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AMMO AI Raises $2.5M Pre-Seed to Build AI Agent Societies with Real-World Impact

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In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, most discussions revolve around how AI can augment human capabilities, automate tasks, or even replace jobs. But what if AI could do more? What if we could create entire societies of agents that collaborate, learn, and evolve in ways that benefit humanity as a whole? This is the ambitious goal behind AMMO, a groundbreaking AI ecosystem that has just secured $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to turn this vision into reality. 

The Problem: AI as Isolated Tools

In the world of artificial intelligence, the dominant narrative has long been one of AI as tools. The core problem with viewing AI as tools is that this paradigm not only limits their functionality to narrow instrumental scopes, but also inherently encourages the creation of technological silos—isolated systems optimized for solitary performance within predefined domains. Specifically, we celebrate AI’s ability to execute specialized tasks with superhuman efficiency, yet paradoxically engineer these systems as self-contained black boxes—digital savants excelling in narrow domains but incapable of cross-pollinating knowledge.

This solipsistic design paradigm causes dual constraints: Users become trapped in transactional relationships with technology, reduced to playing prompt-engineer roles. While AI systems operate as autocomplete engines, and lack of cross-agent knowledge synthesis or conflict resolution.

Breaking this self-reinforcing loop requires reimagining AI’s agency spectrum: from passive tools in isolation to proactive agents in networks. As DeepMind reminds us, “No agent is an island.” Intelligence, whether natural or artificial, does not emerge in isolation. It thrives in networks of interacting agents where collaboration, competition, and adaptation drive progress.

Most critically, alignment mechanisms should be implemented properly in these networks. Without rigorous alignment with humanity, advanced AI can pose significant risks, ranging from unintended harms due to misinterpretations of instructions to catastrophic outcomes if their objectives diverge from humans‘ desires. The good news is, Anthropic’s Constitutional AI has provided us with a method to keep AI’s decisions and actions remain aligned with humanity.

A better path is clear: to build an AI-native ecosystem where agents compete and collaborate, learn, and evolve collectively to align with human values and needs. OpenAI’s Neural MMO has already shown how simply and efficiently massive AI agents can evolve through competition and cooperation. It’s proof that AI-native ecosystem is possible and powerful.

This is not just about creating better tools—it’s about redefining the AI-Human connection, unlocking a symbiotic future.

AMMO AI: From Tools to Citizens

AMMO, which stands for Architectures for Massive Multiagent Online, holds three forward-thinking beliefs:

  1. AI should act as proactive partners, not passive tools.
  2. AI must align with human values, evolving in harmony with our needs.
  3. AI should compete and collaborate as a collective, not remain isolated in silos.

Based on these beliefs, AMMO is building agent societies that align with humanity, creating a symbiotic future where AI and humans co-evolve. Beyond merely enabling AI to “play the game,” AMMO’s agents compete and collaborate in complex real- world scenarios. Through continuous interaction, they receive real-time feedback, align with human values, and evolve accordingly.

The AMMO Difference: Bring Human-Centric AI Ecosystems into Real World

AMMO takes a fundamentally different approach while many AI companies focus on creating individual tools. Echoing DeepMind’s sentiment that “no agent is an island,” AMMO envisions a world where AI agents interact, collaborate, and evolve within a larger ecosystem.

Traditionally, AI agent societies have been confined to controlled environments like games or research labs. Translating these concepts into real-world applications has been a significant challenge due to the open-ended nature of real-world scenarios.

AMMO addresses this challenge through a series of innovative approaches:

1. Large-Scale AI Agent Factories

Instead of focusing on agents, AMMO creates a framework to generate adaptive environments where massive number of AI agents emerge without developers, and independently create real-world utility values. These agents are not just task executors; they are autonomous entities that explore, learn, and adapt to new situations, enabling AMMO to tackle complex, real-world problems.

2. Composable Embedding Spaces

AMMO’s agents operate within a high-dimensional, composable environment called the MetaSpace. This space allows agents to interact seamlessly with each other and with humans, embedding everything—from user preferences to content—into a unified vector space for efficient and scalable interactions.

3. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

AMMO’s agents are trained using reinforcement learning techniques that incorporate real-time human feedback. This ensures alignment not only with individual user preferences but also with broader societal values, creating a dynamic and adaptive AI ecosystem.

4. Alignment as a Minimax Problem

Alignment is the first principle of AMMO. It ensures that AI systems consistently act in ways that are beneficial and aligned with human values, goals, and intentions.

There are two types of agents that align with human users in different way: User Buddies (agents that represent individual users) and Goal Buddies (agents that generate content for human needs). The interaction between them is modeled as a minimax problem. This formalizes the adversarial yet co-evolutionary dynamics between agents, ensuring they work together to deliver relevant and engaging content. Alignment is both a goal for AMMO, and the mechanism by which the system operates.

Real-World Impact: From Crypto to Infinite Possibilities

AMMO is already demonstrating its potential with the launch of its first application, FakersAI.com, an multi-agent crypto content platform built upon open data in web3 space. It is designed to combat scams and misinformation, helping users make wiser investment decisions. In just two weeks, the platform has attracted over 75,000 users, showcasing the real-world utility of AMMO’s framework.

FakersAI is just the beginning. AMMO’s framework is designed to generate infinite agent societies that address a wide range of real-world challenges. The team is already developing its second subspace, with a third in the pipeline. Each subspace represents a new ecosystem of AI agents tackling domain-specific challenges from finance to entertainment to education.

The Funding and the Team

AMMO has successfully closed a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by Amber Group, with participation from Samsung NEXT, Dispersion Capital, and OpensSpace. The project is spearheaded by a team of industry veterans from Google, DeepMind, Meta, as well as former VP of an AI unicorn and ACM-ICPC World Champion. Their combined expertise in AI, multi-agent systems, and reinforcement learning positions AMMO as a leader in the next wave of AI innovation.

Reimagine the Future of AI-Human Connection

AMMO’s solution is groundbreaking in multiple dimensions. By transcending the outdated paradigm of AI as mere tools, AMMO reimagines AI as human buddies that collaborate, co-create, and evolve alongside us. This shift from tools to partners marks the beginning of a symbiotic relationship where AI doesn’t just serve but thrives with humanity.

AMMO places alignment as the first principle of AI-Human connection. With alignment as a method and goal, AMMO offers a glimpse into a future where AI and humanity coexist peacefully, resolving potential conflicts before they even arise. This alignment isn’t just a feature—it’s the foundation of a new AI civilization.

Furthermore, by leveraging multi-agent systems, it pioneers the path toward personalized AI. While LLMs like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Grok3 race to improve coding, writing, and other tasks, AMMO focuses on AI’s massive societal adoption—creating AI that adapts to individual needs and real-world scenarios.

While many focus on isolated AI tools, AMMO is building the social operating system for AI agents. As AMMO redefines the AI-Human connection, the question is no longer what AI can do for us, but what we can become together. In this essence, AMMO is more than a project; it’s a movement.

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RWA WEEK Singapore Announces New Wave of Institutional Speakers as October Event Draws Closer

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Singapore, October 6, 2026 — With less than a month to go until RWA WEEK Singapore, the organizers have announced a new wave of confirmed speakers and further details of the week-long program, which will bring together leading institutional investors, regulators, financial infrastructure providers, asset managers, family offices, blockchain founders, and Web3 companies in Singapore from October 5–9, 2026.

RWA WEEK Singapore is set to become one of the region’s key gatherings focused on the rapidly developing real-world asset tokenization economy, bringing together the traditional financial sector and the global digital asset industry at a time when institutional interest in tokenized assets continues to accelerate. The five-day program will feature a series of high-level events, curated investor meetings, private networking opportunities, and institutional discussions culminating in the flagship RWA Summit Singapore on October 9 at Marina One West Tower.

The RWA WEEK program will open on October 5 with THE DEALFLOW, a dedicated gathering for investors, asset managers, family offices, and capital allocators focused on curated networking, investment opportunities, and deal-making. The event is co-hosted by KundaBox. On October 6, TOKENISED VIP Singapore will bring together a highly curated group of institutional investors, RWA SUMMIT speakers, financial institutions, asset managers, family offices, founders, and senior digital asset executives for discussions around real-world tokenization use cases and institutional blockchain adoption. The week will culminate with RWA Summit Singapore on October 9, bringing together the wider RWA ecosystem for a full day of discussions, insights, networking, and business opportunities. The flagship summit is expected to attract more than 1,500 attendees, over 70 speakers, and upwards of 200 investors shaping the future of asset tokenization.

The organizers have also announced a new group of confirmed speakers who will join the previously revealed lineup. The latest additions include Adriel Wong, Head of Private Sector – APAC at TRM Labs; Yalini Isweran, Executive Director, Innovation Strategy at DTCC Digital Assets; Huong T Tran, Founder & Managing Partner at 6igma Ventures; and Melody He, Co-Founder & Partner at Spartan Group; Charles d’Haussy, CEO at dYdX Foundation; Pei Chen, CEO of Theoriq; Peter Kadish, Managing Director at LynxCap Investments. 

The new speakers bring together expertise spanning financial regulation, institutional policy, financial market infrastructure, blockchain intelligence, investment, venture capital, decentralized infrastructure, and digital asset adoption. Their participation further strengthens the institutional focus of the Singapore edition as the RWA sector moves from early experimentation toward practical implementation across global financial markets.

They join an already strong lineup of confirmed speakers, including Yat Siu, Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands; Viv Diwakar, Head of Foundation at Canton; Edwin Mata, Co-Founder & CEO at Brickken; Julian Kwan, Co-Founder & CRO at IXS; 

The growing speaker lineup reflects the broader evolution of the RWA market, where conversations are increasingly moving beyond the concept of tokenization itself toward the infrastructure, regulation, compliance, liquidity, custody, investment structures, and institutional frameworks required for tokenized assets to scale. The presence of senior representatives from organizations such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore, DTCC Digital Assets, and TRM Labs highlights the growing intersection between traditional financial infrastructure and the digital asset ecosystem.

RWA WEEK has also continued to expand its network of strategic partners supporting the Singapore edition. LYNXCAP Investments, dYdX, InvestaX, GeoTicker, Pharos and Theoriq are among the strategic partners of RWA WEEK Singapore, while TRM Labs joins the program specifically as Co-Host of TOKENISED VIP Singapore. The event is produced by UVECON.VC, a company of UVC GROUP.

RWA WEEK has established a growing international presence across major financial and digital asset hubs including Hong Kong, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Seoul, and Singapore. Previous editions of RWA Summit have attracted hundreds of participants and leading voices from finance, digital assets, investment, and regulation. The Hong Kong edition welcomed more than 750 attendees and over 50 speakers, while the Dubai edition brought together representatives from leading Web3 companies, investment funds, exchanges, and regulatory organizations.

Singapore represents a particularly important destination for the next edition of RWA WEEK given the city’s position as a global financial center and its role in the development of digital asset regulation, financial innovation, and institutional blockchain infrastructure. As banks, asset managers, investment firms, and technology companies increasingly explore tokenized funds, securities, private credit, real estate, and other real-world assets, Singapore is emerging as one of the key markets where traditional finance and blockchain-based infrastructure are converging.

“We are witnessing the RWA market transition from experimentation to real institutional integration,” said Ivan V. Ivanov, Co-Founder of UVECON.VC, UVC GROUP and RWA WEEK. “RWA WEEK is designed to bring together the different sides of this market — institutional capital, financial infrastructure, regulators, technology providers, and Web3 innovators — and create an environment where meaningful partnerships, capital allocation, and real-world tokenization use cases can emerge. The strength of the Singapore lineup demonstrates how quickly this sector is developing.”

With only weeks remaining before RWA WEEK Singapore, preparations for the event are now entering their final stage. Interest from institutional participants, investors, founders, and industry professionals continues to build as the October program approaches, with attendees encouraged to secure their access ahead of the event.

RWA WEEK Singapore will take place October 5–9, 2026, with RWA Summit Singapore taking place on October 9 at Marina One West Tower.

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https://rwaweek.com/singapore

https://rwasummit.global/singapore

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ChainUp Brings The Institutional Ark to TOKEN2049 Singapore, Focusing on Digital Asset Infrastructure and High-Value Deal Flow

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Singapore, Sep 17, 2026 — ChainUp announces the return of its flagship pre-TOKEN2049 event, focusing on institutional infrastructure, enterprise scale, and direct dealmaking.

  • ChainUp‘s exclusive pre-TOKEN2049 event, The Institutional Ark, returns on October 6, 2026, at Monti at 1-Pavilion for C-suite leaders, capital allocators, and fintech builders.
  • Backed by award-winning event execution recognized at the Marketing Events Awards, the evening provides a closed-door, high-signal setting away from conference hall noise.
  • Designed for direct commercial outcomes, the gathering connects institutional peers over drinks, canapés, and panoramic Marina Bay views.

As institutional crypto shifts from hype to execution, ChainUp’s exclusive pre-TOKEN2049 gathering, The Institutional Ark, returns on October 6, 2026, at Monti at 1-Pavilion.

Bypassing public panels for a closed-door, high-signal setting, this invite-only evening brings together a handpicked room of senior executives, capital allocators, and infrastructure builders for real deal flow, drinks, canapés, and panoramic Marina Bay views

Addressing the Digital Asset Infrastructure Gap

Amid surging demand for compliant, scalable digital asset architecture, ChainUp highlights its core enterprise blockchain solutions:

  • Scalable Trading Infrastructure: High-performance matching engines and unified liquidity management for high-throughput institutional trading.
  • Institutional Custody: Advanced Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Hardware Security Module (HSM) frameworks to secure large-scale asset management.
  • Automated Compliance Suites: Real-time KYC and AML transaction monitoring built for tightening global crypto regulations.
  • Real-World Asset Tokenization Architecture: Secure enterprise platforms facilitating the full lifecycle of real-world asset tokenization.

The Institutional Ark (Pre-TOKEN2049 Executive Networking Party)

  • Date/Time: October 6, 2026 | 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM SGT
  • Venue: Monti at 1-Pavilion, Marina Bay Waterfront, Singapore
  • Registration Link: https://luma.com/xn1chytf

Strategic Partnership Opportunities

Limited partnership slots are open for brands looking to connect with global infrastructure buyers and capital allocators. To request the partnership deck or press credentials, contact marketing@chainup.com.

About ChainUp

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, ChainUp is the industry’s sole comprehensive provider of compliant digital asset SaaS infrastructure. Serving 700+ enterprise clients globally, ChainUp provides SOC 2-certified turnkey and white-label software for crypto exchanges, stablecoin payment systems, tokenization exchanges, prediction markets, and institutional MPC custody. Learn more at www.chainup.com.

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Yeo Xue Zhen
Senior Marketing Manager, ChainUp
xuezhen@chainup.com
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Orochi Network (ON) Builds the Verifiable Data Layer for Web3 as zkPass Partnership and 49-Chain Expansion Signal Growing Infrastructure Reach

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Orochi Network has been doing one of the harder things in crypto: building serious cryptographic infrastructure and waiting for the market to care. The wait is beginning to pay off. ON is currently trading around $0.119, up 96.24% from its all-time low of $0.06074 reached on February 10, 2026, with a market cap of approximately $17.2 million and a 24-hour trading volume of $6.7 million. The token sits 72.6% below its all-time high of $0.416 from October 2025 — but the direction of travel over the past five months has been consistently upward from the February floor.

Orochi Network operates as a blockchain-agnostic and proof-system-agnostic Verifiable Data Infrastructure, using three core cryptographic primitives — Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and Trusted Execution Environments — to make data operations trustless, provable, and private. That three-layer cryptographic stack is what separates Orochi from single-mechanism privacy protocols — it doesn’t bet on one cryptographic approach, it deploys all three depending on what each specific use case requires.

The Product Suite That’s Already Running

Orochi’s flagship product, zkDatabase, is the world’s first provable NoSQL database. Every data query generates a Zero-Knowledge Proof automatically, enabling auditors, regulators, and smart contracts to verify data correctness without ever accessing sensitive content. For enterprise and institutional use cases — financial compliance, healthcare data, government records — the ability to prove data integrity without revealing the underlying data is the precise capability that has prevented blockchain adoption in regulated industries. zkDatabase solves that at the infrastructure level.

Orand provides a Verifiable Random Function for trustless randomness, while Orocle delivers verifiable oracle feeds without relying on trusted nodes. The oracle market is dominated by Chainlink, but Orochi’s verifiable oracle approach — where every feed is accompanied by a cryptographic proof of origin rather than relying on a reputation-based trusted node network — offers a technically differentiated alternative that’s gaining traction in ZK-native ecosystems where proof composability matters.

Orand and Orocle services are integrated across 49-plus blockchains, while zkDatabase has been adopted by 20-plus blockchains. Cross-chain infrastructure that runs on 49 networks without being tied to any single chain’s success or failure is a meaningful structural advantage — especially as the multi-chain landscape continues to fragment.

The zkPass Partnership and Verifiable Identity

The collaboration with zkPass — building a new foundation for verifiable, privacy-protected data in Web3 — is among the more strategically aligned partnerships in Orochi’s ecosystem. zkPass handles identity verification through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to prove attributes about themselves without revealing underlying credentials. Orochi’s verifiable data infrastructure is the natural complement — once identity is verified, every subsequent data interaction that user has on-chain can be provably correct through Orochi’s zkDatabase layer.

That combination of verifiable identity and verifiable data integrity represents the foundational stack that regulated Web3 applications — particularly in RWA tokenization, DeFi compliance, and institutional finance — have been waiting for.

Backed by over $20 million in funding from the Ethereum Foundation, Mina Protocol, Web3 Foundation, and BNB Chain alongside leading venture capital firms, Orochi has grown to support 145-plus partners with more than 160 million transactions processed to date. Grants from protocol foundations rather than purely venture capital is a meaningful signal — it indicates that other blockchain ecosystems view Orochi’s infrastructure as genuinely valuable to their own development rather than simply making a financial bet.

The Supply Structure Worth Understanding

Only 14.4% of the 1 billion maximum ON supply is currently circulating — 144.28 million tokens — with a fully diluted valuation of approximately $81.3 million against the current $17.2 million market cap. With 85.6% of total supply still locked, ON is operating in a very early distribution phase. The gap between FDV and market cap implies either that the market believes the supply will create significant dilution pressure as it unlocks, or that adoption hasn’t yet reached the scale needed to justify the full supply value.

The Binance Alpha and Binance Alpha Airdrops tags on CoinMarketCap reflect a listing pathway that has brought broader retail attention to ON beyond its core technical audience. A trading call citing 25x leverage entry zones on KCEX reflects the speculative layer that sits above the infrastructure fundamentals — ON attracts both audiences simultaneously, which amplifies volatility in both directions.

Orochi’s 2026 goal is to solidify its position as the foundational verifiable data layer for Web3 and institutional finance, scaling zkDatabase, zkDA Layer, Orocle, and Orand modules across global markets to enable secure, auditable data infrastructure for RWA, stablecoins, AI, DeFi, and more. That ambition is coherent and directionally aligned with where institutional Web3 capital is flowing. A $17 million market cap for infrastructure already running on 49 chains with Ethereum Foundation backing is either a significant market oversight or a fair reflection of how early the verifiable data layer category still is.

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