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Golden Ten Data reported on April 23 that Commerzbank pointed out the eurozone’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey results for this month fell into a range associated with economic contraction, with the composite PMI dropping from 50.7 in March to 48.6 in April. As expected, price components surged significantly, reaching the highest level since the Russia-Ukraine conflict began. The sharp decline in the services sector reflects high consumer uncertainty, indicating that the mitigation measures adopted by various governments have yet to produce a decisive impact. The future outlook depends on the timely reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and another drop in energy prices. At least based on these data, economic performance in the second quarter is likely to remain weak.

ChainCatcher reports that the AI intelligent routing and infrastructure network DGrid AI has officially launched its AI inference API integrated with the x402 payment protocol. This API seamlessly combines payment logic with AI model calls for the first time, allowing developers and AI Agents to authorize, infer, and pay within a single API request lifecycle without managing complicated API Keys or prepaying into centralized accounts. It is reported that this API currently supports BNB Chain (BSC) as the underlying settlement network. Leveraging the micropayment feature of the x402 protocol, the system enables extremely low-friction on-chain real-time settlement while ensuring absolutely controllable invocation costs. Additionally, the API is compatible with mainstream AI invocation methods, supporting streaming responses and real-time usage feedback, making it suitable for a variety of scenarios such as AI Agent model selection, inference billing, intelligent proxy, and multitasking execution. DGrid stated that this move aims to completely break the prepaid barrier of traditional large model calls, providing programmable underlying payment infrastructure for building fully automated AI Agent economies (machine-to-machine transactions).

BlockBeats News, April 23rd, according to Solana's ecosystem token CWU saw a short-term surge, with a market cap rising above $24 million and a current price of $0.0247, representing a 60% increase in the past 24 hours. CWU is the native token of the CommonWealth project, which aims to be a platform linking the global blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. BlockBeats reminds users that meme coin trading is highly volatile, often driven by market sentiment and hype around concepts, lacking actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks involved.