Roundtable Founders and Tech Platform Visionaries Unite to Launch AI-Powered DeFi Media Platform at the "Possible" 2026 Media Conference
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RYVYL Inc. (NASDAQ: RVYL) and RTB Digital (“Roundtable”) announced that tech platform powerhouses have united to launch the media industry’s only full-stack AI + DeFi + Web3 platform at the “Possible” Conference in Miami this week.
Roundtable CEO and media platform visionary, James Heckman; co-founder and DeFI platform inventor, Eyal Hertzog; Web3 Fintech architect and Chairman, Walton Comer - united to launch a multi-layered AI-system and Web3 tech stack, after five years of R&D. Roundtable recently entered a strategic partnership with Molt AI Corp, an AI business intelligence and IP management technology, to complete the AI-stack; which now boasts nearly 100% operational cost elimination.
RTB Launches AI/DeFi-Platform to save human-created Journalism
“Media companies and content creators have no chance of survival if their executives spend time or resources on technology or business operations - especially AI. It is simply suicidal,” asserted RTB CEO James Heckman. “Even worse, some media brands have already fallen prey to AI licensing offers, by surrendering the only thing that matters, human-created IP, to desperate AI executives who know they may soon face class action lawsuits, if they can’t convince media executives to surrender their human-created IP capital.”
Simple Answer and Strategy
RTB co-founder, Eyal Hertzog offers a permanent strategic solution: “What was impossible is now possible with AI and DeFi - to replace all of your operational platforms and related costs with a single AI/DeFi platform, so 100% of your capital and focus can be directed toward human-created content and consumer engagement.”
Hertzog and his Tel Aviv-based team invented key components of decentralized finance, including the liquidity pool and automated market-making systems that now underpin much of the DeFi ecosystem. His DeWeb technology is no less ambitious, leveraging DeFi for real-time reporting, and AI and Web3 for operations. The platform was funded by Binance in 2021, and Heckman and Comer's Roundtable in 2024, when the three joined forces after merging DeWeb with RTB Digital.
The now fully integrated platforms offer the only “full stack” platform for the media industry - offering no operational cost, saving what otherwise can be tens of millions, said Heckman.
“One of our customers spent over $30 million last year on 17 SaaS components - now that entire cost simply goes away, with all benefits of a single database. And media brands can now get paid in real time - no more 90-day delay collecting ad revenue with our DeFi Liquidity Pool solution.”
Major Media Can Leap to Web4
RTB’s platform replaces and funds the entire operational/tech stack - including data layer, IP-security, CMS, ad/operations, reporting and payments, internal and external syndication, monetization, editorial management and business intelligence, hosting, end-to-end video stack, “App-stack” integration - and now includes “net-zero” DeFi settlement.
Human Journalism Beats AI, by Deploying AI + DeFi Platform
“If media executives surrender their IP rights to AI content platforms, professional media will die a quick death.” said Roundtable Chairman and AI architect, Walton Comer.
“The answer is to use AI to enhance operations without replacing human creators, and to defend major media IP from AI platforms, leveraging new - AI-based, IP vault, licensing and monetization technology.” Comer is coming off two recent tech exits, amounting to over $4 billion in returns for investors.
Hulu moment
Fox Digital’s former Chief Strategy Officer, Heckman remembered the extreme danger social video presented to major media in 2006. “We knew that transferring our IP would be the end of the industry, and so we created a single platform that we controlled and that model saved premium media.
“Our strategy team at News Corp created the vision which unified the industry on a single platform - and this vision we believe is no less important of a mission.”
Disclosure: This article was provided by Roundtable, the subject of the story. Roundtable and its affiliates have a direct financial interest in the securities of the company discussed. This communication should not be construed as investment advice.
