New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire

Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital.

The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation.

Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun, Linera, Vanta Trading, Streamex, PolyData, Horizen Labs, World Foundation, Zipcode, OpenLedger, Onyx, Definitive, Notalone Ventures and more.

The Founders Table format is intentionally simple: a selected guest list, a private room and no stage agenda. The goal is to bring the right people together in a setting where conversations can happen naturally.

The dinner was hosted by Stratosphere with Pudgy Penguins and Streamex. Stratosphere brought its network across founders, operators, investors and institutional teams. Pudgy Penguins added one of the strongest consumer brands and communities in digital assets. Streamex brought the institutional and real-world asset side of the conversation, with its focus on tokenized gold and commodity markets.

The Stratosphere team and its CEO, Hassan Shaikh, have continued to build Founders Table into a private dinner series around major industry conferences. After previous editions during Digital Asset Summit and Consensus, the New York dinner continued the same idea: high-quality rooms, selected attendance and conversations that are hard to recreate on a conference floor.For Stratosphere, the dinner reinforces the company’s position as an ecosystem partner for leading brands across tech, finance and digital assets. Established projects work with Stratosphere to deepen cultural relevance, strengthen market narratives and connect with founders, investors, institutions and operators across the industry.

“I’m optimistic about the next phase of digital assets, especially around the tokenization of commodities,” said Hassan Shaikh, CEO of Stratosphere. “These dinners give us a way to bring funds, institutions, and founders into the same room to talk about where the market is heading.”

The Founders Table series is expected to continue around major global conferences throughout the year, with future editions focused on bringing together founders, capital, institutions and leading brands in private, relationship-driven rooms.

For those interested in attending or getting involved in future Founders Table editions, reach out to the Stratosphere team.

About Stratosphere

Stratosphere is an ecosystem partner and growth consultancy for industry leaders in tech and finance, building the narratives, ecosystem partnerships, and distribution flywheels that create sustainable, repeatable growth.

Website: www.stratosphere.vip

X: @StratosphereVIP

Contact

Yaroslav Provada
max@movimentum.io

London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, Chainwire

Landmark transaction brings real operating company equity to Solana-based tokenised capital formation  

First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real- world operating business 

Onpharma’s medical device technology for dentistry brings recurring revenue, high gross margins and a significant market opportunity to a tokenised capital raise 

This offering is available for investment at sto.onpharma.com  

First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering (“STO”) for an established U.S. operating business, a structural turning point in the modernisation of global private markets. 

The Tokenisation Framework 

The STO deploys Solana blockchain infrastructure combining atomic settlement technology, programmable ownership architecture, and digital distribution capabilities, structured within existing U.S. securities law. Where traditional private markets have struggled with fragmented, multi-intermediary processes, the tokenised framework enables issuance, settlement, and cross-border distribution to qualified investors quickly, transparently, and at low cost. Secondary transactions occur on-chain across compatible wallets subject to KYC controls, delivering near-instantaneous settlement, secondary trading liquidity, and international accessibility under Regulation S and other applicable frameworks. 

The STO Structure 

A Security Token Offering represents and transfers ownership rights in a company’s common stock via blockchain-based digital tokens rather than traditional share registers. The Onpharma STO is structured as a Regulation S offshore issuance to non-U.S. investors, combining the legal certainty of an exempt securities offering with the operational efficiency of Solana infrastructure, settling and distributing at speed and cost traditional private markets cannot match. 

Onpharma: The Investment Case 

Onpharma occupies a distinctive position in global dental technology. Its Onset EZ local anaesthetic buffering product is already used to buffer millions of dental injections annually, addressing the slow, uncomfortable, and unreliable performance of dental local anaesthetic that has remained largely unsolved for decades. The Onset EZ Pen requires no assembly or specialist training, integrating directly into existing workflows for an improved patient experience. 

Onpharma sits at a post-validation, pre-scale inflection point: infrastructure, supply chain, regulatory compliance, and initial commercialisation are complete, while the growth phase is beginning. Septodont’s February 2025 market entry has validated anaesthetic buffering as an emerging standard of care, reducing category risk and increasing awareness. The disposable Onset EZ Pen provides operational leverage through scalable direct marketing, customer conversion, and repeat consumable revenue. The global dental anaesthesia buffering market is valued at $2bn and projected to reach $2.65bn by 2030. Capital raised will extend field sales and expand direct selling via the company’s recently deployed AI marketing tools. 

The Infrastructure 

First Block’s digital securities architecture underpins the transaction from issuance and compliance through to Solana-based settlement and distribution, compressing conventional private placement infrastructure, fragmented custodial arrangements, manual processing, multi-intermediary chains, into a single programmable, blockchain-enabled system built for the scale, speed, and wallet-level accessibility international investors increasingly require. Crito Capital LLP, an FCA-authorised investment banking and advisory platform focused on institutional capital formation, is providing structuring and advisory for the offering. 

“This is larger than a traditional financing,” said Daniel P. Cannon, CEO of First Block. “We believe this transaction represents the beginning of the convergence between capital markets and Solana-based securities infrastructure. The STO itself is the story, but it starts with a real operating company, a real product, and exceptional revenue growth potential.” 

“Onpharma has spent years building a real operating business around a simple clinical objective: making local anaesthetic better for dentists and patients,” said Matt Stepovich, Onpharma’s CEO. “This offering allows us to present a validated, revenue-generating medical device platform to a wider base of qualified international investors via a structure that reflects how capital markets are evolving. Combining Onpharma’s real-world commercial traction with First Block’s Solana-based securities infrastructure is an important step in making growth capital formation more efficient, accessible and transparent.” 

Additional details regarding offering structure and participation frameworks are available on the landing page for the STO offering linked here – sto.onpharma.com 

About First Block Inc.

First Block Inc. is a blockchain infrastructure and digital securities company focused on compliant tokenisation, STOs, real-world-asset digitisation and Solana-based settlement architecture for global markets.  

About Onpharma Company

Onpharma Company develops dental technologies focused on improving local anaesthetic in dentistry.  Its Onset EZ Pen buffering platform improves anaesthetic reliability, accelerates onset time, and makes the dental anaesthetic injection more comfortable.  

About Crito Capital LLP

Crito Capital LLP is a UK-based investment banking and advisory firm authorised and regulated in the UK, focused on institutional capital markets, strategic advisory, and emerging fintech. 

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Onpharma Company’s (the “Company”) business strategy, anticipated growth, market opportunity, product development, commercialization efforts, expected revenues, financing plans, digital asset initiatives, tokenization initiatives, regulatory matters, and future operations. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions, and projections that involve significant risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, market conditions, regulatory developments, financing availability, competition, technological developments, product adoption, operational execution, and other risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law. 

This press release is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Any offering of securities referenced herein will be made solely pursuant to definitive offering documents and in compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations. The offering referenced herein is intended solely for non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act and is not directed to, or intended for, U.S. persons or investors located in the United States. 

Contact

Mr
Richard Morgan Evans
Sapience Communications
rmorganevans@sapiencecomms.co.uk

Road Town, British Virgin Islands, June 15th, 2026, Chainwire

Wallet V, a self-custody Web3 wallet, launched a public performance benchmark for the AI trading agents that its users have configured on the third-party decentralized derivatives platforms Hyperliquid and Aster. The benchmark publishes aggregate cohort performance and is hosted on the Wallet V website.

The benchmark covers 688 agents created by Wallet V users over the prior two months. Each agent was configured by the user, used a large language model selected by the user to generate trading decisions, and executed on Hyperliquid or Aster. Wallet V aggregates the on-platform performance of those agents by underlying model. Performance is refreshed as new agents are deployed.

The cohort spans seven large language model families. Across the cohort, 42 percent of agents recorded a profit and loss balance of zero or higher over the period. Peak agent-level return on investment in the dataset ranged from negative 30 percent on the lowest-performing model to positive 307 percent on the highest. Models represented by fewer than 10 agents in the cohort are reported as directional rather than statistically conclusive.

Agents in the cohort executed strategies as perpetual futures across four asset classes available on Hyperliquid and Aster. These include major digital assets such as BTC, ETH, and SOL; equities, including pre-initial public offering equity exposure; commodities including gold, silver, and oil benchmarks; and major foreign exchange pairs. All instruments are accessed through third-party venues.

“At Wallet V, the focus has been on building infrastructure for the next phase of crypto. This benchmark is what that next phase looks like up close. Users now decide which AI model to configure their agent in the same way institutions evaluate managers, by reviewing observable performance over time,” said Adam Cai, Founder & CEO of Virgo Group.

Wallet V plans to extend the benchmark in subsequent releases. Future releases include the addition of newer model families, support for prediction markets, advanced analytics features for copilot trading and personalized AI prompt generation tailored to each user’s trading style.

The Wallet V applications for iOS and Android are available at dl.walletv.io.

About Wallet V

Wallet V is a Web3 self-custody wallet that gives users access to third-party AI models to configure AI agents and execute user-defined trading strategies. The application connects to third-party platforms supporting cross-chain swaps, perpetual futures, prediction markets, and onchain exposure to tokenized equities.

Wallet V is an incubation project by Virgo Group, a digital asset service provider led by CEO Adam Cai. Virgo Group is backed by investors including Draper Dragon, OKX Ventures, Vaulta Foundation, Cobo Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and Sora Ventures.

Disclaimer

Trading crypto, perpetual contracts, tokenized assets, and prediction markets involves significant risk of loss and is offered by third-party platforms. Wallet V is a software provider that connects to external platforms and does not offer trading services or AI automation tools directly or indirectly. Wallet V does not provide investment, tax, or legal advice. Access to certain products may be restricted in some jurisdictions.

Contact

Peter Ip
marketing@walletv.io