Aqua is a trading bot based on networks such as Solana that supports seamless bridging of cross-chain assets, monitors cross-chain liquidity, and executes transactions with unified gas management on all supported networks.
According to Bitcoin News monitoring, JAN3 has stated that its newly launched swap infrastructure Indra has suffered a denial-of-service attack, and the team has temporarily disabled forward swaps while investigating. Swaps already in progress may experience delays. Indra, developed by JAN3, is designed to replace Boltz in Aqua, enabling users to move Bitcoin between Lightning and Liquid, though Liquid peg operations remain restricted.
According to Caixin News, the UAE-based investment firm Aqua 1 Foundation has spent $100 million to purchase WLFI tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s family, surpassing Justin Sun’s cumulative investment of $75 million and establishing itself as the largest buyer. For an extended period, the true controller of Aqua 1 remained unknown. Recently, Zhou Guren, born in Shanghai in 1984, has begun to emerge as the primary financier behind the WLFI token, though the origins of his funding remain heavily shrouded in secrecy. Reports indicate that Zhou remains listed as a dishonest person subject to enforcement on China’s National Enforcement Information Public Network, with outstanding debts amounting to tens of millions of yuan across six separate cases. An indictment recently obtained from the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reveals that Zhou is currently implicated in a money laundering case in the UK. Furthermore, a Shanghai-based timber company where he serves as the legal representative was previously involved in a smuggling case in China.
According to The New York Times, British businessman Guren Zhou, suspected of money laundering, purchased $100 million worth of World Liberty Financial tokens through the Aqua 1 entity, raising questions about conflicts of interest within the Trump administration.
decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has launched the shared liquidity protocol Aqua. Aqua allows users to support multiple liquidity positions simultaneously with a single token balance without depositing assets into a liquidity pool. Assets always remain in the user's wallet; only when a trade is executed does the protocol call the corresponding tokens from the wallet via a single atomic transaction to complete settlement, and then returns the received tokens along with fees back to the wallet.