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YRCI and Pyramid Systems Launch AIR-hr – An AI-Driven Tool to Revolutionize HR Support for Federal Employees

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RESTON, Va., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pyramid Systems, an award-winning leader in innovative IT solutions, and YRCI, a leading provider of human capital management solutions for federal agencies, have joined forces to launch AIR-hr. This powerful AI-driven tool will help federal employees and HR professionals efficiently navigate complex employment regulations, retirement options and reduction in force procedures during an unprecedented time for the federal workforce.

Pyramid Systems & YRCI launch AIR-hr: a powerful AI tool delivering real-time HR support for federal workers.

Combining Pyramid’s advanced AI technology with YRCI’s deep expertise in federal HR policies, AIR-hr offers real-time, reliable guidance tailored to the needs of federal agencies and employees.

“Federal employees will benefit from clear guidance and easy access to their options,” YRCI CEO Hans Jaeger said. “With AIR-hr, we’re providing instant, straightforward support to empower employees and enhance HR services across federal agencies. This collaboration with Pyramid builds upon our 24 years of expertise in federal HR policy to deliver a truly groundbreaking solution at a transformational time for the federal workforce.”

AIR-hr introduces a new era of streamlined HR support by eliminating the need for employees to sift through dense policy documents or wait for HR assistance. With immediate, policy-backed answers available 24/7, employees can make informed decisions quickly, and agencies can better serve their workforce. In addition to supporting federal employees, the tool enhances the capabilities of HR professionals by addressing routine inquiries, enabling teams to focus on high-value, strategic initiatives.

“We are committed to driving innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of federal agencies,” Pyramid CEO David Chow said. “AIR-hr represents the future of HR support: purpose-built for federal employees to improve how they access and retrieve information rapidly. By leveraging our AI expertise in partnership with YRCI’s human capital acumen, we are enabling federal workers and the HR teams supporting them to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.”

AIR-hr is more than a traditional chatbot; it’s a purpose-built AI system specifically trained on federal HR policies. The tool is continuously updated as regulations evolve and is backed by expert oversight to maintain accuracy and relevance. Its key features underscore its impact on federal HR support:

Policy-Driven Expertise: AIR-hr provides accurate, up-to-date guidance tailored to federal employees, ensuring adherence to federal HR policies – critical at a time of major changes in the federal workforce.

Real-Time, On-Demand Answers: Employees and HR professionals can access clear and reliable responses to complex policy questions – anytime, anywhere.

Enhanced HR Team Efficiency: By managing routine inquiries, AIR-hr enables HR staff to devote more time to strategic initiatives while ensuring consistent support.

User Privacy and Security: Designed with government compliance and security standards in mind, the system protects employee privacy by not storing or processing personal information.

AIR-hr is being released as a free version 1.0, ensuring federal employees can immediately access critical HR information. Future iterations will offer agency-specific customization through paid versions, expanding functionality and capabilities based on personalized needs.

Pyramid ‘ Nexus Division led the IT and development efforts behind the tool. Nexus manages Pyramid Labs, which professionalizes innovation across the Pyramid ecosystem of advanced technologies. With a legacy that includes transformative projects like FHA Catalyst, which redefined the Federal Housing Administration’s data, Pyramid is setting new benchmarks for modernizing federal processes and transforming the way business is done.

“AIR-hr embodies the core mission of Nexus and Pyramid Labs: bringing innovative solutions to market that solve real-world challenges,” Chow said. “We are excited to see how AIR-hr transforms the HR landscape, making processes more streamlined and accessible for federal agencies and their employees.”

YRCI complements this technological expertise with decades of expertise in federal HR policy, ensuring the tool’s deep alignment with the needs of federal agencies.

“This partnership reflects the best of what YRCI and Pyramid brings to the table. Together, we’ve created a solution that enhances operational efficiency and ensures the human aspect of HR is preserved and strengthened,” Jaeger said.  

AIR-hr’s release comes at a pivotal time, as federal workforces adapt to evolving policy landscapes and changing workplace dynamics. Employees need timely guidance now more than ever, and AIR-hr is poised to provide just that. By offering consistent, policy-backed insights, the tool empowers employees to make confident, well-informed decisions in a dynamic environment.

The pathway for AIR-hr includes exciting future developments. Agencies will soon have access to customized, advanced versions of the tool designed to meet their unique requirements. Paid versions will include enhanced features, such as advanced analytics and tailored training modules, further amplifying the tool’s impact.

About Pyramid 

Pyramid Systems, Inc. is an employee-owned technology leader, driving digital transformation across federal agencies for 30 years. We empower forward-thinking innovations, accelerate production-ready software, and deliver secure solutions so federal agencies can meet their mission goals. Voted a Top Workplace USA 2023-2024, Pyramid is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, and employs more than 185 people. Learn more at pyramidsystems.com

About YRCI

YRCI, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a trusted leader in federal human capital solutions, dedicated to empowering the government to better serve its citizens. Since its founding in 2001, YRCI has partnered with federal agencies to deliver innovative, strategic, and technology-driven HR solutions designed to address complex workforce challenges. With expertise spanning the full spectrum of federal staffing and workforce management, YRCI ensures agencies have the right people, processes, and technologies to achieve mission success. Driven by a commitment to excellence, flexibility, and care, YRCI provides impactful, results-oriented solutions that support the evolving needs of federal agencies. As a powerhouse in federal HR, YRCI is shaping the future of federal workforce management. Learn more at YRCI.com

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dxFeed Introduces ZeroDTE to Bring Greater Transparency to 0DTE Trading Risk

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NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — dxFeed, a global provider of market data and financial technology solutions, introduced dxFeed ZeroDTE, a new quantitative analytics solution designed to bring greater transparency and precision to the rapidly growing market for zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) options.

Developed by dxFeed’s AI & Quant Research team, the solution transforms live SPX and XSP options data into comprehensive pricing and risk analytics, enabling brokers, trading platforms, and analytics providers to give traders a clearer understanding of potential outcomes before entering a trade.

The introduction comes as 0DTE options continue to reshape US derivatives markets. According to Cboe, same-day contracts accounted for approximately 65%* of SPX options trading volume in Q3 2026, averaging a record 3.2 million contracts daily. Yet the analytical tools available to traders have not always kept pace with this growth, particularly when it comes to understanding the risks behind complex, multi-leg strategies — a challenge previously highlighted by Jon Light, Senior Director of Product Management, Devexperts.

Beyond Probability of Profit: Understanding the Full Risk
While conventional trading interfaces typically display strikes, premiums, and margin requirements, ZeroDTE reveals the market-implied probabilities behind each strategy, including the likelihood of retaining the full premium, experiencing a partial loss, or reaching the maximum possible loss.

Unlike traditional probability calculations based on a single implied volatility estimate or delta, the solution analyzes the entire live options chain, incorporating the volatility smile and distribution tails to deliver a consistent view of market-implied outcomes.

Through a single API integration, platforms can provide traders with:

Market-implied probabilities of different profit and loss outcomes.Fair value comparisons against displayed market prices.Maximum profit, maximum loss, and break-even levels for individual strategies.Market-implied distribution of today’s close, derived from live options data.Strategies defined in units of the day’s priced move, so the same structure can be compared across days and market conditions .

Supporting popular structures including iron condors, butterflies, straddles, strangles, and vertical spreads, the service brings sophisticated quantitative analytics directly into the trading experience.

“Retail platforms are good at showing a probability of profit, and most will show the maximum loss as well. What they don’t show is how likely that loss is,” said Anton Antonov, Head of AI & Quant Research at dxFeed. “ZeroDTE puts the odds next to the worst case: the chance of keeping the credit, of a partial loss and of the maximum loss, read from the whole option chain rather than a single volatility number. Rather than predicting where the market will go, we give traders the tools to understand what current options prices imply, evaluate different strategies consistently, and make more informed decisions.”

Expanding dxFeed’s Intelligent Market Data Ecosystem
ZeroDTE marks another milestone in dxFeed’s evolution from market data delivery toward advanced analytics, quantitative research, and intelligent financial technology.

The solution joins dxFeed’s growing portfolio of innovative technologies, including SummerFox, its award-winning AI-powered market intelligence solution; Grenadier, an AI-based market data anomaly detection technology; and dxScript, an AI-assisted scripting environment for custom market analytics and indicators.

Together, these solutions reinforce dxFeed’s commitment to transforming high-quality financial data into accessible, actionable intelligence for the global trading community.

The new analytics capabilities have already been integrated into DXcharts, demonstrating how advanced options risk metrics can be incorporated directly into trading and charting interfaces.

For a deeper look at the technical capabilities, key features, and practical applications of ZeroDTE, explore our in-depth article.

*All figures are market-implied from current option prices and are not a forecast or a recommendation

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One Third of Florida’s Banks and Credit Unions Not Yet Protected Against Future Quantum Decryption, Open-Source Scan Finds

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Manteiga Foundation publishes a state-of-readiness note on 81 Florida institutions: nothing is broken today, the risk is time, and for most the fix is one setting

MIAMI, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Of 81 Florida-headquartered banks and credit unions, 54 already protect their customers’ connections against future quantum decryption and 27 do not yet, according to a state-of-readiness note published today by Manteiga Foundation, a Florida public benefit company. The note, the first from the foundation’s Quantum Ready Labs, lists every institution and its result: quantumreadylabs.com/studies/florida-financial-2026q4.

Nothing is broken today. No account, login or transaction is at risk from what the note describes; every connection tested is encrypted with algorithms no existing computer can break.

The risk is time. Encrypted traffic can be recorded now and decrypted once a large enough quantum computer exists, so anything that must stay confidential for years is already inside the window. That window is narrowing: in 2025 the estimated size of the machine needed to break today’s key exchange fell from about twenty million qubits to under one million, and NIST has set 2030 to begin retiring today’s key exchange and 2035 to end it. Browsers already protect traffic the new way.

The fix is small. The 27 split in two. Ten are Exposed, their sites still on a protocol generation that cannot carry post-quantum protection; the next step is to enable TLS 1.3. Seventeen are At risk, on a modern protocol with the protection not switched on; the next step is one setting, the post-quantum key exchange (X25519MLKEM768), a configuration line or a toggle on current servers. The 54 are Protected (30) or Ready (24). The median score is 85 of 100; the note uses four plain words, no letter grades.

“Nothing is broken today, and that is exactly why this is the moment to act,” said Jaime Manteiga, Co-Founder of Manteiga Foundation. “Confidentiality is the urgent part of the quantum transition, the fix is small, and most of these institutions are one setting away. We built the scanner so that anyone can see where a host stands in a second and what to do next.”

Quantum Ready Labs is free and open source under the MIT licence. Typing a host name at quantumreadylabs.com opens a handful of connections to it, as a browser visit would, and returns the stage, a score for quantum readiness alone, the one next step and the standards cited (NIST IR 8547, FIPS 203, CNSA 2.0), shareable by link or as a five-page PDF; an open API runs the same test for services.

Each institution’s public primary domain was tested on October 18, 2026 with fourteen TLS handshakes and one ordinary connection; no page was opened, no login attempted. Every Exposed result was cross-checked with OpenSSL and curl. The population, from public regulator lists with each domain verified, will be re-scanned quarterly; any institution can run a fresh test at once.

For organizations that want help making the change, the foundation operates N30.ai, its cybersecurity consulting practice. The scanner and its results stay free and open.

About Manteiga Foundation

Manteiga Foundation is a Florida public benefit company at the meeting of technology and art, bringing more beauty into technology through open-source tools for the public good, among them Quantum Ready Labs and medet.ink. manteiga.org.

About N30.ai

N30.ai is Manteiga Foundation’s cybersecurity consulting practice for the post-quantum transition and related security work. More at n30.ai.

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CME Group Announces First Trade for Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures

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CHICAGO, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that FalconX and GSR have executed the first block trade in its new Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures.

“With trading now underway in our Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, we are providing clients with more versatility to manage cryptocurrency risk and exposure through our robust 24/7 marketplace,” said Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME Group. “As institutional demand for digital assets continues to grow, we are pleased that investors are turning to CME Group to expand their crypto trading strategies with our regulated and capital-efficient tools.”

“FalconX is pleased to execute the first block trade in CME Group’s new Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures alongside GSR. Institutional demand is moving beyond the largest digital assets toward tokens with distinct use cases, like Bitcoin Cash in payments and Uniswap in decentralized finance,” said Griffin Sears, Head of Derivatives, FalconX. “Bringing these assets onto a regulated venue like CME Group gives institutions the hedging and capital-efficient exposure they’ve been asking for, and we look forward to supporting liquidity in these markets as they grow.”

“Providing liquidity in crypto derivatives has long been a cornerstone of GSR’s business, making it a natural fit for us to support CME Group’s new Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures from day one,” said Xin Song, CEO of GSR. “We have long believed that expanding institutional-grade derivatives will supercharge institutional adoption of digital assets, and CME Group plays a central role in making that vision a reality.”

The new contracts further extend CME Group’s single-asset cryptocurrency product suite, which includes Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche‌ and Sui futures. Trading highlights include:

Year-to-date 2026 futures and options average daily volume (ADV) of more than 242,000 contracts ($7.9 billion notional) and average daily open interest (OI) of almost 240,000 contracts ($14.3 billion notional).Nearly $2 billion in year-to-date notional value growth from the 2026 expansion into Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui futures.

Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures are listed on and subject to the rules of CME. For more information on these products, please visit here.

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. 

CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.  CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc.  NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.  COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec is a trademark of BrokerTec Americas LLC and EBS is a trademark of EBS Group LTD. The S&P 500 Index is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (“S&P DJI”). “S&P®”, “S&P 500®”, “SPY®”, “SPX®”, US 500 and The 500 are trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC; Dow Jones®, DJIA® and Dow Jones Industrial Average are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. These trademarks have been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Futures contracts based on the S&P 500 Index are not sponsored, endorsed, marketed, or promoted by S&P DJI, and S&P DJI makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in such products. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

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