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Austin, Texas, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

Omni One Integrated into Counter-UAS Personnel Trainer for U.S. Marine Corps Evaluation at Quantico, Virginia

Counter-Drone Training Is Becoming One of the Fastest Growing Priorities of Western Militaries

Latest Defense Milestone Builds on Virtuix’s Growing Adoption Across All Major Branches of the U.S. Military

Virtuix Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIX), a leading developer of AI-driven, full-body simulation systems, today announced that its Omni One movement platform has been integrated into LeadTech’s next-generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) Personnel Trainer, an AI-enabled counter-drone simulation platform designed to prepare warfighters to detect and defeat hostile drones through realistic marksmanship training with full-body movement.

Virtuix and LeadTech will install the simulation system at the Training and Education Command (TECOM) of the United States Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia, where teams from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton will evaluate the platform for future training applications. Watch a demo video of the system here: https://youtu.be/DXHdwFoUC-Q.

The counter-drone simulation builds on Virtuix’s accelerating momentum across the defense sector with all four major branches of the U.S. military. Recent milestones include Virtuix’s assignment as the lead integrator for a U.S. Marine Corps virtual fireteam trainer, an Air Force SBIR Phase I award, a development agreement with the U.S. Navy, deployments to the U.S. Army and Air National Guard, integration into advanced Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) training, and ongoing collaborations supporting military mission planning and simulation.

Virtuix was also recently recognized with a second consecutive AWE Auggie Award for Best Interaction Product, underscoring the industry’s recognition of Omni One as the leading movement platform for immersive full-body interaction across defense, robotics, and enterprise applications.

“The rapid proliferation of drones has fundamentally changed the battlefield, creating an urgent need for realistic and scalable counter-UAS training,” said Jan Goetgeluk, Founder and CEO of Virtuix. “Our AI-driven Omni One platform enables warfighters to move naturally through complex virtual environments while maintaining full situational awareness, creating a level of immersion that is difficult to achieve with stationary virtual training systems. This collaboration with LeadTech is another example of the strong momentum Virtuix is building across the defense sector, where our technology is being adopted for increasingly sophisticated military training applications.”

Counter-UAS capabilities have become a critical priority for militaries seeking to protect personnel and critical infrastructure from evolving aerial threats. As drones continue to advance in capability and affordability, military organizations are placing greater emphasis on immersive simulation that enables warfighters to train repeatedly in highly realistic operational environments before entering costly live-fire exercises.

The C-UAS simulator recreates real-world military training ranges as highly accurate digital twins, allowing warfighters to train in virtual environments that closely mirror the locations where they will later conduct live-fire exercises. Initial environments include the Marine Corps’ Little Baghdad urban training complex at Twentynine Palms, with additional virtual ranges planned for Quantico, Fort Benning, and other training locations. By faithfully reproducing terrain, buildings, and engagement scenarios, the platform is designed to maximize the transfer of skills from virtual training to live operations.

Using Omni One, trainees are able to move naturally through these environments without the constraints of traditional virtual training systems. During exercises, users move from building to building, navigate streets and corners, communicate over simulated tactical radios, and engage hostile first-person-view (FPV) drones using realistic ballistics, environmental effects, and tactical decision-making. The system supports both individual and multi-user training, enabling squads to rehearse coordinated counter-drone operations before deploying to live ranges.

“Counter-drone engagements are inherently movement-intensive,” said Chip Northrup, Chief Executive Officer of LeadTech. “Warfighters don’t fight while standing in one place. They move through buildings, around corners, communicate with teammates, and continuously reposition while tracking fast-moving aerial threats. We teach correct angular lead on aerial targets, but we emphasize the need for the team to conceal its position and take cover proactively. Integrating Omni One into our C-UAS Personnel Trainer allows trainees to practice these movements naturally, creating a far more realistic and effective training experience than conventional virtual reality systems.”

Virtuix believes natural movement will become an increasingly important component of next-generation military simulation as armed forces seek to improve training realism while reducing cost, expanding access, and accelerating warfighter readiness. By combining unrestricted full-body locomotion with AI-driven, immersive environment simulation, Omni One enables military personnel to train the way they fight, moving naturally through the environments where future missions will take place.

About Virtuix

Virtuix Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: VTIX) is a leading manufacturer of AI-driven, full-body simulation systems for consumer, enterprise, and defense markets. The company’s premier portfolio of “Omni” omni-directional treadmills enables players to walk and run in 360 degrees without boundaries inside AI-generated worlds. With a focus on immersive entertainment, defense training, and enterprise applications, Virtuix continues to push the boundaries of full-body XR and AI-driven immersive experiences for users worldwide. For more information, visit virtuix.com.

Please visit the Company’s new Investor Relations website at invest.virtuix.com.

About LeadTech

LeadTech.co provides patented, proprietary moving target training solutions for virtual reality marksmanship training. LeadTech’s C-sUAS VR marksmanship trainer evolved from a robotic target system developed for Weapons Training Battalion in Quantico, Va. The C-sUAS Personnel Trainer has been field tested at Weapons Training Battalion in Quantico, Virginia, Angelelli Counter Drone training center in Pisa, Italy, King Competition in Finland, and 1st MLG at Camp Pendleton, CA.

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Virtuix Inc.
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MZ Group
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New York, New York, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

Acquisition expands Lucky Hand’s agency financing capabilities and advances its strategy to build the leading working-capital platform for advertising, marketing, media, and creative businesses.

Lucky Hand Group (“Lucky Hand”), a specialty finance platform serving the creative economy, today announced the acquisition of Vane Capital, a specialty finance company providing working-capital financing for digital media, advertising and entertainment businesses across Europe and the United States. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The acquisition reinforces Lucky Hand’s position as a category-defining capital platform for agencies, production companies, media businesses, talent and creator-management firms, and other B2B service providers across the creative economy. Vane’s agency-finance technology, market expertise, and operating capabilities will be integrated into Lucky Hand’s platform, expanding its reach and deepening its capabilities across the United States and United Kingdom. Together, the combined platform has facilitated more than $700 million in total financing volume to date.

“Lucky Hand is building the capital infrastructure for the creative economy,” said Madelaine D’Angelo, Chief Executive Officer of Lucky Hand. “Creative businesses are among the most commercially important in the modern economy, yet traditional finance was never built around how they operate. Acquiring Vane strengthens our ability to lead this market and to deliver the financing platform the industry needs at scale.”

Founded in 2022, Lucky Hand provides non-dilutive, receivables-based financing structured around eligible invoices, contracted revenue, and other short-term receivables bridging the gap between completed work and client payment. The acquisition of Vane extends that platform further into the agency market and establishes a stronger foundation for Lucky Hand to expand its product set, customer base, and institutional capital partnerships.

“I am proud of what our team built at Vane and grateful for the trust placed in us by our clients, employees, investors and partners. Lucky Hand is the right strategic owner to build on that foundation and take the platform into its next phase of international growth,” said Grigoris “Greg” Dimitriou, Co-Founder and former CEO of Vane Capital.

Lucky Hand is targeting more than $200 million in receivables-based financing originations over the next 18 months.

Wellesley Hills Financial served as exclusive financial advisor to Vane Capital.

About Lucky Hand

Lucky Hand is a specialty finance platform providing non-dilutive, receivables-based financing to the creative economy—advertising agencies, marketing firms, media companies, production studios, influencer agencies, talent managers, and creators. By underwriting the quality of the receivable and the creditworthiness of the underlying brand payor, Lucky Hand offers flexible financing that traditional lenders often can’t provide, funding clients within 24–48 hours to strengthen cash flow and accelerate growth without diluting ownership.

About Vane Capital

Vane Capital, formerly known as BillFront, is a fintech company founded in 2015 by Grigoris “Greg” Dimitriou and Christopher Vogt. The company provides flexible working-capital financing solutions to digital media, advertising, and entertainment businesses. The company established local operations in Berlin, London, and New York and has financed businesses

Contact

Marketing
Lilian Smith
Lucky Hand Group
press@lukcyhand.capital

New York, United States, July 28th, 2026, Chainwire

BitSafe has released infrastructure for builders launching decentralized financial applications on Canton Network.

Backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant of over $1 million (8,500,000 $CC), BitSafe today opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-sourced framework allowing apps and institutions to build resilient products that distribute control across multiple independent operators.

Canton Network has become critical infrastructure for institutions bringing real capital and operations on-chain. Meeting institutional application standards requires audit trails and distributed trust, but until now every team building on Canton has had to build threshold custody, governance, and audit infrastructure from scratch. Decentralization Manager makes those reusable, so teams build the application, not the infrastructure.

Independently audited by Quantstamp, Decentralization Manager marks an exciting expansion of on-chain use cases and allows institutions to continue leveraging the network’s privacy-native architecture while mitigating risk by distributing their operations.

Decentralization Manager ships with pre-built frameworks for token issuance and custody and enables additional products such as:

• Token issuance: Issuers can launch and govern Canton-native tokens, ranging from wrapped cryptoassets to stablecoins and RWAs.
• Custody and multi-signature wallets: Teams can hold and transfer assets under shared, multi-party control, removing reliance on any single custodian.
• Tokenized real-world assets and securities: Builders can bring real-world assets on-chain and govern them under distributed control.
• DEXs, lending, and structured products: Institutions can launch institutional-grade financial applications with Decentralization Manager.

Contact us to start launching decentralized applications and assets.

CBTC, the first non-native asset on Canton, is the first live use case of Decentralization Manager. With over 10 million transactions to date, node operators powering CBTC already earn a share of Canton fees from on-chain transactions. Decentralization Manager now extends that opportunity across the network. Application builders get an easier path to high quality node operators who can support their products, and those operators earn the same share of Canton fees in return.

“The future of institutional blockchain depends on making sophisticated infrastructure easier to build and adopt,” said Viv Diwakar, Head of the Canton Foundation. “By open-sourcing Decentralization Manager, BitSafe is giving developers the tools to create resilient, privacy-preserving applications that distribute trust across independent operators without compromising the governance and control institutions require. Contributions like this strengthen the Canton ecosystem and help accelerate the growth of institutional digital assets and tokenized financial markets. We’re pleased to see BitSafe making this capability available to the wider community and look forward to seeing the next generation of institutional applications built on Canton.”

As of today, Palladium Labs is the first builder announced using Decentralization Manager to enable multi-party authorization for protocol operations. “Distributed trust and full auditability are table stakes for institutional-grade credit infrastructure like Alpend,” said Akshay Sinha, Cofounder & CTO of Palladium Labs. “Decentralization Manager makes that a framework the entire Canton ecosystem can build on. Adopting it was one of the easier decisions we’ve made.”

In addition to Palladium, CBTC Attestors Nethermind, DSRV, and Finoa Consensus Services have already implemented Decentralization Manager. Their institutional participation affirms a collective effort across Canton to embrace decentralized technology that prioritizes data privacy, operational control, and resilience.

The public beta is open now on the Canton Foundation’s GitHub, with an additional grant application underway. Builders who need operators to complete their Decentralized Party can reach out to BitSafe to be matched with vetted, institutional-grade node operators. Institutions looking to issue and govern Canton-native tokens can engage BitSafe’s Decentralization Services for custom tokenization engagements.

Additional quotes from ecosystem partners:

“The CBTC Decentralized Party has shown how far Canton has come, and the public beta opening of Decentralization Manager is a big step for the whole ecosystem. Onboarding was remarkably smooth for our team – contract deployment was essentially one click. For any app still running on a single validator, this is the easiest path we’ve seen to move beyond a single point of failure.” – Joonkyo Kim, CTO, DSRV

”As one of the attestors securing CBTC, we’ve operated inside BitSafe’s decentralized signing architecture from an early stage, so we’ve seen firsthand what it takes to distribute trust across independent operators in production. Onboarding into Decentralization Manager was refreshingly straightforward, the admin tooling is intuitive and whenever we hit an issue the BitSafe team resolved it quickly and communicated the whole way through.

Institutions bringing real assets onto Canton increasingly expect exactly this: no single point of control with the audit trails and operational resilience their risk teams demand. Making that kind of infrastructure open and repeatable is a meaningful step for the ecosystem.” – Mateusz Jędrzejewski, CIO, Nethermind

“BitSafe’s Decentralization Manager turns the infrastructure we already run into a setup with no single point of failure, the kind institutions expect from Canton. We’re glad to extend our partnership with BitSafe and look forward to building more together as new applications join the network.” – Daniel Schrader, Managing Director, Finoa Consensus Services

About BitSafe

BitSafe builds decentralized, privacy-enabled digital asset infrastructure on the Canton Network. As the team that brought Bitcoin to Canton ($CBTC), BitSafe’s threshold-governed multi-sig infrastructure distributes custody and governance, eliminates single points of failure, and enables institutions and developers to launch trading venues and build compliant financial products and assets across the ecosystem.

Contact

Kadeem Clarke
BitSafe
marketing@bitsafe.finance

Newport Beach, United States California, July 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

Newport Beach dealer highlights invoices before payment, insured private delivery and clear separation between dealer and IRA custodian roles

GoldRock Metal Exchange, a Newport Beach-based dealer facilitating purchases and sales of physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium, today announced that it became a BBB Accredited Business on May 4, 2026.

The company’s public BBB Business Profile gives consumers a place to review GoldRock’s business identity, address, management and accreditation status before entering a precious-metals transaction. BBB Accreditation reflects a business’s commitment to BBB Standards for Trust. It is not an endorsement, product certification or guarantee of transaction or financial outcomes.

“Trust should be verifiable before funds move,” said Beau Turner, chief executive officer of GoldRock Metal Exchange. “Clients should be able to verify the business, review the selected product and price in writing, and understand which party is responsible for delivery, retirement-account administration and custody.”

GoldRock’s public website describes separate transaction paths for direct purchases and self-directed IRA transactions. For direct purchases, the company confirms the selected product and transaction price and provides an invoice before payment. Insured private delivery is available for eligible purchases, subject to transaction and carrier terms.

For self-directed IRA transactions, GoldRock acts as the precious-metals dealer and assists with education, forms and transaction coordination. An independent custodian or trustee administers the retirement account, and qualifying metals are shipped to the secured depository selected for the account. GoldRock does not administer or custody IRAs.

The company’s process reflects a broader consumer-protection principle: pricing, fees and responsibilities should be clear before a transaction is completed. Public guidance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority encourages physical-metals buyers to compare spot and retail prices, understand premiums, dealer spreads and fees, and obtain agreed costs and terms in writing before paying.

“BBB Accreditation adds another public checkpoint, but accreditation is only one part of earning confidence,” Turner said. “The day-to-day standard is accurate information, responsive communication and transaction terms that a client can review and understand.”

Consumers can review GoldRock’s BBB Business Profile, learn about direct purchases or review the company’s self-directed precious-metals IRA process.

ABOUT GOLDROCK METAL EXCHANGE

GoldRock Metal Exchange is a Newport Beach, California-based precious-metals dealer facilitating purchases and sales of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion products. The company supports direct purchases for private delivery and eligible precious-metals transactions through self-directed IRAs. GoldRock is a dealer, not an IRA custodian, trustee, tax adviser or investment adviser.

Contact

Chief Financial Officer
Blake Turner
GoldRock Metal Exchange
contact@goldrockmetalexchange.com
(888) 859-0978

London, United Kingdom, July 27th, 2026, Chainwire

SCANDIC COIN (SNC) demands an immediate explanation from BitMart. According to SNC, a withdrawal request submitted on 26 July 2026 at 09:10:03 German time remained marked as “Processing” for more than 35 hours. At publication, 22,000 USDT and nearly 930,000 SNC had still not reached the designated wallets.

SCANDIC COIN states that timestamped screenshots document the balances, withdrawal request, amounts, date, time and continuing status. The assets are not BitMart’s property. According to SNC, they belong exclusively to its operating company, are not BitMart funds and are not locked in active trading positions.

BitMart has announced the wind-down of its trading-platform operations. In that context, a prolonged failure to release substantial company-owned assets — without a case-specific reason or reliable deadline — is unacceptable. An exchange instructing users to withdraw must demonstrate that withdrawals can actually be honoured.

The unavoidable question is: Is this a technical or compliance-related delay, or does BitMart lack sufficient liquidity, financial resources or operational capacity to honour withdrawals promptly and in full?

SCANDIC COIN is not asserting insolvency as a proven fact. But after more than 35 hours without payment or a satisfactory explanation, BitMart must dispel that concern immediately with verifiable facts.

BitMart Must Answer Immediately:

• Why is the withdrawal still marked “Processing”?
• Is a compliance, security or risk review pending, and are further documents required?
• When exactly will the 22,000 USDT and nearly 930,000 SNC be released?
• Does BitMart have sufficient liquid assets to honour all legitimate withdrawals in full?

Immediate Release or Escalation

SCANDIC COIN demands immediate release of the assets or a detailed written explanation identifying the precise legal, compliance, technical or security reason and a binding completion time. If BitMart fails to act, SNC will preserve the screenshots and account records and pursue all available legal and regulatory remedies.

Contact

Lina Brugger
Office@ScandicCoin.dev