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According to the Economic Times, the physical AI startup Mowito has completed a $3 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Version One Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, Unisol, and iSeed. AI researcher Soumith Chintala and founders from Foundry Robotics, Coformer.ai, Better Capital, and others participated as angel investors.Mowito was founded in 2024 by Puru Rastogi, Adityanag Nagesh, and Safar V. It builds AI foundational models for industrial robotic arms, addressing the bottleneck of software programming in manufacturing automation by allowing robots to learn tasks through human demonstration rather than explicit programming—engineers do not need to rewrite control code when product lines change. Mowito's software can run on standard, unmodified industrial robots, serving automotive and electronics manufacturing clients. This round of financing will be used for expansion into the U.S. market, expanding engineering and marketing teams, and deepening deployment in manufacturing sites.

Vanguard Group's recruitment information shows that it is hiring a Head of Digital Assets for its Personal Wealth business. The job requirements include over 10 years of relevant experience, a deep understanding of digital assets (tokenization, stablecoins, custody, settlement, etc.), and the ability to innovate and manage risks within a regulatory environment.This position will be responsible for developing Vanguard's strategy, roadmap, and execution in the digital asset space, including assessing digital asset capabilities, product development, operational models, and cross-functional collaboration with departments such as product, technology, operations, risk, legal, and compliance. Additionally, it will represent Vanguard in external communications with industry participants, regulatory agencies, and clients.It is reported that Vanguard has allowed brokerage clients to trade crypto ETFs and mutual funds since last December, but the company has clearly stated that it has no plans to issue its own crypto investment products, believing that digital assets are still inconsistent with its long-term investment philosophy.

On July 1, according to WEEX TradFi data, the recent performance of the US stock technology sector has been mixed, with funds continuously focusing on Physical AI, robotics, and related supply chain directions that have actual implementation expectations. Among them, AMD rose about 7.7% in 24 hours, Symbotic (SYM) rose over 6.6%, Texas Instruments (TXN) rose about 4.4%, NVIDIA (NVDA) rose about 2.6%, Tesla (TSLA) rose about 2.1%, and Analog Devices (ADI) rose about 1.4%.WEEX Labs believes that market funds are shifting from a single computing power narrative to core links in the Physical AI supply chain with implementation expectations, including Tesla's Optimus production line transformation and NVIDIA's Physical AI Day, which continuously strengthen expectations for hardware and software collaboration, leading to increased attention in related sectors.

According to Jinshi News, Nvidia has released "Halos for Robotics," which is the industry's first full-stack safety system for physical artificial intelligence.

According to the Nikkei Asia report, the Japanese government recently announced plans to achieve over 370 trillion yen (approximately 15.59 trillion yuan) in public-private joint investment in 17 strategic areas by fiscal year 2040. Among these, approximately 10.5 trillion yen (about 442.3 billion yuan) will be specifically allocated to the field of physical AI.It is reported that the Japanese government expects physical AI technology to play a key role in scenarios such as industrial automation, unmanned transportation, and infrastructure inspections, to alleviate the labor shortage caused by the intensifying aging population and the imbalance between labor supply and demand, thereby comprehensively enhancing productivity. In addition, to mitigate the potential risks of high-performance artificial intelligence, Japan also announced a new AI policy draft last week, planning to further strengthen relevant threat control and safety assessment mechanisms.

According to Xinhua Daily, the police in Ya'an, Sichuan have cracked a cross-border online pornography crime case. The involved pornographic comic website "Shameful Color Comics" profited by inducing teenagers to frequently make small payments, with the website receiving over 100 million visits and a financial flow exceeding 12 million yuan (approximately 1.66 million USD). The police found that individuals within the country received the illicit funds through multiple companies and personal accounts, and that Li Mouwu and others transferred the money abroad using virtual currency.Recently, the People's Court of Ming Mountain District in Ya'an City sentenced five defendants for the crimes of profiting from the distribution of obscene materials and assisting in information network crime activities. Judicial authorities are still investigating the foreign financial backers behind the website.

Galaxy Research monitored that a physical Casascius Bitcoin minted between 2011 and 2013 (denomination of 25 BTC, approximately 1.78 million USD) had its private key extracted and completed an on-chain withdrawal.It is reported that Casascius Coin is an early physical collectible of Bitcoin, which contains real BTC private keys sealed inside. Holders can extract the assets after peeling off the anti-counterfeiting hologram sticker. This series was discontinued in 2013, and there are still tens of thousands of BTC sealed in unopened Casascius physical coins.

The court in Qujiang District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China recently ruled on a hacker case that used government and enterprise websites as a platform for pornography. The defendant, Zhou, illegally controlled over 150 servers (involving 157 government and enterprise units and well-known apps) through website vulnerabilities, batch-injecting malicious files, forcing redirection to overseas pornographic websites, and selling control permissions for profit. To evade tracking, Zhou rented a house and opened accounts using the identities of friends and relatives, arranged for accomplices to operate

According to CoinDesk, Solana's decentralized exchange Orca has launched a "permissioned pool" infrastructure aimed at tokenized trading of physical assets with high compliance requirements. The first participant is the commodity tokenization company Streamex, whose gold-linked security GLDY will become the first compliant token traded in this system.Orca stated that this mechanism is primarily aimed at the U.S. market, allowing only qualified investors who have passed KYC verification to buy, sell, and hold the relevant tokens. Issuers can customize access rules, which will be automatically enforced by the on-chain system. The permissioned pool operates on top of Orca's existing liquidity infrastructure, and the interface will indicate whether assets are restricted and whether users are eligible to trade.

Helio Protocol's XAUT gold stablecoin ecosystem has announced a strategic partnership with Dephy and APRO, aiming to jointly promote the application of AI intelligent quantitative systems in the fields of gold stablecoins, RWA (real-world assets on-chain), and DeFi.It is reported that this collaboration will be based on the Dephy Apro System AI quantitative architecture, combined with the on-chain asset clearing and cross-market liquidity management capabilities of the XAUT ecosystem, to construct a financial model of "AI + gold stablecoin + on-chain quantification." This model aims to achieve functions such as AI intelligent market prediction, automated on-chain quantitative trading, dynamic risk control, and intelligent adjustment of multi-market liquidity.In addition, according to official statistical data released, the average daily quantitative return rate of the XAUT AI Quant System reached 10.17% in the first quarter of 2026. In the future, the XAUT ecosystem plans to further promote the construction of infrastructure such as the AI-Agent automated trading system, cross-border payment network for gold stablecoins, and intelligent RWA clearing system.

On May 14, BNB Chain released the "BSC Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Report," stating that it has completed the migration testing for quantum-resistant cryptography for transaction signatures and the consensus layer, using the NIST standardized post-quantum signature algorithm ML-DSA-44 (Dilithium) and the pqSTARK aggregation scheme.The report shows that BSC has replaced transaction signatures from ECDSA to ML-DSA-44 and switched consensus voting aggregation from BLS12-381 to pqSTARK to address the potential threats posed by future quantum computing to the existing elliptic curve cryptography system. However, post-quantum signatures also significantly increase the on-chain data volume: the size of a single transaction has increased from about 110 bytes to approximately 2.5KB; the block size in a 2000 TPS scenario has increased from about 130KB to around 2MB; and the TPS in the testing environment has decreased by about 40%-50%.BSC stated that the current network bottleneck mainly comes from the larger transaction data propagation, rather than the consensus protocol itself. Meanwhile, the consensus layer aggregation still maintains high efficiency, with pqSTARK achieving a signature compression ratio of about 43:1, and the additional burden on validators remains within a controllable range. The report concludes that existing technology can achieve "quantum-resistant" deployment for blockchain, but future issues related to network bandwidth and data scalability still need to be addressed.

Revolut has announced the launch of its first physical crypto card, featuring a Dogecoin-themed design and equipped with an LED display that lights up during payment. The card can be used at merchants that support Visa and Mastercard, and it is initially available to users in the UK and the European Economic Area (excluding Hungary, Switzerland, and Portugal).Revolut stated that it does not charge additional exchange fees, but crypto asset payments will be settled at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, and there may be tax obligations arising from the disposal of crypto assets.

According to the official announcement from Huobi HTX, the platform has officially launched the "Crypto Pizza Festival" series of activities, covering multiple gameplay options such as task challenges, holiday red envelopes, and lucky draws, with a total prize pool exceeding 200,000 USDT, including physical grand prizes like the iPhone 17 Pro Max, 10 grams of gold, and pizza vouchers.The task challenge competition runs from May 14 to May 25. After signing up, users can complete any one of the five tasks: earning coins, spot trading, contract trading, learning to earn coins, or holding $HTX to light up "Fire Treasures" and receive tiered rewards such as USDT earning interest vouchers, contract experience gold, and spot trading fee cashback vouchers. Collecting all Fire Treasures allows participation in a lucky draw to share a prize pool of 100,000 USDT, thousands of pizza vouchers, and USDT 10% earning interest vouchers.From May 18 to June 19, the pizza carnival red envelope activity will also be launched, with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT. On the birthday of Fire Treasures (May 18) and Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22), users can visit the event post to receive no-threshold red envelopes. Completing daily interactions or referral tasks can unlock subsequent red envelope qualifications, and checking in for 7 consecutive days can unlock large red envelopes.The lucky draw activity will start on May 18. During the event, accumulating a spot trading volume of ≥100 USDT or a single contract trading volume of ≥2,000 USDT will grant a chance to enter the draw. The prize pool includes an iPhone 17 Pro Max in Starry Orange (1TB), Keron 4 GT, 10 grams of gold, BTT/NFT/WIN/SUN tokens, and contract experience gold, among others.

Global leading cryptocurrency asset trading platform Gate announced that it will hold the "Gate x Inter XIII: Champion's Circle" offline event in Milan on May 21.This event coincides with Inter Milan Football Club securing the championship three rounds early in the 2025-26 Serie A season, successfully winning the club's 21st league trophy, while Gate also celebrates its thirteenth anniversary. As the official sleeve sponsor of Inter Milan, Gate witnesses the championship moment alongside the team, with its brand influence continuously rising in both the sports and Web3 industries.During this event, Gate will invite participants to the Inter Milan headquarters to closely view the trophy that symbolizes championship glory and experience the history and culture of a top-tier club. Legendary Inter Milan players will appear to share behind-the-scenes stories from the pitch and locker room, and there will be opportunities for photos and autograph interactions.At the same time, Gate's CMO will engage in a community development dialogue with Inter Milan executives, discussing topics such as global user growth, brand culture, and community operations. The event will also include a tasting session for the limited edition Gate x Inter Milan co-branded pizza. After the event, Gate will publicly release the co-branded pizza recipe to further extend community interaction and festive atmosphere.In addition, Gate's compliance progress in Europe is continuously advancing, with its Malta company Gate Technology Ltd having obtained European MiCA and PI licenses under the supervision of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), further strengthening its global compliance layout. Leveraging top-tier sports IP and the popularity of international events, Gate will continue to expand the boundaries of connection with mainstream culture.

NEAR Protocol stated on platform X that the team is adding post-quantum cryptography support for the network. NEAR's account model is different from Bitcoin and Ethereum; accounts are decoupled from cryptography and controlled through rotatable access keys.The NEAR One team is adding the NIST-approved lattice-based signature FIPS-204 scheme as the first post-quantum signature option. Once launched, any NEAR account holder can rotate keys through a single transaction, achieving quantum safety. NEAR is also collaborating with software and hardware wallets to advance post-quantum support.Through the chain signature feature, NEAR can provide threshold signatures for over 35 chains. The NEAR Intents team is developing a quantum-safe cross-chain signature solution. If other chains progress slowly in adopting post-quantum cryptography, NEAR can offer a quantum-safe environment. Aspects such as consensus mechanisms, validators, block synchronization, and transaction signatures also need to evolve for the post-quantum era, with the goal of achieving a one-time future-compatible migration.

Yunfeng Financial (00376.HK) officially launched the "Physical Gold Token" product on its "Yunfeng Youyu" platform, open to users who have completed the Professional Investor (PI) certification. This product is supported by AlphaToken's blockchain and RWA tokenization infrastructure, aimed at providing compliant digital asset allocation services in gold for professional investors.According to the introduction, the gold token is anchored to physical gold that is LBMA certified and has a purity of 99.99%, with each token corresponding to 1 gram of gold. The related assets are held in custody by internationally certified vaults and ensure transparency and security through independent audits and full isolation custody mechanisms.AlphaToken stated that its self-built AlphaChain network and RWA Tokenization technology system have embedded compliance processes such as KYC, AML, asset issuance, auditing, and risk control into the underlying infrastructure, providing licensed financial institutions with on-chain issuance and management capabilities.Yunfeng Financial claims that the launch of this product is an important layout in the field of Real World Assets (RWA), and in the future, it will further launch on-chain wealth management products for institutions and professional investors, integrating AI and Web3 technologies.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has announced that it will introduce post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology to guard against the risk of future quantum computers potentially breaking existing encryption systems.Bithumb plans to comprehensively apply PQC technology from virtual asset wallet management to identity authentication systems, focusing on protecting customer private keys, and will collaborate with security technology company ATON to encrypt various stages of data processing, including input, authentication, transmission, and storage. Additionally, Bithumb will strengthen its real-time monitoring system to detect new types of hacker attacks and abnormal trading patterns that utilize quantum computers.

The Ethereum Foundation has announced the list of grants and ecosystem support projects for the first quarter of 2026, focusing on cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), protocol security, and core infrastructure development, continuously strengthening the Ethereum underlying technology stack and long-term scalability.This quarter's funding covers several key areas. At the protocol and client level, projects include optimizations for the Geth and Erigon clients, upgrades to the Lighthouse client, and the development of network monitoring tools after the Pectra upgrade, with a focus on improving network performance and attack resistance. Additionally, projects such as HSM key management, the validator security tool Vero, and the DISC-NG node discovery mechanism have also received support to enhance node-level reliability and institutional compliance capabilities.In the areas of cryptography and ZK, the foundation continues to invest in projects such as the analysis of the Poseidon hash function, research on Gröbner basis attacks, exploration of quantum-resistant and homomorphic mixed encryption, and formal verification of RISC-V zkVM, further strengthening the security boundaries of zero-knowledge proofs and cryptographic infrastructure.In terms of the developer ecosystem, the BuidlGuidl education system upgrade, ERC standard community building, WalletConnect clear signature library, and Open Creator Rails toolchain are continuously advancing to lower development barriers and enhance user interaction security. Meanwhile, L2BEAT continues to provide transparency analysis for Layer 2, strengthening the data infrastructure for scaling ecosystems.Furthermore, the foundation supports privacy technologies (such as Tor integration and Privacy Pool SDK), decentralized identity (did:ethr standard upgrade), DAO governance research, and public goods experimental projects, covering a complete ecological structure from the protocol layer to the application layer. Overall, this round of funding continues Ethereum's long-term investment in the three core directions of "cryptography + ZK + protocol engineering," emphasizing the support for future multi-layer scaling and institutional-level application implementation through infrastructure and standardization development.