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Recently, a strategist from a well-known financial institution proposed a compelling viewpoint in their report. They suggested that investors consider allocating 1% of their funds to Bitcoin in a diversified portfolio, believing that this would help enhance overall investment efficiency. These strategists further pointed out that Bitcoin can serve as a hedging tool that is less correlated with market trends.
However, when we compare Bitcoin with the S&P 500 index, the reality may not be so simple. According to statistics from a data platform, the current correlation coefficient between these two markets is 0.134, which is relatively low. However, it is worth noting that during the significant market fluctuations in March 2020, the correlation between the two briefly rose to 0.54. This phenomenon of increased correlation during market turmoil seems to suggest a certain degree of connection between these two markets.
This week, global financial markets have generally experienced significant

Travel Rule: A key mechanism to ensure the transparency of virtual asset transactions.
Regulation in the field of virtual assets is continuously improving, and the Travel Rule, as an important compliance requirement, is gradually being implemented globally. This article will delve into the connotation, significance, and current implementation status of the Travel Rule.
The essence of the Travel Rule and its relationship with anti-money laundering.
The Travel Rule is essentially aimed at enhancing the transparency of blockchain transactions by linking on-chain activities to real-world entities and identities, in order to better manage risks such as money laundering and terrorist financing.
The "anonymity" feature of blockchain has been exploited by criminals for financial crimes. In order to bring blockchain technology into the regulatory framework, regulatory agencies require relevant platforms to comply with basic compliance requirements, such as KYC( Know Your Customer), market monitoring, etc. The Travel Rule then...

GameFi, as a track that has not yet fully exploded, has the potential to return to human nature and diverse needs. The ideal composition ratio is 70% games, 20% finance, and 10% Meme, encouraging combinatorial innovation and enhancing player experience. Successful examples like Cards Ahoy may lead a new trend in GameFi, meeting player demands and maintaining long-lasting vitality.

Recently, the MEME ecosystem has been active, and DOGE has attracted new traffic due to Musk's potential political influence, rising nearly 30%. DOGE, relying on its strong community and Musk's support, is showing new value potential and may focus on its political traffic channels in the future.

The Aptos Blockchain Mainnet has officially launched, aimed at creating inclusive decentralized applications for billions of users. Its core advantages lie in scalability, mobile-friendliness, and user experience design, combined with the Move language and various technological innovations to promote the popularization and development of Web3. Aptos has now formed a strong ecosystem supporting diverse application scenarios.

After the release of the "Opinions", China's financial industry will welcome a new round of openness, especially in the fields of cross-border investment and Blockchain. The policy supports cross-border wealth management, facilitates the flow of funds, and enables the transmission of financial data, providing new opportunities for market expansion and Compliance innovation. Financial Institutions need to follow the implementation of policies, seize market opportunities, and pay attention to Risk Management.

The 2024 Zero Knowledge Summit will be held in Athens, with approximately 500 participants. The conference discussed advancements in ZK hardware, the design of decentralized prover networks, and the application of zero-knowledge credentials, showcasing the potential of this technology in identification and privacy protection. Experts proposed several innovative mechanisms and optimization solutions.

The MEME project has performed outstandingly during the market rebound. The BC 404 protocol launched by Color Protocol grants new features to MEME tokens, combining fungible and non-fungible tokens, which promotes the development of the ecosystem. This protocol enhances the rarity and value of the tokens, attracting investor attention, and the project actively expands collaborations and airdrop activities, making it worthy of continuous follow in the future.

The Intersection of AI and DePIN: The Rise of Distributed GPU Computing Networks
Since 2023, AI and DePIN have become popular trends in the Web3 field, with AI having a market value of approximately 30 billion USD and DePIN around 23 billion USD. This article focuses on the intersection of the two and discusses the development of related protocols.
In the AI technology stack, the DePIN network provides practicality for AI through computational resources. The development of large technology companies has led to a GPU shortage, making it difficult for other developers to obtain sufficient GPUs for computation. This often results in developers choosing centralized cloud providers, but due to the need to sign inflexible long-term high-performance hardware contracts, efficiency is compromised.
DePIN essentially provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative, using token rewards to incentivize resource contributions that meet network objectives. In the AI sector, DePIN crowdsources GPU resources from individual owners to data centers, for those in need.

A licensed Labuan investment bank has signed a memorandum of cooperation with three technology companies in Kuala Lumpur, aiming to promote digital asset innovation in the Web3.0 era. By leveraging their respective professional advantages, these companies will explore new business opportunities, provide technological solutions and security guarantees, and facilitate the conversion between fiat and Crypto Assets, to promote the transition from Web2 to Web3, with the expectation of delivering a safer and more convenient digital financial experience for users.

Katie Haun has left a16z to start her own venture capital firm, raising $1.5 billion for an encryption fund. As a former federal prosecutor, she has excelled in the encryption investment space and has invested in several well-known projects. Despite facing market challenges, she remains confident about the future of the encryption industry.

In the first half of 2025, Web3.0 security incidents caused nearly $2.5 billion in losses, with phishing attacks and wallet thefts being the main threats. Although some losses have been recovered, industry security remains severe. Several countries around the world are implementing new regulatory policies to enhance market security.

According to reports, the Ethereum 2.0 staking contract has been deployed. According to the public Ethereum 2.0 Github code files, the scheduled release date for Ethereum 2.0 is December 1, 2020. This significant progress marks a new phase in the upgrade of the Ethereum network, laying the foundation for future development.
The deployment of Ethereum 2.0 is one of the major events that has attracted significant attention in the blockchain industry. It will bring substantial performance enhancements and scalability improvements to the Ethereum network, with the potential to address some of the bottleneck issues currently faced by the network. The deployment of the stake contract is a key step in this upgrade process, providing network participants with new ways to interact.
As the release date approaches, the community's anticipation for Ethereum 2.0 continues to grow. This upgrade is not only about technological advancements but may also have a profound impact on the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem. However, the specific degree and direction of this impact remain to be further evaluated.

In February 2025, the blockchain market adjusted, with Bitcoin stabilizing its growth; public chains faced challenges, and the market capitalization of DeFi dropped by 20%. Despite market fluctuations, projects like Berachain still showed innovative vitality. Changes in regulatory policies and hacker incidents affected investor sentiment, leading to a cooling of the Memecoin craze. Overall financing has slowed down, and there is a need to pay more attention to fundamental value in the future.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin participated in a discussion, envisioning the blueprint for a digital society over the next 100 years, exploring application scenarios based on Ethereum, contemplating the key role of Blockchain in changing human interactions and Decentralization systems, inspiring innovative ideas, and promoting the development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Bitcoin ecosystem will welcome the Programmability era, and the USD stablecoin will reshape the financial landscape.
Blockchain industry pioneer Du Jun recently accepted an interview, sharing his profound insights on the development of the industry. As the founder and investor of several significant projects, Du Jun has witnessed and driven every key transformation of blockchain technology.
Du Jun stated that the current era is a golden age for investing in Chinese technology. In cutting-edge fields such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors, the Chinese are gradually moving towards a global dominant position. This comprehensive rise signifies that the Chinese will play a more important role in global technological competition.
When discussing the public chain ecosystem, Du Jun believes that currently only Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON, and Solana have truly established themselves as the four main public chains. He emphasized that the core competitiveness of public chains lies in clear strategic positioning and real use cases, rather than just a simple accumulation of functions. In the short term, he does not believe that the market needs more new public chains.
In the Bitcoin ecosystem, Du Jun looks at

The TON frenzy has subsided, but major moves continue: Is it the bubble bursting, or is a super entrance settling in?
Introduction
In the third quarter of 2024, the TON blockchain experienced rapid growth through the traffic entry of Telegram, with the Tap-to-Earn mini-games attracting hundreds of millions of users, creating a miraculous on-chain growth phenomenon. At the same time, the TGE of multiple TON ecosystem projects also generated a strong wealth effect, making "TON/Telegram" the hottest narrative center in Web3.
However, after the surge, TON is entering a cooling period that warrants caution. Similar to past Web3 narratives, after the bubble, will there be a consolidation or a return to zero? Is it a temporary pause in traffic, or is the value transformation yet to come? At this juncture, we hope to reassess whether TON has the long-term potential to become a 'super on-chain gateway' by using detailed data, ecological evolution paths, and technological stack layouts as our entry point.

Proto-danksharding: Overview and Operating Mechanism
With Ethereum completing the Merge and the Shanghai upgrade, successfully transitioning from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake consensus protocol, the next important project on Ethereum's development roadmap is EIP-4844, also known as "native data sharding." This proposal aims to enhance the scalability of rollups built on Ethereum. EIP-4844 is named after Ethereum core developers "Protolambda" and Dankrad Feist, introducing a new type of transaction called blob, which increases the data and storage requirements of Ethereum blocks and creates a new fee market that prices blobs separately from regular transactions.
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