Carmel, Indiana

TKSoftware Inc. today announced ICONIC Pro practice management, a single platform that carries a patient visit from the appointment book to the payer and back again. An appointment booked in ICONIC Scheduling opens as the encounter in the ICONIC Scribe app on the provider’s iPhone. What the provider says in the exam room becomes a structured note, then coded charges, then — after one approval by a billing specialist — a built claim sitting in the clearinghouse.

That last step is what separates ICONIC Pro from the rest of the category. TKSoftware is the clearinghouse. Claims are not handed to an outside vendor for delivery, and remittances do not come back through one. The company that writes the software also holds the payer connections, runs the enrollments, and programs the edits.

No third-party clearinghouse. Not a reseller agreement, not a pass-through.

Most billing software connects to a clearinghouse someone else operates. When a claim stalls, the practice calls the software vendor, who calls the clearinghouse. TKSoftware removed that hand-off by being both ends of it — the company has operated as an advanced medical claims clearinghouse for 24 years, and ICONIC Pro is the practice management software built on top of its own pipe.

About TKSoftware Inc.

TKSoftware Inc. is a provider of healthcare revenue cycle management solutions, specializing in medical billing software and its own medical claims clearinghouse. Headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, the company helps practices across the United States shorten the revenue cycle, reduce denials, and accelerate reimbursements. For more information, visit www.tksoftwareinc.com or call 317-228-0857.

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TKSoftware Inc.
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The zero-knowledge privacy protocol runs inside the wallets people already use. It is live on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain, with Solana and private perpetuals coming next.

London, UK

 Nullmask, a zero-knowledge privacy protocol for private transfers and swaps, has processed more than $50 million in private volume since 1 October. The protocol was founded by Tomas Krnak, whose team of Zcash developers built shielded transaction support into Trezor hardware wallets on a Zcash Foundation grant. Nullmask averages about $3 million a day, and its busiest day so far saw roughly $4.5 million move through the pool in 24 hours.

The growth comes as privacy has become the largest narrative in web3. It is what is bringing institutions and large funds on-chain, because they need to move capital without exposing positions, counterparties or strategy to the public. Nullmask gives them that confidentiality while keeping deposits screened and activity auditable for the people who need to see it.

Nullmask has distributed about $1.5 million in ZEC rewards and $1.5 million to $MASK holders, and has burned 2.15% of the $MASK supply. All figures are on-chain and can be verified on Dune and DefiLlama.

The team is now launching Nullmask Points Season One, which goes live on 19 October and runs for 90 days. Points reward one thing: moving money privately. Every withdrawal from the pool earns. Through the Early Adopters Program, activity from before Season One is credited retroactively.

Privacy without a new wallet

On a public blockchain, every payment, balance and counterparty is permanent and searchable by anyone with your address. Scrutiny is also increasing: since January, exchanges in 75 countries have been collecting transaction data that tax authorities will begin sharing in 2027.

Earlier privacy tools asked users to give something up. That could mean a new wallet, a new seed phrase, hours of setup, or handing funds to a third party mid-transfer. As a result, privacy stayed a niche for technical power users.

Nullmask takes a different approach. Users add it to MetaMask, Rabby, Ledger, Trezor or any wallet that supports a custom network, and connect once. From then on, tokens, native ETH and NFTs can be shielded in a single click, and private transfers complete in under 30 seconds.

• No new wallet or seed phrase. Privacy keys are derived deterministically from a signature by the user’s existing wallet, so there is nothing extra to back up.
• No custody. Funds never leave the user’s control, and no third party holds them mid-transfer.
• Standard signing. Shielded transactions are authorized with a standard EIP-1559 transaction from the user’s own wallet, including hardware wallets.

This used to be impractical. Proving a normal wallet signature inside a zero-knowledge proof once required enormous files and hours of compute. Advances in proof systems have brought that down to a couple of seconds on a laptop or phone.

Wave Batching: hiding the last link

A privacy pool breaks the direct path between a deposit and a withdrawal, but three clues can still connect them: the address, the amount and the time. Nullmask steers users toward a fresh withdrawal address and standard amounts, such as 500 or 1,000 USDT, so withdrawals blend in with many others.

Time is the last link, because every on-chain withdrawal carries a public timestamp. Nullmask’s Advanced mode addresses this with Wave Batching. Withdrawals are signed and queued, then sent together at a scheduled wave in shuffled order. The timestamp on-chain shows the wave, not the moment the user acted. Users can also split a withdrawal into two to five parts, each with its own amount, address and wave, up to 24 hours ahead.

Fast mode remains available for users who need funds right away. Both modes carry the same 0.5% protocol fee.

Compliance built in

Nullmask is designed to keep illicit funds out of its pool:

• Every deposit waits as pending until it is approved.
• Depositing addresses are screened against the OFAC SDN list, the Chainalysis sanctions oracle, EU and UK sanctions lists, USDT and USDC issuer blacklists, and public scam lists, and are risk-scored by AMLBot.
• Funds linked to sanctions, hacks, darknet markets, scams, ransomware, terrorism financing or child exploitation are refused and refunded automatically.
• Approved addresses remain under continuous AMLBot monitoring.

Users can share their history with an accountant, institution or regulator through viewing keys, without publishing it. Every approved deposit also carries a revocation key pair. If a deposit is flagged after it enters the pool, the secret half is published, and every other user can prove their funds were never linked to it.

Contract source code is verified on Etherscan, and all protocol addresses are published with a signed proof of ownership at nullmask.io/compliance. Verified law enforcement requests sent to [email protected] are acknowledged within 72 hours.

Integrations and partners

• NEAR Intents: private cross-chain bridging, live
• Uniswap: private ETH ⇄ USDT swaps, live
• Aerodrome and PancakeSwap: private swaps on Base and BNB Chain
• Gate Wallet: integrated, with a MetaMask integration in talks
• AMLBot: screening on every deposit
• DefiLlama: listed

Nullmask has also partnered with Beldex, Dash Pay, QUAI and THORChain. It reaches users through social trading apps such as Fomo and through exchange listings including Aster perps.

“[Quote placeholder. Suggested: Privacy shouldn’t require a new wallet or a leap of faith. Nullmask works inside the wallet you already use, it screens every deposit at the door, and it gives users a way to prove their funds are clean. Fifty million dollars in a few weeks shows people want that.]” said Tomas Krnak, founder of Nullmask.

The team

Nullmask was founded by Tomas Krnak, whose team of Zcash-focused developers spent two years bringing private transactions to hardware wallets. On a Zcash Foundation grant, they built shielded support into Trezor firmware, covering key derivation, shielded addresses and on-device signing, and moved the work onto Orchard, Zcash’s newer privacy design. The team’s changes to the transaction format were accepted into Zcash itself.

What’s next

Nullmask is live on Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain. Next on the roadmap are Points Season One, Solana support and private perpetuals.

About Nullmask

Nullmask is a zero-knowledge privacy protocol for private transfers and swaps that works inside users’ existing wallets, with no new wallet, seed phrase or custody. Deposits are screened before entering the shielded pool, and users keep full control of their funds. Learn more at nullmask.io.

Links

• Website: nullmask.io
• X: x.com/NullMaskio
• Analytics: app.nullmask.io/analytics
• DefiLlama: defillama.com/protocol/nullmask

Nothing in this release is financial or legal advice. Use of privacy tools remains subject to the laws of your jurisdiction.

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Washington, DC

The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD) today issued an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging decisive action following his recent conversation with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun. AMCD strongly supports Secretary Rubio’s insistence that explosives seized from Hezbollah must never be returned and that Lebanon’s 1955 Boycott Law must be repealed.

In the letter, AMCD Co-Chairs Tom Harb and John Hajjar emphasize that the 1955 law, originally an economic boycott measure, has been stretched far beyond its original purpose. Lebanese authorities now use it to criminalize nearly any contact between Lebanese and Israelis—including conversations, meetings, shared conferences, and even pilgrimages by Lebanese Christians and Muslims to the holy sites of the Holy Land.

“The law is not only impractical; it has become a tool for politicized prosecutions of those who advocate peace,” the letter states. “One of AMCD’s own co-chairs, Tom Harb, an American citizen born in Lebanon, was summoned to appear before the Lebanese military court, as have so many others. Americans should not face criminal charges abroad for speech that is protected at home.”

AMCD calls on President Aoun to repeal the 1955 Boycott Law without delay and to permit open communication with Israel at every level:

• Military-to-military channels to prevent further loss of innocent life through miscalculation;
• Diplomatic and negotiation channels to advance lasting peace;
• Ordinary citizen contact, including a pilot program allowing Lebanese pilgrims to visit the holy sites in time for Christmas 2026 without fear of prosecution.

To give these demands weight, AMCD urges the Administration to work with Congress on two concrete measures:

1. Condition U.S. assistance — Any U.S. financial or military aid to the Government of Lebanon should be conditioned on repeal of the 1955 Boycott Law and concrete steps to facilitate military, diplomatic, and civilian communication with Israel, including freedom of pilgrimage.

2. Impose targeted sanctions — Absent repeal, the United States should sanction any Lebanese government body, institution, or individual that prosecutes or penalizes people for peaceful contact with Israelis or for visiting the holy sites—particularly when the person is a U.S. citizen.
“American taxpayers should not underwrite a government that criminalizes the pursuit of peace,” the letter concludes. “We respectfully urge you to continue pressing President Aoun on these issues and to support these measures in Congress.”

The open letter has been sent to key lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

The full open letter is available at:
https://americanmideast.com/2026/10/16/open-letter-to-secretary-rubio/

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