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The partnership reflects a long-term alignment between ParaFi and Jupiter, grounded in conviction around the protocol’s fundamentals, scale, and role in the evolving onchain financial system.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2nd February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Jupiter, a global onchain finance platform with over $3 trillion in lifetime trading volume, announced a $35 million strategic investment from New York–based ParaFi Capital, a $2bn asset management firm focused on the digital asset ecosystem.

Over the past year, Jupiter processed more than $1 trillion in annual trading volume and expanded from a handful of trading tools into a fully integrated onchain platform spanning swaps, perpetuals, prediction markets, stablecoins, lending, and portfolio management. What began as a single-function interface has evolved into a comprehensive onchain financial hub, enabling users to trade, earn yield, and manage assets within a single application.

ParaFi’s investment extends Jupiter’s momentum into 2026, supporting its efforts to deepen institutional participation in onchain finance. Since its founding in 2018, ParaFi has backed a number of category-defining DeFi protocols.

“With Jupiter, we found a partner with a track record in product development throughout onchain finance,” said Ben Forman, Founder and Managing Partner at ParaFi Capital. “We see further onchain adoption as the future of finance, and we believe the Jupiter team can execute with speed and experience to deepen their market penetration.”

“We share a long-term vision with ParaFi on the timing and potential of onchain finance,” said Xiao-Xiao Zhu, President of Jupiter. “They’ve been building the bridge between traditional finance and onchain markets since 2018. That connectivity will play a large role in accelerating everything we’re doing at Jupiter.”

ParaFi Commits $35M to Jupiter With Extended Lockup and Structured Upside

ParaFi purchased tokens at market prices without a discount, agreed to an extended lockup, and received warrants to acquire additional tokens at materially higher prices, reflecting long-term alignment with Jupiter’s growth.

Notably, the transaction was settled entirely in JupUSD, highlighting confidence in Jupiter’s stablecoin infrastructure and its suitability for large-scale institutional flows.

“This partnership isn’t really about the capital,” Kash Dhanda, COO of Jupiter, added. “What mattered most was finding a partner with deep credibility who could catalyze our growth as we build the next stage of onchain finance.”

Bootstrapped from day one and profitable throughout its lifespan, Jupiter has never taken any outside capital, marking the ParaFi partnership as a historic first.

“We are seeing a rapid convergence between DeFi and traditional capital markets,” said Anjan Vinod, Managing Director at ParaFi Capital. “We’re excited to bring our almost eight-year operating history to support Jupiter as it deepens its core DeFi stack while expanding into new products across tokenization, payments, and asset management.”

Jupiter Reveals Product Suite Expansion at CatLumpurr

At its recent CatLumpurr conference in Kuala Lumpur from January 31 – February 2, Jupiter announced over 40 new major product launches and upgrades. 

With the unveilings at CatLumpurr, Jupiter expanded both its existing product suite and its total addressable market. 

• • Jupiter Lend – the fastest-growing protocol in Solana history, reaching $1B in total supply eight days after the public launch. Several initiatives are underway to unlock billions in latent institutional capital for deployment
  • JupUSD: The first truly onchain-native stablecoin, designed to share underlying economics back to the ecosystem and challenge industry norms. 
  • JupNet – the omnichain network that seeks to aggregate all of crypto into one unified decentralized ledger, allowing users to swap, deposit, and trade across chains with ease
  • Jupiter Global – Real-world onchain payments with Jupiter Card, Global Send enabling USD SWIFT transfers to 200+ countries, local payouts in 15+ currencies, and QR Pay for scan-to-pay across APAC with 0% fees. Available on the Jupiter Mobile app.
  • Prediction Markets with Polymarket Integration – Jupiter, the first Solana partner for Kalshi, is now the first and only Polymarket venue on Solana, platforming onchain activity for the world’s largest prediction market.
  • Jupiter Offerbook: A permissionless money market that allows users to borrow using any onchain asset, including all RWAs, with time-based P2P loans and no price-based liquidations.

Jupiter’s superapp approach aims to ensure that billions of potential users––from retail to institutions––can realize the benefits of onchain finance simply by using a single trusted application across multiple surfaces: web, mobile, and API.

About Jupiter

Jupiter is the global leader in onchain finance, building the infrastructure for an open financial future. With over $1 trillion in annual volume and the largest TVL on Solana, Jupiter delivers a unified onchain experience spanning spot, perpetuals, lending, staking, token creation, prediction markets, and mobile, with many more products to come.

About ParaFi Capital

ParaFi is a leading institutional investment firm focused on the digital asset ecosystem across public and private markets. Founded in 2018, ParaFi was among the earliest dedicated blockchain investors and has evolved into a trusted partner to leading global institutions. The Firm invests across the full stack of crypto capital markets, with investment and technology teams pursuing idiosyncratic opportunities and partnering with protocols and companies building real-world blockchain applications. 

London, UK, 1st February 2026, When the price of Bitcoin fell back to around $80,000, market sentiment cooled rapidly. The community stopped discussing whether it could reach new highs and instead focused on the same fundamental question: Is the cash flow stable enough?

Prices may fluctuate, but business spending and household expenses never stop. Mark Thompson was one of the first to realize this. Living in Toronto, Canada, he’s a supply chain consultant for small and medium-sized enterprises, helping local manufacturers and retailers optimize inventory and cash flow. His work revolves around a core issue every day: how to keep cash flowing, rather than letting it get stuck in a cycle. Therefore, when markets begin to fluctuate wildly, his anxiety doesn’t stem from the price declines themselves, but from a more realistic assessment: “Asset prices will fluctuate, but what I need more is a cash flow system that isn’t swayed by emotions.”

Initially, Mark wasn’t looking to “make more money.” He simply wanted to get some idle assets running, much like automating processes in a business. He invested a small amount of money in a relatively systematic platform. The initial returns weren’t substantial—$100 to $300 per day—but they were very stable. More importantly, there was no need to predict market trends or constantly monitor the market. This was logic he was familiar with.

In the business world, excellent systems never rely on market predictions, but rather on the reliability of the mechanism itself. After running this model for a few weeks, he gradually increased his investment, and the cash flow began to show a clear step-by-step increase: from $2,000 per day to $5,000 per day, and then to $7,777 per day. This was not explosive growth, but a natural result of the system’s long-term operation.

Mark discovered lunar hashes .

In his view, it’s more of a digital asset management tool than a speculative platform. It doesn’t require learning complex technologies or predicting price movements; it simply puts assets into a predefined system and lets it run automatically, continuously generating cash flow.

Joining Moon Hash is very similar to his usual practice in the corporate world:

First, register an account.

Visit the Moon Hash official website and register using your email address and password. New users receive a $15 bonus, and an additional $0.60 for daily logins.

Secondly, deposit mainstream crypto assets.

It supports currencies including BTC, USDT, ETH, LTC, USDC, XRP, and BCH, with a clear and transparent process.

Then, choose a mining contract that suits your needs.

From small introductory plans to long-term asset allocation contracts, users can choose according to their budget and goals. ( For more contract details, please visit the official website .)

Common contract examples:

Bitcoin (Introductory Basic Contract): $100, Term: 2 days, Daily Profit: $4, Total Profit: $100 + $8

Antminer S19j XP – Bitcoin Contract: $500, Term: 7 days, Daily Profit: $6.5, Total Profit: $500 + $32.5

WhatsMiner M60 – Bitcoin Cash Contract: $1500, Term: 10 days, Daily Profit: $21, Total Profit: $1500 + $210

Antminer T21 – Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash Contract: $5000, Term: 20 days, Daily Profit: $80, Total Profit: $5000 + $2400

Avalon Air Box – 40 feet – Bitcoin Contract: $30,000, Term: 33 days, Daily Profit: $570, Total Return: $30,000 + $28,500

The different contracts are more like asset allocation plans with different timeframes than short-term speculative activities. Once a contract is activated, the system will run automatically, and daily returns will be credited to your account on time. You can withdraw funds at any time, or you can choose to activate the reinvestment mechanism to amplify returns over time.

For Mark, the biggest change wasn’t the income figures. It was his lifestyle—he was no longer swayed by market sentiment or constantly checking price fluctuations. These assets had begun to function like a stable supply chain system, consistently generating value for him. In a highly uncertain market environment, Moon Hash doesn’t predict future prices, but rather provides a sense of security unaffected by price volatility.

If you want your assets to not only sit idle, but also run continuously like a system, then Moon Hash might be a new approach worth exploring.

Visit the official platform https://moonhash.com/ now to explore new ways to engage with digital assets.

(Click here to download the app)

Contact us: info@moonhash.com

Disclaimer: The information provided in this press release does not constitute an investment solicitation, nor does it constitute investment advice, financial advice, or trading recommendations. Cryptocurrency mining and staking involve risks and the possibility of losing funds. It is strongly recommended that you perform due diligence before investing or trading in cryptocurrencies and securities, including consulting a professional financial advisor.

Seoul, South Korea, 1st February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Urobicon, a bladder care solution developed on the proprietary UBR01-based technology platform, is gaining growing attention across Europe as an advanced approach to everyday urinary wellness.

Built around a technology-driven formulation concept, Urobicon focuses on supporting bladder environment stability and urinary function through a multi-layered system rather than a single-ingredient approach.

At the core of Urobicon is UBR01, a specialized bladder support technology designed to help maintain tissue condition, support urinary flow dynamics, and promote consistent bladder performance in daily life.

Urobicon combines multiple functional components into an integrated platform, creating a comprehensive support structure for individuals experiencing frequent urination, sensations of incomplete emptying, or general urinary discomfort.

Across multiple European markets, wellness retailers and online platforms report rising interest in Urobicon, with growing demand among consumers seeking technology-inspired alternatives to conventional approaches.

Many users have shared positive experiences, including improved urinary comfort, greater daily convenience, and enhanced confidence following consistent use.

Urobicon is increasingly being recognized as a next-generation bladder care solution built on a technology-centered philosophy, offering a non-invasive option for ongoing urinary support.

As Urobicon expands into North America and Asia, industry observers believe the UBR01 platform may help shape a new standard in technology-inspired bladder wellness solutions.

Wyoming, US, 1st February 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, As generative AI becomes embedded in how consumers discover information and evaluate choices, the U.S. marketing landscape is undergoing a structural shift. In one of the world’s most competitive and algorithm-driven consumer markets, Jiani Luo has emerged as a practitioner advancing a systems-based approach to marketing—one designed for environments where intelligent platforms increasingly influence discovery, comparison, and recommendation.

Rather than treating AI as an efficiency tool for content production or media optimization, Luo’s work addresses a more fundamental challenge: how marketing strategy must evolve when brands are first evaluated by systems before they reach consumers. This perspective has shaped how organizations approach brand growth in the U.S. market, where platform dynamics, AI-assisted search, and fragmented media ecosystems demand greater strategic coherence.

From Campaign Execution to Marketing Architecture

Through sustained work in the U.S. market, Luo has contributed to a shift away from campaign-centric marketing toward marketing architecture—the design of structures that support long-term brand performance across platforms, algorithms, and decision environments.

She emphasizes that in highly automated markets such as the United States, traditional advantages based on creative volume, channel saturation, or short-term optimization are increasingly transient. In their place, durable performance depends on three interrelated capabilities:

• System legibility, ensuring that brand positioning remains clear and interpretable across AI-powered discovery and recommendation systems
  

• Consistency of trust signals, allowing credibility to accumulate across touchpoints rather than resetting with each campaign
  

• Decision-context alignment, connecting brand presence to specific usage and purchase scenarios instead of abstract reach metrics
  

This approach reframes marketing as an operating system rather than a sequence of promotional events.

Applying AI-Aware Strategy in the U.S. Market

Luo’s methodology has been applied across a range of U.S.-based brand initiatives, spanning food and beverage, beauty, home and lifestyle, and family entertainment. Her work supports brands navigating the structural demands of the American market, where competition is high and algorithmic mediation plays a growing role in consumer choice.

In the food and beverage sector, marketing systems informed by her approach have supported Haidilao (U.S.) and HEYTEA (U.S.) in strengthening brand clarity and decision-path coherence for U.S. consumers. These efforts focused on aligning brand signals with local expectations and platform-driven discovery behavior, enabling more sustainable engagement beyond short-term traffic spikes.

In consumer goods and lifestyle, initiatives for Qbedding and Maiko Matcha emphasized semantic consistency and channel coordination, improving brand recognition and reliability within AI-influenced search and recommendation environments.

In beauty, the “I Love My Culture” initiative for WEI Beauty demonstrated how cultural positioning can function as a structural asset in the U.S. market. Rather than pursuing short-lived virality, the program established durable relevance among multicultural consumer communities through consistent narrative design and community alignment.

In experience-driven categories, including FunZ Trampoline Park and Nova Trampoline Park, Luo’s approach informed how brand information, local presence, and consumer decision paths were structured to support measurable improvements in visitation and engagement across U.S. locations.

Redefining Marketing Objectives in an AI-Mediated Environment

Luo notes that as AI increasingly participates in early-stage evaluation—screening, ranking, and comparison—the objective of marketing in the U.S. market is no longer simply to maximize exposure. Instead, success depends on a brand’s ability to remain consistently interpretable, credible, and contextually relevant within intelligent systems over time.

In this environment, AI does not reduce differentiation; it amplifies it. Brands that invest in coherent structure and long-term signal integrity gain disproportionate visibility, while those reliant on fragmented tactics face diminishing returns.

Shaping Sustainable Growth in the U.S. Market

As AI continues to redefine how value is assessed and choices are formed, Jiani Luo remains focused on advancing marketing as a strategic discipline grounded in structure, systems, and long-term relevance. By integrating AI-aware thinking, GEO-informed growth models, and cross-cultural strategy, her work supports brands seeking sustainable performance in the U.S. market.

In a landscape where attention is no longer the sole constraint, Luo’s perspective underscores a central principle of modern marketing: brands that are structurally understood are the ones most likely to endure.

San Diego, California, 30th January 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Roger Haenke has spent his career at the intersection of healthcare and faith. As a registered nurse and ordained priest, his work has placed him in moments where people are vulnerable, uncertain, and often searching for support. Whether in hospitals, churches, clinics, or classrooms, Roger Haenke has built a reputation for being present, steady, and quietly dependable.

Roger Haenke began his career in parish ministry after completing his theological education and ordination. He served churches across North Dakota, offering pastoral care, teaching, and leadership. Much of his early work focused on being there for others during personal transitions—illness, loss, change, and growth. These experiences helped shape how Roger Haenke would later approach leadership in every other part of his life.

After leaving active ministry, Roger Haenke returned to school and earned a nursing degree. He started at the bedside and quickly moved into leadership roles. His healthcare career took him through specialty clinics, hospital departments, and community-based health systems. He managed staff, trained nurses, developed new services, and helped improve patient care across several states. At every step, Roger Haenke kept his focus on people and the systems that support them.

The connection between healthcare and ministry was always clear to Roger Haenke. He saw how much both fields depend on trust, communication, and the ability to remain calm when things are hard. He brought this understanding into every room he entered—whether leading a care team, sitting with a patient, or offering support to staff under pressure.

Later, Roger Haenke joined the faculty at San Diego State University. He taught nursing leadership, financial management, and professional development. His students learned not only the structure of healthcare systems, but also how to show up for others with clarity and respect. Roger Haenke’s teaching reflected what he had lived: strong systems matter, but presence and consistency matter just as much.

In his later ministry roles, Roger Haenke continued to offer steady leadership to congregations in the San Diego area. He worked with teams, guided transitions, and focused on inclusion, listening, and shared responsibility. His approach was thoughtful, balanced, and always grounded in care for others.

Now, Roger Haenke is entering a new chapter. He is no longer working in formal institutional roles, but he continues to serve the San Diego community in smaller, more flexible ways. Whether volunteering, mentoring, or simply showing up when needed, Roger Haenke remains committed to steady, meaningful work rooted in the same values he has carried all along.

For Roger Haenke, leadership has never been about attention or titles. It has always been about being present when it counts.

AQUIVIO, the industrial technology and health-focused beverage infrastructure company redefining how functional and wellness beverages are produced and delivered, today announced a series of strategic milestones underscoring its accelerated growth, global credibility, and deepening commitment to Saudi Arabia as its regional and manufacturing hub.

As part of its long-term industrial and scaling strategy, AQUIVIO has appointed Professor Henrik von Scheel to its Advisory Board. Professor von Scheel is internationally recognized as one of the architects of Industry 4.0 and a senior advisor to multiple governments worldwide. His appointment to AQUIVIO is focused on guiding large-scale manufacturing, supply chain optimization, and logistics design as the company prepares for rapid regional and global deployment of its smart, on-demand wellness infrastructure.

“The upcoming Bio Revolution will alter every aspect of our human experience. It will reshape our reality, sensory, dietary and body – unlike anything humankind has experienced before. It will fundamentally change the way we live, consume, work, relate to one another and experience reality. The magicians of the next decade will radically transform human evolution beyond recognition” said Professor Henrik von Scheel. “AQUIVIO is well positioned at this intersection. What excites me most is the opportunity to work alongside medical science and engineering leadership to industrialize Biohacking and Longevity at scale, moving wellness from aspiration to measurable, system-level impact.”

In parallel, Al Jamhor Law, one of Saudi Arabia’s leading law firms, has joined AQUIVIO as a Legal Advisory Board member. The firm will support AQUIVIO’s governance, regulatory alignment, and cross-border expansion as the company scales across the Kingdom, the GCC, and international markets.

AQUIVIO also announced the successful closing of an oversubscribed USD 1.6 million funding round, bringing total investments beyond USD 2 million to date. The round was led by a prominent Saudi Arabian Family Office, alongside a Flow Ventures–led Angel Syndicate SPV, reflecting strong investor confidence in AQUIVIO’s industrial platform, localization roadmap, and alignment with Vision 2030 priorities.

Operationally, AQUIVIO has secured chain-level agreements and commercial pilots across the fitness, hospitality, and smart office sectors, while appointing additional distribution partners for specialized and additional verticals within Saudi Arabia, East Asia and beyond. The company is simultaneously forming partnerships with established regional leaders to expand into other GCC markets and the APAC region, positioning AQUIVIO as a scalable, export-ready technology platform.

Following its graduation from Sahabah’s Batch #1 cohort under the Saudi Ministry of Water, Environment and Agriculture (MEWA), AQUIVIO is extending its “Quality of Life” research initiative. AQUIVIO’s initiative is built around the company’s patented functional, alkaline and hydrogen enriching water treatment technology, co-created by CEO Daniel Hill and Ivan Dus, MD, PhD, DDS. As part of this effort, AQUIVIO plans to collaborate with regional water laboratories and research centers to produce advanced scientific publications and medical studies, further advancing global understanding of human physiology and functional water interaction on a cellular level.

“Modern lifestyles have created a growing mismatch between human biology and daily environmental inputs, particularly hydration,” said Dr. Ivan Dus. “Functional water represents a powerful, yet underexplored, lever to help realign cellular processes and metabolic balance. What makes AQUIVIO exceptional is its ability to translate medical science into industrialized, repeatable infrastructure. Collaborating with Professor von Scheel and the broader AQUIVIO team enables us to build a new category of value-added water that is both clinically grounded and globally scalable.”

AQUIVIO operates smart, cloud-connected wellness stations that function as micro-factories at the point of use, enabling on-demand beverage production without reliance on traditional bottled supply chains. Built on Industry 4.0 architecture, the platform integrates industrial-grade hardware, AI-driven device intelligence, and centralized software management to deliver real-time monitoring, optimization, and quality control across all deployments. The result is high-quality, customizable functional beverages with dramatically reduced plastic waste, logistics complexity, and operational inefficiencies.

Through its subsidiary AQUIVIO Arabia LLC, the company has positioned Saudi Arabia as the cornerstone of its long-term strategy, encompassing manufacturing, operations, R&D, and regional headquarters. AQUIVIO maintains a phased localization roadmap toward fully Saudi-made beverages and wellness stations, beginning with consumables and extending to full system integration and manufacturing—establishing the Kingdom as a production hub serving domestic, regional, and international markets.

With strong investor backing, international advisory leadership, and growing commercial traction, AQUIVIO continues to align advanced industrial technology, sustainability, and public health innovation to alleviate challenges of urbanization by utilizing technology for the greater good of humanity.

Meet AQUIVIO in 2026

AQUIVIO will actively engage with global investors, industry leaders, and strategic partners throughout 2026. Opportunities to meet the AQUIVIO leadership team include:

• Web Summit Qatar, Doha, February 1-4
• LEAP Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, April 13-16 
• Riyadh Family Office Summit, hosted by Epicon Capital Club, Riyadh, April 15
• TaiSPO, Taipei, March 25-28
• Smart City Summit & Expo, Taipei, March 17 – 20

About AQUIVIO

AQUIVIO is an industrial technology and wellness infrastructure company redefining beverage production through smart, on-demand systems. By combining Industry 4.0 architecture, AI-driven device intelligence, and sustainable design, AQUIVIO delivers scalable solutions for commercial, institutional, and large-scale environments worldwide.

For more information, check out our website: www.aquivio.com

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aquivio/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquivio_official/ 

• Elysium and Spotex Deliver Integrated Front-to-Back Digital Asset Trading Solution for the Institutional Market 
• Decade-Long Partnership Expands from FX to Cryptocurrency with Live Deployment at Major Crypto Broker 

Chicago, IL, 29th January 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Elysium and Spotex today announce the integration of Spotex’s institutional trading platform with Elysium’s MatchHub post-trade infrastructure. The integrated solution delivers a seamless front-to-back workflow for digital asset trading and has been successfully deployed at an established cryptocurrency broker, enabling optimized execution, reconciliation, and settlement across multiple custodians and clearing venues.

The combined offering represents a natural evolution of the two firms’ decade-long collaboration in traditional OTC foreign exchange markets. As both companies expanded their capabilities to serve the growing institutional digital asset ecosystem, the integration creates a comprehensive solution for firms operating in both FX and cryptocurrency markets.

The platform leverages Spotex’s api-driven execution capabilities—including price discovery, matching engine, cross-asset liquidity aggregation, and fiat-crypto pair pricing—with MatchHub’s back-end infrastructure for trade reconciliation, counterparty credit management, and multi-party settlement optimization. This end-to-end solution addresses the nuanced challenges faced by institutional crypto brokers managing multi-custodial relationships and diverse clearing arrangements across both traditional and digital assets.

“The growth of the crypto OTC market is supported in part by quality off-chain liquidity.” said Chris O’Connor, CEO of Elysium. “Spotex’s execution capabilities enable brokers to create a deep and diverse liquidity stack and Elysium’s MatchHub solves the complexity of the post-trade workflows.

“Our long history with Elysium in FX markets made this integration a natural evolution,” said John Miesner, CEO of Spotex. “Deploying our proven execution capabilities in digital assets along-side Elysium’s robust post-trade capabilities delivers the same operational excellence that institutional clients expect from their FX trading operations.”

The live deployment at the cryptocurrency broker showcases the platform’s ability to handle high-volume institutional trading while maintaining rigorous reconciliation and settlement standards across traditional banking infrastructure and digital asset custodial relationships. The bundled solution is immediately available to all institutional digital asset trading firms seeking to streamline their liquidity and enhance operational efficiency.

About Elysium

Elysium’s flagship platform, MatchHub, is the post-trade engine trusted by makers, takers, brokers, and prime brokers in an ever-evolving digital asset market. MatchHub delivers real-time trade capture, netting, settlement, and integrated credit controls through a fully branded client portal. With a track record spanning traditional finance and a dedicated crypto focus since 2018, Elysium combines deep market knowledge with cutting-edge engineering to power the next generation of institutional digital-asset infrastructure. For more information, visit www.elysiumtechgroup.com

About Spotex

Spotex is a leading institutional liquidity and trade execution platform serving the FX and digital asset markets. The company provides sophisticated market participants with access to deep liquidity pools, advanced execution algorithms, and comprehensive market analytics. With a decade of proven performance in traditional FX markets, Spotex has expanded its platform to serve the growing institutional cryptocurrency market. For more information, visit www.spotex.com.

Berlin, Germany, 28th January 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Quranlingo, the interactive and Gamified Quran learning platform, has officially announced at the Websummit in Qatar the development of Quranlingo Gardens, the world’s first puzzle-driven progression and decoration game designed specifically for Quran learning. The game is being built in collaboration with UIGO Design and Game Studios, following a successful year of creative and educational collaboration.

Alongside this announcement, Quranlingo has launched a global crowdfunding campaign titled “Support the First Quran Learning Game: Quranlingo Gardens”, inviting the community to help bring this new learning experience to life.

A New Chapter in Quran Learning

Quranlingo Gardens reimagines how learners interact with the Qur’an by transforming learning progress into a visible, living world.

Instead of abstract points or streaks, learners build and maintain a personal garden that reflects their Quranic journey:

• Completing Quran lessons unlocks trees, gardens, fountains, and mosques

• Consistent learning keeps the garden alive and flourishing

• Each garden becomes a unique visual reflection of effort, understanding, and growth

The game integrates directly into the Quranlingo mobile app, ensuring that learning always remains the core, while gameplay serves as motivation—not distraction.

Designed for Real Learners, Real Lives

Quranlingo Gardens is intentionally designed for:

• Children growing up in non-Arabic speaking environments

• Families learning the Qur’an together

• Adult learners seeking motivation and continuity

Many learners begin their Quran journey with enthusiasm but struggle to maintain consistency over time. Others memorize without fully understanding, or feel disconnected from their progress. Quranlingo Gardens addresses these challenges by making effort visible and rewarding consistency gently and meaningfully.

Why Gamified Quran Learning Matters

Educational research consistently shows that well-designed gamification:

• Increases motivation and enjoyment

• Encourages daily engagement and habit formation

• Improves long-term knowledge retention

In Quran-focused gamified learning studies, over 80% of learners reported higher enjoyment and a stronger intention to continue learning when progress was made visible through interactive systems.

Quranlingo Gardens applies these principles carefully without compromising the reverence, seriousness, or centrality of the Qur’an.

From Vision to Execution: A Community-Powered Project

The educational foundation of Quranlingo is already live and serving learners worldwide. Quranlingo Gardens represents the next major evolution of the platform.

To build the game properly, Quranlingo has launched a six-month focused development campaign to attract users to contribute to the game development through a crowdfunding campaign designed for that purpose:

https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/help_muslims_grow_their_quran_knowledge_literally

As the Quranlingo team describes it:

“This is sadaqah that keeps growing, just like the gardens we want to create.”

About Quranlingo

Quranlingo is an interactive mobile application designed to make learning the Qur’an joyful, accessible, and meaningful for non-Arabic speaking learners. By combining educational rigor with thoughtful design, Quranlingo helps learners move beyond memorization toward understanding, consistency, and connection.

About UIGO Design Studios

UIGO Design and Game Studios is a creative studio specializing in visual storytelling, game design, and interactive experiences. Their collaboration with Quranlingo focuses on building engaging, culturally respectful, and high-quality educational game environments.

For press inquiries, partnerships, or interviews:
Please contact the Quranlingo team via their official website or crowdfunding campaign page.

In the hedge fund industry, bigger isn’t always better. While established multi-billion dollar funds command most of the attention and assets, a compelling body of evidence suggests that emerging managers, typically defined as funds with less than $1 billion in assets under management (AUM) and fewer than five years of track record, consistently deliver superior returns during their early years.

This outperformance isn’t accidental. It stems from a combination of structural advantages, behavioral incentives, and market dynamics that create a genuine alpha-generating edge for smaller funds. For sophisticated investors willing to look beyond brand names and navigate the operational complexities, emerging managers represent one of the most compelling opportunities in alternative investments.

The Numbers Tell a Compelling Story

Academic research and industry data consistently demonstrate the emerging manager advantage. Studies have shown that hedge funds with less than $500 million in AUM outperform their larger peers by 200-400 basis points annually during their first several years of operation. This performance premium persists across strategies, though it tends to be most pronounced in equity-focused and opportunistic approaches where capacity constraints are more severe.

The performance differential becomes even more striking when examining risk-adjusted returns. Emerging managers often achieve their outperformance with comparable or lower volatility than established funds, resulting in superior Sharpe ratios. This combination of higher returns and disciplined risk management reflects the heightened focus and care that characterizes smaller operations.

Structural Advantages: Size as Strategy

The most obvious advantage emerging managers possess is their ability to invest in opportunities that simply don’t move the needle for larger funds. A $200 million fund can deploy 5% of its capital, $10 million, into a compelling small-cap equity position or distressed credit opportunity. For a $5 billion fund, that same position would represent just 0.2% of assets, hardly worth the research effort.

This capacity advantage extends beyond position sizing. Emerging managers can concentrate their portfolios in their highest-conviction ideas without the diversification requirements that come with managing institutional scale. While a large fund might hold 80-120 positions to maintain liquidity and manage operational risk, an emerging manager can run a focused portfolio of 20-40 positions, ensuring each investment receives proper attention and contributes meaningfully to returns.

Liquidity constraints that plague larger funds become opportunities for nimble emerging managers. They can participate in private placements, negotiate structured solutions, and take advantage of market dislocations without worrying whether they can accumulate or exit positions without moving markets. This flexibility translates directly into expanded opportunity sets and better execution.

Alignment of Interests: Skin in the Game

Perhaps the most underappreciated advantage of emerging managers is the extraordinary alignment of interests between fund managers and investors. Portfolio managers at emerging funds typically have substantial personal capital invested, often representing the majority of their net worth. When you’re managing $300 million and have $10-50 million of your own money at risk, every basis point matters personally.

This alignment manifests in tangible ways. Emerging managers are more likely to close funds to new capital to protect returns rather than prioritize asset gathering. They’re more willing to return capital to investors when opportunities don’t meet their hurdle rates. They think and act like principals, not agents.

The compensation structure at emerging funds reinforces this alignment. Unlike large platforms where portfolio managers may receive guaranteed salaries and bonuses regardless of fund performance, emerging managers live and die by their incentive fees. There’s no corporate safety net, no diversified business lines to cushion underperformance. This creates a powerful incentive to deliver for investors.

Behavioral Edge: Hunger and Focus

There’s an intangible but very real behavioral advantage that emerging managers bring to the table. They’re building something from scratch, establishing a reputation, and proving themselves to the market. This creates a level of intensity, attention to detail, and commitment that’s difficult to replicate once a fund reaches institutional scale and the founders achieve financial security.

Emerging managers typically maintain flat organizational structures where senior talent is directly involved in investment decisions and portfolio management. There’s no bureaucratic layering, no committee decision-making that dilutes accountability. Ideas move quickly from identification to implementation, and the investment team can pivot rapidly when market conditions change.

The research process at emerging funds tends to be more thorough and creative. With fewer positions to monitor and less marketing to conduct, portfolio managers can spend more time conducting proprietary research, building industry relationships, and identifying overlooked opportunities. They’re not relying on sell-side research or consensus views—they’re developing genuine informational edges.

Operational Agility in a Changing Market

Market environments change quickly, and emerging managers can adapt their strategies and positioning far more rapidly than institutional platforms. Large funds are constrained by regulatory obligations, investor communications requirements, and the sheer operational complexity of repositioning multi-billion dollar portfolios.

An emerging manager can identify a developing macro trend, stress test the thesis with the entire investment team in a single room, and meaningfully adjust portfolio positioning within days. This agility proved particularly valuable during periods of market dislocation, the COVID-19 crisis, regional banking stress, and other rapid market shifts that rewarded quick thinking and decisive action.

The technology and data infrastructure available to emerging managers has leveled the playing field in ways that weren’t possible a decade ago. Cloud-based portfolio management systems, alternative data sources, and institutional-quality risk analytics are now accessible at reasonable cost. Emerging managers can operate with the analytical sophistication of much larger peers while maintaining their structural advantages.

The Risk-Reward Proposition

Of course, investing in emerging managers isn’t without risks. Operational infrastructure may be less developed, key person risk is more concentrated, and business sustainability hasn’t been proven through full market cycles. These are legitimate concerns that require careful due diligence.

However, for investors who can conduct proper operational due diligence and construct a diversified portfolio of emerging managers, the risk-reward proposition is compelling. The performance premium from emerging managers often exceeds what investors pay away in fees to fund-of-funds managers, while maintaining better transparency and control.

The key is identifying emerging managers with strong operational foundations, experienced teams, sustainable competitive advantages, and strategies that can scale without sacrificing the factors that drive early outperformance. This requires looking beyond track records to evaluate investment process, team dynamics, and business infrastructure.

Building the Next Generation of Investment Talent

Beyond the immediate performance benefits, allocating to emerging managers serves a broader purpose in the investment ecosystem. Today’s emerging managers are tomorrow’s institutional platforms. By supporting talented managers in their early years, investors help cultivate the next generation of investment talent and build relationships that can deliver value for decades.

Many of the industry’s most successful funds, Elliott Management, Baupost Group, Viking Global, generated their best returns when they were emerging managers. Investors who backed them early benefited from both superior performance and long-term partnership with exceptional investment talent.

The Case for Strategic Allocation

For institutional investors, family offices, and sophisticated individual investors, a strategic allocation to emerging managers should be a core component of alternative investment portfolios. The performance premium is well-documented, the structural advantages are enduring, and the diversification benefits complement larger, more established hedge fund relationships.

The challenge lies in execution: identifying talented emerging managers, conducting appropriate due diligence, managing operational risks, and maintaining discipline through the inevitable periods when individual managers underperform. This requires dedicated resources, specialized expertise, and a long-term perspective.

However, for investors willing to make this commitment, the emerging manager space represents one of the most attractive sources of alpha in alternative investments. The combination of structural advantages, behavioral incentives, and alignment of interests creates a genuine edge that persists despite being well-known to sophisticated market participants.

In an environment where sources of differentiated returns are increasingly scarce, the emerging manager advantage stands out as both intellectually compelling and empirically validated. The opportunity exists for those prepared to look beyond brand names and embrace the higher-touch approach that emerging manager investing requires.

The views expressed in this article are those of CV5 Capital and are subject to change. This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice.

About CV5 Capital

CV5 Capital is the leading platform for emerging and established managers to launch and manage institutional hedge funds and digital asset funds with turnkey support end to end. Regulated and based in the Cayman Islands, CV5 Capital provides all services so fund managers can focus on running their strategy and building an audited track record.

In a market overcrowded with hype-driven NFTs and short-term speculation, the Win Blockchain, Connect United and its affiliated decosystem (decentralized ecosystem), are charting a different path. Their focus is clear: NFTs with real-world applications, measurable impact, and long-term value.

With the Win Blockchain/Connect United, NFTs are no longer digital collectibles, they’re functional access subscription tools for services, proof-of-action records, loyalty multipliers, environmental assets, educational credentials and much more.

This shift marks the beginning of a new chapter in blockchain utility, where NFTs are digital assets that bridge real-world actions, data, and economic value.

Driving Innovation Through NFTs

Where most chains talk about RWAs in theory, the Win Blockchain decosystem is actively delivering RWA-connected NFTs across multiple sectors:

• Environmental Credit NFTs (Grow United) –  Tokenizing regenerative agriculture outputs such as carbon and environmental credits, enabling transparency, traceability, and new revenue streams for farmers. Using NFT technology to reduce green-washing and verify on-chain.
• PowerPay NFTs (Set Power Free) –  PowerPay NFTs help users save on their power bills when you pay your bill with GREEN PowerPay NFTs introduce transparency, accountability, and recurring value to energy systems, allowing participants to engage with decentralized tools while using the utility of the GREEN token.
• Learn2Earn NFTs (Connect) –  Learn2Earn NFTs tie education directly to action. These NFTs reward participants with on-chain digital assets for completing real learning modules and applying learning in measurable ways.
• Heirloom NFTs (Element United) –  Digitizing the memories, stories, and media tied to treasured personal items by adding photos, videos, and written history on-chain.
• Digital Wellness Memberships (Galvan) –  Turning health and wellness memberships into blockchain-based digital passes, giving owners rewards, on-chain accountability, and wellness-tracking benefits.

Each of these NFTs maps directly to a physical asset, measurable action, or verifiable real-world benefit, making them ideal examples of RWA utility—one of the most highly anticipated growth sectors in Web3.

A Utility Layer Built for People That Want More than Memes

The decosystem is engineered for communities who demand more than hype:

• Utility > Speculation
  Every of these new NFT types are designed to do something: unlock rewards, log actions, boost outcomes, or enable real-world participation.
• Transparency & Verifiability
  Proof-of-Action, on-chain tracking, and transparent reward logic let users validate activity and outcomes themselves.
• Decentralized Ownership
  Community-owned nodes support and own the network, reducing reliance on any central entity.

For anyone evaluating blockchain projects based on fundamentals, the Connect decosystem checks the boxes that matter: functionality, sustainability, community governance, and real-world purpose.

The NFT and Blockchain Advantage

While NFTs have built a reputation of collectible digital art that has been traded in a highly speculative market, the underlying NFT technology has been underutilized. NFTs and crypto have become the buzzwords, but it’s really the blockchain that does that heavy lifting behind the scenes.

At its core, blockchain makes it possible to record ownership, participation, and outcomes in a way that no single company controls and no system can quietly rewrite.

The Win Blockchain is an example of where this technology is heading. It is designed for low-cost transactions, on-chain proof-of-action, decentralized node support, and NFTs that do more than sit in a wallet. These tools let digital activity connect directly to real-world behavior and rewards.

Built on top of that infrastructure is Connect, a community-owned social impact platform that uses Learn2Earn education, action-based participation, decentralized governance, and utility-driven NFTs to turn engagement into something measurable and owned by users, not platforms.

What makes this ecosystem interesting is how blockchain enables coordination across industries. Brand affiliates like Grow United, R-Link, Switch Reward Card, Galvan, Set Power Free and Element United all use similar blockchain tech to deliver industry-specific utility across agriculture, communication, e-commerce, wellness, sustainability, finance, and more.

Put simply, blockchain is compelling when it coordinates people, incentives, and outcomes at scale creating real utility and solving real problems. This decosystem shows what that looks like in practice, with purpose-focused NFTs and a blockchain system where digital ownership connects directly to real-world impact.