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Amber Group’s amber.ac Opens Global Registration for BUIDL_QUESTS 2026

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SINGAPORE, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amber Global Limited (“Amber Group”) today announced the opening of global registration for BUIDL_QUESTS 2026, the flagship builder program run by its accelerator amber.ac. The 2026 edition, themed “Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty,” invites founders, engineers, researchers, and independent builders worldwide to compete across five frontier tracks on OpenArena.

Submissions are open from July 6 to August 12, 2026, with an initial prize pool of more than US$50,000 in cash and over US$350,000 in partner credits and resources.

Designed for founders, engineers, researchers, and independent builders worldwide, BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 brings together the global AI and AI-crypto ecosystem to build and showcase autonomous agents, sovereignty systems, and AI-native businesses. The program reflects amber.ac’s commitment to supporting the next generation of AI-native founders and accelerating ideas into products, companies, and new models of human-agent collaboration.

All submissions will be hosted on OpenArena, where participants can submit projects, share progress publicly, and advance through staged review on a live leaderboard.

“BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 reflects our belief that the next generation of category-defining companies will be built at the intersection of AI, autonomy, and digital ownership,” said Sanzhi, Ecosystem Director at amber.ac. “Through amber.ac and OpenArena, we want to give founders and builders a global platform to test ideas in public, connect with the right ecosystem, and turn emerging technologies into real products and companies.”

2026 Theme: Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty

The 2026 theme, “Autonomous Agents & Sovereignty,” focuses on how increasingly capable AI agents can execute tasks across software and services while humans retain ownership, judgment, and control. As autonomous systems advance, questions around identity, permissions, payments, data ownership, privacy, verifiable compute, and governance are becoming increasingly important — bringing AI and crypto into closer alignment.

Builders can compete across five tracks:

Autonomous Agents: agent applications, long-horizon task execution, multi-agent collaboration, agent tooling, security, monitoring, and workflow automationSovereignty: agent identity, reputation, DID, wallets, payments, data ownership, privacy, ZKP, TEE, verifiable compute, and governance protocolsAgent Commerce: agent marketplaces, agent-as-a-service models, agent-to-agent payments, x402 / AP2-style payment flows, autonomous digital businesses, and AI-crypto business modelsAI Hardware & Applications: on-device AI, edge deployment, Raspberry Pi / Mac Mini agents, sensors, wearables, smart home, industrial, medical, agricultural, and physical-digital agent applicationsOPC / Super Individuals: AI-native solo builders, one-person companies, personal AI products, solo builder infrastructure, and autonomous digital businesses

Awards and Opportunities

BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 launches with a prize pool of more than US$50,000 in cash and over US$350,000 in partner credits and resources across cloud, AI, and infrastructure. The awards are intended to help teams continue building beyond submission, with access to the capital, technical resources, and ecosystem support needed to scale promising projects.

Confirmed support includes:

Support

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Initial cash prize pool

US$50,000+

Partner credits and resources

US$350,000+ across cloud, AI, and infrastructure

Top 10 finalists

US$2,000 per team in travel support to the Singapore finals

All builders

3-month Notion business plan for every participant who joins, supported by Notion

The figures above reflect the currently committed award pool. Final award categories, per-winner allocations, eligibility requirements, and award terms will be published in the official event rules. Cloud credits, where applicable, will be awarded through registered company entities.

Finalists will also receive support beyond the competition, including technical feedback from AI and AI-crypto advisors, connections to mentors, judges, investors, and ecosystem partners, visibility across Singapore’s AI and startup community, and practical landing support for incorporation, grants, EntrePass, banking, and APAC market entry.

Program Timeline

BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 runs from a global online build phase into a Singapore finals week, with the following key dates:

Date

Milestone

July 6, 2026

Registration opens

August 12, 2026, 18:00 SGT

Registration closes

August 13, 2026 to September 10, 2026

Review and online interviews

September 11, 2026

Top 20 announced

September 24, 2026

Top 10 finalists announced

October 5, 2026

Pitch Day, Singapore

October 6, 2026

Demo Day and AI x Art x Sustainable Exhibition, CHIJMES, Singapore

Join BUIDL_QUESTS 2026

BUIDL_QUESTS 2026 invites founders, developers, researchers, designers, and independent builders worldwide to build in public, connect with the ecosystem, and explore the future of autonomous agents and sovereignty.

To submit a project, visit OpenArena: https://openarena.to/en/events/buidl-quests-2026

Bring your agent to the arena. Build what comes next.

About Amber Group

Amber Group is a global digital financial services and technology company providing solutions across the digital asset ecosystem, including wealth and asset management, institutional liquidity, market infrastructure, and secure wallet services. Its portfolio includes the Nasdaq-listed digital wealth platform Amber Premium, the accelerator amber.ac, and investment venture Amber Labs. Founded in 2017, Amber Group continues to innovate at the intersection of digital assets, financial infrastructure, and AI.

Website: ambergroup.io | LinkedIn: Amber Group | X: @ambergroup_io

About amber.ac

amber.ac is Amber Group’s accelerator platform focused on AI-native companies, agent-driven services, and digital infrastructure for the AI economy. It supports founders building at the intersection of AI, crypto, and programmable financial systems, helping turn emerging technologies into scalable products and sustainable businesses. Its flagship initiative, BUIDL_QUESTS, is an annual global builder program designed to discover and support the next generation of AI-native founders.

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CNCF Welcomes Adyen as Platinum End User Member to Advance Open Source Financial Infrastructure

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Operating over 100 Kubernetes clusters across €1.39T in volume, Adyen brings production-scale fintech expertise to CNCF governance and open source projects

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Adyen joins the CNCF as a Platinum End User Member, gaining seats on the CNCF Governing Board and End User Technical Advisory Board.Operating over 100 Kubernetes clusters with Cilium, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, Adyen brings production-scale operational expertise to the open source community.Adyen open sourced kubectl-rexec, a Kubernetes tool that supports auditable kubectl exec access for regulated cloud native environments.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that Adyen, the global financial technology platform, has joined the foundation as a Platinum End User. The move comes as 87% of financial organizations report clear business value from open source, according to the FINOS 2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services Report, reinforcing Adyen’s commitment to advancing the open source technologies that help power secure, scalable financial infrastructure.

Processing billions of transactions each year and €1.39 trillion in volume in 2025, Adyen is investing at the Platinum level to help advance the secure, reliable cloud native infrastructure that financial services require. Its participation brings the operating perspective of a global fintech platform to the open, vendor-neutral community shaping the technologies on which modern finance depends.

“End users are the operational backbone of the cloud native ecosystem, and Adyen represents the pinnacle of high-scale, zero-downtime engineering,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF. “Operating over 100 Kubernetes clusters at a global scale gives Adyen unique technical insights. We are thrilled to welcome them as a Platinum End User and look forward to their leadership on our Governing and Technical Advisory Boards.”

Adyen’s membership provides the cloud native community with a direct feedback loop from an environment where platform availability, performance, and security carry immediate financial weight.

Beyond leveraging Kubernetes, Cilium, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry across its global infrastructure, Adyen actively contributes solutions designed for regulated engineering teams. This includes open sourcing kubectl-rexec, a tool that adds strict auditability to Kubernetes container-access workflows while preserving native developer velocity.

“Investing in the CNCF helps us to maintain full control of our technology,” said Pedro Oliveira, VP of Infrastructure. “When you operate at our scale, vendor lock-in isn’t an option, and having a seat at the table matters. Bringing our real-world experience to the community lets us help shape the tools we rely on every day, making them more reliable for us and for the broader ecosystem.”

As a Platinum End User Member, Adyen will hold a seat on the CNCF Governing Board, which provides business, marketing, and budget oversight for the foundation. The company will also appoint a representative to the End User Technical Advisory Board, which brings end-user needs and perspectives to CNCF community discussions.

To learn more about becoming a CNCF member, visit https://www.cncf.io/about/join/.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by nearly 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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Tiger Analytics Achieves AWS Premier Tier Status in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network

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The recognition reflects Tiger Analytics’ demonstrated technical expertise, customer success, and continued investment in its AWS partnership, strengthening its ability to deliver enterprise-scale cloud, data, and AI solutions.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tiger Analytics, a global leader in AI and analytics, today announced that it has achieved AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN).

Achieving AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status differentiates Tiger Analytics as an AWS Partner who demonstrated expertise and notable success in helping customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads on AWS.

“Achieving AWS Premier Tier marks an important inflection point in Tiger Analytics’ relationship with AWS,” said Puneet Piplani, Head of Strategic Growth and Alliances. “It recognizes the expertise and customer impact we have built together, while creating an even stronger foundation for what comes next. Our ambition is to combine Tiger Analytics’ deep data and AI capabilities with the scale and innovation of AWS to help enterprises move faster from AI ambition to measurable business outcomes. Premier Tier is an important milestone, and we believe the biggest opportunities in our partnership are still ahead of us.”

To earn Premier Tier, companies must complete a rigorous approval process through accreditations and certifications, must demonstrate a long-term investment in their relationship with AWS, and must have extensive expertise in deploying customer solutions on AWS. AWS Premier Tier Services Partners also have a strong team of AWS Trained & Certified technical consultants and have deep expertise in project management and professional services.

The impact of this collaboration is reflected in customer engagements such as Cross River Bank, where Tiger Analytics worked with AWS to establish a governed foundation for developing and deploying agentic AI across banking functions.

“Together with Tiger Analytics and AWS, we’ve built a foundation that allows us to rapidly develop and deploy agentic AI across banking functions,” said Pravesh Rijal, Chief Data and AI Officer at Cross River Bank.

About Tiger Analytics

Tiger Analytics is a global leader in AI & analytics, helping Fortune 1000 companies solve their toughest challenges. We offer full-stack AI and analytics services and solutions to empower businesses to achieve real outcomes. Our team of 7000+ technologists and consultants is based across the globe, working closely with clients across multiple sectors. For more information, visit tigeranalytics.com 

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Meta Wins CNCF End User Case Study Contest for Accelerating AI Infrastructure Deployments From Hours to Minutes

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Using Argo CD and Kargo, Meta is building a GitOps platform to streamline application delivery across 100 Kubernetes clusters supporting AI research and inference

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Meta’s Cloud Foundation team won the CNCF End User Case Study Contest for its GitOps platform, built with Argo CD and Kargo to streamline Kubernetes application delivery.The new platform cuts routine application deployment times from more than four hours to minutes, streamlining the small team’s workflow through a simplified application definition while adding more advanced features such as automated deployment configuration, independent release promotion, and health verification.By separating application delivery from infrastructure provisioning, Meta is enabling independent application rollouts while retaining Terraform for infrastructure management.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced Meta as the winner of the CNCF End User Case Study Contest for its adoption of cloud native technologies to accelerate application delivery across its AI infrastructure. Through a GitOps platform built on Argo CD and Kargo, Meta’s Cloud Foundation team is transforming how applications are deployed and managed across approximately 100 Kubernetes clusters supporting AI research and inference, reducing routine deployment times from more than four hours to minutes.

“AI infrastructure is causing organizations to rethink how they manage applications across distributed environments,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “Meta’s approach demonstrates how open source technologies like Argo can help teams automate their application delivery, reduce operational complexity and scale infrastructure without adding unnecessary overhead. It’s a powerful example of how cloud native technologies are supporting the operational demands of AI at scale.”

Meta’s Cloud Foundation team, composed of more than 15 engineers, supports approximately 100 Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers and accelerator families. Previously, Terraform was used for both infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes application deployment, tying even routine application updates to a lengthy infrastructure release process. The shared deployment model meant stalled rollouts could delay unrelated releases and lacked automated health checks to verify application status.

To address these challenges, Meta began building a GitOps platform that separates application delivery from infrastructure provisioning. Terraform continues to manage infrastructure, while Argo CD reconciles application deployments against configurations stored in Git. Kargo orchestrates release promotion across environments, enabling independent rollouts, automated health checks and versioned release records that improve deployment traceability and recovery.

“GitOps and Argo CD give our small team a great foundation, shaped by years of community experience in Kubernetes delivery,” said Phong Nguyen, Production Engineer, Meta. “We focus on connecting it to Meta’s systems and aim to share our own lessons along the way.”

Meta also simplified application delivery by allowing developers to specify deployment requirements through a short application definition. The platform automatically generates Argo CD and Kargo configurations, enabling independent release promotion, automated health verification and deployment consistency without requiring application teams to manage complex configurations.

Meta plans to expand adoption of its GitOps platform and transition to a centrally managed Argo CD service to reduce maintenance overhead across its Kubernetes fleet. The team is also exploring upstream contributions to improve container registry authentication and Argo CD performance in large clusters.

To learn more about Meta’s implementation and results, read the full GitOps at Meta: How We Went From Terraform on Cron to GitOps for AI Infra case study.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by nearly 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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