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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform: "The agent business has not yet been fully priced by the market. Machine-to-machine payments will drive demand for digital dollars beyond current expectations. The scale of the agent economy may surpass that of the human economy, and Coinbase is building infrastructure for both."

According to PaymentsJournal, stablecoin payment infrastructure provider PhotonPay announced a comprehensive upgrade to its payment capabilities, officially moving towards the new paradigm of Agentic Payments. At the core of this transformation is the shift in finance from "directive" to "intent-centric," enabling AI agents to autonomously plan and execute complex financial pathways.It is reported that PhotonPay has divided its system into three main modules: global network layer, core execution layer, and intelligent decision-making layer. AI agents can automatically complete the entire process of procurement triggers, payment path optimization, dynamic exchange rate optimization, and compliance review based on preset goals, achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) cross-border capital flow, covering over 200 countries and regions, and supporting real-time processing of financial decisions.In terms of market prospects, McKinsey predicts that by 2030, the global Agentic Commerce driven by AI agents will reach a scale of $3 trillion to $5 trillion, which also provides important market endorsement for PhotonPay's strategic layout.

According to The Block, Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf raised $900 million through a stock issuance, and the funds will be used to build AI data centers. After the news was announced, TeraWulf's stock price fell.

AI infrastructure service provider DGrid officially launched its core product DClaw ------ a one-click personal AI agent deployment platform specifically designed for the DGrid ecosystem, aimed at significantly lowering the participation threshold for the open agent economy, providing out-of-the-box personal local AI assistants for individuals, developers, teams, and various communities.According to the official introduction, compared to the open-source framework OpenClaw, DClaw has achieved a comprehensive product upgrade. It focuses on true one-click agent deployment capabilities, compressing the technical configuration process that originally took hours into minutes; it natively integrates DGrid's unified model access API, allowing immediate access to top global models such as GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, Kimi K2.5 without the need for additional API key configuration; at the same time, it natively adapts to mainstream office and communication platforms such as WeChat, WeChat Work, DingTalk, and Telegram, enabling a single agent to operate uniformly across different environments.In addition, DClaw features a user-controlled persistent memory system and a hot-swappable modular skill plugin ecosystem, supporting multi-agent collaborative work to meet automation execution needs across various scenarios. Each DClaw instance can serve as an intelligent node in the DGrid network, achieving a deep integration of personal usage value and open ecosystem construction.Currently, DClaw has officially launched, allowing users to quickly build their own personal AI agents and participate in the construction of the DGrid open agent economy ecosystem.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two wallets associated with BTC OG insider whales withdrew 59,000,000 Binance coins from Binance a month ago at a price of $0.074 each, worth approximately $4.38 million at that time. Currently, the total value of these 59,000,000 Binance coins has risen to $19.5 million, with unrealized gains exceeding $15 million.

According to The Block, South Korean payment service provider NHN KCP has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs to jointly build a Layer 1 network aimed at payment scenarios based on Ava Cloud, covering three main areas: sub-second payment confirmation, on-chain transaction data encryption, and customizable merchant payment infrastructure.The two parties will also explore business opportunities such as tokenized deposit models, multi-stablecoin settlement structures, and cross-border payments. Justin Kim, head of Ava Labs Asia, stated that the launch time of the L1 mainnet will largely depend on the progress of cryptocurrency regulatory regulations in South Korea.

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev tweeted that the current market is in a "very boring" phase, where most participants can tweet, play memes, or discuss philosophy, but the truly valuable activities are mostly happening quietly, including financing, trading, investing, and business development.He pointed out that this market environment makes it difficult for large projects, exchanges, and companies to make new listings or significant announcements, as high-profile actions often do not yield good results at this time. He suggested that portfolios should remain patient and wait for better opportunities.Grachev emphasized that the market is not heading towards extinction. For now, it only provides great opportunities for those boring activities, such as buying Bitcoin and holding it long-term, or participating in the hype of altcoins. The final decision is yours, but most people end up buying high and selling low anyway. He concluded that there is still much to do as a builder or investor, while small retail investors should keep learning, not cry in the casino, and enjoy this market we chose to enter.

TON Financial Company AlphaTON Capital announced a strategic financing agreement with Vertical Data totaling approximately $43 million.AlphaTON stated that this financing collaboration focuses on AI hardware deployment, which will accelerate its "privacy computing" and sovereign AI infrastructure development, and support the integrated development of AI, digital assets, and confidential computing. It is reported that its AI and privacy computing infrastructure will also provide underlying computing power support for related applications of partners such as Telegram and Animoca Brands.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Mastercard's cryptocurrency business partners, which now exceed 100, covering multiple key areas such as public chains, stablecoins, trading platforms, risk control services, and payment infrastructure. Unlike Visa and PayPal's more "selective partnership" strategy, Mastercard aims to become the connective layer for all payment links.Structurally, this network can be understood as a "multi-node collaborative system":Assets and Settlement: Through stablecoin issuers like Circle and Paxos, as well as multiple public chains, it undertakes on-chain assets and settlement capabilities.Connection and Circulation: Integrating cross-chain protocols, custody services, and payment channels to allow different chains and assets to flow within its system.Compliance and Security: Introducing risk control service providers like TRM Labs and Elliptic to build compliance capabilities aimed at the global regulatory environment.Applications and Reach: Collaborating with exchanges, wallets, and financial institutions to transform on-chain capabilities into user-perceived payment and consumption scenarios.Therefore, Mastercard's strategy is essentially not about selecting suppliers but about lowering access thresholds and expanding network externalities. It connects more upstream chains and asset issuers while attracting payment institutions and financial terminals downstream, making its strategy more aligned with the center of the next-generation payment system. Related compilation: 【Mastercard Crypto Partner Network Compilation (Continuously Updated)】Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of the cryptocurrency project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder Yi Lihua stated on Twitter that wherever there are people, there are grievances, and wherever there are grievances, there is a community. He has heard these community stories from the parties involved multiple times, but we can only be bystanders.Yi Lihua called for the parties involved (CZ, Xu Mingxing, Li Lin, Sun Yuchen, He Yi) to resolve this historical grievance and work together to build the industry and prices. He mentioned that gossip and grievances sound exciting, but wallets are more important to everyone.It is reported that CZ mentioned past interactions with Li Lin, Xu Mingxing, and others in his new book, and discussions about the related events are currently trending on platform X.

NASDAQ-listed company AVAX One Technology (AVX) announced the advancement of its AI infrastructure strategy. The company has signed a FEED plan for a 10MW AI/HPC microgrid data center, located in Alberta, Canada, leveraging the local low-cost natural gas power to create a high-cost-performance, scalable dedicated AI computing facility. The project is designed by BlueFlare and is one of the first AI computing centers in the area.At the same time, the company invested less than $500,000 to purchase 220 Bitmain S21 Pro mining machines, increasing Alberta's computing power from 150 PH/s to over 200 PH/s. This move serves as a transitional cash flow source during the construction period of the AI center, achieving a dual-track layout of "mining + AI computing power" to quickly monetize existing power capacity.

According to Jinshi reports, as market expectations rise that the United States will launch more military strikes against Iran, the dollar index has risen during the Asian afternoon trading session. Two analysts from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Global Economic and Market Research Department stated that the U.S. is doubling the size of its A-10 attack aircraft fleet in the Middle East, and the mobilization of military assets and troops has increased the likelihood of a ground invasion. Based on the dollar's safe-haven status, analysts remain optimistic about its trend.

The enterprise-level modular L1 public chain ENI has announced a strategic partnership with the globally leading on-chain investment ecosystem Republic Crypto. Republic Crypto is backed by top institutions such as Hamilton Lane and Hashed, with an ecosystem covering over 2,500 enterprises.The two parties will combine Republic Crypto's expertise in token economics and top Western capital markets with the advantages of ENI's enterprise-level modular L1 architecture to open up liquidity channels for real-world assets (RWA) between the East and West, facilitating seamless global settlement for institutional assets and promoting the scaling of Web3 business.

The privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain trading ecosystem Aster today announced the official launch of the modular Web3 trading infrastructure Aster Code, aimed at simplifying the development threshold for decentralized perpetual contract exchanges (Perp Dex).The first batch of strategic partners for Aster Code includes Binance Web3 Wallet, Trust Wallet, Safepal, Genius Terminal, Polarise, NOFA, Wallet V, ChimpX, and VergeX, covering multiple core areas of the Perp DEX ecosystem. At the same time, Aster plans to establish the Aster Code ecosystem fund to provide funding and technical incubation, and deepen ecological collaborative cooperation.The complete API documentation and sample program code can be referenced in the official documentation.