Imagen Network (IMAGE) Expands Web3 Utility with Binance Wallet Compatibility
Singapore, Singapore--(Newsfile Corp. - July 23, 2025) - Imagen Network, the decentralized AI social platform, now supports compatibility with Binance Wallet—enabling users to securely manage their $IMAGE tokens while interacting with decentralized features across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana.
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This connectivity allows users to engage seamlessly with Imagen's AI content tools, community governance, and personalized social experiences directly through one of Web3's most trusted wallet solutions. By supporting wallet-based access, Imagen continues to prioritize multichain fluidity, user freedom, and secure self-custody.
As part of its broader mission to power intelligent, creator-led ecosystems, Imagen Network leverages wallet interoperability to fuel seamless engagement with adaptive AI filters, modular social nodes, and tokenized participation tools.
With this upgrade, Imagen reinforces its focus on accessible, cross-chain interaction and user-controlled digital identity within the expanding decentralized social landscape.
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Imagen Network is a decentralized social platform that blends AI content generation with blockchain infrastructure to give users creative control and data ownership. Through tools like adaptive filters and tokenized engagement, Imagen fosters a new paradigm of secure, expressive, and community-driven networking.
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The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of the date of this press release. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our views to change. We undertake no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Additional Definitions For the purpose of this press release, our earnings webcast, and our CEO's letter: Total contract value ('TCV') is the total potential lifetime value of contracts entered into with, or awarded by, our customers at the time of contract execution, annual contract value ('ACV') is defined as the total value of contracts closed in the period divided by the dollar-weighted average contract duration of those same contracts, and remaining deal value ('RDV') is the total remaining value of contracts as of the end of the reporting period. Except as noted below, TCV, ACV, and RDV each presume the exercise of all contract options available to our customers and no termination of contracts. However, the majority of our contracts are subject to termination provisions, including for convenience, and there can be no guarantee that contracts are not terminated or that contract options will be exercised. 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We exclude stock-based compensation, which is a non-cash expense, from these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe that excluding this item provides meaningful supplemental information regarding operational performance and provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management team. We exclude employer payroll taxes related to stock-based compensation as it is difficult to predict and outside of Palantir's control. Our definitions may differ from the definitions used by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited. In addition, other companies may not publish these or similar metrics. Further, these metrics have certain limitations as they do not include the impact of certain expenses that are reflected in our consolidated statements of operations. For example, adjusted free cash flow does not reflect our future contractual commitments or the total increase or decrease in our cash balances for a given period. Thus, our non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or in isolation from, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. We compensate for these limitations by providing a reconciliation of each of these non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measure. We encourage investors and others to review our business, results of operations, and financial information in their entirety, not to rely on any single financial measure, and to view these non-GAAP measures in conjunction with the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. A reconciliation table of the most comparable GAAP financial measure to each non-GAAP financial measure used in this press release is included at the end of this release. A reconciliation of non-GAAP guidance measures to corresponding GAAP measures is not available on a forward-looking basis without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty regarding, and the potential variability of, reconciling items that may be incurred in the future, such as stock-based compensation and related employer payroll taxes, the effect of which may be significant. Available Information Palantir uses its Investor Relations website at as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor Palantir's Investor Relations website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, and webcasts. About Palantir Technologies Inc. Foundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. 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Photo: CBC / Mark Bochsler Since ChatGPT, the chatbot from tech company OpenAI, first reared its head in student work almost two years ago, the increasing prominence of AI in everything from research to office work means conversations have turned from whether or not to allow it in the classroom, to how best to use it for educational purposes. Binary thinking around 'it's good or bad' should be tempered with the idea that, you know, learning and gaining knowledge about the tools that are at hand is really important, said Phillips. WATCH | Teachers seek AI instruction: Teachers are 'struggling on their own' Earlier this summer, tech companies Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic announced they would be investing $23 million US into the National Academy of AI Instruction — an initiative developed in partnership with the second largest teachers' union (new window) in the United States. The American Federation of Teachers says that over five years, the program aims to support 400,000 educators. According to the Canadian Teachers' Federation, the biggest teachers' union in Canada, educators here don't have anything like that, and certainly don't have anything that's been uniformly available across the country. Teachers are really struggling with artificial struggling on their own because there are no policies and frameworks put in place, said Heidi Yetman, who spoke to CBC from Ottawa during her time as the President of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. Her tenure ended last month. Enlarge image (new window) Heidi Yetman, the outgoing president of the Canadian Teachers' Federation, says the current guidance for teachers on AI isn't specific enough and doesn't offer true, meaningful education on the potential and pitfalls of AI in the classroom. Photo: CBC In Canada, places like Alberta and Quebec have rolled out AI guidance for schools, mostly focusing on what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable use. Yetman says the guidelines are a mishmash and all over the place. 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Woodworth, who specializes in training aspiring teachers how to integrate technology into their teaching, says that no matter what form AI education for teachers takes in the future, teachers must be consulted. Who should train teachers on AI? One thing teachers, unions and professors of education seem to agree on is who shouldn't be paying for teacher training. Most expressed concern about the motivations of tech giants in the U.S. that are investing in teacher training, and wouldn't want to see it done in Canada. When the creators of various AI platforms are rolling out the learning, we aren't necessarily embedding what we talk about as humanized pedagogy and the practices that are needed in classrooms to build integrity and AI literacy into that learning, said Phillips, one of the teachers in Ontario. WATCH | How common is AI in student work? She and her colleague Mitchell say teachers are finding their own ways to use AI ethically. Mitchell was an early adopter of ChatGPT, working it into his lessons. One of the ways that math teachers have been using AI is to teach students how to turn, say, ChatGPT into a tutor with some very intelligent prompting. And then arming that student with the ability to ask ChatGPT for math help when they're at home, when they don't have access to their math teacher, he said. Mitchell says it's too late to pretend that AI won't infiltrate every aspect of education, including how students learn and complete their assignments, and how teachers assess them. The reality is today's AI is the worst AI that students are ever going to use, he said. And if teachers aren't arming those students with the skills to work with AI ethically, with integrity, then we're doing something wrong. With files from Griffin Jaeger
