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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.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the blockchain-based next-generation email Dmail has been the project that X (Twitter) top figures have unfollowed the most. New unfollowers of this project include DeFi analyst Ignas (@DefiIgnas), crypto KOL Yuyue (@yuyue_chris), and small catcher CHAOS (@iamyourchaos).In addition, the projects that X top figures have unfollowed the most also include Tribe.run and boop.

NVIDIA announced strategic partnerships with photonics device manufacturers Lumentum and Coherent, each investing $2 billion, totaling $4 billion.Both investments are aimed at supporting each other's R&D, manufacturing capacity expansion, and operations in the United States, with Lumentum planning to build a new wafer fab. Both agreements are non-exclusive collaborations, including multi-billion dollar procurement commitments and future capacity rights for advanced laser and optical network products. According to market news, the stock prices of both photonics companies surged significantly after the announcement.

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.

Chainlink posted on the X platform that the institutional-grade on-chain asset and yield management platform Kiln has integrated the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) and the Automated Compliance Engine (ACE). Currently, the CRE has been launched on Base, serving as a coordination layer to enable the automated execution of treasury logic and settlement workflows. Chainlink ACE will execute KYC requirements and policy controls for specific treasuries.

ChainCatcher news, recently completed financing with a valuation of $35 million, [Honeypot Finance](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Honeypot Finance?k=MTE0MTY= "DeFi hub on Berachain") officially launched a new generation AMM Perp DEX, proposing a new structural solution between the two major models GMX and Hyperliquid.It is reported that Honeypot introduces ERC-4626 layered vaults (Senior / Junior Vault) and an Oracle Bands mechanism: Senior Vault (institutional funds) prioritizes fee allocation and bears the final loss; Junior Vault (high-risk LP) bears the initial loss and receives higher returns; the price band is centered around the Oracle price, with linear and predictable trading slippage.The liquidation mechanism replaces "systemic enforcement" with "process fairness": partial reduction → micro-auction → Junior under pressure → insurance pool backstop → ADL finally triggered, addressing the structural unfairness of Hyperliquid's "winner gets liquidated" while fixing the root cause of LP counterparty bleeding in the GMX model.The team stated that Honeypot's goal is to enable AMM perpetual trading to continue even in extreme market conditions, providing a new direction for on-chain Perp DEX baseline with a transparent, layered, and predictable mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, EdgeX Labs has officially become a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) official partner and launched a brand new enterprise-level platform ------ EdgeX Cloud, providing a comprehensive solution for deploying intelligent AI agents in both cloud and private environments, achieving complete control over data and computing power.EdgeX Cloud is based on GCP's global secure backbone network and features EdgeX Labs' self-developed hybrid scheduling engine, which can save over 30% of computing costs for enterprise AI tasks, while natively supporting multimodal LLM models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, etc.EdgeX Labs has successfully served multiple enterprise-level commercial clients, from customer service robots to instant research agents, achieving real-world implementation in smart dining, education, entertainment, and other scenarios.

ChainCatcher news, according to Polyhedra Network, the on-chain trading platform Ocash developed by Polyhedra is about to launch its testnet. Ocash aims to build an on-chain settlement system that protects user privacy, providing a new solution for next-generation financial infrastructure. Ocash emphasizes "default privacy, compliance on demand," satisfying compliance requirements while protecting user privacy.

ChainCatcher News: Japanese authorities urge banks to adopt "post-quantum" technology to prevent hackers. Japanese financial regulators hope domestic banks will adopt next-generation encryption technology.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated that the next generation of cryptocurrency projects needs to adopt a more collaborative strategy to counter the large centralized tech companies that are entering the Web3 space.He pointed out that the cryptocurrency and DeFi sectors are often limited by a "circular economy," where the rise of one cryptocurrency often comes at the expense of capital flowing out of another token, hindering the growth of the entire industry. To effectively respond to the competition from centralized tech giants in the Web3 space, cryptocurrency projects need to build more collaborative token economics and market structures.Hoskinson mentioned that the current token economics and market structures in the cryptocurrency field are at odds with each other, and there needs to be a shift towards cooperative balance. Existing projects often sacrifice others for their own development, which is detrimental to industry progress and makes it difficult to fend off future entries from giants like Apple and Google. He anticipates that the U.S. market structure bill may pass before September, at which point the giants will flood in, and the cryptocurrency sector must build infrastructure to respond. To this end, Cardano is developing a multi-resource consensus protocol called Minotaur to unify payment block rewards.

ChainCatcher news, XION announces integration with EigenLayer to drive the next generation of consumer applications accessing Active Verification Services (AVS). Developers on XION can now leverage a suite of tools, including zkTLS, provers, and co-processors, to build innovative applications.According to RootData, XION is a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for consumer applications, providing a tailored seamless user experience for everyday users. Through its innovative Chain Abstraction infrastructure, XION simplifies complex crypto interactions and offers features such as protocol-level account abstraction, gasless transactions, signature abstraction, cross-device usage, and fiat pricing.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Musk praised his upcoming chatbot Grok 3, stating that it will surpass all other AI models to date, and that the world will see it in a few weeks.On Thursday, Musk said in a video speech, "Sometimes I feel like Grok 3 is frighteningly smart." He indicated that the upcoming model is trained on synthetic data and can reflect on mistakes by repeatedly reviewing the data to achieve logical consistency.Musk stated, "We are in the final stages of refining Grok 3, and it may be released in a week or two, so it’s coming soon." He added that he does not want to appear "hasty" when releasing the AI model.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, informed sources revealed that Baidu (BIDU.O) plans to release its next-generation artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year.Sources say that the "foundation model" known as Ernie 5.0 will have significant enhancements in multimodal capabilities, but did not specify its features. "Multimodal" AI can process text, video, images, and audio, and combine them together, as well as convert across categories— for example, converting text to video and vice versa. The foundation model can understand language and perform a wide range of tasks, including generating text and images, as well as communicating in natural language.Currently, Chinese companies are racing to develop innovative artificial intelligence models to compete with OpenAI and other American companies.

ChainCatcher News: U.S. President Biden signs an executive order to accelerate the construction of next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure. (Jin Ten)