HONG KONG, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyware Limited today announced the launch of Caterlord Checkout, a new self-service payment solution designed to help Hong Kong restaurants speed up bill settlement, reduce labour pressure, and deliver a smoother guest experience. Fully integrated with the Caterlord POS platform, Caterlord Checkout enables restaurants to turn tables faster while maintaining accurate, secure, and fully digital payment workflows.
A new era of self‑payment
Caterlord Checkout is a dedicated self-checkout kiosk that allows guests to review their bill and pay independently at the end of their meal. The system retrieves orders by QR code, synchronises instantly with table and order status in Caterlord POS, and ensures that every transaction is recorded in real time. With automated payments and error-free posting back to the POS, operators can free front-of-house staff to focus on hospitality, allowing each waiter to cut time spent on traditional cashiering tasks by an average of 90 minutes per day.
Designed for modern diners
The solution supports multiple digital payment methods, including popular e-wallets (Octopus, Alipay, WeChat Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay), and card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, China Union Pay, American Express, JCB), so guests can pay the way they prefer. A multilingual, user-friendly interface guides customers step by step, helping even first-time users complete payment quickly during peak hours. Restaurants can also use the Caterlord Checkout kiosk home screen as a built-in advertising space to promote new menus, seasonal campaigns, or loyalty programmes at the point of payment.
Fast deployment and flexible setup
Caterlord Checkout integrates natively with existing Caterlord POS deployments, simplifying rollout for both single-site operators and growing groups. The hardware is available in flexible formats such as wall-mount, floor-stand, and tabletop configurations, allowing restaurants to match their store layout and customer flow. Quick installation and cloud-based management mean new locations can go live with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations.
Trusted by leading Hong Kong brands
Several forward-thinking Hong Kong F&B brands have already adopted Caterlord Checkout to enhance service efficiency, including Ging Sun Ho (堅信號), Yeh Lam Kwok (椰林閣), Wan Chuen (雲川), Veggie Factory (菜籽), My Cafe (木椰), Horse Tea (馬茶). These early adopters are using the solution to shorten queues at peak time, support leaner staffing models, and capture more data around guest payment behaviour. Their deployment underscores the growing demand for smarter, guest-led payment experiences across the city's competitive dining scene.
About Everyware Limited:
Everyware Limited was founded with the vision of revolutionizing the restaurant industry through advanced cloud technology. Acknowledging the challenges faced by restaurateurs, the company developed Caterlord, an all-in-one platform that streamlines every aspect of restaurant management. Recognized as one of the most advanced and robust POS systems in Asia-Pacific, Caterlord has been widely acclaimed for its ability to support all F&B concepts, from single-unit cafes to multi-store chains. Trusted by leading F&B groups, Caterlord continues to set the standard for innovation.
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Everyware Limited Launches Caterlord Checkout to Redefine Self-Service Payments for Restaurants in Hong Kong
Most tokens have no formal link to the business behind them: its IP, revenue and treasury usually sit in a separate entity. Umia places all three in one legal structure alongside the token, with treasury decisions made through onchain decision markets.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Umia (umia.finance), the onchain platform for launching, funding and governing projects, today announced it has raised $6 million through the auction of $UMIA, the first token launched through its own system. Ten funds and nearly 700 individual bidders took part in the seven-day sale, which ran on Base from August 26 to September 2 and opened with a three-day early round for vetted funds and zkTLS-verified community members. The public round then reached its cap seven minutes after opening on August 29, and the sale closed at more than 3x its $2 million minimum. Galaxy Ventures, DCG, Draper Associates, RenGen, Alpha EV, Maven 11 and Eon Capital were among the funds, all bidding on the same terms as every other participant, with no discounts.
"Serious teams have never had a way to launch a token that is actually tied to the project behind it, so we put our own token through our system first," said Francesco Mosterts, Co-Founder of Umia. "The result is a framework we believe will change how projects are funded, launched and governed."
Umia itself now operates under the same structure every project on the platform will use. Its IP, operating team and treasury sit within one legal wrapper, funds raised went into a non-custodial treasury rather than a team wallet, and board-level decisions go through decision markets.
Those decisions are made through futarchy: each proposal opens a conditional market per option, and participants trade on each option's expected impact. The option the markets value highest is the one executed.
Umia's first decision market went live on September 17, asking traders how to deploy $4.77 million of treasury USDC into lending protocols on Base. Three strategies competed against a do-nothing baseline, and the winning strategy, allocating to Aave and Steakhouse, has since been executed.
"Onchain capital formation typically means choosing between a fair mechanism and a credible structure," said James Kibbie, Investor at Galaxy Ventures. "Umia's auction mechanism pairs the two: a clearing process that treats funds and individuals identically, and a legal and treasury framework that gives the token a defined relationship with the project behind it."
With the full stack now live, the first external projects are expected to launch through Umia in Q4 2026, subject to onboarding and legal review. Timelines are indicative and may change.
Umia is built by the team behind Chainbound, an Ethereum research and development lab with more than four years of experience designing core EVM infrastructure, including work with Flashbots and the Ethereum Foundation. Co-Founder and CEO Francesco Mosterts previously worked at Point72, and Co-Founder and CTO Nicolas Racchi previously built DeFi protocols and Ethereum infrastructure. The wider team also includes specialists in trading, governance, growth and operations.
About Umia
Umia is a full-stack platform for launching, funding and governing projects onchain. Each project launched through Umia operates within a single legal wrapper, with its intellectual property, operating team and treasury under one structure and board-level decisions delegated to onchain decision markets. $UMIA, Umia's own token, was the first launched through the system. Umia is incubated by Chainbound. Learn more at umia.finance, docs.umia.finance and x.com/umia_finance.
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Umia Raises $6 Million to Build the Onchain Formation Platform for Token-Native Projects, Joined by Galaxy Ventures, DCG and Draper Associates
