Roundtable Founders, Tech Platform Visionaries Unite, To Launch The Impossible. AI Powered, Defi Media Platform At The“Possible” 2026 Media Conference

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq)


Walton Comer, James Heckman, and Eyal Hertzog (from left to right). (Source: Roundtable)

Miami, April 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Possible Conference: 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 pioneer, 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, building on a 35+ year team track record across 3 public $1B+ exits. Roundtable recently entered a strategic partnership with Molt AI Corp, an AI business intelligence and IP management technology, to complete the AI-stack, creating 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 forfeiting 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 - eliminating operational costs, saving what otherwise can be tens of millions, said Heckman.“One of our customers spent over $30 million last year on a 17-vendor stack - now those costs evaporate as RTB ingests the entire operational stack into a single platform. 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 - Replacing the 17-Vendor Stack

RTB's platform can replace and fund 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, not replace human creators, and to defend major media IP from AI platforms by leveraging new AI-based IP vault, licensing and monetization technology.” Comer joins Heckman's track record with two recent exits totaling $4 billion, adding to Heckman's many major tech media acquisitions and public exits, and transformational architectural leadership at Fox, Myspace, Yahoo and the NFL.

The Hulu Blueprint 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 our industry, so our team built the Hulu operational blueprint, a single platform major media could control - and that model saved premium media. This mission is no less important today.”

MENAFN27042026004107003653ID1111038157