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According to The Block, influenced by the maturation of the crypto market and the rapid development of emerging technologies, several leading crypto venture capital firms are shifting their investment focus from the pure crypto sector to a broader "frontier technology" track, involving AI, robotics, fintech, and biotechnology.It is reported that Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures have recently raised $400 million and $1 billion funds respectively to support cross-domain layouts; Paradigm is planning to raise up to $1.5 billion for a frontier technology fund; and the former Binance incubator YZi Labs has also ventured into the fields of AI and biotechnology.Industry investors analyze that the core reasons for this strategic shift are the demand for capital deployment brought about by the expansion of fund sizes, the decrease in high-quality pure crypto projects, and the increasing integration of adjacent technologies such as blockchain and AI. Some venture capitalists predict that as cryptocurrencies gradually integrate into a broader technology ecosystem, the exclusive label of "crypto VC" may gradually fade, and the market will ultimately differentiate into large multi-strategy investment funds and a few vertical investors focused on digital assets. However, some institutions like a16z Crypto and Dragonfly still insist on deepening their investment strategies in the pure crypto sector.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Maji (Huang Licheng) is selling Bored Apes at a loss to raise funds to go long on ETH on Hyperliquid. In the past month, Maji has sold 34 Bored Apes for a total of 326 ETH (approximately $514,000), incurring a loss of 399 ETH (approximately $631,000).Huang Licheng's biggest loss occurred on Bored Ape #6057, which he purchased four years ago for 76.84 ETH and is now selling for only 7.65 ETH, resulting in a loss of up to 90%.Meanwhile, Huang Licheng has been forcibly liquidated multiple times on Hyperliquid. Just 3 hours ago, he was liquidated again, leaving only $81,000 in his account.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket. A large whale invested $70,400.45 in the event "Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia," specifically targeting "Saudi Arabia." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 61%.

Focusing on the next-generation global payment operating system driven by stablecoins, PhotonPay today officially released the "2026 Global Game Operation White Paper: From Traffic Growth to Revenue Realization." The report reveals a significant pain point in the industry that is severely eroding the profits of global game publishers: despite the top 100 mobile games worldwide capturing 57% (approximately $46.6 billion) of the mobile market revenue, the extreme fragmentation of backend payment channels is causing a substantial loss of transactions globally, leaving countless overseas game developers in the awkward position of "having revenue but unable to cash out."To address this pain point, PhotonPay has launched a multi-route aggregated payment network that can automatically convert players' local fiat currency payments into compliant on-chain stablecoins at the backend. This solution achieves second-level clearing and real-time settlement in over 200 countries and regions worldwide without altering the players' native payment experience.It is reported that PhotonPay is a stablecoin-driven global financial infrastructure operating system. Designed for modern enterprises and global platforms, PhotonPay empowers businesses to achieve seamless fund collection, exchange, and settlement between fiat currency and stablecoins through a single, compliance-first interface. The service network of PhotonPay covers over 200 countries and regions worldwide and holds relevant financial licenses in core global markets, aiming to reshape the efficiency boundaries of global payroll and global payments in the digital asset era.

According to Business Insider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman recently stated in an interview that concerns about AI causing mass unemployment are overstated. He believes that AI may change the way half of white-collar workers do their jobs, but just like the widespread adoption of Microsoft Excel, new technologies will reshape work while also creating new job opportunities, rather than directly eliminating positions.In addition, Garman emphasized the important value of entry-level employees in the AI era, believing that they possess a stronger willingness to learn and adaptability. It is reported that Amazon will hire over 11,000 entry-level software development engineers and interns globally this year. Garman added that in the future, companies will find "learning ability" and "adaptability" more critical than the "existing specific skills" of applicants when hiring.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $57,342.08 in the "Uruguay vs. Cape Verde - More Markets" event, specifically on "O/U 2.5". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this bet is 44%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Valorant: Paper Rex vs Leviatán Esports - VCT Masters London Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Paper Rex" option in the sub-market "Map 4 Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 55.5% an hour ago to the current 11% (a fluctuation of 44.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) participated in an exclusive interview on the Galaxy Brains podcast with Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn. CZ stated that he is no longer operating the trading platform, allowing him more time to communicate with developers, and he is excited about some new features of BNB Chain. He mentioned that BNB Chain is developing the next version, which will be faster, cheaper, and include more privacy controls.CZ also advised blockchain developers not to make major upgrades during a bull market, but to push forward significant updates during the quieter times of a bear market. CZ said that he was skeptical about RWA (Real World Assets) about a year to a year and a half ago, uncertain whether the related assets would be traded or could develop. However, the speed of RWA's development surprised him, as stablecoins, oil futures, AI stocks, and others have gained good acceptance in the crypto community. This indicates that many people globally have been looking for access to these assets.Crypto should not be seen as an independent industry, but rather as a new technological tool that makes financial transactions faster, cheaper, and more transparent. He believes that traditional financial institutions can use blockchain, and crypto companies can also provide services similar to traditional finance, such as loans, savings, stock trading, remittances, and payments. In the future, there should not be a clear distinction between traditional finance and crypto, but rather a more globalized, faster, and lower-cost financial industry.

According to Fortune, Theodore Gillibrand, the son of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has completed a $30 million financing round, with the company valued at approximately $300 million. They plan to launch a derivatives trading platform named American Perpetuals Exchange Corp. (APEC). The platform intends to apply for a license from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and aims to list perpetual futures for stocks and stock indices, rather than perpetual contracts for cryptocurrencies.

Gate CrossEx, launched by Gate in 2025, is attempting to address the long-standing issue of institutional capital fragmentation in an "exchange-native" manner. This product achieves instant collateral scheduling and cross-platform profit and loss hedging between multiple exchanges through a unified margin pool and internal credit settlement mechanism, reducing the capital occupation and clearing risks caused by on-chain transfer delays.The core significance of Gate CrossEx is not limited to a single functional innovation, but rather it further aligns with the traditional financial Prime Brokerage model at the level of cryptocurrency trading infrastructure. Currently, CrossEx has covered multiple mainstream trading platforms and supports over 5,000 assets as collateral or trading targets. Since the launch of its Beta version, both its asset scale and trading volume index have shown rapid growth. In the context of industry competition shifting from "traffic-driven" to "capital efficiency and institutional capability-driven," Gate is continuously strengthening its layout in the institutional-level trading infrastructure field through CrossEx, further consolidating its competitive advantage in the global cryptocurrency market.

The stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace announced a joint initiative with multiple ecological partners including X-Agent, Cobo, BlockSec, Stable, Conflux, Bitget Wallet, and Hetu to launch the white paper titled "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation."The white paper systematically proposes the eight-layer architecture of Agentic Payment infrastructure for the first time, covering key aspects such as Agent applications, payment execution, custody and governance, trust and compliance, stablecoin settlement, public blockchain foundation, user access and liquidity, and causal verification. All parties believe that the value flow of the AI economy requires cross-domain collaboration, rather than being accomplished independently by a single protocol or product.The white paper is expected to be officially released in the next 1 to 2 months, during which in-depth discussions will be held on core topics such as AI Agent payment permissions, compliance risk control, and cross-chain interoperability.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $140,250 in a single bet on "Draw (Spain vs. Cape Verde)" in the event of "Spain vs. Cape Verde." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this bet is 93.5%.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket. A large whale invested $105,000 in the "Spain vs. Cape Verde - More Markets" event, specifically targeting "Spain (-2.5)." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 42%.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI today released its latest research paper "PoQ-Judge," proposing a multi-architecture quality assessment framework that does not require reference answers. This means that in real deployment environments, there are often no standard answers for comparison, yet the protocol can still reliably score the quality of model responses and allocate incentives accordingly. This is a key piece that has long been missing in DGrid's decentralized LLM inference quality assessment system.PoQ (Proof of Quality) is a consensus mechanism independently developed by DGrid, designed to prevent model providers from deploying low-quality models, fabricating data, or hiding computational costs at the protocol level, thereby ensuring service quality and pricing transparency. The DGrid team has been continuously working on PoQ and has published four research papers to date. The newly released PoQ-Judge has trained three assessment models covering different quality and cost scenarios, achieving a correlation of up to 0.747 with human scoring on the retention test set, significantly outperforming all previous reference answer-based evaluators, while reducing assessment costs by over 72% through cascading evaluation and online weight calibration.With the implementation of PoQ-Judge, the entire process from quality assessment → scoring → incentive allocation has completely eliminated reliance on reference answers, thus establishing a closed loop for the quality of decentralized LLM inference.DGrid AI is a decentralized AI intelligent network dedicated to building an open, transparent, and community-driven AI infrastructure. Focusing on model invocation and application experience, DGrid has launched several core products: the AI Gateway that aggregates mainstream large models globally, the one-click deployment platform for AI agents DClaw, the anonymous model competition platform AI Arena, and the intelligent model recommendation assistant Dori, providing one-stop services for developers and users. It is reported that DGrid AI's revenue has surpassed 20 million dollars in six months.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the Polymarket event "Spain vs. Cape Verde," the "Over" option for the sub-market "Spain second half greater than 0.5 goals" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 66.5% an hour ago to the current 85.5% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $77,573.42 in the "Spain vs. Cape Verde - More Markets" event, specifically targeting "Spain (-2.5)". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 55%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Spain vs. Cape Verde" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "Spain second half greater than 0.5 goals" experienced a sharp fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 82% an hour ago to the current 67% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Jinshi reports, CITIC Construction Investment pointed out that SpaceX landed on NASDAQ with a valuation of $1.75 trillion, raising $75 billion, and its market value surpassed $2 trillion on the first day, becoming the seventh largest technology company in the world and creating the largest IPO in history. Its three major businesses: Starlink, reusable rockets, and space AI validate the commercial closed loop, accelerating the commercialization process of the space economy. In 2026, several liquid rockets in our country will have intensive maiden flights and recovery tests, which are expected to significantly reduce launch costs and accelerate constellation construction. It is recommended to pay attention to:Rocket segment: high-barrier fields such as engines and rocket body structures;Satellite segment: payloads, antennas, and laser communication terminals;Ground equipment: civilian terminals and mobile direct connection technology;Operational services: companies with scarce license qualifications.