Helix Announces Tom Thompson as CEO and Changes to the Board

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Helix Applications Inc. (TSX-V: HELX) (the "Company" or "Helix") announces that following its recently completed "Change of Business" transaction, Mr. Tom Thompson has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Rufus Round has stepped down from his position as Helix CEO and will remain as a Director with a focus on promoting Helix to the financial and business markets in conjunction with the partnerships the Company plans to develop.

"The new generation of distributed Edge computing at megachain scale will be a truly exciting time for Helix to be deploying its efforts to build applications using this new technology," commented Mr. Thompson. "There will be many new paradigms of lower cost, more secure computing that Helix will seek to achieve for its future clients."

Mr. Thompson is the inventor of Interbit^TM, the megachain scale blockchain platform being developed by BTL Group Ltd., where he will remain as Chief Technology Officer while the platform is further developed and adapted in response to real world application deployments.  Mr. Thompson's focus on blockchain style technologies began in 2012 after realizing it is the only path forwards to ultra-reliable systems made of unreliable components.  His vision is to evolve the next generation of the Internet - an Internet that is permanent, perpetual, secure, private, and massively scalable - and the Interbit^TM megachain platform is the first available version of this technology, having risen from the failings of the single blockchain cryptocurrency world.  Mr. Thompson is pleased to lead Helix as the first vendor of this new wave of megachain scale applications that will be put in to production using this next generation, post-cryptocurrency technology.

The Company also announces that Max Hinchcliffe, has resigned from the Board of Directors of the Company, but will remain in the Company as a strategic member of the Helix team.

Additional Information

Additional information about the Company and its recently completed "Change of Business" transaction is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com under the Company's profile.

HELIX APPLICATIONS INC.

Tom Thompson, CEO
c/o 82 Richmond Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, ON, M5C 1P1
Tel. +1-604-376-7771
[email protected]

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