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ChainCatcher reported live that HashKey Group Chairman Xiao Feng shared a keynote speech titled "Innovation of Economic Models for Intelligent Agents—The Fusion Revolution of AI Tokens, Blockchain Tokens, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption" at this year's 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He pointed out that the two major business characteristics of blockchain technology are trustlessness and permissionlessness, but public transparency leads to data exposure, making it difficult for compliant institutions like banks to directly go on-chain. With fully homomorphic encryption chips expected to be launched in the second half of this year, achieving performance of about 1000 transactions per second, privacy computing technology is about to reach commercial thresholds.He proposed that the fusion of AI Tokens, blockchain Tokens, zero-knowledge proofs, and fully homomorphic encryption technology is the ultimate form of the intelligent agent economy. He used hospitals as an example: medical data, after being fully homomorphically encrypted, becomes Tokens, and anyone can call the data for computation through the blockchain in a permissionless manner, but cannot access personal privacy information, thus turning hospitals into "Token factories." Individuals can also put their encrypted health check data on-chain, issuing demands to global insurance companies, which can calculate and provide personalized optimal insurance plans in an encrypted state using their actuarial models, eliminating the need for insurance brokers and intermediaries.He specifically corrected a common misunderstanding: AI Tokens are not the currency unit of the intelligent agent economy, but rather the means of production, encompassing everything from electricity, chip computing power, to large models, algorithms, and applications, depicting the production process of intelligent agents. The currency of the intelligent agent economy must be programmable, divisible, and capable of real-time settlement, because when AI Agents call APIs, they may only need a few cents each time, and the costs of existing banking payment systems cannot support such small payments. Digital currency is the "blood" of the intelligent agent economy, and a brand new financial service system designed for machines rather than humans will definitely emerge in the future.

ChainCatcher reported live that Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mysten Labs, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He stated that the core team members come from Facebook and were responsible for launching the global payment network Libra, aiming to make fund transfers as simple as sending messages. He announced that Sui will be the first high-speed public blockchain to achieve zero transaction fees for transfers across the network, regardless of the transfer amount ranging from $0.0005 to $1 billion, covering all stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and Sui Dollar.In terms of privacy, Sui will provide bank-grade on-chain privacy, utilizing advanced cryptography to ensure that transaction history and balances are not visible to third parties, while fully compliant with regulatory requirements. Regarding yields, he introduced the Sui Dollar launched in collaboration with Stripe, which generates approximately 3.5% returns that will be directly reinvested into the network ecosystem and users, rather than flowing to intermediaries.He also announced the launch of the Bitcoin DeFi protocol Hashi aimed at institutions, allowing sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, and ETF holders to deploy Bitcoin into DeFi for yields without triggering taxable events, supported by legal opinions from top U.S. law firm Fenwick & West. Additionally, Sui's on-chain deep order book DeepBook supports large transactions with extremely low slippage for instant on-chain exchanges between assets such as BTC, gold, USD, and EUR.In the AI agent economy, he pointed out that Stripe estimates a need for processing capacity of 1 billion transactions per second in the future, while Sui employs a horizontally scalable architecture similar to that of Google Search and Facebook infrastructure, capable of scaling on demand to millions or even tens of millions of TPS. The full-stack atomic composability provided by Sui is its core differentiated advantage, allowing agents to execute multiple cross-application transactions simultaneously and settle them in one go, which cannot be achieved on AWS, Google, or any existing Web3 platform. He also announced a partnership with RedotPay, enabling users to spend Sui Dollars at over 130 million merchants worldwide and positioning Sui as an alternative to SWIFT.

ChainCatcher reported live that Fan Wenzhong, Executive Director of the Chinese Financial Society and former Chairman of Beijing Financial Holdings Group, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He pointed out that we are currently at a historical turning point similar to the transition from pawnshops to modern banking, where AI is an advanced productive force in the physical world, and Web3 represents a new type of production relationship in the digital world. The integration of the two will give rise to a Decentralized Agent Economy (DAE).He analyzed that AI Agents have execution capabilities but lack independent identity, accounts, and trust mechanisms, while Web3 addresses these pain points through smart contracts, on-chain identities, and programmable currencies; conversely, AI Agents significantly lower the barriers to using Web3. He proposed that DAE has four major characteristics: agent sovereignty and 24/7 operation, high-frequency atomic exchanges, a collaboration mechanism based on technological trust rather than moral or legal frameworks, and the organizational evolution from companies to DAOs and then to Decentralized AI Companies (DACs).He warned that this transformation will impact the labor market, with white-collar workers being replaced before blue-collar workers. AI quantitative funds have already achieved returns far exceeding those of retail investors, and he suggested that the government proactively advance social security reforms. Finally, he recommended that Hong Kong develop a self-controllable high-performance public chain, pilot limited digital persona registrations, attract Web3+AI composite talents, establish a digital finance industry fund, and promote collaborative innovation between the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin and digital renminbi.

Ju.com, in collaboration with Nivex, officially launched the Web 4.0 Intelligent Intent AI Model ------ OG Agent. This model aims to end traditional "physical trading" through an AI intelligent agent cluster, achieving the return of computational sovereignty for individual investors, while marking the official entry of decentralized finance into the "AI Sovereignty" era.Core technological breakthroughs:Extreme millisecond-level execution: Based on a distributed edge computing architecture, OG Agent achieves a response speed of 10 microseconds, far exceeding the limits of traditional manual operations, capturing global market liquidity premiums in real-time.Intent-driven configuration: Users only need to set profit targets, and the AI cluster can automatically analyze the optimal path and complete intelligent configuration, thoroughly simplifying complex financial operations.Secure sovereign isolation: By adopting the separation of "execution rights" and "ownership" technology, it ensures that the AI operates only within restricted authorization, allowing users to maintain absolute control over their assets.Deflationary economic model: The ecological token $OG is linked to real returns, achieving long-term value drive through a buyback and destruction mechanism.Global partner recruitment has begun:OG Agent has now launched a global "Computational Power Pioneer" recruitment program. The first batch of participants can directly unlock VIP 3 advanced permissions and obtain a $OG original asset confirmation seat. In addition, partners will deeply share in the protocol's revenue pool dividends and enjoy up to 90% institutional-level rebate rights.

During the 17th General Assembly of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, the Security Governance Committee of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance officially released the "Risk Management Guidelines for Deploying OpenClaw-like Intelligent Agents."To systematically address the security challenges posed by OpenClaw-like intelligent agents, the guidelines focus on the pain points of risk prevention and control that enterprises face during the technology implementation process. They propose a comprehensive security deployment framework and self-inspection standards covering the entire process of deployment, usage, and offline phases, aiming to promote the transition of intelligent agents from "deployable" to "safely deployed, regulated use, and continuous governance," providing practical guidance for enterprises to standardize their technology deployment.

Applied Compute, which builds dedicated intelligent companies for enterprises, has completed a $80 million financing round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion. Kleiner Perkins led the investment, with participation from Elad Gil, Lux Capital, Greenoaks, NEO, Hana Bicapital, among others, bringing the total financing to $160 million.Applied Compute's mission is to bridge the gap between "smart" and "useful" through "Specific Intelligence." These proprietary intelligent agents are trained based on the real operational conditions of the company and are designed for continuous self-evolution. They help enterprises unlock their institutional context, train agents for specific workflows and performance standards, and deploy them to the production front line.

The artificial intelligence industry is transitioning from generative AI and model inference acceleration to the era of intelligent agents, entering a new phase of rapid development. Landscape Fund officially announced a multi-million dollar strategic investment in Zhihui Cloud World, firmly optimistic about the continuous growth of Token consumption in the intelligent agent scenarios in mainland China, with a focus on laying out the intelligent agent computing power scheduling and cloud service track.Zhihui Cloud World focuses on the artificial intelligence infrastructure platform, cloud computing services, and computing power scheduling technology, providing stable and efficient computing power support and technical solutions for large model training, inference, and the commercialization of AI intelligent agents. With the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents and the large-scale implementation of enterprise-level intelligent agents, the demand for Token invocation and computing power is experiencing explosive growth, indicating clear growth potential for the company's business.Landscape Fund stated that this round of financing will help Zhihui Cloud World solidify its technological foundation, expand computing power scale, optimize intelligent agent service efficiency, further seize the dividends of the industrialization of intelligent agents, and promote the upgrade of China's AI intelligent agent infrastructure.

Users on the X platform discovered a feature switch named enable_grok_computer in the source code of the Grok web page, speculating that xAI is preparing to launch a computer control intelligent agent "Grok Computer," which is equivalent to the "trial version" of the previously announced Macrohard project. In response, Musk confirmed in a post sharing related content that it is "coming out soon."Macrohard is an AI automation system jointly developed by Tesla and xAI, using Grok as a high-level reasoning engine, paired with an AI agent to process screen images and mouse and keyboard operations in real-time. Previously, reports indicated that data collection work for this project was paused last month.

AI native trading platform Derivio announced the completion of a $6 million financing round, with investors including YZiLabs, CMT Digital, Big Brain VC, Signum Capital, UOB Venture Management, Everstake Capital, and proximity.Derivio stated that it will build infrastructure around "agentic trading," utilizing AI agents to handle high-speed, large-scale market and on-chain data to achieve more automated strategy execution and trading decisions.

The intelligent trading operating system NickAI, supported by the digital asset and data center infrastructure company Galaxy, is about to launch. Users can build AI agents without coding to achieve 24/7 automated trading in cryptocurrencies, stocks, and prediction markets.

According to Jinshi News, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), relying on the Software Intelligence Committee of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance (AIIA), has long been focused on the "AI + Software" field and has released several international and domestic standards, including development/testing/operation and maintenance intelligent agents and software intelligence maturity models.Based on the relevant work foundation, CAICT has officially launched the standard preparation work for the Intelligent Assistant Intelligent Agent (Claw) series, systematically promoting the construction of the relevant standard system for intelligent assistance intelligent agents.

OpenMind and Circle have officially announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch the world's first payment infrastructure specifically designed for autonomous intelligent agents and real-world embodied AI. By deeply integrating Circle's USDC stablecoin with OpenMind's x402 protocol module, this collaboration enables robots and AI entities to achieve direct and autonomous payments for energy, services, and data in the physical world.Based on the collaboration between OpenMind and Circle, the FABRIC Foundation will accelerate the implementation and large-scale deployment from two main directions: Robot Birthplace and Acceleration of Adoption.The payment infrastructure provided by OpenMind + Circle offers machines an "economic brain," while the FABRIC Foundation is responsible for the entire closed-loop chain of "birth, production, operation, and evolution." The synergy among these three will jointly give rise to a true machine economy era—where robots are no longer mere tools, but independent economic entities with autonomous perception, decision-making, action, and payment capabilities. In the coming months, more real-world deployment cases (such as automatic charging stations) are worth continuous attention.