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According to Crowdfund Insider, Nimbus Capital announced a strategic partnership with the non-custodial wallet Chimera Wallet, built on Bitcoin's VTXO technology, worth $15 million. The aim is to expand decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities within the Bitcoin ecosystem and promote the development of programmable financial tools on the Bitcoin network.Both parties stated that this collaboration will integrate the underlying security of Bitcoin with the programmable capabilities of the Arkade layer built on Bitcoin, providing users with DeFi-related services including asset exchange, lending mechanisms, liquidity features, fiat deposit channels, and payment integration, while maintaining control over self-custodied assets.Claudio Levrini, founder and director of Chimera, stated that this partnership combines financial expertise with the construction of Bitcoin infrastructure, aiming to enhance the practical application scenarios of Bitcoin while ensuring self-custody. Robert Baker, managing partner of Nimbus Capital, mentioned that this move will help further integrate Bitcoin in institutional and decentralized scenarios.It was introduced that Chimera plans to leverage this collaboration to accelerate product development, including the global promotion of the Chimera Visa card to support BTC and fiat conversion, integration of digital gift cards and merchant gateway systems, enhancement of liquidity and cross-chain interoperability, as well as the development of user-facing features including Swap, yield products, and portfolio management.

According to official news, the globally leading crypto asset trading platform Gate held a high-end industry exchange event during Consensus HK, continuously strengthening its role as a connector and its industry influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, delivered a keynote speech on the main stage of the conference, sharing Gate's practical experiences in globalization, compliance, and Web3 infrastructure. This speech highlighted Gate's position as an industry link, demonstrating that Gate is promoting cooperation and implementation in the global Web3 ecosystem with a more open attitude. During the three days of Consensus HK, Gate also organized multiple exchange activities around core topics such as investment, technology, and institutional collaboration, facilitating deep cooperation among different circles and ecological roles.On February 10, Gate Ventures hosted the dinner "Gate Ventures Executive Dinner: The Convergence," gathering several industry leaders to discuss the global value chain. On February 11, Gate held a reception for a broader range of industry participants, focusing on cutting-edge topics such as AI, Web3, and RWA, sparking collisions and interactions of diverse viewpoints. On February 12, Gate held "Gate Institutional Circle: CrossEx · Next-Gen Cross-Exchange Trading Infrastructure," featuring thematic sharing, roundtable discussions, a dinner, and an awards ceremony to engage in deeper industry dialogue.By concentrating its layout at this important industry node of Consensus HK, Gate plays a key role in connecting capital, technology, and application ecosystems, further consolidating its participation and influence in the global Web3 ecosystem.

XMART officially announces a strategic cooperation with Ta Yang Group Holdings Limited (a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, stock code: 1991). Both parties will explore the deep integration of physical business scenarios, AI interaction systems, and the digitalization of real-world assets (RWA) around the development direction of Web4.0.In recent years, Ta Yang Group Holdings Limited has been continuously promoting a Web4.0 strategy centered on AI-driven interaction and the digitalization of real assets. Its overall framework emphasizes AI personalized intelligent agents as the user interaction entry point, and promotes the coordinated development of the real economy and digital systems through data standardization, asset tokenization, and global value connectivity.In this cooperation, Ta Yang Group Holdings Limited will leverage its mature physical business ecosystem and real consumption scenario advantages to provide a credible and scalable offline entry for Web4.0 applications; XMART will provide its phygital digital asset infrastructure, enabling physical trendy toys and consumer assets to achieve digital rights confirmation, on-chain expression, and continuous participation mechanisms.By combining real business scenarios with consumer-oriented RWA digital ownership design, both parties aim to explore a Web4.0 consumer application model that possesses verifiability, sustainability, and scalability, promoting effective connections between physical consumption, digital identity, and long-term value participation.In the future, XMART and Ta Yang Group Holdings Limited will continue to advance the exploration of relevant applications and landing scenarios within a compliant framework, with related progress to be announced in subsequent phases.

According to Xinhua News Agency, President Xi Jinping had a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump.Trump stated that the United States and China are both great countries, and the U.S.-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. I have a great relationship with President Xi Jinping, and I have great respect for him. Under the leadership of President Xi and myself, the U.S. and China have had good interactions in areas such as trade and economics. I am pleased to see China's success, and the U.S. is willing to strengthen cooperation with China to promote new developments in the bilateral relationship.

Coinbase announced an expanded partnership with the U.S. Crypto Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Crypto ISAC) to enhance the security of the financial ecosystem, and will share high-confidence threat intelligence information with the agency to identify, prevent, and mitigate attacks.At the same time, Coinbase stated that it would support appropriate cooperation with law enforcement when investigations are needed, but clarified that the shared data does not include Coinbase customer data, only covering valuable threat intelligence information and indicators. It is reported that current members of Crypto ISAC also include crypto companies such as Circle, Consensys, Phantom, and Fireblocks.

According to Jinshi News, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Capital Market Authority of the United Arab Emirates on January 27 to enhance cross-border regulatory cooperation on matters related to digital assets.This is the first regulatory cooperation agreement signed by the Hong Kong SFC with overseas regulatory bodies regarding regulated digital asset entities, establishing a framework for enhanced regulatory cooperation, including mutual consultation and information exchange.

According to a report by Jiemian News, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement regarding the repatriation of Chen Zhi to China, stating that the decision was made in accordance with Cambodian law and complies with relevant judicial assistance and legal cooperation procedures. Regarding the revocation of Chen Zhi's Cambodian nationality, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the decision strictly follows the provisions of the law. If a naturalized citizen is found to have obtained Cambodian nationality through forged documents or by providing false information during the application process, the government has the right to revoke their nationality in accordance with the law.The statement emphasized that such actions demonstrate Cambodia's ongoing commitment to strengthening international cooperation to maintain peace, stability, and socio-economic development, and effectively combat transnational crime activities.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik wrote that the relationship between "institutions" and "cypherpunks" is complex and needs to be understood correctly. Institutions (including governments and enterprises) are neither absolute friends nor absolute enemies; Vitalik emphasized the importance of maintaining an open attitude towards mutually beneficial cooperation while also actively safeguarding one's own interests. In this context, the core task of the Ethereum community is to build a financial, social, and identity layer to protect people's autonomy and freedom.The optimal strategy for institutions in the game is to strengthen control within a manageable scope while resisting external intrusions, which also makes them more concerned about data sovereignty and security issues than ordinary users. Vitalik predicts that institutions (including enterprises and governments) will increasingly reduce their reliance on external trust and have more guarantees over their operations.In the stablecoin sector, this means: issuers in the EU hope that the governance focus of their blockchain will not be overly centralized in the United States, and vice versa (the situation is similar in other countries/regions). Governments will promote more KYC processes, but at the same time, privacy tools will also be improved, as cypherpunks are working to enhance the performance of these tools. Institutions want to control their own wallets and even manage their own staking when staking ETH.

WORLD3 announced a strategic partnership with B2EN. B2EN is a company listed on KOSDAQ (Korea Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) that has focused on enterprise-level AI and big data solutions since 2004. This collaboration will facilitate RouterLink's entry into the Korean market.According to the cooperation agreement, B2EN will become the genesis node operator for RouterLink and will obtain exclusive distribution rights in Korea. As the genesis node operator, B2EN will be responsible for AI traffic routing and will participate in network validation through PoLP (Proof of LLM Performance) and PoTU (Proof of Token Usage).With over 20 years of experience in enterprise services across finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and the public sector, B2EN has established deep trust with major institutions in Korea, making it an ideal partner for market expansion.Nash, the market leader of WORLD3, stated, "This partnership is an important step in bringing the open AI economy to Korea. B2EN's corporate expertise and local market experience make them an ideal partner."RouterLink provides unified access to multiple AI models through a decentralized routing network, including GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.

Caixin published an article titled "What Measures Can China Take to Address the Challenges of Cryptocurrency" by Zhang Ming, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The article points out that as the world's second-largest economy and an emerging digital finance powerhouse, China needs to play a more active role in global digital currency governance. It can start from within by improving its own response system, including accelerating the development and application of the digital yuan, promoting the intelligent and precise regulation of cryptocurrencies, and quickly advancing the formulation and implementation of unified international regulatory standards (such as anti-money laundering rules for cryptocurrencies). Additionally, it is essential to reassess the balance between innovation and regulation in the cryptocurrency field, promote the integration of stablecoins with the traditional financial system within a controllable range, and strengthen international research and cooperation in the CBDC field as well as international regulatory cooperation in the cryptocurrency sector.

BNB Chain's Growth Execution Director Nina Rong posted that she has sent a private message to X platform's product head and Solana ecosystem advisor Nikita Bier, indicating that BSC is willing to support the smart tags project.Additionally, CZ also responded this morning regarding the possibility of collaboration on smart tags, stating that he is just a "small shareholder of X, let's see what happens."Previously, Nikita Bier mentioned that X is the best source for financial news and is currently developing smart asset tags (Smart Cashtags), allowing users to specify specific assets (or smart contracts) when posting market tweets on X. Users can click on these tags in their timeline to view the real-time price of the asset and all information mentioning that asset.

According to market news, the prediction market Polymarket has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Dow Jones Media Group to distribute prediction data to Dow Jones outlets.

According to a report by 21 Finance, under the guidance of the People's Bank of China, MyBank has completed its first digital RMB scan payment at a merchant in Laos by connecting to the cross-border digital payment platform of the Digital RMB International Operation Center.This marks the latest progress in the bilateral cross-border digital payment cooperation project between the central banks of China and Laos. The opening of this pathway signifies that the digital RMB has achieved "internal use for external purposes" for the first time, providing a new payment method for Chinese residents spending abroad, and is another reflection of the deepening cooperation in digital currencies between the central banks of China and Laos.

The decentralized science (DeSci) ecological platform LAVO Protocol announced the signing of a strategic cooperation memorandum (Memorandum of Understanding) with the international investment company Almak Group, led by Sheikh Ali Rashed Ali Saeed Al Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Both parties will jointly promote the construction of longevity medical research infrastructure and deeply expand LAVO's "biological bridging" ecosystem into the Middle East and Asian markets.According to reports, LAVO Protocol is the world's first execution layer that directly connects decentralized liquidity with physical biotechnology, with its core system encompassing exclusive ExoBiome technology and GMP-level industrial manufacturing capabilities. The project is led by regenerative medicine expert Dr. Jac and exosome technology authority Dr. Anton Philip Battiade Giacomo. By tokenizing real-world biotechnology and launching the first flagship token $EXO, LAVO aims to leverage Web3 to empower biomedical research and development, significantly accelerating the commercialization process and global delivery of longevity therapies.

According to an announcement on Circle's official website, USDC issuer Circle has signed a memorandum of cooperation with licensed cross-border payment institution LianLian Global.The two parties will explore stablecoin-based cross-border payment solutions to enhance payment efficiency, transparency, and accessibility, focusing on emerging markets such as Asia and the needs of global merchants, and considering promoting interoperability between traditional payment systems and on-chain settlement through the Circle Payments Network and L1 chain Arc.

According to The Information, citing informed sources, Lead Bank has reduced its collaboration with certain stablecoin payment companies in recent months due to concerns about taking on excessive risks for clients, and has added restrictions on acceptable client source countries and industries. Other industry insiders have noted that due to stricter scrutiny of user identities and sources of funds, transaction settlement times and account opening times have also been extended.The report states that Lead Bank is currently one of the few banks still willing to process dollar payments for stablecoin users. Most well-known stablecoin payment startups, such as Bridge under Stripe, BVNK, and Brale, rely on Lead Bank to provide services for users looking to exchange between fiat and cryptocurrency.

According to Techinasia, Tencent Cloud has formed a strategic partnership with Thailand's blockchain and digital asset company Bitkub Group. Bitkub operates a large digital asset exchange in the country. Under the cooperation agreement, Bitkub will leverage Tencent Cloud's infrastructure, database, and artificial intelligence technology to support its digital asset services.After evaluating factors such as security standards, technical support, and cost-effectiveness, Bitkub chose Tencent Cloud as its partner. Both parties plan to collaborate using Tencent Cloud's services in areas such as database management, risk control, and application stability.

According to Zhito Finance, the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the People's Government of Chongqing, and the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore jointly signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation for the Co-construction of the Digital New Land-Sea Corridor," aiming to deepen cooperation between China and Singapore under the strategic connectivity demonstration project, jointly empowering the construction of the new land-sea corridor through digital transformation and creating a future-oriented smart economic corridor.According to the memorandum, the three parties will focus on practical cooperation in the following areas:Digital Connectivity: Under the framework of digital rules between the two sides, promote the cross-border secure and orderly flow of data through the interconnection and cooperation of digital infrastructure, and explore the construction of an efficient, convenient, and secure digital channel.Digital Technology and Innovation: Encourage and support enterprises and research institutions from both countries to carry out joint research and development and scenario application cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data, and share experiences and achievements in smart city construction.Digital Talent Exchange and Training: Strengthen the training of professional talents in the digital field by holding seminars, conducting skills certification, and implementing talent exchange programs, providing solid talent support for the development of the digital economy.