{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"16847","rtpr_id":"nGNX7BjTd0","ticker":"ABXX","exchange":"CBOE","all_tickers":["ABXX"],"title":"Abaxx Announces the Formation of Abaxx Labs and the Release of an Open-Source Library for Agentic Identity: Agents++","author":"Globe Newswire","published_at":"2026-05-01T11:30:00.260Z","article_body":"TORONTO, May 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abaxx Technologies Inc.\n(CBOE:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx” or the “Company”), a financial\nsoftware and market infrastructure company, and indirect majority shareholder\nof Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd. (“Abaxx Singapore”), the owner of Abaxx\nCommodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, “Abaxx Exchange” and\n“Abaxx Clearing”) today announced the formation of Abaxx Labs™ and the\nrelease of an open-source library for agentic identity: Agents++™.\n\nAI agents are moving from tools to actors, initiating and coordinating actions\nacross systems as delegated extensions of users and institutions,\nfundamentally changing how people and organizations interact with computers\nand the internet. A race is underway to establish the path that will govern\nthe nature of these interactions. Abaxx Technologies has formed Abaxx Labs as\nits center for engaging with the developer community and promoting a path that\nempowers users to maintain control of their identity, data, and agents in\ndigital spaces.\n\nAbaxx Labs is sharing open-source software to promote a path built on ID++,\nthe Company’s proprietary identity protocol that implements W3C standards\nfor decentralized identity, verifiable credentials and private data stores.\nThe first release is the Agents++ library, a subset of the ID++ software\ndevelopment kit (SDK) that has been tuned for use with AI agents.\n\n“Where ID++ trusts human users operating inside of a client environment,\nAgents++ approaches agents with a lack of trust, requiring them to provide\nexplicit identity and authorization for every action,” said Ian Forester,\nHead of Abaxx Labs. “It requires cryptographic signing on everything an\nagent initiates or executes, which is friction-free for machines, enforcing\nthat every agent is owned by and accountable to a human, and that its\npermissions cannot exceed those of the human who authorized it.”\n\nThe World Economic Forum has cited estimates that generative AI and agentic\nworkflows could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually to the\nglobal economy¹, as organizations begin to embed autonomous systems into core\noperations. However, as the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute\nof Standards and Technology (NIST) stated in a February 2026 concept paper:\n\n“Realizing these benefits requires understanding the potential risks from\ngiving AI agents access to diverse data sets, tools, and applications, and\napplying appropriate identification and authorization controls to mitigate\nthese risks².”\n\nAgents++ is designed to provide the identity and authorization tooling\nrequired to help unlock these benefits.\n\n“We’ve spent seven years building globally resolvable identity\ninfrastructure to answer these questions for humans,” said Josh Crumb,\nFounder and CEO of Abaxx Technologies. “Agents++ extends that foundation to\nagents, applying the same cryptographic containers and logic to a new class of\nactors – enabling them to operate as trusted, verifiable extensions of the\nindividuals and organizations they represent.”\n\nAgents++ is designed to provide the identity and authorization infrastructure\nto answer three questions at every interaction: who is the agent, who\nauthorized it, and what scope does it have, while preserving the answers to\nthese questions through a cryptographically secured audit trail. The initial\nrelease of the Agents++ open-source library supports developer implementation\nof the ID++ protocol for AI agents, with a path to integration with the fuller\nMarketOS™ suite.\n\nInterested developers can find the Agents++ library on GitHub at\nhttps://github.com/abaxxlabs/agents and may contact Abaxx Labs at\ninfo@abaxxlabs.com.\n\n¹ World Economic Forum, “Generative AI Could Add Trillions to Global\nEconomy,” July 2023; McKinsey & Company, The Economic Potential of\nGenerative AI: The Next Productivity Frontier, June 2023\n² National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Accelerating the\nAdoption of Software and Artificial Intelligence Agent Identity and\nAuthorization (Concept Paper, Feb. 5, 2026)\n\nAbout Abaxx Technologies\n\nAbaxx Technologies (CBOE: ABXX | OTCQX: ABXXF) is building Smarter Markets:\nmarkets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to\ndrive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society,\nincluding the energy transition.\n\nIn addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make\ncommunication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is the\nmajority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore, the owner of Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx\nClearing, and the parent company of wholly owned subsidiaries Abaxx Spot Pte.\nLtd and Adaptive Infrastructure, and the creator of Abaxx Labs™ and the\nSmarterMarkets™ podcast.\n\nAbaxx Exchange delivers the market infrastructure critical to the shift toward\nan electrified, low-carbon economy through centrally-cleared futures\ncontracts, including physically-deliverable and financially-settled products,\nin LNG, carbon, battery materials, precious metals, and weather-indexed\nrenewables, meeting the commercial needs of today’s commodity markets and\nestablishing the next generation of global benchmarks.\n\nAbaxx Spot modernizes physical gold trading through a physically-backed gold\npool in Singapore. As the first instance of a co-located spot and futures\nmarket for gold, Abaxx Spot enables secure electronic transactions, efficient\nOTC transfers, and is designed to support physical delivery for Abaxx\nExchange’s physically-deliverable gold futures contract, providing\nintegrated infrastructure to deliver smarter gold markets.\n\nAdaptive Infrastructure closes critical gaps in post-trade infrastructure by\nproviding a unified custodial foundation across environmental markets and\ndigital title assets. Incorporated in Barbados and regulated by the Financial\nServices Commission of Barbados, the company delivers institutional-grade\ncustody, settlement, and transfer agency services designed to reduce risk and\nimprove reliability across asset classes.\n\nAbaxx Labs is the Company’s center for engaging with the developer community\nto create the next generation of technology that will build smarter markets\nthrough open-source software tools that promote the use of Abaxx’s ID++\ntechnologies.\n\nFor more information, visit abaxx.tech\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvvWIg86AH3TZ9PnncR7hrKDr7fi0_ej2dpMTX5JP531ZBJmQ7y2ZZy3rJ0rZWBImCQ==)\n| abaxx.exchange\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvlfulWgueh-qMpK6byJSkSHG0nbkmK5jlO3ckvhz8azfKbO6wWvOqxBBBhs0LLq1pDjNL0awIE_trnuy-TDnQrA=)\n| abaxxspot.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvg1DgIFQlKfOB6zaDPLpDa6PnXxn8UJ-NVp_TGLjH1pLN96T0DZwa-cSfr6NRBFBQw==)\n| basecarbon.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=yu0Wr-cMybzHoqNAqCJdkPxH66nWj4dgWe16vEqPJNeRwpqhjXET3dprC6HVXlE5YCOJgLmGQi_PYn7hSLYBz0T4rZP0crZk9dlu8SVTzGI=)\n| smartermarkets.media\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=z0g1zruAddBF45LDaVawPdtsrEFyTH1M4t9pGYxN-To3PRAPPSgX_ZsHnwqQyTOq9e2HJcjbtb9YLfE7BVNXzv0T_ZdNdg5BLUfwcHudGL8=)\n\nFor more information about this press release, please contact:\n\nSteve Fray, CFO\nTel: +1 647-490-1590\n\nMedia and investor inquiries:\n\nAbaxx Technologies Inc.\nInvestor Relations Team\nTel: +1 246 271 0082\nE-mail: ir@abaxx.tech\n\nCautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information\n\nThis press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” and\n“forward-looking information” (collectively, “forward-looking\nstatements”) within the meaning of applicable United States and Canadian\nsecurities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are\nforward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not\nalways, identified by the use of words such as “believe”,\n“anticipate”, “estimate”, “project”, “intend”, “expect”,\n“may”, “will”, “plan”, “should”, “would”, “could”,\n“target”, “purpose”, “goal”, “objective”, “ongoing”,\n“potential”, “likely” or the negative thereof or similar expressions.\n\nIn particular, this press release contains forward-looking statements\nincluding, without limitation, Abaxx’s objectives and future plans,\nstatements about the formation and expected activities of Abaxx Labs, the\nrelease and potential use of Agents++, the expected capabilities, performance,\nadoption, integration and benefits of Agents++, ID++ and MarketOS™, the role\nof identity, authorization and accountability infrastructure in AI agent\nworkflows, Abaxx’s strategy for engaging with the developer community,\nobjectives and technology roadmap, development and expansion of Abaxx’s\nmarket infrastructure and Abaxx’s role in the development of commodities and\nenergy markets.\n\nForward-looking statements are based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates,\nanalyses and opinions of management made in light of its experience and its\nperception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as\nother factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the\ncircumstances at the date that such statements are made, but which may prove\nto be incorrect. Such factors and assumptions impacting forward-looking\ninformation include, among others: assumptions about developer and enterprise\nadoption of AI agents; demand for identity and authorization tools; continued\ndevelopment of the Company’s technology; interoperability with relevant\nstandards; availability of technical resources; market demand for the\nCompany’s products and services; risks relating to the global economic\nclimate; dilution; Abaxx’s limited operating history; future capital needs\nand uncertainty of additional financing; the competitive nature of the\nindustry; currency exchange risks; the need for Abaxx to manage its planned\ngrowth and expansion; the effects of product development and need for\ncontinued technology change; protection of proprietary rights; the effect of\ngovernment regulation and compliance on Abaxx and the industry; acquiring and\nmaintaining regulatory approvals for Abaxx’s products and operations; the\nability to list Abaxx’s securities on stock exchanges in a timely fashion or\nat all; network security risks; the ability of Abaxx to maintain properly\nworking systems; reliance on key personnel; global economic and financial\nmarket deterioration impeding access to capital or increasing the cost of\ncapital; and volatile securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated\nto operating performance. In addition, particular factors which could impact\nfuture results of the business of Abaxx include but are not limited to: the\nfailure of energy markets and collateral use cases to develop according to the\nexpectations of Abaxx; operations in foreign jurisdictions; protection of\nintellectual property rights; contractual risk; third-party risk;\nclearinghouse risk; malicious actor risks; third- party software license risk;\nsystem failure risk; risk of technological change; dependence of technical\ninfrastructure; changes in global weather patterns; changes in the price of\ncommodities, restrictions on labor and international travel and supply chains,\nand the risk factors identified in the Company’s most recent management’s\ndiscussion and analysis filed on SEDAR+. Abaxx has also assumed that no\nsignificant events occur outside of Abaxx’s normal course of business.\n\nAbaxx cautions that the foregoing list of material factors is not exhaustive.\nIn addition, although Abaxx has attempted to identify important factors that\ncould cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors\nthat cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, or intended. When\nrelying on forward-looking statements and information to make decisions,\ninvestors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other\nuncertainties and potential events. Abaxx has assumed that the material\nfactors referred to in the previous paragraphs will not cause such\nforward-looking statements and information to differ materially from actual\nresults or events. However, the list of these factors is not exhaustive and is\nsubject to change and there can be no assurance that such assumptions will\nreflect the actual outcome of such items or factors. The forward-looking\nstatements and information contained in this press release represents the\nexpectations of Abaxx as of the date of this press release and, accordingly,\nis subject to change after such date. Abaxx undertakes no obligation to update\nor revise any forward-looking statements and information, whether as a result\nof new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.\nAccordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these\nforward-looking statements and information. Cboe Canada does not accept\nresponsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.\n\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/ebbabd4c-4502-4b72-9fa6-6894dfd9ae90)\n\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nGNX7BjTd0","title":"Abaxx Announces the Formation of Abaxx Labs and the Release of an Open-Source Library for Agentic Identity: Agents++","author":"Globe Newswire","ticker":"ABXX","created":"2026-05-01T11:30:00.260Z","tickers":["ABXX"],"exchange":"CBOE","article_body":"TORONTO, May 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abaxx Technologies Inc.\n(CBOE:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx” or the “Company”), a financial\nsoftware and market infrastructure company, and indirect majority shareholder\nof Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd. (“Abaxx Singapore”), the owner of Abaxx\nCommodity Exchange and Clearinghouse (individually, “Abaxx Exchange” and\n“Abaxx Clearing”) today announced the formation of Abaxx Labs™ and the\nrelease of an open-source library for agentic identity: Agents++™.\n\nAI agents are moving from tools to actors, initiating and coordinating actions\nacross systems as delegated extensions of users and institutions,\nfundamentally changing how people and organizations interact with computers\nand the internet. A race is underway to establish the path that will govern\nthe nature of these interactions. Abaxx Technologies has formed Abaxx Labs as\nits center for engaging with the developer community and promoting a path that\nempowers users to maintain control of their identity, data, and agents in\ndigital spaces.\n\nAbaxx Labs is sharing open-source software to promote a path built on ID++,\nthe Company’s proprietary identity protocol that implements W3C standards\nfor decentralized identity, verifiable credentials and private data stores.\nThe first release is the Agents++ library, a subset of the ID++ software\ndevelopment kit (SDK) that has been tuned for use with AI agents.\n\n“Where ID++ trusts human users operating inside of a client environment,\nAgents++ approaches agents with a lack of trust, requiring them to provide\nexplicit identity and authorization for every action,” said Ian Forester,\nHead of Abaxx Labs. “It requires cryptographic signing on everything an\nagent initiates or executes, which is friction-free for machines, enforcing\nthat every agent is owned by and accountable to a human, and that its\npermissions cannot exceed those of the human who authorized it.”\n\nThe World Economic Forum has cited estimates that generative AI and agentic\nworkflows could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion annually to the\nglobal economy¹, as organizations begin to embed autonomous systems into core\noperations. However, as the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute\nof Standards and Technology (NIST) stated in a February 2026 concept paper:\n\n“Realizing these benefits requires understanding the potential risks from\ngiving AI agents access to diverse data sets, tools, and applications, and\napplying appropriate identification and authorization controls to mitigate\nthese risks².”\n\nAgents++ is designed to provide the identity and authorization tooling\nrequired to help unlock these benefits.\n\n“We’ve spent seven years building globally resolvable identity\ninfrastructure to answer these questions for humans,” said Josh Crumb,\nFounder and CEO of Abaxx Technologies. “Agents++ extends that foundation to\nagents, applying the same cryptographic containers and logic to a new class of\nactors – enabling them to operate as trusted, verifiable extensions of the\nindividuals and organizations they represent.”\n\nAgents++ is designed to provide the identity and authorization infrastructure\nto answer three questions at every interaction: who is the agent, who\nauthorized it, and what scope does it have, while preserving the answers to\nthese questions through a cryptographically secured audit trail. The initial\nrelease of the Agents++ open-source library supports developer implementation\nof the ID++ protocol for AI agents, with a path to integration with the fuller\nMarketOS™ suite.\n\nInterested developers can find the Agents++ library on GitHub at\nhttps://github.com/abaxxlabs/agents and may contact Abaxx Labs at\ninfo@abaxxlabs.com.\n\n¹ World Economic Forum, “Generative AI Could Add Trillions to Global\nEconomy,” July 2023; McKinsey & Company, The Economic Potential of\nGenerative AI: The Next Productivity Frontier, June 2023\n² National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Accelerating the\nAdoption of Software and Artificial Intelligence Agent Identity and\nAuthorization (Concept Paper, Feb. 5, 2026)\n\nAbout Abaxx Technologies\n\nAbaxx Technologies (CBOE: ABXX | OTCQX: ABXXF) is building Smarter Markets:\nmarkets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to\ndrive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society,\nincluding the energy transition.\n\nIn addition to developing and deploying financial technologies that make\ncommunication, trade, and transactions easier and more secure, Abaxx is the\nmajority shareholder of Abaxx Singapore, the owner of Abaxx Exchange and Abaxx\nClearing, and the parent company of wholly owned subsidiaries Abaxx Spot Pte.\nLtd and Adaptive Infrastructure, and the creator of Abaxx Labs™ and the\nSmarterMarkets™ podcast.\n\nAbaxx Exchange delivers the market infrastructure critical to the shift toward\nan electrified, low-carbon economy through centrally-cleared futures\ncontracts, including physically-deliverable and financially-settled products,\nin LNG, carbon, battery materials, precious metals, and weather-indexed\nrenewables, meeting the commercial needs of today’s commodity markets and\nestablishing the next generation of global benchmarks.\n\nAbaxx Spot modernizes physical gold trading through a physically-backed gold\npool in Singapore. As the first instance of a co-located spot and futures\nmarket for gold, Abaxx Spot enables secure electronic transactions, efficient\nOTC transfers, and is designed to support physical delivery for Abaxx\nExchange’s physically-deliverable gold futures contract, providing\nintegrated infrastructure to deliver smarter gold markets.\n\nAdaptive Infrastructure closes critical gaps in post-trade infrastructure by\nproviding a unified custodial foundation across environmental markets and\ndigital title assets. Incorporated in Barbados and regulated by the Financial\nServices Commission of Barbados, the company delivers institutional-grade\ncustody, settlement, and transfer agency services designed to reduce risk and\nimprove reliability across asset classes.\n\nAbaxx Labs is the Company’s center for engaging with the developer community\nto create the next generation of technology that will build smarter markets\nthrough open-source software tools that promote the use of Abaxx’s ID++\ntechnologies.\n\nFor more information, visit abaxx.tech\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvvWIg86AH3TZ9PnncR7hrKDr7fi0_ej2dpMTX5JP531ZBJmQ7y2ZZy3rJ0rZWBImCQ==)\n| abaxx.exchange\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvlfulWgueh-qMpK6byJSkSHG0nbkmK5jlO3ckvhz8azfKbO6wWvOqxBBBhs0LLq1pDjNL0awIE_trnuy-TDnQrA=)\n| abaxxspot.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=bgoO3l5wLsAAIN-n6ayIvg1DgIFQlKfOB6zaDPLpDa6PnXxn8UJ-NVp_TGLjH1pLN96T0DZwa-cSfr6NRBFBQw==)\n| basecarbon.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=yu0Wr-cMybzHoqNAqCJdkPxH66nWj4dgWe16vEqPJNeRwpqhjXET3dprC6HVXlE5YCOJgLmGQi_PYn7hSLYBz0T4rZP0crZk9dlu8SVTzGI=)\n| smartermarkets.media\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=z0g1zruAddBF45LDaVawPdtsrEFyTH1M4t9pGYxN-To3PRAPPSgX_ZsHnwqQyTOq9e2HJcjbtb9YLfE7BVNXzv0T_ZdNdg5BLUfwcHudGL8=)\n\nFor more information about this press release, please contact:\n\nSteve Fray, CFO\nTel: +1 647-490-1590\n\nMedia and investor inquiries:\n\nAbaxx Technologies Inc.\nInvestor Relations Team\nTel: +1 246 271 0082\nE-mail: ir@abaxx.tech\n\nCautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information\n\nThis press release includes certain “forward-looking statements” and\n“forward-looking information” (collectively, “forward-looking\nstatements”) within the meaning of applicable United States and Canadian\nsecurities laws. All statements other than statements of historical fact are\nforward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not\nalways, identified by the use of words such as “believe”,\n“anticipate”, “estimate”, “project”, “intend”, “expect”,\n“may”, “will”, “plan”, “should”, “would”, “could”,\n“target”, “purpose”, “goal”, “objective”, “ongoing”,\n“potential”, “likely” or the negative thereof or similar expressions.\n\nIn particular, this press release contains forward-looking statements\nincluding, without limitation, Abaxx’s objectives and future plans,\nstatements about the formation and expected activities of Abaxx Labs, the\nrelease and potential use of Agents++, the expected capabilities, performance,\nadoption, integration and benefits of Agents++, ID++ and MarketOS™, the role\nof identity, authorization and accountability infrastructure in AI agent\nworkflows, Abaxx’s strategy for engaging with the developer community,\nobjectives and technology roadmap, development and expansion of Abaxx’s\nmarket infrastructure and Abaxx’s role in the development of commodities and\nenergy markets.\n\nForward-looking statements are based on the reasonable assumptions, estimates,\nanalyses and opinions of management made in light of its experience and its\nperception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as\nother factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the\ncircumstances at the date that such statements are made, but which may prove\nto be incorrect. Such factors and assumptions impacting forward-looking\ninformation include, among others: assumptions about developer and enterprise\nadoption of AI agents; demand for identity and authorization tools; continued\ndevelopment of the Company’s technology; interoperability with relevant\nstandards; availability of technical resources; market demand for the\nCompany’s products and services; risks relating to the global economic\nclimate; dilution; Abaxx’s limited operating history; future capital needs\nand uncertainty of additional financing; the competitive nature of the\nindustry; currency exchange risks; the need for Abaxx to manage its planned\ngrowth and expansion; the effects of product development and need for\ncontinued technology change; protection of proprietary rights; the effect of\ngovernment regulation and compliance on Abaxx and the industry; acquiring and\nmaintaining regulatory approvals for Abaxx’s products and operations; the\nability to list Abaxx’s securities on stock exchanges in a timely fashion or\nat all; network security risks; the ability of Abaxx to maintain properly\nworking systems; reliance on key personnel; global economic and financial\nmarket deterioration impeding access to capital or increasing the cost of\ncapital; and volatile securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated\nto operating performance. In addition, particular factors which could impact\nfuture results of the business of Abaxx include but are not limited to: the\nfailure of energy markets and collateral use cases to develop according to the\nexpectations of Abaxx; operations in foreign jurisdictions; protection of\nintellectual property rights; contractual risk; third-party risk;\nclearinghouse risk; malicious actor risks; third- party software license risk;\nsystem failure risk; risk of technological change; dependence of technical\ninfrastructure; changes in global weather patterns; changes in the price of\ncommodities, restrictions on labor and international travel and supply chains,\nand the risk factors identified in the Company’s most recent management’s\ndiscussion and analysis filed on SEDAR+. Abaxx has also assumed that no\nsignificant events occur outside of Abaxx’s normal course of business.\n\nAbaxx cautions that the foregoing list of material factors is not exhaustive.\nIn addition, although Abaxx has attempted to identify important factors that\ncould cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors\nthat cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, or intended. When\nrelying on forward-looking statements and information to make decisions,\ninvestors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other\nuncertainties and potential events. Abaxx has assumed that the material\nfactors referred to in the previous paragraphs will not cause such\nforward-looking statements and information to differ materially from actual\nresults or events. However, the list of these factors is not exhaustive and is\nsubject to change and there can be no assurance that such assumptions will\nreflect the actual outcome of such items or factors. The forward-looking\nstatements and information contained in this press release represents the\nexpectations of Abaxx as of the date of this press release and, accordingly,\nis subject to change after such date. Abaxx undertakes no obligation to update\nor revise any forward-looking statements and information, whether as a result\nof new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.\nAccordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these\nforward-looking statements and information. Cboe Canada does not accept\nresponsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.\n\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/ebbabd4c-4502-4b72-9fa6-6894dfd9ae90)\n\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-05-01T11:30:00.310682124Z","server_sent_at_ms":1777635000310},"received_at":"2026-05-01T11:30:00.417Z","source_url":null},"analysis":{"id":"12493","press_release_id":"16847","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Financial Services","sector":"Financials"},"redFlags":[],"eventType":"product_launch","narrative":"Abaxx Technologies announced the formation of Abaxx Labs and the release of the Agents++ open-source library, a tool designed to provide identity and authorization infrastructure for AI agents.\n\nThe software extends the company's proprietary ID++ protocol to require cryptographic signing for agent actions, ensuring machines are accountable to the humans who authorize them.\n\nThis initiative aims to position Abaxx's identity infrastructure as a standard for the emerging AI agent economy, addressing risks cited by the World Economic Forum and NIST.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":true,"suggestedAngle":"Abaxx enters the AI identity race with open-source Agents++ launch."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"wef_ai_value_estimate_low":"$2.6 trillion","wef_ai_value_estimate_high":"$4.4 trillion"}},"quotedText":"Agents++ extends that foundation to agents, applying the same cryptographic containers and logic to a new class of actors – enabling them to operate as trusted, verifiable extensions of the individuals and organizations they represent.","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Ian Forester","role":"Head of Abaxx Labs"},{"name":"Josh Crumb","role":"Founder and CEO"},{"name":"Steve Fray","role":"CFO"}],"products":["Abaxx Labs™","Agents++™","ID++","MarketOS™","SmarterMarkets™ podcast"],"companies":[{"name":"Abaxx Technologies Inc.","ticker":"ABXX"},{"name":"Abaxx Singapore Pte Ltd.","relationship":"subsidiary"},{"name":"Abaxx Commodity Exchange","relationship":"subsidiary"},{"name":"Abaxx Clearing","relationship":"subsidiary"},{"name":"Abaxx Spot Pte. 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