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New York, New York, United States, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

Superform brings a familiar mobile experience to onchain finance, helping users grow their money while keeping full control of their assets.

Today, Superform, the first user-owned neobank, announced its mobile app launch,marking a key milestone in its efforts to build a user-owned neobank. The app extends the reach of Superform’s SuperVaults: non-custodial onchain vaults that automatically deploy user capital across high-performing DeFi strategies such as stablecoin lending and liquidity provisioning. The launch makes DeFi more accessible by delivering a user experience that feels like seamless internet banking while providing access to powerful DeFi returns. The app allows users to earn more yield on their USD, BTC, and ETH, marking the company’s official expansion into the U.S. market.

The app is designed for users who want a simpler way to grow their money without the stress of managing wallets, understanding protocols or navigating multiple chains. Users can create an account, onramp with fiat, and start earning in minutes. Beyond earning, users can swap, send, and manage their money across chains, all while maintaining full custody and control of their assets. 

Deposits are routed through SuperVaults, Superform’s automated savings products that deploys capital across high-performing DeFi strategies such as stablecoin lending and liquidity provisioning. The experience is built to feel familiar to anyone who has used a fintech app while delivering yields that consistently outperform traditional benchmarks. SuperVaults have generated average returns of 8.4% APY, compared to just 4.3% for T-Bills.

“You should not need to be technical to earn more onchain,” said Vikram Arun, Co-Founder and CEO of Superform. “The mobile app is the next step in our mission to make crypto-native strategies feel like standard financial products. It offers a true set and forget experience where users can deposit once and earn automatically without needing to manage or monitor anything.”

While DeFi has matured significantly, consumers still lack a complete financial alternative to traditional banks. Traditional savings options provide near-zero returns after inflation, while crypto-native yield remains fragmented across multiple tools and protocols. Users are forced to choose between the simplicity of custodial platforms that control their assets, or the complexity of self-custody solutions that require technical expertise.

Superform addresses this by building infrastructure that consolidates and simplifies. SuperVaults offer users exposure to curated opportunities through a single, scalable product, eliminating the need to stitch together tools or analyze protocols. With features like boosted APYs, Superform Points, and tiered rewards, the platform combines the performance of DeFi with the usability of traditional financial apps. The mobile app builds on traction from Superform’s desktop platform, which currently manages over $180 million in user deposits across 1000+ vaults, with strategies spanning more than 70 protocols. 

This launch marks the first in a series of major product rollouts and upgrades coming to the Superform ecosystem through the end of the year. For updates, users can visit superform.xyz or follow @superformxyz on X.

About Superform

Superform is the first user owned neo-bank to effortlessly grow your crypto portfolio. Superform helps users maximize returns on their crypto by providing access to over 800 earning opportunities with $10B in TVL across 50 protocols. Superform’s SuperVaults product offers single-transaction deposits into multi-protocol, yield bearing vaults. These “set and forget” opportunities are focused on earning users stablecoin yields. SuperVaults have been audited by yAudit and multiple independent security researchers from Spearbit.

Since launching in Q2 2024, Superform has delivered secure and optimized yield to over 180,000 depositors. Currently, users are earning an average APY of over 8.4%. Backed by $11M in funding from leading investors including VanEck Ventures, Polychain Capital, Circle Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Maven11 Capital, CMT Digital, and Arthur Hayes, Superform Labs is simplifying the path to onchain wealth.

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PR Manager
Aarya Shah
aarya@serotonin.co

Vaduz, Liechtenstein, February 3rd, 2026, Chainwire

A globally respected investor and founder of Real Vision brings decades of financial market insight to xMoney’s leadership team

xMoney, a leading provider of compliant payment infrastructure bridging traditional finance and digital assets, today announced that Raoul Pal has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor.

Raoul Pal is one of the most widely respected macro thinkers of his generation. An investor, entrepreneur, and financial commentator, he has spent decades analyzing how money moves, how markets evolve, and how technological shifts reshape global financial systems. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment, as global payments transition toward regulated digital rails, stablecoins, and on-chain settlement.

With Raoul’s strategic guidance, xMoney aims to further strengthen its position at the intersection of payments, regulation, and digital assets – building infrastructure that enables seamless value transfer across traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins.

A Career Spanning Global Finance and Digital Assets

Raoul began his career in traditional finance, holding senior roles at Goldman Sachs, where he led hedge fund sales for equities and derivatives in Europe, and later at GLG Partners, where he co-managed a global macro fund alongside some of the world’s most respected hedge fund managers.

In 2005, he founded Global Macro Investor (GMI), which has since become a trusted research platform for hedge funds, family offices, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, registered investment advisors, and high-net-worth investors worldwide. GMI is widely recognized for its independent macro research and strong long-term performance track record.

Raoul co-founded Real Vision in 2014, transforming financial media by making institutional-grade market intelligence accessible to a global audience. What began as a video-first platform evolved into a global financial knowledge network with millions of users across nearly every country.

The new xMoney advisor is also the co-founder of Exponential Age Asset Management (EXPAAM), an investment firm built specifically for the digital asset economy. Its flagship fund, the Exponential Age Digital Asset Fund, provides curated exposure to top crypto hedge funds by combining macroeconomic frameworks with deep digital asset research.

Supporting the Future of Payments

Raoul’s long-standing belief is that the world is experiencing a structural shift in money, technology, and market infrastructure – not a temporary trend. Payments, in particular, are undergoing one of the most significant transformations in decades.

​​Unlike many payment platforms that expand globally first and retrofit compliance later, xMoney has taken a regional-first approach, building its infrastructure within Europe, one of the most highly regulated financial environments in the world. This strategy enables xMoney to meet stringent regulatory standards from day one, while creating a scalable foundation for global expansion aligned with frameworks such as MiCA.

“Crypto only fulfills its promise when it disappears into the background,” said Raoul Pal. “The real winners will be the platforms that make global payments simple, compliant, and invisible. That’s what excites me the most about xMoney.”

As Strategic Advisor, Raoul will work closely with xMoney’s leadership team, focusing on long-term strategy, market structure, and anticipating how global money movement will evolve as regulated stablecoins, compliant on-chain settlement, and hybrid payment models become foundational financial infrastructure.

“We’re building payment rails for the future, starting in the most regulated markets first,” said Gregorious Siourounis, Co-Founder & CEO of xMoney. “That discipline gives us a structural advantage as digital assets move into mainstream finance. Raoul’s depth of experience, macro insight, and clarity of thought reinforce our belief that long-term winners in payments will be compliant, scalable, and globally interoperable.”

The appointment underscores xMoney’s commitment to building a compliant, scalable payment infrastructure that bridges traditional finance and Web3, enabling businesses and consumers to transact seamlessly across borders, currencies, and technologies.

About xMoney

xMoney is a pioneering payments company with strategic European licenses, focused on building a seamless, secure, and future-ready payments ecosystem. By combining cutting-edge technology, strong regulatory compliance, and a broad product suite spanning traditional and digital assets, xMoney bridges traditional finance and next-generation payment rails.

Website: www.xmoney.com 

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Marketing Lead
Rus Alex
xMoney
alex.rus@xmoney.com

Zug, Switzerland, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Status, one of Ethereum’s longest-running open-source projects, has re-entered the spotlight with USS Status, a satirical sci-fi cartoon that turns crypto’s chaotic past into comedy, along with the launch of a unified privacy super-app and gasless L2 network.

An Old Giant Awakens

Status, the open-source privacy super-app, has launched an overhauled unified app, a gasless L2 network, and a new identity personified in an irreverent and satirical web cartoon.

One of the oldest established projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, Status has weathered the industry’s volatility while continuing to quietly build an open-source platform that combines a secure crypto wallet, privacy messenger, and web browser within a single application.

Founded in 2017, Status has lived through ICO mania, regulatory whiplash, centralised exchange collapses, memecoin cycles, and repeated attempts to rebuild the internet with better primitives.

Now they’re back with a mission to make privacy accessible to everyone.

Crypto’s First Cartoon Series?

To celebrate the renewal of its app and the upcoming rollout of Status Network, the project is launching USS Status – an animated web series that follows a crew of meme misfits navigating a chaotic galaxy plagued by surveillance, centralisation, and bad governance. 

The satirical sci-fi series pokes fun at the colourful history of the crypto space, featuring allusions to characters, tokens, and projects that will be immediately familiar to crypto-native viewers.

Episode 1 sees the return of an infamous crypto figure, although USS Status insists that any likelihood is strictly coincidental.

The show is available on X, YouTube, and TikTok, with the Status team hinting that more episodes are on their way soon: https://youtu.be/478Bjdcswo0

“Over the past decade, crypto has traded its sense of fun and freedom for market hype and profit-first narratives,” said Volodymy Hulchenko, Status App Lead.

“USS Status is our way of laughing at the chaos while reminding people that it’s still possible to build tools that defend privacy, free speech, and digital freedom – without losing the cypherpunk spirit that started it all.”

Those interested in following the USS Status journey can join the project’s X Community:

https://x.com/i/communities/1998042195463479359

The Platform Behind the Punchline

The USS Status fictional spaceship runs on the Ethereum blockchain (for now), and uses the same tech built into the Status privacy super-app that’s available today.

Status allows users to chat, transact, and browse privately – all in one place, and they’ve just launched a new unified app for mobile and desktop.

They’re not the only team building a super-app, but their focus is to provide unrivaled privacy using Logos’ peer-to-peer messaging technology (prev. Whisper) and decentralised smart contracts.

The app features anonymous profiles, a built-in multi-chain crypto wallet with swaps, end-to-end encrypted messaging, censorship-resistant Community spaces, and a privacy-preserving web browser.

The app is available at: status.app

As innovators in the privacy space since 2017, Status is also taking things one step further with the launch of Status Network, the world’s first natively gasless L2 blockchain.

Built on the zkEVM Linea stack, Status Network removes the need for gas with a reputation-based Karma system funded by native yield, unlocking gasless private accounts.

Will the combination of gasless zkEVM infrastructure and a privacy super-app create a new standard for privacy? We’ll have to wait and see until their mainnet launch in Q1.

In the meantime, pre-deposit vaults for staking on Status Network are now open: https://hub.status.network/

About Status Network

Status Network is the first Ethereum L2 with gas-free transactions at scale. Funded by native yield and app fees, it redistributes 100% of net revenues to its community, powering sustainable liquidity incentives, a public funding pool, and SNT buy-backs. Built on the Linea zkEVM stack, it enables frictionless onboarding for games, social apps, and DeFi while remaining fully aligned with Ethereum security and values.

Users can follow Status for updates: https://x.com/StatusL2

Contact

Public Relations
Laura Guzik
Status Network
laura@status.im

New York, United States, January 28th, 2026, Chainwire

QXMP Labs announced that it has registered approximately USD $1.1 trillion of certified real-world, in-ground assets on its proprietary Layer-1 blockchain, QELT. The announcement follows the activation of QXMP’s proprietary oracle infrastructure, which is designed to ingest and verify qualified geological and scientific documentation and record the data on-chain as cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves. The development marks a step toward enabling large-scale, compliant real-world asset tokenisation and settlement using blockchain-based infrastructure.

Addressing the missing Liquidity in Tokenised RWAs

Tokenising real-world assets (RWAs) requires more than price stability. It requires deep, predictable, and continuously replenished liquidity that can scale as issuance grows. Most stablecoin models rely on static reserves, external trading demand, and fragmented liquidity pools. As tokenisation volumes increase, these dynamics can limit liquidity depth and consistency. QXMP Labs approaches the problem differently by designing liquidity into the system itself.

30% of Tokenisation Flows, Routed by Design

At the core of the QXMP Labs ecosystem is a structural mechanism rarely seen in tokenisation:

30% of all tokenisation proceeds across a seven-year pipeline of 44 planned events $1.1 Trillion pipline are contractually routed into the QXMP Labs ecosystem, settling through QELT Blockchain, its purpose-built Layer-1 for real-world assets.

Instead of liquidity arriving later —liquidity is embedded from the start. Each tokenisation event reinforces the same settlement and reserve layer, transforming isolated issuances into a recurring liquidity engine. This directly targets the systemic liquidity gap that has limited RWA adoption globally.

$1.1 Trillion in RWAs Registered On-Chain

QXMP Labs has already registered $1.1 trillion in real-world assets on-chain, spanning commodities, strategic resources, and in-ground reserves across multiple jurisdictions.

These assets are:

• not wrapped
• not mirrored
• not synthetically referenced

They are cryptographically verified on-chain using regulated reporting standards such as NI 43-101 and JORC, via QXMP’s proprietary Proof-of-Reserves Oracle — the only system capable of parsing regulated geotechnical disclosures to bring in-ground assets on-chain. This is based on documented on-chain registration and verification processes.

QELT Blockchain as the Liquidity Gravity Layer

QELT Blockchain functions as the coordination layer where:

• tokenisation flows converge
• reserve logic is enforced
• settlement liquidity accumulates
• ecosystem demand compounds

As more tokenisation events settle through the system, liquidity density increases rather than fragments, addressing the structural weakness that has held back RWA markets to date.

Under a base-case scenario applying a conservative infrastructure multiple, provided by Messari Research’s published Layer-1 blockchain valuation methodologies, the cumulative effect of these flows implies a current indicative base valuation of approximately USD $43.6 billion for the QELT ecosystem — derived from throughput, settlement economics, and recurring liquidity inflows rather than speculative assumptions.

Execution and Deployment

The liquidity architecture underpinning QXMP Labs is being executed by a team with a proven track record of delivering high-visibility liquidity activations in live market conditions. That same execution discipline — liquidity sequencing, demand-side engineering, and market coordination — is now being applied to institutional-grade real-world asset infrastructure. This is a live deployment, executed at scale with tier one partnerhsips soon to be announced.

Liquidity Activation Now Entering Its Public Access Phase

As the QXMP Labs ecosystem transitions from infrastructure readiness to active deployment, the platform has now entered a controlled liquidity activation phase aligned with its real-world asset settlement framework.

This phase marks the first opportunity for ecosystem participants to engage with the liquidity layer underpinning QELT Blockchain, ahead of broader market visibility and downstream tokenisation flows entering the system.

Further details on ecosystem access and activation mechanics are being made available via QXMP Labs’ official portal:

Registration is open

Historically, these early access windows — where infrastructure is live, assets are verified, and liquidity rails are being switched on — have often marked the early stages of new financial systems.

QXMP Labs is now entering a controlled activation phase:

• infrastructure is live
• assets are verified
• liquidity rails are being switched on
• broader market awareness is only beginning

This phase is associated with early-stage deployment, initial participant onboarding, and broader market awareness developing over time. Additional information is available at https://presale.qelt.ai/.

The Line the Market Is Approaching

The tokenisation industry is approaching a fork. One path continues to digitise assets and hope liquidity appears later. The other builds reserve-grade liquidity rails first, then allows scale to compound naturally. QXMP Labs has chosen the second path — and has committed $1.1 trillion on-chain to support this approach.

For those seeking to understand how this system is being activated, further information is available via the QXMP Labs ecosystem access portal.

Reference Points

• Infrastructure overview
• QELT blockchain explorer
• Early Ecosystem Access
• Liquidity Presale Updates

Disclaimer: Messari Research has not authored or endorsed this valuation.

About QXMP Labs

QXMP Labs is a blockchain and financial infrastructure company focused on verifying and registering real-world, in-ground assets on-chain. Its proprietary oracle ingests qualified scientific and geological reports and records them as cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves to support compliant real-world asset tokenisation. The company operates QELT, a live, purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain for asset registry, settlement, and reserve integrity, and is advancing a seven-year programme of 44 planned tokenisation events.

Contacts

CEO & Founder
Phil Ryan
QUANTUM ENHANCED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY QELT LLC
phil@qxmp.ai
Head of Global Assets Acquisitions
Joe Tomaszewski
QELT ENHANCED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY QELT LLC
joe@qxmp.ai

San Francisco, USA, January 27th, 2026, Chainwire

What Brave helped mainstream for private browsing, Anuma brings to AI with private, user-owned memory and AI Portal-based interoperability powered by ZetaChain 2.0.

ZetaChain today announced the beta launch and public waitlist for Anuma, a privacy-first AI interface built on ZetaChain 2.0. ZetaChain also introduced ZetaChain 2.0, a new AI interoperability layer designed to help developers build applications and agents that work across AI models, preserve private user context, and monetize globally without backend infrastructure.

ZetaChain Core Contributor Ankur Nandwani previously co-created Basic Attention Token (BAT), which powers the Brave browser ecosystem with over 100M monthly active users. Brave helped mainstream privacy-first browsing by blocking trackers and ads by default. Anuma applies that same “privacy and user control by default” approach to the next major consumer interface of AI where context and memory increasingly define user experience.

AI adoption is accelerating at internet scale: McKinsey notes that ChatGPT reached 100 million users in two months, and OpenAI has reported 800 million weekly active users by late 2025. Yet the ecosystem remains fragmented, with only 9% of consumers paying for more than one AI subscription across major assistants. This combination creates lock-in at the model layer and forces developers to repeatedly rebuild the same integration, routing, state, and billing infrastructure, while privacy and data are routinely shared across applications, agents, and model providers.

ZetaChain was built to address fragmentation in Web3 by enabling universal apps — applications that can natively access assets like BTC and execute across multiple blockchains through a single platform. In 2025, the ZetaChain network scaled to more than 11.5 million users and processed more than 225 million transactions. With ZetaChain 2.0, ZetaChain is extending this unification thesis to AI so applications can operate across both chains and models, with permissions and private context built in.

ZetaChain 2.0 is composed of two core components:

• AI Portal: A unified routing and execution layer that allows applications to access multiple AI model providers without lock-in, with built-in support for availability, fallback, and cost-performance optimization.
• Private Memory Layer: A protocol-level memory system designed to keep user context encrypted and permissioned, enabling persistent experiences across sessions while maintaining user control over what applications and agents can access.

Developer SDK and Platform

ZetaChain 2.0 is designed to scale as a developer platform. Alongside the protocol components, ZetaChain is releasing a developer SDK that packages private persistent memory, cross-model interoperability, and monetization primitives into a single toolkit. The goal is to make it straightforward to build privacy-first apps and agents that can maintain continuity across sessions, connect to multiple model providers, and support global monetization rails from onchain settlement to traditional payment processors without requiring teams to build bespoke infrastructure.

Anuma: First Consumer Showcase

Anuma is the first consumer AI interface built on ZetaChain 2.0. The product provides access to multiple leading AI models through a single experience, supports switching between models without losing context, and is designed so memory remains private and user-controlled. Users can request early access through the public waitlist.

“Brave and BAT proved that privacy-first defaults can win at consumer scale,” said Ankur Nandwani, Core Contributor at ZetaChain. “We’ve already unified the blockchain experience at scale, powering more than 225 million transactions. ZetaChain 2.0 extends that same approach to AI, enabling the next generation of apps and agents that run across models and chains with private, permissioned memory and global monetization by default.”

In 2023, ZetaChain announced a $27 million funding round with participation from Blockchain.com, Human Capital, VY Capital, Sky9 Capital, Jane Street Capital, VistaLabs, CMT Digital, Foundation Capital, Lingfeng Capital, GSR, and others.

About ZetaChain

ZetaChain is the universal layer for AI and Web3, letting developers build apps that run across chains and models, keep memory private, and monetize without infrastructure. With native connectivity across major blockchains and an AI interoperability stack powered by a Private Memory Layer, ZetaChain is building the foundation for the next generation of apps, agents, and experiences.

Users can follow ZetaChain on X (Twitter) and join the conversation on Discord and Telegram.

Contact

CMO
Jonathan Covey
ZetaChain
jonathan@zetachain.com