Guangdong: By the end of 2027, the province's urban digital infrastructure support capabilities will be significantly enhanced.
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Guangdong: Support Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan and other cities to take the lead in building high-value-added intelligent computing centers.
According to Mars Finance, 11 departments, including the Guangdong Provincial Government Service and Data Management Bureau, recently issued the "Guangdong Provincial Action Plan for Promoting the Digital Transformation of Cities and Building Smart Cities," which mentions optimizing the layout of urban computing networks. Addressing the development needs of megacities and urban clusters, the plan calls for a comprehensive planning of urban computing center systems, constructing a cloud-edge-device collaborative computing network. It also emphasizes accelerating the construction of an all-optical network foundation for cities, creating a high-quality computing capacity network capable of "millisecond-level computation," achieving millisecond interconnection of computing centers, millisecond-level access to computing services, and millisecond-level response to computing applications. The plan supports Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan in taking the lead in building high-value-added intelligent computing centers, flexibly deploying edge computing nodes to meet the high-bandwidth, low-latency, and high-reliability computing power requirements of scenarios such as low-altitude economy, autonomous driving, and the industrial internet. (Cailian Press)
AngelList will cease supporting cryptocurrency investments at the end of July due to the shutdown of its third-party payment service.
According to Foresight News , AngelList, a venture capital firm, announced on its official help page that it will no longer support investment and financing using cryptocurrencies starting July 31, 2026. The announcement stated that its third-party cryptocurrency payment service provider will soon cease operations, therefore the option to use digital assets such as USDC, USDT, DAI, and ETH to complete new investments, fundraising, or rolling fund subscriptions will be suspended across the platform until further notice. Other financing methods, such as ACH transfers and wire transfers, will not be affected. The announcement states that investments completed on or before July 31, 2026, will not be affected by this change and require no action from users; thereafter, users will need to use ACH or wire transfer to complete fund payments. For outstanding capital commitments originally planned to be made in cryptocurrency, AngelList advises investors to transfer all corresponding cryptocurrency assets to their AngelList accounts for safekeeping before July 30, or to complete subsequent investments via wire transfer or ACH. AngelList stated that it is evaluating the possibility of restoring digital asset financing functionality through a new service provider, but there is no definite timetable yet.
Citadel Securities and DTCC partner as omnichain interoperability protocol LayerZero launches a new exchange, expanding institutional market infrastructure for digital assets.
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Jingce Electronics: Plans to acquire a portion of the equity of Shanghai Jingce and raise supporting funds; stock trading suspended.
According to Mars Finance, Jingce Electronics announced that it is planning to acquire a portion of the equity of its holding subsidiary, Shanghai Jingce Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., through a combination of share issuance, convertible bonds, and cash payment, and to raise supporting funds. This is expected to constitute a major asset restructuring and related-party transaction. Due to the uncertainty of the matter, the company's stock and convertible bonds (Jingce Convertible Bond 2) will be suspended from trading on July 9, 2026. The transaction plan is expected to be disclosed within 10 trading days.
Naver's $9.9 billion stock swap deal with Dunamu has been delayed again until the end of the year, while South Korea's digital asset law remains unresolved.
According to BlockBeats, on July 7, Naver Financial and Dunamu postponed the completion date of their full share swap transaction to December 31, marking the second delay in the deal. The deal to merge Dunamu, the operator of South Korea's largest crypto exchage Upbit, into Naver's financial sector was originally scheduled to close on September 30. Dunamu disclosed a new timeline on the 6th through corrections to its initial filing last November, but incomplete digital asset legislation and pending antitrust reviews remain major uncertainties. The company has postponed its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders from August 18 to November 19, and the shareholder confirmation date has been reset to October 22. Several government approvals are still required before the transaction can be completed, including approval from the Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for the merger, approval for the change of Naver Financial's largest shareholder under credit information regulations, and acceptance of the filing for the change of Dunamu's largest shareholder under specific financial transaction information laws. Dunamu stated that progress at any of these stages could further extend the timeline or even cause the transaction to change. Dunamu also pointed out that the Digital Assets Basic Law, currently under consideration in Congress, is a real variable affecting the progress and outcome of transactions. As this bill is being enacted, regulators are also simultaneously considering implementing bank-style no-fault liability rules for exchanges, requiring platforms to compensate users for losses caused by hacker attacks.
Tether makes a $20 million strategic investment in Mercado Bitcoin to accelerate on-chain infrastructure development in Latin America.
Mars Finance reports that stablecoin issuer Tether has announced a $20 million strategic funding round for Latin American on-chain financial services platform Mercado Bitcoin. This funding will support Mercado Bitcoin's development in asset tokenization, payments, lending, capital markets, and compliant digital financial services. Founded in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin has expanded from a digital asset trading platform into a comprehensive on-chain financial infrastructure platform, covering trading services, tokenized investment products, lending, stablecoin payments, banking infrastructure, and cross-border financial services. The funds raised will primarily be used to expand payment infrastructure, increase the scale of tokenized products for institutional and retail investors, develop lending business, advance on-chain capital markets, seek strategic partnerships, and drive international expansion.