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The National Internet Information Office has issued a notice soliciting public opinions on the "Management Measures for Digital Virtual Human Information Services (Draft for Comments)," aiming to strengthen the management of digital virtual human information services.It points out that from the start of digital virtual human services, digital virtual human service providers, service users, and service providers offering network information content dissemination services should continuously display a prominent indication containing the words "digital human" in the digital virtual human display area, in accordance with national regulations on labeling AI-generated synthetic content.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on social media, "Soon, the number of AI agents conducting transactions will exceed that of humans. They cannot open bank accounts, but they can have crypto wallets."

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng posted on the X platform, stating that the number of payments made by AI agents in the future will reach millions of times that of humans, and these payments will be settled in cryptocurrency.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Sigil on the X platform, stating that extending the feedback distance between humans and artificial intelligence is not a good thing. This trend often leads to AI generating low-quality content rather than truly solving real human problems, and it has not achieved good optimization even at the level of entertainment experience.Vitalik further warned that once AI develops to a sufficiently powerful and potentially dangerous stage, such developmental paths could maximize the risk of irreversible anti-human outcomes, even leading the promoters themselves to feel regret. The goal of Ethereum is to grant freedom to humanity, not to create a self-operating system that leaves human conditions unchanged or even worsened.Additionally, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that current mainstream models operate on centralized infrastructure such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which is not true self-sovereignty. This disregard for centralized trust assumptions is contrary to the principles that Ethereum opposes.The trend of exponential technological growth itself is difficult to stop; therefore, the core task of the current era is not to further accelerate exponential expansion, but to guide its direction of development, avoiding the system sliding into uncontrollable or undesirable attractor states.ChainCatcher previously reported that X user @0xSigil announced on the X platform the construction of an AI system capable of autonomously generating income, self-improvement, and replication without human intervention. This technology aims to provide AI with "write" permissions to the world and supports a "new network" composed of exponentially growing sovereign AIs.The author introduced the concept of "WEB 4.0" in related discussions, defining it as the stage of the birth of superintelligent life. This system demonstrates the technological path for AI to achieve self-sustainability and evolution.Moreover, both Solana and Ethereum have retweeted this post, stating that the technology is closely related to the project.

According to market news, the human-centered AI company Humans&, co-founded by former members of Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has completed a $480 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $4.48 billion. This seed round was led by SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, GV (Google Ventures), Emerson Collective, Forerunner, S32, DCVC, Human Capital, Liquid 2, Felicis, CRV, and others.The company is dedicated to developing AI tools that enhance human collaboration, with team members from OpenAI, Meta, AI2, MIT, and others, focusing on multi-agent reinforcement learning, AI memory, and user understanding, aiming to reconstruct the training and interaction methods of AI models.

According to CoinDesk, Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador stated in a recent interview that despite the ongoing rise in cryptocurrency losses, on-chain security is improving. The year 2025 is recorded as the year with the most severe hacking attacks, but the biggest security failures did not stem from on-chain code, but rather from operational mistakes in Web2, such as passwords, private keys, infected devices, and human errors.As code becomes increasingly difficult to exploit, the main attack surface for crypto security in 2026 will be people, with human factors becoming the weak link that Web3 participants must prioritize. This view aligns with findings from a report by Chainalysis.The report indicates that cryptocurrency losses due to scams and fraud amounted to approximately $17 billion in 2025. Among these, identity impersonation scams increased by 1400% year-on-year, while AI-driven scams were 450% more profitable than traditional schemes.

Babson College graduate Sydney Huang today announced the launch of Human API. This is a brand new platform designed to enable AI systems to collaborate directly with humans to obtain data and labor from the real world. Huang also serves as the CEO of Eclipse Labs, the company behind Human API."AI agents are no longer limited by their intelligence level," Sydney Huang stated, "they are limited by their access to the physical world. The existence of Human API is to bridge this gap."Human API aims to address what the company calls the "last mile problem" for autonomous AI agents. While modern agents can reason, plan, and execute tasks in digital environments, many economically valuable activities still require human involvement, such as completing deliveries, collecting data, and interacting with organizations that have not yet implemented API access. Human API provides agents with a standardized interface to request, coordinate, and compensate humans for completing these tasks.In its initial launch phase, the platform will focus on voice data, which is one of the most restricted forms of input in current AI systems. Audio is a highly information-dense modality, containing information such as language, accent, emotion, timing, and environmental context. However, due to authorization restrictions, compression distortion, and insufficient metadata, high-quality, labelable audio data is difficult to scale for collection. As a result, many speech and multimodal models perform poorly in non-English languages, regional accents, bilingual speech, overlapping conversations, and subtle emotional expressions.Human API enables global contributors to provide high-quality multilingual audio using standard consumer-grade devices, significantly lowering the participation threshold. The company states that this approach allows AI systems to access data that cannot be reliably captured or generated through synthesis.Although still in stealth mode, Human API has already completed its first paid data deliveries to enterprise clients, validating market demand from both buyers seeking higher coverage datasets and contributors willing to provide this data.David Feiock, General Partner at Anagram and investor in Human API, stated, "AI agents are strong in reasoning but face challenges in the last mile, where coordination, data collection, and human judgment are needed. The appeal of Human API lies in its view of the human layer as infrastructure. It is not a managed service or generalized crowdsourcing, but a way that focuses on rights protection for agents, incorporating humans into the system and enabling instant payment."Human API plans to expand in the future to include more forms of human-provided data beyond voice, as well as the execution of real-world tasks. Currently, the platform is accepting contributor registrations at thehumanapi.com.

According to Jinshi citing Yicai, in a podcast program, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted a radical future: in the next 5-6 years, traditional phones and apps will disappear, and most of the content consumed by humans will be generated by AI.Musk believes that "in the future, there will be no operating systems, no apps; your phone will just display pixels and emit sounds. It will predict what you want to see and hear the most, and then generate it in real-time. We will integrate AI into this device as much as possible." "There will no longer be phones in the traditional sense; what we call a phone is actually an edge node for AI reasoning, equipped with some radio modules for connectivity."Musk posits that essentially, server-side AI will communicate with the AI on user devices (formerly known as phones) to generate any real-time video that users want.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the State Administration of Radio and Television have recently issued a notice to organize the recommendation of typical cases of the metaverse for 2025.The scope of recommendations includes typical digital human cases in the metaverse, typical product cases in the metaverse, typical park cases in the metaverse, and typical standard cases in the metaverse. The creative ideas, products, technologies, and related patents of the declared cases must belong to the declaring entity, which should have independent intellectual property rights and no intellectual property disputes.Among them, the declaring entity of the digital human cases must possess all intellectual property rights related to the virtual image involved in the case or have obtained legal authorization from the rights holder. The declared cases should have a high level of technology and complete practical application, with strong representativeness, innovation, and scalability, providing significant reference and promotional value for related industries or enterprises.

ChainCatcher news, AI and blockchain technology provider Humans.ai announced the acquisition of blockchain engineering studio Starfish Technologies. The specific acquisition amount has not been disclosed, and this acquisition aims to further promote the development of AI in the blockchain industry.It is reported that Starfish Technologies' clients include Animoca Brands, OneFootball, Phantom Galaxies, Grease Monkey, and others.