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BlockBeats News, May 15th—According to official data from the cross-chain interoperability protocol Owlto Finance, the number of smart contracts currently deployed on the Base chain through its platform has surpassed 210,000. To meet the needs of Base ecosystem activity, Owlto's "one-click contract deployment" feature has become the fastest way for community users to increase on-chain interaction frequency, rapidly boost their Base score, and position themselves for future airdrops. This tool has significantly reduced the barrier to entry, allowing even novice users to complete advanced contract interactions in 10 seconds, thereby establishing a stronger personal on-chain reputation within the Base ecosystem.

Jinse Finance reported that on May 15, according to monitoring data from Farside Investors, the US spot Ethereum ETF saw a net outflow of 5.6 million USD yesterday.

According to 动察 Beating monitoring, the terms for Anthropic's new $30 billion funding round have been finalized, with a pre-money valuation of $90 billion, and the deal is expected to close within this month.The lead investor lineup is the most noteworthy aspect of this round. Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital are jointly leading the investment, with each contributing at least $2 billion. Notably, three of them are also major shareholders in OpenAI: Dragoneer invested nearly $3 billion in OpenAI last year; Sequoia has been betting on ChatGPT since 2021; Altimeter CEO Brad Gerstner has publicly supported Sam Altman several times in podcasts and interviews. Now, as they are all writing major checks to a rival whose valuation is about to overtake OpenAI's, they're signaling—through real money—that AI is shaping into a duopoly, not a winner-takes-all market.This funding round came together rapidly. The orchestrator is Anthropic’s first CFO Krishna Rao, who joined in May 2024. He is best known for negotiating a $1 billion lifeline for Airbnb during the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. After investors proactively reached out last month, he initiated negotiations and secured terms within two weeks. Google and Amazon are not expected to participate in this round. Anthropic is still in discussions with other investors about the remaining allocation, and the final terms may be adjusted before the official announcement.