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New World Inc. to Sell Elias Theodorou NFT as Part of MMA Event

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Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – September 22, 2021) – Graph Blockchain Inc. (CSE: GBLC) (OTC Pink: REGRF) (FSE: RT5A) (Graph“) or (the “Company“) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary New World Inc. has signed Middleweight Mixed Martial Arts fighter (“MMA”) Elias Theodorou to create non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) on the New World NFT platform.

Elias “The Spartan” Theodorou is a top-ranked MMA fighter, medical cannabis advocate, poker player, first ever male RingBoy™ and much more. In May 2021, he made history as the first sanctioned cannabis athlete in the US, granted to him in the state of Colorado via a Therapeutic Use Exemption (“TUE”). Prior to this, Elias made history in Canada, by way of another TUE exemption in the province of British Columbia, Canada when Elias defeated Matt Dwyer at the Rise Fighting Championship 6, cementing the acceptance of cannabis in the professional sports world and his name in MMA.

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CapyFast and Bidwise forms strategic partnership involving over $40 million in payment volumes within performance marketing industry

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MIAMI, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — At PI Live US, CapyFast, the embedded payments provider for digital commerce, and Bidwise, a performance marketing platform, have announced a new strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to transform payments flow across the performance marketing — making it faster, cheaper, and more intelligent.

The agreement signed today, formalized in a Memorandum of Understanding, is expected to bring over $40 million in payment volumes to CapyFast and millions in available working capital for Bidwise. The cooperation will cover integrating real-time cross-border payment solutions along with smart liquidity services into newly developed infrastructure for Bidwise.

“The performance marketing industry is powered by results, but too often held back by legacy payment cycles,” said Oleg Chanchikov, CEO of CapyFast. “This is why CapyFast wants to remove this block. We’ve already built the infrastructure to support real-time liquidity and embedded funding. Our partnership with Bidwise will help more businesses profit from it.”

CapyFast has grown to be an important financial infrastructure provider to performance-based platforms and networks. By embedding real-time payments and revenue-based funding directly into digital platforms, CapyFast transforms how value is distributed across the industry.

“At Bidwise, we invest millions of dollars every year into media buying to fuel growth and customer acquisition for our partners,” said Simon Vielma, CEO of Bidwise. “Through this cooperation, we’ll have access to flexible financing that will help us scale faster and operate more efficiently.”

What changes with this cooperation?

  • Bidwise and its partners receive real-time and cross-border payouts with dramatically reduced costs;
  • Bidwise improves liquidity by accessing flexible working capital;
  • Enhanced risk management with CapyFast’s proprietary scoring and payment intelligence;
  • A roadmap with plan for infrastructure scale, with rollout starting in Q3 2025 and full deployment by Q1 2026.

This deal reflects a growing trend of fintech-meets-adtech, where modern financial infrastructure becomes essential to platform scalability and user trust.

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Email: press@capyfast.com
Web: www.capyfast.com

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Milli Frigara
Email: milli@bidwise.com
Web: www.bidwise.com

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Theo Raises $20M to Democratize Access to Institutional-Grade Trading Infrastructure

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Founded by ex-Optiver and IMC quants, the platform is backed by angels from Citadel, Jane Street, and JPMorgan

NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Theo, a novel network connecting onchain capital to global markets via institutional-grade trading infrastructure, today announced it has raised $20 million in funding. The round was jointly led by Hack VC and Anthos Capital, with participation from numerous other venture capital firms, including Manifold Trading, Mirana Ventures, Metalayer Ventures, Flowdesk, SCB, MEXC, Amber Group, and Selini Capital, as well as angels from a range of leading TradFi trading firms including Citadel, Jane Street, HRT, Optiver, IMC, 5 Rings, and JPMorgan. 

Founded by former quant traders; Abhi Pingle, Arijit Pingle, and TK Kwon who honed their expertise at elite trading firms Optiver and IMC Trading, Theo was born from a recognition: while onchain capital is growing exponentially, access to traditional and institutional-grade strategies remain out of reach for everyday users. Theo aims to bridge this gap – delivering the sophistication of Wall Street to the retail investor.

Theo’s platform provides access to institutional-grade trading infrastructure that supports a wide range of strategies traditionally reserved for hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. At its core, Theo operates a custom low-latency validator set that ensures custodial guarantees for users, while enforcing rule-based access for institutional counterparties like market makers and trading firms.

These validators facilitate real-time execution across centralized exchanges (CEXes) and decentralized protocols (DeFi), while enforcing margin requirements and maintaining system-wide overcollateralization. Retail users can access these strategies via a simple deposit into strategy-specific vaults—without the complexity of multiple exchange accounts or algorithmic trading knowledge.

“Today’s crypto markets are fragmented and inefficient, preventing institutions and everyday users alike from accessing the full promise of global, permissionless finance,” says Abhi Pingle, co-founder of Theo. “Theo solves this by delivering robust, scalable infrastructure that seamlessly connects large traditional players and retail participants on-chain—unlocking new levels of capital efficiency.”

Theo strategies allow anyone to passively access professional trading strategies by simply depositing assets, with the platform handling execution, risk, and dynamic capital allocation across approaches like high-frequency arbitrage, cross-chain funding rate optimization, and advanced hedging.

As market conditions shift, Theo’s infrastructure dynamically reallocates capital to maintain performance, where single-strategy platforms often see returns diminish. This flexibility ensures greater stability and performance for retail participants.

For trading firms, Theo enables superior capital efficiency. By leveraging user capital through vault participation, firms can cross-margin strategy positions against their proprietary trades—unlocking alpha while users share in the upside. This creates a mutually beneficial ecosystem: institutional-grade strategies, retail accessibility, and shared value creation.

Theo’s architecture is uniquely positioned to connect traditional and crypto-native financial venues. As the industry evolves, Theo’s role as an infrastructure layer will be instrumental in bridging legacy markets and the onchain economy—democratizing access to advanced financial tools worldwide.

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Theo is an institutional-grade trading infrastructure platform founded by former quant traders from IMC Trading and Optiver. The platform enables retail users to access sophisticated high-frequency trading and market-making strategies previously available only to Wall Street firms, while providing trading firms with new opportunities to capture alpha through their market expertise with superior capital efficiency. Learn more at theo.xyz

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NYSE Content Advisory: Midday market update + NYSE President congratulates new SEC Chair Paul Atkins

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NEW YORK, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) President Lynn Martin congratulates Paul Atkins on being sworn in as the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on April 24th

  • NYSE President Lynn Martin, in a post on LinkedIn, congratulated SEC Chair Atkins after he was sworn in and expressed appreciation for his longstanding views on the markets.
  • Martin emphasized the NYSE’s strong belief that “regulatory effectiveness and efficiency are central to the attractiveness of our markets,” adding that Chairman Atkins has been making that same argument since 2008.
  • In her post, she wrote that she looks forward to working closely with Atkins and other policymakers in Washington D.C. to “create an environment that ensures our capital markets remain the envy of the world.”
  • Stocks are gaining for a third straight session, extending a two-day rally boosted by a tone down in tariff talk and softer stance toward Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

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