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Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Grayscale Debuts First Investment Trusts for Sui's Core Protocols
Digital asset investment platform Grayscale has launched two new single-asset trusts providing exposure to Sui protocols DeepBook and Walrus. The Grayscale DeepBook Trust and Grayscale Walrus Trust invest solely in the native DEEP and WAL tokens, respectively. DeepBook is a decentralized central limit order book (CLOB) built on the Sui blockchain. It serves as a foundational liquidity layer for the Sui ecosystem, meaning that it provides the underlying infrastructure for decentralized exchanges (DEXs), wallets, and other applications on Sui to facilitate token trading. Walrus, meanwhile, is a blockchain-based data storage platform designed to host the massive wells of information driven by the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The trusts are open for daily subscription via private placement to accredited investors, marking a new avenue for institutional participation in Sui's DeFi, social and gaming use cases. Stamford, Connecticut-based Grayscale is best known for its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and Ethereum equivalent (ETHE), both of which it has converted into exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The firm has subsequently expanded its focus to more niche areas of the digital asset market to appeal to investors with an eye on a wider array of blockchain use in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Campaign ME
4 days ago
- Business
- Campaign ME
Alkimi brings billions in ad spend on-chain to fix broken ad ecosystem
Decentralised ad platform Alkimi has partnered with Sui, a blockchain built for mass adoption, to bring billions of dollars in digital advertising revenue on-chain. Intending to fix a broken ad ecosystem, Alkimi's platform removes opaque intermediaries from the advertising supply chain, redirecting value directly between advertisers and publishers. The ad platform – which is already seeing mainstream adoption of ad spend on blockchain through brands such as Amazon's AWS, TikTok, Polestar and Currys – exposes where spend was previously lost, bringing transparency, reduced fees and accelerated payments to the digital advertising landscape. The partnership sees Alkimi adopt the full stack of Mysten-created technologies – including the Sui blockchain, Walrus, Nautilus, and Seal – to bring digital advertising on-chain, advancing one of the largest and most commercially viable sectors and showcasing how these innovations work together to modernise a legacy industry. Powered by Sui's high-performance blockchain, Alkimi infrastructure will also be able to unlock future opportunities for data monetisation, from licensing models to AdFi innovations. 'Alkimi is fixing a broken digital and advertising ecosystem by bringing it on-chain, and we are proud to be the network chosen for such an important job,' said Christian Thompson, Managing Director at Sui Foundation. 'Sui and its stack ensure the experience for Alkimi and their partners is fast, secure, transparent, and able to function completely on-chain – the only way the benefits of decentralization can be fully realised,' Thompson added. Each Mysten-created product plays a critical role in bringing this modernised advertising experience to life: The Sui blockchain is the coordination layer for Alkimi's offering, powering verifiable, outcome-based transactions between advertisers and publishers. is the coordination layer for Alkimi's offering, powering verifiable, outcome-based transactions between advertisers and publishers. Walrus supercharges Alkimi's capabilities, enabling the platform to scale efficiently by putting data onchain. Currently delivering more than 25 million ad impressions per day, Alkimi is expanding its network of publishers and global brands. Walrus ensures the data infrastructure keeps pace, providing a reliable, cost-effective, and high-performance solution. With real-world advertisers requiring transparency and auditability, Walrus gives Alkimi the foundation to deliver trusted, accurate data at scale. supercharges Alkimi's capabilities, enabling the platform to scale efficiently by putting data onchain. Currently delivering more than 25 million ad impressions per day, Alkimi is expanding its network of publishers and global brands. Walrus ensures the data infrastructure keeps pace, providing a reliable, cost-effective, and high-performance solution. With real-world advertisers requiring transparency and auditability, Walrus gives Alkimi the foundation to deliver trusted, accurate data at scale. Nautilus allows Alkimi to independently validate ad impressions and run financial reconciliation logic in verifiable trusted execution environments (TEEs) — ensuring advertisers and publishers are paid based on provably accurate delivery data and help ensure agreements between advertisers and publishers are met. allows Alkimi to independently validate ad impressions and run financial reconciliation logic in verifiable trusted execution environments (TEEs) — ensuring advertisers and publishers are paid based on provably accurate delivery data and help ensure agreements between advertisers and publishers are met. Seal encrypts and manages access to the sensitive ad impression data and related metadata of Alkimi's Fortune 500 clients without relying on centralised services, making a fully on-chain advertising platform possible — protecting brand and publisher confidentiality while keeping the system fully decentralized. 'We had the tech, and we knew it needed to scale, that's when the team at Sui really leaned in,' said Ben Putley, CEO and Co-Founder of Alkimi. 'They understood our vision to rebuild digital advertising into something more transparent and equitable. Bringing it onchain isn't about replicating the legacy systems, it's about giving advertisers, publishers and users a fundamentally better experience, powered by faster, more secure, and decentralised infrastructure,' Putley concluded.
Business Insider
05-08-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Walrus Integrates with Pipe Network to Increase Bandwidth and Reduce Latency Across Multiple Chains
Walrus to leverage Pipe Network's more than 280,000 Point of Presence ('PoP') nodes to speed up delivery at the edge, while the Pipe Network will leverage Walrus storage to provide a multichain experience Pipe Foundation, launch partner for the Pipe Network, and decentralized data storage protocol and application development platform, Walrus, today announced a partnership to integrate their respective solutions so the Pipe Network will act as Walrus's content-delivery layer. The Pipe Network will use Walrus storage capabilities in order to extend its reach, increasing bandwidth and reducing latency across multiple high-throughput blockchains. Walrus chose to partner with the Pipe Network because its DePIN architecture already spans more than 280K community-run PoP nodes worldwide. Walrus users will read and write data through the nearest PoP, keeping R-U retrieval latency under 50 ms even at the network edge. All traffic stays on a decentralized path, preserving end-to-end ownership and auditability. David Rhodus, Founder of Permissionless Labs, a core contributor to the Pipe Network, commented on the news, 'Walrus partnered with us because our global, DePIN enabled footprint eliminates the single region bottlenecks you get with legacy CDNs like Cloudflare. Additionally, our robust PoP node infrastructure will optimize Walrus's ability to deliver large dynamic files, like video content. So whether you're in rural Patagonia or New York City, content now rides the shortest path.' The key challenge with existing solutions is that they aren't optimized for performance delivery at the edge, especially for large or dynamic files. Walrus, developed by the original contributors to the leading smart contract platform and layer 1 blockchain Sui, is designed to act as the data layer for the future of decentralized internet applications, delivering programmable and scalable storage for virtually any project. The programmable nature of Walrus' network allows users to do more with their data, enabling information to seamlessly move between storage, availability, and compute as opposed to simple static storage from other decentralized data platforms. Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of the Walrus Foundation, added, 'Much like cloud data storage solutions, current web2 based content delivery networks like Cloudflare aren't optimized for performance at the edge of the network, relying on centralized data centers in high demand markets versus a decentralized network of nodes incentivized to support underserved regions. Leveraging Pipe's 280,000 globally distributed PoP nodes, Walrus will gain access to increased bandwidth and reduced latency in high traffic environments and underserved regions alike, making the Pipe Network our ideal partner for last mile content delivery. We're also thrilled that our storage capabilities extend the reach of their network and make them a multichain solution." By partnering with Pipe Foundation, Walrus will unlock further cost management for both users and developers as well as increased performance for content delivery, allowing the platform to accommodate everything from simple data storage to high-throughput data requirements like those for decentralized AI development. About Walrus Walrus is a decentralized data storage protocol and application development platform that allows apps to publish, read, and program large data files and rich media content such as videos, images, and audio. Built on Sui, apps on Walrus can manage stored on- and offchain data via Move-based smart contracts. Originally developed by Web3 infrastructure builders Mysten Labs, Walrus represents an evolution in decentralized data storage. About Pipe Network Pipe Network is a permissionless, hyper-local content delivery network (CDN) built on Solana. Anyone can spin up a lightweight Point of Presence node, forming a global mesh that keeps content within 50 mils of end-users, cutting 50-70% of round-trip latency compared with traditional CDNs. The ultimate vision for the Pipe Network is to build a distributed cloud services provider that leverages crypto payment rails and DePIN infrastructure to disrupt bloated incumbents, starting with the legacy content delivery networks (CDN) like CloudFlare. Contact
Business Insider
29-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
FLock.io Partners with Walrus to Power Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving AI Training
Bringing Walrus's decentralized data layer and SEAL encryption to unlocking secure, community-owned AI development. the first decentralized AI training platform, will build on Walrus as its core data layer to bring secure, privacy-preserving AI model development to the Sui ecosystem. This partnership connects Walrus's robust decentralized infrastructure, including data storage, availability, programmability, and access controls, with innovative approach to AI development. utilizes Federated Learning and blockchain to enable communities to build, train, and own AI models without centralizing sensitive data. Their ecosystem includes AI Arena for competitive model training, FL (Federated Learning) Alliance for privacy-focused collaboration, and Moonbase for decentralized model hosting. Together, these components provide an end-to-end stack for open, community-governed AI development. The initial phase of this integration centers on strengthening FL Alliance with Walrus and SEAL. Walrus provides the decentralized broadcasting and storage layer for model parameters and training outputs across federated learning nodes. SEAL, a decentralized secrets management system, enforces gated access and data confidentiality, ensuring that only verified federation members can access or contribute encrypted gradients and data. 'Previously, our data solutions either lacked decentralization or encryption, creating onboarding hurdles," said Jiahao Sun, Founder & CEO of "Walrus changes that. It gives us a fully decentralized, encrypted storage solution for gradients, which means we can confidently expand our FL Alliance and bring more secure AI training to our users.' Looking ahead, this partnership aims to deliver a true agentic AI experience on Sui through open collaboration and hands-on development. The next phase will involve fine-tuning an open-source foundation model, optimized for agentic interactions within the Sui environment. The teams aim for this to lead to a functional prototype, comparable to a 'Copilot for the Sui Blockchain,' capable of Move-native code generation, smart contract assistance, and context-aware agentic reasoning. 'Walrus provides the global data layer for builders, giving them full control over their data and new ways to create value. Our collaboration with showcases the power of Walrus for decentralized AI, enabling a truly secure and programmable foundation for cutting-edge AI model development,' said Rebecca Simmonds, Managing Executive of the Walrus Foundation. By combining secure data infrastructure with innovative federated learning, this partnership opens new avenues for builders to create more collaborative, private, and powerful AI models, creating value and control for developers in the new data economy.
Calgary Herald
26-07-2025
- General
- Calgary Herald
'Gizmo', 'Satan,' and 'McLovin': Inside the changing world of pilot calls signs at CFB Cold Lake
Article content Animal names including 'Pug,' 'Tiger,' 'Piglet,' and 'Walrus,' were also assigned as call signs as were foods including 'Jelly Bean' and 'Loaf.' Article content Some call signs produced amusing juxtapositions, including the potential of 'Moses' and 'Satan' flying together on the same mission. Article content Those nicknames are selected by what's known as a call sign review board (CRB), that despite the formal name, are an invite-only social gathering. Article content 'Due to the unprecedented times we have lived through over the past two years none of you have been adequately exposed to mess culture or to the morale building exercises central to the identity of an operational unit such as ours,' reads an emailed invitation to pilots from an acting commanding officer at CFB Cold Lake, adding the CRB will 'ensure your proper amalgamation into the fighter controller community.' Article content Article content 'Traditions are important,' his email ends. Article content The documents indicate meetings of CRBs can include consumption of alcohol by attendees, are sometimes preceded by a slideshow full of internet memes, and in one case, encouraged invitees to obtain an item from a rival squadron on base to be 'ransomed' back to its rightful owner at a later date. Article content Potential call signs for a given pilot are set out to the group by the leader of the CRB, referenced in the documents as 'the mayor.' Those suggestions are then debated by the 'congregation' of other pilots while the member awaiting his or her new call sign, known as 'the defendant,' waits outside. Article content Upon being invited back into the room, the pilot is informed of the group's choice and bestowed with that as their call sign. Article content While often whimsical or humorous, some call signs have been deemed to be problematic in the past. Article content Article content In 2022, two senior officers were disciplined and fined for not intervening during a call sign review board at CFB Cold Lake that assigned a junior male pilot a homophobic call sign that referenced a specific female pilot. Article content Maj.-Gen. Iain Huddleston told the Canadian Press then that the call sign was 'egregious,' and the incident led the RCAF to promise to add more controls over how call signs are assigned. Article content A 2023 lessons learned report included in the documents presented several recommendations regarding CRBs, including that commanding officers pre-vet any prospective call signs which are also to be presented to pilots privately 'to ensure all perceived pressure to consent is removed.' Article content 'The RCAF reviewed and updated its direction surrounding call sign assignment practices to ensure alignment with Canadian Armed Forces values, including professionalism, respect, dignity, and inclusion,' Bilodeau stated.
