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Cyber Dive Launches Aqua X: Empowering Recovery Journeys and Building Brighter Futures Through Technology

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Cyber Dive unveils Aqua X, a revolutionary platform designed in collaboration with recovery programs like Phoenix Dream Center to empower human trafficking survivors. By combining secure smartphone access with advanced case management tools, Aqua X fosters independence, enhances care, and builds brighter futures.

PHOENIX, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Cyber Dive, an innovator in digital safety technology, is proud to unveil Aqua X, a groundbreaking platform developed in collaboration with the Phoenix Dream Center, a leading human trafficking recovery program. Aqua X supports individuals in human trafficking recovery programs by providing residents with custom-built smartphones connected to a robust portal. It streamlines care for case managers, enhances managers, reduces recidivism, and lays the foundation for a successful transition.

A Collaborative Approach to Addressing Recovery Challenges

Through extensive time spent with case managers, care teams, and survivors, Cyber Dive gained a deep understanding of the organization’s pain points, including high recidivism rates associated with unrestricted phone access post-recovery and the daily operational frictions faced by care teams.

Cyber Dive then set out to develop an innovative solution that promotes both access and accountability, guiding individuals safely through each phase of recovery while addressing Phoenix Dream Center’s core needs.

“We stand apart from other companies because we built this from the ground up. Instead of repurposing our staple product, Aqua One, and saying, ‘this should do,’ we chose to work closely with case managers, care teams, residents, and executives to craft a truly collaborative solution,” Zachary Brooks, Strategy Manager & Aqua X Team Lead said. “The result is a solution that excites and empowers everyone involved in the recovery journey.”

Cyber Dive expanded this collaborative approach by partnering with recovery leaders, including Safe House Project, Generate Hope, Zoe Ministries, and others. These partnerships helped shape Aqua X, incorporating industry best practices and ensuring the platform meets the diverse needs of recovery programs nationwide.

“Cyber Dive is a groundbreaking company committed to safeguarding children and at-risk demographics,” Lee Seville, Residential Program Specialist at Generate Hope, said. “As a recovery program, we pursue innovative ways to empower our clients while maintaining their security. Aqua X offers case management support, grounding tools, and entertainment while evolving with clients as they gain independence. I am excited to see how this technology changes the world.”

Aqua X – Empowering Individuals, Enhancing Care

Aqua X introduces a controlled, evolving digital environment that adapts as individuals progress through their recovery. Early in their journey, residents can engage in activities like journaling, listening to music, and connecting with approved contacts, allowing for safe self-expression and emotional growth. As individuals progress, Aqua X unlocks professional and personal development resources, including job tools, skill-building apps, and educational content, empowering residents to build independent lives and reduce relapse risk. Aqua X provides a solution that resonates with recovery facilities by fostering safe digital engagement. This is especially important for organizations like Zoe Ministries, where managing secure access for trafficked youth requires a thoughtful, phased approach.

“Victim service providers understand the dangers of trafficked youth with cell phones in possession,” Hannah Cesner, Director of Strategy and Advancement at Zoe Ministries, said. “Cyber Dive offers state-of-the-art technology that safely addresses desired cell phone usage while mitigating risk factors, geolocation issues, and social media dangers. At the appropriate treatment phase, residents are granted access to an Aqua X device designed to protect home location security, ensure the safety of both residents and staff and provide powerful tools to empower our most vulnerable individuals. Cyber Dive provides initial training for youth and staff as well as ongoing technical support, which has proven highly valuable to us.”

Aqua X is more than a tool; it’s a transformative shift in care efficiency. The platform’s real-time monitoring, automated data collection, and powerful analytics deliver critical insights without the manual workload, enabling case managers to focus on impactful interactions. Secure location tracking, electronic health records integration, and customizable care plans make Aqua X a comprehensive tool for delivering data-driven, compassionate support.

“Aqua X acts as a comprehensive shield for so many online threats while encouraging positive mental health,” Carlos Daniel, Chief Development Officer at Phoenix Dream Center, said. “We first gave Aqua X to one of the survivors in our Human Trafficking Recovery Program, who was finally ready to get a job and smartphone but still needed some safeguards due to the trafficker that was trying to reach her. Thanks to the dashboard, our program staff knows who communicates with her online and her location while she works, allowing her to transition successfully.”

Setting a New Standard in Recovery

Aqua X marks a new era in recovery support, creating a structured digital environment that grows alongside the resident. By offering controlled device access, phased exposure to job and life skills resources, and data-driven care insights, Aqua X empowers individuals to pursue sustainable recovery and independent futures.

“As a father and a co-founder, I know firsthand the importance of creating safe digital spaces that empower individuals without overstepping. Aqua X is more than just technology; it’s a commitment to those facing some of life’s hardest battles—whether they’re rebuilding, recovering, or starting fresh,” Derek Jackson, Co-Founder & COO of Cyber Dive, said. “With Aqua X, we’ve taken every step to work alongside organizations like Phoenix Dream Center, Safe House Project, and Generate Hope, listening to their real needs. Together, we’ve created a structured, secure platform that gives individuals in recovery the support they need to move forward confidently, connecting them safely to their future.”

Building on this shared dedication to empowering and protecting vulnerable individuals, Safe House Project’s CEO, Kristi Wells, highlighted how Cyber Dive’s technology aligns seamlessly with their mission to provide comprehensive, data-driven support to survivors.

“We at Safe House Project are deeply committed to leveraging every possible tool to ensure survivors receive the best care,” Kristi Wells, CEO of Safe House Project, said. “Cyber Dive represents a groundbreaking step forward in this mission, offering trauma-informed case management technology that not only tracks outcomes but also empowers service providers with data analytics to elevate the quality of care. This innovation ensures that survivors of trafficking have access to secure, evolving support systems designed to foster their healing and independence. We are excited to see how this technology transforms and safeguards the future of survivors.”

Aqua X sets a new standard in recovery technology, empowering individuals and transforming care. Built through partnerships with industry giants, Aqua X combines security, structured access, and vital resources, paving the way for safe, independent futures. Cyber Dive’s commitment to innovation is reshaping recovery support and empowering lives nationwide.

“This isn’t about bobbing for apples and hoping you bite into the right one—this is about building a solution that directly addresses the unique needs of human trafficking recovery centers,” Jeff Gottfurcht, Co-Founder & CEO of Cyber Dive, said. “Too often, recovery programs are forced to settle for tools that look good on the outside but are ultimately like biting into a rotten apple—what seemed like a solution ends up falling short. Aqua X is the ripe fruit of our efforts, crafted to deliver a seamless, intuitive experience that helps case managers spend less time tangled in ineffective technology and more time focused on the critical work of recovery. Trafficking is a difficult and uncomfortable issue, but we’re committed to confronting it head-on with the resources necessary to make a lasting impact.”

About Cyber Dive

Cyber Dive is dedicated to creating safer digital environments through innovative technology solutions. Known for the Aqua One smartphone, which offers parents real-time insights into their children’s online activities, Cyber Dive now brings its expertise to the recovery space with Aqua X. It supports individuals in building safe, empowered digital relationships as they progress toward independence.

For more information, visit www.cyberdive.co.

Supporting Transparent Partnerships in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

At Cyber Dive, we deeply value our partnerships in the fight against human trafficking. True change requires a holistic, community-driven approach that breaks down long-standing silos. Too often, industry leaders receive substantial government funding but withhold information to secure future grants, limiting collaborative progress. Unlike these closed systems, our partners are nonprofits fueled by the dedication of donors and grants, all working transparently toward a common goal.

To learn more about these remarkable organizations and support their missions, please visit their websites below:

Bob’s House of Hope

Generate Hope

Phoenix Dream Center

Safe House Project

Zoe Ministries – Delaware

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Cyber Dive, Cyber Dive, 1 6503804917, media@cyberdive.co, cyberdive.co

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Truemed and Highmark Benefits Administration Partner to Expand Access to Root‑Cause Healthcare and Enable Employers to Reach Benefits Goals

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Truemed, the leading platform enabling qualified health purchases with HSA and FSA dollars, today announced a strategic partnership with Highmark Benefits Administration, a trusted provider of comprehensive, compliance‑driven solutions committed to providing A+ benefits administration services to clients nationwide.

The partnership aligns two organizations focused on delivering innovative, cost-effective solutions that help clients achieve business goals while empowering employees to use their benefits confidently and proactively. By integrating Truemed’s medically-necessary qualification process with Highmark’s service‑driven administrative infrastructure, employers can offer a broader range of eligible health interventions while maintaining clarity, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Through this collaboration, eligible Highmark participants can use pre‑tax HSA and FSA funds on evidence‑based, root‑cause health solutions— including fitness and movement programs, nutrition and supplement options, stress‑management tools, and other medically‑necessary interventions designed to help employees proactively improve their health.

“At Highmark Benefits Administration, we understand that managing employee benefits and plan compliance can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be,” said Dan Bearden, Founder and Director of Highmark. “Partnering with Truemed expands what’s possible with HSA and FSA dollars while maintaining the clarity and compliance confidence our clients rely on. We’re excited to help participants access more meaningful health solutions.”

“Highmark has built a reputation for exceptional service and operational excellence,” said Justin Mares, CEO of Truemed. “This partnership builds on that foundation by giving eligible participants access to root‑cause health interventions that have been shown to improve health outcomes and chronic condition management. Together, we’re helping employers offer benefits that are simple, compliant, and truly impactful.”

Learn more at: truemed.com/a/highmark

Truemed is for qualified customers. See terms at truemed.com/disclosures.

About Truemed

Truemed partners with consumer health brands and benefits administrators to enable HSA and FSA payments for root‑cause healthcare expenses. Through licensed practitioner review and IRS‑aligned documentation, Truemed helps qualified individuals invest in medically necessary products and services using pre‑tax dollars. Learn more at truemed.com.

About Highmark Benefits Administration

Highmark Benefits Administration provides comprehensive, cost‑effective benefits administration services designed to simplify complexity and support employer goals. With expertise in enrollment and eligibility management, COBRA administration, FSA/HSA/HRA programs, compliance reporting, carrier billing, and employee communication, Highmark delivers exceptional service backed by modern technology solutions. Learn more at highmarkbenadmin.com.

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DistrictWON’s uReport Partners with KOIN to Usher Back Local Sports Coverage to Every Community

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PORTLAND, Ore., May 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KOIN 6 is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with uReport, bringing comprehensive, community-driven sports coverage to every high school across the entire metro Portland and southwestern Washington markets.

Through this initiative, KOIN is offering uReport, a human-powered, AI-assisted platform widely endorsed across high schools and colleges nationwide, fully-funded to all high schools in the region. uReport is ISTE EdTech Index Approved and listed in the ISTE Learning Technology Directory, a vetted resource used by educators to identify high-quality digital learning tools.

This partnership empowers schools, students, and communities to create and share stories, highlights, and updates across all sports, while amplifying that content across KOIN.com. uReport is already endorsed by leading organizations including the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, College Sports Communicators and other groups representing over 17,000 high schools and colleges.

“Local sports coverage has historically reached the biggest schools and the biggest games. uReport flips that. Every school in our market — from the 6A powerhouse to the 1A program with 80 kids — now has a dedicated platform on KOIN.com,” said Tom Keeler, Vice President & General Manager of KOIN.

Key benefits for each school & community include:

A dedicated content platform for every school.The ability to cover every game, every sport at every level and include unlimited pictures and videos.Every school will also be featured on KOIN.com, allowing all schools to consistently make the news!Schools also distribute content onto their own social channels, creating an amazing content library Real-world training for student journalism and responsible use of AI in storytellingA free fan-powered mobile app for real-time contributions from the communityFull customer support for the platform, all year. 

Check out a quick explainer video here: KOIN – Supercharging Your Coverage

KOIN will host three short webinars for Portland market school administrators to learn more. Any administrator is encouraged to participate (administrator, teacher, coach or other, click below to attend):
Tuesday 5/5: 9am PT
Wednesday 5/6: 8am PT
Thursday 5/7: 12pm PT
Schools can self-start and sign-up right now to cover spring events and continue to have access for the entire 2026–27 academic year. Self-start sign-up is easy here: www.ureport.com/koin

For more information, contact uReport Director of Customer Success, Dan McGrath: 216-647-3857; dmcgrath@districtwon.com

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Fuutura Outlines Architecture Built for the Cross-Border Stablecoin Corridors the IMF Now Tracks

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

PANAMA CITY, Panama, May 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fuutura, a blockchain infrastructure company building a compliance-first financial ecosystem for the global market, today set out its position on rising cross-border stablecoin flows to emerging markets, following the IMF’s call for enhanced regulatory oversight in its April 2026 Global Financial Stability Report.

 

 

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

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

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

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

Ellis McGrath, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Fuutura

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

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

Oliver Cook KC, Co-founder and Chief Legal Officer, Fuutura

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

About Fuutura

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

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Digital asset risk. Digital assets are high-risk and their value may fall as well as rise. Trading digital assets involves significant risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Forward-looking statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Fuutura, its technology, products, business plans and future conduct, including statements relating to the phased rollout of the ecosystem, regulatory engagement and licensing outcomes, geographic expansion, and market ambitions. Forward-looking statements are identifiable by words such as “building,” “plans,” “intends,” “expects,” “designed to,” “anticipates” and similar expressions, as well as by statements regarding future outcomes, ambitions or strategic direction.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially from those expressed. These include, without limitation, changes in the regulatory environment across jurisdictions; the availability and timing of licensing or authorisation; developments in digital asset markets; technological and cybersecurity risks; operational risks; counterparty and third-party risks; the pace of product development; and other factors beyond Fuutura’s control.

No offer or advice. Nothing in this press release constitutes an offer to sell, a solicitation to purchase, investment advice, or a recommendation in respect of any digital asset, crypto-asset, token, security, or financial product or instrument. Fuutura’s products and services may not be available in all jurisdictions and may be subject to regulatory restrictions. Access to Fuutura’s platform is restricted to residents of jurisdictions where its services are permitted.

No duty to update. Fuutura undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

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