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The latest iteration of Alibaba’s Qwen is designed to support AI agent tasks

Latest: FedEx will join the Hedera Council to help power the future of digital global supply chains. The logistics giant will work alongside other council members to advance enterprise blockchain adoption.

Here’s what made headlines this week 📣 Catch up on the latest highlights with the OGBC Weekly News Wrap-Up ✅

6/ A city that blends liquidity, legal certainty, and connective rails will attract capital not because it declares ambition, but because it lowers friction for deploying large books at scale. https://t.co/JUHUxGXoId

5/ What matters to allocators isn’t the rhetoric but execution velocity: how quickly frameworks become tradable assets, how standards lock in cross-border flows, how talent migrates toward the rules that matter.

4/ Regulation isn’t a by-product, it’s the substrate for risk-aware capital to engage. Stablecoin licensing, trading frameworks, and market maker rules create the playground where risk budgets are actually deployed.

3/ Hong Kong isn’t starting from zero. It’s layered digital-asset discussions onto an existing deep capital market, family offices, hedge funds, and private wealth engines that already live here. That’s the infrastructure on which the next cycle depends.

2/ Language like “global hub” often reads as a slogan, but capital watches infrastructure readiness: licensing regimes, liquidity corridors, legal clarity. Those are the levers that truly shape capital allocation.

1/ At Consensus Hong Kong, the city’s chief executive repeated a familiar commitment: Hong Kong wants to be a global hub for digital assets and Web3 innovation, building on its financial centre heritage and regulatory architecture.

🚨STRIPE LAUNCHES MACHINE PAYMENTS FOR AI AGENTS USING USDC ON BASE Stripe has launched ‘Machine Payments’, enabling developers to charge autonomous AI agents for microtransactions, like API access, using just a few lines of code, powered by USDC on Coinbase’s Base network.

LATEST: ⚡ Ripple expanded its institutional custody platform via integrations with Securosys and Figment, letting banks and custodians offer staking on Ethereum and Solana without their own infrastructure.

6/ As AI adoption accelerates, investment is shifting from experimentation to physical and digital infrastructure that can support scale. The next phase of growth will belong to regions that prepare their systems early. https://t.co/0IRGpZKNqP

5/ This also reflects how capital increasingly views AI and digital infrastructure as intertwined. Data generation, processing, and financial coordination are becoming part of the same economic stack.

4/ For emerging markets, these investments are often about positioning. Building the foundations early allows regions to participate in global data, finance, and compute networks rather than consuming them passively.

3/ Digital asset infrastructure and AI data centres share similar requirements. Both depend on reliable power, connectivity, regulatory clarity, and sustained demand to justify long-term returns.

2/ Large-scale infrastructure investments tend to reveal priorities more clearly than policy statements. Capital flows of this size usually target systems expected to support growth over decades, not cycles.

1/ Ho Chi Minh City has unveiled two major agreements tied to digital assets and AI data centres, each valued at around US$1 billion. The announcements signal where capital is being committed for long-term economic capacity.

⚡️ UPDATE: Sui Network and Coinbase team up to expand institutional and retail access via the Sui token standard.

🔥 BULLISH: “Crypto 🤝 AI is just getting started,” — Brian Armstrong