ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, recently, Gate.io MemeBox officially announced a strategic partnership with BNB Chain, aiming to promote the further development of the Meme coin market through a series of activities.This collaboration marks Gate.io's diversified layout in the Meme coin trading field, and will subsequently provide a series of new opportunities for BNB Chain's Meme coin projects. In particular, projects ranked in the top ten of the BNB Chain Meme Liquidity Support Program will have the opportunity to be listed on Gate.io's innovation zone, and will receive various exposure opportunities and resource support for the listed projects. This initiative will provide real growth for projects, helping them secure a place in the rapidly evolving market.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the investment of cryptocurrency companies in sports sponsorships significantly increased in 2025. According to SportQuake data, 22 sports sponsorship deals have been reached this year, with an average value of 4.3 million dollars, a significant increase compared to 18 deals during the same period last year, with an average of 2.6 million dollars.Among them, Tether acquired a minority stake in Juventus for about 50 million dollars, Coinbase reached a sponsorship agreement with the Aston Martin F1 team to use stablecoins for all payments, Gate.io established a partnership with the Red Bull team, and XBO.com became the official global sponsor of the Argentina national team for 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Bitcoin financial services company Onramp has partnered with lending platform Arch to launch a Bitcoin-backed loan service.This new product allows BTC holders to obtain loans while retaining ownership of their assets, aimed at providing services to investors who wish to gain liquidity without selling their Bitcoin.

According to ChainCatcher news, SingularityNET has announced a partnership with Mind Network to launch ASI Hub, a decentralized AI service facility based on FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption), focusing on addressing two key challenges: AI Agent identity authentication and verifiable randomness.ASI Hub ensures the secure generation of AI agents' identities and provides on-chain verifiable randomness through FHE technology, effectively solving issues related to manipulation, verification, and data tampering of traditional off-chain randomness. Based on FHE technology, ASI Hub offers several core capabilities for AI Agents: including verifiable encrypted identity authentication, secure model initialization, data sampling security assurance, and reinforcement learning for random exploration. Additionally, based on the Pre-TGE Wave activity, FET token holders can now receive $vFHE points daily without the need for locking or cross-chain operations.As an important initiative of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI), ASI Hub represents another significant advancement in the application of FHE technology by the SingularityNET, Fetch.AI, Ocean Protocol, and Cudos alliance, significantly enhancing the security defense capabilities of AI services and ensuring tamper-proof decision-making.Mind Network is pioneering a zero-trust Internet transmission protocol (HTTPZ), utilizing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) to achieve quantum-resistant, fully encrypted Internet data and AI computation. As the first FHE project to go live on the mainnet, it aims to become the infrastructure of the HTTPZ era, promoting the widespread application of FHE technology in the Web3 and AI fields, addressing key issues such as data security, quantum resistance, and decentralized consensus.

ChainCatcher news, Hong Kong licensed virtual asset exchange HashKey Exchange has partnered with Deutsche Bank to add a Deutsche Bank deposit channel on the HashKey Exchange platform, further enriching the user trading experience.Through this collaboration, Deutsche Bank will provide fiat currency deposit and withdrawal services for HashKey Exchange. This service is based on Deutsche Bank's API virtual account solution. Users can directly deposit Hong Kong dollars (HKD) or US dollars (USD) into the virtual accounts managed by Deutsche Bank.

ChainCatcher news, YZi Labs has invested and raised tens of millions of dollars for Sidekick Protocol, which has established a strategic partnership with Eastern Europe's largest live streaming platform, Trovo.live. The new funding will be used to create a new model for live trading, build a brand new real-time interaction and asset trading pathway, support first-hand market information sharing, real-time interaction, and seamless asset trading, and promote the transition of traditional users to Web3.It is reported that Sidekick has built a mature channel network on Discord, attracting over 10,000 traditional game streamers to join the community, and has created a content distribution network covering 18 million fans, achieving sales exceeding 20 million dollars. Meanwhile, its Miniapp users on the Telegram platform have surpassed 19 million, and it has successfully obtained a TikTok overseas live streaming license, which is expected to rapidly drive content viral dissemination.Investors in Sidekick Protocol include YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Hashkey Capital, Folius Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Foresight Ventures, and other institutions. Additionally, its angel investors include Kaito founder Huyu and StepN co-founder Mable.

ChainCatcher news, HashKey has announced an ecological cooperation with the incentive token BugsCoin (BGSC) under the global simulation trading platform ANTTALK GLOBAL.Both parties will explore deep integration with HashKey Chain, leveraging its secure and scalable blockchain technology to further enhance the user experience of simulated trading competitions. This cooperation also aligns with HashKey's long-term strategy to promote the development of the crypto ecosystem, aiming to accelerate the adoption of industry applications through technological innovation.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the OKX Web3 wallet has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Sui. Both parties will work together to promote Web3 innovation, empower developers to use cutting-edge tools, and build a secure and accessible ecosystem to serve global users. By optimizing the access experience to the Sui ecosystem and its dApps, users can easily explore the Sui ecosystem through the OKX Web3 wallet, including products such as DEX, NFT markets, and DeFi, which promotes the growth and activity of the Sui community. The OKX Web3 wallet will also launch multiple activities in collaboration with Sui, providing exclusive benefits for developers and users on Sui.Sui is the first permissionless Layer 1 blockchain, with a vision fundamentally designed to enable creators and developers to build experiences that can meet the needs of 1 billion Web3 users. The OKX Web3 wallet, as an industry-leading one-stop Web3 gateway, now supports over 120 popular public chains, providing a unified experience across App, plugins, web, and Telegram, further promoting the application of Web3 in the field.

ChainCatcher news, Era.AI officially announces a partnership with NFP. Both parties will work together to promote AI-driven UGC development, providing intelligent creation tools and incentive activities for the new generation of content creators, enhancing creation efficiency and quality.This collaboration will fully leverage Era.AI's technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as NFP's deep accumulation in the Web3 content creation ecosystem, to jointly explore more possibilities of AIGC.

ChainCatcher news, the privacy security network Nillion announced a partnership with the Bahraini telecom operator stc Bahrain. This collaboration marks the deep integration of Nillion's blind computing privacy technology into real-world Web2 scenarios, aiming to promote the development of privacy solutions in the Middle East.In the first phase of the partnership, stc Bahrain will deploy nodes on Nillion's blind computing network PETnet. As a decentralized privacy platform, PETnet aims to utilize advanced privacy-enhancing technologies such as multi-party computation to ensure data storage security and the processing of private data. stc Bahrain, as the first telecom partner to operate nodes on the Nillion network, will bring greater decentralization and security to PETnet.Meanwhile, Nillion will join stc Bahrain's Web3 Launchpad program as a Pearling Path partner. stc Bahrain will leverage Nillion's blind computing network to develop scalable application cases. By combining Nillion's advanced secure computing solutions with stc Bahrain's robust telecom infrastructure and Bahrain's data embassy laws, Nillion aims to set new standards for high-value data management and protection for global users, including specific Web2 application scenarios.It is reported that as the first decentralized blind computing network, Nillion was founded by former Uber founding engineer Conrad Whelan, dedicated to achieving the storage, transmission, and processing of high-value sensitive data in an encrypted state throughout the entire process. Through its innovative Orchestration Layer, Nada language compiler, and dual-layer network architecture design, Nillion supports developers in easily building privacy applications without needing to understand privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), while also ensuring decentralization, thereby empowering the development of the privacy application ecosystem and providing strong support for data application ecosystems, AI, data markets, privacy DeFi, medical analytics, and other application scenarios.

ChainCatcher news, the GameFi project Elfin Metaverse has partnered with MetaMe to jointly create a multiverse experience that integrates the virtual spaces of MetaMe and Elfin Metaverse. The collaboration includes the joint development of gamified strategies for fans, leveraging character intellectual property to enhance user engagement and community interaction.Elfin Metaverse is an innovative Web3 gaming project focused on creating immersive, player-driven experiences. By combining the power of NFTs, GameFi, and anime culture, the goal is to become a platform that leads the gaming community from Web2 to Web3.MetaMe is a metaverse developed by NTT DOCOMO, serving as a new type of communication space. MetaMe is part of Relic's open innovation business, which supports innovation creation for large enterprises and startups. With rich experience in business co-creation, it is an incubation partner platform that can significantly accelerate the speed at which large enterprises create new businesses.

ChainCatcher news, the payment protocol AEON has announced a strategic partnership with the high-performance blockchain platform Viction. AEON Pay now supports the application of Viction ecosystem's native assets ($VIC, $C98, and stablecoins) in offline consumption scenarios.Users can use AEON Pay to scan and pay $VIC, $C98, and stablecoins within the Viction ecosystem at over millions of merchants in Southeast Asia and globally, covering various offline consumption scenarios such as shopping and dining.

ChainCatcher news, institutional-grade digital asset solution [Arctic Digital](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Arctic Digital?k=MTYyMTY= "Digital Asset Private Placement Market Solution") announced a strategic partnership with the Web3 asset data platform RootData, integrating RootData's powerful data into Arctic Digital's platform and UI to create a revolutionary digital-native client experience. RootData's rich data resources complement Arctic's mission to provide high-quality, actionable market information for institutional investors in the private market.It is reported that Arctic Digital specializes in the digital asset private market, creating unique solutions and digital infrastructure for venture capital funds, project teams, family offices, and entrepreneurs. In December last year, Arctic Digital announced the completion of its seed round financing, with participation from LTP, Bonfire Union, Skyvision Capital, and Avalon Capital.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Tether has announced a strategic partnership with the UAE real estate B2B platform Reelly Tech, aiming to optimize real estate transactions in the UAE. Over 30,000 local and international agents on the Reelly Tech platform will be able to use USDT to streamline transaction processing.As part of this collaboration, Tether and Reelly Tech will develop a comprehensive interactive educational series and promote it on the Reelly Tech platform. This program aims to help agents explore the transformative potential of stablecoins in real estate transactions and understand various practical applications, such as USDT transfers for real estate purchases.

ChainCatcher news, DeAgentAI announced a partnership with Rena Labs to introduce Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology. The introduction of this technology can enhance the security of AI agents in critical scenarios such as trading, preventing malicious manipulation by developers (Rug Pool), thereby improving the security and transparency of AI trading agents.By incorporating Rena Labs' TEE ML technology, DeAgentAI's first trading AI model, AlphaX, will have stronger verifiability, ensuring that funds and data are not accessed without authorization. At the same time, RenaAI, as DeAgentAI's first on-chain fund, will leverage TEE technology to achieve safer on-chain autonomous trading, enhancing market analysis and risk management capabilities, and providing users with professional-grade autonomous trading solutions.As the largest AI agent infrastructure in the Movement, BTC, and BSC ecosystems, DeAgentAI is committed to building a trustworthy decentralized intelligent system through a minimum entropy consensus mechanism. In the future, both parties will continue to explore the application of trusted technology in decentralized AI agents, jointly promoting the security upgrade of the Web3 ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, APRO Oracle has reached a strategic partnership with ai16z. The core of this strategic cooperation is to integrate APRO Oracle's innovative AgentText Secure Transmission Protocols (ATTPs) into ai16z's ElizaOS framework, which is expected to set a new industry standard for the AI Agent ecosystem infrastructure.APRO Oracle's ATTPs protocol aims to provide secure, verifiable, and real-time data transmission support for AI Agents. By integrating with the ElizaOS framework supported by ai16z, ATTPs will enable developers to build various types of AI Agents more efficiently and facilitate collaboration between AI Agents. As part of this integration, APRO Oracle will provide four dedicated source agents to support the ai16z ecosystem built on the Eliza framework.

ChainCatcher news, DuckChain announced a strategic partnership with Mind Network to explore innovative possibilities in on-chain governance and jointly promote the deep integration of AI and Web3.At the core of this collaboration, Mind Network will provide DuckChain with a secure and efficient decentralized governance voting solution based on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, fully ensuring user privacy. This solution will significantly enhance the efficiency and security of on-chain governance, laying a solid foundation for DuckChain's AI-driven blockchain ecosystem. DuckChain will leverage Mind Network's technological advantages to promote the large-scale application of the AI+Web3 ecosystem globally, especially targeting the 1 billion Telegram user base.As the first FHE project to launch on the mainnet, Mind Network is committed to becoming the infrastructure of the HTTPZ era, promoting the widespread application of FHE technology in the fields of Web3 and AI, and addressing key issues such as data privacy protection, quantum resistance, and decentralized consensus.