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Softbank Asia invests in CNT project, enabling “carbon neutralization”

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Softbank Asia recently launched a special investment fund of US $10 million to officially invest in CNT projects, boost CNT global carbon neutralization plan, giving full play to the function of carbon emission trading market, using blockchain technology to solve basic problems in carbon emission trading market and optimize carbon emission trading market. 

The CNT Foundation is building Carbon Trading Agreement — a public blockchain system based on Carbon Neutrality for Carbon emissions Trading. CNT Foundation believes that blockchain technology can better solve the basic contradiction in the carbon emission market. Similarly, carbon emission trading and carbon offset can alleviate the negative problems brought to the external environment by the blockchain PoW consensus mechanism. The successful application of blockchain in anti-counterfeiting traceability and supply chain management has fully demonstrated the technology’s powerful ability to communicate point, line and surface and maintain information integrity. 

Since the mid – 19th century, such activities have been the main cause of global warming. According to the current trend, even if countries actually implement the carbon emission reduction promised in the Paris Agreement, by 2100, the concentration of carbon dioxide will still exceed 580ppm, which is more than twice the  concentration at the beginning of the industry. In order to mitigate the impact of global warming and climate change, we must significantly reduce the emission of carbon dioxide. 

CNT’s commitment to a more open and transparent decentralized carbon market will help promote climate action globally and be more in line with the “bottom-up” climate governance spirit of the Paris Agreement. Carbon market data is stored synchronously by multiple nodes, and the process of carbon trading is decentralized, enabling faster participation in the new carbon sink market. Carbon sinks and chain assets, carbon trading and carbon neutral data flow can check at any time, improve the credibility, the most critical of the carbon market information transparency and double calculation problem will be solved, in the international and interregional carbon market, improve the content of authenticity, can attract more enterprises and organizations to participate in, Expanding the scope of participation in global carbon neutralization.  

“Carbon neutralization” – a rare global consensus and unified action. The data show that more than 120 countries and two-thirds of the economies have joined the great transformation of “carbon neutralization”, and the blockchain industry is also in the “carbon” storm. It is estimated that by 2030, the cumulative trading volume of carbon emissions may exceed 100 billion yuan, and the market scale of blockchain technology in global carbon trading will usher in a breakthrough of US $trillion. Therefore, every move of the blockchain industry has become the focus of carbon neutralization action. 

One of the significant changes that CNT’s blockchain data mechanism can bring is consistency and transparency, which can help global enterprises break through information barriers and make up for information defects on key issues; The second is high data privacy, which can solve the contradiction between business information confidentiality and environmental information disclosure, flexibly adapt to the disclosure strategy of key issues, and avoid risks under the regulatory system composed of government departments, financial institutions and third-party audit. 

For a long time, the consensus mechanism of blockchain as proof of equity (PoW) has been criticized. The problems of huge energy consumption and carbon emissions have been gradually recognized, and new ideas of technology have emerged one after another. (previously, the new CNT technology has been able to solve the problem of energy consumption in the form of data verification and recording between nodes, so that people need to enter carbon offset while networking the blockchain. The whole blockchain network achieves carbon neutralization and meets the requirements of environmental protection. 

The production and management data can not be tampered with after being linked, the time is accurate and the operator is accurate. On the one hand, data on the chain can help enterprises improve overall efficiency and resource utilization, control low-carbon or zero carbon production costs, transform and upgrade processes and technologies, form new market competitiveness under the goal of carbon neutralization, and build a low-carbon raw material supplier system; On the other hand, it can help enterprises achieve carbon accounting in line with standards and norms, so as to promote scientific emission reduction targets, implement energy conservation and emission reduction actions, and realize carbon leap. 

Softbank ventures Asia has managed more than US $1 billion. In recent years, Softbank Asia has focused on promoting carbon neutralization as a long-term undertaking. Encourage enterprises to strengthen technological R&D and innovation through investment, and take carbon neutralization as an opportunity to accelerate the transformation of low-carbon technologies. Softbank Asia responds to the global call for low-carbon, contributes to sustainable development, actively performs social responsibilities, and promotes the economic and social development in the direction of low-carbon, green and recycling through the combination with the blockchain industry. 

Softbank Asia, together with CNT, combines blockchain technology with the carbon market, constantly explores the potential of programmable carbon sink, improves the response of carbon sink assets in similar activities, increases the awareness of enterprise carbon emission reduction, and promotes the realization of carbon neutrality in enterprise business activities. Improve the adaptability of society to climate change, mitigate the impact of global warming, mobilize more people to actively participate in global carbon emission reduction, and assume the industrial responsibility of protecting the green earth.

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Michael Sealy on Why Knowing the Full Business Is the Real Competitive Advantage in Commercial Real Estate

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Dallas-based commercial real estate executive Michael Sealy, Director of Corporate Strategy at Sealy & Company, explains how cross-functional experience shapes better strategic decisions in a complex market.

A Career Built Across Every Department

Dallas, TX, 26th June 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Most careers in commercial real estate follow a vertical path. A leasing broker becomes a senior broker. An investment analyst becomes a fund manager. Specialization is treated as the route to expertise. Michael Sealy, Director of Corporate Strategy at Sealy & Company in Dallas, Texas, took a different path.

Over more than two decades at Sealy & Company, Michael Sealy has worked in construction management, ground-up development, investment analysis, and capital markets before moving into his current strategic role. That horizontal movement was deliberate. He started his career as a leasing broker at Colliers International, gaining deal-level experience before joining the family-connected firm in late 2000 and beginning what would become a systematic education in every dimension of a full-service real estate platform.

Why Breadth Produces Better Strategy

In commercial real estate, strategy is only as strong as the operational understanding behind it. Decisions about which assets to pursue, how to structure capital, when to develop versus acquire, and how to position a firm within a changing market require more than financial modeling. They require an understanding of how buildings get built, how capital flows, and how each department’s decisions ripple across the organization.

Michael Sealy’s career arc was designed to develop exactly that kind of understanding. By the time he assumed oversight of the firm’s capital markets functions, he was not approaching financing decisions in isolation. He understood the construction and development context within which those financing decisions would have to perform.

The Strategic Value of Operational History

The transition from execution to strategy is one of the most consequential shifts in any real estate executive’s career. The risk, for many, is that it becomes a move away from operational reality rather than above it. Michawl Sealy’s multi-department career has positioned him to lead the firm’s corporate strategy function with a grounding that is difficult to replicate through analysis alone.

His current focus includes evaluating strategic opportunities, assessing capital alignment, and supporting enterprise-wide planning, work that draws on two decades of firsthand exposure to how those plans are actually executed at the operational level.

Community as a Parallel Commitment

Outside his work at Sealy & Company, Michael Sealy is active in the Dallas community. As a member of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, he volunteers with the Momentous Institute and the Byron Nelson Golf Tournament. He is also committed to wildlife conservation, managing land specifically to support wildlife and waterfowl habitats.

These commitments reflect the same long-term thinking that characterizes his professional work. Both require patience, sustained investment, and a willingness to do work whose benefits may not materialize immediately.

About Michael Sealy

Michael Sealy is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Sealy & Company, a full-service commercial real estate firm based in Dallas, Texas. He has worked in commercial real estate for over two decades, with experience across construction, development, capital markets, and strategic planning. He can be found at michaelsealydallas.com.

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MultiHopper Partners with TRM Labs on Compliant Private Digital Asset Routing

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The integration brings TRM’s blockchain intelligence to power sanctions screening, AML controls, and wallet risk scoring into MultiHopper’s private programmable on-chain routing layer for digital asset transfers.

Singapore, Singapore, 26th Jun 2026 – MultiHopper, the programmable privacy routing protocol for digital assets, today announced a partnership with TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company trusted by leading financial institutions, crypto businesses, governments, and public sector agencies.

Through the partnership, MultiHopper is integrating TRM’s risk intelligence into its routing architecture to prevent OFAC-sanctioned, stolen, illicit, high-risk and otherwise restricted funds from using MultiHopper’s rails.

MultiHopper believes this creates an innovative architecture for regulatory-ready private programmable onchain routing: digital asset movement with privacy protections and compliance controls built into the network state itself. The solution is live today on Solana.

The announcement comes at a critical moment for crypto privacy.

Legacy privacy systems such as mixers, tumblers and shielded pools have repeatedly created regulatory and enforcement risk. Mixers, tumblers and pooled privacy systems became the defining example after being sanctioned by OFAC, which alleged that it had been used to launder billions of dollars of digital assets, including funds stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

Other privacy systems have attempted to address this problem with proof-of-innocence style mechanisms. But these approaches still generally sit around privacy pools or shielded environments, protocols or APIs, where funds enter a shared privacy system and compliance assurances are layered around that structure.

Unlike other protocols and layers trying to solve the “privacy trilemma”, MultiHopper differentiates by having no offchain components and no commingling. It also does not rely heavily on specialized cryptographic systems, which can create challenges when scaling across multiple assets and may be costly to develop, audit and maintain..

MultiHopper instead focuses on delivering a primitive which enables compliant onchain private programmable routing infrastructure. 

This unique approach differentiates significantly from existing approaches which make significant trade-offs in terms of compliance, legality, centralization, expense, and scalability. 

In most of the aforementioned solutions, the core regulatory risk is that sanctioned, stolen or illicit funds may enter a shared privacy environment and benefit from its anonymity set. In general, regulators do not approve of commingling activity. 

MultiHopper is designed so that this failure mode should not occur. MultiHopper is designed to screen transfers against TRM intelligence and block identified high-risk funds before they enter or exit the rails. Furthermore, assets cannot commingling as each transfer is a unique wrapper which will never be repeated, by design.

“Situations like infamous mixers and tumblers happened because privacy infrastructure allowed tainted funds and bad actors to use the same privacy environment as legitimate users,” said Enigma, the CEO and founder of MultiHopper and EnigmaFund Venture Capital. “That is not the model we are building. MultiHopper is compliance-gated private programmable routing. Part of our focus is to ensure that bad actors and their funds should not be able to enter the rails, exit the rails or use the rails. Privacy should protect legitimate users, not sanctioned actors, stolen funds or illicit finance.”

MultiHopper also differentiates in that it is onchain, never taking assets offchain, while remaining permissionless and non-custodial. 

Most crypto compliance today exists outside the protocol: in the exchange, the backend, the app, the interface, the custodian or the compliance department. MultiHopper is taking a different approach by adapting TRM’s stack into the routing layer itself.

The result is a new category of infrastructure: regulatory-ready private programmable onchain routing.

For developers, this means APIs for private digital asset movement without inheriting the regulatory dangers of other existing approaches.

For AI agents, it means private programmable payment rails with compliance controls designed into the architecture.

For wallets, protocols and institutions, it means a privacy routing layer that can reduce public exposure while defending against sanctioned addresses, stolen funds, illicit proceeds and AML risk.

MultiHopper’s compliance architecture is designed around a simple principle: privacy should not require pooled ambiguity, regulatory blindness or post-facto damage control.

The rails should defend themselves at the network level. 

By integrating TRM’s risk intelligence into the architecture, MultiHopper is building private programmable money infrastructure that can be used by serious developers, businesses, agents and institutions.

“Currently over $21TN USD of the world’s FIAT money passes through SWIFT every day. Double that if you count securities and RWAs. These all use private, compliant and secure rails. For that kind of volume to come to crypto we need an approach to having clean money in the system… especially for private transfers and DeFi. TRM gives us the intelligence we need to enforce that standard.”

Compliance-locked private programmable routing for digital assets is available immediately on Solana both via APIs for developers and AI agents at https://business.multihopper.com as well as for consumers at https://www.multihopper.com.

About MultiHopper

MultiHopper is programmable onchain privacy routing infrastructure for digital assets. It enables non-custodial, permissionless routing of digital assets without mixers, tumblers, shielded pools, commingled liquidity or private blockchains. MultiHopper is building regulatory-ready private programmable money infrastructure for developers, AI agents, wallets, protocols and institutions.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence solutions that help organizations detect, investigate and disrupt crypto-related financial crime. TRM’s platform supports compliance, investigations, wallet screening, transaction monitoring and blockchain intelligence for crypto businesses, financial institutions and public sector agencies.
 

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Sources:

https://multihopper.com/login

https://www.austrac.gov.au/us-treasury-issues-sanctions-virtual-currency-mixers 

https://www.cgi.com/en/article/payments/moving-21-trillion-in-payments-each-day

https://dev-docs.multihopper.com/quickstart

https://dev-docs.multihopper.com/guides/agentic-integration 

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Toss Brings 30 Million Users Into the AI Data Economy in Partnership With Poseidon

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Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire

Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion.

Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss’s first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users.

Frontier AI has run out of internet to scrape. The next generation of models depends on real-world data, the kind that captures how people actually speak, move, and react, which does not exist on the open web and has never had a clean way to be sourced, licensed, or paid for. Poseidon is building the infrastructure to change that, and Toss brings the reach to do it at scale.

Through the partnership, Poseidon’s contributor app, Numo, launches inside the Toss app. Toss users can help build Korean-language training data across voice, image, and video, and receive payment tied directly to what they contribute. Poseidon provides the infrastructure that tracks each contribution and its value, while Toss provides the user base and the financial experience that turns participation into payment. Together they offer a working answer to a question the AI industry has struggled with, which is how to compensate the people whose data makes models better.

Every contribution made through Numo is registered on DATA, the AI data network that Poseidon refines data for. DATA gives each record a verifiable provenance trail through Trace, its public audit layer, so a buyer can see where a piece of training data came from and a contributor can see that their work was counted and paid. DATA Foundation, which launched this week from the rebrand of Story, is building this layer alongside integration partners including the human data marketplace Kled, and Poseidon is one of the largest sources of refined data flowing into it.

What Numo collects is first-person data, recorded by real people in real environments, which is among the hardest and most valuable categories to obtain. It is the raw material for physical intelligence, the AI that has to operate in the physical world across robotics, autonomous vehicles, and other applications. Demand from global AI labs for this kind of data is climbing, and Korea is positioned to supply it, with its dense real-life data and Toss’s user base. Poseidon and Toss intend to prove the model in Korea, then expand to global markets.

Changhoon Seo, Executive Director of New Business at Toss, said: “As the AI industry grows, demand for high-quality data is rising just as fast. Toss plans to build an environment where users can take part in the data economy more easily and naturally, and to expand a structure in which the value they contribute is rewarded transparently.”

SY Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of Poseidon, said: “Korea is one of the few markets where the strategic importance of AI data, a mature financial system, and world-class mobile experience all exist at once. Toss is the right partner to turn user-contributed AI data from an early idea into a standard the rest of the world can adopt.” Lee previously founded the web-novel platform Radish and sold it to Kakao Entertainment, co-founded Story, the IP infrastructure that recently rebranded as DATA Foundation, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum this year.

About Poseidon

Poseidon is the data infrastructure for AI, built to source, refine, and license the real-world data that frontier models need and the open internet cannot supply. Incubated by the team behind The DATA Network, Poseidon bridges the gap between data supply and AI demand by enabling access to high-quality, IP-safe, and composable training datasets. Poseidon raised a $15 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Poseidon’s contributor app, Numo, has recorded more than 711,000 data registrations worldwide and is available and is now available on the Toss app.

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