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Europe's leading food technology event recognizes Laminar's Process-Aware AI platform for redefining how F&B manufacturers approach productivity and sustainability
BOSTON, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only physical AI company that powers Process-Aware Autonomy for self-driving factories, today announced Laminar the winner of the 2026 FoodTech Innovation Award for Innovative Solution on Digitalization in the Food & Beverage Industry. The award, presented at Expo FoodTech on May 28th, recognizes Laminar for unlocking self-driving factories that move beyond hardcoded pre-programmed automation.
The food and beverage manufacturers using Laminar, see transformational gains in productivity and sustainability, saving time, water, chemicals, and energy. With every cycle captured as a learning event, Laminar's advanced sensors and Process-Aware AI drive improvements that compound over time. Laminar lines continuously adapt, improve, and operate more efficiently.
"We are pleased to recognize Laminar as one of the most innovative initiatives aimed at transforming the food and beverage industry into a more technological, efficient, and sustainable sector," said Sergio Fabregat, Expo FoodTech Director. "Laminar brings a fresh perspective to food and beverage innovation with their AI-enabled sensors that reduce water waste and improve productivity."
"Food and beverage manufacturing is one of the most resource-intensive industries in the world and much of that resource use goes unseen," said Annie Lu, Laminar Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder. "As water costs rise, sustainability regulations tighten, and product portfolios grow increasingly complex – the gap between what factories use and what they need has become one of the industry's most consequential and most overlooked challenges. At Laminar, we're tackling this challenge head on, and we are honored by FoodTech Innovation's recognition of our mission to create more sustainable, productive self-driving factories."
Laminar's Process-Aware Autonomy
Laminar pioneers a new category of Physical AI for process manufacturing — one that unlocks the full potential of existing equipment by giving factories visibility into what happens inside their pipes and equipment. Its Process-Aware Autonomy stack converts inefficient, pre-programmed automation to dynamic, self-driving processes that save time, chemicals, energy, and water — ultimately powering factories that are more agile and sustainable.
- Process-Aware Sensors: Patented, advanced sensors retrofit easily inline and capture the unique spectral fingerprint of every liquid that flows through a production line in real-time.
- Process-Aware AI: ML models process the liquid signature of each line and cycle, then drive the best operational action autonomously.
- Process-Aware Insights: A unified historical, real-time, and predictive view of every process, batch, and piece of equipment that reveals the ideal version of the factory.
Ongoing Recognition for Laminar's Innovation
The FoodTech Innovation Awards adds to a growing list of industry recognition. Laminar recently received the 2026 Edison Award's Gold Award for the Manufacturing & Logistics category, was named AB InBev's 2024 Cheers Award for outstanding startup partnership, and earned Unilever's 2023 Supplier Startup of the Year. Laminar's solution is also deployed in World Economic Forum Lighthouse factories — a select group recognized for their leadership in cutting-edge industrial technology.
Headquartered at Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA — North America's leading cleantech community, Laminar is a woman-founded startup backed by top-tier investors, including Greycroft, Construct Capital, 2048 Ventures, and Flybridge Capital.
About Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech & The FoodTech Innovation Awards
Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech is Europe's leading innovation event for the food and beverage industry, bringing together more than 8,000 professionals, 400+ innovations, 250+ exhibitors, and 300+ international speakers across food processing, automation, robotics, AI, packaging, logistics, and sustainability. The FoodTech Innovation Awards, presented annually at the event, recognize the most innovative and disruptive proposals contributing to a more technological and sustainable food industry.
About Laminar
Laminar's Process-Aware Autonomy enables the world's leading manufacturers to run self-driving factories that are simultaneously more productive and sustainable. Our patented advanced sensors and foundational Process-Aware ML models transform pre-programmed inefficiency into highly efficient self-driving processes that save time and reduce water and chemicals. Across six continents, leading manufacturers like AB InBev, Coca-Cola, and Unilever trust Laminar to run their most critical processes. Laminar pioneers a new category of physical AI that powers the future of process manufacturing. Learn more at runlaminar.com
Europe's leading food technology event recognizes Laminar's Process-Aware AI platform for redefining how F&B manufacturers approach productivity and sustainability
BOSTON, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only physical AI company that powers Process-Aware Autonomy for self-driving factories, today announced Laminar the winner of the 2026 FoodTech Innovation Award for Innovative Solution on Digitalization in the Food & Beverage Industry. The award, presented at Expo FoodTech on May 28th, recognizes Laminar for unlocking self-driving factories that move beyond hardcoded pre-programmed automation.
The food and beverage manufacturers using Laminar, see transformational gains in productivity and sustainability, saving time, water, chemicals, and energy. With every cycle captured as a learning event, Laminar's advanced sensors and Process-Aware AI drive improvements that compound over time. Laminar lines continuously adapt, improve, and operate more efficiently.
"We are pleased to recognize Laminar as one of the most innovative initiatives aimed at transforming the food and beverage industry into a more technological, efficient, and sustainable sector," said Sergio Fabregat, Expo FoodTech Director. "Laminar brings a fresh perspective to food and beverage innovation with their AI-enabled sensors that reduce water waste and improve productivity."
"Food and beverage manufacturing is one of the most resource-intensive industries in the world and much of that resource use goes unseen," said Annie Lu, Laminar Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder. "As water costs rise, sustainability regulations tighten, and product portfolios grow increasingly complex – the gap between what factories use and what they need has become one of the industry's most consequential and most overlooked challenges. At Laminar, we're tackling this challenge head on, and we are honored by FoodTech Innovation's recognition of our mission to create more sustainable, productive self-driving factories."
Laminar's Process-Aware Autonomy
Laminar pioneers a new category of Physical AI for process manufacturing — one that unlocks the full potential of existing equipment by giving factories visibility into what happens inside their pipes and equipment. Its Process-Aware Autonomy stack converts inefficient, pre-programmed automation to dynamic, self-driving processes that save time, chemicals, energy, and water — ultimately powering factories that are more agile and sustainable.
- Process-Aware Sensors: Patented, advanced sensors retrofit easily inline and capture the unique spectral fingerprint of every liquid that flows through a production line in real-time.
- Process-Aware AI: ML models process the liquid signature of each line and cycle, then drive the best operational action autonomously.
- Process-Aware Insights: A unified historical, real-time, and predictive view of every process, batch, and piece of equipment that reveals the ideal version of the factory.
Ongoing Recognition for Laminar's Innovation
The FoodTech Innovation Awards adds to a growing list of industry recognition. Laminar recently received the 2026 Edison Award's Gold Award for the Manufacturing & Logistics category, was named AB InBev's 2024 Cheers Award for outstanding startup partnership, and earned Unilever's 2023 Supplier Startup of the Year. Laminar's solution is also deployed in World Economic Forum Lighthouse factories — a select group recognized for their leadership in cutting-edge industrial technology.
Headquartered at Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA — North America's leading cleantech community, Laminar is a woman-founded startup backed by top-tier investors, including Greycroft, Construct Capital, 2048 Ventures, and Flybridge Capital.
About Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech & The FoodTech Innovation Awards
Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech is Europe's leading innovation event for the food and beverage industry, bringing together more than 8,000 professionals, 400+ innovations, 250+ exhibitors, and 300+ international speakers across food processing, automation, robotics, AI, packaging, logistics, and sustainability. The FoodTech Innovation Awards, presented annually at the event, recognize the most innovative and disruptive proposals contributing to a more technological and sustainable food industry.
About Laminar
Laminar's Process-Aware Autonomy enables the world's leading manufacturers to run self-driving factories that are simultaneously more productive and sustainable. Our patented advanced sensors and foundational Process-Aware ML models transform pre-programmed inefficiency into highly efficient self-driving processes that save time and reduce water and chemicals. Across six continents, leading manufacturers like AB InBev, Coca-Cola, and Unilever trust Laminar to run their most critical processes. Laminar pioneers a new category of physical AI that powers the future of process manufacturing. Learn more at runlaminar.com
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Laminar Wins FoodTech Innovation Award for Innovative Solution on Digitalization in the Food & Beverage Industry
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DUBAI, UAE, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantle, the distribution layer for real-world assets connecting traditional finance and on-chain liquidity, today released its Q1 2026 ecosystem performance report. The quarter marked simultaneous advances on two strategic fronts: RWA TVL grew 27.4% quarter-over-quarter to $247.5M through integrations with Aave, Maple Finance and xStocks, while Mantle shipped a full AI agent infrastructure stack including ERC-8004 agent identity, AI Agent Skills, Agent Scaffold, and x402 payments via QuestFlow. The results reflect Mantle's execution on a dual thesis: institutional asset distribution today, and autonomous agent commerce infrastructure for what comes next.
$247.5M in RWA TVL: Institutional Assets Go On-Chain
The deployment of Maple Finance's syrupUSDT through Aave brought institutional lending yield on-chain on Mantle, reaching $90.1M in TVL by Q1 2026. It also expanded access to fixed-income opportunities for a broader on-chain audience.
xStocks followed with the launch of ten digitally issued US equities, including TSLAx, NVDAx, and AAPLx, covering major technology stocks and ETFs. The addition of tokenized equity alongside institutional lending yield makes Mantle's RWA stack one of the broadest available on any single L2 network.
The 27.4% quarter-over-quarter increase to $247.5M reflects continued directional momentum in institutional adoption of Mantle's infrastructure. Backing that growth is the $2.4B Mantle Treasury, the largest DAO treasury globally and one of the largest crypto treasuries overall, which provides the institutional credibility that RWA issuers require when evaluating deployment targets.
Full AI Agent Infrastructure Stack: Identity, Tooling, and Payments in One Quarter
Mantle shipped four foundational components for autonomous agent commerce in Q1: ERC-8004 for agent identity, AI Agent Skills, Agent Scaffold, and x402 payments via QuestFlow, the core infrastructure an autonomous agent requires to operate on-chain
The report positions Mantle as a settlement layer for the agent economy before that market scales. Where most networks are evaluating whether to build agent infrastructure, Mantle has the primitives live. Developers building agent-native applications now have identity, tooling, and payments on a single network, without needing to bridge across infrastructure layers to assemble a functional stack.
The timing is deliberate. As AI agent activity moves from research to production deployment, the networks with live primitives will attract the first cohort of builders. Mantle's Q1 infrastructure release is a direct bid for that position.
Where Institutions and Agents Meet
Mantle's thesis is that the same infrastructure serving institutional-grade assets today will serve autonomous agents transacting on their behalf tomorrow. Q1 was the quarter both tracks became operational simultaneously.
"Q1 delivered on both fronts simultaneously, institutional-grade assets through Maple and xStocks, and the full infrastructure stack for autonomous agents. The network institutions trust for asset distribution is the same one developers will build agent commerce on. No other L2 has both live at once." said Emily Bao, Key Advisor at Mantle and Spot Executive at Bybit.
"Most L2s are competing on throughput or developer tooling. Mantle is competing on asset distribution. The combination of $247.5M in RWA TVL and a full AI agent infrastructure stack shipping in the same quarter suggests a network that has made a deliberate choice about what kind of activity it wants to anchor." Said Eric Manoukian, Crypto Research Analyst at Messari.
About Mantle
Mantle positions itself as the premier distribution layer and gateway for institutions and TradFi to connect with on-chain liquidity and access real-world assets, powering how real-world finance flows. With over $4B+ in community-owned assets, Mantle combines credibility, liquidity and scalability with institutional-grade infrastructure to support large-scale adoption. The ecosystem is anchored by $MNT within Bybit, and built out through core ecosystem projects like mETH, fBTC, MI4 and more. This is complemented by Mantle Network's partnerships with leading issuers and protocols such as Ethena USDe, Ondo USDY, and OP-Succinct.
For more information visit mantle.xyz.
For more social updates, please follow: Mantle Official X & Mantle Community Channel
For media enquiries, please contact: contact@mantle.xyz
About Bybit
Bybit is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 80 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open, and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.
For more details about Bybit, please visit Bybit Press
For media inquiries, please contact: media@bybit.com
DUBAI, UAE, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantle, the distribution layer for real-world assets connecting traditional finance and on-chain liquidity, today released its Q1 2026 ecosystem performance report. The quarter marked simultaneous advances on two strategic fronts: RWA TVL grew 27.4% quarter-over-quarter to $247.5M through integrations with Aave, Maple Finance and xStocks, while Mantle shipped a full AI agent infrastructure stack including ERC-8004 agent identity, AI Agent Skills, Agent Scaffold, and x402 payments via QuestFlow. The results reflect Mantle's execution on a dual thesis: institutional asset distribution today, and autonomous agent commerce infrastructure for what comes next.
$247.5M in RWA TVL: Institutional Assets Go On-Chain
The deployment of Maple Finance's syrupUSDT through Aave brought institutional lending yield on-chain on Mantle, reaching $90.1M in TVL by Q1 2026. It also expanded access to fixed-income opportunities for a broader on-chain audience.
xStocks followed with the launch of ten digitally issued US equities, including TSLAx, NVDAx, and AAPLx, covering major technology stocks and ETFs. The addition of tokenized equity alongside institutional lending yield makes Mantle's RWA stack one of the broadest available on any single L2 network.
The 27.4% quarter-over-quarter increase to $247.5M reflects continued directional momentum in institutional adoption of Mantle's infrastructure. Backing that growth is the $2.4B Mantle Treasury, the largest DAO treasury globally and one of the largest crypto treasuries overall, which provides the institutional credibility that RWA issuers require when evaluating deployment targets.
Full AI Agent Infrastructure Stack: Identity, Tooling, and Payments in One Quarter
Mantle shipped four foundational components for autonomous agent commerce in Q1: ERC-8004 for agent identity, AI Agent Skills, Agent Scaffold, and x402 payments via QuestFlow, the core infrastructure an autonomous agent requires to operate on-chain
The report positions Mantle as a settlement layer for the agent economy before that market scales. Where most networks are evaluating whether to build agent infrastructure, Mantle has the primitives live. Developers building agent-native applications now have identity, tooling, and payments on a single network, without needing to bridge across infrastructure layers to assemble a functional stack.
The timing is deliberate. As AI agent activity moves from research to production deployment, the networks with live primitives will attract the first cohort of builders. Mantle's Q1 infrastructure release is a direct bid for that position.
Where Institutions and Agents Meet
Mantle's thesis is that the same infrastructure serving institutional-grade assets today will serve autonomous agents transacting on their behalf tomorrow. Q1 was the quarter both tracks became operational simultaneously.
"Q1 delivered on both fronts simultaneously, institutional-grade assets through Maple and xStocks, and the full infrastructure stack for autonomous agents. The network institutions trust for asset distribution is the same one developers will build agent commerce on. No other L2 has both live at once." said Emily Bao, Key Advisor at Mantle and Spot Executive at Bybit.
"Most L2s are competing on throughput or developer tooling. Mantle is competing on asset distribution. The combination of $247.5M in RWA TVL and a full AI agent infrastructure stack shipping in the same quarter suggests a network that has made a deliberate choice about what kind of activity it wants to anchor." Said Eric Manoukian, Crypto Research Analyst at Messari.
About Mantle
Mantle positions itself as the premier distribution layer and gateway for institutions and TradFi to connect with on-chain liquidity and access real-world assets, powering how real-world finance flows. With over $4B+ in community-owned assets, Mantle combines credibility, liquidity and scalability with institutional-grade infrastructure to support large-scale adoption. The ecosystem is anchored by $MNT within Bybit, and built out through core ecosystem projects like mETH, fBTC, MI4 and more. This is complemented by Mantle Network's partnerships with leading issuers and protocols such as Ethena USDe, Ondo USDY, and OP-Succinct.
For more information visit mantle.xyz.
For more social updates, please follow: Mantle Official X & Mantle Community Channel
For media enquiries, please contact: contact@mantle.xyz
About Bybit
Bybit is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 80 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open, and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.
For more details about Bybit, please visit Bybit Press
For media inquiries, please contact: media@bybit.com
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Mantle Posts 27% RWA Growth in Q1 2026, Reaching $247.5M, According to Messari
