🇨🇳 What does national-level strength look like?

A small country like El Salvador can bring in hundreds of millions of funds by buying Bitcoin. What if it’s the No. 2 country of the Blue Star?

Recently, domestic media such as the Liberation Daily and the Shanghai government reported that @Conflux_Network has entered the international first tier and has begun new explorations in cross-border settlement and RMB stablecoins along the Belt and Road.

As soon as the news broke, Conflux surged by 50%, which is equivalent to the red power supporting it.

Another project closely related to Conflux is @0G_labs.

Ming Wu, the co-founder and CTO of 0G Labs, previously served as the CTO of Conflux, and many team members on both sides come from Tsinghua's Yao Class.

The influence of Conflux is subtly affecting 0G.

At the recently concluded Shanghai-Hong Kong Web3 Complementary Cooperation Development Conference, the 0G team introduced their technical roadmap and mission in Chinese for the first time.

They shared how to build the most powerful EVM AI Layer 1 to support transparent, verifiable, and secure AI applications—from AI agents, AI stablecoins, to on-chain data markets, providing comprehensive empowerment.

They also discussed with regulators, builders, and Web3 leaders from Hong Kong and the mainland about Hong Kong's leading exploration in the compliance ecosystem of stablecoins and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), including SPV structures, token custody frameworks, RWA issuance and compliance circulation mechanisms in primary/secondary markets, as well as the integration path for tokenized currency fund ETFs, stablecoins, and digital Hong Kong dollar pilots.

0G's voice in such an occasion is enough to prove that China is seriously promoting the integration of digital finance and AI technology. The future of AI is not only about competition in computing power but also about the discourse of verifiability and publicness.

From technology to values, 0G's goal is very clear: to make AI a public good, promote the on-chain alignment of AI, and make verifiability a first-class citizen of the tech stack.

This complements Conflux's path in chain and finance, where the former builds a trustworthy foundation for RMB stablecoins and cross-border settlements, and the latter decentralizes the training rights of ultra-large models for the first time.

At some point in the future, the financial system on-chain and the computing power system of AI may very likely converge in the same ecosystem, with the starting point still being the choices made by this group of people.