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Gate Europe successfully held the "Capital Social at Money20/20 Europe" industry exchange event. The event was jointly organized by Gate Institutional, Gate Fiat, and Gate Pay, attracting over 150 professionals from the fields of payment, OTC, institutional trading, and fintech to discuss the integration trends of digital assets and traditional finance, as well as opportunities for institutional market development.During the event, the senior team of Gate and industry guests engaged in discussions on topics such as the integration of fiat currency and digital assets, institutional liquidity, cross-border payments, and institutional-level settlement. Partner Utexo conducted specialized discussions on institutional liquidity, fiat infrastructure, and payment collaboration. In a roundtable discussion themed "Everything Capital," attendees focused on topics such as capital flow efficiency, the construction of institutional payment networks, the evolution of OTC market structure, and innovations in cross-border settlement.This event provided a deep communication platform for traditional financial institutions, payment companies, and participants in the digital asset industry.Currently, Gate Group's Malta entity Gate Europe has obtained European MiCA and PI licenses under the supervision of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), continuously advancing its compliance layout in Europe and strengthening its infrastructure capabilities in institutional payments, fiat channels, and cross-border settlement. As the industry moves towards a higher level of compliance and institutional development, Gate will continue to deepen global industry collaboration and promote the integration of digital assets and traditional finance.

Recently, the technology sector of the US stock market has been active, with stocks related to memory chips and data center infrastructure continuously attracting capital attention. According to Gate market data, Micron Technology (MUUSDT) reached a high of $1077.17 in 24 hours, currently reported at $1059.81, with a 24-hour increase of 3.76%; Marvell Technology (MRVLUSDT) reached a high of $330.72 in 24 hours, currently reported at $322.68, with a 24-hour increase of 47.06%.According to CoinGlass data, Gate MU (Micron Technology) had a 24-hour trading volume of $13.1083 million; Gate MRVL (Marvell Technology) had a 24-hour trading volume of $10.4389 million, with MRVL (Marvell Technology) seeing an increase in trading volume of 1255.60%, both ranking among the industry's leaders.

Solana's official announcement "Building Fully On-Chain Perpetual Contracts on Solana" aims to vigorously promote the ecological construction of fully on-chain perpetual contracts (Perps) in the future, with the goal of making Solana the world's strongest on-chain financial derivatives infrastructure. Currently, the trading volume of crypto derivatives is mainly concentrated on centralized trading platforms or hybrid models that rely on off-chain matching engines, which Solana believes is a transitional phase. It hopes to make a truly fully on-chain derivatives market a reality through the characteristics of high-performance blockchain—where all processes such as order submission, price updates, matching, and clearing are completed on-chain, while maintaining institutional-level speed and low costs.The Solana Foundation will provide funding, technical support, and resource allocation, focusing on supporting projects that meet the following criteria: fully on-chain execution, price discovery based on real bilateral liquidity (rather than purely pool pricing), Solana priority with revenue flowing back on-chain, teams with derivatives experience, and core code being open source. It also welcomes the co-construction of surrounding infrastructure such as front ends, aggregators, vaults, and market-making tools.

According to official news, the stablecoin payment infrastructure platform OpenPayd announced that it has reached a final business combination agreement with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Titan Acquisition Corp.Upon completion of the transaction, OpenPayd will be listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "OP," with a post-merger enterprise valuation of approximately $1.145 billion. OpenPayd currently offers stablecoin trading services, with clients including eToro, Kraken, OKX, and others.It is reported that if Titan shareholders do not redeem their shares, OpenPayd expects to secure up to $276 million in financing to strengthen its balance sheet and expand its financial infrastructure capabilities.

Recently, funds have continuously flowed into the AI infrastructure sector, significantly increasing the trading activity of computing power and data center-related assets. According to Gate market data, NVIDIA (NVDAX) is currently priced at $216.60, up 0.25% in 24 hours; Marvell Technology (MRVL) is currently priced at $205.17, up 0.82% in 24 hours. According to CoinGlass data, the NVDAX contract position on the Gate platform reached $4.08 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $2.46 million, both ranking first in the world; the MRVL contract position reached $1.46 million, ranking among the market leaders. Relevant data indicates that AI computing power and data center infrastructure-related assets remain an important direction for capital allocation.It is reported that Gate's stock trading service has officially launched, allowing users to directly trade over 10,000 mainstream U.S. stocks and ETFs using USDT, covering major U.S. securities trading markets and liquidity networks such as NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and BATS, providing users with a more comprehensive choice for global securities asset allocation and further bridging crypto assets with traditional financial markets. Based on a unified account system, users can achieve flexible allocation of digital assets and global securities assets on the same platform, enhancing cross-market investment efficiency.

According to statistics from the tokenized asset data platform RootData, the total disclosed financing amount in the crypto primary market in May 2026 is approximately $2.21 billion, with a total of 62 financing events disclosed. In terms of the distribution of financing tracks, market funds are still mainly flowing into DeFi, infrastructure, and CeFi, while institutional attention on trading, payment, compliance, and institutional-level services continues to increase.DeFi has become the most active track this month, completing 26 financing events, covering areas such as stablecoins, liquidity protocols, on-chain trading, and yield strategies; the infrastructure track ranks second with 18 financing events, as capital continues to bet on underlying technologies, AI+Crypto, middleware, and on-chain scalability; CeFi has completed 12 financing events, although the number of events is less than DeFi, it performs outstandingly in terms of financing amount, with significant increases in large strategic financing.The top three projects by financing amount are: the parent company of the South Korean exchange Dunamu ($667 million), payment infrastructure project Reap ($600 million, acquisition), and institutional-level stablecoin infrastructure Arc ($222 million). In addition, the prediction market platform Kalshi ($200 million) and on-chain compliance company Elliptic ($120 million) also received significant financing. The top five financing projects this month totaled over $1.9 billion, accounting for about 85% of the overall disclosed financing scale.In May, multiple high-value financings were concentrated in the fields of exchanges, payment infrastructure, prediction markets, and on-chain compliance analysis. In particular, projects related to trading and institutional services such as Gemini, Coincheck, SignalPlus, Variational received financing, indicating that the market is positioning itself around the next phase of incremental funds and institutional demand.In terms of investment institutions, Kraken, Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, HashKey Capital continue to remain active, with top capital preferring to bet on projects with clear business models and institutional service capabilities. Overall, the financing market in May shows a trend of gradually returning from high narrative-driven to infrastructure, financial services, and real demand scenarios.

The AI Agent project AIVIVE has officially completed a new round of institutional financing, with a total amount of 8 million USD. Among them, VegaVentures led the investment with 3 million USD; Greenwood Global Capital, Echo3 labs, UZ Capital, and Bluemount co-invested 5 million USD.The funds will be used for AIVIVE to launch its self-developed proprietary framework agreement (AVVP), supporting intelligent routing and coordination across data and execution environments, and comprehensively upgrading AI infrastructure. This agreement enables real-time scheduling of multi-source data and seamless interaction in heterogeneous environments, further enhancing the automation and decision-making efficiency of A to A business.

According to CoinDesk, digital asset management company Grayscale pointed out in its latest report that the decentralized trading platform Hyperliquid is rapidly evolving from a cryptocurrency perpetual contract exchange into a blockchain financial infrastructure platform, and may even challenge traditional derivatives trading and exchange systems in the future, growing into a "financial services giant."The report shows that Hyperliquid is expected to achieve approximately $800 million in revenue by 2025, with an annual perpetual contract trading volume of about $2.9 trillion and an open interest size of around $7 billion, occupying a significant share of the cryptocurrency derivatives market. Grayscale believes that the platform is no longer limited to cryptocurrency trading but is expanding into tokenized stocks, commodities, and prediction markets through the HIP-3 and HIP-4 systems, gradually building an all-weather on-chain trading infrastructure.FalconX also pointed out in another report that Hyperliquid is competing with traditional derivatives exchanges such as CME Group and prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, making progress in new markets such as Pre-IPO. The report also emphasizes that regulation remains a key variable. Although Hyperliquid currently restricts access for U.S. users, as the regulatory framework becomes clearer and institutions like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Kraken explore perpetual contract products, this sector may welcome broader growth opportunities in the future.

The Trump family's AI infrastructure project WorldClaw and VergeX AI announced a strategic cooperation, with both parties working together to promote the development of next-generation AI-native trading infrastructure and accelerate the construction of the emerging Agentic Trading market.It is reported that VergeX AI will integrate WorldClaw's AI access layer into its Harness-driven autonomous multi-agent trading infrastructure to achieve a more scalable, more accessible, and more cost-efficient professional-grade AI trading system deployment. Currently, VergeX AI is building an autonomous multi-agent trading operating system for the AI-native financial era, with its core Harness architecture serving as the layer for agent collaboration and task orchestration, supporting trading execution across multiple markets including cryptocurrencies, US stocks, foreign exchange, and commodities.In addition, both parties stated that this cooperation aims to lower the barriers to building professional-grade AI trading agents and jointly promote the development of next-generation autonomous financial system infrastructure. The market generally believes that as AI Agents evolve from auxiliary tools to autonomous market participants, autonomous agents, AI-native execution systems, and programmable financial infrastructure are becoming the next trillion-dollar track that the industry is focusing on.

According to Cointelegraph, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce defended cryptocurrency privacy tools, calling them legitimate financial infrastructure, and warned regulators not to be skeptical of privacy-enhancing technologies.

According to The Block, Bit Digital announced a $100 million delayed withdrawal term loan to its controlled AI infrastructure company WhiteFiber's subsidiary, which can be extended to $150 million by mutual agreement, to support WhiteFiber's recent high-performance computing and AI expansion plans.Bit Digital stated that the loan funds will be disbursed partially or fully through an Ethereum-denominated secured credit facility, allowing the company to earn financing spreads while maintaining ETH exposure.

10x Research published on platform X that amidst the slump in Bitcoin, the mining and AI infrastructure sectors have surged significantly. KEEL rose by 30%, CIFR rose by 29%, IREN rose by 29%, WULF rose by 24%, and HUT rose by 22%, mainly driven by large hyperscale data center transactions, park acquisitions, and new institutional support.This week's catalysts include IREN's $1.6 billion purchase of Dell Blackwell systems, TeraWulf's acquisition of a 1 GW park in Kentucky, and Hut 8 signing a $9.8 billion leasing agreement in Texas, indicating that Bitcoin mining companies' transition to AI infrastructure is accelerating.

Web3 AI infrastructure AIW3 announces strategic investment from Liquid Capital.AIW3 focuses on the deep integration of AI Agents and on-chain transaction execution, creating intelligent execution infrastructure for the next generation of Web3 through a modular Agent collaboration network, an on-chain strategy scheduling system, and a Vault fund collaboration mechanism. The project has currently completed the real-time verification and deployment of its core protocol and will continue to expand the capabilities of its decentralized Agent network in the future, promoting the development of an AI-driven on-chain execution ecosystem.Liquid Capital stated that AIW3 is not a traditional overlay of AI concepts, but rather reconstructs trading infrastructure from the ground up based on execution logic for the AI-native era.

According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, there has been a significant style shift in global stock markets, with funds rotating from growth sectors to value and defensive assets. The Dow Jones Index rose by 2.22%, and labor market data remains resilient. Macroeconomic indicators show a divergence, with the composite PMI preliminary value rising to a two-year high of 54.4, but input cost pressures still exist. Coupled with the ongoing impact of high interest rates on real estate activity, the economy overall presents a structural state of coexistence between expansion and pressure. The cryptocurrency market has slightly retreated, with BTC down 0.5% and ETH down 1.6%; the total market capitalization declined by 0.4%, remaining flat compared to last week, and market sentiment is in a moderate recovery phase.At the asset and industry level, the top 30 assets averaged a rise of 4.2%, with HYPE and ZEC leading the performance, influenced by factors such as ecosystem expansion, liquidity improvement, and easing regulatory uncertainty. In terms of industry dynamics, on-chain infrastructure and the compliance process continue to advance, with active financing and product iteration in areas such as prediction markets, on-chain derivatives, and payment networks. In terms of investment and financing, a total of 24 transactions were completed last week, disclosing a total financing amount of approximately $532.6 million, with infrastructure and DeFi being the main sectors of flow, and Kalshi securing a single financing of $200 million.Additionally, Variational completed a $50 million Series A financing, AEON completed $8 million in pre-seed financing, while infrastructure and social blocks recorded 12 and 6 transactions, respectively. Overall, against the backdrop of macro volatility and market divergence, capital allocation continues to trend towards long-term infrastructure and real application scenarios.

WasabiCard announced the official support for the Arbitrum network, further expanding its multi-chain payment infrastructure capabilities. Through this integration, users can directly recharge their WasabiCard accounts on-chain via Arbitrum, achieving more efficient and low-cost capital flow, and further enhancing the global payment experience.As a leading Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, Arbitrum features lower gas fees and higher transaction efficiency. This integration will help users more conveniently convert on-chain assets into funds available for global payments, subscriptions, and cross-border transactions, further connecting Web3 assets with real commercial payment scenarios.WasabiCard stated that it will continue to expand its multi-chain payment capabilities in the future, promoting the practical application of stablecoins and on-chain assets in global payment scenarios.