Legendary entrepreneur and original Shark Tank investor Kevin Harrington has entered into a strategic partnership with Cartix, the blended checkout infrastructure powering the Pulse Network, and Optio, the smart monetization layer driving performance and growth across creator and commerce ecosystems.

Together, the trio is launching a powerful alliance designed to onboard over 100,000 merchants to Cartix and activate advanced monetization tools through Optio’s platform—unlocking a new era of social commerce, creator-driven affiliate sales, and real-time rewards across the Pulse ecosystem.

“Cartix is the future of distributed shopping—frictionless checkout meets distributed content,” said Kevin Harrington. “By bringing our merchant base into this environment and integrating Optio’s performance tools, we’re enabling a powerful new growth engine for brands, creators, and consumers alike.”

Pulse Commerce Meets Scalable Checkout

Cartix is a one of a kind truly blended shopping cart designed to work natively across the Pulse Network—a growing creator and content platform supporting community monetization, paywalled content, and smart digital storefronts.

Rather than siloing commerce inside traditional e-commerce platforms, Cartix enables seamless checkout experiences turning every touchpoint into a conversion opportunity.

With Kevin Harrington’s partnership, Cartix will rapidly scale to include over 100,000 consumer product merchants, unlocking plug-and-play catalog access for creators, influencers, and communities within Pulse, all while offering 20% of payments in Optio.

“By teaming up with Kevin, we’re supercharging the Pulse economy and enabling new monetization pathways for hundreds of thousands of businesses and creators.” said , CEO of Pulse, Yasser Elegably.

Optio: The Monetization Engine

Optio powers the underlying infrastructure that turns attention into action. With real-time rewards powered by the Pulse ecosystem, Optio enables both creators and merchants to optimize engagement, track conversions, and build recurring revenue.

“Optio is the first Proof-of-Impact blockchain rewarding users, and offering real world utility ,” said Bryan Ferre, Co-Founder of Optio. “By teaming up with Kevin and Cartix, we’re supercharging the Optio ecosystem.

A Creator-Led Commerce Revolution

This partnership enables a new hybrid model—part creator economy, part affiliate network, part real-time commerce engine. With the combined power of Harrington’s merchant portfolio, Cartix’s embedded checkout tech, and Optio’s monetization intelligence, the Pulse ecosystem is now primed to deliver:

🛒 Frictionless checkout experiences embedded across content, posts, and communities (Coming soon)

💰 Affiliate tools and revenue splits for creators promoting merchant goods (Coming soon)

🎯 Performance-based monetization through Optio’s smart tracking and targeting (Coming soon)

About Kevin Harrington

Kevin Harrington is an iconic entrepreneur and investor, best known as an original Shark on Shark Tank, and for having launched over 500 products with global sales exceeding $5 billion.

About Cartix

Cartix is a blended, distributed checkout solution for the Pulse Network, allowing creators, influencers, and publishers to embed shopping experiences directly within content and communities.

About Optio

Optio is a blockchain-powered rewards engine designed for real-world use. By powering engagement across media, commerce, and creator ecosystems, Optio makes it easy for anyone to earn and use digital assets without needing to understand crypto.

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