Keycard, a hardware wallet company backed by the Status team, is proud to announce the pre-sale launch of Shell, a revolutionary, fully open-source hardware wallet. Designed with modularity, transparency, and uncompromising security at its core, Shell enables users to seamlessly manage multiple wallets through interchangeable smart cards—called Keycards—for enhanced convenience and safety.

Early supporters can now pre-order Shell bundled with two Keycards at a discounted rate and gain access to exclusive pre-launch rewards ahead of its global release in October 2025.

Redefining the Hardware Wallet Architecture

Current hardware wallets often market themselves as transparent and open source, yet many lack true transparency in their designs—relying on closed-source components, exportable keys, or upgradeable secure elements that weaken user trust. Shell sets a new benchmark in wallet architecture.

“Hardware wallets need a complete rethink,” says Guy-Louis Grau, Project Lead at Keycard. “Users rarely realize that most hardware wallets allow private keys to be exported outside secure elements or rely on upgradable secure elements—both of which compromise the integrity and transparency of the device.”

Shell is powered by Keycard, an EAL6+ certified, open-source smart card that signs transactions and stores keys internally—ensuring they never leave secure hardware. Moreover, Keycard firmware is not upgradable by design, providing long-term assurance that the device behavior will never change post-manufacture.

Shell: Built for Transparency, Security, and Control

Shell is about more than security, it’s designed for those who demand verifiable control over their hardware and digital assets:

• 100% Open Source: Every layer—from chip software to hardware layout and 3D-printable casing—is verifiable and customizable, exceeding the transparency of leading competitors.
• Multiple Stealth Smart Cards: Users can store multiple seed phrases, or use backup cards safely—even if one card is lost, others remain secure.
• Air-Gapped Operation: Users can sign transactions safely using Shell’s integrated camera and QR-code interface—no USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi connection to devices required.
• Duress PIN Support: Defends against physical coercion with a second PIN.
• Cross-Wallet Compatibility: Works seamlessly with major EVM and Bitcoin wallets like MetaMask, Rabby, BackPack,imToken, UniSat, BlueWallet and more using QR-based signing.
• Future-Proof Design: Easily replaceable battery extends the device life, and upgradable Keycards mean Shell adapts as cryptographic standards evolve—unlike most competitors.

Pre-Sale now Live: Limited Perks for Early Adopters

Customers who join the pre-sale will receive:

• A discounted Shell bundle with two Keycards
• Status Network KARMA rewards for participating in the growing ecosystem

️To reserve a Shell wallet and secure pre-launch rewards, users can join the pre-launch at: https://keycard.tech/keycard-shell

About Keycard

Keycard is a proud subsidiary of Status, a pioneer in the crypto industry known for its trusted products like the Status mobile wallet. With a focus on security, privacy, and user empowerment, Keycard continues to build hardware solutions that meet the evolving needs of the global crypto community.

Users can visit https://keycard.tech/keycard-shell

Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 digital identity platform, and the Bitcoin Cash have joined forces to launch .BCH, marking a major step forward in simplifying blockchain-based payments. The new domain extension gives Bitcoin Cash (BCH) users a personalized, secure, and user-friendly way to manage their crypto presence.

Bitcoin Cash, one of the leading peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies, processes over $4 billion in transactions each month and holds a market cap exceeding $5.3 billion. Known for fast, low-cost payments, BCH enables transactions in seconds—critical for real-world use cases like retail, cross-border transfers, and micro-payments, where delays can cost both time and trust. With .BCH domains, users can now replace complex wallet addresses with a human-readable name, dramatically improving usability and accessibility for both individuals and businesses.

Launched in collaboration with BCH.info and the Bitcoin Cash Foundation, the .BCH domain initiative reflects a shared vision of expanding blockchain access and creating real-world use cases for crypto. With a .BCH domain, users can send and receive crypto with ease, create decentralized identities, and unify their onchain activity under one simplified name.

“.BCH domains are more than just a convenience—they’re a leap forward in usability, security, and mass adoption,” said Sandy Carter, COO of Unstoppable Domains. “By collaborating with the Bitcoin Cash Foundation, we’re making it easier for millions to engage with crypto in a way that feels intuitive and secure.”

Whether you’re a crypto enthusiast, developer, or enterprise, .BCH domains offer a powerful way to personalize your digital identity and transact with confidence in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. To learn more or claim your .BCH domain, visit unstoppabledomains.com.

About Unstoppable Domains

Launched in 2018, Unstoppable Domains is an ICANN-accredited registrar and leading digital identity platform dedicated to onboarding the world onto DNS and Web3. Unstoppable Domains provides Web3 domains minted on the blockchain, empowering individuals with full ownership and complete control over their digital identities, with no renewal fees.

Users can replace lengthy alphanumeric crypto wallet addresses with easy-to-remember human-readable domain names, streamlining their interactions with apps, wallets, exchanges, and marketplaces. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers for four consecutive years—2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025—Unstoppable Domains has rapidly grown, boasting over 4.2 million registered domains.

For more information, please visit: https://unstoppabledomains.com/

About Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency designed for fast, low-fee payments that don’t rely on central authorities. With a focus on scalability, usability, and economic freedom, Bitcoin Cash enables individuals and businesses around the world to transact securely, efficiently, and affordably using digital cash.

Xavier AI launches the first AI strategy consultant that provides clear, actionable business knowledge as presentation-ready slides. Designed for strategy, management, and marketing teams, the platform brings elite consultancy tools—once exclusive to firms like McKinsey—to businesses at a fraction of the cost.

Xavier AI can benchmark a company’s performance against competitors, estimate market sizes for new ventures, or build financial models in minutes. Beyond models like DeepSeek, Xavier leverages a proprietary reasoning engine developed in partnership with Professor Philip Parker, an INSEAD AI/ML pioneer with over 25 years of experience in Generative Data.

Xavier AI’s specialized agentic workflows tap into relevant industry databases, news, public financials, and internal documents. Mimicking the granular behaviors of strategy consultants, a state-of-the-art Dynamic Multi-Method Generation (DMG) model grounds its answers on real, identifiable sources, avoiding the chances of hallucination and ensuring the high quality of the content created.

Early adopters, including a major international bank with 50,000 employees, are already leveraging Xavier AI to refine their strategic planning and sales approach. The platform’s ability to turn complex data into concise, usable insights makes it a valuable tool for decision-making. Xavier AI’s Actions enable users to launch new activities immediately in Slack, SAP, Salesforce, and others.

“For 99% of businesses, hiring McKinsey was never an option, which puts them at a disadvantage,” said Joao Filipe, CEO and Co-founder of Xavier AI and a former McKinsey Consultant. “Xavier AI is capable of creating multiple high-quality strategies and overviews in seconds, faster than any human can achieve, at a fraction of the cost. This is a real step forward for how businesses operate.”

About Xavier AI

Xavier AI is the world’s first AI strategy consultant, built to provide businesses with expert-level insights at scale. Founded by former consultant Joao Filipe, AI pioneer Phil Parker (INSEAD), and private Silicon Valley investors, the platform merges advanced technology with deep expertise to meet the needs of strategy, management, and marketing teams globally. Beyond leveraging advanced language AI models, Xavier AI has created a proprietary reasoning engine that delivers practical solutions—such as competitor analysis, market sizing, and financial modeling—to companies previously priced out of top-tier consulting. With a mission to democratize strategic decision-making, Xavier AI serves clients ranging from startups to large enterprises, including early adopters like a leading international bank.

For more information, please visit https://www.xavier.ai/

• Improved custom query API – enabling enterprise grade customized queries against Elliptic’s entire crypto intelligence data set
• Integrated custom queries – detect, analyze and monitor threat actors, and embed the outputs in secure workflows, saving investigators from the burden of operating across multiple tools
• Extension of Elliptic’s AI-generated data sets – focused on threat actor behaviors, eliminating the need for expensive contractors to support investigators
• Extension of coverage to 50+ blockchains – including proprietary data only available through Elliptic, extending monitoring where criminal and state-sponsored activity is happening in crypto

Elliptic, the global leader in digital asset decisioning, has announced the availability of its next generation data and intelligence solutions for the US Government.

Already in use across government agencies, Elliptic’s data solutions have been further enhanced to break down siloes, increase flexibility, scalability and provide trusted, extensible data access. These enhancements are strategically aligned with the US Administration’s critical priorities including counter-narcotics, cartel financing and transnational threat disruption.

Legacy crypto forensic SaaS solutions do not work for government agencies because they deliver access to software which only addresses the narrow questions they are built to answer. Furthermore, they force analysts into rigid workflows that don’t align to real-world priorities and require specialist training.

Lack of interoperability can also be problematic for government agencies with analysts working across multiple disconnected applications, and data that cannot be exported or combined, resulting in fragmented, inefficient and often incomplete analytical processes.

For government agencies to gain efficiencies and achieve their missions, they need data and not software. With direct access to Elliptic’s mission-enhancing proprietary data and intelligence solutions, government agencies are already benefitting in the following ways:

• Full access to Elliptic’s intelligence graph covering over 50,000 real world entities, across 50 blockchains and powered by the deepest and broadest tracing capability. This includes a range of licit and illicit financial activity across multiple categories, including proprietary government-specific mission data on sanction evasion, drug trafficking, adversarial actors, and transnational threats
• Improved custom query API brings enterprise grade customized queries against Elliptic’s entire crypto intelligence data set, which enables investigators to rapidly and flexibly analyze blockchain data using mission-aligned queries, without relying on external contractors. It also empowers lean teams to produce high-context, real-time intelligence on crypto-linked actors or assets directly, supporting live operations and the proactive targeting of counter-narcotics efforts, cartel financing, and transnational criminal networks
• Integrated custom queries to detect, analyze and monitor threat actors, and embed the outputs in secure workflows. This enables operational teams to automatically detect, analyze, and track crypto-enabled threat actors through custom queries integrated directly into secure agency workflows. Elliptic data is seamlessly routed to existing analytical environments or investigative platforms, enabling coordinated action across units and agencies—particularly for high-priority missions targeting transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), fentanyl trafficking networks, and homeland security threats
• Extension of Elliptic’s AI-generated data sets focused on threat actor behaviors enables mission-scoped data feeds that expand the reach of investigations without increasing personnel costs, enabling agencies to sustain investigative continuity even under tight budget constraints

Elliptic’s new data solutions for government agencies can be accessed via:

• Direct data feeds that integrate data in secure workflows and environments
• Query APIs that enable customized queries which can be integrated in real-time into data pipelines and agent workflows
• A user interface that enables analysts to conduct analysis, run secure queries and set up data workflows directly

Tom McDivitt, CRO Government Solutions at Elliptic explained, “now more than ever, the U.S. Government depends on its technology partners to drive innovation and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of agency operations. Elliptic’s advanced AI-powered data and intelligence solutions rise to this challenge—offering custom query APIs, direct data feeds, and expanded blockchain coverage. With access to proprietary data, agencies can accelerate critical missions and achieve improved outcomes.”

About Elliptic

Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy.

Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.

Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., Dubai, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) has announced the launch of the CLEAR AI Platform Agent Orchestrator, a ground breaking solution designed to help businesses build, manage, and integrate AI agents seamlessly across post-production and content supply chain workflows. This innovative platform brings unprecedented intelligence, automation, and efficiency to media operations, leveraging a growing suite of 20+ purpose-built AI agents to enhance productivity and creative possibilities.

Transforming Media Workflows with AI-Driven Orchestration

Traditional media supply chains and Media Asset Management (MAM) systems often struggle with static workflows and limited intelligence, slowing down innovation. The CLEAR AI Platform Agent Orchestrator overcomes these challenges by introducing a generative, agent-driven architecture that supports natural language workflow creation, federated intelligence, and agentic teamwork—delivering unmatched speed, scalability, and creative control.

“The CLEAR AI Agentic Platform isn’t just about automation—it’s about orchestrating intelligence,” said Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Founder and Global CEO of Prime Focus Technologies. “We are empowering media companies with a secure, scalable AI infrastructure that seamlessly integrates with their existing ecosystems, accelerates creativity, and reduces operational costs today. What we call Real Results. No fluff.”

Key Features of CLEAR AI Agentic Platform

The platform integrates multi-agent, multi-LLM generative AI models, a multi-cloud system, and third-party AI ecosystems, delivering:

• Autonomous & Collaborative AI Agents – CLEAR AI enables AI agents to operate independently or collaboratively, handling complex media workflows.
• Conversational AI & Natural Language Orchestration – Users can direct workflows, query databases, and execute media operations through text or voice commands.
• Intelligent Agent Registry – Allows seamless deployment of CLEAR AI’s native M&E agents, customer-built agents, and third-party AI agents hosted on platforms like AWS Bedrock and Azure.
• Agentic Group Chats – Multiple AI agents collaborate in real-time to execute sophisticated tasks efficiently.

CLEAR AI’s Pre-Built Agent Workforce

CLEAR AI offers a diverse suite of AI agents designed for the media and entertainment industry, categorized to support key operations:

• Metadata Agents – Provide near-human-level content understanding using advanced multimodal AI models, optimizing accuracy and cost efficiency.
• Discovery & Search Agents – Enable deep search capabilities across metadata, federated databases, and document repositories, delivering contextually accurate results.
• Content Studio Agents – Includes the Highlights Agent (suggests short-form content), Thumbnails Agent (selects optimal thumbnails), TSK Agent (automates title, synopsis, and keyword generation), and Reframe Agent (converts content into different formats).
• Localization Agents – Automate transcription, subtitling, translation, and quality control.
• Automation Agents – Handle version management, content compliance, and media asset de-duplication.
• Sports Intelligence Agents – Analyze game footage, integrate real-time feeds, and generate highlights and key moments.

“The future of media workflows is AI-driven,” said Muralidhar Sridhar, SVP and Head of AI at Prime Focus Technologies. “CLEAR AI empowers creative and operational teams with intelligent agents that reason, scale, and integrate securely within enterprise ecosystems.”

Benefits of the CLEAR AI Agentic Platform

• Granular Control & Accuracy – Reduces ambiguity, prevents AI hallucinations from invoking irrelevant or incorrect agents—ensuring deterministic and accurate execution paths and ensures accurate task execution.
• Cost Optimization – Minimizes LLM token usage and infrastructure overhead, enhancing efficiency.
• Scalability & Speed – AI agents operate 24/7, rapidly adapting to content surges and reducing turnaround times.
• Seamless Integration – Works with AWS Bedrock, Azure, Google Agentspace, and open-source AI ecosystems.
• Security & Compliance – Built-in authentication, AI guardrails, and enterprise-grade encryption ensure data safety.
• Flexible Deployment – Integrates with existing MAM systems, deployable as a sidecar AI platform or embedded within CLEAR Smart MAM.

With the CLEAR AI Agentic platform and the AI agents embedded inside, CLEAR as an AI application revolutionizes media workflows for Video Collaboration, MAM & Supply Chain. With the launch of CLEAR AI Platform Agent Orchestrator, Prime Focus Technologies reinforces its commitment to continued innovation in driving AI-powered automation and intelligent media workflows at scale.

About Prime Focus Technologies

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) is the creator of CLEAR. It offers streaming platforms, studios, and broadcasters AI technology and media services powered by the cloud that help them enable creativity, efficiency, and, most importantly, revenue generation. PFT works with major companies like Channel 4, ITV, Sinclair Broadcast Group, A&E Networks, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Crunchyroll, Insight TV, JioStar, BCCI, Tegna, Amazon MGM Studios, and more.

For more information, visit: www.primefocustechnologies.com

SubQuery has launched their new AI App Framework, designed to enable future growth of Agentic AI in a decentralised way and solve challenges posed by centralised alternatives. Whether you’re a developer, entrepreneur, or Web3 enthusiast, the convergence of DePIN and agentic AI is your opportunity to shape the future.

Agentic AI powered by DePIN and SubQuery’s new AI App Framework represents a chance to take the principles of decentralization—fairness, resilience, and openness—and embed them into the fabric of the next AI revolution. Centralized solutions are proving inadequate, their limitations and data privacy concerns are being realised. These challenges call for a decentralized approach, and Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) are emerging as the backbone of the next AI revolution. SubQuery Network is aiming to lead this industry with their new AI App Framework.

SubQuery’s AI app framework: the catalyst for decentralized AI

While DePIN provides the infrastructure foundation, true adoption of decentralized AI requires developer frameworks to make building AI apps easier, faster, and scalable. This is where SubQuery’s AI App Framework comes in—a game-changing toolkit for building, deploying, and managing AI applications in a decentralized world.

The AI App Framework leverages SubQuery’s expertise in decentralized indexing and RPCs to power a fully Web3-native AI infrastructure. SubQuery’s network will support both decentralized AI inference and AI Apps in the future, providing a full-stack DePIN alternative to centralized AI.

Key benefits of SubQuery’s AI App Framework include:

• On-Chain data integration: SubQuery’s framework seamlessly connects AI models with blockchain data, enabling real-time analysis and decision-making based on on-chain activity. For example, AI agents can analyze transaction patterns, predict market trends, or detect anomalies in DeFi protocols.
• Community management: Web3 projects can use AI to manage their communities more effectively. AI-powered bots can moderate discussions, answer user queries, and even identify key contributors or potential risks within the community.
• AI-Driven governance: SubQuery’s framework allows projects to introduce AI into their governance systems. AI agents can analyze proposals, predict voter behavior, and provide insights to improve decision-making. This ensures more transparent, efficient, and equitable governance processes.
• Retrieval-Augmented generation (RAG): AI applications built with SubQuery’s framework can “learn” from on-chain data and external knowledge sources using RAG vectors. This enables AI agents to become experts in specific domains, such as DeFi, NFTs, or DAO governance.
• Custom AI solutions: The framework simplifies the development of tailored AI solutions for Web3 projects. Whether it’s a wallet with AI-driven security features, a DeFi protocol with predictive analytics, or a DAO with AI-enhanced governance, SubQuery provides the tools to make it happen.

The AI App Framework is best utilized in conjunction with the SubQuery SDK, a powerful toolkit designed to index and query blockchain data efficiently. The SubQuery SDK serves as a superior alternative to other similar solutions, enabling developers to extract, transform, and analyze on-chain data with ease. By integrating the AI App Framework with the SDK, developers can seamlessly connect AI models to real-time blockchain data, unlocking advanced capabilities such as predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and AI-driven decision-making. This combination empowers Web3 projects to build intelligent applications that leverage the full potential of decentralized AI and on-chain data, creating a more transparent and efficient ecosystem.

DePIN: enabling scalable and resilient AI

As we push the boundaries of agentic AI, the limitations of centralized infrastructure become glaringly obvious. These systems were built for earlier AI generations that didn’t require the level of autonomy, adaptability, and distributed collaboration that agentic AI demands. DePIN offers a critical alternative that directly addresses the following challenges:

1. Cost inefficiencies: Centralized systems concentrate resources and models in massive data centers, driving up operational costs to run compute-intensive agentic AI models at scale – we need to shift AI to edge computing.
2. Vulnerabilities: A centralized architecture introduces single points of failure, making AI systems susceptible to outages, cyberattacks, and censorship. For agentic AI, which relies on real-time decision-making, and needs to be empowered with private datasets or wallets, these risks are unacceptable.
3. Data monopolies: Centralized AI systems perpetuate the monopolization of data, limiting access and innovation while exacerbating concerns over data privacy and ownership.

Why this matters for Web3 natives

For the Web3 community, the potential of decentralized AI is immense. Agentic AI powered by DePIN and SubQuery’s framework represents a chance to take the principles of decentralization—fairness, resilience, and openness—and embed them into the fabric of the next AI revolution.

Whether you’re a developer, entrepreneur, or Web3 enthusiast, the convergence of DePIN and agentic AI is your opportunity to shape the future. By embracing decentralized infrastructure and tools like SubQuery’s AI App Framework, we can build systems that are more transparent, efficient, and equitable for everyone.

Join the Revolution – The third generation of AI is here, and it’s agentic, decentralized, and unstoppable. With the support of DePIN and SubQuery, let’s build the future of decentralized AI—together.

Ripple Labs has been actively enhancing the XRP Ledger with several technical updates to improve its functionality and expand its use cases. Expansion of Programmability and Smart Contract Capabilities – Ripple is committed to introducing advanced programmability, including native smart contract capabilities, to the XRPL. The introduction of an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain is also in progress, enabling compatibility with Ethereum-based applications and tools.

Such upcoming developments did not go unseen by the community and project builders, with the recent introduction of native stable coin RLUSD – the ecosystem is bound to explode!

Introducing Tripple.fun – The Premier Decentralized Launchpad on Ripple

Tripple.fun is the next-generation decentralized launchpad designed to supercharge token launches on the Ripple blockchain. The mission is to provide upcoming projects with the tools, exposure, and liquidity they need to succeed in a fast-paced crypto landscape. With cutting-edge features like fair launches, automated tokenomics, and seamless liquidity locking, the project will ensure that new tokens get the best possible start.

Built on Ripple for its unmatched speed, low fees, and scalability, Tripple.fun is the ultimate gateway for innovators, traders and investors alike. Whether you’re a project looking to launch or a community searching for the next big thing, our platform makes early-stage investing/trading transparent and accessible.

In addition to the launchpad, the platform will offer a No-Code Meme Coin Studio, empowering anyone to bring their creative ideas to life in just a few clicks! These two products will drive the volume and interest from traditional traders, but also from day traders that live within the meme coin trenches, trying to hunt for that next big thing.

Growing Momentum

The Tripple.Fun project has entered its Pre-Sale phase ([email protected]) and is experiencing rapid development. As progress accelerates, it has attracted increasing interest from institutional investors, traders, and blockchain projects beyond the Ripple ecosystem.

Recent developments have further amplified attention, particularly following the U.S. President’s announcement regarding XRP’s addition to the U.S. Crypto Reserve—a milestone that has significantly increased visibility across the crypto space.

As the Ripple ecosystem continues to expand, Tripple.Fun stands at the forefront, driving innovation and adoption—positioning itself as a key player in the next wave of growth.

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The decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape is constantly evolving, with new innovations pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. At the heart of this evolution are decentralized exchanges (DEXs), which have become the backbone of DeFi by enabling trustless, permissionless trading. However, as the space matures, the need for sustainable liquidity, aligned incentives, and scalable infrastructure has never been greater.

Here we introduce Magma Finance, a next-generation ve(3,3) DEX built on the Sui network. Inspired by the success of protocols like Uniswap, Curve, Shadow, and Aerodrome, Magma Finance is designed to bring the power of ve(3,3) to Sui, creating a vibrant and sustainable liquidity ecosystem.

Why build on Sui?

The Sui network is a next-generation Layer 1 blockchain designed for scalability, speed, and security. For a protocol like Magma Finance, Sui offers several key advantages:

• Unparalleled Speed: Sui’s unique architecture enables near-instant transaction finality, ensuring a seamless trading experience for users.
• Low Fees: Sui’s efficient consensus mechanism keeps transaction costs low, making it accessible to traders and liquidity providers of all sizes.
• High Throughput: Sui can handle thousands of transactions per second, making it ideal for high-volume DeFi applications.
• Developer-Friendly: Sui’s Move programming language and robust tooling make it easy to build and deploy innovative DeFi protocols.
• Growing Ecosystem: As a rapidly expanding blockchain, Sui offers Magma Finance the opportunity to be a first-mover in a thriving ecosystem.

By building on Sui, Magma Finance is positioned to leverage these cutting-edge features to deliver a superior trading experience, attract deep liquidity, and foster a strong community.

The evolution of DEXs: From fragmentation to collaboration

Decentralized exchanges have come a long way since the early days of DeFi. Platforms like Uniswap and SushiSwap introduced automated market-making (AMM) mechanisms, enabling users to trade assets without intermediaries. However, as the DeFi ecosystem grew, so did its challenges:

• Liquidity Fragmentation: Liquidity is often spread thin across multiple platforms, leading to inefficiencies and higher slippage.
• Misaligned Incentives: Traditional AMMs struggle to balance the needs of liquidity providers (LPs), traders, and token holders.
• Unsustainable Tokenomics: Many protocols rely on inflationary token emissions to attract users, which can erode long-term value.

To address these challenges, a new wave of DEXs leveraging the ve(3,3) model has emerged. Protocols like Velodrome, Aerodrome, and Thena have demonstrated the power of this model, fostering deep liquidity, aligned incentives, and strong communities.

What is ve(3,3)?

The ve(3,3) model is a new approach to decentralized exchange design, combining vote-escrowed governance with game theory principles to create a self-reinforcing ecosystem.

How it works:

• ve (Vote-Escrowed): Users lock their tokens to receive veTokens, granting them governance power and enhanced rewards.
• (3,3): A reference to game theory, where cooperation between stakeholders (traders, LPs, and token holders) leads to optimal outcomes for all participants.

Key Benefits of ve(3,3):

• Deep Liquidity: Long-term token locking attracts concentrated liquidity, reducing slippage and improving trading efficiency.
• Aligned Incentives: The model ensures that LPs, traders, and token holders all benefit from the protocol’s success.
• Sustainable Tokenomics: Fee sharing and controlled emissions create a sustainable revenue stream for participants.
• Community Governance: veToken holders can direct emissions to their preferred pools, ensuring liquidity is allocated where it’s needed most.

Magma Finance: The ve(3,3) DEX on Sui

Building on the success of ve(3,3) pioneers like Velodrome, Aerodrome, and Thena, Magma Finance is bringing this innovative model to the Sui network.

What sets Magma apart?

• Native ve(3,3) Implementation: Magma Finance leverages the proven ve(3,3) model to create a sustainable and efficient liquidity ecosystem on Sui.
• User-Centric Design: Magma is designed with a focus on simplicity and accessibility, offering an intuitive interface for traders and LPs.
• Community-Driven Governance: Magma empowers its community through vote-escrowed governance, ensuring the protocol evolves in line with user needs.
• Cross-Chain Potential: While Magma is native to Sui, its architecture is designed to support cross-chain liquidity and interoperability in the future.

Magma Finance’s growth and TVL expansion

Since its launch, Magma Finance has demonstrated strong adoption and liquidity growth. The protocol has attracted increasing participation from liquidity providers, with Total Value Locked (TVL) showing significant expansion over the past weeks.

• As of February 16, 2025, Magma Finance reached $2,000,000 in TVL.
• By February 21, 2025, the protocol’s TVL surged to $3,700,000.

This rapid increase in liquidity highlights the confidence of users and investors in Magma Finance’s model and its role in the growing Sui DeFi ecosystem. The accelerating TVL growth suggests an increasing number of market participants are committing to the platform, positioning it as a leading liquidity hub on Sui.

The Magma vision: A collaborative future

Magma Finance is more than just a DEX—it’s a community-driven liquidity hub designed to fuel the growth of the Sui ecosystem. By combining the proven ve(3,3) model with Sui’s cutting-edge technology, Magma is poised to become a cornerstone of DeFi on Sui.

Our Commitment:

• Sustainability: Magma is built to last, with tokenomics designed to minimize inflation and maximize long-term value.
• Innovation: We’re constantly exploring new ways to enhance the protocol and deliver value to our users.
• Community: Magma is powered by its community, and we’re committed to fostering a vibrant and inclusive ecosystem.

As of the current release, the protocol has attracted more than $2,000,000 of Total Value Locked.

Led by Tech Visionary Muriel Médard, powered by MIT-Incubated RLNC, Optimum is Set to Redefine Efficiency and Scalability For The World Computer

Optimum, the world’s first decentralized high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain, announced today that it is emerging from stealth with backing from leading Web3 pioneers, to bring Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) —a proven technology from 5G, IoT, and satellite communications—to the world computer, unlocking a new paradigm for Web3 scalability and efficiency.

Optimum’s angel investors include many renowned builders and investors, such as Abhijeet Mahagaonkar (CTO, Polychain), Arthur Cheong (Founder CEO CIO, DeFiance Capital), Gracy Chen (CEO, Bitget), Robinson Burkey (Co-founder CCO, Wormhole), Sandeep Nailwal (Co-founder, Polygon), Sankha Banerjee (Chief Economist, Babylon), Saurabh Sharma (GP, Jump Crypto), Tal Tchwella (Head of Product, Solana), and Zaki Manian (Co-founder, Sommelier), as well as co-founders of Aethir, Aztec, Espresso, Magna, Pyth, Taiko, Zama, ZkCloud and more.

Optimum enhances blockchain scalability and efficiency through RLNC, a patented invention by MIT Professor Muriel Médard, fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and member of the U.S. and German National Academies of Engineering. Developed over 15 years, RLNC has successfully been deployed by large enterprises worldwide to optimize large-scale distributed networks.

️️️️Prof. Muriel Médard is joined by co-founders Dr. Kishori Konwar, Meta Senior Engineer & Scientist, MIT PostDoc, and former Quant Developer at Goldman Sachs, and Kent Lin who formerly served the President of Harvard Blockchain, partner at GSR Ventures, and founded McKinsey Crypto DAO.

Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder at Polygon said: “What impresses me most about Optimum is how they’ve elegantly combined distributed systems theory with blockchain architecture to create something that feels like a missing piece of Web3 infrastructure. We’re looking forward to Optimum’s robust decentralized memory solution that can scale blockchain infrastructure without compromising on security or performance.”

Reimagining Efficiency Across The Web3 Ecosystem

Muriel Médard, co-founder of Optimum, added: “I have dedicated my entire career to making data resilient and accessible through decentralization. Now, Web3 is at an exciting turning point—its growth is accelerating, and the need for scalable, efficient data infrastructure has never been greater. To fully realize the vision of a decentralized ‘world computer,’ we must prioritize resilient networking and storage. The technology is ready, and the moment to build is now.”

Blockchains rely on data moving efficiently across a network of nodes. RLNC is an advanced encoding technique that transforms data into encoded fragments, allowing nodes to recover information efficiently from a subset rather than receiving everything.

Optimum’s products include Optimum P2P and decentralized Random Access Memory (deRAM) delivering benefits across the entire blockchain ecosystem:

• For L1 and L2 blockchains: Faster block propagation, reduced bandwidth consumption through Optimum P2P and optimized storage
• For validators: Accelerated data propagation, lower operational costs, and enhanced staking APY and MEV income
• For dApp developers: Improved transaction relay and prioritization, powering latency, throughput and cost-sensitive applications
• For end users: Dramatically faster transaction speeds and more responsive interfaces, making blockchain interactions as seamless as Web2

With backing from some of the most influential figures in Web3, Optimum is positioned to usher in a paradigm for Web3 as a high-performance decentralized world computer.

In March, Optimum’s private testnet will go live for L1/L2s and validators.

About Optimum

Optimum is the first high-performance memory infrastructure for any blockchain, designed to eliminate scalability bottlenecks by enabling fast data propagation, efficient storage, and real-time access. Powered by Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC)—a patented technology already used in 5G, IoT, and satellite communications—Optimum dramatically improves network speed, throughput and decentralization, enhancing dApp performance and user experience. Co-founded by MIT professor Muriel Médard, the inventor of RLNC, Optimum is scaling the next generation decentralized world computer.

Users can learn more at getoptimum.xyz and follow Optimum on X at x.com/get_optimum.

Combining activity tracking, engaging challenges, and Web3 rewards, StepMania motivates users to turn their steps into in-game benefits and rewards.

5th February 2025, British Virgin Islands – StepMania is a gamified activity-tracking app built to inspire daily movement and reward users for staying active. Accessible through Telegram’s MiniApp ecosystem, StepMania turns steps into in-game rewards, fostering healthier habits through leaderboards, squad challenges, and exciting in-game rewards. With a focus on integrating online and offline activity, StepMania creates a unique way for users to stay connected, motivated, and rewarded.

Backed by The Open Platform (TOP), the largest venture builder in TON’s ecosystem, StepMania is a groundbreaking addition to TOP’s portfolio. By bridging online and offline engagement, StepMania exemplifies a vision of empowering innovative products that merge real-world activities with digital ecosystems.

What Makes StepMania Different?

Unlike other step challenge platforms such as STEPN, which often require users to purchase expensive NFTs or navigate complex Web3 processes, StepMania eliminates these barriers. By seamlessly connecting to popular health tracking tools like Apple Health and Google Health Connect, StepMania makes it easy for anyone with a smartphone to start earning in-game rewards. With a focus on social engagement through leaderboards, squad challenges, and influencer-hosted tournaments, StepMania creates a fun and inclusive experience for users of all levels—from casual walkers to Web3 enthusiasts.

Why Telegram?

StepMania is built for Telegram, one of the world’s largest messaging platforms with nearly 1 billion users. By tapping into Telegram’s MiniApp ecosystem, StepMania offers a frictionless experience where users can access activity tracking, leaderboards, and in-game rewards without downloading additional apps. Telegram’s built-in social features also enhance engagement, allowing users to compete with friends, participate in challenges, and share their achievements—all within the same app.

StepMania and the TON Ecosystem

StepMania serves as a gateway to TON’s growing ecosystem by introducing users to blockchain-based in-game rewards through everyday activities. The app enables TON-based projects to engage with highly active audiences by sharing activities and in-game rewards.As StepMania grows its app audience, the aim is to create opportunities for further partnerships, adoption, and innovation.

With StepMania, users can:

• Earn Rewards: Convert steps into in-game rewards and unlock exciting features.
• Compete with Friends: Climb leaderboards, join squad battles, and participate in influencer-hosted tournaments.
• Stay Engaged: Participate in competitions featuring in-game rewards and exclusive in-app features.
• Discover Web3: Explore partnerships with TON-based projects and benefit from additional features and partnerships from the broader ecosystem.

“At StepMania, our mission is to inspire people to lead more active lives by turning everyday steps into something meaningful. We believe that every movement counts, and through engaging product mechanics, we’re motivating users to connect their offline efforts with in-game rewards. StepMania isn’t just a step-challenge app—it’s a movement to make activity more rewarding and accessible for everyone.”

In the coming months, StepMania will continue its expansion by collaborating with various TON-based projects and exploring partnerships with brands, events, and wearable companies. These efforts will enhance the platform’s value, introducing new ways for users to benefit from various exciting features and engage with a growing activity-driven community.

Join the movement and start stepping with StepMania. Visit https://t.me/Step_mania_bot/app to get started or follow us on Twitter and visit our website for the latest updates.

About StepMania

StepMania is an activity-tracking app that combines gamification, in-game rewards, and blockchain technology to motivate users to stay active. StepMania aims to create a seamless connection between offline activity and digital rewards, making it an exciting addition to TON ecosystem.

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