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first_img Stablecoin company Frax applies for top-level domain .frax

The stablecoin and payment company Frax, headquartered in the United States, announced that it has submitted an application for its own top-level domain .frax to ICANN, claiming this is the first top-level domain application from a cryptocurrency company published by ICANN. The application is part of the 2026 New Generic Top-Level Domain Program and is supported by ICANN-accredited corporate domain registrar MarkMonitor. If approved, .frax will become a global internet top-level domain similar to .com and .org.Frax plans to allow users to own and manage .frax domain names on its blockchain Fraxtal through the Frax Name Service, while being resolved via the global domain name system. Related registrations will enter the Frax Burn Engine and permanently destroy FRAX. Founder Sam Kazemian stated: the cryptocurrency naming system allows internet identities to be owned, ICANN domains make them universally accessible, and .frax combines both, aiming for ownership to remain on-chain, domain names to be universally available, and to become programmable financial endpoints for people, businesses, applications, and AI agents.The plan will also extend Frax's financial network built around the fully-backed digital dollar frxUSD and the institutional connectivity platform FraxNet. Frax plans to explore the agency and machine payment functionalities of .frax domain names, including support for standards like x402, so that websites, applications, and autonomous software agents can identify counterparties, access services, and programmatically initiate stablecoin payments. Frax claims to have been serving users since 2020 and ranks 5th in the 2026 Fortune Crypto 100 stablecoin category.

first_img Alibaba ModelScope competes with MoArk for the domestic open-source model platform

According to Rest of World, Alibaba launched the open-source model platform ModelScope in 2022, and OSChina launched MoArk in 2023, providing model hosting, testing, and customization services for Chinese developers behind firewalls. In 2023, Chinese regulators blocked Hugging Face without disclosing specific reasons; reports indicate that the government simultaneously allowed artificial intelligence laboratories to bypass the blockade to share Chinese models globally. ModelScope currently hosts over 170,000 models and stated in March that it has 170,000 models and 250 million users; MoArk hosts about 20,000 commonly used models, both still below Hugging Face, which hosts over 3 million open models.OSChina CEO Xu Yong stated that not everyone can always use a VPN, and China needs to establish an independent artificial intelligence ecosystem that serves Chinese users, claiming that China is developing an independent ecosystem faster than during the internet era. He also mentioned that MoArk has deployed engineering teams to ensure that models can run on different types of Chinese chips, making it their mission to ensure mainstream open models are compatible with Chinese chips. Both platforms offer some services for free, with additional computing power and premium features charged; ModelScope also hosts university hackathons and has opened co-working and event spaces for AI entrepreneurs in Hangzhou.Headquartered in New York, Hugging Face is a major platform for sharing open models and datasets. In September, Nvidia announced its acquisition of the company for $12.9 billion and noted in regulatory filings that regulators might prohibit sharing Chinese models on the site.

Xiao Hong, the founder of General Intelligence Manus, stated that preparations for a domestic version are underway

The founder of the general-purpose intelligent agent Manus, Xiao Hong, stated that when Manus was born, Codex and Claude Cowork had not yet appeared in the market, and the product positioning has always been a general-purpose intelligent agent. He likened Manus to a computer-selling business, believing that users may primarily purchase computers for work, but if they cannot watch videos or play games, the experience will be quite limited; therefore, it should not be confined to office tasks.Xiao Hong indicated that videos and games are important scenarios for unleashing creativity, which need to be perfected through the local client Manus Studio. The related videos for Cue are entirely produced by Manus Studio, without using video generation models; instead, the agent first writes the code, which is then converted into video. With the help of cloud computers, Manus can also create online games that support user participation with friends.In terms of infrastructure, Manus cloud computers can provide cloud-based Linux, Mac, and Windows environments. Xiao Hong stated that when the agent operates the computer in the cloud, it will not compete with the user for the local mouse cursor, and he anticipates that individuals will be able to control large-scale computing clusters in the future to satisfy curiosity and conduct experiments and explorations in fields such as mathematics and science. He also described Cue as having an independent phone number, email, payment capability, computer, and sufficient intelligence, and stated that if such agents could be regarded as humans, there might be more changes in upper-level interactions. Xiao Hong mentioned that building product experiences in an overseas open ecosystem is relatively easier, and Manus is actively preparing a domestic version.
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