ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the decentralized AI data execution layer Alpha Network, incubated by KEKKAI Labs, announced a strategic partnership with the decentralized GPU cluster network io.net. This collaboration aims to combine Alpha Network's privacy technology with io.net's decentralized GPU network, with the goal of jointly promoting data security, the popularization of AI infrastructure, and industry innovation.Both parties will explore the creation of a compliant and privacy-first AI training environment through io.net's decentralized GPU cluster. With io.net's distributed GPU infrastructure, Alpha Network can securely process sensitive training data without relying on traditional trusted environments.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the video course "OKX Public Course | Efficient Application Development, Full-Scene Coverage ------ Multi-Chain Web3 Development Engine OKX OS" jointly launched by OKX and the 登链 community is now officially online. This course is presented by KiKi, the product manager of OKX OS, and aims to help developers efficiently build innovative applications, reduce development costs, and enjoy the technical, traffic, and resource advantages brought by OKX Web3 products through a detailed introduction to OKX OS and the wallet API, DEX API, market API, and Earn API it encompasses, thereby jointly promoting industry development.It is reported that the 登链 community is a top-level developer community in the Chinese-speaking world, having served over 200,000 developers to date. OKX OS is a multi-chain Web3 development engine launched by OKX Web3, covering various solutions such as wallet API, DEX API, market API, and Earn API, providing developers with standardized technical support for accessing over 60 networks and 3,000 protocols.

ChainCatcher news, TON official announced on social media that Catizen is the first consumer-grade Web3 application with over 1 million paid users. Its token CATI will officially launch on September 20, and it has already achieved significant growth prior to this, with a total user base exceeding 39 million and monthly active users exceeding 18 million.

ChainCatcher news, Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin stated that they will create "AI Developer" to address the core issue of building end-to-end Web3 applications based on user intent.Polosukhin said, "We want people to just tell the computer what application they want, and the computer will write the code and build the application for them."Polosukhin also emphasized that Near's goal is to enable anyone with creativity to realize their ideas through the upcoming AI tools. Additionally, he mentioned the need for more user-owned AI to protect users from malicious actors and believes that Web3 has an advantage in designing such architectures.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 application interface service provider Kravata announced the completion of a $3.6 million seed round financing, with participation from Volt Capital, Framework Ventures, Circle Ventures, Magma Partners, and SIMMA Capital.It is reported that Kravata comes from the Web3 accelerator Alliance Dao and is a user-friendly and secure solution that connects to Web3 while providing a Web2 experience. Through the application interface, Kravata allows clients to easily integrate the advantages of Web3 into their services without the burden of internal technical development, while ensuring compliance and ongoing support at every step.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Web3 super application ParaX has now been rebranded as Parallel Finance. It has currently raised over $30 million from institutions such as Sequoia Capital, Polychain, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Founders Fund.

ChainCatcher news, Solana ecosystem Web3 application Backpack has announced the launch of a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, Backpack Exchange. Currently, Backpack Exchange has obtained a trading services Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license issued by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and will launch a beta version for existing Backpack and Mad Lads community members this November.The beta version of Backpack Exchange will offer spot cryptocurrency trading services, with the public version set to go live in the first quarter of 2024. Backpack Exchange will also add trading features such as derivatives, margin, and cross-collateral. Backpack is an integrated Web3 application that acts as a non-custodial wallet, providing a crypto-native experience through xNFTs. xNFTs serve as native decentralized applications within Backpack, representing a portal for applications, games, and assets built on any chain.

ChainCatcher news, ParaX has now integrated with the OKX Web3 wallet. Users can perform various operations such as collateral lending, staking, purchasing NFTs, and asset management through the OKX Web3 wallet plugin on ParaX. ParaX is a merger of the NFT protocol ParaSpace and the DeFi protocol Parallel Finance, utilizing an account abstraction (AA) model based on ERC-4337, zkVM, and a large language model for cross-domain intents, along with a customizable UI interface, allowing users to easily participate in the Web3 ecosystem, aiming to become a Web3 super application. The current total value locked (TVL) is nearly $200 million, with over 300,000 users.It is reported that the OKX Web3 wallet is an industry-leading one-stop Web3 entry point, now supporting over 70 public chains, covering five major sectors: wallets, DEX, DeFi, NFT markets, and DApp exploration. It also supports the Ordinals market, MPC and AA smart contract wallets, gas exchange, hardware wallet connections, and provides users with an extremely convenient and secure experience.

ChainCatcher news, Nabox announced the launch of Nabox Engine, a Wallet as a Service (WaaS) product designed to help applications like Web3 and the metaverse quickly and cost-effectively create their own wallet apps. Application developers can easily integrate their own application scenarios on top of the wallet without needing to develop a wallet module.It is reported that Nabox is committed to allowing users to access Web3 applications in the most convenient way, currently supporting over 60 blockchains and having more than 300,000 users. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Web3 application development platform Sort has completed a $3.5 million seed round financing, led by venture capital firms Lemniscap and The General Partnership. The funding will be used to expand its team, advance the platform's product suite, and accelerate the launch of the Sort application. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, during the main event "The Future of Tokenization" at the 2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and HashKey Group, delivered a closing keynote speech titled "The Three-Token Model of Web3 Applications." He stated that the applications of Web3 will inevitably meet various demands. The token model at the application layer of Web3 is different from that of the underlying protocol. The underlying protocol is a single-token model that should be unified globally, while the application protocol is a three-token model, with each application scenario having its own characteristics. In the three-token model, the first is NFT (value of data, products, and services), the second is functional Token (value of usage rights), and the third is security Token (value of ownership, which is equity value).

ChainCatcher news, a one-stop Web3 application development platform Mirror World has announced that it has received strategic investment from Alchemy Ventures in its Pre-A round.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Mirror World previously announced in March last year that it had secured seed round investments from institutions such as Galaxy Interactive, Republic Crypto, YGG SEA, OKX Ventures, LD Capital, Sky9 Capital, and B1V.Mirror World CEO Chris Zhu stated that the vast majority of Web3 applications currently face issues such as low purchase conversion rates and unreasonable overall R&D pipelines. Mirror World is committed to building a conversion engine for blockchain applications to help more clients solve these problems. In addition, Chris Zhu also revealed that Mirror World has already started its subsequent financing, and it is expected to complete a new Series A financing soon.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, Chainlink is launching a self-service serverless platform to help developers connect their decentralized applications (dApps) or smart contracts to any Web 2.0 API. Chainlink Labs Chief Product Officer Kemal El Moujahid told TechCrunch that the new platform, Chainlink Functions, also allows builders to run customizable computations on Web 2.0 APIs through its network in just a few minutes.El Moujahid stated, "Our goal is to empower developers to combine the best of Web3 smart contracts with the powerful capabilities of Web 2.0 APIs, creating a huge opportunity to build the best applications that integrate smart contracts and Web 2.0." The new platform also supports more widely used programming languages like JavaScript, so developers new to Web3 can enter the space. It will also provide integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, and other services.The platform is currently in beta mode on the Ethereum and Polygon testnets. Chainlink plans to expand its capabilities to more blockchains, add new integrations and tools, and launch on the mainnet "as soon as possible." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, the blockchain development platform Alchemy will launch a new tool "create-web3-dapp" to help developers build Web3 applications faster. According to Alchemy's product leads Elan Halpern and Vitto Rivabella, this tool will help developers launch their applications in four minutes.Halpern pointed out that the tool is a baseline template, so it can be used to build any application from DeFi exchanges and swaps to analytics platforms and NFT marketplaces. (source link)