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At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, Arda Senoz, the head of the Alchemy Pay ecosystem, delivered a keynote speech titled "Bridging the Fiat and Crypto Global Economies."Arda Senoz highlighted the recently launched Alchemy Chain, whose core value lies in connecting the settlement links between wallets, merchants, and payment partners. The ACH token serves three main functions on the chain: covering Gas fees, incentives, and governance. According to the technical roadmap, the core payment and ACH fee settlement will be implemented in Q4 2025, liquidity and interoperability will be advanced in Q1 2026, and the issuance of Alchemy Chain stablecoins and the establishment of payment channels are planned for Q2 2026.Arda emphasized that Alchemy Pay always adheres to a compliant and secure product route, promoting the mainstream adoption of digital assets through innovative solutions such as RWA integration, truly achieving a seamless connection between fiat currency and the crypto economy.

The "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum, sponsored by Monera Digital and co-hosted by ChainCatcher and RootData, will be held today, April 19, from 14:00 to 18:00 (GMT+8) in Hong Kong. This forum has received joint support from partners including Tencent Cloud, HashKey Chain, Alchemy Pay, Kite AI, Sentient, Sign, Predict.fun, Monad, Brevis, UXLINK, OneBullEx, SVP Chain, OmenX, TurboFlow, LOTUS, Mentis, NeoSoul, Swap315, Electric Soul, and others.As an important peripheral event of the "Hong Kong Web3 Carnival," this forum will focus on the paradigm shift under the deep integration of AI technology and the crypto network, engaging in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge tracks such as AI Agent economy, smart payments, RWA, and crypto infrastructure.Event registration: https://luma.com/18v6vwpf

According to official news, on April 18 at 20:00, AINFT under Bai B.AI will jointly hold a special cooperation seminar on "Payment Systems under the AI Economy" with the PKUBlockchain Association of Peking University. This seminar is based on the emerging context of Web 4.0 and aims to explore in depth how payment, as a key infrastructure, drives the paradigm shift of AI from "content generation" to "transaction decision-making." Both parties will collaboratively delve into the innovative practices in the AI economic ecosystem and financial transaction system through a deep dissection of the intersectional narrative of AI and PayFi, reshaping the boundaries of future intelligent finance.

The themed forum "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy", sponsored by Monera Digital and co-hosted by ChainCatcher and RootData, is now in the final 5-day countdown. This forum has received joint support from partners such as Tencent Cloud, HashKey Chain, Alchemy Pay, Kite AI, Sentient, Sign, Predict.fun, Monad, Brevis, UXLINK, OneBullEx, SVP Chain, OmenX, TurboFlow, LOTUS, Mentis, NeoSoul, Swap315, and is scheduled to be held on April 19 from 14:00 to 18:00 (GMT+8) in Hong Kong.As one of the important peripheral activities of the "Hong Kong Web3 Carnival", this forum will focus on the paradigm shift under the deep integration of AI technology and cryptocurrency networks, engaging in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge tracks such as AI Agent economy, smart payments, RWA, and cryptocurrency infrastructure. At the intersection of technological leap and economic form reconstruction, this themed forum is not only an insight into the current state of the industry but also a forward-looking reflection on the future intelligent economic system.Event registration: https://luma.com/18v6vwpf

According to CoinDesk, based on data from Arkham Intelligence and The Information, SpaceX currently holds 8,285 bitcoins in its Coinbase Prime custody account, valued at approximately $603 million, while the company is projected to incur nearly $5 billion in losses for the full year of 2025.Financially, SpaceX's revenue is expected to increase to $18.5 billion in 2025, but due to the acquisition and integration of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI in February this year, costs have exceeded revenue, leading to a significant reversal from a profit of about $8 billion in 2024 to a loss of nearly $5 billion.Despite recording substantial losses, SpaceX's bitcoin holdings have remained unchanged since mid-2024, showing no signs of reduction. CoinDesk's on-chain transfer records indicate that the last significant asset movement occurred about four months ago, involving a rebalancing operation of 614 and 1,021 bitcoins between SpaceX's internal wallets. The value of the holdings peaked at over $1.6 billion during the historical high of bitcoin in October 2025.In terms of corporate bitcoin holdings, SpaceX is currently the fourth largest known corporate holder, following Strategy, Marathon Digital, and Riot Platforms.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Kraken's Web3 business partners. This "vertical cooperation network" has been deeply embedded in Kraken's product system, forming a product-centric Web3 capability integration model:On the wallet and user entry side, Kraken Wallet integrates on-chain asset management capabilities.In the comprehensive service layer, products like Kraken 360 further integrate various Web3 services, enhancing the one-stop experience for users.In yield scenarios, through products like DeFi Earn, protocols such as Ethena, Veda, and Chaos are introduced, encapsulating on-chain yield capabilities as functions within the platform.Additionally, Kraken has gradually internalized trading, OTC, and institutional service capabilities through acquisitions of institutions like Bit Trade and Circle Trade in its early years. A notable case includes Kraken's acquisition of Backed, which highly integrated its xStocks, presenting it as a core product on the official page, App, and Pro trading platform. Related collection: Kraken Web3 Partner Network Collection (continuously updated)Therefore, Kraken's strategy is closer to directly turning external capabilities into its own product functions and providing a complete distribution system, giving it stronger depth and extensibility.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 project parties to claim data 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 such as Visa, Stripe, 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.

WeChat Pay officially launched the AI native access toolbox, providing low-threshold payment integration solutions for merchants and developers, supporting the rapid generation of payment function code through natural language commands.The toolbox consists of Skill packages, AI-friendly documentation, and APIs, supporting one-click calls in mainstream AI development environments. Among them, the "verbal code generation" feature can compress a development process that originally took days into minutes, enabling quick access to more than 20 functions such as mini-program payments, H5 payments, refunds, and revenue sharing.At the same time, the toolbox has built-in AI diagnostic capabilities that can automatically identify code logic issues and provide repair suggestions, reducing financial and system risks during the integration process. For developers with existing systems, it also supports interface debugging and old code upgrades. This upgrade further promotes the standardization and AI integration of payment capabilities, lowering the digital operation threshold for small and medium-sized merchants.

The decentralized exchange aggregator Jupiter announced the launch of the Token Verification API (VRFD), allowing Launchpads, DEXs, and AI agents to directly integrate verification functions into the token creation process, achieving programmatic verification.The API uses a three-step process: developers create and sign a transaction to burn 1,000 JUP on Solana, then submit the verification request along with the token metadata update. This transaction does not require Gas fees, and developers do not need to hold SOL to pay transaction fees; they only need to hold at least 1,000 JUP in their wallet to submit. Jupiter is positioning VRFD as the standard infrastructure for all projects on Solana.

Cysic officially announced the open-source Graph-First zkVM proof framework Venus. Venus is built on top of ZisK, abandoning the traditional HAL model that treats the proof process as a series of isolated backend functions, and encoding the entire ZK proof process into a global computation graph, decoupling logic from hardware execution.Tests show that Venus improves end-to-end proof time by over 9% compared to the existing ZisK 0.16.1, significantly reduces CPU-GPU synchronization overhead, and is compatible with GPU, FPGA, and even ASIC.Cysic has been listed as an integration partner of Ethproofs and will directly operate as an Ethereum zkEVM node. The ZisK zkVM that Venus is based on uses a custom instruction set and is one of the five major zkVMs explicitly listed as candidates in the official discussion of the Ethereum EIP-8025 upgrade, allowing Cysic to directly enter the core track of the Ethereum L1 proof market.

According to official news, the OpenClaw version 2026.3.31 was released this morning. The new version adds QQ bot integration (supporting private chat, group chat, and guild chat as well as media), LINE media sending capabilities, and real background task flow management (which can list, view, and cancel tasks), enhancing automation reliability.This version update emphasizes expansion into the Asian market, including better context, memory, and TTS support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as WhatsApp emoji reactions and Matrix room history streaming, aiming to cover developer communication channels beyond Slack or Discord.This update has received widespread praise from the community, but a few users reported excessive Exec approval prompts / Approval issues after the update, and a very small number of users reported occasional crashes or instability after the update.

According to Yicai, Alipay has launched the country's first "Payment Integration Skill," deeply encapsulating basic payment capabilities as standardized components.In addition, Alipay has upgraded the "sandbox environment," allowing developers to complete full-link payment testing without real funds and before officially launching payment products.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has upgraded its Agent Hub with the addition of 5 analytical AI Skills and 19 data integration tools. This upgrade aims to integrate market analysis and trade execution into a unified system, with new features covering macro analysis, technical signal detection, sentiment monitoring, market intelligence, and cross-market news aggregation.Following the launch of the Agent Hub infrastructure and standardized interface in February this year, Bitget's update aims to address the information processing challenges faced by traders when confronted with multiple complex signals such as macroeconomic data, on-chain activities, and real-time capital flows. The upgraded Agent Hub can continuously process market inputs and convert them into structured strategies directly under the unified account structure of Bitget UEX, further advancing AI from an independent auxiliary tool to the foundational infrastructure for trading operations.

Guy Wuollet, a partner at a16z crypto, stated in Fortune's Crypto Playbook that the crypto industry is maturing and is currently in the "shirt era," not yet fully formalized but having moved beyond the early stages. He pointed out that the dominant trend in the current crypto industry is Wall Street's rapid adoption of blockchain, with traditional financial giants like BlackRock and Fidelity not only offering Bitcoin ETFs but also embracing blockchain technology in the areas of stablecoins and tokenized stocks.Wuollet also noted that the integration of blockchain and AI is laying the groundwork for on-chain agency commerce. He mentioned that a large number of talents from the consumer AI sector are entering the crypto industry because they believe that the first agency payments will occur on-chain, and Stripe also discussed agency payments in its annual letter. Regarding the issue of fragmentation that different payment standards might cause, Wuollet believes that AI models are good at understanding different systems, so this is unlikely to slow down the adoption rate.

Binance has now completed the integration of Nillion (NIL) on the Ethereum network (ERC20) and has opened the deposit and withdrawal services for ERC20 NIL tokens. Please note that the deposit and withdrawal services for the mainnet NIL tokens will no longer be supported.

The digital asset trading platform CoinW has joined forces with Polish local partner Traders Academy to make a significant appearance at the Next Block Expo (NBX) summit held in Warsaw from March 24 to 25, further promoting its localization strategy and user ecosystem connection in Europe.Traders Academy, as the fastest-growing trading community in Poland, is dedicated to helping users systematically learn and enhance their trading skills, boasting a strong user base and wide influence in the local market. CoinW's collaboration with them is a key move in the platform's localization strategy, leveraging global platform resources and technological advantages, and utilizing Traders Academy's local influence to accurately reach Polish users, achieving deep penetration of the brand in the local market.In the future, CoinW will continue to increase its strategic investment in Europe and engage in deeper cooperation with Traders Academy, constantly expanding the local user ecosystem and providing users with more professional and convenient digital asset services.Disclaimer: This article is for brand information display only and does not constitute investment advice or a trading invitation.

The Algorand Foundation and Algorand Technologies announced an agreement to integrate the intellectual property of Algorand Technologies and the development and support activities of the Algorand protocol into the Algorand Foundation.In addition, to support the resource needs of Algorand Technologies, Silvio Micali, and the Algorand Foundation in ensuring the ongoing maintenance and support of the Algorand protocol, the Algorand Foundation will commit to investing at least $15 million for the technical maintenance, enhancement, and support of the Algorand protocol.