Self-custody wallet by Chainwith opens two-week user activation across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Aptos, with prizes starting at $100

Chainwith, the developer behind Rewardy Wallet, today opened a two-week global swap campaign that rewards users with raffle entries on qualifying cross-chain trades. The campaign runs from May 12 through May 26, 2026, and is open to all Rewardy Wallet users worldwide.

Under the campaign mechanics, every $50 in swap volume converts into one raffle entry, with no cap on entries per user. A $200 swap returns four entries; $500 returns ten. Prizes start at $100 per winner and will be drawn at the close of the campaign.

The activation follows Rewardy Wallet’s emergence as the largest Web3 wallet in South Korea within ten months of launch. The product has since surpassed 997,555 users globally and is now expanding its engagement programs to international markets.

Wallet architecture and swap infrastructure

Rewardy Wallet is a self-custody, multi-chain wallet supporting Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Aptos. Swap routing is handled through the 1inch Swap API, providing aggregated liquidity and competitive execution pricing within a single interface.

The wallet supports social-login onboarding while preserving non-custodial key management — private keys remain on the user’s device at all times. Gas fees on supported chains are subsidized by the platform, reducing the effective cost of campaign participation.

Use-to-earn model

Beyond the current campaign, Rewardy Wallet operates on a use-to-earn structure. Users earn on-chain rewards through swaps, quests, and community missions — a model that has anchored the wallet’s adoption curve and informs its broader engagement strategy.

About Rewardy Wallet

Rewardy Wallet is a self-custody, multi-chain crypto wallet developed by Chainwith. The product combines swap, staking, and rewards infrastructure within a single application and serves over 997,555 users across global markets. More information is available at https://www.rewardywallet.com/en. Campaign details are published at https://abr.ge/dv1tun.

Casual, hyper-casual, and hybrid-casual games have become dominant categories in the global mobile market, making in-app advertising (IAA) a key driver of monetization success. However, many developers continue to face major challenges, including unstable fill rates, fluctuating eCPMs, difficulties balancing multiple regional markets, and the ongoing tradeoff between user experience and revenue growth.

To address these issues, zMaticoo has compiled a series of monetization case studies from leading game publishers and studios across China, Vietnam, Europe, and North America. These teams span hyper-casual, puzzle, board, card, and light-casual game categories, with DAUs ranging from millions to tens of millions. By adopting the same monetization framework, they achieved simultaneous growth in fill rate, eCPM, and ad revenue while maintaining stable user experience.

A common challenge among these teams was the shrinking monetization margin across global markets, creating an urgent need for sustainable revenue growth. At the same time, developers were cautious about over-monetization negatively impacting retention and player engagement.

To solve these challenges, zMaticoo introduced an AI-driven monetization system with full-funnel optimization capabilities. The platform connects developers directly to premium global advertiser budgets across both performance and brand advertising. AI models identify high-value traffic in real time based on region, audience, and usage scenarios, prioritizing high-eCPM demand sources. Separate bidding strategies are applied for mature and emerging markets to avoid revenue loss caused by one-size-fits-all pricing models.

The platform also provides refined ad format optimization:

• Banner Ads: optimized display share and loading timing to improve SOV and stabilize eCPM;
• Interstitial Ads: precisely triggered during high-value moments such as level completion or pause screens, with especially strong premiums in emerging markets;
• Rewarded Video: deeply integrated into gameplay loops, delivering high user acceptance and conversion performance.

On the technical side, zMaticoo optimized SDK infrastructure to improve fill stability under weak network conditions. Ad loading time was reduced from five seconds to under two seconds through a rebuilt loading architecture. Progressive asset loading further minimized timeout-related drop-offs. AI-powered ad templates dynamically generated personalized creatives, improving both CTR and conversion performance.

The zMaticoo team also provides one-stop operational and analytics support. Developers can monitor fill rate, impressions, eCPM, and revenue through a unified dashboard, while dedicated optimization specialists provide 7×12 support for A/B testing, strategy iteration, and scaling guidance. The platform is deeply integrated with major mediation solutions, enabling one-time integration and multi-scenario deployment while reducing development and maintenance costs.

According to zMaticoo platform data:

• In mature markets including the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, banner eCPMs increased by 5%–10%, while interstitial premiums improved by over 5%;
• In emerging markets such as Brazil, Mexico, and Southeast Asia, interstitial eCPMs increased by more than 10%.

The monetization framework has demonstrated effectiveness across hyper-casual, puzzle, board/card, and utility app categories, supporting both rapid scale-up and long-term monetization stability.

Partner feedback includes:

“We are highly satisfied with the revenue uplift after integration. Our core products’ banner performance now ranks among the top tier.”
“Revenue recovered significantly after A/B testing, and we are expanding testing across more products.”
“One solution now supports multiple global markets without requiring separate monetization strategies for each region.”
“Interstitial monetization performance has been especially strong, with SOV reaching 10%–20% for several partners.”

zMaticoo believes successful monetization today is not about stacking more ad platforms, but about leveraging AI, technology, and refined operations to unlock long-term traffic value. Whether for hyper-casual publishers, puzzle game studios, or global mobile app companies, this AI-powered monetization framework is designed to deliver sustainable revenue growth while preserving user experience.

As the IMF’s April 2026 Global Financial Stability Report calls for enhanced regulatory oversight of cross-border stablecoin flows to emerging markets, Fuutura’s compliance-first architecture across identity, payments, and trading is built to support exactly this kind of regulatory oversight

Fuutura, a blockchain infrastructure company building a compliance-first financial ecosystem for the global market, today set out its position on rising cross-border stablecoin flows to emerging markets, following the IMF’s call for enhanced regulatory oversight in its April 2026 Global Financial Stability Report.

The IMF’s findings reflect a structural shift in how money moves across emerging economies. Cross-border flows of the two largest dollar-pegged stablecoins, Tether and USD Coin, rose from approximately $12 billion in early 2020 to $316 billion by early 2025, outpacing flows of Bitcoin and Ethereum. A significant share of those flows has been directed toward emerging markets, with cumulative net inflows accelerating since late 2023. The IMF’s concern is that rapid stablecoin adoption in emerging markets, absent appropriate regulation and backstops, could lead to currency substitution, weaken the transmission of monetary policy, increase capital flow volatility, and create challenges for capital flow management measures.

The IMF report also acknowledges that stablecoins, with adequate regulation, could offer improved settlement efficiency, faster cross-border payments, increased competition in the payment space, and broader access to digital finance. The same flows that warrant enhanced oversight also reflect genuine demand for financial services that legacy infrastructure has consistently failed to deliver in emerging markets.

Fuutura is being built to make both possible at once. A compliance by design approach facilitates the very regulatory oversight the IMF is advocating. That same architecture allows the platform to serve users in markets unreached by legacy financial infrastructure. What that looks like in practice is best described by the people who have built it.

“The IMF’s findings lay bare something that anyone working in cross-border financial services across emerging markets has been seeing for years. The flows are real, the demand is structural, and the existing infrastructure has not been built to give regulators the kind of visibility they need to do their work properly. That is the gap our infrastructure is built to address, across cross-border payments, identity verification, and the trading layer that connects users to the global financial system. Compliance is not something we have layered on top of an existing platform. It is part of how the system functions at every level.” Ellis McGrath, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Fuutura

The architectural choice that defines Fuutura is the integration of compliance at a foundational level. Most digital asset platforms operate perimeter compliance, with KYC and AML conducted at onboarding and transaction monitoring sitting on top of an existing technology stack. Fuutura’s design records verified KYC and AML attestations on-chain and ties them to the user’s wallet, so that every interaction with the platform is gated by the presence of that attestation at the smart contract level. This applies across the entire ecosystem. Whether a user is opening a wallet, executing a trade on the exchange, or moving funds across borders, the same compliance design governs every interaction. The result is infrastructure where compliance is enforceable on every transaction and auditable by regulators at the on-chain level.

“The platforms that earn regulators’ trust will be the ones that make their work easier. The IMF’s call for proportionate monitoring of stablecoin flows reflects a broader truth about the relationship between innovators and regulators in this industry. Architecture that is open to inspection by default. A company posture that welcomes the questions responsible oversight requires. We believe the future of digital finance depends on builders and regulators working together, and we have designed Fuutura to support that relationship across every product on the platform.” Oliver Cook KC, Co-founder and Chief Legal Officer, Fuutura

Fuutura is building for a market where existing financial infrastructure has consistently failed to deliver. The cross-border stablecoin corridors identified by the IMF are one part of that market. The broader scope is the millions of people and businesses across emerging economies who require digital identity, secure custody, and access to global financial markets in a single connected environment. The company’s launch marks the beginning of a phased rollout, with further ecosystem development planned as the platform scales across the markets it was designed to serve.

About Fuutura

Fuutura is a blockchain infrastructure company building a compliance-first financial ecosystem facilitating participation in the global financial system from underserved markets with a focus on the Global-South. The platform combines digital identity verification, a wallet, and a trading exchange into one unified ecosystem, giving users access to crypto and tokenised real-world assets through a single environment. Fuutura is pursuing licensing in multiple jurisdictions. Built with KYC and AML integrated at an architectural level, Fuutura is designed to be open to regulatory oversight by design. Fuutura is building infrastructure to extend digital finance to markets that legacy banking has not reached.

New integration connects Daloopa data to Perplexity’s AI workflows, enabling faster, more reliable investment research using the same data teams rely on today

Daloopa, the essential data infrastructure for AI and agentic workflows in financial services, today announced a new integration with Perplexity that allows joint customers to connect their existing financial data licenses directly into Perplexity and the always-on digital worker, Perplexity Computer.

The integration introduces a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model, enabling investment teams to access and analyze Daloopa’s structured, audit-ready fundamental data within Perplexity’s interface, without needing to configure APIs, manage entitlements, or switch between tools. Users can query their licensed data through Perplexity’s answer engine, or use Computer to run complex financial analyses using Daloopa data alongside external market signals, all within a single workflow with fully traceable citations.

This builds on Daloopa’s growing ecosystem of AI partnerships, including its connectors with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. As AI becomes embedded in real investment workflows, the limiting factor is no longer model capability, but whether those systems can reliably access and use high-quality financial data within those workflows. In high-stakes use cases like valuation, earnings analysis, and portfolio modeling, inconsistencies and errors can materially impact outcomes.

“AI is only as powerful as the data it can access,” said Thomas Li, CEO of Daloopa. “As investment firms move AI into real workflows, they need systems that are not just fast, but also accurate, consistent, and traceable. By integrating with Perplexity, we’re enabling teams to bring their existing data licenses into AI platforms, so they can move faster without sacrificing rigor.”

“Perplexity is focused on delivering accurate, cited answers users can trust,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity AI. “By connecting Perplexity to the financial data our customers already rely on, we’re making it possible to run analysis, generate research, and answer complex questions in a single workflow, with full visibility into the underlying sources.”

The result is faster, more reliable research and clearer investment decisions, grounded in the same robust data that teams already trust today.

Daloopa’s platform covers 5,500+ public companies globally, delivers up to 10 times more data points per company than other providers, and each datapoint is linked back to its original source for full auditability. The company’s infrastructure powers a wide range of analytical AI workflows, from hedge funds detecting quarterly inflections and modeling scenarios to equity researchers generating reports. Daloopa’s MCP is also LLM-agnostic and supports AI platforms using MCP Standard Protocol.

About Daloopa

Daloopa is the financial data layer powering the finance ecosystem with the most accurate and comprehensive data. Its proprietary platform sources, structures, and distributes this historical financial dataset covering 5,500+ public companies globally. Analysts at the world’s top investment firms trust Daloopa’s workflow solutions to save valuable time and accelerate their decision making. Daloopa also provides the critical AI data infrastructure that underpins the best financial agents and is trusted by the world’s most preeminent AI companies.

For more information or to request a demo, visit daloopa.com.

Planner Assistant generates anomaly detection and forecasting insights grounded in the customer’s own planning models and the Planful Predict engine.

• Planner Assistant is built on the Planful Predict engine and the customer’s own financial data, which means every forecast and anomaly signal is fully explainable and can be traced back to actual financial data.
• Planner is Planful’s second major persona-based AI Assistant, following Analyst in October 2025. Together they form a continuous loop. Analyst explains what happened; Planner predicts what comes next.
• Planner Assistant will be featured at Perform26 On the Road with hands-on demos to unveil the Planful operating model for AI-powered finance that Planner Assistant brings to life.

Planful Inc., the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software, today announced the general availability of Planful AI Planner Assistant. This conversational interface surfaces forward-looking planning and forecasting insights. Finance leaders can ask Planner Assistant to model scenarios, detect anomalies, and generate forecasts, receiving natural-language responses and visualizations in real-time.

Planner Assistant is the second in Planful’s growing team of assistants, following the release of Analyst Assistant in October 2025. While Analyst Assistant delivers natural-language insights from historical data, Planner Assistant looks forward, powered by the Planful Predict engine and grounded in the customer’s own financial data. Together they create a continuous planning loop, empowering finance teams to understand what happened, predict what’s next, and model their best path forward.

“Our leadership team is aligned around leaning into AI, and tools like Planful’s Planner Assistant make that more practical for finance instead of theoretical,” said Avra Mouzakis, Associate Director of Enterprise Financial Performance Management at TerSera Therapeutics.

Planner Assistant is natively embedded across the Planful platform, so finance teams can prompt it directly from the workflows they already use, generating projections in seconds instead of configuring models manually, discovering cost center variances before month-end close, and turning analysis into action without switching context. The handoff from analysis to planning becomes one continuous, context-aware workflow, shifting the work of finance from data preparation to strategic decision support.

Planful AI Planner Assistant key capabilities:

• Generate projections: Instantly explore forecasts and scenarios in natural language (“What does CAPEX look like if we increase headcount by 15% in Q3?”).
• Detect anomalies: Surface unexpected signals in your forecasts (“Detect anomalies in my current forecast for sales and marketing expenses”).
• Analyze variances: Compare current performance against predicted outcomes (“What’s driving the difference between our forecast and actuals for IT spend?”).

“Finance teams spend too much time explaining what happened, and this limits their focus on shaping what comes next. Planner Assistant changes that ratio. It sits inside the work finance is already doing, uses the data they already trust, and gives them an accurate, confident view of what’s likely to happen, not a black box assumption. That’s what it means to build AI that accelerates what our customers do, rather than competing with it,” said Rowan Tonkin, Chief Marketing Officer at Planful.

Planner Assistant is built on a core principle: every forecast must be explainable. Unlike generic AI tools, it doesn’t generate projections from public training data. Financial decisions require evidence and context, so every Planner Assistant output can be traced, validated, and defended.

Planner Assistant applies the same robust security posture as all Planful AI products. Customer data and prompts are never used to train models, are encrypted in transit and at rest, and are only accessible to authorized users.

“Finance teams have mastered looking backward with Analyst Assistant. Planner Assistant shows them what’s likely to happen next and what they should do about it, no additional training or context switching required,” said Sanjay Vyas, Chief Technology Officer at Planful. “This is the next step in our roadmap to deliver AI-enabled assistants that augment human effort across the full finance workflow: from analysis to prediction to planning to decision.”

Planful will showcase Planner Assistant at Perform26 On the Road, with the next stops happening in NYC (May 14) / SF (May 21), following the roadshow’s kickoff in Houston on April 21. Attendees can explore hands-on AI use cases, from natural-language forecasting to early risk detection, and Planful leaders will walk through the 2026 roadmap in the product innovation sessions.

To learn more about Planner Assistant, visit planful.com/ai.

About Planful

Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform, which helps businesses drive peak financial performance, is used around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. Planful’s award-winning AI capabilities accelerate decision-making, helping Planful users in over 100 countries to close faster, accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy. Planful is a private company with more than 1,500 customers, including Bose, Boston Red Sox, Five Guys, Grafton Plc, Gousto, and Specialized, and is backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at planful.com.

BNBTradeBot has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence-based cryptocurrency trading platform, reflecting a broader shift in the digital asset sector toward automation and data-driven decision-making.

Market Context

Interest in cryptocurrency trading continues to expand globally, alongside growing demand for systems capable of processing real-time data, adapting to volatility, and operating continuously. Industry focus has increasingly moved beyond basic trade execution toward tools that integrate analysis, automation, and responsiveness to market conditions.

Platform Overview

The BNBTradeBot platform incorporates machine learning models designed to adjust trading strategies based on evolving market data. According to the company, the system monitors market activity on an ongoing basis and modifies its approach in response to detected patterns, rather than relying solely on fixed rules.

The platform includes automated trading functions, account monitoring, and performance tracking features. The company notes that results may vary depending on market conditions, reflecting the volatility associated with digital assets.

Industry Trends in AI Trading

The use of artificial intelligence in financial markets has expanded in recent years, including applications in portfolio management, predictive analytics, and trade execution. This trend has been particularly pronounced in cryptocurrency markets, where continuous trading and rapid price movements create demand for automated systems.

Market participants have also highlighted considerations around transparency, system design, and user understanding as adoption increases.

Positioning

BNBTradeBot enters a market where financial technology and artificial intelligence continue to converge. The company positions its platform within ongoing efforts to integrate advanced analytics into more accessible trading tools, as interest in automation and efficiency remains a defining theme in digital asset markets.

About BNBTradeBot

BNBTradeBot is a cryptocurrency trading platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and quantitative models to support automated trading strategies.

Gemeos Trading, a Canadian technology company that develops and licenses algorithmic trading software, today announced the continued expansion of its AI-powered copy-trading platform, which provides retail investors with access to institutional-grade forex trading algorithms verified through third-party sources including MyFXBook.

Gemeos Trading was founded by Mathew Kevin Edgar and Leslie Edgar. The company operates as a software-as-a-service technology firm that develops proprietary trading algorithms and licenses them through a copy-trading model in which clients maintain full custody of their own brokerage accounts at all times. Unlike the majority of retail forex algorithm providers, Gemeos Trading exclusively uses price-action and volume-based strategies rather than martingale or grid-based averaging systems.

“Gemeos Trading exists because the retail forex algorithm market has a fundamental problem,” said Mathew Kevin Edgar, Founder of Gemeos Trading. “About 90 percent of algorithms sold to retail traders use martingale and grid-based strategies. Those systems can work short-term, but they carry the risk of total account loss when a market moves in one direction without pulling back. We saw two competitors blow client accounts last year for exactly that reason. Gemeos Trading has never blown an account in its entire history.”

The company’s flagship product, the Quantum algorithm, is an AI-based trading system with a third-party verified track record of more than two years of live trading. According to company-reported figures, the Quantum algorithm returned 164 percent in 2025 before compounding, with 11 profitable months and one losing month of approximately 8.6 percent. The company offers 2 risk levels – with hard-stop equity thresholds at under 20 percent, 20 percent and 40 percent – allowing clients to select a risk tolerance that matches their investment objectives.

Gemeos Trading operates through a copy-trading model that replaced an earlier profit-sharing (PAM) arrangement operated through Supreme Commerce Training Inc, a consulting and education company Kevin has operated since 2019. The copy-trading structure reduces onboarding to two steps: fund a brokerage account and connect it to the Gemeos Trading copy trader.

“We moved to copy trading because it’s dramatically simpler,” said Leslie, Co-Founder of Gemeos Trading. “Clients keep custody of their own money at all times. They connect their own broker account to our system, and they can disconnect at any time. That transparency and control matters.”

Gemeos Trading maintains a live trading desk staffed by three full-time traders, including a partner with more than 20 years of institutional trading experience, who monitor algorithm operations 24 hours a day during forex market hours and intervene manually during periods of elevated drawdown.

“No matter how good an algorithm is, you need someone there to catch it if something goes wrong,” Kevin said. “A software glitch, a black swan event – there needs to be a human failsafe. That’s what our trade desk provides at Gemeos Trading.”

About Gemeos Trading

Gemeos Trading is a Canadian technology company that develops and licenses AI-powered algorithmic trading software through a copy-trading platform. The company’s algorithms use price-action and volume-based strategies with third-party verified track records on platforms including MyFXBook. Gemeos Trading is not a registered dealer, adviser or investment fund manager under Canadian securities laws and does not provide investment advice, manage client funds or accept deposits. For more information, visit www.gemeostrading.com

MetaComp Pte. Ltd. (MetaComp), today launched the StableX Know Your Agent (KYA) Framework – a governance framework for AI agents operating in regulated financial services in payments, compliance, and wealth workflows authored by a licensed financial institution and believed to be the first of its kind globally. MetaComp is Asia’s pioneer in unified Web2.5 digital financial solutions bridging fiat and stablecoin capabilities across payments, treasury, and wealth management through a group-level platform. The KYA framework is open for adoption by financial institutions, regulators, and network partners.

The announcement was made at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, alongside the expansion of MetaComp’s AgentX agentic financial services Skill ecosystem, the first such ecosystem from a regulated financial institution, which will be available across Claude, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other compatible AI platforms from 21 April 2026 at www.metacomp.ai.

Ms Tin Pei Ling, Co-President, MetaComp said: “AI agents are already operating in financial services — initiating payments, making compliance decisions, managing portfolios. And yet there is no agreed standard for who those agents are, what they are permitted to do, or who is accountable when they act outside their mandate. KYA is our active contribution to establish that standard for regulated financial services. It governs agents across their full lifecycle — identity, authorisation, behaviour monitoring, and how they interact with each other — within a single architecture.”

To understand why this matters in practice, take something as fundamental as identity. When a human leaves an organisation, their access is revoked. When an AI agent completes a transaction, its identity and permissions do not automatically expire. It can persist in a system long after its mandate has lapsed — with no verified identity anchor, no accountability chain, and no mechanism to intervene. “Also, the longitudinal behavioural trail, if without safeguards such as time limits or privacy protection, risks being tracked and exploited. Hence, holistic lifecycle governance is imperative,” she added.

The Governance Gap Agentic Finance Has Yet to Close

Financial institutions globally are deploying AI agents to initiate payments, execute compliance decisions, and manage portfolios, yet fewer than one in three organisations have adequate governance and controls in place to oversee them, according to McKinsey’s 2026 State of AI Trust survey. Similarly, PwC’s Global AI Performance Study 2026, found that while Singapore businesses outperform the global average on AI adoption (67 per cent report a higher risk appetite for AI investment versus 41 per cent globally), only 47 per cent have a documented responsible AI framework, compared to 63 per cent among global AI leaders.

In January 2026, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) published the world’s first cross-sector governance framework for AI agents. Budget 2026 built on this with the establishment of a National AI Council chaired by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, designating finance as one of four national AI mission sectors and committing to regulatory sandboxes for AI innovation.

Ms Tin Pei Ling added: “We developed KYA drawing on IMDA’s Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, and we went back to IMDA directly to seek their feedback. We are in active engagement with other regulators and stakeholders. We are not presenting this as a finished answer. We are publishing it openly, because this is not a problem any one institution can resolve on its own. We are asking financial institutions, regulators, and technology partners to adopt it, challenge it, and build on it with us.”

To the best of MetaComp’s knowledge and based on publicly available information, no licensed financial institution has published a governance architecture addressing agent identity, authorisation, action scope, behavioural monitoring, risk scoring, audit trails, and agent-to-agent governance in a single framework specifically for regulated payments, compliance, and wealth workflows.

KYA governs AI agents across their full operational lifecycle, to establish who the agent is, what it is permitted to do, what it actually does and how it interacts. The framework is organised across four pillars: Agent Identity and Registration; Authority and Permission Control; VisionX Behaviour Monitoring and Risk Intelligence; and Ecosystem and Interaction Governance, which extends the FATF Travel Rule to agent-to-agent transactions.

Under the KYA framework, every AI agent is anchored to a verified identity linked to a real-world individual or institution through a tamper-resistant registry, ensuring clear accountability from the outset. Each agent operates within strictly defined permissions – governing what it can access, decide, and execute – with built-in safeguards that require human escalation when actions exceed approved thresholds.

The framework goes beyond traditional controls by introducing continuous, real-time monitoring of agent behaviour, assessing not just what actions are taken, but how they are executed and whether outcomes align with intent. As agents operate, their risk profiles are dynamically updated, enabling proactive risk management. All activities and interactions are securely authenticated and recorded, creating a comprehensive, end-to-end audit trail that delivers full transparency and traceability for regulators, institutions, and ecosystem participants.

KYA extends its governance to agent-to-agent interactions, building on the principles of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule by requiring the exchange of verified identity and transaction information not only between institutions, but also across agent-initiated and agent-to-agent activities within a unified architecture. This ensures that every interaction remains traceable, attributable, and compliant by design.

The framework governs all agents operating within the StableX Network, including those accessing MetaComp’s capabilities through the AgentX Skill ecosystem. Financial institutions and developers can access MetaComp’s regulated infrastructure (compliance, payments, and wealth management) directly through the AI platforms they already use, including Claude, Claude Code, and other compatible platforms via Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The ecosystem’s first Skill, the VisionX Know Your Transaction (KYT) Skill, packages the Web2.5 VisionX Engine into a single agent-callable compliance layer combining more than four blockchain analytics vendors in parallel. New Skills across cross-border payments, treasury, and wealth management will be available by late Q2 2026.

The Compliance Foundation and the Evidence Behind It

The framework sits on top of a compliance architecture that MetaComp has validated across real-world transaction flows. Cross-border transactions today increasingly span both traditional banking rails and blockchain networks within a single transfer. FATF data from June 2025 shows that 73 per cent of jurisdictions have passed Travel Rule legislation, but 59 per cent have taken no supervisory or enforcement action.

Ms Summer Yu, Group Chief Compliance Officer, Alpha Ladder Group, said: “Today’s compliance frameworks were designed for a world where humans initiate transactions. That assumption no longer holds. Our analysis of more than 7,000 real-world transactions shows that even in hybrid fiat and blockchain environments, relying on a single screening tool can leave up to 25% of high-risk exposures undetected. In an agent-driven environment, these risks multiply, and without a defined identity layer, clear authorisation boundaries, or shared accountability standards, the control framework simply does not exist. VisionX Web2.5 closes the visibility gap. KYA establishes the governance layer. Both are essential, and both must be in place before agentic finance can scale safely.”

Today’s announcement continues a period of sustained momentum for MetaComp. Since closing US$35 million across two Pre-A funding rounds within three months, the group has launched the Web2.5 VisionX Engine, established a joint venture with Maqam International Holding to connect Abu Dhabi’s real asset base to Asian capital markets through the StableX Network, and now introduced the KYA Framework as the governance layer for the next phase of institutional agentic finance. Capital is being deployed across all three dimensions: deepening compliance capabilities, expanding regulated payment corridors across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and building the institutional standards that the agentic era requires.

About MetaComp

MetaComp is Asia’s pioneer in unified Web2.5 digital financial solutions, bridging fiat and stablecoin capabilities across payments, treasury, and wealth management on an institutional, group-level platform. Licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a Major Payment Institution to provide Digital Payment Token (DPT) and Cross-border Money Transfer (CBMT) services, MetaComp serves more than 1,000 institutional and accredited clients across major financial hubs globally.

In 2025, the group-level platform processed over US$10 billion in payment and OTC volume across 13+ stablecoins, operating at a monthly run rate exceeding US$1 billion. Through the StableX Network, institutions move, convert and manage capital across fiat and stablecoin rails within a compliant, unified Web2.5 financial architecture. Treasury and investment services are provided through Alpha Ladder Finance Pte. Ltd., MetaComp’s MAS-licensed affiliate holding Capital Markets Services (CMS) and Recognised Market Operator (RMO) licences, with wealth AUM surpassing US$500 million across its solutions.

MetaComp has raised US$35 million in its Pre-A funding rounds to date and achieved full-year net profitability in 2025, reflecting strong institutional demand for regulated Web2.5 financial solutions.

Learn more at www.mce.sg, or follow MetaComp on X @MetaCompHQ or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/metacompsg).

Following $100M Genesis Program sellout in 24 hours, Theo opens access to gold-backed, yield-bearing stablecoin in 200 countries

Theo, the tokenization platform built by former Optiver and IMC traders, is opening access to thUSD, its gold-backed, yield-bearing stablecoin, in over 200 countries, targeting $1 billion in deposits by year-end. The move follows a period in which the product’s delta-neutral gold strategy delivered positive returns every month, including through the significant gold price volatility of March 2026.

thUSD generates yield from two independent sources that are structurally disconnected from both central bank policy and gold price movements. The first is physical gold lending: deposits are backed by thGOLD, Theo’s tokenised gold product, which earns interest by lending gold to established retailers including Mustafa Gold, one of Asia’s largest gold retailers with $550 million in annual revenue. The second is futures arbitrage: Theo simultaneously shorts gold futures on the CME and other venues against its long thGOLD position, capturing the spread between spot and futures prices. The result is a delta-neutral position, holders are not exposed to gold going up or down, only to the structural basis between the two markets.

That basis held through March 2026, when market volatility drove sharp declines in gold prices. While holders of gold ETFs and gold-backed tokens experienced sharp drawdowns, thUSD’s peg was unaffected and yield continued to accrue.

“Most yield products today are a bet on rates or a bet on markets. thUSD is neither,” said Ari Pingle, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Theo. “We’re harvesting a structural spread that exists because of how gold futures are priced relative to spot. That spread has been there for decades, we’ve just tokenised access to it.”

The opening of access follows the oversubscription of Theo’s $100 million Genesis Program, which hit its cap within 24 hours, validating demand for a yield product that does not depend on the direction of interest rates. With DeFi yields compressing, thUSD’s return profile offers a proposition that is structurally independent of the rate cycle. Theo is targeting $300 million in total value locked by the end of April and $1 billion by year-end.

The infrastructure is institutional-grade. FundBridge Capital manages the MG999 Onchain Gold Fund that underpins thGOLD, while Libeara, a tokenisation platform incubated by Standard Chartered Ventures, handles the onchain architecture. A first-loss buffer from the fund sponsor ensures loans remain fully collateralised before depositors bear any risk. Gold’s annualised volatility of 14.4% compares favourably to Bitcoin at 33.5% and Ethereum at 60.8%, and with $247.7 billion in open interest, gold futures dwarf crypto derivatives by orders of magnitude, supporting thUSD’s ability to scale without compressing yields.

“The question everyone asks is ‘what happens when gold drops?'” said Iggy Ioppe, Chief Investment Officer of Theo. “March gave us the answer. Gold dropped and thUSD didn’t flinch, because you’re not long gold, you’re long the spread. That’s the entire point.”

thUSD is built on the same infrastructure as thBILL, Theo’s tokenized U.S. Treasury product, which has processed approximately $1 billion in cumulative volume and holds over $200 million in assets. Theo’s $20 million funding round was led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital, with participation from angel investors at Citadel, Jane Street, HRT, Optiver, IMC, Five Rings, and JPMorgan.

thUSD is accessible via http://app.theo.xyz

About Theo

Theo is a full-stack tokenisation platform built by former quantitative traders from Optiver and IMC Trading. Theo combines asset issuance, professional market-making, and multi-venue distribution to make tokenised real-world assets more powerful than their traditional counterparts. Theo’s products, including thBILL (tokenised U.S. Treasuries, $200M+ TVL) and thGOLD (yield-bearing tokenised gold), are available across major DeFi venues including Arbitrum, Ethereum, Stable and powered by LayerZero. Theo is backed by Hack VC, Anthos Capital, and angel investors from Citadel, Jane Street, HRT, Optiver, IMC, Five Rings, and JPMorgan. Learn more at theo.xyz.

Utexo, the Bitcoin-native execution and settlement layer for stablecoin payments, today announced a collaboration with x402 to bring USDT compatibility to the x402 payment protocol and support real-time, agent-to-agent transactions with settlement speeds as fast as 50 milliseconds.

x402 is an open protocol that allows payments to be embedded directly into HTTP requests using the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” status code. This allows applications, APIs, and autonomous systems to pay for services in real time without relying on accounts or pre-funded balances.

With Utexo’s integration, developers using x402 will now be able to transact in USDT, expanding beyond its initial support for USDC and increasing access to one of the most widely used stablecoins in global markets.

Utexo’s infrastructure is designed to handle confidential, low-latency transactions, making it well suited for machine-driven payments where speed, privacy and reliability are critical. In April, 2026, Utexo joined the Linux Foundation as an official member.

Viktor Ihnatiuk, Co-Founder and CEO of Utexo, said, “x402 introduces a new way for value to move across the internet by embedding payments directly into requests. Supporting USDT within this framework expands access significantly and gives developers the performance they need to build real-time, agent-driven systems.”Kevin Leffew, x402 Projects Lead at Coinbase, added, “Our goal with x402 is to make payments a seamless part of how the internet works. Expanding access to more stablecoins improves performance and broadens asset support, which helps accelerate adoption among developers building autonomous and API-based services.”

The integration supports a growing category of use cases where software systems transact independently. This includes paying for API calls, accessing data on demand, and coordinating services across platforms without manual intervention.

As AI systems and autonomous agents become more widely deployed, the need for fast, programmable payments continues to increase. By combining x402’s protocol with Utexo’s settlement infrastructure, the collaboration supports a model where transactions can happen as quickly and efficiently as the requests that trigger them.

About Utexo

Utexo is a Bitcoin-native execution and settlement layer for stablecoin payments. By combining Lightning Network’s instant execution with RGB’s privacy-preserving asset issuance, Utexo’s API and SDK enable payment operators to process USDT transactions instantly with predictable costs and full and private execution.

About x402

x402 is an open payment protocol designed to make payments a native part of the internet by embedding them directly into HTTP requests. The protocol builds on the long-unused HTTP 402 status code to allow servers to request payment in response to a query, enabling instant, per-request transactions for APIs, data services, and machine-driven applications.

Early development and adoption of x402 has been closely aligned with the growing stablecoin ecosystem around USDC, including tooling and infrastructure that has emerged alongside networks and developer platforms associated with Coinbase. This has positioned x402 as a natural fit for developers already building with onchain payments and API-native financial flows.

By expanding support to USDT and integrating high-speed settlement through Utexo, x402 is broadening its reach beyond its initial base and moving toward a more asset-agnostic standard for internet-native payments.