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Agora Selects Wormhole as Core Interoperability Solution for AUSD Stablecoin

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Agora will leverage Wormhole NTT (native token transfers) to unite AUSD stablecoin liquidity across all blockchains

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Agora, the Dragonfly-backed startup aimed at building an open, inclusive stablecoin network, today announced the selection of Wormhole as a core interoperability provider for their AUSD stablecoin. Currently live on Ethereum, Avalanche, and Sui with over $65M in total value locked (TVL), AUSD is a centralized, credibly neutral stablecoin expanding to all major blockchains. By leveraging Wormhole’s multichain capabilities and secure infrastructure that caters to the development of institutional-grade stablecoins, the integration will unify liquidity across chains and increase AUSD access and transferability. 

Through this collaboration, Agora furthers its mission of developing an open, more inclusive model for participants in stablecoin networks. Agora manages AUSD, a digital dollar minted 1:1 with USD fiat. AUSD is designed to be a secure digital currency, utilizing one of the world’s largest custodian banks to safeguard assets. With Wormhole’s NTT framework Agora can cut liquidity fragmentation by preserving the intrinsic properties of tokens on different chains. Leveraging NTT not only unites the Agora ecosystem but also enhances transparency while reducing transaction fees and other costs. Additionally, NTT enables AUSD to easily expand to additional blockchains, with Solana coming in the near future.

As the provider of one of the fastest-growing stablecoins, “Agora’s selection of Wormhole as an interoperability solution is driven by the knowledge that early multichain support will improve user experience and support our rapid expansion to other ecosystems. This integration reduces barriers standing in the way of accessing, transferring, and using AUSD,” said Nick van Eck, CEO and co-founder.

Agora is the latest project to choose Wormhole as a core interoperability solution following the announcement of Wormhole’s latest Era3 Upgrade, which introduced major user experience, speed, and cost reduction improvements to the platform. Most recently, Securitize announced a core partnership with Wormhole to add multichain functionality to their tokenized treasury bills, including BlackRock’s currently $500 million BUIDL fund.

Robinson Burkey, co-founder and CCO of Wormhole Foundation, added: “Agora’s mission to expand access to the US dollar is one that Wormhole Foundation is proud to support. Through Wormhole NTT, Agora customers will benefit from access to more users and liquidity across all major blockchain networks. This partnership reflects our ongoing efforts to increase institutional adoption of digital assets and improve user trust in transacting onchain.”

About Agora 
Agora manages AUSD, a digital dollar minted 1:1 with USD fiat. AUSD is designed to be a secure digital currency, utilizing one of the world’s largest custodian banks to safeguard assets. AUSD enables users to participate in trading, lending and payments. It is the most cost-efficient stablecoin to transact with due to its gas-optimized smart contract, making it ideal for traders and payments. Additionally, Agora offers a forward-thinking payment and operations platform.

About Wormhole
Wormhole is the leading interoperability platform that powers multichain applications and bridges at scale. Wormhole provides developers access to liquidity and users on over 30 leading blockchain networks, enabling use cases that span DeFi, NFTs, governance, and more.

The wider Wormhole network is trusted and used by teams like Circle and Uniswap. To date, the platform has facilitated the transfer of over 45 billion dollars through over 1 billion cross-chain messages.

About Wormhole Foundation
The Wormhole Foundation is the steward of Wormhole—the world’s first generalized messaging protocol. Our mission is to empower passionate people in researching and developing blockchain interoperability technologies. Through grants, research, and ecosystem programs, we seek to enable teams to build secure, open-source, and decentralized products within the Wormhole ecosystem.

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M Group Strategic Communications (On behalf of Wormhole Foundation)
wormhole@mgroupsc.com

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TriNetX’s Founding CEO Announces Plans to Step Down

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After 11 Years, Gadi Lachman to Conclude Operating Role, Remain on TriNetX’s Board

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TriNetX, the largest global source of real-world data, today announced that Gadi Lachman, the Company’s Founder, President and CEO, will step down from his operating role on March 31, 2025. Gadi founded TriNetX in 2014 and has served as President and CEO in the succeeding 11 years. Gadi will continue to serve on TriNetX’s Board of Directors and will be an Advisor to Carlyle, TriNetX’s majority investor.

“It has been an honor to build TriNetX and be part of such an outstanding team. I want to thank TriNetX’s employees, customers, and shareholders for the support they have shown me. With the talent and passion of our people I am immensely confident in TriNetX’s continued success,” said Lachman. “Together, we have built the largest global platform for clinical research, with data from over 25 countries and tens of millions of queries a month. Our solutions are moving clinical research to a whole different level and saving lives on a massive scale, across all therapeutic areas.”

During the transition period, Jeff Margolis, a current TriNetX Director, will serve as Executive Chairman to ensure continuity in leadership and governance while a CEO search is conducted.

Margolis said, “I have had the distinct privilege of serving on the Board alongside Gadi and partnering with him for 11 years. On behalf of the Board, we thank Gadi for shaping and leading TriNetX to become the world’s top ecosystem of real-world data and real-world evidence serving life sciences and the broader healthcare industry. I look forward to working with him and the rest of the Board over the next months to execute a successful transition of leadership.”

Joe Bress, Partner and Global Co-Head of Healthcare for Carlyle, TriNetX’s lead investor, added, “We have been thrilled to partner with Gadi since our initial investment in TriNetX over four years ago. Thanks to his disciplined leadership, TriNetX is one of the few companies that has sustained profitability even during periods of high growth. Gadi has built the company up to an exciting point, paving the way for a new leader to take the business into its next chapter of growth and success.”

Through this leadership transition, TriNetX remains steadfast in its mission to advance global healthcare through the power of real-world data. The Board, leadership team, and employees are united in their commitment to driving continued innovation and delivering success for customers and partners, all while building on Gadi’s exceptional legacy.

About TriNetX, LLC

TriNetX is a global network of healthcare organizations and life sciences companies dedicated to advancing real-world research and expediting the development of new therapies. Through its self-service, HIPAA-, GDPR-, and LGPD-compliant platform of federated deidentified and anonymous electronic health record datasets and consulting partnerships, TriNetX empowers its global community to improve clinical trial protocol design, streamline trial operations, refine safety signals, and enrich real-world evidence generation. For more information, please visit TriNetX at www.trinetx.com or follow TriNetX on LinkedIn.

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Michelle Fleming, Chief Marketing Officer
Email: Michelle.Fleming@TriNetX.com

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Stellus Private Credit BDC Announces $0.36 First Quarter 2025 Regular Dividend, Payable Monthly in Increments of $0.12 in January, February, and March 2025

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HOUSTON, Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Stellus Private Credit BDC (“the Company”) announced that its Board of Trustees has declared a monthly dividend of $0.12 for each of January, February, and March, totaling $0.36 per share in the aggregate for the first quarter of 2025. The regular dividend of $0.36 per share will be paid to shareholders of record in January, February, and March 2025.

Summary of First Quarter 2025 Regular Monthly Dividends

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Record Date

Payment Date

Amount per Share

1/9/2025

1/10/2025

1/31/2025

$0.12

1/9/2025

2/3/2025

2/28/2025

$0.12

1/9/2025

3/3/2025

3/31/2025

$0.12

About Stellus Private Credit BDC

The Company is an externally-managed, closed-end, non-diversified investment management company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company’s investment objective is to maximize the total return to its stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in private middle-market companies (typically those with $5.0 million to $50.0 million of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)) through first lien (including unitranche) loans, second lien loans and unsecured debt financing, with corresponding equity co-investments. The Company’s investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, Stellus Private BDC Advisor, LLC.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements included herein may contain “forward-looking statements” which relate to future performance or financial condition. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release, including statements about COVID-19 and its impacts, may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission including the final prospectus that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.

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Stellus Private Credit BDC
W. Todd Huskinson, Chief Financial Officer
(713) 292-5414
thuskinson@stelluscapital.com

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MongoDB, Inc. to Present at the 27th Annual Needham Growth Conference

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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced that Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Gordon, and Senior Vice President of Finance, Serge Tanjga, will present virtually at the 27th Annual Needham Growth Conference.

The MongoDB presentation is scheduled for Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Events page of the MongoDB investor relations website at https://investors.mongodb.com/news-events/events. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time.

About MongoDB
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. Built by developers, for developers, MongoDB’s developer data platform is a database with an integrated set of related services that allow development teams to address the growing requirements for today’s wide variety of modern applications, all in a unified and consistent user experience. MongoDB has tens of thousands of customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times since 2007, and there have been millions of builders trained through MongoDB University courses. To learn more, visit mongodb.com.

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Brian Denyeau
ICR for MongoDB
646-277-1251
ir@mongodb.com

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MongoDB PR
press@mongodb.com

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