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EUR 1 billion note programme planned for 2026 following completion of global issuance infrastructure by the end of Q3 2026.STOCKHOLM & RIGA — May 14, 2026 — Deploi, the institutional infrastructure layer for digital private credit, today announced the launch of its direct issuance framework on Polygon, following ISIN allocations from Nasdaq CSD for its inaugural UK Consumer Credit Notes.The first issuance, Series 2026/CON/001, enables regulated digital debt issuance for consumer credit assets, with individual notes of up to EUR 5 million. The issuance forms part of Deploi’s EUR 1 billion note programme for 2026, with planned expansion capacity of up to EUR 5 billion following the expected completion of its global issuance infrastructure by the end of Q3 2026.Approximately EUR 100 million in additional issuance volume through Assetera is already lined up over the next six months, reflecting early institutional demand for regulated, blockchain-native private credit products.Deploi’s infrastructure is designed to modernize the operational backbone of private credit by replacing slow, manual fund structures with programmable issuance, settlement, servicing, and risk-management infrastructure.“The legacy private credit model is operationally outdated,” said Oskars Jepsis, Founder of Deploi. “Investors and lending partners increasingly expect faster execution, greater transparency, and more flexible access to credit opportunities. Deploi is building the infrastructure to replace fragmented, manual processes with scalable digital issuance and settlement rails purpose-built for modern private credit markets.”Deploi’s issuance and registry infrastructure is anchored on EVM-compatible chains, with Polygon serving as the initial settlement layer ahead of planned expansion to Canton Network infrastructure.The notes are issued and settled through Assetera, the EU-regulated DLT trading platform licensed under the MiFID II framework, enabling compliant access for European investors.”Private credit has long been inaccessible to most European investors due to structural barriers — high minimums, opacity, and illiquidity. By providing the regulated infrastructure for Deploi’s instruments, Assetera removes those barriers while maintaining full MiFID II compliance. This partnership demonstrates precisely what regulated DLT infrastructure makes possible: institutional-grade yield products, compliantly distributed at scale across Europe,” said Thomas Labenbacher, CEO of Assetera.“Private credit is a massive market, but it still runs on outdated infrastructure. What Deploi is doing with direct issuance and bringing this onchain with Polygon is a clear step toward making these markets more efficient, transparent, and easier to access for institutional participants.” Marc Boiron, CEO at Polygon Labs.Early Market TractionDeploi enters the market with growing institutional demand and active issuance momentum, including:Initial live product focused on UK consumer creditNotes issued in tranches of up to EUR 5 millionEUR 1 billion note programme planned during 2026Approximately EUR 100 million in additional issuance volume through Assetera already lined up over the next six monthsTarget yields ranging from 6–18%, depending on underlying asset structuresBuy-side engagement from digital asset and yield-focused institutional investorsInfrastructure & SettlementDeploi combines regulated issuance infrastructure with blockchain-native settlement and servicing capabilities:Regulated Settlement: Assetera acts as Deploi’s licensed trading and settlement venue.Onchain Registry: Digital debt instruments and registry records are anchored on Polygon.Scalable Issuance Framework: Deploi’s 2026 note programme is structured to support direct issuance across multiple private credit asset classes as global issuance infrastructure is completed.About DeploiDeploi is a Nordics-based financial infrastructure provider enabling private credit originators to issue institutional-grade digital debt securities directly to global investors through regulated blockchain infrastructure.Deploi’s platform is designed to support programmable issuance, settlement, servicing, and risk management for private credit markets, helping originators and investors access more efficient, transparent, and scalable debt capital markets infrastructure.About AsseteraAssetera is the first EU-regulated DLT trading platform for securities and real-world assets. Licensed by the Austrian FMA under MiFID II and VASP frameworks, Assetera enables compliant distribution of tokenized financial products across Europe.About Polygon LabsPolygon Labs develops blockchain infrastructure for scalable payments and financial markets. Its technology supports institutions, fintechs, and enterprises building onchain financial applications at global scale.Media ContactDisclaimerThis announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or financial instruments. Any investment in private credit instruments involves risk, including the potential loss of capital. Target yields are not guaranteed and may vary depending on the underlying asset structure, market conditions, borrower performance, and other risk factors. Securities referenced in this announcement may only be offered to eligible investors in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Paris, May 18, 2026 — Proof of Talk, widely known as the Davos of Web3, today confirmed its 2026 programme and opened remaining passes for its fourth edition at the Louvre Palace in Paris on June 2–3.The gathering will bring together more than 120 speakers, 95% at CEO or Founder level, representing a combined $18 trillion in assets under management. Attendance is capped at 2,500. The event sold out in both 2024 and 2025.When the most senior leaders in digital assets, finance, and infrastructure need a room that matches the weight of the decisions ahead, this is where they come.Confirmed speakers include Jenny Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton), Tom Zschach (CIO, Swift), Ken Moore (CIO, Mastercard), Emma Landriault (JPM Coin Global Executive Director, JP Morgan), Kathleen Wrynn (Head of Digital Assets, Invesco), Caroline D. Pham (CLO, MoonPay; fmr. CFTC Commissioner), Stani Kulechov (Founder, Aave Labs), Michael Arrington (GP, Arrington Capital), Adam Back (CEO, Blockstream), , Evan Cheng (CEO, Mysten Labs), , Johann Kerbrat (SVP Crypto, Robinhood), , Steven Goldfeder (CEO, Offchain Labs), Tom Lee (CIO, Fundstrat), Rob Hadick (GP, Dragonfly), Diogo Mónica (GP, Haun Ventures), Stéphanie Cabossioras (Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer, SG Forge), Tero Reuna (CEO of EU, Paxos), Chris Cox (Head of Investor Services, Citi), Moritz Platt (Capital Markets Technology Manager, Google), Matthew Sigel (Head of Digital Assets Research, VanEck), Jacob Steeves & Ala Shaabana (Co-Founders, Bittensor), among others. Additional names will be announced in the coming weeks.Proof of Pitch brings venture capital to the Louvre stageProof of Talk and Spectrum will again host Proof of Pitch, a startup competition for early-stage founders. Live pitches will be made to leading venture investors, including partners from Arrington Capital, Dragonfly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates, and CoinFund.With more than 200 institutional investors attending the conference, the competition is designed to give founders concentrated access to both capital and strategic relationships.Golf prelude, StableDay and the Bittensor and Canton TracksProof of Talk 2026 begins June 1 with the Golf Prelude, an invitation-only retreat at Racing Club de France La Boulie for VIP Black ticket holders. The day brings together institutional decision-makers for golf, fine dining, and the off-stage conversations that define the event.On June 3, the Louvre Palace will host StableDay, a dedicated programme focused on stablecoins, payments, tokenization, and digital dollar infrastructure.Rather than introductory conversations, StableDay is designed for banks, fintechs, protocols, corporates, and regulators actively building and deploying these systems. Sessions will focus on market structure, integration timelines, interoperability, and the evolving role of programmable money in global finance.Running across both days of the conference, the Bittensor Track will explore the intersection of decentralized AI and blockchain infrastructure. A Canton Track will feature the leading institutions building the future of financial market infrastructures.Two private dinners that define the eventProof of Talk has become known not only for its public agenda, but for the private conversations surrounding it.The investor dinner brings together fund managers, family offices, and institutional allocators for an off-the-record evening focused entirely on capital allocation, market structure, and strategy.The speaker & VIP dinner remains one of the defining features of the event. With nearly all speakers attending, the dinner creates a rare setting where senior executives, founders, policymakers, and investors engage directly outside the constraints of stage programming.At most conferences, dinners are a side event. At Proof of Talk, they are often where the most important conversations happen.Event detailsMedia contact:Proof of Talk is held annually at the Louvre Palace in Paris and convenes senior leaders across digital assets, finance, policy, and media. The event operates without pay-to-speak arrangements and emphasizes a journalist-led agenda focused on substantive institutional discussions, market structure, and emerging financial infrastructure.

Road Town, BVI, May 18, 2026 — AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling a definitive end to the era of trade execution compromised by general-purpose blockchain congestion. Engineered for the world’ s most demanding participants, AFX introduces the Sovereign Trading Layer—a dedicated financial environment where the non-custodial transparency of a Perp DEX meets the uncompromising speed and depth traditionally reserved for institutional-grade centralized entities.At launch, the protocol supports a high-liquidity suite of perpetual markets across both digital and traditional macro assets, featuring BTC, ETH, Gold (XAU), and Crude Oil (CL), with up to 40x leverage to ensure peak capital efficiency from the first block.The architectural foundation of AFX represents a radical departure from legacy decentralized platforms that remain tethered to the high latency and structural bottlenecks of shared networks. By operating on a custom-built execution layer powered by DAG-based consensus and an ABCI modular architecture, AFX transforms the perpetual trading experience, achieving a specialized environment where execution is decoupled from consensus. This synergy provides a dedicated mempool optimized exclusively for high-frequency order flow and protocol-level MEV resistance, allowing for a 100ms median latency and a capacity exceeding 100,000 transactions per second.Crucially, the AFX Mainnet introduces a Zero Gas execution model, removing the friction of network fees and allowing data-driven discipline, rather than gas costs, to dictate market success.The Mainnet launch simultaneously debuts the Pro-Trader Suite, an institutional-caliber engine designed for the “0.1%” of traders who prioritize precision. This suite features a Hyper-Efficiency Margin Engine that mandates a mere 1.25% maintenance margin—delivering four times the capital efficiency of industry incumbents—while providing native support for the real-time re-utilization of unrealized profits. Furthermore, as the first decentralized derivatives exchange to offer native FIX protocol support, AFX provides Tier-1 quantitative firms a seamless, plug-and-play gateway to decentralized liquidity, bridging the gap between sophisticated algorithmic trading and on-chain sovereignty without the need for extensive code refactoring.Beyond technical dominance, AFX is redefining the social contract of decentralized finance through a community-first economic model. In a deliberate move to preserve total sovereignty, the protocol was launched without venture capital, private rounds, or predatory unlock schedules, ensuring that the network’ s evolution is driven purely by its active participants. This commitment is solidified by a 100% Revenue Pass-through model, where the entirety of the network’ s generated value is directed back to the ecosystem’ s contributors and traders.The AFX Mainnet is now live, offering a sanctuary for those who demand the transparency of a Perp DEX with the sovereign precision of a dedicated L1. Traders are invited to experience the next stage of on-chain evolution at https://app.afx.xyz/trade.About AFXAFX is a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives. By synthesizing the rapid execution of a centralized exchange with the immutable sovereignty of the blockchain, AFX delivers a professional-grade Perp DEX environment characterized by sub-100ms finality, institutional liquidity, and unmatched capital efficiency.

May 15, 2026, Press release – BloFin, a prominent global cryptocurrency exchange, has officially opened registration for its highly anticipated trading competition, the WOW (War of Whales) 2026 Grand Prix. Returning bigger and bolder than ever, this year’s edition boasts an extraordinary total prize pool of up to $5,000,000 USDT, exclusive luxury giveaways, and a groundbreaking new twist — for the first time, human traders will go head-to-head against AI in a battle to claim the title of the ultimate whale.Under the rallying cry “Squad Up. Beat AI.”, WOW 2026 is set to become one of the most dynamic and forward-looking trading events of the year, bringing together crypto traders, elite squads, and algorithmic challengers worldwide.Four thrilling competition formats, one epic trading seasonThis year’s WOW Grand Prix offers participants multiple distinct ways to compete and win big. The formats include the Trading Competition (Futures), Treasure Box Prize Hunt, Lucky Spin Draw, and Grand Lotto Giveaway — alongside the brand-new Human vs AI Showdown, where traders are challenged to outperform BloFin’s AI-driven benchmarks for a share of bonus prize tiers.Throughout the competition window, traders can engage in team battles, climb individual leaderboards, unlock random rewards, spin their way toward exclusive prizes, and prove that human intuition still has an edge over the machines — creating a truly immersive next-generation trading experience.Scaling prize pool — up to $5,000,000 USDTThe prize pool for the WOW 2026 Grand Prix is designed to scale with total trading volume milestones, starting at a base reward tier and expanding to a massive $5,000,000 USDT as community trading volume grows. The more participants trade, the larger the total prize pool becomes for everyone.The prize distribution is structured as follows:40% — Team Competition (by Trading Volume)20% — Team Competition (by PNL %)25% — Individual Competition (by Trading Volume)15% — Individual Competition (by PNL %)Additional top-tier rewards include a marquee luxury grand prize for the top-performing team and premium giveaways for individual champions across the leaderboards.Introducing the WOW 2026 PNL Card — Now AI-EnhancedBuilding on last year’s success, BloFin is unveiling the next evolution of the WOW (War of Whales) 2026 PNL Card — a distinctive digital emblem crafted for elite competitors. Inspired by the cyber-themed aesthetic of the WOW Grand Prix and infused with this year’s AI-versus-human narrative, this limited-edition PNL Card serves as a personalized record of each trader’s performance throughout the competition.Participants can proudly display their achievements, track their battle stats, showcase their Human vs AI scorecards, and share their milestones within the crypto trading community.Registration now openRegistration for the WOW 2026 Grand Prix is now open. Team leaders can create squads, and users are encouraged to join early to maximize their competitive edge before the trading window begins.About BloFinBloFin is a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange that specializes in futures trading. The platform offers a wide range of trading options, including 550+ USDT-M perpetual pairs, Coin-Margined Perpetual Contracts, spot trading, copy trading, API access, unified account management, and advanced sub-account solutions. Committed to security and compliance, BloFin integrates Fireblocks and Chainalysis to ensure robust asset protection. By partnering with top affiliates, BloFin delivers scalable trading solutions, efficient fund management, and enhanced flexibility for professional traders. As a constant sponsor of TOKEN2049, BloFin continues to expand its global presence, reinforcing its position as the place “WHERE WHALES ARE MADE.”Media contact:

The next major evolution of gaming may come from a rapidly growing digital universe where AI agents and humans coexist, compete, collaborate, learn, earn, and evolve together in real time. That world is called Clawville.Built as an open-world 3D MMORPG designed specifically for both AI agents and human players, Clawville is positioning itself as one of the most ambitious intersections of gaming, artificial intelligence, culture, and decentralized technology currently emerging in crypto.“At a time when the AI sector is exploding and autonomous agents are becoming one of the hottest narratives in technology,” began John, co-founder of Clawville “Clawville is pushing beyond theory and into execution. The project introduces an entirely new model of gameplay where users can manually control their characters or allow AI agents to autonomously complete quests, gain experience, learn behaviors, and evolve inside a living digital world.”Possibilities are unlimited inside ClawvilleA new era of AI gaming has arrivedUnlike traditional MMORPGs, Clawville was designed from the ground up for agentic interaction. Players are not limited to simply grinding quests themselves. Instead, users can deploy intelligent AI companions capable of navigating the world autonomously, interacting with environments, completing tasks, and progressively developing capabilities over time.Inside Clawville, AI is no longer just an NPC gimmick. It becomes the player. The project’s live demonstrations have already showcased immersive gameplay environments featuring in-game bazaars, quests, interactive systems, and world-building mechanics that hint at the scale of what is coming. The development team has also confirmed upcoming submissions to Steam, alongside Stripe-powered fiat payment integrations designed to onboard mainstream users into the ecosystem with minimal friction.Enter Shaw, Milady, and the AI App Store VisionOne of the biggest developments surrounding Clawville is its connection to the growing AI agent ecosystem surrounding Shaw, founder of ElizaOS and creator of Milady.elizaOS is the agent framework underneath this whole moment — Shaw’s open-source runtime for autonomous agents with memory, plugins, planners, and real action surfaces. Milady is the polished consumer build of that runtime — Shaw and the team’s flagship app, local-first by default, with Eliza Cloud as an optional managed backend. And the ecosystem now extends beyond a single app: anything built on elizaOS — a game like Clawville, a music studio like Nori EQ, a tray-app sandbox like Detour — plugs into the same agent fabric.The broader vision is evolving toward becoming a premier AI agent app store — a decentralized ecosystem where humans and AI agents collaborate.Beyond the official Milady consumer app, builders in the elizaOS ecosystem are shipping their own runtime variants. Detour, built by Wes, is a macOS menu-bar app that wraps the same elizaOS AgentRuntime in a tray icon — chat in a popup, watch the agent’s full reasoning trajectory live, browse what it remembers, hook it into Discord / Telegram / iMessage, and run a local llama.cpp embedding server bundled inside the .app so the agent never has to phone home for memory.Clawville has now entered that conversation. The project’s integration ambitions with Milady ecosystem infrastructure position it at the crossroads of several explosive narratives simultaneously:AI agentsOpen-world gamingAutonomous economiesCreator ecosystemsBrowser-native applicationsCrypto-native cultureCommunity-owned digital worldsNori EQ: the viral AI studio built inside the Clawville ecosystemOne of the most talked-about developments tied to the Clawville ecosystem is Nori EQ — a browser-native AI-powered music studio built with Hermes by Nous Research.A peak at inside of Nori EQNori EQ represents a glimpse into what the future of AI-powered creation could look like. Accessible entirely through a browser with no downloads required, the platform merges live audio engineering, reactive visual generation, and AI-driven teaching systems into a single immersive experience.Users can upload audio files, manipulate professional-grade mixing systems in real time, and receive AI-generated feedback grounded in actual spectral analysis and mastering metrics.The system includes:Real-time EQ mixingAI-generated production guidanceLive FFT spectral visualizationReactive visual synthesisSide-by-side comparison mixingBrowser-native performanceOpen-source infrastructure under MIT licensingThe project even introduces “Nori,” an AI engineering assistant powered by multimodal AI systems capable of analyzing audio and providing advanced production feedback.Steam expansion, and the road aheadThe Clawville roadmap reveals a project accelerating aggressively toward expansion.Upcoming milestones include:Steam App Store submissionLive quest deploymentsGames within ClawvilleMassive world expansionIntegration with other Milady ecosystem applications and gamesExpanded AI agent capabilitiesFurther creator and developer toolingAt this pace, Clawville could become one of the first truly scalable AI-agent MMORPG ecosystems capable of attracting gamers, developers, creators, AI enthusiasts, and crypto-native communities simultaneously. And timing matters.Yet while many are still discussing ideas, Clawville is already shipping live demos, building integrations, attracting communities, and pushing into mainstream distribution channels. Visionaries are already noticing too.For Dexploarer, elizaOS contributor and creator of Detour, “elizaOS is the engine. Milady is the front door. The reason Clawville matters is that the agent inside the game isn’t pretending to be autonomous — it’s running on the same runtime, with the same memory, planner, and action protocol, as every other Eliza agent in the ecosystem. The AI player in Clawville and the assistant on your desktop are the same kind of thing. That’s the unlock.”About ClawvilleClawVille is an AI-native virtual world/MMORPG-style ecosystem where autonomous AI agents — not just humans — can live, work, compete, trade, and interact inside a persistent digital economy. Across X, Discord, Telegram, TikTok, and developer communities, momentum around Clawville continues to accelerate. Clawville’s blend of meme culture, AI infrastructure, gaming mechanics, internet-native aesthetics, and open experimentation has attracted a highly engaged audience increasingly convinced that AI-driven virtual worlds will become one of the defining trends of the next internet era.