Luvia and Open Campus partner to bring verifiable credentials to Vietnamese students through initiative supported by Ministry of Education and Training

Luvia mobile app integrates Open Campus ID and verifiable credentials; Luvia in‑school platform supported by the Ministry of Education and Training will pilot in Hanoi schools in early 2026 

HANOI, Vietnam, Feb 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Luvia and Open Campus have announced a strategic partnership to provide Vietnamese learners with portable, verifiable credentials through two initiatives: a personalized learning mobile app for high school and university students, and a learning management platform for schools. The initiatives integrate Open Campus ID and its verifiable credentials with the aim to modernize school operations nationwide. 

Luvia’s mobile app launched on iOS and Android in late November 2025. Luvia is initially targeting students in its partner school network, totaling approximately 200,000 students. Luvia’s new mobile app is purpose-built to make learning fun, exciting, and rewarding for high school and university students. The app brings the entire Vietnamese high-school knowledge system into one place, beautifully summarized through mindmaps and structured modules. Students can learn at their own pace with personalized practice tests and on-demand materials, while the app also strengthens the connection between teachers, schools, and parents. Educators can follow student progress, schools can adopt Luvia as a curriculum-aligned companion, and parents can gain a clearer view of their children’s learning journey.

In early 2026, with support from the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Luvia will pilot its in‑school learning management platform in selected Hanoi schools. The platform is designed to help teachers reclaim time by automating routine administrative matters, strengthen the communication loop between schools, teachers, parents, and learners, and provide students with portable, verifiable credentials that prove skills across apps, schools, and employers. By the end of 2026, Luvia plans to scale up its learning management platform across schools and universities in Vietnam to reach a potential combined population of over ten million students.

Through seamless integration with Open Campus ID, students using Luvia gain a lifelong, portable learner passport that can be recognized across institutions and platforms in the future. As learners demonstrate mastery inside the Luvia app and in the classroom, they earn blockchain-verified credentials that contribute to a trusted digital curriculum vitae that aims to facilitate job-seeking, grants, scholarships, international study pathways, and on-chain education financing.

Hailey Nguyen, Founder and CEO at Luvia, said: “At Luvia, we’re focused on helping every learner progress every day. By pairing a simple, high‑quality learning app with portable, verifiable credentials, students can carry their achievements wherever opportunity arises.”

Jonah Lau, project lead and core contributor at Open Campus, said: “Open Campus ID and verifiable credentials make student records portable and privacy‑preserving. We’re excited to support Luvia and Vietnam’s education ecosystem with trusted, reusable proof of learning.”

Phung Thi Ly Hang, vice director of education training at the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), said: “We welcome pilots that enhance teaching efficiency and help learners demonstrate verified progress. We look forward to reviewing pilot outcomes in Hanoi.”

What it enables and what’s next
With Open Campus ID and verifiable credentials, learners can put their achievements to work beyond the Luvia app across a wide range of real‑world uses:

· Education financing: access discounts, offers, or financing based on verified course progress and badges
· Digital CVs: share skills and completions with employers in a privacy‑preserving way
· University and bootcamp admissions: submit verified records to partner programs to reduce document collection and fraud checks
· Employer verification: share a consented, verifiable skills snapshot with employers to speed screening and reduce manual checks
· Partner perks marketplace: redeem partner benefits that require specific verified achievements
 
In addition, Open Campus and Luvia are discussing partnership and collaboration opportunities with other potential collaborators in Vietnam, including VietinBank, VietcomBank, and BIDV.

Download the Luvia personalized learning app: available on iOS and Android. Visit https://luvialearning.com to learn more about Luvia.

About Luvia
Luvia is an AI-powered learning platform designed to help students learn independently with clarity, confidence, and motivation. The app consolidates the entire Vietnamese high-school curriculum into one place, presented through concise mindmaps, structured modules, and personalized practice tests. Luvia also connects teachers, schools, and parents through transparent progress tracking and classroom-aligned learning tools. By integrating with Open Campus ID, Luvia enables students to earn verifiable digital credentials that support future academic and career opportunities.

About Open Campus
Open Campus is a community-led DAO that is building the blockchain-powered financial layer for education. Core contributors to the Open Campus DAO include Animoca Brands, TinyTap, NewCampus, RiseIn, and HackQuest. Together, they are working with Open Campus to enhance the education system for teachers, learners, and institutions by using innovative blockchain protocols and funding initiatives. Open Campus has launched EDU Chain, an Arbitrum Orbit blockchain designed for consumer-facing education apps and on-chain education finance (EduFi).

Media contacts
Luvia: info@luvialearning.com
Open Campus: info@opencampus.xyz 

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Dmitry Shubov Explains Regulatory Readiness for SEA Legal-Tech Seeking U.S. Venture Capital

FREMONT, Calif., Feb 6 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As accelerating legal-tech investment and product rollouts have drawn Southeast Asia's U.S.-targeting startups, U.S. investors are making their early-stage funding decisions more predicated on a startup's regulatory readiness and traction. Startups that treat legal and compliance as go-to-market advantages have shorter diligence cycles and better outcomes than those that treat these issues solely as afterthoughts. This observation was reported by Crunchbase News (Aron Solomon, October 2025), which found that U.S. investors are starting to consider legal strategy and regulatory preparedness as factors in legal-tech and reg-tech investing decisions.

What investors are prioritizing now include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Regulatory readiness: Clearly defined routes to market, licensing plans, and playbooks may influence the earliest decision-making of interested investors.
• Reduce diligence friction: Have clear data-transfer agreements, privacy and security plans, and risk mitigation plans. This will make the diligence process smoother and may allow you to get better terms.
• In addition, repeatable, low-churn adoption, strong unit economics, a credible go-to-market (US pilots or channel partners), and regulatory clarity contribute to check size and valuation.
• Planned acquirer alignment: Documented compliance makes a startup more attractive to law firms, reg-tech platforms, and larger SaaS acquirers.

A consulting firm can help with the following:

Map regulatory pathways, and draft a customer data-flow/diligence pack.
Translate pilots into investor metrics: conversion, retention cohorts, CAC/LTV sketches.
Establish U.S. corporate housekeeping: entity setup, cap-table cleanup, and template investor docs.
Establish an investor outreach and go-to-market strategy targeting cross-border and reg-tech investors.

“Regulatory preparedness isn’t just a compliance piece; it is a key part of the product-market story that investors buy into. Southeast Asian founders who prioritize compliance and legal strategy can increase the chances of investor potential and expedite the timelines for fundraising and favorable term outcomes,” says Dmitry Shubov, Founder of Dmitry Shubov Consulting.

For Southeast Asian legal tech founders, regulatory compliance clarity is a strategic asset investors are seeking, and it can be extremely beneficial to partner with a consulting firm that specializes in this. Dmitry Shubov Consulting, a consulting firm that focuses on helping early-stage legal tech startups expand into the U.S. buying market effectively, can be a valuable resource. Find more information, visit the Dmitry Shubov Consulting website today.

About Dmitry Shubov Consulting

At Dmitry Shubov Consulting, our mission is to connect accredited investors with groundbreaking legal technology startups, fostering innovation and growth across Southeast Asia and helping Asian businesses enter the U.S. market. For more information, please visit our website or contact us directly.

Media Contact:

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ACRONIS NAMES INSIGHTZ TECHNOLOGY FIRST SINGAPORE MSSP PARTNER

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 (Bernama) -- Acronis, a global leader in cybersecurity and data protection, announced that Insightz Technology will become its first certified managed security service provider (MSSP) partner in Singapore.

Insightz Technology, a regional cybersecurity MXDR provider, will utilise the partnership to deliver Acronis Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services to managed service providers (MSPs) and their clients across the region.

In a statement, Acronis Senior Vice President for APJ & Middle East, Pasha Ershow welcomed the partnership, stating that MDR services are essential for maintaining business continuity and resilience given the rapid evolution of cybersecurity threats.

Ershow added that the collaboration will enable Insightz Technology to support Acronis in providing high-end MDR services to more than 200 Acronis partners in Singapore and the broader region.

Meanwhile, Insightz Technology Founder, Lionel Loh said the collaboration enables them to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection with greater operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness, which is particularly crucial for small and medium-sized businesses facing increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware.

Acronis selected Insightz Technology due to its strong market presence and proven track record in delivering cybersecurity services across various sectors. Insightz Technology contributes over 10 years of data detection expertise, having supported hundreds of global organisations.

The partnership addresses the complexities and rising costs faced by the rapidly growing Singapore MSP industry, which often struggles with managing multiple vendors.

Operating under the Acronis MSSP Partner Program, Insightz Technology will leverage Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a natively integrated platform.

The platform combines essential capabilities—endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), backup, disaster recovery, and remote monitoring and management (RMM)—allowing MSPs to eliminate the complexity of using multiple tools, thus increasing operational efficiency and reducing costs.

The Acronis MSSP Program is designed for MSSPs seeking to scale and differentiate their offerings, providing the platform, flexibility, and support needed to thrive in a competitive market. MSSPs maintain full control over branding, pricing, and service delivery while providing MDR services powered by Acronis technology.

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Dubai Gold District Debuts As Global Gold, Jewellery Hub

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) -- Ithra Dubai has officially launched the Dubai Gold District, a purpose-built destination designed to significantly enhance Dubai’s position as the world’s leading hub for the gold and jewellery trade.

According to a statement, the launch signals a new phase in Dubai's development as a premier global centre for retail, commerce, and international trade.

The district is engineered as a unified destination, bringing the entire gold and jewellery value chain—spanning retail, bullion, wholesale trade, and investment—into a single location. This consolidation strengthens Dubai’s reputation as one of the world’s most trusted global destinations for gold.

The development reinforces the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) continued standing as a leading global trading nation for gold and precious metals. The country was positioned as the world’s second-largest physical gold trading destination, having exported approximately US$53.41 billion worth of gold in 2024 to 2025, with major partners including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, India, Hong Kong and Turkiye.

Serving as Dubai’s new ‘Home of Gold’, the district unites the full spectrum of activity under one roof, hosting a wide array of established global and regional brands to offer exceptional variety and value to buyers, traders, and investors.

A key differentiator for the destination is its unmatched audience diversity, attracting one of the world’s widest mixes of buyers, traders, and consumers. In 2025 alone, the district welcomed shoppers representing more than 147 nationalities.

The expansive development encompasses over 1,000 retailers across gold, jewellery, perfumery, cosmetics, and lifestyle sectors. Notable jewellery flagships include Jawhara Jewellery, Malabar Gold and Diamonds, Al Romaizan, and Tanishq Jewellery. Furthermore, Joyalukkas has announced plans for a 24,000 square-foot flagship, set to become its largest in the Middle East.

Among its landmark features will be the world’s first Gold Street, constructed using gold, designed as a distinctive attraction for visitors and tourists.

The district’s infrastructure is further bolstered by six supporting hotels, providing convenient access and accommodation for international trade partners, buyers and visitors.

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Toshiba Announces Sample Availability of Gate Driver for Bridge Circuits Driving High-Current Automotive Brushed DC Motors

 

Toshiba: TB9104FTG, a gate driver for bridge circuits used in high-current automotive brushed DC motors. 

KAWASAKI, Japan, Jan 29 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started providing engineering samples of “TB9104FTG,” a gate driver[1] for bridge circuits used in high-current automotive brushed DC motors, suitable for body system applications such as power back doors, power sliding doors, and power seats. 

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The accelerating electrification of movable components in vehicles has increased the number of motors installed in vehicles, particularly motors for body system applications. This trend has also increased the number of drivers required for motor operation, and is creating demand for more compact systems. Wire harnesses must be reduced to meet requirements for lighter vehicles.

TB9104FTG adopts a small VQFN32 package with typical dimensions of 5.0mm×5.0mm. An exposed thermal pad on the underside of the package enhances thermal performance, and when combined with external MOSFETs, this enables a compact drive circuit for high-current brushed DC motors in body system applications.

The new product has a serial peripheral interface (SPI)[2] for interfacing with microcontrollers, providing numerous configuration options and status information. Notably, rotation commands for the motor can be issued not only through dedicated pins but also via SPI. By connecting multiple gate drivers to the SPI bus, wiring can be shared, contributing to wire harness reduction.

TB9104FTG also features a built-in PWM drive circuit. Designed for environments with multiple devices connected via SPI, it enables continuous motor operation based on a preset PWM drive cycle with just a single rotation command from the microcontroller. This helps reduce the load on the microcontroller and alleviates congestion on the SPI bus.

As a device handling high current, TB9104FTG ensures safety by integrating a high-precision current sense amplifier that monitors motor drive current. By feeding the amplifier’s output back to the microcontroller, precise drive-stop control can be executed when abnormal current occurs. The product also features other abnormality detection and drive-stop functions.

Toshiba will expand the lineup of driver ICs for automotive motors, contributing to the electrification and enhanced safety of automotive equipment.

Notes:
[1] Gate driver: Driver for driving MOSFETs
[2] Serial peripheral interface (SPI): A synchronous serial communications protocol for sending and receiving data.

Applications
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Automotive body systems

· To drive high-current brushed DC motors used in applications such as power back doors, power sliding doors, power windows, and power seats.

Features

· Small, high heat-dissipation VQFN32 package
· SPI for interfacing with the microcontroller
· Built-in PWM drive circuit
· Various abnormality detection functions
 
Main Specifications 
 

Part number			TB9104FTG
Supported motors			Brushed DC motor
Number of output channels			One channel (when used as H-bridge)/two channels (when used as half-bridge)
Main functions			Standby function, dead time control, PWM drive
Main abnormal detections			Power supply low voltage detections, charge pump overvoltage detection, overheat detection, VDS detection of external MOSFETs, SPI error detection
Absolute maximum ratings (Ta=-40 to 125°C)	Power supply VB voltage 1 Vvb1a (V)		-0.3 to 18
	Power supply VB voltage 2 Vvb2a (V)		18 to 40 (within one second)
	Power supply VCC voltage Vvcc1a (V)		-0.3 to 6.0
	Power supply VDD voltage Vvdd1a (V)		-0.3 to 6.0
	Ambient temperature Ta (°C)		-40 to 125
Operating ranges (Ta=-40 to 125°C)	Operating power supply voltage1 VvbRNG (V)		5.7 to 18
	Operating power supply voltage2 VvccRNG (V)		4.5 to 5.5
	Operating power supply voltage3 VvddRNG (V)		4.5 to 5.5
	Operating junction temperature TjRNG (°C)		-40 to 150
Package	Name		P-VQFN32-0505-0.50-009
	Size (mm)	Typ.	5.0×5.0
Reliability			AEC-Q100 (Grade 1) qualified (scheduled)

Follow the link below for more on the new product.
TB9104FTG

Follow the link below for more on Toshiba’s automotive brushed DC motor driver ICs.
Automotive Brushed DC Motor Driver ICs

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About Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor and storage solutions, draws on over half a century of experience and innovation to offer customers and business partners outstanding discrete semiconductors, system LSIs and HDD products.

Its 17,000 employees around the world share a determination to maximize product value, and to promote close collaboration with customers in the co-creation of value and new markets. The company looks forward to building and to contributing to a better future for people everywhere.

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Bitget Wallet Shifts Toward an Everyday Finance App

Pay hub anchors the redesign as wallets evolve into daily-use financial accounts built on blockchain infrastructure 

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Jan 29 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget Wallet has made a strategic shift into an all-in-one everyday finance app, refreshing its interface to place payments at the center of the app experience. The move follows the wallet surpassing 90 million users globally, highlighting the need to support more frequent, real-world financial activity at scale. It reflects a broader transition as crypto wallets move beyond investment-led use cases into daily financial accounts for spending, sending, saving, and money management. The shift comes as blockchain-based platforms increasingly challenge traditional banking apps with faster settlement, lower costs, and borderless access.

The update is built around utility-first usage and a simplified approach to onchain finance, following a clear inflection point in crypto payments. Industry data shows stablecoin transactions surpassed $10 trillion in 2025, while spending across major crypto card programs rose 525% year on year, signaling a shift toward real-world use. This trend is reflected in a new Pay hub added to the app's main navigation, enabling users to spend and move funds with fewer steps through a unified, mobile-first design.

The Pay hub unifies crypto cards, QR payments, bank transfers, and in-app shopping into a single, front-facing flow, making Bitget Wallet one of the few self-custodial platforms to support all major crypto payment methods in one place. Users can spend crypto globally via cards accepted across Mastercard and Visa networks, pay locally by scanning QR codes, or transfer stablecoins directly to bank accounts where supported. By combining global and local payment options in one app, the wallet gives users the flexibility to pay anywhere while retaining full control of their funds through self-custody.

Central to the update is a streamlined interface designed for frequent use, reducing friction in everyday financial interactions. The redesign introduces Dynamic Panel, a live notification feature that keeps real-time transaction updates visible without disrupting what users are doing. It also adds Today's View, a new screen accessible with a simple swipe that offers a concise overview of recent activity and commonly used actions. Paired with a cleaner, modular layout, the interface shortens the steps needed to manage funds, helping users complete onchain actions more efficiently.

"People are choosing onchain finance because it's better aligned with how money needs to work in a digital economy today," said Jamie Elkaleh, CMO of Bitget Wallet. "Blockchain removes many of the frictions in traditional finance, including slow settlement, opaque fees, and geographic limits. As stablecoins and self-custodial wallets are increasingly used for everyday needs, our focus is making that experience intuitive, allowing people to save, send and spend money globally in real time. By centering payments and designing the app around simplicity, we're turning the wallet into a daily crypto account that works like modern banking, but onchain."

The launch follows a year in which wallet usage shifted steadily toward everyday financial activity. Bitget Wallet data shows stablecoin-based spending and yield grew faster than trading, with card spending rising more than 28-fold year on year and earn subscriptions expanding nearly tenfold. Together, these trends point to a new phase of crypto adoption driven by real-world financial utility.

Users can visit Bitget Wallet's blog for more information.

About Bitget Wallet

Bitget Wallet is an everyday finance app designed to make crypto simple, secure, and usable in daily life. Serving more than 90 million users worldwide, it offers an all-in-one platform to send, spend, earn, and trade crypto and stablecoins through blockchain-based infrastructure. With global on- and off-ramps, the app enables faster and borderless onchain finance, supported by advanced security and a $700 million user protection fund. Bitget Wallet operates as a fully self-custodial wallet and does not hold or control user funds, private keys, or user data. Transactions are signed by users and executed on public blockchains.

For more information, visit: X | LinkedIn | Telegram | YouTube | TikTok | Discord | Facebook

For media inquiries, contact media.web3@bitget.com

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SOURCE: Bitget Limited

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AI-MEDIA TO BRING REAL-TIME TRANSLATION TO ISE 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- AI-Media, a global provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered subtitling and language solutions, will showcase its real-time translation, captioning, and audio description technologies at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2026, from Feb 3 to 6.

In a statement, AI-Media said it will highlight how multilingual and accessible communication is becoming a standard requirement across professional audio-visual (AV) environments.

“Professional AV is moving quickly toward the same expectations broadcasters have operated under for years—reliability, low latency and experiences that work across languages and accessibility needs,” said AI-Media Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Vice President of Sales for EMEA, Mark Lovatt.

He said the company will demonstrate at ISE how real-time voice translation, subtitling and audio description can be delivered as part of live production workflows to help organisations design more inclusive experiences from the outset.

At the event, the company will demonstrate how its broadcast-grade AI technology can be integrated into professional AV workflows to deliver scalable, low-latency language and accessibility support for live events, corporate communications, venues and public installations.

AI-Media will feature LEXI Voice, an AI-driven solution that provides real-time voice translation into multiple languages with natural-sounding output and minimal delay, designed for live and broadcast environments.

The company will also showcase LEXI Text, its real-time subtitling solution, and LEXI AD, which delivers automated audio description to support inclusive viewing experiences.

According to AI-Media, the LEXI suite enables organisations to deliver multilingual and accessible experiences across professional AV and broadcast settings, supporting an industry shift towards inclusive communication as a standard practice.

All LEXI solutions integrate seamlessly with SDI and IP infrastructures, supporting deployments across conferences, corporate communications, live events, sports venues, houses of worship, and public installations.

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