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The Linux Foundation Announces General Availability of Valkey 8.1

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LONDON, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe — Today, the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the general availability of Valkey 8.1, marking a major milestone in the advancement of open source in-memory data stores. This latest release empowers enterprises to optimize data management at scale, while reducing operational overhead in finance and engineering resources.

Valkey 8.1 Release Provides Enhanced Performance and Observability Improvements

As digital transformation accelerates, enterprises require more efficient and cost-effective data solutions. By upgrading to Valkey 8.1, organizations can reduce memory usage, increase processing speed, and cut infrastructure costs, thus maximizing performance without increasing overhead costs.

“Valkey’s rapid modernization highlights the demand for fast, reliable, and secure data processing and the strength that comes from open source collaboration,” said Madelyn Olson, Co-Maintainer of Valkey. “With the release of Valkey 8.1, we’re seeing significantly better memory efficiency, deeper observability, and a lot of exciting functionality delivered through our module interface. This innovation reinforces Valkey’s position as a future-proof, innovative data store.”

For modern businesses relying on real-time data processing, Valkey 8.1 helps reduce costs with a new memory-efficient dictionary implementation, resulting in up to 20% memory footprint reductions for common key/value workloads. The release also features:

Up to 20% better performance for encryption in transit workloads that use I/O threadingUp to 90% reduction in P100 request latency when using active memory defragmentationA new command log that provides insights into commands that consume significant network bandwidth

With an emphasis on deployment flexibility, Valkey is also rolling out its first set of modules, a pivotal step in extending the platform’s options for data store customization. Contributed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, these modules will enable developers to tailor data storage capabilities to evolving business needs. Available for early exploration today, these modules will be bundled in an official release later this year, allowing developers to further customize their experience with Valkey.

The first three modules available for early exploration include:

Search Module – A high-performance vector similarity search engine, contributed by Google, designed for AI-driven workloads demanding single-digit millisecond latency and high QPS. Capable of handling billions of vectors with demonstrated recall over 99%. Currently in beta with expected General Availability at the end of Q2.JSON Module – Native support for the JSON data type, contributed by AWS, simplifying document-based storage and retrieval by allowing updating and retrieving a subset of the JSON data without having to process it on the client.Probabilistic Bloom Filter Module – Efficient large-scale membership testing, contributed by AWS, reducing memory usage by over 90% for many applications including fraud detection and advertising.

The launch of Valkey 8.1 coincides with the project’s one-year anniversary, marking a moment of accelerated growth and adoption within the cloud-native ecosystem, with over 150 unique contributors to the core. To celebrate, the Valkey project will host a Valkey birthday event at the Percona booth on the showroom floor of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London, April 1-4, 2025, featuring Valkey-themed cupcakes and networking opportunities for the expanding open source community.

To upgrade to Valkey 8.1, explore its performance enhancements, and experiment with the first set of modules, visit www.valkey.io.

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“With the launch of 8.1, the Valkey community continues to innovate at a rapid clip. The latest enhancements make Valkey even faster, more performant, and more cost effective, while the new modules greatly increase the flexibility of Valkey for a range of evolving workloads. We are pleased to contribute some of the top requested features such as JSON and Bloom Filters to the Valkey 8.1 release and collaborate with other contributors from a wide-range of companies on many other innovations in Valkey. Together we create a thriving, vibrant community that delivers software everyone can benefit from.”
– Itay Maoz, Director for AWS In-Memory Databases

“Valkey 8.1 provides a strong foundation for machine learning, real-time data processing, and more generally for the future of data-driven innovation. Its modular extensibility aligns perfectly with our vision for flexible and open source infrastructure. We’re excited to support Valkey’s continued growth. Enterprises require maintained and adaptable data solutions, and Canonical is proud to collaborate with the Valkey community to deliver exactly that.”
– Cédric Gégout, VP of Products at Canonical

“I’m pleased to see Valkey evolving with great velocity during this first year. Many contributors have been part of the 8.1 release. Performance is a key focus for Valkey, and in this release I have contributed to improving memory efficiency by implementing a new hash table that optimizes key-value lookups.”
– Viktor Söderqvist, Co-Maintainer of Valkey, Senior Open Source Developer, Ericsson Software Technology, Part of Ericsson

“Valkey 8.1 is a testament to the power of open-source innovation, delivering great efficiency, scalability, and cost savings for modern enterprises. With groundbreaking improvements in performance, observability, and modular extensibility, this release is a game-changer for data-driven organizations looking to future-proof their infrastructure. I’m especially excited to see how the new Vector Similarity Search module will unlock new possibilities for AI-driven applications, enabling faster, more efficient machine learning workloads that can push the boundaries of what’s possible. Combined with the JSON module, these new capabilities can take Valkey beyond caching to deliver a lightning-fast in-memory document database.”
– Dmitry Polyakovsky, OCI Cache Tech Lead, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

“Valkey will soon introduce a new vector similarity search module, a significant advancement for AI-driven applications. The 8.1 release also debuts the first set of official extension modules, providing a consistent and seamless user experience beyond core Valkey capabilities. Combined with key engine enhancements, Valkey 8.1 delivers a robust, powerful, and versatile platform for modern data workloads.”
– Ping Xie, Co-Maintainter of Valkey, Google Cloud

“Valkey, It’s been a year since it was born. During this year, we can see its making progress day by day, and week by week. We can also see more and more contributors and companies join the Vakey family. Now, Valkey 8.1 is out, which uses less memory, and it includes many new features and provides better performance and reliability. From AI-driven insights to real-time analytics, the Vector Similarity Search and native support for JSON is integrated with Valkey seamlessly. With these modules, Valkey could work as a better candidate for AI/ML applications which need faster responses.”
– Wen Hui, Co-Maintainter of Valkey, Senior Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud

“Over the past year since it was formed, Valkey has developed from a fork to being a project in its own right. The addition of Vector Similarity Search and native support for JSON make Valkey effective for supporting large scale modern database tasks. We are pleased to contribute around extending programmability support in Valkey with a new module API to support plugins for different scripting engines, which will allow users to write scripts using different programming languages and runtimes. This will make it easier for developers to work with Valkey in their application deployments.”
– Vadim Tkachenko, Technology Fellow and Co-Founder, Percona

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, LF Decentralized Trust, Node.js, ONAP, OpenChain, OpenSSF, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, Zephyr, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org

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De¹ Introduces Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, Developing Financial Intelligence Across the Full RWA Financial Landscape

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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — De¹ is launching Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, the first domain-specific world under its Financial World Model (FWM). It introduces specialized financial intelligence designed to understand the full onchain RWA landscape, from trading and collateral to borrowing, credit, liquidation and agent activity, and apply that knowledge to real financial decisions.

Traditional finance moves assets through separate networks of brokers, custodians, clearing systems and lenders. Each institution sees a different part of the lifecycle, while transfers, reconciliation and collateral requirements add friction to capital deployment. Bringing assets onchain makes financial activity more programmable, but it does not automatically connect the knowledge held across trading, financing and risk systems.

De¹ is establishing Tokenized Asset World on BNB Chain, where that real-assets financial ecosystem already unfolds in live markets. PancakeSwap, ListaDAO, Venus, Binance Agent OS and BNB Agent SDK span public trading, collateralized lending, structured credit and authorized agent activity. These activities produce distinct signals: executed prices, liabilities, vault constraints, liquidations and the outcomes of agent actions.

Tokenized Asset World brings fragmented financial knowledge into a coherent, learnable model of the full RWA landscape. The domain model is designed to understand the relationships and consequences across financial operations, with verified execution outcomes continuously refining De¹’s understanding of onchain financial physics. This introduces a new layer of intelligence to BNB Chain, enabling a more complete understanding of the tokenized-asset stack across trading, collateral, credit, vaults and agent activity.

AI agents can tap into this intelligence to operate across tokenized-asset markets with a more comprehensive view of liquidity, borrowing conditions, collateral exposure and liquidation risk as a whole. This deeper market understanding could raise more sophisticated strategies, execution and risk decisions. Each agent interaction, in turn, generates new evidence for the model, creating a continuous feedback loop between financial intelligence and live market execution while strengthening De¹’s broader Financial World Model.

About De¹

De¹ is the intelligent infrastructure platform at the intersection of DeFi and AI, building the Financial World Model grounded in live execution and real market feedback. It serves developers, traders, institutions, and AI agents through intelligent execution, unified liquidity, reinforcement learning optimization, and a continuously evolving data flywheel.

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Plata reaches $1 Billion ARR Milestone, becoming the fastest digital bank ever

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The Mexico based digital bank shatters traditional digital banking scaling timelines, reaching a $1 Billion Annual Recurring Revenue  in less than 3.5 years from launch

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Plata, the world’s fastest growing digital financial institution, today announced that in September 2026 it has crossed $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), reaching the milestone in less than 3.5 years from launch in April 2023 and less than a year after receiving its full banking license. Plata´s growth makes it the fastest digital bank in history to reach this benchmark, and puts it on par with some of the world’s fastest growing leading AI companies, underlining Plata’s own AI and tech capabilities.

Plata reaches this goal after having reached more than 4 million customers in Mexico and having launched operations in Colombia at the beginning of September. In Mexico, Plata is now the fourth credit card issuer in the country by number of customers, and the only digital bank with a full product suite including credit, debit, investments, and small business banking. Plata’s growth is also nearing profitability, which is expected to be reached for its Mexico business within the next 6 months.

Plata changed the rules by building a universal financial platform powered by its own technology from day one. By setting up its core banking system, the company proved that regulated financial institutions can scale at AI-like speed without undermining operating performance.

“By building our own technology from scratch, we proved that a bank can move at AI company speed without compromising anything. Now we are ready to accelerate our innovation, make finance effortless and accessible for everyone.” Neri Tollardo, CEO of Plata.

As digital adoption accelerates across Latin America, Plata´s performance sets a new benchmark for financial infrastructure scaling, financial adoption, and operational efficiency in emerging markets.

About Plata

Plata is the fastest-growing financial institution in Latin America and the largest private digital bank by customer volume. In less than three years, we reached a valuation of $3.1 billion with 4 million active credit card customers and crossed $1 billion in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Backed by $1.5 billion in equity investment, 1.5 in financing, and a workforce that includes 800 in-house developers, in Banco Plata we have built our own technological ecosystem, which includes a core banking system, CRM, and an app focused on simplifying the financial experience.

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Trends International Announces Kenneth Smith as President and Chief Executive Officer

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Experienced executive to lead company’s next phase of retail, digital commerce and strategic growth

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trends International, LLC, a leading publisher and manufacturer of licensed posters, calendars, stickers, wall art and social stationery products, today announced that Kenneth Smith has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 2026.

Smith will spearhead the company’s overall strategic direction and growth initiatives across its retail, wholesale, e-commerce, licensing and direct-to-consumer businesses. In his role, Smith will oversee Trends International and its portfolio of digital businesses, including Art.com and AllPosters.com.

Smith’s appointment comes as Trends International enters a new phase of expansion focused on broadening its retail presence, accelerating e-commerce, strengthening strategic customer relationships, developing new products and licenses, and pursuing partnerships and business opportunities.

“I am honored to lead Trends International and build on the strong foundation established by the company, its founders and its talented employees,” said Kenneth Smith, “We have an exceptional portfolio of brands, licenses, products and customer relationships, and we see significant opportunities to grow the business. Our focus will be on strengthening our retail partnerships, accelerating our digital businesses, developing innovative products and creating new strategic opportunities that deliver value for our customers, consumers, licensors and partners.”

Expanding Retail and Digital Footprint
Under Smith’s leadership, Trends International will continue to invest in its core retail business while broadening its digital commerce capabilities.

The company is focused on deepening relationships with major retailers, expanding distribution, improving merchandising, and developing new product platforms designed to create incremental sales opportunities.

Trends will also continue to build Trends Digital, bringing together the company’s e-commerce capabilities and creating a platform for future digital growth and potential e-commerce acquisitions.

The company’s digital portfolio includes Art.com and AllPosters.com, providing consumers with access to millions of images, posters, prints, wall art, and complementary décor.

“Trends has a tremendous opportunity to build upon its heritage while positioning the company for the future,” Smith said. “We are focused on growth, but equally important is how we achieve that growth — through strong customer partnerships, disciplined execution, innovation and a culture that empowers our people to succeed.”

Strategic Priorities
Smith’s leadership agenda includes several key areas of focus:

Retail growth — Expand relationships and sales with major national retailers and specialty channels.Product innovation — Develop new product formats, displays and seasonal programs that create incremental retail opportunities.Digital commerce — Accelerate the growth of Trends Digital, Art.com and AllPosters.com.Strategic partnerships — Forge new licensing, brand and business partnerships that expand the company’s market opportunity.Operational excellence — Improve organizational alignment, processes, technology, and execution across the company’s businesses.Talent and culture — Build a high-performing organization focused on accountability, innovation, customer service and sustainable growth.

“Kenneth brings a strong combination of leadership, customer focus and business development experience to Trends International,” said Phil St. Jean, Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of Trends International. “His vision for the company and his commitment to our customers, employees and partners make him the right leader for this next chapter. We are excited about what the future holds for Trends International and its businesses.”

About Kenneth Smith
Kenneth Smith is an experienced business executive with a background in sales leadership, strategic account development, business development, customer relationships, and organizational transformation. Throughout his career, Smith has focused on developing strategic growth initiatives, building high-performing teams, and creating long-term partnerships with major customers and business partners.

As president and chief executive officer of Trends International, Smith is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, growth, organizational leadership and business performance.

About Trends International
Trends International, LLC is a leading publisher and manufacturer of licensed posters, calendars, stickers, wall art and social stationery products. Established in 1987, Trends built its business around strong partnerships between licensors, retailers and licensees. Today, the company delivers a broad portfolio of licensed and proprietary products distributed through major retail, specialty, and digital channels.

Art.com, acquired by Trends International in 2023, is a leading online specialty retailer of high-quality wall art and complementary décor. The business offers millions of images and products through its digital commerce platform and interactive visualization tools.

AllPosters.com, part of the Trends International family of businesses, offers consumers a broad selection of posters, prints and wall décor.

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