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Mars Finance News, May 21 — Nanjing Pharmaceutical announced that the company plans to invest no more than 450 million yuan, jointly investing with New Industrial Investment and New Industrial Medical M&A Fund to establish the DaQing M&A Fund.
After the fund's establishment, it will be specifically used to acquire a 44.95% stake in DaQing Biotech and a 50.98% stake in Kejian Technology, with a total acquisition amount of 747 million yuan.
After the transaction is completed, DaQing M&A Fund, DaQing Biotech, and Kejian Technology will be included in the company's consolidated financial statements. (Company Announcement)

OFAC announces sanctions against two money laundering networks related to the Sinaloa drug cartel, alleging they launder money by exchanging large amounts of cash in the United States for cryptocurrencies and transferring it back to Mexican elites. The networks are operated by Mexican brokers associated with the "Los Chapitos" faction, with core members including Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles and Jesus Gonzalez Penuelas. The sanctions require freezing related assets and prohibit U.S. citizens and businesses from engaging in transactions with them.

Mars Finance news: On May 21, according to monitoring by Onchain Lens, the whale “0x082” has been holding its 5x HYPE long position since December 5, 2025. Its unrealized profit is currently over $27.4 million, after it once had an unrealized loss of more than $26 million. The address currently holds 1.38 million HYPE, worth approximately $81 million.

On May 20 at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Alibaba Cloud officially launched its Finance-grade General-Purpose Intelligent Agent, Dianjin. Dianjin is directly connected to market data and Alibaba assets, and it natively supports data sources including Wind (Wind Info), Yingmi and Yetman, Oriental Fortune, and Hang Seng Juyuan. It comes with built-in full-chain auditing and three layers of compliance safeguards. With zero-code configuration and a hybrid computing architecture, Dianjin can deliver millisecond-level responses and unified access across heterogeneous channels, helping financial institutions achieve accurate, trustworthy computation and transparent, reliable decision-making.

Mars Finance News: According to Arkham monitoring, 500 BTC associated with Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins have been transferred on-chain again, with a total transfer amount of 1,000 BTC this year, worth approximately $73 million. This batch of assets was previously believed to have been lost in a landfill.

Title: New Paradigms and Investment Logic in the AI + Web3 Era
Author: Rhythm BlockBeats
Source:
Reprinted from: Mars Finance
Preface
In the past two years, AI concepts have been everywhere. Large models and decentralized technologies have been intertwined, and a lot of things have left many people dazzled. As a VC, we’ve looked at hundreds of cross-disciplinary projects, both big and small. In this article, we share some straightforward truths—including the real cycles in the AI industry, why AI can’t do without Crypto, and what we care about the most and stay most alert to when assessing projects.
Note: The content in this article is excerpted from the roundtable discussion, “AI+Web3-The …,” at the event “AI + Bitcoin, the Next-Gen Revolution - BTC Vegas Side Event” held on April 28.

Google's parent company Alphabet announced an investment of $15 billion to build a new data center in New Florence, Missouri, USA. As artificial intelligence drives the continuous surge in cloud and computing power demand, this project has become one of the largest technology infrastructure projects in the state. Google has signed agreements in Missouri to add over 1 billion watts of new power generation capacity and has partnered with utility company Ameren to support the deployment of over 500 million watts of supporting electricity capacity. (Sina Finance)

Proya announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Proya (Hainan) Investment Co., Ltd., intends to acquire a 12.5479% stake in Shenzhen Huazhi Knowledge E-commerce Co., Ltd. with its own funds of 351 million yuan in cash.
After the transaction is completed, the shareholding ratio will increase from 38.4521% to 51%, and Huazhi Knowledge will be included in the company's consolidated financial statements.
This transaction has been approved by the 13th meeting of the fourth board of directors, and does not require shareholder approval.
It still needs to go through the filing for concentration of business operators.

Mars Finance News, on May 21, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency, Iran is responding to a "document" sent by the United States. (Jinshi)

SpaceX has selected Goldman Sachs as its lead underwriter for its historic IPO, expected to dominate pricing and equity allocation.
The IPO size could be the largest in history, with a valuation of approximately $1.25 trillion, underwriting fees may exceed $500 million, at least twice the size of Alibaba's 2014 IPO.

Gate DEX announces that its smart contract has launched a segmented position mode, allowing users to hold four independent positions—full position/isolated margin long and short—simultaneously in the same perpetual market. These positions do not affect each other and can have mixed leverage settings, enhancing strategic flexibility and capital efficiency. At the same time, the deposit function has been upgraded, adding exclusive deposit addresses and fiat purchase channels. The contract account now supports three deposit channels, eliminating the need to transfer funds beforehand.

Mars Finance News, May 21 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, as HYPE continues to rise, a certain whale address (0x842) increased its 5x HYPE short position to 353,832 HYPE tokens, worth approximately $20 million. Currently, unrealized losses have exceeded $1.88 million.
The address also sold another 61,044 HYPE tokens, bringing the total sold to 125,444 HYPE tokens, with a total value of about $6.5 million, and an average selling price of $52.

According to FOX Business, a threat detection data company estimates that the Iranian government controls approximately $7.7 billion in digital assets. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has frozen about $500 million in crypto assets related to Iran, and last month froze an additional $344 million. industry executives say that cryptocurrencies are not only tools for evading sanctions but are actually more conducive to law enforcement tracking. The report states that the U.S. may increase pressure on Iran by preventing exchanges from accessing the banking system.

Google Antigravity team core member Varun Mohan announced a rectification, admitting some decision errors, stating that they will listen to community feedback and fix issues as soon as possible; the first concession is to permanently triple the rate limit for the Gemini model paid tier and reset all users' weekly quotas.

Mars Finance reports that Exodus Movement's April operational data shows that in the first quarter, they sold over 1,000 BTC to raise funds for acquisitions and payment services. In April, they resumed increasing their holdings of BTC, ETH, and SOL, with holdings of 629 BTC, 1,872 ETH, and 19,234 SOL respectively. The trading volume in April was $347 million, with approximately 1.5 million monthly active users, roughly the same as in March.