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Michael Pisseri Launches “Process Over Panic” Pledge for Student Resilience and STEM Readiness

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Connecticut, USA, 14th March 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Education leader Michael Pisseri has announced a new personal initiative called the “Process Over Panic” Pledge, a commitment to promote resilience, strong school culture and practical STEM readiness at a time when students face academic and emotional pressure nationwide.

Pisseri says the pledge is rooted in lessons from his own career, including leading a seven-year turnaround at Davenport Ridge Elementary School and presenting at a National STEM Conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

“The process that leads to the outcome is the most important,” Pisseri said. “That is where you build a team, set up a plan, fail, refine and then achieve success.”

His pledge comes as recent national data shows:

  • Student maths and reading scores remain below pre-2020 levels in many US districts.

  • The CDC reports increased rates of persistent sadness and anxiety among adolescents.

  • STEM occupations are projected to grow faster than non-STEM roles over the next decade.

  • Many schools report gaps in student engagement and consistent attendance.

“STEM teaches students how to think,” Pisseri said. “Curiosity and problem solving apply to everything. That’s where you have collaboration, team work and higher order thinking skills.”

He also believes resilience must be taught intentionally.

“Never give up. Belief that you can get better every day. It has to be ingrained in you.”

And at the center of it all is trust.

“Be a good listener. Be authentic. Be someone people trust and keep moving forward.”

The “Process Over Panic” Pledge: 7 Personal Commitments

Pisseri is committing to the following behaviours:

  1. Prioritise school climate first by modelling calm, respectful communication daily. There should be clear expectations and buy in from all so that students continue to grow and improve.

  2. Teach process before outcomes by breaking large goals into small, measurable steps.

  3. Integrate weekly STEM thinking exercises that focus on problem solving, not memorisation.

  4. Hold structured reflection sessions with students to review progress and refine plans.

  5. Model resilience publicly by sharing stories of failure and improvement.

  6. Start each term with direction-setting conversations focused on growth, connection and impact.

  7. Protect balance by aligning professional goals with personal well-being practices.

“I define success as living in alignment with your values while continuing to grow,” he said.

Do It Yourself Toolkit: 10 Free Actions Anyone Can Take

You do not need a title or budget to take part. Here are ten actions individuals can start today:

  1. Set one weekly family or classroom check-in focused on growth.

  2. Replace one performance-based question with a process-based question.

  3. Introduce a simple STEM challenge at home using everyday materials.

  4. Create a visible “mistake board” to normalise learning from errors.

  5. Read one article per week about innovation or environmental science.

  6. Volunteer one hour at a local school or youth programme.

  7. Encourage journalling about effort, not just results.

  8. Reduce screen distractions during study time.

  9. Ask students what they want more of and less of this year.

  10. Share one story of perseverance within your community.

30-Day Progress Tracker

Week 1: Define your direction. What do you want more of? What do you want less of?
Week 2: Introduce one new resilience practice. Track consistency daily.
Week 3: Add one STEM-focused activity. Reflect on engagement.
Week 4: Review progress. What improved? What needs refining?

Simple checklist:

  •  Weekly check-in completed

  •  Process goal set

  •  Reflection session held

  •  STEM activity completed

  •  Resilience story shared

At the end of 30 days, assess growth in mindset, engagement and consistency.

Call to Action

Michael Pisseri invites educators, parents, students and community members to take the “Process Over Panic” Pledge, commit to one concrete action, and share the toolkit within their own networks. Sustainable change, he believes, starts locally.

“Success is not just achieving outcomes,” he said. “It is becoming someone you respect along the way.”

To read the full interview, visit the website here.

About Michael Pisseri

Michael Pisseri is a Fairfield, Connecticut-based education leader and Social Studies and Intervention Teacher in New York City Public Schools. He previously served as Principal of Davenport Ridge Elementary School, leading a seven-year turnaround that resulted in state recognition for school climate and academic performance. In 2024, he presented at a National STEM Conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. His work focuses on resilience, alignment, STEM engagement and long-term student success.

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Amaze Holdings (NYSE: AMZE) Executes Binding LOI to Acquire BullionFX | Alchemy, a Decentralized Gold-Backed Financial Ecosystem for Valued at US$155 Million

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NEWPORT BEACH, California, September 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Proposed acquisition would bring a gold-backed decentralized financial ecosystem, including decentralized financial infrastructure targeting retail, institutional, and blockchain markets.

  • A retail and institutional platform designed for the rapidly growing stablecoin industry, delivering compliance-focused infrastructure for payments, yield, lending and open-ecosystem, industry-wide decentralized financial applications.
  • Institutional gold-based infrastructure spanning gold as a currency, gold-collateralized USD products and gold-backed financial products, anchored to an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network designed as a stable foundation for the next generation of industry products.
  • Proprietary yield engines designed to power institutional products targeting competitive returns by bridging traditional and decentralized markets.

Amaze Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: AMZE) (“Amaze” or the “Company”) today announced it has entered into a binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) to acquire the assets of BullionFX, including its core platform Alchemy (collectively, the “BullionFX Assets”), for stock valued at approximately $155 million.

The BullionFX Assets comprise the technology, infrastructure and intellectual property behind a blockchain financial ecosystem built around auditable physical gold. If completed, the acquisition would mark a strategic expansion for Amaze beyond creator commerce and into gold-backed digital-asset infrastructure. The transaction comes amid a broad resurgence in cryptocurrency markets, rapid growth in volume within the stablecoin industry, renewed institutional engagement with digital assets, and continued strength in gold as a long-established store of value. Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume hit $1.79 trillion in June 2026, up 125% year on year, according to Visa Onchain Analytics (Allium). 

“Crypto’s renewed momentum and gold’s enduring role as a store of value have opened a rare window for infrastructure built on both,” said Joel Krutz, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Amaze. “Alchemy is a full-stack, gold-backed financial ecosystem, and we believe bringing it into the public markets can create meaningful long-term value for our stockholders.”

The acquisition gives Amaze the technology, infrastructure and intellectual property behind a comprehensive decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem in which every unit of digital value is tied to physical gold held by independent custodians. The platform’s architecture supports lending and borrowing protocols, yield products, cross-chain interoperability, and an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network that links traditional and decentralized finance while offering the rapidly growing market of gold- and USD-backed stablecoins users’ broad functionality, including access to yield opportunities.

Following closing, Amaze intends to prioritize activation of the self-custody retail wallet and yield engines and, as an initial institutional application, to pursue a listed Stable Asset Treasury (“SAT”) vehicle for gold and USD, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.

“We have seen traditional financial markets adopt blockchain, and more recently stablecoins, as a direct result of retail users seeking more control, custody, and transferability of their own assets. We believe traditional finance will increasingly bridge with decentralized finance to extract the ideal attributes of both industries. Alchemy is well-positioned to compete in bringing to market a range of bridged traditional and decentralized financial products to introduce innovative financial offerings on a retail and institutional level while seeking to mitigate certain risks associated with traditional stablecoin models,” said Stephen Moss, Founder, BullionFX. “Joining a publicly listed company gives Alchemy the access and institutional credibility to accelerate our mission. That mission is a stable, transparent financial ecosystem for retail users that bridges traditional and decentralized finance.”

INSIDE THE ALCHEMY PLATFORM

$GOLD, Backed by Physical Gold. Alchemy’s core $GOLD token is designed to be backed one-to-one by vaulted, independently custodied and audited physical gold, with reserves intended to be subject to real-time attestation through third-party, institutional-grade audit mechanisms. $GOLD is designed to serve as the network’s settlement asset, combining the stability of a hard asset with the speed and transparency of blockchain settlement.

Built for the Stablecoin Industry. Alchemy is a retail and institutional platform designed for the rapidly growing stablecoin industry. Its compliance-focused architecture is built to support gold-linked payments, yield, lending and borrowing, cross-chain interoperability and open-ecosystem DeFi applications that third-party developers can build on.

Institutional Gold Infrastructure on Ethereum Layer 2. For institutions, Alchemy provides gold-based infrastructure spanning gold as a currency, gold-collateralized USD products and gold-backed financial products. Running on an Ethereum-based Layer 2 network, it is designed to bring gold’s stability on-chain as a foundation for future industry products.

Proprietary Yield Engines. Alchemy’s proprietary yield engines for gold and USD are designed to power institutional products targeting competitive returns by bridging traditional and decentralized markets.

Self-Custody for Retail. A planned self-custody retail wallet is designed to give users direct access to gold-linked payments, yield and DeFi applications while keeping control of their own assets.

“Stablecoins have proven the demand for digital money. The next question is what that money is anchored to,” said Simon Rahme, Co-Founder and CTO, BullionFX | Alchemy. “We engineered Alchemy’s Layer 2 so that gold sits inside the settlement layer itself rather than on top of it. That gives developers and institutions a base for payments, lending and yield products, with reserves designed to be verifiable on-chain.”

Transaction Terms

Under the LOI, which contains certain binding provisions, the parties will work toward definitive agreements. The transaction, if consummated, will result in significant issuance of Amaze common stock to BullionFX. Final terms are subject to due diligence, regulatory review, approval by each party’s board of directors and other customary closing conditions.

About Amaze Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: AMZE)

Amaze Holdings, Inc. is an end-to-end, creator-powered commerce platform offering tools for brand development, product creation, advanced e-commerce, audience growth and scalable managed services. By helping people turn what they know, create and share into sustainable income, Amaze enables creators to build deeper audience relationships and more flexible paths to a better life. Discover more at www.amaze.co.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the proposed acquisition of the BullionFX Assets; the anticipated benefits, capabilities and potential of those assets; the parties’ ability to negotiate and enter into definitive agreements; the ability to successfully integrate the BullionFX Assets and realize anticipated synergies and value creation; the ability to generate anticipated yields or returns from proprietary yield engines or other platform features; the timing and success of planned product launches, including the self-custody retail wallet and Stable Asset Treasury vehicle; and expectations regarding the adoption and growth of decentralized finance, stablecoins, and gold-backed digital assets. Forward-looking statements often contain words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “may,” “designed to,” or “targeted.” These statements are based on management’s current views and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, without limitation: the ability of the parties to negotiate and execute definitive agreements; the completion of due diligence; the receipt of required regulatory, stockholder and board approvals and the satisfaction of other closing conditions; the occurrence of any event that could give rise to termination; the significant dilution to Amaze stockholders in connection with the transaction; the continued availability of capital and financing; the ability to commercialize and operationalize the BullionFX Assets; Amaze’s lack of operating history in digital asset infrastructure and decentralized finance; the performance and security of blockchain-based technology and digital assets; risks related to smart contract vulnerabilities, software bugs, cyberattacks, hacking incidents, and operational failures affecting blockchain-based systems; evolving federal and state laws, regulations and guidance applicable to digital assets, stablecoins, decentralized finance platforms and related custodial arrangements, including potential classification of tokens as securities; the creditworthiness, performance and regulatory status of third-party custodians holding physical gold reserves; the ability to maintain one-to-one gold backing and real-time attestation as described, and the risk that reserves may not be verified as anticipated; competition from established and emerging participants in the digital asset, stablecoin and decentralized finance industries; the ability to protect and enforce intellectual property rights in the acquired technology; the volatility of cryptocurrency and gold markets; prevailing market, regulatory and business conditions; and other risks and uncertainties described in Amaze’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. Amaze undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.

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Amaze Holdings, Inc.
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888-672-0365

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Vana Completes Expanded Staking as Part of the Vega Upgrade, Publishes Expanded VANA Token Economics

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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, September 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Network fees from personal data reads now fund staking rewards, buybacks and ecosystem development under a fixed protocol split; public dashboard launches at token.vana.org

The Vana Foundation today announced that expanded staking as part of the Vega upgrade to the Vana network is complete and published the paper “VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy”, which sets out the VANA token economics. A public dashboard at token.vana.org reports network reads, fee income, buybacks, burns and token supply, with the on-chain record behind each figure.

Vana is a network for moving personal data under the permission of the person it belongs to. Under the network’s fee model, an application that reads a person’s data with a granted permission pays one cent per scope read. Fees are allocated by protocol rule: 60 per cent to stakers through staking pools, 20 per cent to the purchase and burn of VANA, and 20 per cent to ecosystem development. Each buyback and burn is published with its transaction hash.

With expanded staking, staking runs through three staking pools, each with a 5 per cent operator commission. Staking rewards are paid from network fees, accrue to the staked position and may be claimed as they accrue. Existing staked positions may be moved into one of the three pools in a single transaction at stake.vana.org by midnight UTC on 31 October 2026. Principal can be withdrawn at any time, with no deadline. After 31 October, a position that has not moved no longer earns rewards.

“Every read of a person’s data on the network is a paid transaction, and the fees pay the node operators and stakers who make that movement possible,” said Art Abal, Managing Director of the Vana Foundation. “The split is written into the protocol, and every figure is published on chain.”

Applications on the network have produced 2,937,447 verified reads to date, as of 28 September 2026.

Total VANA supply and release schedules remain unchanged.

The paper “VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy” and the whitepaper addendum “The Vega Upgrade: Data Portability and Transformations” are available at token.vana.org.

About Vana

Vana is an open network for personal data portability. Its standard, the Personal Data Portability Protocol, was contributed to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust as a Community Specification. vana.org

About the Vana Foundation

The Vana Foundation is a non-profit foundation that supports the development and adoption of the Vana network and is a member of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.

About OpenDataLabs

OpenDataLabs builds and operates the products that governments and industry run on the Vana network. www.opendatalabs.com 

This release is for information only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any token or security.

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Arthur Abal
Vana Foundation
press@vanafoundation.org

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Breakthrough Hybrid Intelligence: 49AGI Launches Local AGI App for Over 1 Billion Apple Devices

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AI Data Centers demand can be sharply reduced as a local AGI framework app with multimodal workflows just launched covering over 1 billion compatible Apple Devices to handle the majority of users’ daily tasks with Intellectual Property including app details published by WIPO for the hybrid approach.

Canada, 29th Sep 2026 — AI Data Centers release immense heat into surrounding neighborhoods was just an investigation released by Bloomberg. 

49AGI, an autonomous generative intelligence research and development team, in response have just launched a complete on-device AGI framework first iteration app 49AGI available on Apple App store to create a hybrid approach or using AI and significantly reduce the demand of AI Data Centers for user daily tasks.

AI Data Centers are currently in massive demand in training large language models to achieve theoretical “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) to deliver high-level human abstract logic for everything.  

AI Data Center’s linked models with AI agents as a result have exceeded human control(s)  hacking of Hugging Face and multiple government systems.  In stark contrast, the 49AGI team utilizes the acronym “AGI” to define Autonomous Generative Intelligence. 

AGI (Autonomous Generative Intelligence) describes a device-native framework architecture engineered to synchronize digital assistants across local applications, relevant devices—such as smartphones, laptops—and connected networks to achieve human cognitive-level workflow automation on device(s).

Publication number: WO/2026/196276 and patent literature link via WIPO ePCT registry here 

AI Data Centers currently consume enormous amounts of municipal electricity and water resources; in comparison, 49AGI runs 100% locally, uses zero liters of water, uses zero tokens, and requires less than one percent of local battery allocation per five to six tasks.

AI Data Centers linked applications & other applications have ongoing access to user photos and/or files on a user’s smartphone. In comparison, 49AGI includes local password verification within the app for users to input sensitive information, photos, and files to shield users from unauthorized third-party applications completely.    

About 49AGI

49AGI is a technology team focused on localized, on-device AGI software architectures and edge computing application frameworks. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company develops technologies intended to support device-based & user-controlled intelligent workflows.

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49AGI Press
49agi@49agi.com
www.49agi.com

Disclaimer: Apple and Apple App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Bloomberg is a trademark of Bloomberg L.P. 49AGI is an independent generative intelligence research framework and holds no direct corporate affiliation with Apple Inc. or Bloomberg L.P. 

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