YZi Labs announced on March 24th the launch of the Atlas Scout program, aiming to recruit 5 to 10 students from top universities worldwide to manage investment projects. The program offers up to $1 million in funding support for early-stage projects in the Web3, AI, and biotechnology sectors, including institutions such as Stanford and Harvard. Participating students will receive rights such as investment decision-making authority, travel support, and access to resources.

Anchorage Digital announced on March 20th an expansion of its Atlas network, adding collateral management functionality to provide institutional clients with cryptocurrency-backed lending infrastructure that reduces operational and counterparty risks. Currently supporting nearly 600 institutions and processing hundreds of billions of dollars in settlements, it helps institutions efficiently manage crypto collateral and facilitates the integration of crypto finance with the U.S. financial system.

Anchorage Digital expanded its Atlas network on March 19, introducing cryptocurrency collateral management features that support nearly 600 participants, aiming to simplify the lending process and reduce risks. Atlas is now a 24/7 regulated system that manages the settlement of credit arrangements. Several institutions have already adopted the platform, reflecting regulatory trends in crypto banking.

Sky protocol governance voting has passed, deciding to reduce the protocol income allocation used for SKY buybacks from 300,000 USDS daily to 37,600 USDS, and made multiple updates to Atlas Edit content, including removing specific risk exposures, adding to blocklist, and correcting related descriptions.

Stripe mentioned in its 2025 annual summary that the platform's total transaction volume in 2024 reached $1.9 trillion, a 34% increase. The company supported 5 million businesses, launched over 350 product updates, and completed two key acquisitions. Stripe Atlas company registrations grew by 41%, with some startups quickly reaching paying customers.

PANews January 22 News, according to official sources, Chainlink has acquired the order flow auction protocol Atlas developed by FastLane Labs. Atlas has exclusively supported the use of the Chainlink SVR solution, aiming to introduce SVR into more ecosystems and capture OEV for DeFi applications to enhance yields.

Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement on January 21, 2026 Gate will close the new lending feature for 15 tokens, including ASTRA, ATLAS, FURY, LAI, LINGO, PROS, REN, RWA, SERO, CRU, DUEL, ETHS, UNITE, SLAY, and SIDUS, in unified account spot margin, collateral lending, and isolated margin trading starting from 16:00 (UTC+8) on January 21, 2026. This adjustment is an optimization decision made by Gate based on the periodic project review mechanism. Users holding lending positions for the above tokens must complete repayment before 16:00 (UTC+8) on January 22, 2026. Unrepaid loans will be automatically settled by the system at that time. This adjustment only affects the lending feature and does not impact the normal operation of spot trading.

Bubblemaps reports that the Twitter account WhaleInsider promoted the Meme coin ATLAS, claiming that multiple new wallets obtained funds through ChangeNow before its launch and targeted the coin. The release of ATLAS was inspired by U.S. Vice President JD Vance's pet dog, and its price surged 100% intraday.

BlockBeats News, December 12 — Builder Codes enables developers to build custom terminals, tools, and applications based on Grvt, while earning continuous revenue from the order flow. This allows Grvt to focus on the underlying matching and settlement system, while the ecosystem team can innovate simultaneously on the same technical platform. Based on ZKsync Atlas, Grvt offers developers a high-performance, low-cost unified liquidity environment. The first partners include professional terminals Tealstreet and institutional OEMS.