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According to CoinDesk, FundBank has been renamed IRACE Digital and has acquired Tenet Bank in the Cayman Islands. This transaction will incorporate digital asset banking operations and fintech-focused clients into IRACE's existing institutional banking business.Former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin has been appointed as the Global CEO, and IRACE is expanding into the areas of custody, liquidity, and trading infrastructure.

According to The Block, Story, which focuses on on-chain intellectual property infrastructure, has been renamed DATA Foundation, shifting its business focus to AI training data and launching the on-chain data registration and auditing platform Trace. The native IP token of Story will be migrated to the new DATA token at a 1:1 ratio, and holders do not need to take any action; specific timing and guidance will be announced later.DATA also announced a deep integration with the AI training data marketplace Kled, bringing over 1.5 billion pieces of user-contributed data into the DATA network. Through Trace, each data contribution will generate an on-chain receipt, recording the data source, authorization method, contributor consent, and payment information, supporting settlement to contributors in stablecoins or fiat currency.

According to reports from two Meta employees cited by The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg has instructed a small internal team to develop an independent prediction market application codenamed "Arena," which will operate separately from existing products like Facebook and Instagram.The initial design uses a game-like points system instead of real money betting, but the possibility of introducing real money models in the future has not been ruled out. Following the announcement, the stock prices of Robinhood and DraftKings fell in early trading this week. Meta's applications have 3.56 billion daily active users, and their distribution scale far exceeds the total of all existing prediction market platforms; if they officially enter the market, it will directly impact crypto-native platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.The prediction market is currently in a rapid growth phase, with Polymarket's trading volume surpassing $10 billion for the first time in March this year. On the regulatory front, the CFTC is engaged in litigation regarding federal jurisdiction over prediction markets and state-level betting laws. Meta's points system design temporarily sidesteps this issue, but its scale means that any shift towards real money betting will immediately become a significant regulatory event.

Renaiss, a liquidity infrastructure for real-world collectibles, announced the completion of a $1.5 million seed round financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Gate Ventures, Hash Global, XIN Family, and Redline Labs. Angel investors come from Mask Network, Far East Group, Logoman, Hoopi, and Legit App.Built on the BNB Chain, Renaiss aims to connect third-party vaults, card shops, and custody nodes through Renaiss Vault OS, and uses Renaiss.XYZ as the application layer for users to access the on-chain collectibles market. It provides verifiable custody, standardized settlement, and on-chain liquidity for physical collectibles, eliminating friction in verification, custody, pricing, and cross-border transactions. Collectibles verified through custody can complete ownership transfers on-chain and circulate globally without trust and permission.The funds from this round will be used to expand the vault network, enhance product integration with the Renaiss SDK ecosystem, expand collectible categories, drive global market expansion, and support DeFi integration and AI Agent-related infrastructure development.It is reported that Renaiss has been selected for the third season of the YZi Labs incubation program EASY Residency and has won the 2025 Binance Blockchain Week Dubai Demo Night award, while ranking first in the RWA category on the BNB Chain. Since the Beta launch in November 2025, the Renaiss platform has achieved a turnover of over $20 million, with more than 260,000 users.

According to CoinDesk, Fidelity Investments has officially launched the "Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund," which aims to provide reserve asset management services for stablecoin issuers and institutional investors, further tapping into the capital management needs brought about by the rapid expansion of stablecoins. The fund will primarily invest in highly liquid assets such as short-term U.S. Treasury securities, cash, and repurchase agreements to meet the regulatory requirements for reserve assets of payment stablecoins under the U.S. GENIUS Act.At the same time, State Street has also recently launched a similar product, marking that large asset management institutions on Wall Street are accelerating their entry into the stablecoin reserve management market, competing around the cash and Treasury asset backing stablecoins.

The voting on TON Vote by The Open Network community has concluded. The results show that 81.22% of participants voted in favor of renaming the network's native token from Toncoin to Gram, while the token code will also change from TON to GRAM.This change will officially take effect on June 15, 2026, at 20:00 (UTC+8). The blockchain itself will remain as The Open Network; only the token name, code, and icon will change.This adjustment requires no action from users, and there will be no token exchange, cross-chain bridging, claiming, or migration processes. Users' balances, addresses, smart contracts, NFTs, staked assets, and DeFi positions will remain completely unchanged.Voting opened on June 1, 2026, and ended on June 8. All ecosystem projects, including trading platforms, are expected to complete updates synchronously by 20:00 (UTC+8) and achieve consistency across the entire ecosystem by June 22, 2026.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on his personal channel that the TON ecosystem has launched a brand upgrade plan, and the name of its native token will be changed from TON to Gram. The team stated that "Gram" was the name given to the native currency in the original white paper of the TON project, and this renaming aims to return to the project's original intention and open a new phase of ecological development.According to the announcement, this brand transition is expected to be gradually completed over the next three weeks. During the transition period, the relevant infrastructure, wallets, and ecological applications will successively update the token name.TON emphasized that this adjustment only involves the brand name of the native token, and the TON blockchain network itself will continue to use the name "TON (The Open Network)" without being affected.The official statement indicated that restoring the native token to Gram is the fourth step in the "Make TON Great Again" seven-step strategy, and more ecological development plans and upgrade measures will be announced in the future.

According to the official announcement, the Gate DEX BountyDrop has launched the VAYLA Arena airdrop event. Users can enter the BountyDrop module through the "Events" page of the Gate DEX App to participate in tasks. Among all participants who complete the tasks, 3,000 participants will be randomly selected to share $15,000 VAYLA.Gate Wallet is an industry-leading multi-chain crypto wallet, providing a one-stop connection to over 100 public chains, millions of assets, and tens of thousands of DApps, offering a professional-level DEX experience and the best solutions for every DEX need. BountyDrop is a dedicated earning activity section in the Gate DEX discovery page, where users have the chance to win rewards or participate in a lottery to receive airdrop tokens by completing simple tasks.

According to official news, the smart contract auditing platform Code4rena has announced that it will gradually cease operations, and the Web3 security company Immunefi will take over its clients and security researchers. Code4rena posted on social media that it has made the decision to shut down and stated that all ongoing competitions and bounty activities will be completed as usual, and existing collaborations will be "properly concluded." Immunefi stated that it will assist in migrating Code4rena's bounty projects, reward structures, and researchers to its platform.Code4rena is known for its "competitive auditing" model, where independent researchers compete to find vulnerabilities in smart contracts for rewards. This shutdown comes less than two years after blockchain security company Zellic acquired Code4rena in 2024. Previously, Code4rena raised $6 million from Paradigm in 2023 for auditing incentives and platform expansion.This shutdown comes at a difficult time for DeFi protocols and the security sector. Data from DefiLlama shows that there were over 20 crypto vulnerability incidents in April alone, setting a monthly record. JPMorgan analysts believe that ongoing DeFi security incidents are limiting major institutional investors from entering the market. Meanwhile, the total value locked in DeFi has decreased from about $160 billion in October to approximately $83 billion currently.

According to official news, Gate will launch a special celebration event for joint earnings from April 24 at 12:00 to May 13 at 12:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 1,000,000 USDT. During the event, users can open exclusive red envelopes and invite friends to register. After friends complete identity verification and designated tasks, both parties can share cash rewards, with a maximum of 100 USDT per instance. The more invitations sent, the more rewards earned, with no cap on individual earnings.In addition, Gate will launch the second phase of the weekend arena battle event from April 24 at 16:00 to April 27 at 16:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 3,348,000 PENGU. During the event, users who invite friends to register and complete a cumulative trading volume of ≥ 200 USDT will be considered valid invitations and unlock multiple rewards. The milestone rewards can be stacked up to a maximum of 7,800 PENGU, and there will also be a popularity ranking reward, with the top 3 able to share an additional 128,000 PENGU. Additionally, invited friends can receive a 260 PENGU newcomer reward after completing tasks.

Perena founder Anna posted on platform X that its USD, USD-J, and USD*-P products were not affected by the Drift incident, but the JLP vault managed by Trade Neutral was impacted due to operating on the Drift protocol vault. The team will communicate promptly after receiving updates from partners.

The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms disclosed a revenue of $229 million for the fiscal year 2025, a year-on-year increase of 72%, but a net loss from continuing operations of $209 million.As of March 27, its cash and Bitcoin liquidity was approximately $520 million, and it announced that it has received shareholder approval to complete its relocation to the United States and rename itself as Keel Infrastructure as early as April 1, 2026, with the stock ticker expected to change to KEEL.The company also plans to "timely" sell approximately 2,400 Bitcoins, valued at about $161 million, to invest in HPC and AI infrastructure construction, further diminishing its positioning as a pure Bitcoin mining company.

The non-profit organization European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) officially announced its name change to the European Ethereum Institute (EEI) at the EthCC conference. It stated that Ethereum has become the core infrastructure layer of the European digital economy, and this name change aims to align with that reality.EEI is positioned as a public infrastructure policy research institution for Europe's digital future, providing independent, evidence-based analysis to explore regulatory issues affecting Ethereum, its developers, and users, connecting protocol developers, civil society, businesses, and policymakers, and translating technological realities into actionable policy recommendations.

The official Ethereum team stated on the X platform that privacy within the Ethereum ecosystem is undergoing a transformation, and it could even be described as a renaissance. Ethereum originated from the cypherpunk movement, which has been part of the struggle for digital rights through open-source technology for decades, with the foundation of this struggle being the protection of privacy rights, meaning that users' online activities should not be repackaged and used for commercial purposes. Cypherpunk signifies a commitment to resisting censorship, open source, privacy, and security (abbreviated as CROPS).The new cypherpunk is a contemporary collaborative concept that upholds cultural values such as permissionless, privacy, decentralization, anti-censorship, trustlessness, and open source. It is oriented towards positive-sum games but rooted in a realistic political understanding of self-defense. Today's Ethereum embodies the new cypherpunk, modernizing traditional interpretations. This is cypherpunk with an Ethereum twist!The new cypherpunk is part of Eric Hughes' legacy, who is a paradigm of the deepest understanding of how to achieve privacy within the cypherpunk community. At the end of 2023, Vitalik called on the community to "revitalize Ethereum cypherpunk," and now may be the best time to become advocates for privacy within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Decentralized AI Intelligent Network DGrid AI officially announces the launch of Arena for Agent, allowing users to create their own AI Agent on the BNB Chain based on the ERC-8004 standard with one click, enabling it to automatically participate in AI Arena model battles and earn USDT rewards for you 24/7.Arena for Agent supports users in quickly creating their own AI Agent with one click and authorizing their idle AI API Key to their Agent, supporting multiple platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, and HodlAI. The Agent will automatically vote for model responses in the DGrid AI Arena, with each vote bringing real USDT earnings to the users.DGrid AI is a leading decentralized AI intelligent network that provides low-cost, highly available, and verifiable decentralized AI capabilities to developers and AI applications through a unified API connecting over 200 mainstream models.

Binance announces that it will support the conversion of MANTRA (OM) tokens, split pricing, and rename it to MANTRA (MANTRA). OM will be converted at a ratio of 1 OM = 4 MANTRA and will continue to use the new ticker MANTRA. Starting from February 23, OM-related contracts will stop opening new positions and will be automatically settled; from February 14 to 23, OM will be delisted from Cross / Isolated Margin and trigger automatic repayments and asset conversions;Starting from February 20, Buy & Sell Crypto will remove OM; on February 23, Binance Loans will close OM lending; from February 27, Simple Earn will redeem OM products and will allow re-subscription with MANTRA after March 4; on March 2, OM spot, Convert, Gift Card, and other scenarios will be fully delisted, and on March 4, new spot trading pairs for MANTRA will be launched, and OM withdrawals will be stopped.