Los Angeles, CA

The new AI-powered academy asks a different question: Why follow someone else’s footsteps when you can leave your own?

Digital Davos Academy today announced that it will officially open on September 1, 2026, with early subscribers who register by August 1, 2026 receiving free Founding Learner Access for the full duration of their selected learning path.

This means early subscribers accepted into the program can access their chosen learning path for free — whether it is a single custom book, a focused short course, or a full one-year program of up to 10 courses.

The Academy’s early access page is now live at https://davos.flowprompt.ai/ ahead of the full September 1 launch. Until then, the site is accepting early registrations from learners who want to secure free Founding Learner Access before the August 1 deadline.

Digital Davos Academy is part of Digital Davos, curated by Karl Seelig, a platform that has hosted world leaders, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, artists, athletes, and decision-makers in Davos since 2019.

Built around the principle “Where voices matter, not agendas,” Digital Davos has created a forum for open dialogue, leadership, innovation, and future-focused exchange. Its speaker community has included global voices such as will.i.am, musician, producer, and technology entrepreneur; Dr. Wladimir Klitschko, former heavyweight boxing world champion, entrepreneur, and philanthropist; the late Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya; the Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Tim Draper, Silicon Valley venture capitalist; Brock Pierce, blockchain entrepreneur and Bitcoin Foundation chairman; and Karl Lillrud, AI thought leader and Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member and in January 2026 the official Kenya delegation to Davos.

After years of bringing leaders together to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and discuss the future, Digital Davos is now taking another disruptive step: turning that spirit of high-level peer learning into a personalized AI-powered academy.

Digital Davos Academy received its initial funding from Art Fund SP – ChainBLX SPC, supporting the development of a new education model at the intersection of artificial intelligence, personalized learning, creativity, and future leadership enabling multiple new profession needed in multiple industries including the movie production.

Digital Davos Academy is built around a simple but disruptive idea: education should not begin with a fixed school, a fixed textbook, or a standard career path. It should begin with the learner.

Instead of asking students to choose from a traditional course catalog, Digital Davos Academy asks one powerful question:

What do you want to become?

From that answer, the Academy can build a customized curriculum, tailored books, learning checks, AI teacher support, and a personalized development path designed around the learner’s goal.

Whether someone wants to become an AI automation consultant, creator economy strategist, crisis negotiator, entrepreneur, film technology innovator, or something that does not yet exist as a traditional career, Digital Davos Academy is designed to create the learning path around that ambition.

“Why walk in someone else’s footsteps when you can leave your own?” said Karl Seelig, founder of Digital Davos and the Digital Davos Academy initiative. “The old model tells people to fit into existing boxes. We believe the next generation of learners wants to define where they are going first — and then build the knowledge, skills, and proof to get there.”

At a time when millions of people are using AI tools to study, research, and prepare for their future, the debate around AI education has become urgent. Supporters see AI as a personal tutor available to anyone. Critics worry it may create shallow learning, dependency, or the illusion of competence.

Digital Davos Academy enters that debate with a clear position: AI should not simply give people answers. It should help them build real capability.

That is why Digital Davos Academy is powered by FlowPrompt.ai, the AI orchestration engine behind the Academy’s personalized learning model. FlowPrompt.ai makes it possible to build customized curricula, tailored books, knowledge checks, AI teacher support, and proof-of-progress systems at scale while maintaining structure, reliability, and high educational standards.

It is the engine that allows an ambitious academy like Digital Davos Academy to remain personalized without becoming chaotic — and innovative without sacrificing quality.

Instead of using AI as a shortcut, Digital Davos Academy uses FlowPrompt.ai to turn AI into a disciplined learning system: one that guides, tests, adapts, and helps learners prove what they understand.

Digital Davos Academy is not a traditional university and does not offer a standard academic degree program. It is a private AI-powered learning academy for self-driven learners, entrepreneurs, creators, professionals, and autodidacts who want to build their own path instead of following a preset one.

The Academy is designed for people who may not fit neatly into traditional education: people changing careers, building unusual skill combinations, preparing for the AI economy, learning outside the university system, or trying to become something more specific than a standard job title.

While every learning path is individual, Digital Davos Academy is also designed with community in mind. The Academy aims to bring self-driven learners together through shared challenges, team exercises, peer discussion, and future employer-facing proof of skill.

Its message is direct:

Don’t just follow someone else’s footsteps. Leave your own.

Early access registration is now open at https://davos.flowprompt.ai/. Learners who register by August 1, 2026 can receive free Founding Learner Access for the full duration of their selected learning path, from one custom book to a one-year program of up to 10 courses. Full access to the Academy will open on September 1, 2026.

About Digital Davos Academy

Digital Davos Academy is a private AI-powered learning academy for self-driven learners, entrepreneurs, creators, professionals, and future leaders. The Academy builds personalized learning paths, tailored books, custom curricula, tests, AI tutor support, and proof-of-skill records around each learner’s individual goal.

Digital Davos Academy is powered by FlowPrompt.ai and received its initial funding from Art Fund SP – ChainBLX SPC.

About Digital Davos

Founded by Karl Seelig, Digital Davos is a global platform that has brought together world leaders, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, artists, athletes, and decision-makers in Davos since 2019.

Guided by the principle “Where voices matter, not agendas,” Digital Davos has hosted and welcomed influential voices including will.i.am, musician, producer, and technology entrepreneur; Dr. Wladimir Klitschko, former heavyweight boxing world champion, entrepreneur, and philanthropist; the late Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister of Kenya; the Hon. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Tim Draper, Silicon Valley venture capitalist; Brock Pierce, blockchain entrepreneur and Bitcoin Foundation chairman; and Karl Lillrud, AI thought leader and Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member.

Built around dialogue, leadership, innovation, and future-focused exchange, Digital Davos now expands its mission through Digital Davos Academy by making high-level peer learning more personalized, accessible, and AI-powered.

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Hong Kong

Pharos Network, a Layer 1 blockchain dedicated to real-world finance and AI, today announced Faroo as the inaugural project incubated through its Pharos Incubation Program. As the flagship beneficiary of the $10 million incubator, Faroo will receive comprehensive investment and resource support from Pharos at a confirmed valuation of $10 million. In conjunction with the announcement, Faroo is launching its innovative RWA Hybrid Vault, a product designed to expand yield opportunities for $PROS holders by combining native staking rewards with real-world asset returns.

A Strategic Investment on the Future of RWA-DeFi Convergence

Pharos launched its $10 million incubator program in February 2026 with a clear mandate: to bridge real-world assets with on-chain finance and empower early-stage teams building at the intersection of RWA and DeFi. Participating teams receive end-to-end support spanning technical guidance, product launch assistance, and access to Pharos’ global investor network.

While RWA has emerged as a dominant narrative in the crypto industry this year, much of the market remains stuck in what Pharos describes as the “static tokenization” phase — assets that lack composability and cannot function effectively as collateral within the broader DeFi ecosystem.

Faroo was selected as the program’s first project on the strength of its technical foundation in liquid staking infrastructure and its strategic alignment with the Pharos ecosystem. With this investment, Faroo joins the Pharos RealFi Alliance, taking on a central role in the ecosystem’s liquidity infrastructure.

Built by Bifrost Veterans, Powered by Hybrid Yield

The Faroo team has deep expertise in cross-chain staking infrastructure, and its technical solution is built upon Bifrost’s SLPx module, delivering Layer 1-grade security alongside native cross-chain interoperability. At the core of the project is its proprietary “Hybrid Yield” mechanism, which combines on-chain staking rewards with returns generated from real-world assets, providing users with diversified yield exposure.

Anchored in the Pharos Ecosystem

Pharos Network is a financial-grade, asset-native Layer 1 designed to bring an estimated $50 trillion in real-world assets, traditional finance, and cross-chain capital into a modular on-chain economy. The network launched its Pacific Ocean mainnet and the $PROS coin in April 2026, and has raised a cumulative $52 million in funding to date.

Faroo is built deeply into this ecosystem, leveraging Pharos’ native coin economy, the RealFi Alliance’s RWA asset pipelines, and the network’s robust compliance framework. The result is a protocol that successfully bridges decentralized technology with regulatory compliance.

Expanding Utility for $PROS Holders

The launch of the Faroo RWA Hybrid Vault marks a meaningful expansion in utility and yield opportunities for $PROS stakers. Users can lock their staked $PROS into the vault to earn incentives tied to the market performance of specific enterprise partners. With this launch, $PROS holders are no longer limited to a single source of staking yield through Faroo, they can simultaneously capture on-chain staking rewards and returns generated by RWA projects.

“Faroo proves that real-world assets and on-chain staking can be deeply integrated at the same protocol layer,” said Wish Wu, Co-founder and CEO of Pharos. “This significantly expands the utility of $PROS and provides reusable liquidity infrastructure for the entire RealFi ecosystem.”

A Blueprint for What Comes Next

As the first project to graduate from the Pharos Incubator, Faroo’s launch showcases the full breadth of Pharos’ capabilities from foundational blockchain infrastructure to a thriving application ecosystem. Beyond capital, the incubator provides portfolio teams with access to Pharos’ institutional-grade infrastructure, RealFi Alliance partners, and global compliance and finance network, supporting projects through every stage from R&D to go-to-market.

The Pharos Incubator remains open to developers and RealFi innovators worldwide. Using Faroo as a benchmark, the program aims to accelerate the development of next-generation real-yield asset infrastructure and bring compliant, scalable, and programmable on-chain finance into the mainstream.

About Pharos Network

Pharos is a financial and AI Layer 1 built for RealFi. It delivers the compliant infrastructure needed for institutional assets and internet-scale capital markets.

Designed to coordinate real-world financial activity onchain, Pharos combines deep-parallel execution (SALI engine), modular SPNs, and protocol-level compliance infrastructure, integrating ZK-KYC / AML mechanisms, AsyncBFT consensus, native AI agent support (X402 protocol), and dualVM (EVM + WASM compatibility), to support RWAs, stablecoins, cross-border settlement, onchain yield markets, and agent-mediated commerce at internet scale.

The network is supported by strategic partners across the global financial stack, including Circle, Chainlink, Anchorage Digital, Morpho, and Centrifuge, connecting regulated capital markets with onchain liquidity venues where real-world assets can be actively deployed into real-yield-generating strategies.

Built by former Ant Group leadership and engineers, backed by leading global investors across TradFi and crypto, including Sumitomo Corporation, Flow Traders, SNZ, Hack VC, and Faction VC, Pharos is developing the infrastructure layer for the next era of programmable finance and the agentic economy.

Nairobi, Kenya

The Nairobi International Financial Centre (NIFC) continues to strengthen Kenya’s position as Africa’s leading destination for global capital by certifying a new cohort of firms spanning digital finance, climate and carbon markets, artificial intelligence, investment management, healthcare, fintech and capital markets innovation.

The latest certifications add to the NIFC’s rapidly expanding and increasingly diverse portfolio of firms choosing Kenya as their platform for investment, innovation and regional expansion. Collectively, these firms are expected to mobilise over US$200 million in investment across strategic sectors of the economy while creating more than 1,000 direct and indirect jobs, reflecting growing international confidence in Kenya’s business environment and the Centre’s role in catalysing capital formation, financial innovation and sustainable economic growth.

A DIVERSE AND FUTURE-FOCUSED ECOSYSTEM

“The newly certified cohort comprises 15 leading international and regional firms spanning private equity, venture capital, artificial intelligence, fintech, digital payments, carbon finance, climate investment, digital assets, tokenised securities, international insurance, investment management, and capital markets infrastructure. Collectively, they represent the sectors shaping the future of global finance and are establishing their platforms in Nairobi for regional expansion.”

Chief Executive Officer Daniel Mainda said the certifications demonstrate growing international confidence in Kenya’s regulatory environment and the country’s ambition to become Africa’s premier international financial centre.

“Every firm we certify is making a deliberate vote of confidence in Kenya’s future. Collectively, these firms are building the ecosystem that will define the next generation of finance in Africa—where capital is mobilised, technology is commercialised, innovation is financed and sustainable investment thrives. That is precisely the future the Nairobi International Financial Centre was established to deliver.”

“This is not simply about certifying companies. It is about mobilising capital into productive sectors of the economy, creating quality jobs, commercialising innovation and positioning Kenya as the destination of choice for investors looking at Africa.”

Several of the newly certified firms are advancing Kenya’s leadership in digital assets and tokenisation, developing solutions ranging from virtual asset-enabled cross-border payments and stablecoin infrastructure to tokenised securities, digital capital-raising platforms and AI-powered financial services.

The Centre is equally witnessing significant momentum in carbon finance and climate investment. Certified firms are developing large scale afforestation, bioenergy and carbon credit projects that will mobilise significant investment, generate high-quality carbon credits, create jobs and contribute meaningfully to Kenya’s green growth agenda while positioning Nairobi as a leading destination for sustainable finance and climate-related investment opportunities.

Innovation remains central to the Centre’s strategy. The Authority is also placing deliberate emphasis on private equity, venture capital, fund domiciliation, startup financing and emerging financial technologies.

Beyond firm certifications, the NIFC has significantly expanded Kenya’s international financial partnerships through strategic cooperation agreements with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) and Casablanca Finance City (CFC). These partnerships are strengthening Kenya’s connectivity to global capital markets while positioning Nairobi as a trusted gateway for investment into Africa.

The certifications also come against the backdrop of the Cabinet’s approval for Kenya to host the Secretariat of the Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions (AAMFI), further affirming the country’s emergence as a leading centre for African finance and economic cooperation. Hosting the Secretariat places Nairobi at the heart of collaboration among Africa’s premier multilateral financial institutions, strengthening Kenya’s role in mobilising capital, shaping financial policy and driving the continent’s development agenda. Together with the growth of the Nairobi International Financial Centre, this milestone reinforces Kenya’s ambition to become the preferred financial gateway into Africa.

The Centre has also continued strengthening collaboration with the CBK, CMA, IRA, RBA and NSE to build a coordinated, globally competitive financial ecosystem.

Since being revitalised under President William Ruto’s Administration, the Nairobi International Financial Centre has undergone a deliberate transformation into one of Africa’s fastest-growing international financial centres through enhanced investor facilitation, stronger regulatory coordination, internationally competitive policy reforms and strategic global partnerships.

“Our ambition is clear. We are not simply attracting firms; we are building Africa’s premier ecosystem for global capital. An ecosystem where funds are domiciled, startups scale into regional champions, digital assets are responsibly regulated, carbon markets mature, innovation is financed and international investors choose Nairobi as their gateway to the continent. Every certification strengthens that vision and brings Nairobi closer to becoming Africa’s financial gateway and one of the world’s most competitive international financial centres.

” As the Centre continues to expand its pipeline of global investors, financial institutions and innovative enterprises, the NIFC remains committed to mobilising international capital, creating quality employment and accelerating Kenya’s economic transformation. With certified firms expected to mobilise more than US$200 million in investment and create more than 1,000 direct and indirect jobs, the Centre is steadily advancing its mandate of positioning Nairobi as Africa’s preferred destination for finance, innovation and investment. As investor interest continues to grow, the Authority remains committed to working with government, regulators and the private sector to build a globally competitive financial ecosystem that delivers long-term prosperity for Kenya and the African continent.

NOTES TO EDITORS

The Nairobi International Financial Centre (NIFC) is Kenya’s premier investment platform established under the Nairobi International Financial Centre Act, 2017, under the National Treasury. It focuses on fund domiciliation, PE/VC, fintech, digital assets, sustainable finance, carbon markets, regional headquarters, financial services, family offices and startups.

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