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Electricity Derivatives Exchange ElectronX Raises $10M Strategic Funding Round; J. Christopher Giancarlo Named Strategic Adviser

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Led by climate tech fund Systemiq Capital, strategic round investors also include global energy corporate funds Equinor Ventures and Shell Ventures

CHICAGO, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ElectronX, a new energy exchange created to help accelerate the U.S. grid transition to renewable sources, today announced it has raised a $10 million strategic investment round led by Systemiq Capital, with participation by Equinor Ventures, Shell Ventures LLC (“Shell”) and Innovation Endeavors

ElectronX has now raised $25 million to build a market for managing volatile short-term price exposure to electricity.

Former U.S. Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo also joins ElectronX as a strategic adviser.

ElectronX’s newest investors reflect the growing global need for regulated financial infrastructure whereby power providers, consumers and energy innovators can manage volatile short-term price exposure to electricity. In June 2024, ElectronX announced it had secured a $15 million seed round led by Innovation Endeavors.

“Unprecedented demand for electricity, particularly from high-volume consumers like data centers, continues to strain the capabilities of the shifting U.S. grid,” said Sam Tegel, CEO of ElectronX. “The resulting price volatility is now a critical worldwide challenge for the energy ecosystem. This follow-on strategic round, with participation from Equinor’s and Shell’s venture arms—both globally significant energy corporations—is a consequential step for ElectronX that greatly strengthens our ability to develop market-driven solutions for the industry at large. Systemiq Capital’s deep climate tech knowledge and power markets expertise will also help sharpen our approaches to technology, product and market structure.

“I look forward to collaborating with our new investors, and continuing to work with Innovation Endeavors, as we build the necessary financial tools to support increased investment in clean energy and grid modernization,” said Mr. Tegel.

When approved by the CFTC to operate as a regulated derivatives exchange, ElectronX will offer granular derivatives products, featuring fully collateralized and centrally cleared contracts, that allow electricity market participants of all sizes to more precisely hedge intraday price risk on a highly accessible platform.

“We are thrilled to invest in ElectronX and partner with Sam and the leadership team to accelerate the expansion of intraday power trading,” said Irena Spazzapan, managing partner of Systemiq Capital. “Over the past few years, intraday power markets in Europe have seen remarkable growth, revolutionizing energy trading and enhancing market flexibility and responsiveness. By optimizing the integration of renewable energy and storage, intraday trading is pivotal to building a cleaner, more efficient energy grid. We are proud to support a platform driving this transformation in the U.S., unlocking innovative opportunities for the future of green energy.”

Katherine Peachey, head of Equinor Ventures, commented, “Equinor Ventures is pleased to make a new investment in ElectronX. We look forward to supporting the team in commercializing critical trading infrastructure and delivering liquidity amid increasing volatility to strengthen growing renewables portfolios.”

Quennie Co, managing partner of Shell Ventures, said, “Shell Ventures aims to accelerate the energy and mobility transformation by investing in companies that electrify our energy system. We are excited to support ElectronX as they aim to address key challenges in the U.S. power market. With the increased price volatility and the growth of intermittent renewable energy sources, we believe that ElectronX offers an innovative building block for the future energy system.”

Mr. Giancarlo, who served as a CFTC commissioner from 2014 to 2019, and as chairman from 2017 to 2019, joins ElectronX’s roster of industry veterans appointed to help guide the exchange in markets, regulatory and corporate matters. Mr. Tegel commented, “I’m very pleased to welcome Chris to our advisory board, where his respected tenure in regulated markets will no doubt make a material impact.”

“The energy and climate industry interest in ElectronX’s premise reflects the ongoing need for innovation in regulated financial derivatives markets that I’ve long championed,” said Mr. Giancarlo. “Sam and his team are addressing an acute and growing concern with electricity pricing that affects millions of American businesses and individuals. I look forward to working with ElectronX through the regulatory process and beyond as they build an exchange that not only serves current energy traders, but also brings participants to derivatives markets.”

Upon regulatory approval, ElectronX will offer intraday bounded futures and binary options for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, with additional geographies pending.

About ElectronX
ElectronX (EXI) is the electricity exchange for the energy transition, providing power market participants with innovative trading products to manage price risk against short-term volatility. With offices in Chicago and New York, ElectronX is building the U.S.-regulated financial infrastructure necessary to support increased investment in clean energy development. For more information, please visit www.electronx.com.

About Shell Ventures
The companies in which Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate legal entities. In this press release, “Shell” is sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general.

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BinBase Expands 2026 BIN Dataset with Instant Payout Intelligence for iGaming, Gambling, and Cross-Border Transfers

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BinBase updates its 2026 dataset with specialized Fast Funds, Visa Direct, and Mastercard MoneySend indicators to help iGaming operators and payout platforms execute seamless, instant card disbursements.

MIAMI, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BinBase, a global provider of payment routing intelligence and card issuing data, has introduced specialized instant payout indicators as part of its upgraded 2026 BIN Database. Tailored for iGaming operators, online gambling platforms, crypto-to-fiat ramps, and payout aggregators, the updated dataset helps platform engineers streamline real-time card disbursements and Push-to-Card (P2C) transactions.

In high-velocity sectors such as online betting and gaming, instantaneous player payouts are a primary driver of customer retention. However, executing Push-to-Card transactions through protocols like Visa Direct and Mastercard MoneySend requires knowing whether the receiving card issuer supports Fast Funds for specific merchant category codes (MCCs). Attempting instant payouts on non-eligible cards leads to declined transactions, elevated processing fees, and poor user experiences.

The 2026 BinBase release solves this operational bottleneck by delivering dedicated attributes for real-time fund disbursements:

Fast Funds Eligibility: Granular indicators identifying domestic and cross-border Fast Funds support across global Visa and Mastercard ranges.Online Gambling Fast Funds (OG FF): Dedicated flags specifically identifying card ranges authorized to receive real-time gambling and betting payouts.Mastercard MoneySend & Visa Direct Indicators: Precise protocol compatibility markers (MS Ind & MT Ind) ensuring push transactions are routed only to eligible recipient cards.Direct Debit & Pull-Funds Support: Indicators for recurring collections and account-funding transactions.

“Player payouts in iGaming cannot wait for standard 2-to-3-day ACH settlements,” said a spokesperson for Damiko Inc. “By embedding our Fast Funds and Gambling FF flags into their payment engines, operators can instantly validate recipient cards before initiating a transfer, guaranteeing high success rates and instant liquidity for their users.”

Fintech engineers and payout architects can examine the full 29-field database schema and access a free 2026 sample dataset on GitHub.

To explore commercial licensing, bulk database downloads, or custom data feeds, visit BinBase at https://binbase.com.

About Damiko Inc

Damiko Inc is a US-based fintech data provider specializing in card issuer analytics, payment routing data, and global BIN database solutions. Operating through its flagship product, BinBase.com, the company supplies high-precision transaction intelligence to help merchants and payment facilitators worldwide optimize approval rates and mitigate processing fees.

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Fedor Lavrikoff, BinBase, 1 7866133334, sales@binbase.com, www.binbase.com 

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Walnut Coding’s Young Coders Serve as ‘Instructors’ at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp

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Ages 8 and 15, students showcase AI-era project-building skills from concept to working application

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Walnut Coding (the “Company”), a leading online platform for youth coding education, said two of its students – ages 8 and 15 – have joined the “instructor” lineup at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp, making them among the youngest “instructors” in the program’s history. The Company cites the pair as a prime example of how young learners can combine coding fundamentals with AI tools to turn ideas into working applications.

The two students, Bolin Du, 8, and Peiqi Gao, 15, built working applications using Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, then presented the projects to the training camp themselves – walking the audience through their design choices, technical builds, and debugging process.

The move lands at a moment when AI coding tools are forcing a rethink across the education sector. Tools that can generate functioning code from a plain-language prompt have undercut the traditional argument for teaching children to program – that they need the skill to build things themselves. Walnut Coding’s answer is that the more valuable skill now is judgment – knowing what problem to solve, breaking it into parts, and determining whether an AI’s output actually works.

Gao built a travel-planning application that generates routes, itineraries, and recommendations based on user input, handling the project end to end, from requirements and design through coding and debugging. Du, the younger of the two, built an interactive calendar application, using HTML for page structure, CSS for visual design, and JavaScript for interactive features. Both students then took on an instructor’s role at the camp, presenting their project goals and technical implementation to the audience – a step Walnut Coding says separated the work from a typical classroom assignment.

These were not classroom exercises but working projects, built and presented inside a professional developer-training environment. The experience demanded more from both students than simply producing something functional – they needed to articulate their reasoning, defend technical choices, and refine the final result under scrutiny. Their participation signals a broader shift underway in what youth coding education can deliver.

AI is making code generation easier, but it is also redrawing which skills actually matter. A student who relies only on one-click generation may get a rough prototype quickly, but still struggle to spot logical flaws, judge whether the output is reliable, or turn an abstract idea into a product that actually works. Students with programming foundations, by contrast, are better positioned to define requirements, evaluate what the AI produces, correct its errors, and treat the technology as a tool rather than a shortcut to lean on.

“AI can help children generate code faster, but it cannot decide for them what problem they should solve, nor can it make the final judgment about whether the result is truly effective,” said Pengxuan Zeng, founder and CEO of Walnut Coding. “What these two students demonstrated is not just coding technique, but the ability to define needs, break down tasks, verify outcomes, and turn an idea into a working product. That is why we believe young people still need to learn programming in the AI era.”

Walnut Coding structures its courses around that thesis, pairing student-led project work with teaching-assistant guidance and AI-assisted support. According to the Company, this data is continuously fed back into its systems to refine the personalization of AI-assisted feedback — a closed-loop process linking teaching, practice, feedback, and curriculum development.

The Company frames the payoffs less around producing professional software engineers than around a broader form of literacy. As AI continues to reshape how tasks get done, the ability to understand the technology, structure problems clearly and collaborate effectively with intelligent tools may prove one of the most durable skills a young learner can develop.

Walnut Coding says it plans to keep expanding opportunities for students to build practical projects, partner with industry technology platforms such as Huawei Cloud, and develop the core capabilities needed to build with technology in the AI era.

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MOREH Showcases High-Performance LLM Inference on AMD GPUs at AMD Advancing AI 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, participated in AMD Advancing AI 2026, AMD’s flagship annual AI event held in San Francisco on July 22–23 (local time), where it demonstrated its distributed inference solution, the MoAI Inference Framework, running on AMD GPUs.

At the event, Moreh presented a live demonstration of the GLM-5.1 large language model (LLM) powered by the MoAI Inference Framework on a system equipped with 32 AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs across four nodes. Visitors experienced the chatbot firsthand, evaluating its response speed and service quality while observing performance across a range of real-world use cases.

Unlike conventional demonstrations that simply run an AI model, Moreh’s showcase displayed key inference service metrics in real time, including GPU utilization, Tokens Per Second (TPS), Time To First Token (TTFT), and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). This enabled attendees to directly verify both inference performance and GPU resource efficiency in a production-like service environment.

Global AI industry leaders and enterprise customers attending the event expressed strong interest in the system’s fast response times and stable performance. In particular, the live deployment of the computationally demanding GLM-5.1 model on AMD GPUs at production-grade service levels received positive feedback from visitors.

Moreh’s MoAI Inference Framework is widely recognized as the world’s first commercially deployed distributed inference solution built for the AMD ecosystem. Its distributed inference and heterogeneous computing technologies are designed to dramatically reduce AI service costs, enabling broader adoption of AI worldwide. The technology addresses one of the industry’s biggest challenges-the rapidly rising infrastructure and service costs caused by increasingly larger AI models-by delivering a more efficient inference infrastructure.

Moreh CEO Gangwon Jo stated, “This event provided an opportunity for global customers to verify firsthand that top-tier inference performance can be achieved on AMD GPU environments,” and added “We will continue advancing our AI infrastructure software so enterprises can operate AI services as efficiently as possible, regardless of the underlying GPU platform.”

Moreh develops its own AI infrastructure engine and has expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities through its foundation LLM subsidiary, Motif Technologies, covering both AI infrastructure and foundation models. The company is also strengthening its presence in the global AI market through strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, including AMD and Tenstorrent.

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