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Alpen Enters Partner Integration Phase with Testnet III

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New York, USA, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

Alpen Testnet III has launched on Bitcoin Signet, marking the beginning of Alpen’s partner integration phase ahead of mainnet.

More than 21 launch partners across infrastructure, applications, and distribution are preparing to integrate on Testnet III ahead of Alpen mainnet. The launch moves Alpen from core infrastructure development into shared ecosystem preparation, giving partners a persistent public environment to run under mainnet-like constraints without real BTC at risk.

Wallets and exchanges looking to pilot Bitcoin-native financial products will integrate existing infrastructure with Testnet III through Bitcoin Signet. Swap providers and bridge operators will test the plumbing between Alpen, its Strata bridge, and existing Bitcoin Signet infrastructure. Application and infrastructure teams will have a broader surface for integration work.

Alpen on Bitcoin Signet

Testnet III brings Alpen onto Bitcoin Signet, a Bitcoin public ecosystem testnet.

Alpen now operates alongside existing Signet activity in shared public blockspace. The network is exposed to public testnet conditions, including variable fees, block congestion, reorgs, and a rich ecosystem of Bitcoin protocols. Testnet III is Alpen’s most realistic operational environment to date.

Earlier Alpen testnets tested core functionality in more controlled settings. Testnet III brings full Alpen functionality into a public Bitcoin test environment, giving partners a shared place to prepare against conditions closer to the network’s long-term operating model.

A New Verifier Architecture

Testnet III introduces the first garbled circuit-based verifier that is usable by the general public for Bitcoin applications. This verifier is at the core of Alpen’s glock-based bridge architecture and incorporates the latest iteration of Mosaic. It represents a major step forward from Alpen Labs’ earlier BitVM-based designs, with a significantly smaller onchain footprint.

A lower onchain footprint reduces the cost of staking, making participation more accessible to a greater number of operators securing the protocol while also resulting in lower fees for users. The reduction in cost follows from the significant reduction in verification complexity that must be handled on Bitcoin itself.

Testnet III also introduces an evolved orchestration layer and upgradeability to the network. Alpen and Strata are now decoupled and upgradeable, enabling future consensus updates without requiring a network regenesis. Alongside work on a new type of account system on Strata, this architecture makes it possible to deploy additional rollups and other provable programs on Strata alongside Alpen, all sharing access to the same Strata bridge.

Preparing for Bitcoin-Native Financial Markets

Alpen’s purpose is to make Bitcoin-native financial markets possible. Testnet III is a rehearsal for market formation: a shared environment where operators, applications, liquidity, and distribution can begin moving together before mainnet.

With a persistent public Bitcoin environment, institutional operators, more than 21 launch partners preparing across the ecosystem, and a new verifier architecture, Alpen is entering its final major stage of validation ahead of mainnet.

Bitcoin-native financial markets will form around credible infrastructure. Testnet III is where that infrastructure starts meeting the ecosystem around it.

About Alpen

Alpen is the home for Bitcoin-native financial markets. Alpen enables finance on Bitcoin by providing the rails for deeper markets, financial products, and end-user utility around BTC.

Alpen Labs is the research team and company behind Alpen.

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Houston Residents Urged to Know Their Locksmith Options Before a Crisis Hits

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Right Away Locksmith, a 24/7 Houston-based locksmith company owned by Chavah Rachel Rottman, is highlighting that not all locksmith services are the same — emergency, residential, commercial, and automotive locksmith work each require different skills and tools. The release uses this distinction as its news hook, explaining how choosing the wrong type of help during a lockout can cost people time and money. It features a quote from Rottman urging residents to understand these service categories before an emergency happens, then walks through what each category covers. The release closes with a direct call to action: save the company’s number now and call 832-850-5261 for round-the-clock help. It wraps up with standard boilerplate, contact details, and SEO metadata optimized around “Houston Locksmith,” “Emergency Locksmith,” and “24/7 Locksmith.”

Houston, Texas, United States, 14th Sep 2026 – Not every locksmith call is the same, and Houston-area residents are being encouraged to understand the different types of locksmith services available before an emergency strikes.

For homeowners, drivers, and business owners across Houston, a lockout can happen at the worst possible moment, and not every locksmith call resolves it the same way. Emergency lockouts, rekeying, commercial access systems, and automotive key replacement each require different tools, training, and response times, yet many callers do not realize these fall under different service categories until they are standing outside a locked door at 2 a.m. In a city the size of Houston, where residents commute long distances and businesses often operate outside standard hours, knowing who to call, and why, can make the difference between a five-minute fix and an hours-long ordeal.

“Most people do not think about what kind of locksmith they need until they are already locked out,” said Chavah Rachel Rottman, Owner of Right Away Locksmith. “Knowing the difference between an emergency locksmith, a residential locksmith, and an automotive locksmith can save people time, money, and a lot of stress when something goes wrong. A general handyman or an unlicensed provider often cannot handle the specialized tools that modern locks and vehicle key systems require.”

Right Away Locksmith serves the greater Houston area around the clock, offering emergency lockout assistance, residential rekeying and lock installation, commercial access and hardware services, and automotive key and fob solutions. Understanding the different types of locksmith services available helps residents choose the right response for the situation, since a home lockout calls for a different skill set than a broken key in an ignition or a commercial door hardware failure. Residential work typically involves rekeying, deadbolt installation, and lock repair after a break-in or lost key. Commercial locksmith work covers master key systems, access control, and hardware for offices and retail spaces. Automotive locksmith services, meanwhile, require specialized equipment to cut and program transponder keys and fobs for late-model vehicles. Emergency locksmith service overlaps with all three categories, since a lockout, a broken key, or a failed lock can happen at a home, a vehicle, or a business at any hour. The company’s technicians are dispatched 24/7, with response times built around genuine emergencies rather than scheduled appointments.

Houston residents are encouraged to save a locksmith’s number before an emergency happens, not after. Anyone locked out of a home, vehicle, or business in the Houston area can call Right Away Locksmith at 832-850-5261 for immediate assistance, day or night.

About Right Away Locksmith

Right Away Locksmith is a Houston-based locksmith service providing emergency, residential, commercial, and automotive locksmith solutions 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The company is committed to fast, reliable response times and transparent service for customers across the greater Houston area.

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Chavah Rachel Rottman Right Away Locksmith Serving Houston, TX Hours: Open 24/7 Phone: 832-850-5261 Website: https://rightawaylocksmith.com 

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PopDEX Surpasses $61M TVL and $2B Trading Volume in Closed Beta

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Singapore, Singapore, September 14th, 2026, Chainwire

PopDEX a trader-first perpetual decentralized exchange, has surpassed $61 million in total value locked (TVL) and $2 billion in cumulative trading volume during its Closed Beta, as the perpetual decentralized exchange builds early traction ahead of broader market expansion. The platform now supports 66 trading pairs spanning major cryptocurrencies, RWA-related markets, and emerging assets.

The milestones provide an early indication of trading activity and liquidity developing on PopDEX while access remains in Closed Beta. The platform has used this period to test its market structure under live conditions, gather feedback from traders and liquidity providers, and expand the range of markets available through its onchain trading environment.

“Closed Beta was meant to tell us whether traders would actually use what we were building, and $2 billion in trading volume gives us a pretty clear answer,” said Zach Prater, Head of Traders at PopDEX. “The more important part now is what we learn from that activity. Traders are telling us where they want deeper markets, faster execution, and better tools, and we’re using that feedback to shape PopDEX before we open it more broadly.”

PopDEX is building around a CLOB-based market structure designed to support professional liquidity provision while maintaining a responsive trading experience for individual users. Through block batch processing and intra-block transaction ordering, the platform targets approximately 100–150ms execution responsiveness under normal conditions. More frequent index-price and mark-price updates have also been introduced to support liquidation monitoring, conditional orders and risk management, while the platform continues to test liquidation and ADL scenarios under extreme market conditions.

Market coverage has expanded alongside the underlying trading infrastructure. PopDEX has added crypto, RWA-related and community-driven markets throughout Closed Beta, most recently introducing perpetual contracts for PONS, CASHCAT and MARSCOIN in response to interest around Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain assets. Further market expansion is planned as PopDEX develops broader global asset exposure.

Closed Beta has also served as a live development environment. Feedback from traders and API users has informed improvements across account access, deposits and withdrawals, position management, risk visibility and API execution. PopDEX is now extending that work toward a more trader-friendly mobile experience through H5 browser support and a dedicated mobile app.

The platform is also experimenting with how trading incentives are structured. Its third Closed Beta reward distribution recognized early traders and community contributors, with the highest reward in the latest round exceeding $3,300 for a single address, based on public community receipts. PopDEX’s Meme Gang War, running from September 7 to September 21, adds another approach by determining the winning side according to the proportion of eligible participants achieving positive PnL rather than trading volume alone.

PopDEX’s Closed Beta development follows a $30 million strategic seed investment led by Foresight Ventures in May 2026, supporting liquidity, trading depth, product development and global market expansion. PopDEX is also working with ecosystem partners including Bitget Wallet to reduce friction for users accessing onchain perpetual markets.

As Closed Beta progresses, PopDEX will continue focusing on deeper liquidity, additional markets, execution infrastructure and greater access across devices. The longer-term goal is to build an onchain derivatives venue where crypto and broader global markets can be traded with the market depth, execution and risk infrastructure required by active and professional traders.

About PopDEX

PopDEX is a trader-first perpetual decentralized exchange focused on capital efficiency, professional trading experience, transparent market structure and value return for active contributors. PopDEX is building an onchain trading venue spanning crypto, RWA-related markets and broader global asset exposure.

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Pleume Paris Launches the World’s First Hands-Free Hair Dryer with Patented Three-Mode Convertible Design

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Pleume Paris has launched the Pleume, a patented hair dryer with handheld, freestanding, and wall-mounted modes via a detachable magnetic handle; designed to let users dry and style their hair completely hands-free.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, 14th Sep 2026 — Pleume Paris announces the launch of Pleume, described by the company as the world’s first hands-free hair dryer. With a convertible and detachable magnetic handle, the dryer converts between handheld, freestanding, and wall-mounted operating modes, allowing users to dry and style their hair with both hands free to multitask or relax.

 

“Women have endured the 30-minute overhead arm workout for decades, because hair dryer designs haven’t fundamentally changed in that time,” said Jenson Lee, co-founder of Pleume Paris. “Pleume delivers salon-class airflow from a dryer that stands hands-free on your counter or mounts on your wall. It’s truly the first dryer that dries and styles your hair while your hands are free to send emails, do makeup, scroll your phone, or just relax after a long day. Cars now drive themselves; it’s about time hair dryers caught up.”

The design is fully patented, protected under U.S. Patent No. 12,376,659 with U.S. Design Patent Nos. D932,691S and D932,6912S. Pleume Paris states that there are no other hair dryers on the market that offer any remotely similar convertible handle designs, let alone hands free drying use, in a reasonable, convenient size.

One of Pleume’s primary goals is alleviating the pain and hassle of having to manually hold traditional hair dryers to dry hair, and the problem is well documented. Hairdressers, who dry and style hair all day, are one of the most studied groups for shoulder pain. The research points at one main cause: working with arms raised for prolonged periods of time. Studies have found that as many as 6 in 10 hairdressers experience shoulder pain in a given year, and that the longer and higher the arms stay up, the worse the pain gets. Doctors also list holding up arms for strenuous tasks such as manual hair drying over long periods of time as a leading cause of shoulder impingement, a common and painful shoulder condition. 

Pleume’s freestanding and wall-mounted applications take this strain out of hair drying entirely.

A survey of 2,000 adults conducted by hair care brand Gee Hair found that women spend an average of approximately six and a half hours per week on hair care — more than 330 hours per year, the equivalent of two full weeks a year; an entire year’s worth of vacation. A separate survey conducted by the Today show and AOL similarly found that women’s daily hair and makeup routines total roughly two full weeks per year. 

Pleume aims to give every one of those precious hours back as well as offering a seamlessly premium and weightless styling experience.

Pleume is built on the same high-speed brushless motor class and negative ionic technology used in leading premium dryers, housed in a compact aluminum body rather than the typical hard plastic. A detachable cord allows the unit to stand upright on a counter, and the dryer packs into an included leather travel case. It is currently available in two finishes, Amber and Blush, and ships across North and South America through pleumeparis.com with a two-year warranty and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Pleume Paris introduced the product at CosmoProf North America in Las Vegas in July 2026, where it exhibited to retailers and international distributors.

 

 

About Pleume Paris

Pleume Paris is a French-American beauty technology brand designing tools that are optimized for real life and everyday use. Its first product, Pleume, is the world’s first hands-free hair dryer: fully patented, designed in Paris, and built for people who would rather spend their mornings and evenings living rather than holding a dryer. Learn more at https://pleumeparis.com.

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