Kairos Labs completed a $2.4 million seed round funding and launched a permissionless, non-custodial interest rate swap protocol based on EVM, planning to go live on Ethereum mainnet and Base. The protocol will optimize interest rate risk management in the DeFi market and promote the development of fixed income products.

Ethereum Ecosystem Rate Swap Protocol Kairos Labs Completes $2.4M Seed Round Funding on March 25, Led by 6th Man Ventures with Participation from Lattice and Others. The Project Has Graduated from Alliance Accelerator and is Expected to Launch on Ethereum Mainnet and Base Network in the Near Term.

Cursor released the Composer 2 technical report, introducing a complete training solution for its Kimi K2.5 MoE architecture, including two-stage training and a proprietary benchmark called CursorBench. After training, Composer 2 demonstrated significant performance improvements and outperformed other cutting-edge models in terms of inference costs.

Gate News bot message: According to the official announcement from the OpenVPP project, OpenVPP (OVPP) tokens have been exchanged at a 1:1 ratio for new contract tokens. Gate has completed this token exchange, with the new OVPP contract address at 0x8C0d3ADCF8Ce094E1aE437557Ec90A6374dC9BDD (BASE). The old OVPP contract tokens are no longer supported and cannot be traded, deposited, or withdrawn. Users holding unredeemed OVPP can now withdraw the new contract tokens.

Gate News: On March 24, according to Gate's market data, as of press time, AERO (Aerodrome) is trading at $0.3476, up 13.10% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.3923 and a low of $0.3024. The 24-hour trading volume reached $2.3755 million. The current market cap is approximately $321 million. Aerodrome Finance is a next-generation AMM that combines the strengths of Curve, Convex, and Uniswap, aiming to become the central liquidity hub for Base. As a core trading and liquidity market on Base, Aerodrome is a decentralized exchange where users can execute low-fee trades, deposit tokens to earn rewards, and actively participate in governance.

The Smarter Web Company was included in the FTSE UK Index Series on March 20th. The CEO stated this would attract passive capital inflows and strengthen the institutional shareholder base. The company maintains a solid capital structure and holds 2695 bitcoins.

Gate News reported that on March 21, the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Power Direction in Energy Sector) 2026 Alliance Work Conference and First Ecosystem Activity was held in Guangzhou. Eight enterprise institutions, including State Grid Digital Group's Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Huawei, ZTE, and Baidu, were formally established as the first batch of representatives to enter the pilot base.

Dark Side of the Moon's official account congratulated Cursor on the release of Composer 2 and revealed an authorized collaboration with Kimi K2.5. Cursor's co-founder confirmed the use of Kimi's foundation model, emphasizing technical details and model composition. Both founders acknowledged that failing to properly credit the foundation model source was an oversight and will improve this in the next release. Elon Musk also participated in the discussion, increasing topic visibility.

0x report indicates that certain propAMM on the Base network exhibits quote fraud behavior, with operators publishing false prices using Flashblock structures, resulting in trader losses. Potentially causing $500,000 monthly losses. 0x will monitor and cut off non-compliant liquidity to protect users.