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London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 19 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 2,859 bitcoins.

The brand new version of ChainCatcher's official website is officially launched, with a comprehensive optimization of the homepage information structure. Through clearer content categorization, more reasonable interaction hierarchy, and more intuitive display methods, high-value content can be quickly accessed on the first screen, helping users more efficiently complete information filtering, market judgment, and decision-making.The new official website has simultaneously launched or upgraded several core functions: the homepage has added a panoramic data panel that aggregates macro funds, exchange dynamics, and mainstream Token market trends, helping users quickly establish a macro understanding of the market; in-depth articles are integrated with AI intelligent summarization, significantly reducing the reading cost of long articles; the "Selected Events" calendar has been fully upgraded, supporting large token unlocks and tracking important macro events, assisting users in grasping key nodes in advance.Welcome to experience the new version of ChainCatcher and enjoy a more efficient and clearer information acquisition experience.

OneBullEx's Brazil head Yonn Weigl represented the platform at a Web3 career opportunities event held at the University of São Paulo (USP). The event was organized by Blockchain on the Road and supported by USP's student blockchain organization Polichain, focusing on Web3 career paths, emerging skill demands, and opportunities in Brazil and the Latin American region. USP is one of the representative top universities in Brazil and Latin America, while Polichain is an important student organization that connects students on campus with blockchain research, technology discussions, and industry opportunities.During the event, OneBullEx delivered a 20-minute keynote speech. Yonn gave a speech in Portuguese titled "IA opera. Humanos decidem. E você, onde quer estar?" (AI operates. Humans decide. And you, where do you want to be?), sharing insights on AI automation execution, human judgment, Web3 career choices, and the evolution of trading infrastructure. He stated that AI is responsible for execution, humans are responsible for decision-making, and the real difference lies in who can choose their position before the market makes choices for them.In the subsequent roundtable discussion, Yonn exchanged ideas with representatives from Ripple, Banco Inter, Chiliz, Oxus Finance, Biobots, and the USP academic research community, covering topics such as Web3 career opportunities, stablecoin payments, digital financial infrastructure, AI applications, and market growth.OneBullEx also introduced its product layout around AI-driven contract trading infrastructure during the event, including the automated strategy execution market 300 SPARTANS and the AI strategy generation platform OneALPHA. OneBullEx stated that Brazil is not only an important user market but also has long-term potential for talent and ecosystem co-construction. In the future, the platform will continue to focus on AI-driven trading infrastructure, regional ecological cooperation, and local talent connections, actively participating in the development of the Web3 market in Brazil.

According to official news, the online presentation "Build the Next Era: How HTX Genesis Empowers Web3 and AI Innovators," hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-hosted by TinTinLand and OpenCity, will be held on May 21 at 20:00 UTC+8.At that time, HTX DAO ambassador Molly, HTX DAO Core Builder Helium, independent developer Fengda, 0G Asia-Pacific head JT, TinTinLand co-founder Zhiyuan, HTX DAO governance committee member DaDa, and HTX Ventures senior investment analyst Jenny will be invited to attend, focusing on the integration trends of Web3 and AI, and discussing how to utilize ecological resources, financial support, and more to build a growth bridge for the new generation of Web3 and AI builders, seizing innovative opportunities in the new cycle.

Web3 user-generated content (UGC) platform Tomoland announced the completion of a $2 million financing round, led by Sky9 Capital, with participation from WAGMI Ventures, Aureus Dealers, and angel investors from Meta, Depinx Capital, Netease, and Virtuals. The new funds are intended to support its efforts to build a system that combines user-generated content with Web3 ownership and to promote the integration of the gaming ecosystem with the Web3 economy.

The Sun Wukong Ecology announced that it will hold a debate-style roundtable discussion today at 20:00 on the X platform. The theme of this event is "GasFree is lowering the transfer threshold for 'first-time use of Web3'. Will the next stage of Web3 be universal adoption, or a complete Web2 transformation?"It is reported that this event will focus on the impact of "seamless interaction" on the Web3 ecosystem in the context of gasless transactions and account abstraction. The guests will discuss core topics such as whether GasFree is an effective path to promote large-scale user entry, and whether this trend will weaken the decentralized characteristics of Web3.

According to the official announcement, Websea officially opened withdrawals on May 18 at 16:00 (UTC+8), marking the platform's entry into a substantial and comprehensive recovery phase. The resumption of withdrawals is being carried out in an orderly manner with the support of strategic investors. According to previous news, the platform has reached a strategic cooperation intention with a Middle Eastern family fund to fully support the platform's long-term operation and development.At the same time, the platform will advance the Proof of Reserves (PoR) process construction and plans to conduct regular disclosures, enhancing the transparency and verifiability of the platform's assets through a combination of on-chain verification and third-party audits. The platform has also publicly disclosed reserve funds and hot wallet addresses for user inquiry and supervision.Websea CMO Herbert R. Sim stated that the opening of withdrawals is an important milestone in the full restoration of operational order. In the future, the platform will promote withdrawals to be fully and completely open based on business recovery and market conditions, and will continue to improve the risk control and asset protection system, pushing the platform into a more robust development phase.

According to Renaissancecapital, Hong Kong Web3 service provider Web3Labs Global has submitted an IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), planning to issue approximately 6.3 million shares at a price of $4 to $5 per share, raising about $28 million.Based on the median of the issuance range, the company's valuation for this fundraising transaction is approximately $141 million. It is reported that Web3Labs Global plans to list on NASDAQ under the stock code "MDAT," with Eddid Securities and Futures serving as the underwriter for this IPO.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined 104 partners of Arc, covering six core sectors: asset issuance, infrastructure, developer tools, trading, financial services, and payments. Compared to most public chains that first develop a developer ecosystem and then seek commercialization scenarios, Arc's path is clearly more aligned with the real financial circulation network. At the asset issuance level, stablecoin issuers such as AllUnity, BDACS, Bitso/Juno, and Stablecorp, as well as tokenized asset players like Centrifuge, Securitize, and WisdomTree have entered the scene, indicating that Arc prioritizes solving the "on-chain asset supply" issue, bringing dollars, bonds, and securities onto the chain. At the infrastructure level, partners like Blockdaemon, Chainalysis, Elliptic, QuickNode, and DRPC provide node services, compliance analysis, and on-chain data support. This means Arc is preparing for institutional funds, rather than following the typical Crypto public chain model of "growth first, compliance later." At the developer tools level, partners such as Axelar, Wormhole, Chainlink, MetaMask, Fireblocks, Privy, Alchemy, LayerZero, and TRM Labs are concentrated, essentially lowering the migration costs for institutions and developers, allowing funds, wallets, cross-chain, and compliance tools to be directly in place. At the trading level, institutions like Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, Robinhood, Galaxy Digital, and B2C2 are responsible for secondary market liquidity and price discovery. The payment layer is heavily integrated by Visa, Mastercard, PhotonPay, Nuvei, EBANX, and Ramp. At the financial services level, firms like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, State Street, Aave, Maple Finance, Morpho, and BitGo are appearing simultaneously, indicating that Arc has begun to bridge traditional banking, on-chain lending, and custody systems. On the surface, Arc appears to be a new public chain, but from an ecological structure perspective, it will serve as the new financial infrastructure for the Circle stablecoin era, directly emphasizing USDC gas fees, sub-second final settlement, compliance privacy, and native CCTP integration, aiming to directly penetrate real capital flows and attempt to become SWIFT + Stripe + DTCC. Related compilation: Arc Web3 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 projects to claim their information 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 like Visa, Mastercard, 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.

The UK-listed company The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 10 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 2840 BTC, ranking 27th in the world for Bitcoin holdings.

According to the official announcement, the digital asset trading platform Websea has reached an investment intention with a strategic investor and will officially open withdrawals on May 18 at 16:00 (UTC+8), while also announcing specific withdrawal arrangements.It is reported that this strategic investment comes from a family fund in the Middle East. Both parties have conducted multiple rounds of in-depth communication on core issues such as the platform's asset status, business structure optimization, recovery path design, and long-term development planning, ultimately reaching a consensus for cooperation. Currently, the investor is advancing the capital injection process according to procedures, while simultaneously carrying out final confirmation work such as legal review, agreement signing, and equity arrangements.Websea CMO Herbert R. Sim stated that Websea has gone through an exceptionally difficult time, but in the face of many doubts from the industry, the platform team members have been working silently and have finally welcomed new life. He believes that this test is both a challenge and an opportunity for the platform. He also mentioned that with the entry of the investor, the platform will publish proof of reserves (Proof of Reserves, POR) and conduct regular disclosures to further enhance user asset transparency and market confidence. The platform will also continue to optimize its product structure and ecological mechanisms to promote long-term stable development.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has completed a major upgrade to the chart page, adding over 10 segmented charts to meet readers' refined needs for research and interpretation of data across different tracks and dimensions.Currently, RootData's chart module includes areas of market interest such as financing/merger and acquisition scale and quantity, total market capitalization of stablecoins, total market capitalization of RWA, ETF inflows and outflows, public chain TVL, and VC investment performance, presented in various chart types such as line charts, heat maps, bubble charts, and treemaps.After this upgrade, the data dimensions and interactive experience of the RootData chart page have been further enhanced, allowing users to more intuitively observe market trends, capital flows, and changes in industry structure, enabling more efficient market analysis and investment research decision-making.

The UK-listed company The Smarter Web Company announced that it has increased its holdings by 25 bitcoins according to its "ten-year plan," bringing the company's total bitcoin holdings to 2,830.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined 40 partners of Aave, covering multiple layers such as TradFi/RWA, stablecoins, infrastructure, wallets, DeFi protocols, exchanges, and custody. From its early focus on the lending efficiency of crypto assets to competing for on-chain dollar liquidity after the launch of GHO, Aave seems to be defining an interest rate system for on-chain dollars. At the TradFi and RWA layer, institutions like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, VanEck, and JPMorgan are prominently featured, along with RWA platforms such as Centrifuge, OpenEden, and Securitize, indicating that Aave is no longer satisfied with lending native crypto assets but is attempting to meet the financing needs of real-world assets on-chain. At the stablecoin layer, partners like Circle, Tether, Ethena, Ripple, and Plasma suggest that Aave is competing for the on-chain "dollar liquidity" entry point. Whoever controls stablecoin deposits is closer to on-chain interest rate pricing power. At the infrastructure layer, partners like Chainlink, ConsenSys, Flashbots, and Mantle provide Aave with price oracles, MEV optimization, and multi-chain expansion capabilities. At the user distribution layer, wallet partners like MetaMask, Ledger, Bitget Wallet, Privy, and Turnkey are lowering the entry barriers for users; meanwhile, institutional channels like Kraken, Bybit, and Fireblocks further amplify the capital entry points. DeFi protocols such as Pendle, Maple Finance, and CoW Swap extend Aave's liquidity into fixed income, institutional lending, and trading scenarios. The recent rsETH/Kelp risk event caused Aave's TVL to drop from a peak of $44 billion to $15 billion, once again testing the risk management capabilities of this established DeFi protocol. Related collection: Aave Web3 Partner Network Collection (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 projects to claim their information and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has released multiple editions of crypto project ecosystem maps, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients like Visa, Mastercard, 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 Crypto.news, the New South Wales police in Australia seized 52.3 bitcoins, worth approximately 5.7 million Australian dollars (4.1 million US dollars), in a law enforcement operation targeting the dark web market, making it one of the largest dark web cryptocurrency seizures in the country.This operation is part of the Strike Force Andalusia investigation that began in September 2024 and lasted 15 months. The police tracked a large bitcoin wallet holding proceeds from the dark web market, ultimately identifying two male suspects, aged 39 and 41, who are accused of supplying prohibited drugs and transferring over 100,000 Australian dollars in dark web-related cryptocurrency.