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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.

General Tensor announced the completion of its acquisition of Backprop Finance, a subsidiary of Tensorplex Labs, which is one of the largest decentralized trading platforms by trading volume in the Bittensor ecosystem. After the transaction is completed, General Tensor will cover about one-third of the trading volume on the Bittensor network.Previously, General Tensor had raised a total of $5 million through Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, with investors including Digital Currency Group (DCG), Lvna Capital, and Good Morning Holdings, which is led by Lok Lee and supported by Goldman Sachs. Backprop Finance currently mainly serves the trading of Bittensor Dynamic TAO (dTAO) subnet Alpha tokens, providing token exchange and subnet screening.

According to Decrypt, Dapper Labs announced that its digital collectibles platform NFL All Day, in collaboration with the NFL, will stop issuing new NFTs, but existing collectibles can still be bought and sold on the market. Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou stated that the company has signed a new licensing agreement with the NFL and will announce details as the next season approaches. As part of the adjustments, the platform will offer collectors a "Founding Collector" label and launch a 5% Dapper balance rebate, but the purchased items must be held for one year before they can be released.After the announcement, trading volume on the NFL All Day market surged, exceeding $53,000 on Thursday, with the number of sellers jumping from fewer than 100 last week to over 400 on Thursday. Some collectors complained that their bids were still accepted after the announcement, leading to the purchase of NFTs that significantly decreased in value. Dapper Labs stated that it is working to advance the next phase of NFL digital collectibles development.

Legendary Labs and Jinlian Capital Foundation today announced the official strategic merger. Both parties will integrate resources and technological advantages to jointly promote the globalization of Legendary Space and the upgraded development of the Web3 prediction ecosystem (PredictFi).It is reported that Legendary Space has currently obtained digital lottery and online gaming operation licenses from 7 countries in Central America, including the blockchain online digital lottery license in El Salvador. The project is currently preparing to launch a decentralized prediction game for the World Cup, relying on the underlying technology of the FAB ecosystem. The officials stated that in the future, both parties will continue to explore fields such as AI integration and multi-chain interoperability.

YZi Labs announced the 25 graduation projects of its flagship incubation project EASY Residency for the third season, focusing on areas such as on-chain financial market structure reconstruction, AI agents, tokenization of real-world assets, prediction markets, and privacy compliance. The 25 projects include:Identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on the BNB chain Bank of AI, litigation workflow legal evidence indexing tool Brief Tech, AI probability output verifiable reasoning platform Cournot, financialized social network and trading platform Dapital, programmable token issuance infrastructure Flap;On-chain marketplace for collectibles and intellectual property assets GEMINT, on-chain options and structured products platform LayerV, CEX-level on-chain liquidity platform LunarBase, multi-market agent capital acquisition platform L7, DeFi unified margin layer Möbius, permissionless margin trading protocol Nemesis;AI agent-driven automated financial decision execution layer Newsliquid, tokenized private market exposure DeFi platform Openstocks, on-chain poker skill game options market PokerFi, prediction market automation and intelligence infrastructure Polysights, physical collectibles RWA liquidity infrastructure Renaiss;Fixed-rate decentralized lending platform TermMax, compliance-oriented digital asset privacy infrastructure 0xBow, AI agent workflow self-custody authorization layer Functor, interest-free stablecoin new bank for the Muslim market Isaac, on-chain prime brokerage platform for the BNB chain MARGIN X;Frictionless stablecoin exchange N-dimensional AMM Orbswap, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy exchange protocol SilentSwap, crypto market AI agent trading and automation infrastructure Taco AI, on-chain event-driven derivatives platform Vibe.fun.

Slow Fog issued a security warning stating that Aurellion was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 455,003 USDC (about $455,000).Analysis pointed out that the root of the vulnerability lies in the lack of effective protection in the initialize(address) function of the SafeOwnable Facet. Since the Diamond contract did not go through the initialize path when setting the owner, the _initialized version slot was not updated correctly, allowing the attacker to reinitialize the contract and override owner permissions.Subsequently, the attacker called diamondCut to inject a malicious Facet and transferred the USDC assets of authorized users through the malicious pullERC20 function, ultimately completing the theft of funds.

According to Decrypt, MoonPay has acquired the AI trading startup Dawn Labs and launched the AI trading assistant Dawn CLI for prediction markets. This product allows users to generate and execute automated cryptocurrency trading strategies through natural language commands, with the first phase integrating with Polymarket.MoonPay stated that Dawn CLI can integrate the "strategy description --- code generation --- trade execution" process into a single interface, lowering the barriers to quantitative and automated trading. Neeraj Prasad, founder of Dawn Labs and Chief Engineer at MoonPay Labs, said that users do not need to have a development or quantitative background; they only need to describe the strategy in natural language, and the system will automatically complete the execution.MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright stated that the AI Agent will be able to autonomously develop and execute complex trading strategies, which is an important part of MoonPay's next phase of AI financial infrastructure layout. Previously, MoonPay had launched the AI Agent stablecoin payment card, an open-source AI wallet standard, and acquired the cryptocurrency key management company Sodot.

Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, posted on the X platform that confidential transactions will be launched on the Sui network this year, enabling large-scale, free, and privacy-protected payments.

According to Cointelegraph, crypto risk management and infrastructure provider Chaos Labs stated that its oracle network experienced a suspected "nation-state" hacker attack last weekend but was not breached.Chaos Labs founder Omer Goldberg stated on the X platform that the attack was strictly limited to the operational wallets used for daily on-chain operations, and the oracle network was never compromised. The oracles operate in a fully isolated environment, with nodes distributed globally, protected by multi-layer security and encryption controls. Chaos Labs has rotated all keys since the attempted attack and has not detected any suspicious activity.

Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs announced that they will invest over $50 million to cover first-party products, research, protocol infrastructure, and a strategic fund for trading and AI partners.Aptos stated that Decibel has launched on the Aptos mainnet, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $1 billion. The market capitalization of stablecoins on the Aptos network has reached $1.93 billion, and the scale of RWA has reached $1.2 billion, with asset management institutions such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Apollo Global already deployed on the network. Subsequently, Aptos will advance features such as crypto memory pools, FIX and CCXT connections, multi-leader consensus, and confidential perpetual trading.

Zhao Changpeng (CZ) stated at the Consensus Miami 2026 conference that YZi Labs is currently investing 70% of its funds in blockchain, 20% in AI, and 10% in biotechnology. The positioning of BNB should be as the native currency for AI Agents, and all blockchains need to be "AI ready," supporting agent payments and protocols for AI tools like MCP. Cryptocurrency should be the most native way for AI Agents to conduct cross-border payments. Regarding RWA, CZ mentioned that a year ago he believed RWA was overvalued, but he has changed his view; RWA is real and currently undervalued.

Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder of Mysten Labs, stated during Consensus 2026 that the Sui network has processed over $1 trillion in stablecoin transactions since last year and plans to launch zero-fee stablecoin transfers and privacy payment features.Abiodun expressed that Sui aims to become "the default network for future capital flows," noting that the current traditional cross-border payment systems have excessively high fees; for example, transferring $100 to Nigeria may incur a $35 fee. The future financial system should not be completely transparent like social media, and users need stronger privacy protection capabilities.Sui is developing a storage layer that supports the intent of crypto transactions to accommodate AI Agent-driven automated payments and future refund and fraud handling mechanisms. Additionally, Sui is currently testing quantum-resistant signature technology on its testnet, aiming to complete deployment before the EU's quantum security requirements are implemented by 2030.Abiodun also expressed willingness to coordinate with the Bitcoin ecosystem and open-source related research. However, Sui has recently faced challenges with technical stability, as its mainnet experienced several hours of downtime in January 2026. The current price of SUI is approximately $0.99, down about 81% from its historical high of $5.35 set in 2025.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, HyperLabs deposited 400,000 HYPE (17.34 million USD) to Bybit and OKX in the past 11 hours.Previously, HyperLabs unstaked 421,879 HYPE (18.08 million USD) 2 days ago.

The encrypted native DeSci protocol NanoVita Labs, which integrates nanotechnology, AI-driven biological intelligence, and real health data, officially announces that its native research governance token NANA has been launched on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and is now available for trading on PancakeSwap.It is reported that the NANA token, as the core incentive and governance layer of the NanoVita ecosystem, drives on-chain research participation, staking, community decision-making, and other functions, serving as an important support for the realization of ecological value.

According to Sonic Labs' official Twitter news, Sonic Labs has allocated $1 million for the repurchase of $S tokens on the Binance platform. These tokens will be deployed in batches for user guidance activities in collaboration with Binance.

According to official news, Syndicate Labs disclosed that its cross-chain bridge contract was maliciously upgraded on two chains due to a private key leak. The attacker transferred and sold approximately 18.5 million SYND (about $330,000) and around $50,000 worth of user tokens. The incident only affected specific chains, while others were not impacted.Syndicate Labs stated that this attack involved multi-stage reconnaissance, infrastructure mapping, and careful execution, demonstrating a high level of technical complexity, and ruled out the involvement of internal personnel. The root cause was that the private key was stored in a password management tool without an additional layer of encryption, and the upgrade process did not utilize multi-signature or hardware signature mechanisms, nor did it have early warning and circuit breaker measures for contract upgrades.Syndicate Labs announced that it will fully compensate all affected users, including returning 18.5 million SYND and providing additional compensation, while also fully compensating affected application chain clients. The company has initiated security upgrade measures, including strengthening private key encryption, tightening access permissions, and plans to introduce hardware or multi-signature mechanisms and upgrade path monitoring to prevent similar incidents from occurring again.

The latest report from blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs shows that approximately 76% of global cryptocurrency hacking losses are related to organizations associated with North Korea, with a total stolen amount of about $577 million.North Korea's share of global crypto theft continues to rise: 22% in 2022, 37% in 2023, 39% in 2024, rising to 64% in 2025, and further increasing to 76% in 2026. Since 2017, the total illegal profits have exceeded $6 billion. The report points out that these losses mainly stem from two major incidents in April: a $292 million attack on KelpDAO and a $285 million theft from Drift Protocol, with the two attacks accounting for about 3% of all hacking incidents during the same period.

Category Labs today announced that it is expanding its potential public market purchase authorization limit to $80 million and extending the repurchase period until the end of 2026.Category Labs stated that any repurchase actions will be carried out opportunistically based on market conditions and may be initiated, suspended, or terminated at the company's discretion, while strictly adhering to relevant laws and regulations. This update does not constitute a commitment to repurchase any specific number of tokens but reflects the company's intention to consider opportunistic purchases under favorable market conditions.

According to official disclosure from 0G Labs, 0G Private Computer has officially launched, providing privacy inference services based on TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) for AI agents and developers. Users can access the service through pc.0g.ai.The official statement indicates that the product utilizes a hardware isolation environment composed of Intel TDX CPU and NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU, with all inference requests completed within the TEE. Input content is transmitted in an encrypted manner, and output results will undergo signature verification, ensuring that service providers cannot directly view user data.Currently, the platform supports models such as DeepSeek DeepSeek Chat V3, Alibaba Qwen3.6 Plus, Zhipu AI GLM-5-FP8, Qwen3-VL-30B, OpenAI Whisper-large-v3, and z-image, and provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API, allowing developers to complete migration by modifying the base URL.

According to Tencent News' "Periscope," during the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, He Yi revealed in a small KOL meeting that her family office YZi Labs, in partnership with Zhao Changpeng, has invested in a Chinese AI large model company, but did not disclose the specific name of the invested company.