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R25 today announced that its core product R25 Studio, based on the 2 architecture, has officially launched public testing. R25 Studio is dedicated to realizing the vision of "everyone can become an asset manager," fully opening up the capabilities for the establishment, operation, and distribution of institutional-level funds. By abstracting cumbersome legal documents, backend systems, and compliance processes into configurable smart contracts, R25 Studio has successfully compressed the fund establishment cycle from several months to just 10 minutes.The platform revolves around Build, Manage, Earn, and Distribute, covering Vault creation, subscription and redemption, investment management, fee earning, and distribution; asset managers can autonomously set investment parameters, management fees, and performance fee rates on-chain without building complex fund structures from scratch, generate exclusive Vault Tokens/Shares, and list the Vault on channels such as Dapp and Topnod. The platform also provides performance data such as NAV, APY, cumulative returns, and maximum drawdown, helping asset managers monitor strategy performance in real-time.Previously, in Phase 1, Axil launched a private credit Vault on R25 and successfully surpassed $130 million in TVL, validating the reliability of this infrastructure. The registration channel for the first batch of managers is now open.

According to Fortune, the venture capital firm Solari Capital has officially announced its emergence from stealth mode. Founder AJ Scaramucci (son of Anthony Scaramucci) has deployed approximately $350 million since the company's inception, covering early-stage investments, late-stage growth rounds, and internal incubation businesses.Solari is focused on four major tracks centered around the core argument of "programmable reality": programmable intelligence (AI/large models, including xAI, Suno), programmable biology (gene therapy, longevity technology, including Tessera Therapeutics, Cambrian Bio), programmable materials (aerospace, energy, robotics, including Varda Space, Northwood Space), and programmable finance (blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, including Genius Terminal, Architect Financial). In addition, Scaramucci has included collectibles (comics, trading cards, dinosaur fossils) in the investment landscape, viewing them as "cultural value storage" assets alongside gold and Bitcoin, and claims that this market has a scale of $25 trillion, which has not yet been fully tapped by institutional capital.The investor lineup behind the company includes well-known Silicon Valley figures such as Ron Conway, Jim Breyer, and Eric Schmidt.

According to official news, Circle Gateway has implemented a programmable authorization model by supporting ERC-1271 signatures, allowing smart contracts and smart contract wallets to directly use the Gateway.Developers do not need to set up additional delegated approvers and can access a unified USDC balance system through existing smart contract authorization logic.

At the "Integration, Growth, and New Cycle" themed forum recently hosted by RootData in Dubai, Klickl Group founder Michael Zhao and Klickl International CEO Dermot Mayes delivered keynote speeches, systematically elaborating on Klickl's deep insights into the future evolution direction of the global financial system, and proposed the overall vision of its "Operating System for Future Money," providing a framework for the next stage of development of digital financial infrastructure.Michael Zhao pointed out that the core contradiction of today's global financial system has evolved from localized efficiency issues to structural imbalances. Traditional financial infrastructure, designed based on a centralized banking system, struggles to support the increasingly digital, real-time, and cross-border economic activities of today, and cannot inherently support new asset forms such as programmable money, stablecoins, and RWA (real-world assets) from the ground up, making the "disconnection" between the digital asset economy and the traditional financial system increasingly pronounced.He emphasized, "The future financial upgrade is no longer about localized optimization or single-point innovation, but about moving towards a unified, regulatory-compliant, and programmable integrated infrastructure. Only in this way can traditional finance and Web3 truly achieve integration."Klickl International CEO Dermot Mayes further pointed out from the perspective of Middle Eastern business practices that the core competitiveness of digital finance is shifting from technological advantages to the maturity of regulatory systems. "Regulation-Native" will become the basic standard for future financial infrastructure—architecture needs to be inherently adaptable to the regulatory logic of different jurisdictions, rather than being supplemented afterwards.Dermot stated that as a licensed institution regulated by ADGM/FSRA, Klickl is building a cross-regional "compliance connectivity layer" based on UAE regulatory standards, ensuring that digital assets circulate globally with the same level of transparency, security, and auditability as traditional finance.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Pave Bank, a programmable bank built for the era of digital assets and artificial intelligence, has completed a $39 million Series A funding round, led by Accel, with participation from Tether Investments, Wintermute, Quona Capital, Helios Digital Ventures, and others.Pave Bank prides itself on being a commercial bank aimed at serving clients with dual needs for fiat and digital assets. This bank, licensed in Georgia, stated that it will use the funds to "expand regulatory coverage, accelerate product development, continue building institutional-grade infrastructure, and broaden its customer reach in global markets."

ChainCatcher news, YZi Labs announced leading a $50 million financing round for Better Payment Network (BPN). BPN is a programmable payment network designed for the multi-stablecoin era.This investment aligns with YZi Labs' philosophy of supporting the next generation of global financial infrastructure—placing stablecoins at the core, natively built on high-performance chains, and adopting a hybrid (CeDeFi) architecture to balance efficiency, programmability, and compliance. Traditional fintech platforms rely on capital-intensive pre-funding models, forcing trillions of dollars to remain idle in local accounts to maintain payment liquidity. BPN's CeDeFi dual-track system addresses this issue by enabling real-time minting, exchanging, and burning of stablecoins across jurisdictions, thereby unlocking locked funds.BPN is natively built on BNB Chain, aiming to provide instant, low-cost, and compliant cross-border settlements, with a settlement time of 3-4 hours, compared to 1-2 days for traditional methods, and an average cost of about 30 basis points, significantly lower than the approximately 2% of traditional foreign exchange channels.

ChainCatcher message: According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the Layer 1 programmable data chain Irys has been the project with the most new X (Twitter) top influencer followers. New followers of this project include cryptocurrency analyst Phyrex (@Phyrex_Ni), crypto KOL Shapolang (@Wolfy_XBT), and crypto researcher Jason Chen (@jason_chen998).In addition, the projects with the most X top influencer followers also include Cysic, STIX, and GAIB.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Bitcoin's programmable layer Hemi announced the completion of a $15 million financing round, led by YZi Labs, Republic Digital, and HyperChain Capital, with participation from Breyer Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Crypto.com, DNA Fund, Selini Capital, Protein Capital, Quantstamp, and Web 3.com.

ChainCatcher news, the programmable data chain Irys announced the completion of a $10 million Series A funding round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Hypersphere, Tykhe Ventures, Varrock Ventures, Breed VC, Echo Group, Amber Group, and WAGMI Ventures. This round of financing brings Irys's total funding to $20 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the launch of the "Digital Asset Innovation Center" program at the 2025 Sasana seminar. This regulatory sandbox, led by Bank Negara Malaysia, will allow for the testing of innovations such as the ringgit stablecoin and programmable payments, aiming to position the country as a regional fintech hub. Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour stated that the country is simultaneously upgrading the Rentas payment system and exploring cross-border payment connectivity and asset tokenization.

ChainCatcher message, UniSat announced on platform X that a significant protocol upgrade for BRC-20 will take place in 2025, introducing three modules: single-step transfer, exchange module, and programmable module.The single-step transfer will launch on the Fractal mainnet in the first quarter of 2025 and will be deployed to the Bitcoin mainnet in the second quarter of 2025.The roadmap for the exchange module will be released in the first quarter of 2025, with testing on the testnet in the second quarter of 2025, followed by a launch on the Bitcoin mainnet.The deployment of the programmable module will be tested on the testnet in the first quarter of 2025 and will go live on the Bitcoin mainnet in the third quarter of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated on social media: "The U.S. government needs a programmable digital dollar and smart contracts."

ChainCatcher message, the programmable privacy network Aleo stated in a post on X that it has recently learned that some community members received an email promoting a "token distribution round." The Aleo Foundation is currently not conducting any token distribution plans, incentive programs, or any form of financial incentives.Please remain vigilant, ensure that emails come from the official aleo.org domain, and cross-check through another official channel. If users receive any misleading information, please contact the Aleo Foundation team through officially announced channels.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the programmable derivatives protocol Plaza Finance has announced the completion of its Pre-Seed round of financing, with the specific amount undisclosed. Anagram led the investment, with participation from Interop Ventures, Cosmostation, and others.