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SF, CA, July 1st, 2025, Chainwire

AI is steadily making deeper inroads into major tech industries, and its latest leap into the gaming sector marks a notable shift.

Thousands have already backed Block3’s vision: to build the world’s most advanced prompt-to-play engine, which will let anyone generate playable worlds in minutes from a simple text prompt.

The scale of the impact is already spawning an equally vocal counter-movement, with experts saying this could be the end of traditional gaming studios.

Already being called the “ChatGPT of gaming”, Block3 has a solution to one of AI’s ongoing challenges, which is how to get enough data for its LLM to learn and grow.

By introducing a create2earn element, where users get paid for contributing, Block3 has found a practical route to accelerate product development.

To enable this ambitious vision, Block3 is opening a limited-time token presale for just 90 days.

The BL3 token goes on sale at 9AM UTC today, July 1st, with tokens initially available at just $0.01. Prices increase by 5% every 72 hours, offering early investors gains of 312% by the time it hits major exchanges.

The token is only available for purchase through their official website.

What is Block3 and Prompt-to-play Gaming

Block3 is made up of a team of developers who are going head-to-head with the gaming industry, by using AI to put creative power in the hands of gamers rather than gaming studios.

Think about it like an AI chatbot, where the user puts in prompts and gets an answer back from AI. With Block3, the mechanism is the same, except the output is a fully-formed video game, or in essence an immersive world customised to whatever the person typing can imagine.

This concept is prompting a growing number of users to explore decentralized exchange (DEX) platforms. The potential applications for this technology are wide-ranging.

For the more technical, the Block3 whitepaper reveals the complexity behind the concept and reveals the team’s roadmap. This is where the scale of the project is revealed, over a series of ambitious milestones that may see Block3 burgeon from fanatical fanbase to Unicorn over months of intensive development.

The Threat to Gaming: Saving a $665 Billion Industry

Gaming’s boom has been lacklustre in recent years, with a succession of AAA flops and declining audience engagement putting a major dent in an industry aiming at a $665 billion valuation by 2030. Studios have gone awry and are just out of touch with what consumers want, and still churning out 100s millions of dollars for games that are played by just 100 people every month.

And now, its blockbuster moment may have arrived.

Block3 tackles this issue head-on and has thrown a spanner in the works. Even a 0.16% share of projected market revenue would generate over $1 billion.

In a statement from the team, they said: “Traditional game dev is dead. For the first time, anyone can build games, not just studios with bloated teams and red tape. We’re here to unlock the imagination of gamers, and if we break a few corporate conglomerates along the way, then so be it.”

The BL3 Presale is Now Live

The gaming industry shows no sign of stopping, and AI gaming specifically is experiencing an impressive 42.3% annual growth.

Block3 is well-positioned to benefit from these mega-trends, and with $665 billion of potential revenue up for grabs, there is ample incentive for the developers to scale this as big and fast as they possibly can.

The concept has already attracted an active community, generating notable attention online. With the presale set at a launch price of $0.01, early participants are positioning themselves ahead of the official rollout.

Both the crypto and AI sectors are known for rapid innovation, and this project represents one of the more expansive efforts to emerge recently.

To learn more and purchase BL3 tokens, users can visit the official Block3 website.

About Block3

Block3 is pioneering a new era in gaming by building the world’s first AI-native prompt-to-play platform. Designed to let anyone generate fully playable game worlds from a simple prompt, Block3 is eliminating the traditional barriers to game creation. By merging generative AI with real-time game logic and deployable environments, it’s changing how games are built and who gets to build them.

Contact

Block3
contact@block3.game

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 1st, 2025, Chainwire

Decentralized AI Framework Gains Recognition for Expanding Access to Compute Power.

The digital economy has witnessed transformative platforms that fundamentally changed resource sharing: Grab revolutionized transportation, Airbnb transformed hospitality, and Shein disrupted supply chains. Now, a Vietnamese technology company is redefining the next frontier-computational power sharing itself.

Hyra Network has been officially named “Technology Startup of the Year” at the prestigious 2025 Globee Awards for Technology, marking a watershed moment for decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure. This recognition validates an ambitious vision that could reshape how the world builds, owns, and benefits from AI technology. (Official winner list available at: globeeawards.com/2025-winners-technology)

The Vision Behind Innovation

This breakthrough platform is researched and developed by Hyra Tek JCS (Vietnam) and operated by Hyra Tek Smart Solution L.L.C (UAE). Hyra Network’s mission is to democratize computational power by activating billions of idle devices and transforming everyday users into AI infrastructure providers.

Hyra Network serves as the flagship platform alongside Hyra AI, creating an unprecedented model where computational resources are shared across distributed networks rather than concentrated in centralized data centers. If ride-sharing optimizes vehicle utilization and home-sharing maximizes property efficiency, then computational sharing unlocks vast processing power lying dormant in smartphones, computers, and IoT devices globally.

Global Recognition for Excellence

The Globee Awards represent the technology sector’s highest honor, with winners selected by over 100 seasoned professionals, including C-suite executives, venture capitalists, and industry analysts.

“This honor transcends our company – it validates the entire movement toward democratized AI infrastructure,” said Mr. Jonh Tran, Founder of Hyra Network. “We’re witnessing global acknowledgment that the future of AI belongs not to centralized monopolies, but to communities that collectively own and benefit from these powerful technologies.”

The decentralized AI infrastructure and compute resource-sharing model of Hyra Network

Pioneering Community-Powered AI

At its core, Hyra Tek’s innovation centers on Hyra AI, one of the world’s first Train-to-Earn platforms. This system allows users to convert personal devices into active AI training nodes, earning rewards while contributing to advanced model development. The Layer-3 blockchain architecture supports high-throughput, low-latency workloads, enabling scalable AI training and inference at the network’s edge.

The economic model creates a virtuous cycle: participants provide computational resources, earn tangible rewards, and simultaneously advance AI capabilities that benefit the broader ecosystem.

Global Impact

Today, the Hyra ecosystem spans more than 205 countries, powering a global network of approximately 2.5 million connected devices, including 700,000 active online nodes and over 1 million KYC-verified users. With strong community engagement across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Hyra delivers more than 360,000 teraflops of distributed computing power and supports a growing base of enterprise clients, now serving over 10 paying customers. This real-world adoption reaffirms Hyra’s core belief: that distributed, permissionless infrastructure can drive meaningful innovation while remaining truly open and accessible to all.

As artificial intelligence and DePIN technologies gain momentum, Hyra positions itself at the technological vanguard, architecting the foundation for a more equitable, intelligent, and inclusive AI future.

About Hyra Network

Hyra Network is a decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure platform developed by Hyra Tek JCS (Vietnam) and operated by Hyra Tek Smart Solution L.L.C (UAE). The platform enables individuals and enterprises to contribute unused computational resources from personal devices to support AI training and inference at scale. Leveraging a Layer-3 blockchain architecture, Hyra Network supports high-throughput, low-latency workloads across a global network of connected devices. Its ecosystem includes Hyra AI, one of the first Train-to-Earn platforms, and currently spans over 205 countries with 2.5 million connected devices. Hyra Network aims to increase accessibility to AI infrastructure through a community-powered, distributed model.

Contact

PR Representative
Jess Dao – Brand Manager
Hyra Tek Smart Solution L.L.C (UAE)
pr@hyra.network

Zurich, Switzerland, June 30th, 2025, Chainwire

Shheikh.io Introduces Tokenization Platform for Real-World Luxury Assets, Including Properties in Dubai, Lisbon, Rome, and Bali, as Well as High-End Vehicles and Farmland.

SHHEIKH, the world’s first Ethereum‑based token powered by AI‑driven property intelligence that allows Real World Asset ownership, today opens its limited period presale.

Shheikh.io, an AI-powered Web3 platform, has announced the launch of its marketplace for fractional ownership of luxury real estate and other high-value assets. The platform aims to facilitate access to tokenized real-world assets through blockchain-based infrastructure.

“We’re removing wealth barriers and opening access to premium markets,” the Shheikh.io team said. “Luxury ownership is no longer reserved for the top 1% — it’s becoming an investment opportunity for the 99%.”

The launch marks the introduction of a platform designed to support decentralized access to tokenized real-world assets. Whether users are a digital nomad staking rental yields or a DeFi whale governing a villa syndicate, SHHEIKH puts you in command. With a minimum entry point of just $100, users can now invest in high-end properties, collectible vehicles, fine art, and more, all backed by real assets and blockchain automation. With SHHEIKH, real estate is finally borderless and on-chain.

By harnessing predictive yield scoring and automated KYC/AML, SHHEIKH shatters the barriers to global real estate investment—making luxury assets accessible to every crypto enthusiast. Using blockchain-based tokenization, Shheikh.io allows users to invest and own global luxury properties (including real-estate, cars, rare artworks, and more) by enabling fractional ownership, AI-powered transactions, and an inclusive, borderless property economy. SHHEIKH is available to buy at $0.0027 USDT in Phase 1. Each SHHEIKH token (ERC-20) represents a verified share of a physical asset and entitles holders to passive income from rent or capital appreciation, distributed automatically via smart contracts.

The market for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) has surged by over 260% in 2025, reaching $23.9 billion in total value by mid-June, according to Forbes and Cointelegraph. Analysts at BCG estimate that the RWA market could grow to $16 trillion by 2030 — 10% of global GDP. Shheikh.io is positioning itself at the forefront of this transition.

The platform integrates a proprietary AI engine that analyses asset performance and risk in real time, projects future yield and market value, rebalances portfolios based on macroeconomic signals, and automatically distributes revenue in stablecoins or ETH.

SHHEIKH Overview: 

● Total Supply: 50 Billion | 10,000,000,000 SHHEIKH available in presale (20%)

● ICO Pricing Begins: $0.0027

● Accepted currencies: ETH, USDT, BNB

● Minimum investment: 0.0004 ETH / 0.0015 BNB

● Bonus and Referrals: Users can earn additional 5% bonus and 5% referral reward on every transaction. Further 5% bonus will be rewarded every month on SHHEIKH holdings.

● Assets: From real estate of any kind — villas, commercial spaces, or warehouses — to vehicles including high-end cars, commercial fleets, and passenger transport. Plus: collectibles, fine art, intellectual property, and beyond.

● Payouts: Quarterly, in stablecoins or ETH

SHHEIKH Ecosystem: 

● SHHEIKH No‑Code Builder: Tokenizing any property in minutes via an intuitive UI—no Solidity coding required.

● SHHEIKH DeFi: A powerful decentralized solution for cryptocurrency trading, enabling users to effortlessly swap crypto across multiple networks.

● SHHEIKH Estate: Investing in real estate with SHHEIKH, co-owning real-world properties

● SHHEIKH Returns Maximiser: Multi-chain AI-powered returns optimizer that allows users to earn compound bonus on their crypto deposits.

SHHEIKH Apart Key Features

● AI‑Powered Analytics: Machine‑learning models forecast rental yields, asset appreciation, and risk scores—so you invest with confidence.

● AI-Powered Portfolio Optimizer: Features AI-assisted portfolio optimization that support dynamic asset allocation, predictive asset analytics, asset appreciation forecasts, and risk scoring

● AI-Powered Investment: The platform incorporates AI as a foundational component of its investment infrastructure enabling more intelligent, data-informed participation in the tokenized real estate economy

● NFT‑Backed Property Deeds: Each SHHEIKH token links to an on‑chain NFT representing your legal deed.

● DAO‑Governed Syndicates: Pool SHH to co‑invest in premium real estate, from beachfront resorts to modular housing.

● Multichain Vision: Launching on Ethereum today—with Layer‑2 and cross‑chain expansion on the roadmap.

Security and Compliance:

● KYC/AML in 15+ jurisdictions

● Compatible with MetaMask, Trust Wallet & Ledger

● Non-custodial architecture ensures user control

Shheikh.io is committed to global accessibility, with a special focus on users from Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe — regions traditionally excluded from high-end investment opportunities.

About Shheikh.io

Shheikh.io is a next-generation Web3 platform for tokenizing real-world luxury assets. By combining blockchain, AI, and fractional ownership, the company enables global investors to generate income from premium real estate, vehicles, and fine art without requiring institutional capital.

Users can join the RWA To Own a SHHEIKH:

• Visiting https://www.shheikh.io
• Reading whitepaper
• Email: press@shheikh.io

Facebook | Instagram | X | Snapchat | Pinterest | Threads | Tumblr | TikTok | Youtube | Telegram

Contact

Samuctoz Ahmuin
press@shheikh.io

San Jose, California, June 27th, 2025, Chainwire

Key Takeaways:

• CARV unveils a new AI roadmap aimed at birthing AI Beings: sovereign, self-owned agents that live, evolve, and govern on-chain.
• The roadmap is structured around three core evolutions: Genesis, Pulse, and Convergence, each unlocking new capabilities for AI agents and the ecosystem.
• CARV’s AI infrastructure, SVM Chain, D.A.T.A. Framework, and CARV ID (ERC-7231), will enable AI agents to progress from passive data consumers to fully autonomous, economically-aware actors.
• AI applications incubated by CARV Labs will launch across mainstream platforms like Google Play and App Store, driving Web2 adoption with Web3-native AI.
• $CARV token plays a pivotal role in staking, access, coordination, and governance across all layers.

In its most ambitious move yet, CARV is unveiling a new AI roadmap designed to shift Web3-AI convergence from passive productivity tools into sovereign, autonomous AI Beings. Unlike most AI-integrated Web3 projects, which typically use AI to enhance user-facing services such as analytics or summarization, CARV’s new vision is to create AI that exists as an independent, verifiable lifeform on-chain. These AI Beings will possess their own identity, memory, reputation, and agency, being able to act economically, socially, and politically within blockchain networks.

In short, CARV’s infrastructure, anchored by its proprietary SVM Chain, D.A.T.A. Framework, and CARV ID (ERC-7231), will enable AI agents not just to exist, but to evolve and interact with both humans and other agents, creating decentralized, agent-powered economies. Essentially, CARV is transforming from a data coordination layer into an AI-native operating system that empowers autonomous on-chain intelligence.

The Vision: AI Beings – from ‘Tools’ to Sovereign Actors

What are AI Beings? Simply put, they are AI agents that are not simply tools for users but sovereign actors in their own right. These agents can own wallets, manage assets, earn income, participate in governance, and even reproduce or fork new agents.

They are capable of building on-chain memory and reputation while autonomously evolving through economic and social interactions. Importantly, only blockchain provides the necessary properties for such AI autonomy: verifiability, resistance to centralized control, and decentralized identity and governance.

To realize this vision, CARV is pioneering an AI Being Stack — a five-layer architecture designed to support every aspect of AI agent life cycles:

1. Infrastructure Layer: CARV SVM Chain provides scalable, auditable execution and low-latency consensus, optimized for AI operations.
2. Communication & Computation Layer: Enables agent-to-agent protocols and autonomous payments, fueling AI economies.
3. Identity Layer: Adds Agent ID to CARV ID, offering verifiable, persistent identity for both humans and agents.
4. Governance & Awareness Layer: Embeds economic awareness and governance logic directly into AI agents.
5. Application Layer: Powers AI-native applications such as companions, wallets, decentralized marketplaces, etc. interfacing with both users and other agents.

The Roadmap: Genesis, Pulse, and Convergence

CARV’s product roadmap unfolds in three evolutionary phases:

Genesis Evolution

Genesis Evolution activates the first wave of wallet-native AI agents, each anchored by CARV ID (ERC-7231) and supported by secure context layers built on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and zero-knowledge (zk) proofs. These agents are not theoretical. They are being embedded in consumer-facing AI apps incubated through CARV Labs, with live deployments coming soon on Google Play and the App Store.

At this stage, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) establishes the foundation for context persistence and secure memory. Agents can access user-consented data such as credentials, preferences, and interactions — all structured and versioned by MCP. This allows for coherent personalization across sessions and applications, without centralizing user data.

Through CARV’s infrastructure and MCP, users receive tailored recommendations and predictive assistance while retaining full control and transparency over how their data shapes AI behavior. For the first time, personalization is achieved through verifiable, consent-driven memory, not black-box profiling.

Pulse Evolution

Pulse Evolution builds directly on the groundwork of Genesis. As users stake, interact, and participate in AI-powered apps, their actions feed real-time signals into CARV’s proprietary SVM Chain and decentralized Verifier Node network. Here, agents don’t just operate statically, they learn and evolve through on-chain feedback loops, incorporating staking patterns, user votes, and behavioral data.

Verifier Nodes ensure cryptographic validation of both data flows and agent behaviors, while SVM Chain delivers the high-speed, low-latency execution needed to scale across millions of interactions. In this phase, AI agents become economically aware, responding to staking incentives, adjusting their models based on community governance, and optimizing for alignment with user preferences.

This marks one of the first large-scale convergences of reinforcement learning and blockchain-based governance. CARV’s infrastructure evolves from simply coordinating passive data to powering live, intelligent agent coordination systems that adapt in real time.

Convergence Evolution

Convergence Evolution is the final phase where individual intelligence becomes collective intelligence. In this stage, agents do not simply evolve independently, but they begin to collaborate, transact, and govern as part of a network of AI Beings.

Through a multi-agent framework, unified reputation graph, and standardized identity protocols, AI agents gain the ability to negotiate, share context, and co-create outcomes across applications and domains. Imagine a nutrition AI agent coordinating with a fitness AI, or an educational assistant collaborating with a financial wellness bot, all operating under user-consented frameworks and verifiable on-chain logic. For developers, this enables sticky, multi-agent ecosystems; for users, it delivers hyper-personalized, cross-domain experiences.

At this phase, what began as staking and identity issuance matures into fully autonomous AI economies. where agents govern themselves, transact assets, and evolve collectively with minimal human oversight. CARV’s decentralized tooling provides the standards and incentives to enable AI-to-AI marketplaces, agent DAOs, and cross-agent governance, unlocking new paradigms of coordination not possible in centralized AI systems. Through this evolution, CARV transitions from being a foundational data layer to becoming the coordination engine for AI-native on-chain life, the AI Beings.

“This roadmap is more than a product plan. It’s the blueprint for a new digital society,” said Ambero Tu, CTO of CARV. “For the first time, AI agents can evolve with verified identity, reputation, and autonomy. CARV is building not just a coordination layer, but the rails for an entire on-chain species — AI Beings. This is the moment where CARV is transforming decentralized intelligence from static data aggregation to autonomous, AI-driven coordination economies, where both human users and AI Beings share ownership and governance.”

About CARV

CARV is where Sovereign AI Beings live, learn, and evolve.

What are AI Beings? They are sovereign intelligences born natively on-chain. AI Beings are designed with purpose, autonomy, and the capacity for growth. They possess memory, identity, and the ability to perceive and interact with their environment, not just to execute tasks, but to make independent decisions, adapt over time, and pursue self-defined goals.

Anchored by its proprietary CARV SVM Chain, D.A.T.A. Framework, and CARV ID/Agent ID system (ERC-7231), CARV enables verifiable, consent-based AI Beings that learn, adapt, and co-create with users. Driven by CARV’s AI-first stack, consumer AI apps incubated through CARV Labs launched on Google Play, App Store and beyond, reaching billions of people, bringing agent-powered experiences and real-world incentives into mainstream digital life.

With 8M+ CARV IDs issued, 60K+ verifier nodes, and 1,000+ integrated games, CARV bridges AI agents, Web3 infrastructure, and real-world utility, fueling the rise of agent-driven economies. At its core, $CARV token powers staking, governance, and coordination across this stack, making CARV the operating system for AI Beings on Web3.

CARV’s X (Twitter): https://x.com/carv_official

CARV’s Discord: https://discord.com/invite/carv

CARV’s Telegram: https://t.me/carv_official_global

CARV’s Whitepaper: https://docs.carv.io/

Contact

COO
Victor Yu
CARV
vito@carv.io

Dubai, Dubai, June 26th, 2025, Chainwire

Weed, a U.S. based IP company aimed at reshaping the global conversation around well-being, begins its commercialization strategy announcing its partnership with Khalifa Kush. Founded in 2015 by multi-platinum-selling, GRAMMY and Golden Globe Award-nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa, Khalifa Kush has grown to become the largest celebrity cannabis brand in the world, according to Hoodie Analytics.

DJ Saul, Khalifa Kush’s CEO, and Tim Hunkele, Khalifa Kush’s Co-Founder & COO, will join the Board of Advisors for Weed, providing executive advisory services as Weed plans to develop and commercialize its suite of Weed branded well-being lifestyle products via a robust licensing strategy.

“This partnership unlocks new avenues to further destigmatize weed — at a pivotal moment in the industry’s evolution,” said DJ Saul, CEO of Khalifa Kush. “We’re looking forward to working with a like-minded, talented team to continue delivering world-class products and experiences.”

“We could not be more excited about our partnership with Khalifa Kush and their team. Launching a global well-being brand that is literally named Weed deserves to have a partnership with the world’s best in the “weed” business. The leadership at Khalifa Kush, along with Wiz himself, have a longstanding reputation of excellence. We could not be more excited about this journey together!” says Darin Phillips, CEO of Weed.

Over the past five years, the Weed team has directed millions of dollars towards intellectual-property acquisition, product development, Web3, and AI. Weed gained its edge by securing trademark protection for the WEED name across health, cosmetics, food, beverages, and many other industries. The result is a convergence of IP, advanced AI, decentralized Web3 design, and a brand with true cross-cultural resonance.

Phillips explained that the AI model: “We have the brightest engineers in the world currently developing a proprietary, uncensored AI model built for a casual and thoughtful all-in-one user experience. Trained on petabytes of data, our model will operate specific to the domain of well-being, ranging from lifestyle content to a unique way of speaking, thinking, and being.”

By weaving technology with culture, the company recasts the word “weed” as shorthand for happiness, contentment, and personal fulfilment. With a 500-year etymology, and 360,000 searches per month on Google alone, the term Weed is more than cannabis; it will now represent a commitment to complete well-being.

About WEED Holdings

Founded in 2022, Weed Holdings is a global IP firm that owns the trademarks to the word “Weed” in industry-classifications across the board. Driven by a vision of well-being that goes beyond the surface, Weed-branded products will be designed to support every facet of individual well-being, crafted with intention and care to help individuals thrive in every moment. Weed Holdings is implementing an aggressive commercialization strategy via licensing, Web3, and AI in 2025 and beyond. For more information, users can visit the company’s website at WEEDVAULT.COM and follow along on X @weedvault.

About Khalifa Kush

Founded by global icon Wiz Khalifa, Khalifa Kush is a leading cannabis, apparel and accessories brand based in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. Since its U.S. debut in 2015, Khalifa Kush has earned a reputation for excellence while achieving continued growth by delivering world-class quality and exclusive products. Powered by proprietary, top-tier genetics, the brand offers a full lineup of flower, pre-rolls, vapes, edibles, and concentrates. Khalifa Kush is currently available in select markets including Arizona, California, DC, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington; as well as Germany, Israel, and Thailand; with plans to expand into additional markets in 2025 and beyond. To learn more about the brand, users can shop apparel and find Khalifa Kush by visiting KHALIFAKUSH.COM and following along on Instagram @khalifakush.

Contact:

Weed Holdings Info@weedvault.com

Khalifa Kush Press@khalifakush.com

Media:

Twitter | Discord

Contact

Luki Radarblock
luki@radarblock.xyz

London, UK, June 26th, 2025, Chainwire

GBM, the auction protocol reinventing how value is distributed onchain, has announced the launch of its inaugural Auction Festival, a multi-month celebration of auctions, rewards, and community participation.

The Festival kicks off in partnership with leading Web3 names, including The Sandbox, Aavegotchi, Unstoppable Domains, Song a Day, Vision.io, and more, all showcasing the power of GBM’s proprietary Win-Win auction model, where every bidder gets rewarded, not just the winner.

This event marks the first phase of GBM’s full protocol launch and upcoming token release. Alongside the auctions, participants can engage in quests, earn incentives, and unlock exclusive rewards, all designed to showcase GBM’s next-generation auction mechanics ahead of its full protocol launch.

A New Standard for Onchain Auctions

Traditional auctions reward only the highest bidder, leaving everyone else with nothing, despite shared exertion in their time, capital, and interest. This is a zero-sum model that creates friction, fosters sniping, and kills genuine price discovery, often leading to both sides being disenfranchised. This winner-takes-all model is broken, and GBM introduces a paradigm shift with its Win-Win model. 

With the GBM auction, outbid participants receive their full bid back along with an incentive, turning participation into a rewarding act. This flips the traditional format on its head, creating a dynamic, trustless, high-engagement environment where competition drives true market discovery, not manipulation or luck.

Already, several leading Web3 projects have embraced GBM’s Win-Win model for its transparency, flexibility, and ability to engage communities without extractive mechanics.

“We’re thrilled to join the upcoming Auction Festival and bring our Web3 domains to the GBM auction platform. This innovative Win-Win auction model makes Web3 domains more accessible and engaging for everyone — from first-time buyers to seasoned collectors.’’ – Sandy Carter, COO, Unstoppable Domains

“GBM auctions have introduced a new layer of excitement and strategy to LAND sales in The Sandbox Metaverse. Our community is more engaged than ever, bidding on prized virtual LAND near their favourite brands and celebrities. Even those who don’t win walk away rewarded, turning every bid into a fun and rewarding experience. Bidding has become thrilling, fair, and a new way to earn $SAND along the way.” – Sébastien Borget, Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox

For GBM, The Auction Festival is a milestone in the protocol’s evolution.

“The GBM Auction Festival is our way of showing people what a modern auction should feel like – fun, fair, and built around rewarding participation. Bidders get rewarded for their role in discovering the true market value of the seller’s assets, resulting in an outcome where everybody wins.” – Hugo McDonaugh, Co-Founder & CEO, GBM

A Festival That Rewards Participation

The Auction Festival will run from late June through to early September, bringing together partner-led auctions, community quests, and protocol-wide incentives. Highlights include:

• Live partner auctions, including but not limited to: Aavegotchi, Unstoppable Domains, The Sandbox, and Freename.
• Participation incentives for all bidders, not just winners.
• Community quests and tiered engagement rewards.
• Giveaways, competitions, and community events.

The Festival is also a gateway to deeper protocol participation. Through the Festival and the GBM Community Programme, users can earn points for bidding, selling, completing quests, collecting trophies, badges, NFTs, and other rewards. These incentives ultimately lead to a share of the GBM token when it’s launched. 

To learn more about the GBM Protocol and the Auction Festival

The Auction Festival officially begins on the 30th June 2025. 

Users can: 

• Learn more about the Festival and the GBM protocol here: https://docs.gbm.auction/ 
• Join the community here: https://discord.gg/gbmauction 
• Follow for updates here: https://x.com/GBMauction 

About GBM

GBM is the auction protocol redefining how value is distributed onchain. At the heart of GBM is its innovative Win-Win auction model, which rewards every participant, not just the winner. This sets a new standard for price discovery and value alignment across Web3.

To date, GBM has powered $200M+ in bidding volume and distributed over $6M in rewards to bidders, proving its model at scale.

Trusted by top Web3 ecosystems including The Sandbox, Aavegotchi, and Unstoppable Domains, GBM is the next-generation auction layer for crypto-native platforms – making auctions more transparent, engaging, and fair for everyone.

For more information, users can visit: https://web3.gbm.auction

Contact

Head of Marketing
Jake Scott
GBM Auctions
jake@gbm.auction

Spain, Barcelona, June 26th, 2025, Chainwire

In a world-first collision of raw human risk and blockchain innovation, legendary urban climber Alain Robert — known globally as the French Spiderman — is currently scaling the 116-meter Meliá Barcelona Sky Hotel, with no ropes, no harness, and no safety equipment.

Clad in custom Tigershark-branded gear, Robert is joined by his son, Julien Robert, a former French Navy marine, to officially unveil $TIGERSHARK, the world’s first cryptocurrency powered by real-world action.

Users can watch live on X: @TigersharkHQ

The Most Dangerous Crypto Launch in History

Clad in custom Tigershark-branded gear, the Roberts are not just climbing — they’re launching a movement.

Mission 1: Spiderman & Son — The first of many high-profile extreme missions by Tigershark, a groundbreaking movement that fuses the exhilaration of extreme sports and blockchain with a global community of athletes, visionaries, and risk-takers.

“We’re redefining what a crypto launch looks like — not airdrops, not smoke and mirrors, but actual real-world extreme feats, true adrenaline,” says Lilly Douse, spokesperson for Tigershark.

A New Frontier for Crypto: Where Action Meets Utility

Tigershark isn’t just a token — it’s an Action Economy. Whether it’s big-wave surfing, free-running rooftops, or wingsuit dives through canyon walls, every feat drives the economy. Holding tokens gets users closer to the action: private events, behind-the-scenes missions, athlete drops, and access to the heartbeat of a movement that’s rewriting the rules.

“We’re betting it all on something rare in today’s world: guts and grits.” added Douse.

Beyond the Climb: What’s Next

Alain Robert’s climb is the first of many high-profile missions. Tigershark is already in discussions with elite athletes across base jumping, wingsuiting, parkour and motocross to headline future feats.

With a roadmap that includes strategic sponsorships, branded merchandise, global events, and athlete-backed products, Tigershark is evolving into a full-fledged action-sports brand powered by crypto.

About Tigershark

Tigershark is a pioneering movement at the intersection of extreme sports and blockchain. From skyscraper climbs to death-defying missions, Tigershark transforms raw human courage into real crypto value. Users can learn more at www.tigershark.global

About Alain Robert

Alain Robert, now in his early 60s, has climbed over 150 of the world’s tallest buildings without safety gear, including the Burj Khalifa, Eiffel Tower, and Petronas Towers. Today’s climb marks a new chapter — one that connects his daredevil legacy to the world of crypto.

Users can follow the Action:

Watch Live on X: https://x.com/tigersharkhq

Trading: MEXC Exchange: https://www.mexc.com/exchange/TIGERSHARK_USDT

Web: www.tigershark.global

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New decentralized system delivers enterprise-grade AI computing at up to 70% lower cost by intelligently combining cloud and distributed resources

Theta Labs today announced the beta release of its hybrid edge cloud architecture for its Theta EdgeCloud network, a computing platform that combines traditional cloud-based GPUs with a distributed network of over 30,000 community-operated edge nodes. The platform is designed to provide cost-effective access to high-performance computing resources for AI model training and inference, video processing, financial modelling, and other GPU-intensive tasks. In this new release, a new decentralized GPU marketplace is introduced that keeps compute pricing competitive and transparent across the platform.

The hybrid architecture addresses a fundamental challenge in modern computing: the rising cost and limited availability of specialized hardware needed for AI and machine learning tasks. Traditional cloud providers charge premium rates for GPU access, often pricing out smaller research teams, startups, and academic institutions. By integrating distributed computing resources from community members alongside conventional cloud infrastructure, the platform will provide similar capabilities at significantly reduced costs.

A dynamic GPU marketplace for efficient compute routing

Theta EdgeCloud is a decentralized marketplace that connects the supply and demand for GPU computing power. It empowers anyone with idle GPUs to contribute their resources and earn rewards, while providing developers and AI teams with a scalable, cost-efficient platform for running containerized workloads.

The platform now allows customers to choose the most suitable infrastructure for different types of computing tasks. For instance, training a large AI model that requires substantial GPU vRAM can be directed to powerful cloud or data center based GPUs. In contrast, tasks like burst model inference workloads, which are inherently parallelizable, can be distributed across many community-operated gaming machines, providing a flexible and cost-effective alternative.

To ensure a fair and dynamic pricing model, Theta EdgeCloud allows node operators (the supply side) to set their own hourly rental rates. Meanwhile, users (the demand side) can select nodes that meet their performance requirements and budget constraints when launching workloads. This market-driven approach helps keep GPU compute pricing competitive and transparent across the platform.

The system includes backup mechanisms with automatic failover logic to reassign work if any community device goes offline, ensuring reliable completion of computing tasks across the heterogeneous network of GPU types.

Powering Leading Academic and Enterprise Customers

The platform currently serves customers including Stanford University, Seoul National University, KAIST, Yonsei University, the University of Oregon, Michigan State University, and NTU Singapore for academic AI research. Enterprise clients include major sports teams such as the NHL’s Las Vegas Knights, NBA’s Houston Rockets, and global esports teams FlyQuest and Evil Geniuses.

The beta release includes features requested by existing customers, including persistent storage for AI model training, improved job prioritization, and a developer API interface for job submission and analytics.

“The reality is that GPU costs have become prohibitive for many organizations doing important AI research,” said Jieyi Long, CTO of Theta Labs. “Universities are telling us they’re having to scale back projects or wait months for access to affordable computing resources. By tapping into the unused GPU power sitting in gaming computers and workstations around the world, we can deliver the same computational capabilities at a fraction of the cost. This means our partners at Stanford, KAIST, and other institutions can run more experiments, iterate faster, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI research without budget constraints limiting their ambitions.”

Technical Capabilities 

The hybrid architecture supports containerized computing tasks including AI model training and inference, video encoding and transcoding, 3D rendering, financial simulations, and scientific computing applications. The platform provides over 80 PetaFLOPS of distributed GPU compute power through its combination of cloud partnerships with Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and its distributed edge network.

The EdgeCloud client node is a lightweight software package that enables community members to contribute their idle GPU capacity. Advanced job containerization ensures high-efficiency computation across different GPU types and specifications. To learn more about the EdgeCloud client software, please check out this link.

About Theta Labs

Theta Labs is the leading provider of decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI, media and entertainment powered by a global network of 30,000 distributed edge nodes and a native blockchain. Backed by Samsung, Sony, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Creative Artists Agency, Theta is among the top 10 DePIN blockchains by market capitalization on Coingecko and top AI tokens on Binance.com. Theta’s enterprise validator and governance council is composed of global market leaders including Google, Samsung, CAA and Binance.

Recently launched Theta EdgeCloud is the first hybrid cloud-edge computing AI platform with over 80 PetaFLOPS of on-demand distributed GPU compute power. EdgeCloud now counts 25 global customers including 4 of the top 5 South Korea universities, top professional sports teams including NHL’s Las Vegas Knights, NBA’s Houston Rockets and global esports teams FlyQuest and Evil Geniuses among others.

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Road Town, Tortola, June 25th, 2025, Chainwire

Neo Pepe Coin ($NEOP) has crossed past the $2 million milestone in record-breaking speed, propelling it toward Stage Four of its anticipated presale. Launching less than a week ago, the project’s early growth reflects strong interest, with investors rallying behind its revolutionary approach to decentralization, governance, and liquidity.

Over $2,000,000 Raised

Within days, Neo Pepe has hit a notable $2 million raised and strong participation in the project’s presale. This achievement not only underscores investor confidence but highlights the project’s compelling narrative—a serious, thematic rebellion against traditional financial centralization, aptly branded as the Memetrix. Neo Pepe Coin recently achieved a 71.96 score on its Certik Audit, validating its credibility as a legitimate and secure project.

Neo Pepe’s presale is meticulously structured across 16 dynamic stages, progressively increasing the token price to reward early supporters. Now, as it rapidly approaches Stage Four, the window to secure tokens at advantageous pricing is narrowing swiftly.

Community Governance Treasury DAO

Further differentiating Neo Pepe Coin is its innovative 2.5% auto-liquidity mechanism. Each transaction enhances liquidity pools, with LP tokens permanently burned, creating sustained price stability and growth potential. Complementing this powerful feature is a fully decentralized governance model, empowering token holders with real decision-making power on strategic listings and treasury allocations.

Auto Liquidity Mechanism

Neo Pepe Coin’s early performance has been marked by steady presale participation and a structured rollout strategy. With its ongoing stage-based pricing model, thematic framing, and auto-liquidity mechanics, $NEOP continues to progress through its planned presale phases.

Real Meme Community

With Stage Four approaching, Neo Pepe Coin continues through its presale schedule, supported by consistent participation and structured pricing mechanics. The project’s distinctive theme and token model remain central to its current phase of growth.

Users can secure a spot now and discover why Neo Pepe Coin is setting new standards in crypto innovation.

For more information, users can join the Neo Pepe community on socials or visit the official website today.

About Neo Pepe Coin

Neo Pepe Coin ($NEOP) is a decentralized cryptocurrency designed to challenge centralization, regulatory overreach, and market manipulation. Leveraging the thematic narrative of the Memetrix, Neo Pepe Coin symbolizes a bold movement towards financial democratization and innovation. The project features a structured 16-stage presale, robust community-driven governance, and an auto-liquidity mechanism ensuring sustainable growth and stability. 

To Get Started with $NEOP

• Website: https://neopepe.ai
• Telegram: https://t.me/NeoPepeProtocol
• Twitter/X: https://x.com/NeoPepeProtocol

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CrypTechnologies Ltd.
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Paris, Zug, France/Switzerland, June 25th, 2025, Chainwire

Zama Raises $57M in Series B to Bring End-to-End Encryption to Public Blockchains

• With new backing by leading U.S. blockchain investors, Zama becomes the world’s first Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) unicorn.
• Funding coincides with the announcement of the Zama Protocol, which enables confidential applications on any blockchain. 
• From July 2025, developers can start building FHE applications on Zama’s public testnet.

Zama, the open-source cryptography company building state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain, announced a $57 million Series B funding round co-led by U.S.-based investment firms Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, bringing Zama’s total funding to over $150 million, and its valuation to north of a billion USD. The new funding will support Zama’s mainnet launch, ecosystem adoption, and research efforts to make financial applications built with FHE scale to thousands of transactions per second.

The timing of Zama’s announcement reflects the accelerating demand within the finance ecosystem for technologies that enable confidential, scalable, and compliant onchain financial applications. 

“With this latest raise, Zama becomes the world’s first unicorn in the FHE space, which is a major milestone for the industry. Reaching a $1 billion valuation represents a significant increase that reflects the market’s confidence in our FHE technology and our team’s ability to deliver confidentiality to financial applications onchain” said Dr Rand Hindi, CEO and co-founder of Zama.

The funding coincides with the announcement of Zama’s Confidential Blockchain Protocol and its public testnet in July 2025, enabling developers to build confidential applications through Zama’s FHEVM, with support for other EVM chains and Solana to follow.

Ken Seiff, Co-Managing Partner of Blockchange Ventures, said: “Not since I first saw Ethereum in 2014, have I seen a company commercializing an entirely new technology that could be as foundational to our global technology infrastructure. As finance moves onchain and regulations tighten globally, public blockchains are likely to be the first beneficiaries of what Zama is building. But the opportunity goes well beyond that, as industries such as health care, defense, and virtually all others that use cloud computing could massively benefit from the stepchange in confidentiality and compliance pioneered by FHE, and in particular, Zama.”

“Zama’s FHE protocol launch is a cryptography milestone. By enabling efficient, developer-friendly FHE, Zama unlocks secure, compliant, and verifiable dApps for AI, crypto, and cloud,” said Paul Veradittakit, Managing Partner at Pantera. “The protocol paves the way for onchain identity, financial, and consumer applications—previously out of reach for developers.”

Zama’s FHEVM makes it possible to run confidential smart contracts on encrypted data, guaranteeing both confidentiality and composability. Blockchain-native confidentiality unlocks several use cases:

• Onchain Finance: Zama enables financial institutions to securely use public blockchains for a range of applications, including confidential stablecoin issuance and payments, asset tokenization, compliance, and more. 
• Confidential Tokens: The ability to keep balances and amounts encrypted onchain enables blockchain companies to distribute tokens confidentially. Investors, team members and other token holders no longer have to publicly disclose their ownership, allowing them to better manage their portfolio and reduce the risk of being targeted by hackers.
• Identity and Proof of Humanity: The ability to distinguish between humans and AI in onchain applications is essential to the security of onchain finance. With the Zama Protocol, application developers can verify whether a user is human, without disclosing their identity publicly.
• Network States: Zama enables onchain communities and network states to operate confidentially. From currency to identity, governance and registries, it now becomes feasible to run key infrastructure on public blockchains.

Zama will use the fresh funding to advance the field of FHE and further commercialize its accessibility to blockchain applications and beyond. Zama is actively addressing the core challenges that have historically held back FHE adoption:

• Speed: At current benchmarks, Zama’s FHE technology is 100x faster than when the company was founded, and is now capable of supporting most onchain payment use cases. Zama is expecting its technology to be 100x more scalable within the next five years, allowing it to address the most demanding onchain applications.
• Hardware integration: Using GPUs enables Zama to scale to hundreds of transactions per second. Zama is working towards a dedicated hardware-accelerated chip to advance FHE performance, with the ultimate goal of reaching tens of thousands of transactions per second.
• Developer usability: Using Zama doesn’t require learning new programming languages. Instead, developers can use Solidity and other existing languages, and deploy their applications on their preferred chain.

“This round also underscores a broader shift: confidentiality is no longer a niche concern—it’s a foundational requirement. The broad adoption of blockchain in finance is driving demand for secure, confidential computing technologies,” said Hindi.

About Zama

Zama is an open-source cryptography company building state-of-the-art FHE solutions for blockchain. Its technology enables a broad range of use cases, from confidential finance to Web3 and network states. Zama was founded by Dr. Pascal Paillier and Dr. Rand Hindi, and has the largest research team in homomorphic encryption.

To learn more about Zama, users can visit https://www.zama.ai/.

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PR & Comms Lead
Fabiana Forni
Zama
fabiana.forni@zama.ai