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Odaily reported that Base officially released a promotional video featuring a blue mascot with sunglasses and white gloves on X. Community users are speculating that the video might hint at the completion of the BASE token airdrop snapshot, or could be a teaser for a new payment-related product.

```htmlGolden Ten Data reported on May 26 that workers at Australia's Inpex-owned Ichthys liquefied natural gas export project will not go on strike as originally planned on Wednesday and Thursday. A spokesperson for the union "Offshore Alliance" said the strike action was canceled because “progress has been made in negotiations.” The Ichthys project accounts for about 2% of the global liquefied natural gas production, with an annual export capacity of around 9.3 million tons, mainly exported to Japan. Considering that about one-fifth of global LNG supply is currently disrupted, the planned strike could have had a greater impact on the market than usual. The union is seeking pay raises and better working conditions for workers at the Ichthys offshore gas field and onshore plant. The union previously stated that negotiations with Inpex have been ongoing for more than a year, but no agreement has yet been reached.```

Astarter's four products - Launchpad, DEX, Money Market, and Tech Service Platform - are collectively completing a strategic repositioning, shifting from traditional DeFi infrastructure to the financial primitive layer of autonomous AI agent economy. The project team has released this direction signal in the March 2025 product update. This repositioning is not a product restructuring, but rather redirecting the existing four-year production level stack towards a larger Al Agent market - there are structural differences between Agent and human users in terms of financial primitive needs, and existing DeFi is difficult to directly serve. Astarter emphasizes that this positioning adjustment is "identification rather than transformation" - the same four products, a larger addressable market.