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a16z crypto released an analysis report titled "The New Stack of Global Finance: The Stablecoin Edition." The report points out that stablecoins have evolved from niche trading tools into fundamental financial pipelines, giving rise to a new type of "banking as a service" model that is driving the reconstruction of the financial system. The report believes that the transition to on-chain finance has "crossed the point of no return."The report categorizes blockchains into three types: general-purpose chains (such as Solana, Ethereum, and L2), payment-specific chains (such as Stripe's Tempo), and institutional networks (such as Canton). It also notes that the bottlenecks in the banking industry are easing, with a number of crypto-friendly banks actively connecting on-chain infrastructure with traditional fiat systems. The competition for stablecoin issuance has shifted to regulatory positioning, with issuers vying to obtain OCC national trust charters.The report states that payments are the "first act," while credit may be the more important "second act." The large-scale issuance of stablecoins will give rise to a new on-chain credit market, allowing capital to form outside the traditional banking system. The report also emphasizes that stablecoins not only enhance the dominance of the dollar but also provide emerging market users with access channels to the dollar.

According to Jinshi reports, the Office of the Foreign Investment Security Review Mechanism (National Development and Reform Commission) has made a decision to prohibit investment in the foreign acquisition of the Manus project in accordance with laws and regulations, requiring the parties involved to withdraw from the acquisition transaction.

French listed company Capital B (ALCPB) announced an increase of 400,000 euros to acquire 6 bitcoins, currently holding a total of 2,943 bitcoins, with a year-to-date bitcoin return of 1.61%.

According to official news, Four Pillars announced that it has obtained Series A financing from Pantera Capital and Further Ventures, with the specific amount undisclosed.It will transition from a previous research institution to a blockchain research and infrastructure provider aimed at institutional users. It is reported that in the three years since its establishment, Four Pillars has collaborated with over 100 protocols and companies, releasing more than 600 research reports. In the future, it will focus on three main directions: FP Research (divided into five specialized departments: crypto, investment, institutions, Asia, and technology), FP Validated (institutional-level validator infrastructure providing staking services), and FP Institution (a newly established institutional department offering seminars and consulting services).

Blockchain Capital partner Spencer Bogart posted on X platform that the total transaction volume of Kalshi and Polymarket is nearly equal, both around $12 billion (the former at $12.29 billion and the latter at $12.22 billion). Excluding sports-related transactions, Polymarket's non-sports category transaction volume is $7.5 billion, while Kalshi is only $1.6 billion.Despite the positioning differences between the two in the prediction market, it is strange that they are still classified in the same category.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Abraxas Capital deposited 4,835 bitcoins worth $378 million to Kraken in the past hour. Additionally, the institution also deposited 6,000 XAUT worth $28 million to Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitfinex.

Web3 AI infrastructure AIW3 announced the completion of a $2 million seed round financing. This round of financing was led by Buffalo Capital, with participation from GalaXin Capital and Three-stones Ventures.It is reported that AIW3 is committed to transforming into an AaaS (Agent-as-a-Service) on-chain execution paradigm, providing callable strategy services, autonomous agent orchestration, and native vault collaborative funding flows, aiming to build a system-level next-generation on-chain execution layer. The official statement indicates that its core protocol infrastructure has officially entered a fully verifiable real-time operational phase, laying the foundation for the long-term development of a scalable decentralized agent network and ecosystem.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Tether minted 3 billion USDT in the past week. Abraxas Capital received 2.89 billion USDT from Tether Treasury in the past week.

Deepseek official website launches deepseek-v4 interface and model introduction, including deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro.

AI Smart Routing and Infrastructure Network DGrid AI officially announces the launch of its AI inference API integrated with the x402 payment protocol. This API seamlessly merges payment logic with AI model invocation for the first time, allowing developers and AI Agents to complete authorization, inference, and payment within a single API request lifecycle without managing cumbersome API Keys or requiring centralized account pre-funding.It is reported that this API currently supports BNB Chain (BSC) as the underlying settlement network. With the micropayment features of the x402 protocol, the system can achieve extremely low-friction on-chain real-time settlement while ensuring that invocation costs remain absolutely controllable. Additionally, this API supports streaming responses and real-time usage feedback while being compatible with mainstream AI invocation methods, making it suitable for various application scenarios, including model selection for AI Agents, inference billing, intelligent agents, and multi-task execution.DGrid states that this initiative aims to completely break the prepaid barriers of traditional large model invocation and provide a programmable underlying payment infrastructure for building a fully automated AI Agent economy (machine-to-machine transactions).

According to DL News, data from CoinMarketCap shows that the MEME coin sector has risen nearly 20% in the past month, with a total market capitalization increasing to $34 billion, but it is still down about 75% from its peak of nearly $140 billion in December 2024.Analysts say that this round of rebound is mainly driven by improved risk appetite, increased on-chain speculation, and significant gains in a few leading tokens, which may not fully reflect the overall health of the sector. Dogecoin remains the MEME coin with the highest market capitalization and trading volume, but it has fallen 87% from its peak in 2021. In addition, the SEC and CFTC recently proposed a classification framework for five types of tokens, categorizing meme coins as collectibles; Canary Capital has also submitted a Pepe ETF application to the SEC.

According to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency venture capital fund Pantera Capital Management is urging the London-listed company Satsuma Technology Plc to sell its remaining approximately $50 million in Bitcoin and return the funds to shareholders.Satsuma has confirmed that some shareholders have requested a return of funds, and the company is evaluating related proposals. Additionally, sources revealed that the shareholders are also demanding a change in management; currently, Satsuma's CEO Henry Elder and CFO Andrew Smith have resigned. Earlier this month, the company announced it would cut costs and disclosed the purchase of Bitcoin worth £1.4 million.

According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency venture capital firm Blockchain Capital is simultaneously raising two new funds, with a total target size of $700 million, namely its seventh early-stage fund and its second growth fund.Insiders revealed that the firm has begun deploying some of the newly raised capital, and the entire financing round is expected to be completed within five to six months.

AI research lab NeoCognition announced the completion of a $40 million seed round financing, led jointly by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners. Angel investors include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, among others.The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and was co-founded by Ohio State University associate professor Yu Su, along with Xiang Deng and Yu Gu, focusing on enhancing the reliability of AI agents. Their solution is to enable agents to build domain "world models" in real-world use to adapt to specific business environments, rather than relying on generic pre-trained models. The company is currently targeting enterprise clients and plans to embed sustainably optimized AI agents into SaaS products, with no public products released yet.