First-time honoree is building a consumer operating system where AI agents manage and grow an individual’s financial life

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Bluwhale, the AI-native financial operating system bringing AI agents directly to consumers, today announced that it has been named to the Inc. 5000 for the first time, ranking No. 2372 on the 2026 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

The ranking reflects Bluwhale’s revenue growth from 2022 through 2025, when it scaled the decentralized AI network that now underpins its consumer-facing agent infrastructure. The company’s next chapter is focused on one of AI’s least-developed frontiers: agents that work continuously for individuals, not only inside enterprises.

Consumers are already looking to AI for financial guidance, but trust has not caught up. A new Gallup survey conducted with Edward Jones and reported by The Associated Press found that 18% of U.S. adults who sought financial guidance used AI tools in the past year, rising to roughly one in four among Gen Z and millennial guidance-seekers. Yet only 3% of U.S. adults expressed a great deal of confidence in AI’s financial expertise.

“Enterprise agents are built around workflows. Consumer agents have to be built around a person,” said Han Jin, co-founder and CEO of Bluwhale. “That means understanding the context of that person’s financial life, working within limits the user sets and being accountable for every action. The opportunity is not another place to ask questions. It is infrastructure that keeps working on the consumer’s behalf. Being named to the Inc. 5000 list is an honor and represents the growth and acceptance we have attained in the market.”

“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance–it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement.” 

Consumer agents need context, permission, and proof

To work on behalf of an individual, an agent needs more than a prompt. It needs current context across the user’s financial life and clear rules governing what it can access and do. Bluwhale connects bank accounts, cards, brokerages, exchanges, wallets and digital assets, then lets users set permissions around each agent. Blockchain infrastructure and zero-knowledge proofs provide a verifiable layer beneath the AI, creating an auditable record of what information the agent used, what it recommended and what it did.

Users can test agents with virtual USDT before connecting real financial accounts. The system is designed to monitor continuously, identify a relevant change and either recommend or carry out a permitted action, depending on the user’s settings.

“Trust is what turns an agent from a demo into a consumer product,” Jin said. “The agent should be able to act, but never outside the boundaries the user has set. People need to see what it saw, why it acted and what changed afterward. That record is as important as the action itself.”

The network behind the consumer product

Bluwhale’s consumer product is built on a decentralized network that now reaches more than 3.8 million unique users and has processed more than 100 million agent transactions across more than 80 chains. Its consumer platform reports 160,000 daily active users, $6.8 million in capital managed by agents and access to 6,000 financial products. In 2025, Bluwhale closed a $10 million strategic Series A backed by UOB Venture Management, SBI Holdings, Sui, Tezos, Cardano, Arbitrum and Movement Labs among others. In 2026, it extended that foundation into its consumer financial operating system across web and mobile.

The ranking also marks a return to Inc. for Jin, whom the publication named to its 30 Under 30 list in 2017 for his earlier company, Lucid VR.

About the Inc. 5000

The Inc. 5000 ranks U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit and independent companies according to percentage revenue growth over three years. For the 2026 list, companies were evaluated on revenue growth from 2022 to 2025 and were required to generate at least $100,000 in 2022 and $2 million in 2025. The complete list is available at inc.com/inc5000.

About Bluwhale

Bluwhale is building an AI-native financial operating system for a world in which money is distributed across banks, brokerages, wallets, stablecoins and digital assets. By combining AI agents, financial intelligence and decentralized infrastructure, Bluwhale gives users one view of their financial lives and tools to act while retaining control of their data, accounts and permissions. For more information, visit bluwhale.com.

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New book “Better Today Than Yesterday” translates high-stakes readiness principles into a sustainable framework for Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical progress

KANEOHE, Hawaii

Kevin L. Lewis, a Navy veteran, martial arts Hall of Fame inductee, and longtime trainer of military, law-enforcement, and private-sector security teams, has released Better Today Than Yesterday: A Practical Philosophy for Daily Growth. The book is now available in Kindle ($4.99) and paperback ($12.99) editions on Amazon at https://a.co/d/05CNOeMg.

Rather than urging dramatic transformation or intense motivation, the book presents a clear, workable operating system built around one simple standard: be better today than you were yesterday. Lewis draws the framework from years of operational experience in executive protection and high-stakes readiness training, then adapts those principles for everyday life.

The system centers on four interlocking domains—Spiritual (clarity of purpose and inner alignment), Mental (sharper thinking and better decisions), Emotional (steady presence under pressure), and Physical (the foundation that supports everything else). Readers learn practical methods for “bookending” the day with intentional morning and evening practices, using a simple daily and weekly review template, and applying concepts such as time, distance, opportunity, and options to ordinary decisions. The emphasis remains on consistent action over intention and on systems that can be sustained without burnout.

“Growth, education, and training must never end, or complacency will set in. Complacency kills,” Lewis states. The book reflects that same stance: progress is measured in daily, compounding actions rather than perfection or intensity.

Lewis is the founder of Universal Defensive Tactics, a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Krav Maga, a 1st Degree Black Belt in Shudo-Kan Karate, and a 2010 inductee into the Martial Arts Master’s Hall of Fame. He has prepared A-list actors for action roles in more than 20 major films and is the author of Idiot’s Guide to Krav Maga. He continues to train and teach from Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Better Today Than Yesterday is written for adults who have tried conventional self-help approaches and found them either too vague or unsustainable. It offers a calm, direct alternative focused on practice rather than theory.

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On August 12th at 7:00 PM, the powerful documentary "The Last Message" will screen at the Chain NYC Film Festival at Chain Theatre in Manhattan.

New York City

“The Last Message” movie is coming to New York City.

On August 12th at 7:00 PM, the documentary “The Last Message” will screen at the Chain NYC Film Festival at Chain Theatre in Manhattan. The movie has received an astounding 44 film festival awards and selections since February and is now in a campaign for an Oscar. https://thelastmessagemovie.com/

“The Last Message” tells the story of Ukraine not through statistics or news headlines, but through the personal journey of American singer Kelsie Kimberlin, who travels to a country at war and meets people whose lives have been changed by Russia’s aggression. She spent a month filming, including a week along the frontline while drones, artillery, and missiles attacked nearby.

Marharyta Vlasova and director Andrii Voloshyn developed the original concept and screenplay together. Andrii directed the film alongside Ukrainian cinematographer and director Oleksii Liebiediev.

But no film can be made alone. “The Last Message” is the work of a large Ukrainian-American team, and without their talent, experience, and dedication, this film simply would not exist.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kelsie Kimberlin, Director Voloshyn, and cinematographer Dmitro Bondarenko.

“If you’re in New York — whether you work in film or journalism, are part of the Ukrainian community, or simply care about what is happening in Ukraine — please join us, said Kelsie. We will be honored to see you there and continue the conversation after the film.”

August 12 · 7:00 PM
Chain Theatre, 4th Floor
312 W 36th St, New York, NY 10018

Trailer:
https://lnkd.in/gy9vA7Jt

Film page at the Chain NYC Film Festival where to purchase tickets:
https://lnkd.in/gTQfh-T8

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