$NEOPRIME gives onchain investors backed exposure to a basket of America's frontier private industrial companies. Erebor, the hard-tech bank, is the first position.

Dubai, UAE

Hecto, the private-markets infrastructure firm, today brought private markets onchain on the Canton Network with the launch of the first private market exposure (PMX) token. The instrument, $NEOPRIME, is issued by Neoprime on Hecto’s infrastructure and opens access to a basket of late-stage private companies building America’s next industrial base, a market that has historically been closed to everyone but institutions and the already wealthy. The first trading pool opens today.

For most investors, the best companies of this cycle are now built and scaled entirely in private. By the time they reach public markets, if they ever do, the majority of the value has already been captured by venture funds and insiders. $NEOPRIME is designed to change who gets to participate, giving ordinary investors a route into companies they would otherwise only read about.

$NEOPRIME is issued as a tokenized debenture under British Virgin Islands law. Holders receive contractual creditor rights against Neoprime’s special purpose vehicle. They do not receive shares in the underlying companies. Exposure is held through first and second layer SPVs against verified shares, so each position is backed by a real holding rather than a synthetic price reference. This structure is the difference between genuine, backed exposure and the unauthorized “wrapper” tokens that have drawn scrutiny elsewhere in the market.

“After a year of careful planning, research and development, it feels incredible to witness the launch of the first pre-IPO tokens built on Hecto infrastructure and trading on Canton,” said Ultan Miller, co-founder and CEO of Hecto. “This is not just a milestone for Hecto, or for Canton, but for the pre-IPO market as a whole. $NEOPRIME sets a new bar in pre-IPO access onchain, giving token holders better disclosures, better data and fairer pricing than ever before.”

“The old primes won the last century. They will not build this one,” said Ross Belhomme, Trustee at Neoprime, “$NEOPRIME is how that rebuild is owned while it is still private: a named book, a published NAV, and a ticker that is the thesis.”

The basket: America’s frontier industrial base

$NEOPRIME is built around a curated basket of private companies at the frontier of American industry and hard technology: Anduril, Project Prometheus, Figure AI, Crusoe, The Boring Company, Shield AI, Castelion, Hadrian, Saronic, Stoke Space, and Erebor.

Erebor, the specialist bank for hard technology, is the first completed investment and is now available onchain for the first time. Positions in Shield AI and Anduril are in process, with the remainder of the basket to follow as each is secured.

Eligibility for the index is deliberately narrow. A company qualifies only if it is pre-IPO, valued at a minimum of $1 billion, and has adequate pricing data available from independent third party providers. The result is a book of names that are large, late stage, and genuinely marked, rather than speculative early bets.

A better pricing mechanism

$NEOPRIME is built to track the value of the assets behind it rather than drift to a large premium when demand is high. When the token trades above its net asset value, eligible parties can mint new tokens. That new capital buys more underlying shares, increasing supply and pulling the price back toward fair value.

Most tokenized pre-IPO products are static wrappers around a fixed pool of scarce shares. When demand is strong, the price simply runs to a steep premium, and buyers pay what amounts to a scarcity tax on top of the actual company exposure. $NEOPRIME is designed to remove that tax.

When a company in the basket announces an IPO process, its position is sold in the secondary market and the proceeds support a buyback of $NEOPRIME, returning realized value to remaining holders.

Private markets arrive on Canton

The launch marks the arrival of private market exposure products on the Canton Network, the institutional blockchain built for privacy, compliance, and programmable settlement. $NEOPRIME is Hecto’s first PMX token, and the foundation of a product category the company intends to expand across the most in demand private companies in the world.

About Hecto

Hecto is a private markets infrastructure firm building the rails that open access to the world’s most valuable private companies. Its infrastructure lets issuers bring compliant, backed private market exposure onchain, with $NEOPRIME, issued by Neoprime, the first token built on it. Founded by a team including former Goldman Sachs and Barclays executives, Hecto develops tokenized private market products on the Canton Network, with the goal of making exposure to high growth private companies as accessible as investing in public markets.

Learn more at hecto.inc.

About Neoprime

Neoprime is an investment vehicle focused on America’s next industrial giants, the private companies rebuilding the country’s industrial base. Its single token, $NEOPRIME, is a tokenized debenture that gives onchain investors backed, contractual exposure to that portfolio.

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Three-module, in-person training explores connections between early movement, nervous system organization, learning and behavior

Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 14, 2026

Baby Bare Professional Training returns to Minnesota in 2027, marking the first in-person cohort in the state since 2019. The program brings together professionals from multiple disciplines to study early movement, primitive reflexes and nervous system organization, and how these foundations may show up later in life.

Created by Stephanie Johnson, MA LPC, the three-module training is designed for educators, occupational and physical therapists, mental health providers, somatic and dance/movement practitioners, infant care providers, doulas, early childhood specialists, chiropractors and other professionals who work with children, teens and adults.

The training looks at how early infant movement and nervous system organization connect to patterns professionals may see later on, including attention, reading readiness, emotional regulation, posture, coordination, sensory processing and behavior.

“I created Baby Bare Professional Training because early in my practice, I heard the same sentence from parent after parent: ‘I wish someone had told me this when my child was younger,’” explains Johnson. “They were talking about the importance of early movement, nervous system organization, and how much those early foundations can shape learning, regulation, posture, attention, and emotional life.”

Baby Bare Professional Training is an active course in which participants move, reflect, discuss and practice together, experiencing the material in their own bodies while learning alongside professionals from other fields. The mix of disciplines gives participants an opportunity to examine developmental patterns through different professional perspectives.

“My hope is that fewer parents will be left feeling like no one told them what would have helped earlier,” says Johnson.

The Minnesota 2027 cohort dates are:

Module One: January 29–31
Module Two: April 2–4
Module Three: October 8–10
For more information about the Baby Bare Professional Training Minnesota cohort, visit https://www.babybare.net/for-professionals-2.

About Stephanie Johnson

Stephanie Johnson, MA LPC has spent more than 35 years working through movement with infants, children, and families, as well as with organizations to train their staff. A licensed dance educator, she holds an MA in Somatic Counseling/Dance Movement Therapy from Naropa University. She is the author of Baby Bare: A Bottom-Up Approach to Growing Strong Brains, published in 2016 and recognized with a Benjamin Franklin Award and a Midwest Book Award.

About Baby Bare

Founded by Stephanie Johnson, Baby Bare provides education, professional training and resources on developmental movement, early infant movement, primitive reflexes and nervous system organization. Its work reaches families, caregivers, educators, therapists, infant professionals, somatic practitioners, bodyworkers and other professionals supporting infants, children and families. Baby Bare has offered educational resources since the publication of Johnson’s book in 2016, building on her more than 35 years in movement-based education and family support. Learn more at https://www.babybare.net.

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Perpetual futures, prediction markets, tokenized U.S. stocks and swaps in one self-custodial account. Trade directly in the terminal or let the agent prepare the trade, and confirm every transaction yourself.

Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Sparkling today launched its web app at app.sparkl.ing, bringing the trading experience to the browser. The web version gives users a wider trading interface, with an order book and more data on a single screen, while keeping Sparkling’s self-custodial account model and optional AI agent.

Sparkling is a self-custodial trading app that comes with an AI agent. From one account, users can trade perpetual futures, prediction markets and tokenized U.S. stocks and swap tokens, either directly through the trading interface or by asking the agent to prepare the action for review. The agent never executes on its own: every transaction is confirmed by the user, and the keys remain under the user’s control.

“The browser is still where many traders feel at home, so that is where Sparkling had to be. On the web they get the room they are used to, and the agent steps in only when they call it,” said Daniil Kotlov, CEO of Sparkling.

Two Ways to Trade, One Account

Sparkling gives users two ways to trade and lets them switch at will. In the Pre-Executed Flow, a user types the intended action in plain language, and the agent returns a ready transaction card with every parameter already filled in. The user checks it, adjusts or rejects it, and confirms. The legwork between an idea and an order disappears.

Traders who would rather do it themselves skip the agent entirely. On the web, the trading interface opens up: a wider layout, an order book and more data on a single screen. Picking a market, sizing a position, setting leverage, placing orders and managing open trades all happen with the full picture in view.

Either way, it is one self-custodial account, and nothing executes until the user confirms.

“Some traders want to type what they need and get a ready trade back. Others want the order book in front of them and every setting in their own hands. Most products pick one of those people. Sparkling now serves both from the same account, and the trader decides which way to work, trade by trade,” said Aleksei Voiutskii, founder of NODES, Sparkling’s exclusive marketing partner.

What Powers Sparkling

Sparkling’s self-custodial account runs on Turnkey wallet infrastructure. Every account comes with a seed phrase the user can export at any time, and the AI agent has no access to private keys and cannot sign transactions.

Perpetual futures execute on Hyperliquid. Prediction markets come from Polymarket, where Sparkling is a verified builder in the Polymarket Builders Program (https://builders.polymarket.com/) and appears on its official Builders leaderboard. Tokenized U.S. stocks are available through xStocks. Swaps run on Bebop’s RFQ-based execution, together with other integrations for wide coverage across tokens and chains.

On the web, perps, prediction markets, tokenized stocks and swaps sit in one interface under one account, so traders can move between them without switching apps or wallets.

“The safest agent is one that cannot move your money. In Sparkling, it can prepare a trade, but only the user can approve it,” said George Kaspar, Head of AI at Sparkling.

About Sparkling

Sparkling is the trading app that comes with an agent: swaps, perps, prediction markets and tokenized U.S. stocks from one self-custodial account. Trade on your own or let AI prep the move. You always confirm. Sparkling connects users to Hyperliquid, Polymarket, xStocks and Bebop, and is built on Turnkey wallet infrastructure. It is available on the web at app.sparkl.ing and in Telegram at t.me/sparkling_trade_bot. Learn more at sparkl.ing and follow updates on X at x.com/SparklingAI and on Telegram at t.me/SparklingAI.

About NODES

NODES is a premium marketing consultancy and crypto advisor, powered by human expertise and AI technologies. The agency works with companies across industries on positioning, product launches and growth, and runs a dedicated crypto advisory practice for Web3 and fintech teams. NODES is the exclusive marketing partner of Sparkling. Learn more at https://nodes.global/

Links

• Trade on web: https://app.sparkl.ing

• Trade in Telegram: https://t.me/sparkling_trade_bot

• Website: https://sparkl.ing

• X: https://x.com/SparklingAI

• Telegram channel: https://t.me/SparklingAI

Disclaimer

Service. Sparkling is a self-custodial interface to independent third-party protocols and markets. It does not hold user funds, does not execute trades without user confirmation and does not provide investment, tax or legal advice. Trades prepared by the agent are not recommendations; every decision is made by the user.

Eligibility and availability. Sparkling is intended solely for users aged 18 or over, or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction if higher. Some services are not available in certain jurisdictions, including the United States and the United Kingdom, and availability is subject to local restrictions. Prediction markets, perpetual futures and certain other features are not available where they are prohibited or restricted, and users are solely responsible for ensuring their use is lawful where they are.

Tokenized stocks. Tokenized stocks are issued by third parties and do not confer shareholder rights in the underlying companies. xStocks are not available in the U.S. or to U.S. persons, and further geo restrictions apply. Read Kraken’s xStocks Risk Disclosure at https://kraken.com/legal/xstocks.

Risk. Perpetual futures, prediction markets, tokenized stocks and digital asset trading involve substantial risk, including the loss of all funds committed, and are not suitable for everyone. Please participate responsibly and only with funds you can afford to lose.

Third parties. References to third-party companies describe technical integrations, infrastructure or market access and do not imply endorsement or a commercial partnership unless explicitly acknowledged by the respective company. Nothing in this release constitutes financial, investment or legal advice, or an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where it would be unlawful.

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