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Global on-chain trading and clearing infrastructure platform AurumX announced that it has completed a strategic acquisition of the verifiable data settlement protocol manadia. This acquisition aims to strengthen AurumX's layout in the Web3 × AI infrastructure and decentralized prediction market fields.After the acquisition, manadia's technology will be deeply integrated with AurumX's on-chain settlement layer. manadia plans to launch its flagship decentralized prediction market product soon, leveraging its verifiable settlement technology to provide a transparent intelligence and prediction data pricing market.AurumX stated that this acquisition is a key step in building a compliant, intelligent next-generation financial infrastructure, which will help break down the barriers between traditional finance and the on-chain world. The manadia team stated that joining the AurumX ecosystem will provide broader global compliance resources and capital support.AurumX was established in 2021 and holds an MSB compliance license, with operations covering over 180 countries. manadia is a foundational layer protocol focused on verifiable data settlement and AI-driven collaboration.

According to the official announcement, Circle has launched a new infrastructure suite for the "Agentic Economy," called Circle Agent Stack, which includes products such as Circle CLI, Agent Wallets, Agent Marketplace, and Nanopayments based on Circle Gateway, supporting AI agents as autonomous economic entities for asset holding, service discovery, and on-chain payments.Among them, Nanopayments supports gas-free USDC transfers at a minimum level of $0.000001, aimed at high-frequency machine-to-machine payment scenarios; Agent Wallets allow AI agents to autonomously manage funds under preset permissions and risk control frameworks; Agent Marketplace provides an AI service directory, enabling agents to automatically discover and invoke services.Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that traditional financial infrastructure is designed for "humans," while the future global economy will increasingly be driven by AI and agents. The Circle Agent Stack is the first complete product suite launched for "AI agents themselves" rather than developers.

According to official news, Tether has launched a developer grant program that will reward developers with USDT or Bitcoin for building localized AI and payment infrastructure. There is no total grant cap for this program, and rewards will be issued based on technical tasks and deliverables, with current individual bonuses ranging from $1,500 to $4,000.This funding focuses on Tether's open-source technology stack, including wallet infrastructure, browser extensions, e-commerce integration, and particularly supports its local AI platform QVAC. Tether stated that QVAC can run AI inference directly on the device locally, without relying on cloud servers, to reduce latency, costs, and data exposure risks.In addition, Tether will also promote the development of its Wallet Development Kit (WDK) ecosystem. This tool allows developers to directly embed self-custody wallets within applications, enabling local key generation, transaction signing, and asset transfers without relying on custodial services or third-party APIs.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that a significant amount of infrastructure still forces developers to rely on centralized platforms and data business models, and Tether hopes to fund systems that can "run locally, hold value directly, and have no external dependencies" to enter the market.

The stablecoin payment infrastructure platform WasabiCard recently announced its official membership in the Circle Alliance Program, becoming a member of its global stablecoin ecosystem cooperation network.It is reported that WasabiCard mainly targets global business scenarios, building integrated products around global card issuance, payment, and fund distribution to help enterprises manage global funds. Currently, its products have been applied in business scenarios such as AI, SaaS, advertising spending, cross-border e-commerce, and global settlement.The official stated that in the future, WasabiCard will deepen collaboration with Circle and global ecosystem partners, aiming to promote the large-scale implementation of compliant stablecoins like USDC in real business scenarios.

According to CoinDesk, executives from PayPal and Google Cloud stated that future AI Agent-driven business activities will operate on a cryptocurrency payment track, as AI Agents cannot use traditional bank accounts like humans.Richard Widmann, Head of Google Cloud Web3 Strategy, mentioned that AI Agents cannot directly open bank accounts on both technical and regulatory levels, while cryptocurrencies provide an "excellent machine-readable payment interface." He revealed that Google has launched the open Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) and donated it to the FIDO Foundation, with over 120 partners, including PayPal, already on board.May Zabaneh, Senior Vice President of PayPal's crypto business, stated that the company views AI Agents as the next generation of business entry points following offline, online, and mobile payments. She pointed out that PYUSD, as PayPal's stablecoin, provides a natural programmable payment layer for AI-native payments and global transactions.A PayPal survey showed that 95% of merchant websites currently have AI Agent traffic, but only about 20% of merchants have machine-readable product catalogs. Zabaneh believes that merchants need to adapt to the AI Agent era as soon as possible, or they will miss the next opportunity for upgrading their business infrastructure. Additionally, both parties discussed the security and accountability issues surrounding AI Agents.Widmann stated that multi-party custody will become an important solution for managing Agent funds, and AI Agents should not fully control private keys but only hold partial key fragments to reduce financial risks.

According to Jinshi Data, as the cost of memory chips rises and ByteDance accelerates its layout in artificial intelligence (AI), the company has increased its AI infrastructure spending plan for this year by 25% to 200 billion yuan.

Bitcoin mining company DMG Blockchain has established a new subsidiary, DMG Infrastructure, for future artificial intelligence/high-performance computing (AIHPC) business operations, and plans to drive its data centers towards AI/HPC business transformation.DMG Blockchain also disclosed that it mined a total of 21 BTC in April, down from 23 BTC in March. As of the end of April, it holds 389 BTC, a decrease of 9 BTC from the previous month, with a current hash rate of 1.54 EH/s, down from 1.63 EH/s in March.

Enterprise blockchain infrastructure Antier Solutions announced the completion of a $3 million financing round, led by GVFL. The new funds will be used to support the construction of secure transactions, verifiable workflows, and institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure, expand deployments in the government and financial institutions (BFSI) sector, and grow business in the United States, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific markets.

Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf announced its Q1 financial report, showing that its high-performance computing (HPC) business has for the first time surpassed Bitcoin mining revenue, marking a critical stage in the company's transformation towards AI and cloud computing infrastructure.The company's total revenue for Q1 was $34 million, roughly flat compared to the same period last year. Among this, HPC leasing revenue reached $21 million, surpassing the less than $13 million from digital asset mining for the first time, becoming the main source of income. The financial report also indicated that the company's net loss widened to $427.6 million, mainly due to the impact of non-cash warrant revaluation. However, CFO Patrick Fleury emphasized that the company is transitioning from "volatile mining revenue" to "stable long-term computing power contract revenue." Currently, TeraWulf has 60 MW of HPC capacity generating revenue at its Lake Mariner data center in New York and plans to continue expanding within the year. At the same time, the company is transforming part of its mining infrastructure into AI/HPC computing resources to support massive computing power demands. This trend is spreading throughout the industry, with Bitcoin mining companies like Riot Platforms also expanding their revenue structure through data centers and AI contracts, gradually transforming into "computing power infrastructure companies."

The sports AI intelligent infrastructure platform Sportix announced the completion of a $3.2 million financing round. This round of financing was participated in by institutions such as Coinvestor Ventures, Animoca Brands, Becker Ventures, X21 Digital, and Alpha Capital.It is reported that Sportix is an intelligent platform built around sports events and athletes, aiming to integrate real-time data, AI predictive models, and market infrastructure into a unified ecosystem, providing users with structured and actionable sports intelligence.The funds from this financing round will be directly used to deepen the research and development of its AI aggregation engine, enhance the accuracy of MIE and PIS, and expand the scale of B2B APIs to empower a broader sports data ecosystem.

According to The Information, OpenAI was unable to complete approximately $18 billion in financing from external lenders, which was originally planned to support the early deployment of its custom chip project developed in collaboration with Broadcom. This project plans to deploy OpenAI's self-developed chips with a computing power of 10 gigawatts, which is a core strategy for the company to reduce its reliance on Nvidia. The original agreement announced in October 2025 had a total hardware construction scale of approximately $500 billion.The background of the financing obstacles is that lenders are becoming increasingly cautious about AI infrastructure deals backed by OpenAI's expected revenue, compounded by recent reports that OpenAI has not met its internal growth targets, further heightening investor concerns. More broadly, capital expenditures for AI in large-scale enterprises are estimated to reach $600 billion to $720 billion by 2026, but Nvidia's accounts receivable have approached $33 billion, indicating that buyer settlement cycles are generally extended. OpenAI currently faces three paths: restructuring this round of financing, changing lenders, or scaling back the chip deployment.

This week, the cryptocurrency market has reached a critical turning point, with market sentiment significantly improving. BTC successfully broke through $82,000, reaching a nearly three-month high, and firmly established a key support level at $81,000.On May 5, the U.S. spot BTC ETF recorded a net inflow of $467 million, with BlackRock contributing $251 million; on May 6, the ETH ETF also saw inflows exceeding $170 million for three consecutive days. The continued strength in capital indicates that institutional allocation has shifted from "experimental attempts" to strategic "core asset allocation."Against this backdrop, Gate has continuously optimized its institutional-level service system. With the SuperLink architecture and excellent cross-platform capital scheduling capabilities, Gate provides high-performance matching and deep liquidity support for institutional investors. To address the core demands of professional investors for compliance, security, and asset diversification, the platform offers a one-stop custody solution covering crypto assets, CFD contracts, perpetual contracts, and spot tokens.At the same time, Gate has built a comprehensive derivatives matrix covering stocks, metals, indices, foreign exchange, and commodities, helping global institutions achieve efficient strategy execution and risk management in a structural bull market.

According to Bloomberg, Kraken's parent company Payward Inc. has agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for $600 million in cash and stock. Reap Technologies is a provider focused on stablecoin cross-border payments and commercial payment services. Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that the valuation of the stock issued by Payward in this transaction is $20 billion. This acquisition aims to expand into the Asian market.

Private market investment company StepStone Group (NASDAQ: STEP) announced its participation in the Digital Market Infrastructure (DMI) platform of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).The DMI platform is fully integrated into LSEG Workspace and aims to simplify access for professional investors to private equity funds, leveraging distributed ledger technology to support the distribution of private equity funds and help reduce structural barriers for investors entering the private market. StepStone offers evergreen investment strategies covering private equity, private debt, and infrastructure.

According to market news, Chainlink, Apex Group, Bluprynt, and Hacken have collaborated with the Bermuda Monetary Authority to complete an embedded regulatory pilot that integrates compliance requirements directly into digital asset infrastructure for real-time execution, replacing the traditional compliance model based on periodic reporting and manual checks.Non-compliant transactions are blocked before settlement, and compliance metadata is retained in cross-chain transfers. Chainlink provides on-chain policy enforcement and reserve verification infrastructure, assessing transactions through an automated compliance engine and using reserve proof tools to verify off-chain collateral. Bluprynt is responsible for issuer identity verification and compliance certificate issuance. Apex Group acts as an independent administrator providing certified reserve data from third-party custodians. Hacken offers real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and compliance alert systems, generating alerts in milliseconds after transactions are recorded. The Bermuda Monetary Authority plans to expand this model to production deployment and multi-jurisdictional oversight frameworks.

The AI infrastructure platform B.AI announced on May 7 that its user base has officially surpassed 1.7 million. As an innovative force dedicated to building the core infrastructure for privacy protection, intelligent routing, and the agent economy, B.AI is accelerating the execution layer of autonomous intelligent large-scale development through significant benefits such as zero markup on all models, a gift of 500,000 free points upon new user registration, and a limited-time 1:1 recharge with a cost reduction of 50%. B.AI will continue to drive technological innovation and extreme cost-effectiveness as dual engines, working with millions of users to build an efficient and secure autonomous intelligent execution layer, and jointly advance into a new ecosystem of agents.

According to official news, Jito Foundation is collaborating with Solana Company (NASDAQ: HSDT) to provide institutional-grade Solana infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. The two parties will operate BAM validators using Pacific Backbone in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, a low-latency infrastructure network that supports staking, validation, and trading services in the Asia-Pacific region.In addition, the two parties will jointly develop institutional-grade JitoSOL staking products, delivered through Solana Company's consulting service model, to meet the compliance requirements of large capital allocators.The head of Jito Foundation's Asia-Pacific region stated that this collaboration aims to combine Jito's market layer technology with Solana Company's regional expertise and institutional network, laying the foundation for scalable and compliant participation within the Solana ecosystem.