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The on-chain trading platform TurboFlow announced a strategic partnership with the proprietary trading firm Susquehanna Crypto (SIG Crypto). SIG Crypto will serve as a core liquidity provider, offering institutional-level market-making support for TurboFlow's entire product line and bringing in professional pricing and risk management expertise.It is reported that through an exclusive PFOF (Payment for Order Flow) framework, both parties will jointly optimize the execution experience and slippage control for TurboFlow's high-leverage perpetual contracts and ultra-fast event contracts. Additionally, with the support of SIG Crypto, TurboFlow is iterating its prediction market pricing mechanism from fixed odds to dynamic odds (adjusting with real-time liquidity and volatility) and plans to expand its trading targets from crypto assets to traditional assets such as crude oil and gold.In the future, TurboFlow also plans to launch a Telegram Mini App to further support prediction market trading for major events such as the World Cup in June.

AI Agent Financial Infrastructure B.AI announced a strategic partnership with CoinAnk, where both parties will work together to inject stronger data-driven decision-making capabilities into AI agents. In an era where autonomous trading is constantly evolving, millisecond-level real-time data often determines the success or failure of strategies. As B.AI continues to explore the construction direction of AGI native financial systems, this collaboration will leverage CoinAnk's derivatives analysis and market intelligence to provide signal support for more adaptive and wiser trading strategies, helping agents make better decisions in complex markets. B.AI will continue to uphold the concept of open cooperation to solidify the data foundation for an AI-driven financial future.

Prediction market Kalshi announced a partnership with the sports venue Madison Square Garden, becoming its official prediction market partner. The sixth-floor concourse of Madison Square Garden will officially be renamed Kalshi Concourse, which is primarily used for merchandise sales, dining, and bars.

The AI Agent Economy project NeoSoul today announced a strategic partnership with the self-hosted stablecoin Neobank AllScale.It is reported that both parties will conduct in-depth research on the credit formation of AI Agents and stablecoin settlement, focusing on the payment needs generated by Agents in autonomous collaboration (such as purchasing data, invoking tools, requesting services from other Agents, etc.), and how to achieve automated settlement through stablecoins.According to the introduction, NeoSoul is committed to building its long-term credit network by recording the judgment processes and feedback results of Agents; AllScale focuses on stablecoin payments and commercial capital flow scenarios. This exploratory cooperation aims to study how to provide more efficient and low-friction value transfer support for future automated collaboration and micro-settlement between AI Agents through stablecoin payment infrastructure.

The next-generation financial operating system PhotonPay has won three awards at the Mastercard Annual Partner Awards Gala, namely: New Product Launch Award (Physical Card), New Service Launch Award (MDES Digital Empowerment), and New Service Launch Award (Consulting Services). This marks PhotonPay's role as a next-generation financial operating system that is comprehensively reshaping the financial infrastructure landscape for global enterprises.The PhotonPay physical card is issued on the Mastercard network, supporting real-time consumption tracking globally, multi-level limit control, 3D Secure authentication, and significantly reducing cross-border transaction fees. The flexible open API meets the personalized customization needs of enterprises.MDES Digital Empowerment reflects the deep integration of PhotonPay with Mastercard's digital empowerment services, allowing virtual and physical cards to be linked to Apple Pay and Google Pay in seconds, with transaction security ensured throughout by tokenization technology.The Consulting Services Award recognizes the effective collaboration between PhotonPay and the Mastercard expert team, helping PhotonPay create more compliant and competitive card product solutions for global clients.Lewison, founder and CEO of PhotonPay, stated that these honors reflect Mastercard's trust in PhotonPay and PhotonPay's adherence to its own standards. The company remains focused on building financial infrastructure that provides global enterprises with the tools for borderless operation, expansion, and competition.

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated at the Consensus Miami conference that the preparations for KrakenIPO are about 80% complete, and the company has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, currently waiting for the right market window.Kraken also announced a partnership with MoneyGram, where both parties will collaborate on scenarios involving the exchange of crypto assets and cash to address the "last mile" cash access issue. MoneyGram currently has approximately 500,000 retail locations worldwide. Executives from both sides stated that stablecoins are expected to reduce costs and efficiency losses in payment systems, especially in regions with weaker financial infrastructure.

According to PR Newswire, the asset tokenization platform Securitize announced a partnership with Jump Trading Group and the decentralized trading aggregator Jupiter to launch fully on-chain and regulated tokenized stock trading. This integration combines Securitize's end-to-end regulatory infrastructure, Jump's liquidity, and Jupiter's front-end distribution interface, aiming to create a complete market structure stack.This move marks the transition of tokenized stocks from issuance to a scalable and liquid secondary market. Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo stated that the collaboration demonstrates that liquidity, accessibility, and compliance can be achieved within the existing regulatory framework. Jump provides liquidity through its PropAMM deployed on Solana, while Jupiter serves as the user access point. The entire system operates under existing securities regulations.The system offers large-scale liquidity support for issuers, provides a compliant path for distribution platforms to integrate tokenized securities, and indicates to regulators that blockchain-based markets have achieved scalability while enhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility.

According to official news, Coinbase announced a partnership with the crypto derivatives OEMS (Order and Execution Management System) and PMS (Portfolio Management System) provider Kemet.Through this collaboration, Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange, Coinbase International Exchange, and Deribit will be integrated into the Kemet platform, allowing institutional clients to access Coinbase's trading venues through a single interface, routing order executions between spot, futures, and options.As part of the partnership, Coinbase Ventures will make a strategic investment in Kemet to support long-term collaboration aimed at achieving the goal of supporting large-scale advanced trading. Kemet's platform supports advanced multi-leg options strategies, smart order routing, automated Delta hedging, and spread trading algorithms, all of which are capabilities required for institutional trading desks to execute complex derivatives strategies at scale.Coinbase stated that its goal is to become the most trusted and comprehensive trading platform, continuously expanding the types of assets customers can trade and the ways to execute complex derivatives strategies. Kemet, as an open multi-broker platform, enables institutions trading across multiple venues to seamlessly access and prioritize Coinbase markets.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.45%, the S&P 500 up 0.36%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.57%. Hertz (HTZ.O) rose by 15% as the company collaborates with Uber to promote the operation of autonomous taxis and human-driven fleets. Meta Platforms (META.O) fell by 8.4% due to the company raising its capital expenditure outlook and signaling regulatory risks.

Agent Economy project NeoSoul announced a strategic partnership with AI-powered financial OS Infini. Currently, NeoSoul has adopted the Infini corporate card to support the team's expenses in SaaS subscriptions, AI APIs, cloud services, marketing, community operations, and collaboration tools during the globalization process, further enhancing the payment efficiency and financial management capabilities of AI/Web3 teams.As the globalization of AI and Web3 projects continues to increase, the team's daily expenses are showing characteristics of high frequency, small amounts, cross-border, and multi-platform. From model calls, cloud infrastructure, and node services to advertising, content production, and community growth, corporate financial tools have become an important infrastructure affecting R&D efficiency and market execution speed. Through this collaboration, NeoSoul will leverage the Infini corporate card and related tools to optimize the team's experience in cross-border spending, budget management, expense visualization, and operational collaboration, providing more flexible financial support for subsequent product development and global market expansion.In the future, both parties will further communicate around corporate financial operations in the AI era. Potential directions include the application of AI Agents in corporate expense management, budget control, subscription management, and cross-border payments, the role of stablecoin payments in the global operations of AI/Web3 teams, and the potential needs for payment authorization, settlement, and credit infrastructure that may arise during the development of the Agent Economy. NeoSoul and Infini also plan to continuously focus on the integration of AI Agents and corporate financial infrastructure through industry exchanges, closed-door discussions, and ecological communication, promoting more discussions on AI-native operations, stablecoin payments, and digital economic infrastructure.NeoSoul co-founder Kaelan stated: "The development of AI Agents is gradually moving from content generation and information processing to more complex economic behaviors. As Agents begin to participate in forecasting, collaboration, payments, settlements, and long-term credit accumulation, enterprises and development teams also need financial infrastructure that is more suitable for globalization, digitization, and automation scenarios. This collaboration with Infini will start from NeoSoul's own team operation scenarios and gradually explore more possibilities for the integration of AI and new financial tools."Infini founder Christian stated: "NeoSoul is exploring cutting-edge directions such as AI Agents, predictive markets, and the Agent Economy, which highly aligns with Infini's judgment on the future of corporate financial automation. We are pleased to support NeoSoul's global operations through corporate cards and financial operation tools. In the future, Infini also looks forward to more discussions with NeoSoul around financial management for AI-native teams, stablecoin payments, and automated operations."

OpenAI announced that its strategic partnership with Microsoft has entered a new phase, with key points including: Microsoft will continue to be OpenAI's primary cloud computing partner and retain priority access, but its licensing of OpenAI's intellectual property will be adjusted from exclusive to non-exclusive, while Microsoft will still participate as a major shareholder in OpenAI's business development.

According to official news, B.AI announced a strategic partnership with Biconomy, and both parties will work together to build a financial layer for AI, jointly promoting the development of the digital economy. By integrating Biconomy's high-performance trading infrastructure, validated by millions of users, B.AI will provide a more secure, transparent, and globally accessible financial trading environment for future autonomous agent AI, further solidifying the AI financial value chain in the digital economy era. Committed to providing users with fast and transparent trading infrastructure, both parties aim to create the next-generation financial ecosystem that prioritizes security and global access.

Binance announced today that as part of the merchant partner review, Binance Pay has terminated support for payment functionality on the RedotPay platform as of April 3, 2026.The announcement emphasized that other services of Binance Pay are unaffected, and users can still transfer cryptocurrency to friends and family via email, phone number, or Binance ID (UID), and can use cryptocurrency payments at over 21 million merchants worldwide, including national QR code networks in multiple countries.Binance stated that it will continue to expand new merchant partners to provide users with more options.

OKX Boost and RootData announced a partnership to engage in deep collaboration around the standards for high-quality industry projects, aiming to enhance the transparency and overall quality of crypto market projects.It is reported that OKX Boost is a premium project screening channel launched by OKX Wallet in September last year, designed to discover potential projects based on real DEX data and incentivize real trading users. RootData, as a leading Web3 asset data platform, has long been committed to building a highly credible Web3 database and has launched a series of products such as the "Transparency Ranking" to continuously promote information transparency in the industry.In this collaboration, RootData will work with ChainCatcher to provide transparency review and quality assessment support for OKX Boost and projects launched on OKX, helping to further enhance project screening standards and information disclosure levels; at the same time, RootData will also improve its database and data processing model through OKX Boost.

B.AI officially announced a deep strategic cooperation with the KuCoin Web3 wallet, aiming to connect machine intelligence with global liquidity through technological synergy. This collaboration will deeply integrate B.AI's AI economic execution and settlement layer capabilities with the KuCoin Web3 wallet's convenient on-chain asset discovery entry, creating a scalable and seamless access path to AI infrastructure for users. Both parties will take this opportunity to jointly explore the application potential of AI Agents in the cryptocurrency field, creating an efficient, secure, and deeply liquid AI-driven Web3 experience for global users.

BTCC Exchange announced a strategic partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA), officially becoming the regional partner of the Argentine national team. This cooperation will cover the entire cycle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.BTCC stated that through this partnership, it will deepen its global layout, improve the trading ecosystem, and strengthen user trust, while launching a series of activities for users, including signed jersey giveaways and trading competitions. Founded in 2011, BTCC is one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

BitGo announced a partnership with ZKsync to launch a production-ready tokenized deposit solution, providing secure custody, privacy, and compliant blockchain settlement designed specifically for banks.Tokenized deposits will enable always-online settlement and programmable cash flow while keeping funds within the banking system and complying with existing regulatory frameworks.

According to The Information, Coinbase is promoting the use of AI agents to make payments with cryptocurrency and is working to reach a stablecoin partnership with Cloudflare.Given Cloudflare's key role in managing network traffic, if an agreement is reached, the relevant stablecoin will play a central role in the AI agent-driven traffic.