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VCM Interactive Produces Educational and Inspiring Animated Explainer Videos and Client Success Stories for Sunnybrook’s Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre

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Canada, 4th Feb 2026 – VCM Interactive Inc., a leading Toronto-based video production and animation company, was commissioned by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre to create a series of educational, informative, and emotionally impactful videos. The project raises public awareness about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and showcases the Centre’s evidence-based Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy, which provides critical support for individuals facing severe OCD.

As part of this initiative, VCM Interactive developed two fully animated explainer videos now featured on the Frederick Thompson Centre’s homepage. These engaging animations are designed to help audiences better understand:

What is OCD? – A clear, accessible explanation of the disorder, and the OCD cycle, addressing misconceptions as well as illustrating how OCD affects daily life.

What is ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention)? – An overview of the leading evidence-based treatment for OCD, demonstrating how E-R-P therapy empowers people to reduce symptoms and regain control.

In addition to the animated videos, VCM Interactive produced three live-action client testimonial videos that highlight real recovery journeys supported by the Thompson Centre’s specialized OCD program. These authentic stories aim to inspire, reduce stigma, and provide hope for individuals who may be silently struggling.

The patient stories include:

  • Cassie’s Story – A young woman’s journey of confronting her fears and breaking free from debilitating OCD.
  • Fadi’s Story – A powerful reflection on resilience and transformation through ERP therapy after years of suffering quietly.
  • Gail’s Story – A heartfelt account of healing and rediscovering joy after decades of living with OCD. 

One of Gail’s therapists shared, “This is SO beautiful it made me tear up! I love the clips of her interacting (and dancing!) with her granddaughter—so special, and such a great depiction of Gail’s personality and strengths.”

Gail added, “Paul! I’m bawling my eyes out! A huge Thanks to you and the Thompson Centre (TC)!! I hope this video testimonial helps to ‘pay it forward’… I hope everyone involved in working with OCD sufferers understands and knows the impact and significance of what you’re doing and the lives you’re helping and saving.”

“Creating both the animated explainer videos and testimonial stories for Sunnybrook’s Thompson Centre was a deeply meaningful project for our team,” said Paul Nandrajog, Producer/Director at VCM Interactive Inc. “Our goal was to make these powerful journeys accessible and relatable, using real voices and animation to show that while OCD is serious, recovery is possible with the right tools and support.”

All videos are available on the Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre homepage and Sunnybrook’s YouTube channel, serving as valuable educational resources for patients, families, healthcare professionals, and the wider community.

“These videos help break the stigma surrounding OCD and clearly show that treatment works,” said Dr. Peggy Richter, Director of the Thompson Centre. “We’re grateful to VCM Interactive for helping us communicate our work in such a meaningful and compassionate way.”

About VCM Interactive Inc.

VCM Interactive Inc. is a full-service video production and animation studio based in Toronto, Canada. With over 30 years of industry experience, the company specializes in producing impactful content for healthcare, corporate, and educational organizations.
Learn more at www.vcminteractive.com.
Check out VCM Interactive’s YouTube Channel.

About the Frederick W. Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre

Located at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, the Thompson Centre is a leader in clinical care, research, and education for anxiety disorders, specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD). The Centre delivers innovative, evidence-based treatments designed to improve patient outcomes.
Visit sunnybrook.ca/thompsoncentre for more information.
www.vcminteractive.com
 

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Dataline Launches Data Launch Partner Program to Power the Next Generation of AI Trading and Onchain Agents

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British Virgin Islands, BVI, June 2026, ZEX PR WIREDataline, the data infrastructure layer for AI agents operating across crypto and financial markets, recently announced the launch of its Data Launch Partner Program, opening access to an initial cohort of AI systems, trading agents, and data providers building on its unified intelligence layer.  

  

As AI agents increasingly move from chat-based interfaces to autonomous decision-making systems, the need for structured, cross-market, and verifiable financial data has become a foundational bottleneck. Dataline closes this gap by unifying distributed market data into a schema-based layer, with each response carrying an AI-generated confidence score so the agent can judge for itself whether to act on it.  

A Unified Data Layer for Agent Economies

Dataline connects real-time data across major centralised exchanges, decentralised protocols, and prediction markets, including Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Hyperliquid, dYdX, Polymarket, and Kalshi, into a single structured response format.  

Each query is processed through a cross-venue normalisation system that aggregates pricing, funding rates, liquidity conditions, and event-based signals into confidence-scored outputs with source-level traceability and freshness indicators. 

This allows AI agents to operate on consistent, verified inputs rather than fragmented or venue-specific APIs.  

From Data Access to Decision Infrastructure

The evolution of AI agents has shifted the industry focus away from blind execution and toward interpretation.  

Dataline’s system is designed to solve this by providing the following:  

  • Cross-venue data normalization across trading and prediction markets

  • Confidence-scored outputs with divergence detection between sources

  • Structured responses optimized for planner–executor–verifier agent loops

  • Real-time aggregation of market signals and event data

Already Powering Live Agent Systems

Dataline is already deployed in production environments, supporting over 19.4 million on-chain transactions across the Base, BNB Chain, Sui, and the TON ecosystem.  

Agent systems built on top of Dataline — including ChatPilot, GhostDriver, and FlowAgent — are actively using its structured data layer for live trading, signal processing, and autonomous execution workflows.

Launch Partners Across AI and Execution Layers

The initial Data Launch cohort includes partnerships with AI agent frameworks and execution infrastructure providers such as Sentient, Kite AI, B3, Fraction AI, and Sahara AI.  

These integrations reflect a growing ecosystem where AI agents not only interpret financial data but also execute transactions across programmable settlement layers in real time.  

Exclusive Offer for Base Builders

To support the growing community of builders on Base, Dataline is offering six months of free data feeds to qualifying Base projects. Teams building on Base can claim the offer by reaching out to @datalineai on X and introducing their project.  

Accelerating the Shift Toward Agent-Native Financial Infrastructure

As AI systems become embedded in financial decision-making, industry infrastructure is shifting from API-centric models toward schema-based intelligence layers capable of unifying siloed markets.  

As part of this transition, Dataline enables agents to operate across fragmented environments through a unified execution layer, without requiring venue-specific logic or manual reconciliation.  

Become a Dataline Launch Partner

Dataline is expanding its Data Launch Partner cohort. Projects interested in integrating Dataline’s data layer or joining the program can reach out to @datalineai on X to start the conversation.  

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Dataline Launches Data Launch Partner Program to Power the Next Generation of AI Trading and Onchain Agents

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British Virgin Islands, BVI, June 2026, ZEX PR WIREDataline, the data infrastructure layer for AI agents operating across crypto and financial markets, recently announced the launch of its Data Launch Partner Program, opening access to an initial cohort of AI systems, trading agents, and data providers building on its unified intelligence layer.  

  

As AI agents increasingly move from chat-based interfaces to autonomous decision-making systems, the need for structured, cross-market, and verifiable financial data has become a foundational bottleneck. Dataline closes this gap by unifying distributed market data into a schema-based layer, with each response carrying an AI-generated confidence score so the agent can judge for itself whether to act on it.  

A Unified Data Layer for Agent Economies

Dataline connects real-time data across major centralised exchanges, decentralised protocols, and prediction markets, including Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Hyperliquid, dYdX, Polymarket, and Kalshi, into a single structured response format.  

Each query is processed through a cross-venue normalisation system that aggregates pricing, funding rates, liquidity conditions, and event-based signals into confidence-scored outputs with source-level traceability and freshness indicators. 

This allows AI agents to operate on consistent, verified inputs rather than fragmented or venue-specific APIs.  

From Data Access to Decision Infrastructure

The evolution of AI agents has shifted the industry focus away from blind execution and toward interpretation.  

Dataline’s system is designed to solve this by providing the following:  

  • Cross-venue data normalization across trading and prediction markets

  • Confidence-scored outputs with divergence detection between sources

  • Structured responses optimized for planner–executor–verifier agent loops

  • Real-time aggregation of market signals and event data

Already Powering Live Agent Systems

Dataline is already deployed in production environments, supporting over 19.4 million on-chain transactions across the Base, BNB Chain, Sui, and the TON ecosystem.  

Agent systems built on top of Dataline — including ChatPilot, GhostDriver, and FlowAgent — are actively using its structured data layer for live trading, signal processing, and autonomous execution workflows.

Launch Partners Across AI and Execution Layers

The initial Data Launch cohort includes partnerships with AI agent frameworks and execution infrastructure providers such as Sentient, Kite AI, B3, Fraction AI, and Sahara AI.  

These integrations reflect a growing ecosystem where AI agents not only interpret financial data but also execute transactions across programmable settlement layers in real time.  

Exclusive Offer for Base Builders

To support the growing community of builders on Base, Dataline is offering six months of free data feeds to qualifying Base projects. Teams building on Base can claim the offer by reaching out to @datalineai on X and introducing their project.  

Accelerating the Shift Toward Agent-Native Financial Infrastructure

As AI systems become embedded in financial decision-making, industry infrastructure is shifting from API-centric models toward schema-based intelligence layers capable of unifying siloed markets.  

As part of this transition, Dataline enables agents to operate across fragmented environments through a unified execution layer, without requiring venue-specific logic or manual reconciliation.  

Become a Dataline Launch Partner

Dataline is expanding its Data Launch Partner cohort. Projects interested in integrating Dataline’s data layer or joining the program can reach out to @datalineai on X to start the conversation.  

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Request Network Introduces One-Click Cross-Chain Mass Payouts and Expands Wallet Screening With Merkle Science

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Zug, Switzerland, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire

Anyone can now execute mass payouts across EVM chains and Tron from a single platform and can choose between multiple wallet screening providers.

Just three weeks after releasing major upgrades for crypto payment collection, the Request Network Foundation today announced another expansion of its stablecoin payment platform. The release introduces one-click mass payouts on both EVM and Tron, alongside built-in bridging and token swapping across EVM chains. The update also expands compliance capabilities through the integration of Merkle Science as an additional wallet screening provider.

Together, these capabilities reinforce Request Network’s vision of providing businesses with a simpler, more scalable, and more resilient way to operate stablecoin payments globally.

Users Can Now Disburse at Scale in One Click From a Single Wallet Without Bridging or Swapping

Stablecoins are already widely used to disburse salaries, commissions, affiliate rewards, bug bounties, supplier payments, and customer refunds or withdrawals across the world. While settlements are now faster and cheaper in stablecoins compared to fiat, the operational processes needed to send funds remain complex as recipients usually require payments on multiple chains and in multiple currencies. This has forced finance teams to initiate multiple transactions in separate currencies and from multiple wallets.

Request Network now abstracts away this fragmentation, allowing anyone to initiate mass payouts from a single wallet in a single currency to pay recipients across the top 6 EVM chains (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and BNB Chain) in USDC and USDT.

Through a single signature, a mass payout can now be initiated even if the individual transactions need to be bridged and swapped to reach their recipient. Request Network protocol automatically retrieves and batches bridge and swap quotes in order to funnel every payment of a batch to its correct destination in just one approval.

To simplify the process further, Request Network also allows any recipient to set and update their payment preferences so payments are always routed to where they should go.

This represents one of the biggest breakthroughs in cross-chain and swapping abstraction, bringing payers and recipients closer than ever before, regardless of the blockchain or currency they trust.

Mass Payouts Now Available on Tron

Alongside EVM mass payouts, Request Network also announced the support of mass payouts on Tron, becoming the first protocol to combine both capabilities.

Thanks to this release, anyone can now send USDT to multiple recipients on Tron in a single transaction, unlocking large-scale payouts on one of the most used chains in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

With this release, anyone can now manage all stablecoin payouts globally from the Request Network protocol.

More Choice for Wallet Screening

Alongside mass payouts, Request Network also announced a partnership with Merkle Science to offer additional wallet screening providers on the protocol.

As a reminder, Request Network offers built-in wallet screening to protect its users from high-risk wallet interactions. When enabled, this feature allows payments to be executed only if the payer or recipient satisfies the preset screening policies, helping businesses to avoid exposure to high-risk wallets which may lead to asset freezing or difficulties off-ramping to fiat.

By expanding its integration of Merkle Science, Request Network just became one of the safest ways to receive crypto onchain, while accommodating for recipients’ preferences.

Tristan Wallaert, CEO of the Request Network Foundation, said: “Stablecoins allowed money to move globally without the usual fiat constraints, but executing payments at scale remains a bottleneck and is forcing users to rely on payment service providers. Anyone should be able to pay by himself hundreds of payments across chains in just a single operation.High risk wallets exposure has tarnished the crypto reputation recently, if we want to provide the best protection to blockchain users they need to be able to use the best screening providers. Sending and receiving payments must become intuitive and safe if we want stablecoins to be a real alternative to fiat.”

Mriganka Pattnaik, CEO of Merkle Science, said: “As stablecoin payments become more global and cross-chain, compliance needs to become just as seamless as the payment experience itself. Our integration with Request Network helps businesses screen wallets with greater confidence, reduce exposure to high-risk activity, and scale onchain payments without compromising trust or operational efficiency”.

About Request Network

Since 2017, Request Network has developed, educated about, and promoted the use of open-source, decentralized and permissionless protocols that provide infrastructure for on-chain payments and related financial flows.

Request Network allows anyone to send and receive crypto at scale, across chains, without custodial intermediaries. The protocol is developed by a community-funded foundation whose mission is to make crypto payments accessible while protecting its participants.

To date, more than $2 billion has moved thanks to Request Network technology.

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About Merkle Science

Merkle Science provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance solutions that help businesses detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime across digital assets. Its platform supports wallet screening, transaction monitoring, risk intelligence, and investigations, enabling crypto platforms, financial institutions, and payment providers to manage onchain risk and meet compliance requirements at scale.

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Request Network Foundation
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Álvaro García
alvaro.garcia@merklescience.com

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