[Gate Ventures Announces Strategic Investment in Mesh, Expanding into Crypto-Native Payment Infrastructure] According to official sources, Gate's venture capital arm, Gate Ventures, has announced a strategic investment in the crypto payment network Mesh. Mesh is dedicated to building a unified payment connectivity layer, enabling wallets, exchanges, payment service providers, and fiat on/off ramps to integrate through a single API, thereby reducing the system complexity of crypto and fiat payments. Gate Ventures stated that stablecoins and crypto-native payments are rapidly evolving into the next generation of financial infrastructure, but the industry remains highly fragmented. Mesh abstracts multiple payment rails into a unified payment layer, enabling seamless value transfer across ecosystems and regions, with the potential to become a key infrastructure. Mesh aggregates wallets, exchanges, banks, on/off ramps, and payment service providers, supporting crypto payments, fund transfers, and stablecoin settlements, while providing secure and scalable execution capabilities for merchants, PSPs, and AI-driven automated trading scenarios. Gate Ventures believes that Mesh's "connectivity-first" horizontal architecture approach to the crypto payment infrastructure has the potential to play a core bridging role between the traditional payment system and the on-chain economy.