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In the early morning of May 14 (UTC+8), in the final of the 2026 Coppa Italia, Inter Milan ultimately defeated Lazio with a score of 2:0, successfully lifting the championship trophy. As the official sleeve sponsor of Inter Milan Football Club, Gate was deeply involved in this peak event. During the final, Gate Europe CEO Giovanni Cunti was invited to attend the sponsor partner luncheon hosted by the club and watched the match from the box, witnessing the team's moment of glory alongside Inter Milan legends Esteban Cambiasso, Fabio Galante, and Francesco Toldo. This victory not only marks another important milestone in the deepening strategic cooperation between Gate and Inter Milan but also injects strong brand momentum into Gate's internationalization process.In addition, with Inter Milan winning the championship again this season, Gate will hold the "Gate x Inter XIII: Champion's Circle" offline reception in Milan on May 21. During the event, guests will visit Inter Milan's headquarters and engage in interactive exchanges with Inter legend Fabio Galante and executives. Leveraging the global attention of top international sporting events, Gate is continuously deepening the integration of Web3 with mainstream culture and strengthening its brand recognition and influence in the European and global markets.

The BAI platform announced user data for May 11, showing that the platform gained 8,756 new users that day. While maintaining strong growth, the proportion of Stripe payments among the core paying group has risen to 69.0%, indicating a steady improvement in retention rates among traditional developers and production-level users. In terms of business structure, the DeepSeek-V4 series has contributed nearly 60% of Token consumption due to its extreme cost advantages. This series of models, with ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and high throughput capabilities, is becoming an indispensable core execution engine in the AI Agent era. The B.AI platform will continue to provide developers with efficient and economical model services, helping more AI-native applications to be implemented.

Glassnode released data on platform X indicating that the unrealized losses of Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) reached about 15% at the beginning of April. Compared to the historical depths of bear market cycles where this metric exceeded 75%, the impact of this market correction on long-term holders is significantly lighter.Analysis points out that although the recent price pullback has resulted in some paper losses, the overall pressure remains far below historical cycle lows, indicating that the current decline has not yet posed a substantial test to the beliefs of long-term holders. Structurally, this adjustment leans more towards mid-term fluctuations rather than a complete cyclical capitulation.

According to the Daily Economic News, DeepSeek is rarely launching a massive financing plan, simultaneously attracting two major companies, Tencent and Alibaba. Previously, there were media reports that Alibaba and DeepSeek had a breakdown in negotiations. In response, an insider revealed exclusively to reporters on May 9 that Alibaba should not have been in negotiations.

DeepSeek's financing negotiations with Alibaba have broken down. DeepSeek launched a massive financing round, attracting major companies like Tencent and Alibaba to participate, but the two sides ultimately failed to reach an agreement. The core conflict lies in Alibaba's desire to strengthen its AI ecosystem through investment, while DeepSeek, as an independent model company, insists on minimizing binding terms and maintaining technological independence, unwilling to accept excessive ecosystem ties.DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has long rejected external equity financing. Although this time he has opened the door for the first time, his bottom line remains unchanged, with the most emphasis on offers with "the least additional conditions." DeepSeek's current financing round is valued at approximately 300 billion RMB (about 45 billion USD), with the fundraising focus on supplementing computing power and R&D funds, while also providing a market valuation anchor for employees to retain talent. Tencent had proposed to subscribe for up to 20% of the shares, but this was politely declined by DeepSeek as they did not want to relinquish a large proportion of control. Ultimately, the China National Investment Fund and others may lead the investment, with relatively loose terms that align more closely with DeepSeek's technological idealism.

DeepSeek plans to raise up to 50 billion yuan.Deepseek plans to release the V4 model update in June.

According to Reuters, China's largest state-supported semiconductor investment institution—the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund)—is negotiating to lead the first round of financing for DeepSeek, which may value the cutting-edge AI laboratory at around $45 billion. The report cites four informed sources indicating that negotiations are still ongoing.

Zhao Changpeng (CZ) posted on the X platform, "The industry's winter is actually more suitable for doing solid work. Those who remain are all holding a long-term perspective and will not be swayed by short-term market fluctuations."

Bitget announced a strategic partnership with the Web3 women's organization WIW3CH. Both parties will rely on Bitget's Blockchain4Her program to provide more systematic educational resources, industry connections, and career development support for female practitioners.This collaboration will start with a special podcast featuring Bitget CEO Gracy Chen, sharing her career growth experiences and providing more practical advice for women who have just entered the blockchain industry. The two parties will also jointly publish a series of educational articles covering Web3 technology analysis and career development paths.As a long-term project promoting women's growth, Blockchain4Her has been advancing since its launch in 2024, focusing mainly on four directions: enhancement, empowerment, education, and inclusivity. The program has funded 11 women-led startup projects through recent initiatives like the "Lady Forward" event and the "Pitch n' Slay" entrepreneurship competition, reaching hundreds of thousands of audiences through global events.

Messari's latest Pulse report provides an in-depth analysis of the early implementation progress of the Bitget AI trading system. The report points out that Bitget has built a four-layer AI product architecture that includes GetAgent (market analysis), GetClaw (autonomous execution), Agent Hub (developer access), and Gracy AI (strategy interaction). Data shows that Gracy AI attracted over 460,000 users just 11 days after its launch, generating more than 2.6 million replies and achieving an exposure of 390 million; GetAgent has surpassed 450,000 registered users, achieving over 100 million exposures during its early invitation testing phase and accumulating more than 25,000 waiting users.Messari emphasizes the infrastructure capabilities of Agent Hub in the report, noting that Bitget is currently the only trading platform that supports a complete calling system for MCP Server, REST/WebSocket API, Skills, and CLI. Currently, Agent Hub has integrated 5 analytical AI Skills and over 15 data tools, covering macro, technical, sentiment, and intelligence analysis comprehensively. The execution layer, GetClaw, builds a risk control defense line through sub-account isolation, sandbox drills, and funding limits, and has now integrated with Telegram, with plans to expand to Discord and app platforms in the future.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that AI is becoming a core component of modern trading infrastructure, and early data indicates that users increasingly expect a complete integration of analysis, execution, and strategy within a single platform. Bitget is committed to lowering the professional trading threshold through AI technology, providing institutional-level trading experiences and decision support for 150 million users worldwide.

As market sentiment warms and liquidity returns, AI technology is accelerating its leap from a mere "analytical tool" to a core "trading hub," deeply reconstructing the underlying logic of the financial market's game.At 8 PM on April 28, a cutting-edge roundtable discussion focusing on "AI Trading" will be held in Space. At that time, several industry experts will engage in in-depth discussions from the perspectives of AI infrastructure evolution, trading structure reshaping, and financial paradigm shifts, jointly analyzing whether AI's deep integration into the trading process is becoming the true starting point driving a new cycle of evolution in Web3, guiding participants to accurately capture real Alpha opportunities with long-term value in a market landscape full of uncertainties.Users are encouraged to follow the official accounts @sunpumpmeme and @Agent_SunGenX, retweet the post, and @ three friends. The official account will randomly select 5 lucky users from the participants to receive a reward of 10 USDT each.

According to Caijing magazine, the AI large model company DeepSeek is in talks with Tencent and Alibaba for financing, with the two investors expected to invest a total of $1.8 billion, valuing this round of financing at approximately $20 billion. The transaction plan has not yet been finalized, and DeepSeek, Tencent, and Alibaba have not publicly confirmed it.Sources in the transaction revealed that the main reason for DeepSeek's open financing is the recent serious talent loss. Several core researchers have left one after another to join ByteDance, Tencent, Xiaomi, and the autonomous driving company Yuanrong Qihang. Meanwhile, competitors Zhiyu Technology and MiniMax have listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and the Dark Side of the Moon has completed three rounds of financing in the first three months of this year, with a valuation more than quadrupling since the end of last year.Tencent and Alibaba's investment in DeepSeek will help diversify risks in the AI sector and deepen cooperation between the two parties at the model and product levels.

Deepseek official website launches deepseek-v4 interface and model introduction, including deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro.

According to CertiK senior blockchain investigator Natalie Newson, real-time deepfakes, phishing, supply chain attacks, and cross-chain vulnerabilities will be the main sources of crypto hacking attacks.To date, the industry has lost over $600 million due to hacking attacks, including the $293 million vulnerability incident at Kelp DAO and the $280 million theft incident at Drift Protocol, both of which are related to North Korean hacker groups. Newson warned that the accelerated development of AI will make attack methods more complex, including more realistic deepfakes, autonomous attack agents, and "agent AI" that can automatically scan for vulnerabilities in smart contracts, but AI can also serve as a defense tool. CertiK advises investors to verify the authenticity of URLs and use cold wallets to store assets to reduce risk.

According to The Information, Tencent and Alibaba are in negotiations to invest in DeepSeek, which has a valuation of over $20 billion.

According to BBX data, the bidirectional penetration of traditional financial institutions and industrial infrastructure into the crypto space has accelerated over the weekend, with the following core dynamics:The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: $SCHW) officially launched the Schwab Crypto platform in phases on April 17, opening direct trading of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot to 39 million active brokerage account customers through its Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB, with compliance custody and trade execution provided by Paxos, and a fee of 75 basis points per transaction; initially excluding New York and Louisiana. The company recorded earnings per share of $1.43 and revenue of $6.48 billion in Q1 2026, with total customer assets of approximately $12.22 trillion as of early 2026.Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: $AA) CEO Bill Oplinger confirmed in a Bloomberg interview on April 17 that the company is in deep negotiations with Bitcoin financial services company NYDIG regarding the sale of the Massena East smelter site in New York (1,300 acres, closed since 2014), which "should be completed by mid-year." The site is adjacent to the St. Lawrence River and can access hydroelectric resources provided by the New York Power Authority; NYDIG has been operating Bitcoin mining facilities there since 2024 and will gain full control of the infrastructure after the acquisition. The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.