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Alchemy Pay Joins Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 as Gold Sponsor

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Alchemy Pay Joins Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 as Gold Sponsor

Hong Kong, 26th February 2026, There’s a certain energy that builds in the months leading up to Hong Kong Web3 Festival, and this year, that energy just got a significant boost. The festival has officially announced that Alchemy Pay is joining as a Gold Sponsor for the 2026 edition — and honestly, it’s a pairing that makes a lot of sense.

If you’ve spent any time in the crypto payments space, you already know what Alchemy Pay brings to the table. The company has spent years doing something that sounds simple but is actually incredibly difficult: making it easy for fiat money and crypto to work together. Think about the friction that still exists today — a merchant who wants to accept digital payments, a consumer who wants to spend their crypto in the real world, a developer trying to build financial tools that don’t force users to choose between traditional and decentralized systems. Alchemy Pay sits right at that intersection and makes those connections happen smoothly, for consumers, merchants, developers, and institutions alike. If you want to dig deeper into what they’re building, head over to https://alchemypay.org.

Three Years In, and the Festival Has Found Its Groove

Some events take a few years to figure out what they are. Hong Kong Web3 Festival figured it out fast. Co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME, the festival has been running every year since April 2023 — and each edition has built on the last in a way that feels genuinely organic rather than forced. It’s become the kind of event that people in the Web3 world block out on their calendars months in advance, not just because of the speakers or the panels, but because of the quality of the people in the room.

This year, the festival runs from April 20 to 23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Four days. One of the world’s great financial cities. And an agenda that’s shaping up to be the most ambitious yet.

The Track Record Is Hard to Ignore

Here’s what three editions of Web3 Festival have looked like in practice: over 350 exhibitors, more than 1,200 speakers, a cumulative audience of 100,000 visitors, and upwards of 400 side events that stretched the conversations well beyond the main hall. These aren’t inflated numbers designed to impress — they reflect the reality that this event has become a genuine gathering point for the global Web3 community.

For 2026, the festival is expecting up to 300 speakers from across the Web3 and crypto world. But the detail that really stands out is this: over 500 executives and decision-makers from traditional finance and the broader real economy have already registered. That shift matters. It means the conversation happening at this festival isn’t just crypto insiders talking among themselves — it’s the kind of cross-industry dialogue where real business gets done and real decisions get made.

Hong Kong Isn’t Just a Location — It’s Part of the Point

It would be easy to assume that Hong Kong is simply a convenient host city. But the truth is that Hong Kong is load-bearing in what makes this festival work. Nowhere else in the world sits quite at the intersection of global finance, Mainland China’s enormous market, and the kind of regulatory and innovation environment that actually attracts serious institutional players. For Web3, which is still very much in the process of finding its place within the broader financial system, that positioning is invaluable.

When you bring together the right people in a city that genuinely understands both the old financial world and the new one, interesting things happen. Deals get made. Partnerships form. Regulations get shaped by people who actually understand the technology. That’s what Hong Kong Web3 Festival is designed to make possible.

Want to Be Part of It?

If you’re thinking about attending, speaking, exhibiting, or coming on board as a partner, the time to move is now. Everything you need to know about the 2026 edition is at https://www.web3festival.org/hongkong2026/#/en. Partnership inquiries can go through https://tally.so/r/w5YEbP.

With Alchemy Pay stepping in as a Gold Sponsor, the festival is sending a clear signal about where Web3 is headed — toward a future where the walls between traditional finance and the crypto economy keep coming down, one partnership at a time.

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Mira Network (MIRA) Searches for a Floor as AI Verification Infrastructure Battles Relentless Supply Pressure

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Mira Network launched on September 26, 2025, with a genuinely differentiated mission — building a decentralized verification layer for AI outputs, solving the hallucination and reliability problem that prevents truly autonomous AI deployment at scale. MIRA’s debut proved well received, starting at $1.25 before quickly doubling to around $1.40. Ten months later, the token is trading around $0.039 — down 97% from its launch price — with a market cap of approximately $7.53 million against a total supply of 1 billion tokens.

MIRA traded down 4% in the most recent 24-hour period with approximately $4.03 million in 24-hour volume — a volume-to-market-cap ratio that reflects still-active trading despite the dramatic price decline. The July 4 surge of 31.2% in a single day on $58 million volume showed the token retains the capacity for sharp moves when sentiment shifts — volume that day was five times the market cap, reflecting intense speculative activity on a thin float.

What Mira Network Actually Solves

Current AI systems produce hallucinations and unreliable outputs, requiring constant human oversight that prevents their deployment as truly autonomous agents. Mira’s verification layer addresses this at the infrastructure level — providing cryptographic verification of AI-generated outputs that allows applications to trust AI results without requiring a human to double-check every response.

The practical implication is significant. Every AI agent deployment in DeFi, enterprise workflows, or autonomous systems today requires a trust assumption about the AI’s output accuracy. Mira’s network creates a decentralized verification mechanism where multiple nodes independently validate AI outputs, enabling applications to deploy AI agents with mathematical confidence in their reliability rather than probabilistic hope.

The platform also allows apps built on its infrastructure to issue their own tokens, using MIRA to unify and convert liquidity — a tokenomics design that creates ecosystem demand for MIRA as the base liquidity layer for all applications built on the network.

The Backing That Validates the Thesis

Prior to launch, Mira Network raised about $10 million. Early angel investors included Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, and Alex Svanevik, later joined by Framework Ventures, Bitkraft Ventures, and others. That investor roster is notable — Balaji Srinivasan and Sandeep Nailwal are two of the most respected technical investors in the crypto space, and Framework Ventures has a track record of backing protocols that achieve genuine adoption rather than pure speculation.

The Kaito AI Season 2 community campaign distributing $600,000 in MIRA tokens for completing tasks reflects the team’s continued investment in community building — though as CoinMarketCap’s analysis notes, the campaign introduces additional sellable tokens into a market where demand is already weak, making it a short-term supply headwind even as a long-term community growth initiative.

The Supply Structure Governing Everything

The tokenomics model includes a total supply of 1 billion tokens, with more than 191 million currently in circulation. Over the coming years, vested tokens held by early investors, the team, contributors, node operators, and others will gradually be released. Meanwhile, more than 40% of tokens are reserved by the DAO for ecosystem development, partner incentives, governance initiatives, and research efforts.

With only 19% to 28% of tokens currently circulating depending on the data source, MIRA faces one of the most challenging supply dynamics in the AI infrastructure category. Recurring monthly unlocks landing into a market with $4 million in daily volume creates structural downward pressure that product development alone struggles to offset at this stage.

MIRA formed a technical double bottom at $0.041 at the end of June, with trading volume increasing significantly and bullish momentum strengthening. That technical structure was the foundation for the July 4 surge before giving back gains in subsequent sessions. The Nigeria ecosystem expansion and enhanced developer SDK planned for 2026 represent the geographic and technical growth levers the team is pulling to drive organic demand — but adoption in emerging markets moves at a different pace than the unlock schedule.

The AI verification infrastructure thesis that Mira is built on is arguably more relevant in July 2026 than it was at the September 2025 launch — autonomous AI agents are now a mainstream topic rather than a niche discussion. Whether MIRA can attract enough developer adoption to generate genuine network activity before the remaining 80% of supply enters circulation is the question that will define the protocol’s trajectory through the rest of the year.

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Radiant Capital Shuts Down After 18-Month Struggle to Recover From $50M Lazarus Group Hack

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This one doesn’t have a silver lining. On June 1, 2026, the Radiant Capital DAO announced it was winding down operations — ceasing all active development after failing to recover stolen funds or secure new capital following the October 2024 exploit that drained roughly $50 million from the protocol. The shutdown marks the end of what was once one of the more ambitious cross-chain lending projects in DeFi.

RDNT is currently trading at approximately $0.00168, down 3.45% in the past 24 hours — a shadow of its former self. The token peaked near $0.50 in 2023. The collapse from there to effectively zero is one of the starkest examples of what a single catastrophic exploit can do to a protocol’s trajectory.

How the Attack Unfolded

In October 2024, attackers compromised Radiant Capital through a highly advanced malware injection that breached multiple developers’ hardware wallets simultaneously — a sophisticated supply-chain style attack that bypassed the protocol’s multisig security assumptions.

The hack was later attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and on-chain analysis revealed the group had turned the stolen $53 million into over $102 million by the time the shutdown was announced — a grim detail that underscores both the sophistication of state-sponsored crypto theft and the near-impossibility of recovering from it through legal or on-chain means.

The tactics used in the attack subsequently appeared in other major crypto incidents. In April 2026, Drift Protocol said it had medium-high confidence that the same actors behind the Radiant breach were responsible for a separate exploit against its platform — with the group spending months building trust with contributors through conference meetings and professional contacts before deploying malicious tools.

18 Months of Failed Recovery

What makes Radiant’s story particularly difficult is that the team genuinely tried. For a year and a half after the exploit, the DAO explored paths to recovery — new capital raises, restructuring options, community governance mechanisms. None of it worked.

The protocol had once ranked among the largest cross-chain lending platforms in DeFi, with TVL reaching $386.8 million in December 2023. By early June 2026, TVL had fallen to approximately $1.4 million across chains, with active loans near $866,000 — effectively an empty shell of what the protocol had been.

The DAO’s announcement confirmed there was no viable path forward. Borrowing and incentives have been stopped, and the protocol has entered a maintenance state rather than a full decommission — meaning users can still withdraw funds and manage existing positions, but no new activity is possible.

What Existing Users Need to Do

Radiant Capital has stated it will continue attempts to recover the funds stolen in the 2024 exploit, and affected users can access a remediation portal to seek those funds. That process is likely to be slow and uncertain, but it represents the only remaining avenue for users who suffered losses in the original attack.

For anyone still holding positions in the protocol, the priority is straightforward: existing positions can still be managed, but withdrawal conditions depend on current utilization and market dynamics — and with liquidity declining and yields at zero, waiting carries its own risks. Getting out now rather than hoping for improved conditions is the more prudent approach.

The Radiant shutdown is a case study in what the DeFi industry has been grappling with since the Lazarus Group began targeting protocols systematically — that technical security alone isn’t enough when attackers are willing to spend months infiltrating teams at the human level. Hardware wallet compromises across multiple developers simultaneously suggest an operational security failure that no smart contract audit could have prevented.

RDNT’s price tells the rest of the story.

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Why Stablecoin Payments Are Emerging as the Future of Cross-Border Transactions

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As global commerce becomes increasingly digital, businesses are searching for faster, more efficient ways to move money across borders. Traditional international payment systems, while reliable, often involve multiple intermediaries, lengthy settlement times, and significant transaction costs.

In response, stablecoins are emerging as one of the most important innovations in modern financial infrastructure, offering businesses a new approach to global payments, liquidity management, and settlement.

The Challenges of Traditional Cross-Border Payments

For decades, international transactions have relied heavily on correspondent banking networks. While these systems have enabled global trade at scale, businesses frequently encounter challenges such as:

  • Multi-day settlement times
  • High foreign exchange and wire transfer costs
  • Limited operating hours
  • Multiple intermediary banks
  • Reduced transparency throughout the payment process

For companies operating across multiple markets, these inefficiencies can create unnecessary delays and working capital constraints.

Why Stablecoins Are Gaining Momentum

Stablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically by being pegged to a fiat currency such as the US Dollar.

Unlike traditional international transfers, stablecoin transactions can be settled on blockchain networks within minutes, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

This combination of speed, accessibility, and efficiency has attracted growing interest from payment providers, fintech companies, exporters, importers, and businesses engaged in international trade.

Major financial institutions and payment companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and PayPal, have all explored or expanded initiatives involving stablecoin settlement and blockchain-based payments, highlighting the growing relevance of digital asset infrastructure within the broader financial ecosystem.

Stablecoins and Business Treasury Management

Beyond payments, stablecoins are increasingly being incorporated into corporate treasury strategies.

Organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions often face challenges related to liquidity management, foreign exchange exposure, and capital deployment.

Stablecoins offer businesses an additional tool for managing value transfer, facilitating faster settlements, and improving operational flexibility when interacting with international partners and service providers.

As adoption increases, many organizations are beginning to view digital assets not simply as investment products, but as practical financial infrastructure.

The Evolution of Financial Infrastructure

The financial industry has undergone significant transformation over the past decade.

Cloud computing changed how businesses access software. Mobile technology changed how consumers access financial services. Today, blockchain technology is creating new possibilities for how value moves around the world.

The next phase of financial innovation is likely to be driven by infrastructure that prioritizes speed, transparency, accessibility, and interoperability.

Stablecoins are increasingly positioned at the center of this evolution.

Andrew Cruz, Chief Executive Officer of MoonExe, believes the industry is entering a period where utility will drive adoption.

“The conversation around digital assets is shifting. Businesses are increasingly focused on practical applications such as payments, settlements, and liquidity management rather than speculation alone,” said Cruz.

“Stablecoins have demonstrated that blockchain technology can solve real-world challenges by enabling faster and more efficient movement of value across borders. We believe this trend will continue as businesses seek alternatives that better match the pace of today’s global economy.”

“The future of finance will not be defined by a single technology, but by how different systems work together to create more efficient financial networks. Digital assets and stablecoins will play an important role in that transition.”

Looking Ahead

As regulatory frameworks continue to mature and institutional participation increases, stablecoin adoption is expected to accelerate across multiple industries.

Businesses seeking greater efficiency, improved liquidity access, and faster settlement capabilities are increasingly evaluating digital asset-powered solutions as part of their long-term financial strategy.

The growing role of stablecoins represents more than a technological innovation—it reflects a broader evolution in how value is exchanged within the global economy.

About MoonExe

MoonExe is a financial technology company focused on digital asset infrastructure, blockchain-powered financial solutions, and global digital economy initiatives. Through its commitment to innovation, accessibility, and technological advancement, MoonExe seeks to support the evolution of modern financial services and the next generation of global value exchange.

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