PANews, July 15th news, Aqua1 Foundation issued a statement in response to recent rumors about its team and operations. The statement said that Dave Lee joined Aqua1 as a co-founder and CEO in April 2025, and is highly aligned with the team's long-term vision. Aqua1 emphasized its independent operation, with no equity, financial, or operational ties to any unrelated entities. The team is collaborating with institutions in the Middle East to advance projects, but some details have not been disclosed due to Compliance requirements. According to previous news, Aqua invested 100 million USD in WLFI governance tokens.

PANews July 15 news, the funding source of the Trump-supported Decentralized Finance project World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has raised doubts. Previously, a mysterious donor named "Aqua 1" announced it would provide $100 million to the project, claiming it was from the UAE. However, the latest investigation found that "Aqua 1" is actually a shell company related to the controversial firm Web3port. Web3port is a market maker that was banned by multiple decentralized exchanges in 2023 for suspected market manipulation. Its founder "Dave Lee" is active online only with an anime avatar, and his true identity remains a mystery. Additionally, "Aqua 1" is not registered in the UAE and has not disclosed any responsible personnel information. Although the funds were advertised for "digital freedom infrastructure," they were actually transferred through opaque wallets and offshore accounts.

Gate News, the UAE-registered Web3 investment fund Aqua 1 announced a $100 million strategic investment in World Liberty Financial (WLFI), associated with the Trump family, acquiring its governance token. This move aims to accelerate the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) and the layout of global blockchain financial infrastructure.

PANews January 3rd news, SyncSwap announced the launch of V3 version, introducing the new pool model Range Pool, which has flexible Liquidity provision management, custom price range, and excellent capital efficiency (up to 1000 times of Classic Pool). V3 version supports four pool models: Classic Pool (exchange of long-tail assets and MEME coin), Stable Pool (efficient exchange of Stable Coins), Aqua Pool (efficient automated Liquidity management), and Range Pool. Range Pool is now live on the ZKSync network and will gradually expand to other networks. SyncSwap will serve as the main Liquidity center for ZKSync and will participate in next week's launch.

Golden Finance reported that on-chain reputation protocol Nomis announced a partnership with Aqua Protocol, a new liquidity layer project on TON, to provide additional point rewards for its TON Scoreholders. Users with points greater than or equal to 40 can receive special point multiplier rewards. Users can link their Wallet and TON Score to the Aqua Protocol Telegram bot to receive rewards.