, and distribute physical and in-situ assets within compliant, treasury-grade frameworks.

A strategic partnership brings Mansory into the LUKSO ecosystem through validator participation, economic alignment, Universal Profile onboarding, strategic introductions, and early product testing.

For three decades, Mansory has built its name around custom automotive craft, material precision, and a clear sense of identity. Through a strategic partnership with the Foundation for the New Creative Economies, or FNCE, and LUKSO, the company is now bringing that same standard into web3.

This partnership is built around participation. It brings Mansory into the LUKSO ecosystem through validator participation, economic alignment around Mansory utility token and LUKSO, Universal Profile onboarding, strategic introductions, and early product testing. That mix matters because it ties brand presence to infrastructure and product.

Mansory brings a premium brand standard to onchain identity

Mansory has always operated with a strong point of view. The brand is known for custom builds where finish, materials, and detail are part of the product itself. A move into digital identity only makes sense if that same level of control and authorship can carry across.

That is where LUKSO fits. LUKSO was built for digital identity, brand-owned presence, and new forms of community participation. Universal Profiles give brands a native way to hold assets, publish identity, manage permissions, and interact across applications without reducing the brand to a wallet address.

For Mansory, that matters because digital presence cannot be a side layer. It has to feel official, intentional, and connected to the standards the brand already applies in the physical world.

“We built Universal Profiles so that digital ownership actually means something. Mansory understands that. They have spent decades making sure every detail of a car is intentional. That is the same philosophy. When a brand like Mansory puts identity onchain, it is not a tech experiment. It is the next logical step for how they already think about craftsmanship.” – Fabian Vogelsteller, Co-Founder of LUKSO

FNCE also matters here. As the independent Swiss foundation backing the LUKSO ecosystem, FNCE sits at the point where cultural use cases, ecosystem growth, and partner development meet. Its role gives this partnership a clear frame: bring a premium cultural brand into the ecosystem in a way that can support actual product and identity work.

What the partnership includes

The partnership can be explained through four main working parts. Together they show how Mansory enters the LUKSO ecosystem at both the brand level and the infrastructure level.

Validator participation and network alignment

The first part is validator participation and network alignment. The announced partnership includes Mansory contributing to validator participation on the LUKSO blockchain network through Stakingverse. That places the brand inside the network rather than at the edge of it.

The partnership also includes economic alignment around Mansory’s utility token (MNSRY) and LUKSO. LUKSO will become a staker of the Mansory token, which creates a shared incentive structure across both ecosystems.

Strategic introductions and advisory

The second part is strategic introductions and advisory. Mansory brings decades of access across luxury automotive, fashion, and high-net-worth lifestyle circles. LUKSO brings access to a builder-led ecosystem of creative brands, developers, and digital-native communities.

That two-way access is one of the strongest parts of the story because it makes the partnership useful in both directions. Mansory gains proximity to new onchain tools and communities. LUKSO gains a partner with real brand reach in premium cultural sectors that are often discussed in web3 but rarely engaged in a serious way.

Universal Profile onboarding

The third part is Universal Profile onboarding. Mansory will onboard onto Universal Profiles on LUKSO and establish an official onchain brand identity. Creating a brand-owned presence that can travel across applications and community touchpoints.

Universal Profiles are smart-contract based digital accounts designed for identity, assets, metadata, permissions, and interaction across platforms. For Mansory, that creates a base layer for authenticated brand presence, direct community connection, gated experiences, and future digital touchpoints tied to the brand.

Early product testing

The fourth part is early product testing. Mansory will act as an early tester for LUKSO’s upcoming product releases and give feedback from the perspective of a premium global brand. That matters because LUKSO is not only gaining a recognizable partner. It is gaining product input from a company known for exacting standards around finish, presentation, and user expectation.

This feedback loop is also useful for the ecosystem. Products shaped with demanding brand input are more likely to meet the needs of cultural brands, premium communities, and teams that care about the full user experience rather than a narrow technical feature set.

“We have always pushed boundaries in automotive design. Partnering with LUKSO is a natural extension of that mindset, bringing the same standard of excellence to our digital presence. Universal Profiles give us a way to connect with our community that matches the exclusivity of what we build.” – Matthieu Humbert de la Touche, Head of Growth at Mansory

What this means for collectors, communities, and brands

For collectors and communities, the value of this partnership is not abstract. A brand like Mansory carries a strong identity and a defined relationship with its audience. Bringing that relationship onchain creates room for clearer brand verification, closer community touchpoints, and new forms of participation that feel native to the brand rather than bolted on later.

For LUKSO, the story is also wider than one brand announcement. It shows that culture-led infrastructure can attract partners who care about presentation, authorship, and community standards. That does not mean every luxury brand will move the same way. It does mean there is now a clearer example of how a premium brand can enter web3 through identity, infrastructure, and product collaboration at the same time.

Onchain presence works best when it reflects how a brand already thinks about ownership, community, and value. Mansory is not changing its standards to fit the medium. It is testing whether the medium is mature enough to carry the standards it already has.

About Mansory

MANSORY is a luxury automobile modification company that has spent more than three decades shaping a distinct position in the automotive world through custom design, premium materials, and close attention to detail. The brand works across some of the best-known names in the sector, including Aston Martin, Audi, and Bentley.

Its recent move into web3 through the MNSRY token gives Mansory a growing digital community layer. Source materials describe token-holder access to community benefits, merchandise discounts, exclusive events, a virtual garage, and limited-release opportunities. Final public wording for those benefits should match the latest approved Mansory copy.

About LUKSO

LUKSO is a Layer 1 blockchain built for digital identity, creativity, and culture. Founded by Fabian Vogelsteller and Marjorie Hernandez, LUKSO introduces standards and tools designed to help brands, creators, and communities build expressive and verifiable digital presence onchain.

About FNCE

The Foundation for the New Creative Economies, or FNCE, is the independent Swiss foundation backing the LUKSO ecosystem. Its role is to enable, nurture, and expand creative, cultural, and identity-centric onchain innovation built on LUKSO.

The wealth and trust industry is at an inflection point. Rising client expectations, growing regulatory complexity, and increasing operational demands are pushing banks, wealth management firms, and trust organizations to seek smarter, more efficient ways to operate. For firms that manage sensitive financial data and high-stakes client relationships, the pressure to modernize, without sacrificing security or governance, has never been greater.

Fi-Tek LLC, a leading provider of technology solutions for the wealth and trust industry, is answering that call. The company has announced the full production rollout of its artificial intelligence strategy – a purpose-built initiative designed to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen decision-making, and streamline workflows across the wealth administration lifecycle.

At the heart of this initiative is GWiz, Fi-Tek’s AI ecosystem built to extend and enhance its Global Wealth Enterprise Suite (GWES). GWiz brings intelligent, enterprise-grade AI directly into the day-to-day operations of wealth and trust professionals – enabling natural language access to institutional knowledge, AI-powered document intelligence for trust administration, and automation of complex back, middle, and front office processes.

Critically, Fi-Tek’s AI capabilities are hosted entirely within a secure AWS cloud environment, ensuring sensitive client data is never exposed to public large language models. With strict authentication protocols, IP whitelisting, and rigorous governance controls, firms can harness the power of AI while maintaining full regulatory compliance.

Fi-Tek has already identified more than 40 AI-driven use cases across the wealth administration lifecycle, with several now live in production. A dedicated internal AI team, comprising AI engineers and cloud technology specialists, continues to expand the GWiz ecosystem, with an agentic integration layer on the horizon to connect third-party tools and consolidate workflows across systems.

In the words of Suvo Chatterjee, VP Product and Technology, “Our goal is to deliver AI capabilities that empower wealth and trust professionals – not replace them. By combining industry expertise with modern AI technologies, we are helping firms operate more efficiently while continuing to deliver the high-touch service their clients rely on.”

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Rain, the decentralized prediction markets protocol, announces the launch of its AI agent-ready SDK and a $5 million grant program to support developers and creators worldwide in building, launching, and monetizing their own independent prediction market platforms. Open to builders and creators globally, the initiative aims to accelerate the growth of decentralized prediction markets by giving builders access to the funding and infrastructure needed to launch new platforms on top of the Rain protocol.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently described OpenClaw as part of a broader shift in AI, from systems that answer questions to ones that can actually perform work. OpenClaw lets us have a personal agent, much like Microsoft let us have a personal computer. Rain is built precisely for this shift, exposing the full stack of prediction markets – creation, pricing, trading, liquidity, and resolution – as simple, composable primitives. With Rain, builders using OpenClaw agents can take a single prompt and generate a live prediction market without manual coding or centralized gatekeepers. This allows anyone with an idea to turn it into a functioning market product more quickly than traditional development would allow.

Prediction market platforms have dominated public discourse over the past few months and have quickly gained unprecedented popularity. Yet even as platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi pursue valuations approaching $20 billion and present themselves as part of a more open financial future, much of the ecosystem remains far more centralized than it appears. Most platforms offer APIs and SDKs that limit interaction to markets the platform itself created. This creates an environment where developers can build discovery, analytics, or trading tools around these markets, but they cannot create new ones independently.

As interest in prediction markets continues to grow, Rain is opening the system up to a wider group of builders. Developers and AI agents will have access not only to existing markets, but also to the infrastructure needed to create and launch their own applications and prediction markets directly on the protocol. The $5 million grant program will allocate $3 million directly to development building on the protocol, while the remaining $2 million will fund a daily rewards system designed to incentivize ongoing activity across the ecosystem. Rain is the first protocol in the industry that lets anyone create and launch fully functional prediction markets on any topic, in any language. Builders maintain full control over their product, branding, and regulatory strategy, while using Rain as the underlying technology layer.

The program also gives builders a direct path to participate in the category’s growth. Every builder earns a flat 0.5% share of the trading volume they generate. The commission is paid directly from Rain’s token allocation, creating a predictable revenue stream for builders who drive activity on the platform.

“In the past year, prediction markets have become one of the most talked about sectors in the market, and Rain is now changing how these platforms are built,” says Roy Shaham, CEO of Rain. “We designed our SDK specifically for OpenClaw and AI agents, allowing anyone to take an initial prompt to a fully live, functional platform. With a $5M pool that is nearly double the industry standard, we give creators the resources to move beyond just pulling data and actually launch their own platforms and create their own markets. By making it easy for anyone to bring their ideas to life with OpenClaw and Rain’s SDK, we are building a colorful ecosystem that pushes the boundaries of what prediction markets can become.”

About Rain:

Rain is a decentralized protocol that provides the infrastructure for anyone to build their own prediction market platforms or applications. Using the machine-readable Rain SDK, developers and AI agents can launch independent markets and niche apps. Rain features private, invitation-only markets, AMM, account abstraction, AI market and dispute resolution, cross-chain support, and more. For more information, visit: https://www.rain.one/.