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This important personnel arrangement aims to strengthen the company's ability to advance its innovation strategy, providing key support for the group's next phase of strategic expansion and its Nasdaq listing plan. With his extensive experience in technological innovation and business model restructuring, Wilding will lead the design of the product innovation roadmap and digital business transformation, accelerating the company's technology integration and enhancing its market competitiveness. His joining is regarded as a significant milestone in Apple iSports Group's capitalization process and is expected to inject new momentum into the company's presence in the global sports technology sector.

Saylor hinted in a tweet that a new asset purchase may take place on Monday, but specific details have not yet been disclosed. (Cointelegraph)

Pieverse has launched Purr-Fect Claw, enabling any project on the BNB Chain to plug AI agents directly into mainstream apps like WhatsApp. The agents run in a trusted execution environment for security, and users can instruct them to swap on DEXes, rebalance portofolios and make contract calls. Pieverse, a financial infrastructure service provider for the agentic economy, has launched Purr-Fect, which allows projects built on BNB Chain to integrate AI agents directly into messaging apps. Pieverse says that the new service can be integrated into WhatsApp, LINE, and Kakao, and support for other messaging apps will be added in the near future. Once the crypto project deploys the autonomous AI agents on BNB, it then connects to these messaging platforms via API integrations. Users can then chat with these agents on WhatsApp or LINE, and the agents will interpret the message and execute the actions on-chain on BNB. Agentic innovations are happening on BNB Chain 🤖 Powered by @pieverse_io, BNB builders can now deploy autonomous AI agents directly into popular messaging apps to enable native onchain execution straight from a chat window. More details 👇https://t.co/iqolRRFAsy — BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) February 28, 2026 Pieverse has built a Trusted Execution Environment with server-side key management where the agents are run securely. The private keys live inside this hardware-isolated environment and are never exposed or shared. The AI agents sign transactions internally and can trade, move assets, or call contracts. While it’s not traditional self-custody, it still offers enhanced security. As CNF has previously reported, most leading blockchain networks, including Solana and SUI, are also targeting autonomous agentic AI economy. Hedera recently launched the x402 payment standard to power payments between AI agents. BNB Chain Takes AI Agents Mainstream Purr-Fect Claw comes with native on-chain execution through the messaging apps. Users trigger AI agents to conduct actions such as DEX swaps, direct contract calls, and portfolio rebalancing from a chat window on their favorite messaging app. Features such as liquidity access are built in. One of the biggest concerns with agentic AI commerce is constraining the agents, as many are still uncomfortable with letting AI take over an entire wallet or portfolio. Purr-Fect Claw solves this by integrating ERC-6551, an Ethereum standard that lets NFTs (or tokens in general) own wallets. This way, the user binds an agent to a token-bound account, sets the spending limits, and includes an expiration date. The agent then operates from the user’s wallet identity, but within strictly defined constraints. Purr-Fect Claw has also integrated ERC-8004, another Ethereum standard that standardizes AI agent identities on-chain as NFTs. This gives Purr-Fect’s AI agents on-chain identity that contains metadata about them, proves their ownership, and can be transferred. In effect, whoever owns the NFT can control that active agent. Purr-Fect has not officially launched yet, and Pieverse is calling on early testers with “the most specific use cases” to join its network. Purr-Fect Claw is live on @BNBCHAIN! We’ll be selecting early testers with the most specific, real use cases to gain access and spawn their Purr-Fect Claw agent. Purr-Fect Agent holders will get priority consideration. To apply: 1. Add “😺Purr-Fect” to your X name. (e.g. David… https://t.co/fvKpI5nKsf — pieverse (@pieverse_io) February 28, 2026 The new service will expand the use of AI in decentralized applications, which have surged over the past year. This week, Uniswap published a new AI tools repository on GitHub, making its DeFi platform easier to access for these agents, as CNF reported. BNB trades at $597, dropping 3% in the past day as the broader market faced a correction.