Multiple senior core executives at OpenAI’s Stargate data center have left the company, signaling a major strategic shift in the company’s AI infrastructure rollout. The project faces issues related to funding, partnerships, and geopolitical risks, and OpenAI is re-evaluating its compute infrastructure build-out strategy.

SimpleChain announced on April 11 that it has completed a $15 million seed round, mainly involving family offices and institutional investors. The network positions itself as the “institutional operating system” for real-world assets (RWA), aiming to build an RWA Layer 1 network and provide enterprise-grade infrastructure to support the global tokenization of real-world assets.

Circle released its 2026 Internet Finance Development Vision on April 10, aiming to build cross-chain interoperability infrastructure to improve capital liquidity and asset issuance capabilities. In the future, it will roll out sub-second settlement functionality and expand to more assets, while simplifying multi-chain operation processes to enhance the user experience.

Trident Digital Tech Holdings has partnered with Ripple Strategy Holding. Ripple will provide stablecoin technology to support Trident’s expansion across Africa. It plans to build a blockchain tax system for 2.1 million small and mid-sized businesses in Ghana, and to set up an RLUSD/GHS liquidity pool to enable low-cost cross-border payments.

Anthropic and CoreWeave have reached a multi-year agreement to rent its data center capacity to support growing demand for AI services. The deal will help Anthropic build its Claude AI models and includes multiple Nvidia chip architectures. The partnership will also require working with Broadcom and Google to secure 3.5 gigawatts of power.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it will open a cybersecurity threat information sharing service to encrypted businesses, and qualifying companies can apply to receive cybersecurity intelligence for free to build a safer digital asset ecosystem.

TON treasury company AlphaTON Capital and Vertical Data signed a strategic financing agreement of about $43 million, expected to be completed in 2026. The financing will be used for AI hardware deployment and the build-out of privacy computing infrastructure, supporting the development of applications with partners such as Telegram.

Galaxy Digital releases its first annual report. Its founder, Mike Novogratz, says that the listing signals that the digital economy is now a reality. The company will shift its focus to compliant financial infrastructure, actively develop AI projects, and expects its Helios data center investment to exceed $15 billion, aiming to build a $1 billion-level asset portfolio.

Southeast Asia’s first OpenClaw Agentic Trading Event will be held in Singapore on April 16, showcasing how developers can use OpenClaw to build agentic trading applications. The event is organized by Moss in partnership with Lightspeed and blockchain VC, among others, and features guests including founders of blockchain projects.

Claude introduced its Managed Agents feature on April 9. It’s currently in public beta, aiming to help developers quickly build and deploy AI agents. This feature speeds up the transition from prototype to production by 10x, provides managed infrastructure, and simplifies handling complex tasks.