ai16z co-founder Shaw wrote, "I really hope to see Token enter a new era, providing funding support for real-tech and scientific research projects with clear ROI. This should not be limited to mindshare or pure meme play, but a real way executed through Smart Contract, allowing ordinary people to invest in the next Uber or OpenAI and get returns. Currently, only a few people can access companies with high-value returns, which is unfair. Everyone should have the opportunity to participate. Everyone should be able to help ambitious founders guide their ideas from scratch."

On June 4th, Jin10 News learned that on the 4th local time, an unnamed leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) stated that Hamas will not send a delegation to Cairo on the 5th to participate in new negotiations on the exchange of detained individuals and ceasefire agreements. The leader stated that the mediators have submitted a new proposal to Hamas, but Hamas does not accept it. He emphasized that Hamas does not want to start negotiations from scratch, but only requires Israel to approve the proposed agreement that Hamas agreed to in the previous round of negotiations, otherwise there is no need for further discussion.

Odaily Planet Daily News Econia Labs Co-founder Alex published a long article discussing the advantages of building applications on Aptos. He said: Aptos focuses on building the best-performing blockchain system, benefiting from substantial funding support from the Diem/Libra project. The Aptos codebase was initially launched under Facebook and later spun off by a group of engineers determined to put it into production as a public chain. Alex mentioned that Move code, BlockSTM, and the Consensus Mechanism are all designed from scratch for pure performance, and have been optimized at every level. Aptos provides atomic settlement guarantees, cleverly leveraging decades of database theory. Cutting-edge features such as arithmetic aggregators push the boundaries of traditional databases, allowing parallel transfers of individual accounts without the need for serial write locks. Aptos foresaw all the scalability bottlenecks that have plagued the industry recently: most of its tech stack was developed before the mainnet launch in 2022. In addition, he mentioned Aptos CTO Avery Ching and CEO. Mo Shaikh provides conceptual guidance and assistance to the ecosystem, and promotes the business development of the project globally, attracting not only the encryption natives but also the future billion users. Alex said that every time he participates in the activity, he can see more and more developers joining the Aptos ecosystem. They may be frustrated by building on other non-scalable blockchains and are not satisfied with existing mediocre system designs. The high throughput and low latency Aptos project has already started, is currently underway, and will continue to launch. He said: Providing network scalability and 99.99% uptime comparable to enterprise-level Web2 services, Aptos may be the first to achieve his vision for the industry's blockchain capabilities: next-generation cloud computing. "He said, 'Because I am not here to promote products on the latest L2 that I know cannot scale, I am here to build the mother of all chains, an all-powerful instant distributed state machine. The Holy Grail is simple yet hard to achieve: globalized DeFi with instant and atomic settlements. Pour all the data into the ocean of data, give me a pointer to the global state, and run at fiber-optic speed. That's all I ask for.'"

PANews reported on May 30th that during the ETHBerlin event last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin described some regrets he had about the initial design of Ethereum. Vitalik said that there were a series of things he could have done differently, ranging from the development of the Ethereum Virtual Machine to smart contracts, and even to the Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. He also mentioned that despite Ethereum becoming more mainstream, it is still misunderstood. ETHBerlin organizer Afri Schoeden asked, "Based on everything you know and have learned over the past 10 years, if you were to start from scratch today, how would you build Ethereum differently?" Vitalik explained that the initial design of Ethereum's EVM chose 256-bit processing instead of 64-bit or 32-bit. The original design was overly complex for 256-bit and proved to be very inefficient, even generating a large amount of redundant data on the blockchain when executing simple tasks. Additionally, Vitalik stated that Ethereum should have transitioned from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake earlier, ideally in 2022. "We wasted a lot of time trying to make Proof of Stake perfect. If we had a simpler Proof of Stake mechanism as early as 2018, we could have saved a lot of trees," he said. Vitalik also mentioned that the automatic logging of Ethereum transfers should have been in place from the beginning. "It only took us 30 minutes to code, yet it became an EIP," he added. The proposed EIP-7708, submitted by Vitalik on May 17th, will make this precise change. Furthermore, Vitalik stated that if given the chance to choose again, he would use SHA-2 for encrypting Ethereum instead of the current encryption algorithm called Keccak. Although there have been a series of small design mistakes, Vitalik said that such situations are inevitable for any project. He said, "I am really happy, and I feel that our core developers and their execution capabilities seem to be improving every year. We are now able to effectively and safely correct some of them."

Recently, many netizens have posted on the internet that the scratch-off lottery tickets in their cities are in short supply. There have been rumors online that the government is controlling the sale of instant lottery tickets. When reporters sought confirmation from China Sports Lottery and China Welfare Lottery, both sides stated that they have not received any control notices and the shortage is due to high demand.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on December 15, Wenge Company, which was incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, today released the Yayi 2.0 model, which is 30 billion scale parameters, supports 128K contextual window input, multi-modal capabilities of graphics and texts, dialogues in more than 10 languages, and intelligent tool calls. Wang Lei, chairman of Zhongke Wenge, said that Yayi 2.0 is one of the few domestic native large models that are pre-trained from scratch, focusing on safe and reliable government and enterprise large models, supporting commercial use with open source, and building a large model ecology in the fields of security, finance, media, and public opinion. It is reported that Zhongke Wenge released a large model of Yayi in June this year.

As reported by Webmaster Home on October 16, technology company Dell released a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool called "Dell Validated Design for Generative AI with NVIDIA for Model Customization" to help enterprises extract intelligence from data. This tool features pre-trained models that allow users to quickly extract intelligence from data without having to build a model from scratch. The tool provides pre-trained models to help users customize and fine-tune generative AI models as needed while keeping information secure. Dell is said to provide enterprises with a robust data foundation, including infrastructure, software and services to support AI workloads in public clouds, on-premises environments, and edge computing. It was previously reported that Dell will invest $7.5 billion in areas such as artificial intelligence.

According to a report by the Associated Press on October 9, a new algorithm developed by researchers at Northwestern University can successfully design a walking robot in just a few seconds. The research results were published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Not only is the artificial intelligence (AI) program said to be fast, it can also run on a personal computer and design entirely new structures from scratch. Researchers say the AI-driven design algorithm they developed can bypass evolutionary "traffic jams" without relying on the ideas of human designers. Just tell the AI "we want a robot that can travel across land" and press a button, and in the blink of an eye it generates a blueprint for a robot that looks nothing like any animal that has ever walked the planet. This process is what the team calls "instant evolution."

Odaily Planet Daily reported that Silicon Valley investor and billionaire Tim Draper launched Draper Goren Blockchain (DGB), a venture capital studio focused on cryptocurrency, aiming to accelerate DeFi innovation, Layer2 network expansion solutions, and consumers such as gaming and social experiences. Application development in response to ongoing bear market. DGB founding partners Alon Goren and David Bleznak have invested in Draper Round Table, the Web3 investment platform launched by Draper, and are board members of social analytics platform LunarCrush and digital securities institutional-grade network Ownera. Alon Goren said that they do not plan to run DGB in the Y Combinator or Techstars model. DGB plans to cooperate with each company in the long term. “We plan to cooperate with each company in the next 10 years and invest in startups in the Pre-Seed stage. $25,000 to $100,000 and will focus on working with select entrepreneurs to build companies from scratch.” (Decrypt)

PANews reported on September 22 that according to Decrypt, Silicon Valley investor and billionaire Tim Draper launched Draper Goren Blockchain (DGB), a venture studio focused on cryptocurrency, aiming to accelerate decentralized finance (DeFi) innovation and network expansion. solutions and the development of consumer applications such as gaming and social experiences to combat the ongoing bear market. The venture studio’s founding partners Alon Goren and David Bleznak previously invested in Draper Round Table, the Web3 investment platform launched by Draper, and are board members of social analytics platform LunarCrush and digital securities institutional-grade network Ownera. Alon Goren said that they do not plan to run DGB like Y Combinator or Techstars, and DGB plans long-term cooperation with each company. Alon Goren said: "We plan to work with each company over the next 10 years, investing $25,000 to $100,000 in pre-seed startups, and will focus on working with select entrepreneurs to build companies from scratch."

Golden Finance reported that the test network of Avalanche, the first-layer blockchain network for smart contracts, achieved more than 140,000 transactions per second during testing of its HyperSDK blockchain upgrade. Avalanche is currently testing a framework for building high-performance virtual machines (VMs) from scratch on the network. According to Ava Labs, HyperSDK is structured so that developers can "plug in a lightning-fast execution environment without having to write massive amounts of code from scratch."

Jinse Finance reported that CoinRoutes CEO Dave Weisberge said that the problem in the United States stems from the lack of clear regulations and rules, leading regulators to apply different rules at will. Weisberger added that the problem stems from the existence of two different regulatory agencies (SEC and CFTC) that play different roles in the financial system, roles that may overlap depending on the cryptoassets involved and the assets under scrutiny. Example. Also, the SEC's rules, created in the 1940s and updated in the 1970s, should not be used to regulate new asset classes and technology-oriented products. As an example, Weisberge said: "It is more difficult to remodel a house than to build a house from scratch," and regulators need to rethink their approach to cryptocurrency regulation.

Microsoft plans to partner with Databricks to launch a new version of software that will help customers develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications for their businesses, The Information reported, citing The Information. This move may pose a threat to OpenAI, because OpenAI is also a company that provides AI services. Microsoft hopes to cooperate with Databricks to provide more powerful AI solutions and attract more customers. It is reported that Databricks is a data analysis platform using artificial intelligence. Microsoft will sell the platform through its Azure cloud server division to help companies make artificial intelligence models from scratch, or repurpose open source models as an alternative to OpenAI's proprietary model license.

Jinse Finance reported that Take-Two Interactive Software, the publisher of the well-known multibillion-dollar game "Grand Theft Auto" series, is launching its first web3 game Sugartown. According to a statement, Sugartown, created by Take-Two subsidiary Zynga, will give players the opportunity to earn in-game currency. Players can access the game using an Ethereum (or ERC-721) token called Access to Oras. The tokens will be minted later this year, when Zynga will release 10,000 tokens in an "initial run." Jinse Finance has reported that the company participated in the $40 million Series A financing of web3 game startups, and Take-Two called the release of the new game the first instance of a “major mobile game developer” building an encrypted game “from scratch.”

According to Forbes on August 10, ShapesXR, a VR design and collaboration platform, announced the completion of a $8.6 million seed round of financing, with participation from Supernode Global, Triptyq VC, Hartmann Capital, Geek Ventures, and Web3 venture capital firm Boost VC. The new funds will be used to optimize the technology for Apple's newly announced Metaverse headset, the Vision Pro. ShapesXR technology can support users to build content and models "like creating PPT" in the Metaverse. ShapesXR users can use ShapesXR templates or create their own content from scratch. ShapesXR has been downloaded over 350,000 times from the Meta Quest app store.

Odaily Planet Daily News Conflux released the v2.3.0 hard fork upgrade announcement, saying that all nodes need to be upgraded before the Epoch number reaches 79,050,000 (estimated on September 7). The functions involved in this hard fork upgrade mainly include: 1. CIP-112 will be activated when the Epoch number reaches 79050000; 2. CIP-107 (introducing storage points, a destruction mechanism for storing collateral), CIP-118, and CIP-119 will be activated when the number of blocks reaches 188,900,000 (expected September 9); 3. CIP-113 will be enabled when the number of PoS blocks reaches 766,200 (expected on September 9). This upgrade will bring the following improvements: - Fixed a performance issue where some requests would never expire; - Added metrics for filter and pubsub API; - Refactored EVM code to improve readability. Conflux reminds that users need to upgrade their nodes before the Epoch number reaches 79050000, otherwise they will be incompatible with the upgraded Conflux protocol and cannot interact with the latest Conflux mainnet as expected (block synchronization, mining and other functions may be disabled) . If upgrading a node after the Epoch number reaches 79050000 requires deleting all data and resynchronizing from scratch, if you want to start a new node, you can download the latest Conflux v2.3.0 and run it directly.