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Whinfell to offer up to $5B of bespoke asset capacity onto Plume, starting with Carlyle, Pimco and Simplify ETFs in Nest’s flagship staking vault

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NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Plume Network, the first full-stack L1 RWA Chain for RWAfi (Real World Asset Finance), today announced its partnership with Whinfell Partners LLC (“Whinfell”) to introduce a range of institutional-grade credit instruments and diversified yield-bearing assets to its ecosystem. Leveraging Plume’s flagship staking protocol Nest, Whinfell will bring sophisticated assets and strategies to Plume’s ever growing user base, starting with Carlyle, Pimco, and Simplify ETFs that will be made available to early users of Nest in its RWA vault.

Whinfell’s expertise will provide users access to previously hard-to-reach financial products with enhanced transparency and efficiency. The partnership will feature a variety of structured credit instruments designed to provide stable returns while maintaining rigorous compliance and auditing standards.

“By partnering with Plume Network, we’re taking a significant step in democratizing access to institutionally suitable financial products,” said Wes Thornburgh, Partner at Whinfell. “Our goal is to provide users on Nest with a secure and streamlined way to access less correlated yield-bearing assets.”

Nest’s vaults on Plume network will feature Whinfell’s selection of bespoke public and private credit strategies, available only to users on Plume. The firm’s partners – Wes and Clark Thornburgh – draw on their decades of experience with firms such as AXA Investment Management and JP Morgan to create onchain products that tap into their $5B exclusive asset pipeline.

“We’re used to being the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and one of our most exclusive strategies targets institutional investors that hold over $100M worth of Bitcoin,” said Clark Thornburgh, speaking about Whinfell’s ability to provide stable returns to its high-net-worth clients.

This vault and many others are made possible by Whinfell’s partnership with Plural, a tokenization protocol and brokerage that runs on top of Plume’s infrastructure.

“Plural brings renewable energy investing onchain,” said Adam Silver, Plural CEO and Co-Founder, “but if you dig deeper, you’ll see a robust regulatory, tokenization, and distribution management stack that is critical for bringing all types of real world assets onchain. Plume will drive trillions of dollars into RWAs and expand crypto‘s TVL overall — we couldn’t be more thrilled to be Plume’s preferred tokenization partner on this journey.”

Plume’s RWAfi ecosystem will be instrumental in helping Whinfell effectively launch and manage their tokenized offerings, providing the necessary infrastructure to support their entry into the blockchain market. This collaboration not only enhances the user experience but also sets a new benchmark for integrating traditional finance with blockchain innovation.

About Whinfell
Whinfell Partners LLC (“Whinfell”) is an asset manager and consultant focused on digital assets, digital yield and onchain real world assets (RWA). Our professionals have an average of over 25 years of institutional financial experience gained from Allstate, AXA, Jefferies, JP Morgan, Lazard, MetLife, and other world class organizations. Whinfell specializes in credit, risk management, and environmental project finance (including voluntary carbon credits and tax credits). Working with family and institutional clients, we provide services ranging from portfolio design to monetization of illiquid assets to bespoke analytics.

About Plural

Plural brings the clean energy transition on-chain. It owns and operates Plural Securities, a FINRA-member broker-dealer, and is also an SEC-registered transfer agent. Through Plural, renewable energy companies can tokenize their assets and conduct compliant onchain offerings. In the coming months, Plural will offer white-label tokenization and regulatory services to Plume issuers—and launch its own assets on Plume. Together, Plural and Plume will give investors access to billions of dollars in U.S. energy projects, sustainable Bitcoin mining, DePIN energy networks, and more.

About Nest

Nest is the flagship staking protocol on Plume enabling users to earn institutional-grade yields through real world assets. The permissionless protocol allows fund managers and issuers to create structured offerings, while giving users access to traditionally restricted assets and opportunities. The protocol is audited by Ottersec and SlowMist, and risk-assessed by Cicada Partners. Nest leverages Plume’s infrastructure to democratize access to institutional yields.

About Plume Network

Plume Network is the first full-stack L1 RWA Chain and ecosystem purpose-built for RWAfi, enabling the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets. With 180+ projects building on the network, Plume offers a composable, EVM-compatible environment for onboarding and managing diverse real world assets. Coupled with an end-to-end tokenization engine and a network of financial infrastructure partners, Plume simplifies asset onboarding and enables seamless DeFi integration for RWAs so anyone can tokenize real world assets, distribute them globally, and make them useful for native crypto users.

Learn more at https://plumenetwork.xyz/ or contact press@plumenetwork.xyz

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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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