Roundtable Secures 10-Year, $1 Billion Agreement, Bringing its AI/DeFi Media Operating System to Global Scale and Profitability

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Roundtable Secures 10-Year, $1 Billion Agreement, Bringing its AI/DeFi Media Operating System to Global Scale and Profitability

PRESS RELEASE GlobeNewswire

Sep. 17, 2026, 11:00 AM

Founders James Heckman, and Eyal Hertzog, Chairman Walton Comer of Roundtable (Nasdaq: RTB) ringing the Nasdaq closing bell (Source: Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic)

SEATTLE, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Roundtable (Nasdaq: RTB ) CEO, James Heckman announced a 10-year, $1 billion agreement with The Arena Group, now known as Paradium.AI (NYSE: PAAI), to migrate, operate and monetize Arena’s premium media portfolio on Roundtable’s AI/DeFi-powered MediaOS, bringing global scale to the world’s most advanced platform.

Following deal closure, Roundtable forecasts a $100 million annualized revenue and an EBITDA-positive run rate - on a stand-alone basis , with 100 million monthly consumers - ensuring global media partners can thrive safely in sovereignty.

The transaction will deliver global scale and a profitable ecosystem to the world’s leading professional media brands and journalists. Roundtable’s operating system, powered by AI and DeFi, eliminates publishers’ infrastructure and operational costs by replacing antiquated systems with a single unified AI based platform. It encompasses AI-integration, DeFi reporting and payments, on-chain publishing, hosting, monetization, syndication, ad operations, AI-resistance, brand safety, IP and audience security - while publishers remain fully sovereign over their brands, domains, journalism, IP and audiences.

The partnership reunites founding leaders PAAI CEO Paul Edmondson, with RTB founders Heckman and Bill Sornsin, who were last teamed in 2020. The teams believe combining platforms and distribution will accelerate growth, save tens of millions in costs and amplify profits for both companies. Following the Arena partnership, RTB anticipates hundreds of large-scale customers joining the hundreds of professional journalists already adopting its revolutionary Operating System.

“This is the apex of what we have architected over decades,” said James Heckman, Roundtable CEO. “Roundtable will have the scale to provide premium publishers and advertisers a profitable, brand-safe ecosystem, a revolutionary DeFi payment platform that finances the industry in real time, and global distribution that professional, human journalists and media can leverage to survive and thrive in a world being enveloped by AI.”

RTB co-founder, Bill Sornsin added, “Professional media has historically surrendered economics, data and audience control to big tech, social platforms and intermediaries - and now AI. Roundtable’s operating system reverses that equation. Our partnership provides the infrastructure, financial system, monetization and distribution, so professional publishers can regain independence.”

Roundtable (NASDAQ: RTB) is the world’s only AI/DeFi-powered Enterprise Media Operating System, integrating distribution, publishing, monetization, community, syndication and DeFi payment operations, powering professional and major media brands. The Web3 platform was developed over years by digital pioneers and co-founders, Eyal Hertzog, and James Heckman. For more information, visit rtb.io.

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