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On February 26, Anything Labs announced a strategic partnership with the on-chain exchange UXUY. As the world's first crypto incubation institution to enter the AI stablecoin sector, Anything Labs will leverage UXUY's multi-chain ecosystem advantages to accelerate the expansion and application of AI stablecoins, exploring a new AI trading paradigm aimed at high-frequency, asymmetric trading scenarios.It is reported that the AI-native stablecoin UUSD launched by Anything Labs has seen rapid market attention just one week after its release. The UUSD team stated that they are currently accelerating penetration into the AI developer community, including OpenClaw, and addressing issues such as the native insufficiency of AI assets based on the X402 protocol.Patrick, the founder of Anything Labs, stated: "The application scenarios for AI Agents are continuously expanding, and the recent surge of Elsp further confirms the vast opportunities that AI holds in the social domain. Social scenarios will gradually generate payment demands, which will further extend to trading demands. The core value of UUSD lies in enabling stablecoins to serve not only transactions between humans but also applications in on-chain interactions of AI, building a peer-to-peer electronic cash system for the AI era."

AI intelligent agent payment Layer 1 project Kite announced that it has officially joined the Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as a community partner.According to official information, Kite is now listed alongside over a hundred industry giants such as Mastercard, PayPal, Shopify, Adobe, Walmart, Accenture, and Cloudflare in the AP2 community partner list.Kite stated that this collaboration is an important milestone on its path to building a trusted payment infrastructure for the agent economy, and the team will continue to be committed to promoting the development of secure and reliable intelligent agent payment solutions.

Co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital Nathan McCauley stated on the X platform that the company holds permanent preferred shares STRC of Strategy on its balance sheet.He also disclosed that Anchorage Digital has established a strategic partnership with Strategy, and both parties will collaborate on related business.

According to FinanceFeeds, Nasdaq-listed electronic trading platform operator Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) has formed a strategic partnership with prediction market operator Kalshi and acquired a minority stake in it.The collaboration aims to expand institutional investors' access to Kalshi's event-based market data and explore new infrastructure for trading event contracts through Tradeweb's electronic platform. Tradeweb has averaged over $2.6 trillion in notional daily trading volume over the past four fiscal quarters, and the initial focus of this partnership will be on integrating Kalshi's real-time event probabilities and related data into Tradeweb's rates and credit platforms.Both parties also plan to jointly develop analytical tools that combine Kalshi's event probabilities with Tradeweb's pricing, liquidity, and macro data sets, enabling institutional participants to build predictive, pricing, and risk models that directly leverage trading event probabilities.Tradeweb CEO Billy Hult stated that prediction markets are increasingly becoming a key part of the trading environment, with the potential to serve as indicators for institutions to dynamically assess macro risks and allocate capital more effectively.

According to official news, Polymarket has announced an exclusive partnership with Substack.According to the announcement, Substack authors will be able to natively integrate Polymarket market data into their content, using real-time prediction market information to assist news reporting.Both parties stated that this move aims to embed prediction market data into the writing process, providing data reference support for content creators.

According to The Fintech Times, UAE digital bank Zand is expanding its partnership with Ripple, specifically to support RLUSD in Zand's regulated digital asset custody services, research direct liquidity solutions between the regulated dirham stablecoin AEDZ and RLUSD, and explore issuing AEDZ on the XRPL.

According to official news, the decentralized on-chain lending network Morpho Association announced a cooperation agreement with a specific affiliate of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Apollo").Under the terms of the agreement, Apollo or its affiliates will acquire MORPHO tokens through public market purchases, over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, and other contractual arrangements, but the total amount of MORPHO tokens held within 48 months is capped at 90 million, and there are transfer and trading restrictions.In this collaboration, Apollo will work with Morpho to jointly support the development of the on-chain lending market on the Morpho protocol. This transaction is advised exclusively by Galaxy Digital UK Limited for Morpho.

Artificial intelligence company Sahara AI has reached a deep cooperation with Danal Fintech, one of South Korea's largest payment technology companies, to jointly develop the next-generation AI payment system based on stablecoins. The two parties will combine Danal's extensive experience in payment and clearing with Sahara AI's full-stack Agent platform to upgrade core scenarios such as cross-border payments and automatic reconciliation with AI, enhancing the system's reliability and operational efficiency in real financial scenarios.At the same time, Danal's subsidiary PayProtocol plans to integrate Sahara AI's investment assistant Sorin into the Paycoin App, providing millions of users with real-time market dynamics and asset analysis. This collaboration marks Sahara AI's official entry into large-scale traditional finance and payment scenarios.

The digital asset custody platform Fireblocks announced an integration partnership with the Bitcoin Layer 2 network Stacks, aiming to provide institutional users with access to native Bitcoin DeFi services. This feature is expected to officially launch in Q1 2026.This integration will allow Fireblocks' over 2,400 institutional clients to participate in the Stacks-based DeFi ecosystem without having to sell their BTC holdings. This includes STX token custody, sBTC minting and cross-chain transactions, BTC collateralized lending through Zest and Granite, as well as participation in Hermetica's BTC yield vault and Bitflow's native trading and liquidity services.

According to Global Network reports, informed sources revealed that Nvidia originally planned to invest up to $100 billion (approximately 696.456 billion yuan) in OpenAI for training and running the latest artificial intelligence models. However, due to internal doubts within the company, this highly anticipated deal is currently at a standstill.In September last year, Nvidia and OpenAI publicly announced their collaboration at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California. At that time, the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding, with Nvidia committing to build at least 10 GW of computing power for OpenAI and investing up to $100 billion to help cover related costs, while OpenAI agreed to lease Nvidia chips. OpenAI expected negotiations to be finalized quickly, but as of now, discussions remain in the early stages. Currently, both parties are reassessing the prospects for collaboration, and the latest proposal may shift towards a dollar equity investment in OpenAI's current funding round.Informed sources further revealed that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately emphasized in recent months that the initial $100 billion agreement is not binding and is far from finalized. He also criticized OpenAI for lacking sufficient discipline in commercial advancement and expressed concerns about its strong competition with rivals like Anthropic. In response, an OpenAI spokesperson stated, "The details of the collaboration are still being advanced. Nvidia's technology has supported our breakthroughs from the very beginning and drives the current system, and it will remain central as we scale in the future."

The DeFi platform Felix Protocol announced a partnership with Ondo Finance to launch spot stock trading on Hyperliquid's HyperEVM ecosystem.The project will introduce over 100 U.S. stock markets through Ondo Global Markets and plans to expand to over 1,000 stocks in the coming months. The Felix team stated that by integrating with Ondo, these markets will have deep liquidity from day one, without relying on AMM liquidity, and can support stock orders in the millions of dollars.

IOPn announced a strategic partnership with Tria aimed at enhancing the usability of cryptocurrency in everyday payments through the Tria Card. This card connects to the Visa network, allowing users to convert on-chain value into offline purchasing power while retaining self-custody of their assets.During this collaboration, users who register through the IOPn channel can receive 10 OPN rewards. Invited users who complete their credit card application and KYC will also receive an additional $10 and 800 OPN, with compliant spending eligible for up to 6% cashback. Additionally, users can access RWA yields, native trading paths, and multiple utility features to be launched in the future by using the Tria Card through OPN Chain. Currently, the product offers a virtual card starting at $20, with the option to upgrade to a physical card for higher-tier benefits.

According to official news, the U.S. stock SOL treasury company Sharps Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: STSS) announced that it is further deepening its partnership with Coinbase Institutional by jointly supporting the launch of institutional-grade validation nodes on the Solana network.Under this expanded cooperation framework, STSS will delegate part of its SOL holdings (currently over 2 million SOL) to a newly established validation node operated by Coinbase. This collaboration integrates Coinbase's institutional-grade infrastructure, security standards, and proven validation node operational capabilities to ensure high availability, strict operational standards, and long-term reliability.

The AISIM Foundation announced a collaboration with the World Friendship Foundation (WFF) aimed at the official launch in 2026. This partnership will further strengthen the implementation of the AISIM project as the core of the next-generation model of "life infrastructure × Web5" within the WFCA ecosystem, which is based on the concept of "World Friendship." By integrating decentralized networks with real-life infrastructure, it will promote the expansion of the WFCA stablecoin economic circle.As an "AI + Communication" project that connects Web5 through communication eSIM, AISIM is continuously expanding its community with a focus on Southeast Asia and Africa. Starting from "communication that is used every day," AISIM is building a user path that allows anyone to naturally participate in Web5, aiming to expand the real usage scale of AISIM's communication services and AI Agent services.AISIM stated that it will continue to promote the social implementation and application expansion of the WFCA ecosystem based on real assets and daily usage paths.

Web3 asset data platform RootData has reached a strategic partnership with one of the world's largest security companies, CertiK. CertiK will further enrich the data dimensions of its Skynet security rating through the RootData API, providing community users with more accurate and reliable data information. Currently, the RootData API has been adopted by nearly a hundred well-known companies in the industry, including OKX, Sosovalue, and Blockworks.

According to official news, as a leading integrated crypto wallet, Klever Wallet has officially joined the WINkLink oracle ecosystem. This collaboration deeply integrates the reliable off-chain data provided by WINkLink with the smooth wallet experience of Klever Wallet. As WINkLink's latest core partner, Klever Wallet aims to provide a more efficient and confident one-stop entry for users of the entire TRON ecosystem to interact with on-chain assets and decentralized applications.This collaboration deeply integrates the reliable off-chain data provided by WINkLink with the high-quality services of Klever Wallet, aiming to lower the participation threshold for users and enhance the convenience and confidence of asset interactions. Both parties will continue to explore a wider range of daily crypto application scenarios, working together to create a seamless and powerful next-generation Web3 experience for the WINkLink and TRON communities.

According to official news, the PayFi infrastructure protocol Velo, focused on RWA, announced a strategic partnership with World Liberty Financial (WLFI) to integrate the regulated US dollar stablecoin USD1 into the Velo ecosystem. The integration of USD1 will be used to support Velo's stablecoin liquidity and settlement layer.

According to Crowdfundinsider, Crypto.com and international investment firm Galapagos Capital have announced a partnership. Galapagos Capital will leverage the services and features of the Crypto.com exchange to create new digital asset products for its clients.Founded in 2019, Galapagos Capital has 11 offices in Brazil, one office each in Miami and Geneva, and employs over 400 professionals, managing approximately 32 billion reais in assets. The two parties will collaborate in the coming months to ensure that the product complies with Brazilian regulatory requirements.

Swedish "buy now, pay later" giant Klarna announced a partnership with Privy, a cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure company under Stripe, to jointly develop a user-facing cryptocurrency wallet. This is an important step in advancing "buy now, pay later (BNPL) + Web3" following the launch of its own stablecoin initiative.Previously, Klarna announced that it would issue its own stablecoin, KlarnaUSD, in 2026.

According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Standard Chartered Bank have announced an expansion of their partnership to jointly explore the development of comprehensive digital asset service solutions for institutional clients, including trading, custody, staking, and lending.This upgrade in collaboration is based on the existing business relationship between the two companies in Singapore, where Standard Chartered Bank currently provides real-time Singapore dollar transfer services for Coinbase clients. As JPMorgan introduces its JPM Coin deposit token to Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base, Coinbase's trust among institutions such as banks continues to grow.