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The BNB ecosystem decentralized finance platform Eleutheria announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, with participation from Alpha Capital, and valuation information has not yet been disclosed.The new funds will support its development of on-chain financial services through trustless code-driven DeFi and immutable smart contracts.

Bitget announced the launch of a new Bitget AI landing page, further showcasing its product layout for the AI trading ecosystem. Data shows that the number of users in the Bitget AI ecosystem has surpassed 1 million, with a cumulative trading volume of 1.2 billion USD, and it has supported over 58 trading tools, covering core scenarios such as market analysis, trading assistance, strategy building, and automated workflows.Under the UEX multi-asset trading framework, Bitget AI has become a key layout for the platform to deeply embed intelligent systems into trading scenarios, and it is an important step towards evolving into a native intelligent agent exchange. The core products of this ecosystem include the no-install AI agent GetClaw, which provides real-time market insights; the AI assistant GetAgent, used for strategy execution and automated trading; and the developer platform Agent Hub, which offers open API interfaces and model integration capabilities. Together, these three components build a complete closed-loop process of "insight---strategy---execution," providing users with seamless intelligent trading services.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen revealed that the next phase will gradually introduce new features, including the AI Trading Playbooks currently in internal testing, to enhance the integrated AI trading infrastructure from strategy creation, backtesting, deployment to distribution.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined 104 partners of Arc, covering six core sectors: asset issuance, infrastructure, developer tools, trading, financial services, and payments. Compared to most public chains that first develop a developer ecosystem and then seek commercialization scenarios, Arc's path is clearly more aligned with the real financial circulation network. At the asset issuance level, stablecoin issuers such as AllUnity, BDACS, Bitso/Juno, and Stablecorp, as well as tokenized asset players like Centrifuge, Securitize, and WisdomTree have entered the scene, indicating that Arc prioritizes solving the "on-chain asset supply" issue, bringing dollars, bonds, and securities onto the chain. At the infrastructure level, partners like Blockdaemon, Chainalysis, Elliptic, QuickNode, and DRPC provide node services, compliance analysis, and on-chain data support. This means Arc is preparing for institutional funds, rather than following the typical Crypto public chain model of "growth first, compliance later." At the developer tools level, partners such as Axelar, Wormhole, Chainlink, MetaMask, Fireblocks, Privy, Alchemy, LayerZero, and TRM Labs are concentrated, essentially lowering the migration costs for institutions and developers, allowing funds, wallets, cross-chain, and compliance tools to be directly in place. At the trading level, institutions like Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, Robinhood, Galaxy Digital, and B2C2 are responsible for secondary market liquidity and price discovery. The payment layer is heavily integrated by Visa, Mastercard, PhotonPay, Nuvei, EBANX, and Ramp. At the financial services level, firms like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, State Street, Aave, Maple Finance, Morpho, and BitGo are appearing simultaneously, indicating that Arc has begun to bridge traditional banking, on-chain lending, and custody systems. On the surface, Arc appears to be a new public chain, but from an ecological structure perspective, it will serve as the new financial infrastructure for the Circle stablecoin era, directly emphasizing USDC gas fees, sub-second final settlement, compliance privacy, and native CCTP integration, aiming to directly penetrate real capital flows and attempt to become SWIFT + Stripe + DTCC. Related compilation: Arc Web3 Partner Network Compilation (continuously updated) Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 projects to claim their information and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of the cryptocurrency project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients like Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase. If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the [RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping] form to supplement your important clients and partners.

According to The Defiant, Solana officials announced that the $ENA token has officially launched on multiple mainstream applications within the Solana ecosystem.The currently integrated platforms include Phantom Wallet, Jupiter Exchange, FOMO, dFlow, Titan Exchange, Solflare, Kamino Swap, and Mayan, among others. Among them, Phantom and Jupiter, as one of the most widely used applications on Solana, provide important trading and usage channels for ENA.

USDC issuer Circle announced further deepening of its cooperation with Hyperliquid, becoming the technical deployment partner for USDC on Hyperliquid and positioning USDC as an Aligned Quote Asset. Hyperliquid, as a high-performance on-chain trading platform, is expanding from perpetual contracts to outcome-based markets, with USDC continuing to serve as the primary collateral and quote asset to support liquidity, collateral management, and cross-chain capital flows.Circle is responsible for providing reliable minting, redemption, and cross-chain transfer infrastructure, allowing USDC to play a more central role in new markets. Circle also announced an increase in financial investment in the Hyperliquid ecosystem: following the initial purchase of HYPE tokens in September 2025, it has staked an additional 500,000 HYPE tokens, further aligning the interests of both parties and moving towards becoming a validator.

Movement announced that it has completed the acquisition of the on-chain Vault infrastructure project Canopy, further integrating key financial infrastructure within the Movement Network. Canopy has previously been an important part of the Movement ecosystem, primarily responsible for building the Vault layer on the Movement Network, with its smart contracts allowing users to allocate assets and strategize on-chain with independent strategy managers.After this acquisition, Canopy will collaborate more closely with the on-chain credit protocol MovePosition, and Movement is gradually building a complete on-chain financial infrastructure stack covering modules such as Vault, credit, and yield strategies. Movement stated that most public chain ecosystems still rely on third parties to provide core financial primitives, while Movement hopes to achieve deeper technical collaboration between Vault contracts and other components of the network through self-built and internally integrated methods.For developers, this means they can directly integrate core protocols that are continuously iterating; for partners, it means stronger consistency between the underlying infrastructure and the development team; for users, it is expected to provide a more unified on-chain financial product experience. The official also revealed that MovePosition and Canopy will gradually operate as a unified infrastructure, with more integration details to be announced in the coming weeks.

The stablecoin yield infrastructure project Osero announced the completion of a $13.5 million financing round, led by Sky Ecosystem (formerly MakerDAO), with Layer 1 blockchain developer Plasma co-leading. Other participants include RedStone, Maple co-founder Joe Flanagan, and USDT0 co-founder Lorenzo Romagnoli. The financing is structured as a SAFT (Simple Agreement for Future Tokens), with the round completed in March of this year.

Ondo Finance announced that its subsidiary Ondo Global Markets has surpassed a total locked value (TVL) of $1 billion, becoming one of the fastest-growing tokenized stock and ETF platforms in the history of on-chain finance. Official data shows that the platform achieved this milestone in less than 8 months and currently holds over 70% of the tokenized stock market share, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $18 billion and a user base reaching tens of thousands.Ondo Global Markets currently supports over 260 tokenized stocks and ETFs, covering several popular industries such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, defense, and energy, and has been deployed on multiple public chains including Solana, BNB Chain, and Ethereum. The project team stated that tokenized assets are rapidly expanding into more asset classes, with a growth rate that has surpassed the early stages of stablecoins and tokenized U.S. Treasuries, reflecting a structural change in the way global capital markets are accessed.

According to GMGN monitoring, the Base ecological token POD (Dolphin) surged significantly this morning, with a peak market value exceeding $82 million, currently falling back to $76.4 million, with a 24-hour increase of 130%, and an on-chain trading volume of approximately $2.9 million during the same period.The catalyst for this round of increase may be the strong market performance of VVV. As an AI model development and DePIN project, Dolphin provides the "Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition," which is the default uncensored AI model on the Venice platform, leading to an increase in POD as the core model provider.

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.

The first AI + DePIN project PinGo on the TON chain was officially announced on May 7, expanding its AI ecosystem blueprint with three core components:AI Token Integration Platform: Supports staking, governance, and cross-platform applications of AI Tokens; AI Infrastructure Platform: Aggregates idle computing power globally to support scalable AI workloads; AI Skill Marketplace: Provides opportunities for creators and developers to monetize AI skills and services.This ecological expansion marks an important step for PinGo in building a global decentralized AI + Web3 ecosystem. Following the announcement, its official token $PINGO saw a temporary price increase of 24%.

According to GMGN monitoring, the BSC ecosystem token BILL has surged by 10% in the past hour, reaching a market capitalization of a new high of $17.2 million, currently reported at $16.5 million, with a 24-hour increase of 44% and a trading volume of $143 million during the same period.It is reported that BILL is the native token of Billions Network. This project is a verification network aimed at humans and AI, designed to achieve identity verification and trust connection between individuals and AI Agents without exposing private data. It has continued to rise since its launch on Binance Alpha.

According to GMGN data, the market value of the ETH chain ecosystem token sato continues to rise and has reached a new high, currently reported at approximately $13.82 million, with a daily increase of over 300%.ChainCatcher reminds users that token prices are highly volatile, and investors should be aware of the risks.

According to GMGN data, the market capitalization of the SOL ecosystem token PayAI briefly rose above $10 million, currently reported at about $7.6 million, with a daily increase of over 230%.Previously, it was reported that Solana and GoogleCloud launched Pay.sh, supporting AI agents to use stablecoins to call API services.ChainCatcher reminds users that the price of meme coins is highly volatile, and investors should be aware of the risks.

According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company announced that it will invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform, Minds.Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without the need to operate local servers or manage hardware and software.

Particle Network today announced the next phase product roadmap for Universal Accounts, which will launch two new products in the coming months: 1. Universal Deposit SDK: Developers only need about 10 lines of code to allow users to deposit assets from any chain into the application, significantly lowering the threshold for multi-chain asset access. 2. Universal Agent Accounts: An API and Dashboard for AI Agents, enabling AI Agents to own and manage their own Universal Accounts.Previously, Particle released EIP-7702 Universal Accounts in March, supporting any EOA account to upgrade frictionlessly to a Universal Account. This roadmap further strengthens the infrastructure positioning of Universal Accounts in scenarios such as developer integration, AI Agent asset management, and multi-chain asset circulation. Overall, Particle is advancing Universal Accounts from "account abstraction capability" to a broader chain abstraction application layer infrastructure, which is expected to enhance its developer adoption and distribution capabilities within the on-chain ecosystem.

According to official news, Tapp Exchange has announced that it will gradually cease operations. The protocol will remain fully available until May 31, 2026, and all user assets are secure and can be withdrawn at any time.Since its launch in June 2025, Tapp has built the first V4 style DEX on Aptos, continuously introducing the ve(3,3) voting mechanism, emission distribution, bribery infrastructure, and governance tools, transferring liquidity decision-making power to veTAPP holders.

Data shows that the market value of tokenized gold assets globally has surged significantly, with overall growth far exceeding that of the traditional physical gold market.Tim Hong, a prominent investor from the leading institution Helio Protocol, stated that with multiple core advantages such as security compliance, sound legal framework, asset transparency, on-chain traceability, and sufficient physical backing, the XAUT ecosystem continues to lead the entire sector, becoming the preferred digital gold investment choice for both institutional and individual investors.The dual combination of traditional gold's value foundation and blockchain's decentralized circulation attributes allows XAUT to break the limitations of traditional gold trading, achieving 24-hour free trading and efficient on-chain settlement. Recently, the silver ecosystem SILVER will also open to the global community.By seizing the opportunity to capture market dividends and coupled with a heavy metal insurance plan, XAUT's long-term value is steadily increasing, with vast growth potential in the future.