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Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer of Western Digital, stated that the key to AI storage competition is not simply pursuing the fastest medium, but whether it can continuously scale capacity at an affordable cost. He believes that many architectures run well in the early stages, but when the data scale grows from several PB to hundreds of PB or even EB levels, issues may arise due to uncontrolled costs.Flash storage is suitable for high-performance, low-latency scenarios such as model weights, GPU overflow, KV caches, and session contexts; HDDs are more suitable for large-scale, long-term storage, and cost-sensitive data such as training corpora, logs, checkpoints, compliance records, synthetic data, and inference outputs. He summarized: "Flash handles the present, HDD handles the entire lifecycle."At the scale of AI, storage costs themselves will become an architectural issue. Long-term storage of large volumes of data on high-performance media will crowd out budgets for computing, networking, power, and personnel. For many bulk storage workloads, the issue is not whether flash can store, but whether customers can afford the total cost of using flash in the long term.In the future, AI storage will not be dominated by a single technology, but should be designed in layers based on performance, cost, power consumption, density, reliability, and data lifecycle. He emphasized that this is not a competition between flash and HDD, but rather a need to match the appropriate medium for different workloads from the very beginning; otherwise, the architecture may impact business sustainability as it scales.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley posted on the X platform, "In the 1990s, the internet was just emerging. Almost every idea seemed feasible. Hundreds of companies reached valuations of 500 million to 1 billion dollars based on these possibilities. By the early 21st century, that optimism faded. There were no longer hundreds of companies competing. Instead, a few companies that truly proved their worth thrived. Because they succeeded with demonstrable value, they operated longer and were larger in scale than in the previous cycle. The cryptocurrency sector is also undergoing a similar transformation. The number of winners will decrease, but the winners will stand out due to their demonstrable value. Their scale will be larger, and their operating time will be longer than people expect."

The globally oriented Web3 intellectual property (IP) infrastructure project BeatSwap will launch its core product "Space" in Q2. This product is defined as the SocialFi layer in the ecosystem, aimed at directly connecting creators with users and achieving deep integration with other modules of the platform.As a result, a complete user behavior closed loop is formed within the platform: Discovery; Participation; Consumption; Rewards; Trading. The announcement states that the launch of this product marks BeatSwap's evolution towards a full-stack Web3 infrastructure. Through the integration of IP certification and on-chain registration, revenue distribution, incentive mechanisms, and other aspects, the platform constructs an end-to-end closed-loop path, allowing IP rights to complete the full cycle of "creation---usage---monetization" within the same ecosystem.

Cryptocurrency market maker GSR announced the acquisition of Autonomous and Architech for $57 million, building an integrated capital market and fund management platform that covers the entire lifecycle of projects from launch to expansion.After the acquisition is completed, Autonomous will continue to operate independently, providing support for the launch and operation of tokenized organizations; Architech will become a core component of GSR's digital asset consulting business. This acquisition marks GSR's further transformation into a "one-stop capital market service provider for crypto," strengthening its layout in the institutional-grade infrastructure and full-cycle service fields.This integration aims to address the current issues in the crypto industry regarding the decentralization of services and inconsistent incentives in areas such as token issuance, governance design, liquidity, financing, and listing strategies, by providing collaborative support through a unified framework. Additionally, clients will have access to GSR's existing institutional trading, derivatives, and asset management capabilities. GSR stated that the platform will also focus on enhancing the treasury management capabilities of crypto projects, covering liquidity planning, cash flow forecasting, risk management, and asset allocation strategies, promoting the transition of crypto funds from passive holding to sustainable returns and diversified allocation.

According to official news, Citibank announced that it has tokenized a bill of exchange and completed its entire lifecycle (from issuance to settlement) on the Solana blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated in an interview with the TBPN podcast that he hopes to move every stage of startup development onto the blockchain, from founding to financing to going public. Founders can establish their own startups, conduct seed round financing, and receive USDC funding support, ultimately leading to a tokenized equity listing.

ChainCatcher news, Lightec founder Weji delivered a speech titled "Building a Fully Decentralized Crypto World" at the Web3 Ecosystem Consensus Conference during Blockchain International Week.In the speech, Weji introduced the concept of full lifecycle decentralization and elaborated in detail on various aspects such as product design, technology development, economic models and revenue distribution, as well as operations and governance, using Lightec's flagship product zkBTC as an example.At the same time, Weji revealed that zkBTC will drive large-scale airdrops, which, based on ICP Chain Fusion technology, can support airdrop actions for hundreds of thousands of users.