Walton Comer, James Heckman, and Eyal Herzog (left to right). (Source: Roundtable)
MIAMI, April 27, 2026 (Globe Newswire) — Possible Conference: RYVYL Inc. (NASDAQ: RVYL) and RTB Digital (“Roundtable”) announced at the “Possible” conference in Miami this week that the leading technology platform companies are partnering to launch the media industry’s only full-stack AI + DeFi + Web3 platform.
James Heckman, Roundtable CEO and media platform pioneer; Eyal Hertzog, co-founder and inventor of the DeFi platform. After five years of research and development, Walton Comer, Architect and Chairman of Web3 FinTech, has come together to launch the multi-layer AI system and Web3 technology stack, building on a team’s 35+ years of experience across three $1B+ public exits. Roundtable recently entered into a strategic partnership with Molt AI Corp, a provider of AI business intelligence and IP management technology, to complete its AI stack and reduce operational costs by nearly 100%.
RTB launches AI/DeFi platform to save human-made journalism
“Media companies and content creators have no chance of survival if management spends time and resources on technology and business operations, especially AI. That is suicide,” RTB CEO James Heckman declared. “Worse still, some media brands are already falling prey to AI licensing offers, confiscating their only significant human-generated intellectual property to desperate AI executives who know they could soon face class-action lawsuits if they fail to convince media executives to part with their human-generated IP capital.”
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RTB co-founder Eyal Herzog provides lasting strategic solutions. “The impossible is now possible with AI and DeFi. By replacing all operational platforms and associated costs with a single AI/DeFi platform, you can direct 100% of your capital and focus to human-generated content and consumer engagement.”
Herzog and his Tel Aviv-based team invented key components of decentralized finance, including the liquidity pools and automated market-making systems that currently power much of the DeFi ecosystem. His DeWeb technology is equally ambitious, leveraging DeFi for real-time reporting and AI and Web3 for operations. The platform received funding from Binance in 2021 and Heckman and Comer’s Roundtable in 2024, with the three companies partnering after the merger of DeWeb and RTB Digital.
What a fully integrated platform offers the only Heckman said it’s a “full stack” platform for the media industry – which can reduce operating costs and save money that could cost tens of millions of dollars. “One of our customers spent over $30 million on a 17-vendor stack last year. Now those costs evaporate Because RTB brings the entire operational stack onto a single platform. Media brands can also now receive payments in real-time, eliminating 90-day delays in collecting ad revenue using DeFi liquidity pool solutions. ”
Big Media Can Leap to Web4 – Replacing 17 Vendor Stacks
On the RTB platform, Replace and fund the entire operations/tech stack – Includes data layer, IP security, CMS, advertising/operations, reporting and payments, internal and external syndication, monetization, editorial management and business intelligence, hosting, end-to-end video stack, “app stack” integration, and even “net-zero” DeFi payments.
Human journalism wins over AI with the introduction of AI + DeFi platforms
“Professional media will die instantly if media executives abandon their intellectual property rights to AI content platforms,” said Roundtable Chairman and AI Architect Walton Comer. “The answer is not to replace human creators, but to use AI to power their operations and leverage new AI-based IP storage, licensing and monetization technologies to protect major media IP from AI platforms,” Comer said. Mr. Mann’s two most recent exits add to his $4 billion track record, further contributing to Mr. Heckman’s acquisitions and public exits from a number of major technology media outlets, as well as his transformative architecture leadership at Fox, Myspace, Yahoo, and the NFL.
Hulu Blueprint Moments
Heckman, a former chief strategy officer at Fox Digital, recalled an extremely dangerous social video presented to major media outlets in 2006. “We knew giving away IP would be the end of the industry. So our team built an operational blueprint for Hulu, a single platform that major media could control. And that model saved premium media. That mission is just as important today.”
About Roundtable (RTB Digital, Inc.)
Transforming the $200 billion global media industry from Web1 to Web4. Roundtable is the only full-stack enterprise platform that combines AI and Web3 infrastructure, including decentralized publishing, DeFi payments and reporting, data encryption and IP protection, syndication, revenue optimization, AI-based business intelligence, management and operations, custom network applications, and a real-time blockchain-based payment and reporting system. This platform represents a multi-generational leap in technology. For more information, please visit RTB.io.
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RYVYL Inc. (NASDAQ: RVYL) operates a digital payment processing business that enables transactions around the world and provides payment solutions to underserved markets.
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