Introduction x402 is an open payment standard launched in 2025, aimed at officially activating the HTTP 402 status code and transforming it into an internet-native payment mechanism. A technical standard jointly promoted by the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Compared to traditional models that require creating accounts, binding credit cards, or pre-loading funds, x402 embeds payment requests directly into HTTP responses, allowing clients (whether human, robot, or AI agent) to automatically recognize payment information and complete transactions.
"Canton" is actually the old English name for Guangzhou, originally derived from the Western phonetic translation of "Guangdong Province's capital," the English spelling of the Cantonese pronunciation "Gwong-dung"
8 Core Understandings of the Current Canton
1. The main developer behind Canton Network is Digital Asset, with total financing exceeding 400 million USD
2. Canton Network is a collaboration between Digital Asset and more than 30 companies
3. Canton Network is the first privacy-controllable public blockchain aimed at the institutional financial market, in the RWA sector
4. Technically, it features the innovative Dam smart contract language, is open source, and focuses on default data confidentiality to enhance privacy
5. The main design of the token is its utility, used for network fees, such as nodes
6. The token has no pre-mining, no pre-sale, and is relatively fair
7. Canto's main advantage lies in its financial background, including Goldman Sachs, the US DTCC, market makers, Microsoft, Deloitte, blockchain service provider Chainlink, USDC, and other leading resources in various fields
1. The Galactic Brain is actually a meme, specifically the first image, generally used with a series of pictures to satirize a thought process: shifting from simple viewpoints to those that appear 'more advanced', but are actually overly complex or foolish.
2. V God’s Galactic Brain refers to: arguments that appear profound and correct, but may actually be baseless or lack logical completeness.
■■ Some manifestations of the Galactic Brain trap:
1. Determinism: concluding the necessity of a certain event.
The error of determinism itself is similar to the slippery slope fallacy:
——If you don’t study hard, you won’t find a good job in the future and can only rely on your parents.
RAILGUN: Bringing 'Privacy' Back to Composable DeFi
Old projects, new attention Due to the recent crazy surge of $ZEC , I revisited some privacy projects that the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin are interested in. Some obscure projects that seem to have never been seen on social media have started to appear, so I took some time to learn about them. RAILGUN is a fully on-chain, account-based, composable privacy system: it isolates funds and activities into a 'shielded pool' through zk-SNARK proofs, allowing direct interaction with DeFi protocols without exposing associations; while retaining 'optional disclosure (Viewing Key) and proof of innocence (Proof of Innocence)' to meet compliance audits.
"Binance Group announced that it has officially launched its smart electric vehicle business. The company's board of directors has approved the establishment of the smart electric vehicle business and will acquire Faraday Future founded by Jia Yueting to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary. The initial investment will be 1,000,000 BNB, with an additional investment of 1,000,000 BNB planned over the next ten years. @cz_binance will also serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the smart electric vehicle business, while @heyibinance will be responsible for the AI large model business."
Excerpt from CZ's speech:
"This will be the last major entrepreneurial project of my life. I am willing to stake my entire reputation to fight for Binance Cars."
——Especially for Web3's AI products, which are unrelated to cryptocurrencies and directly compete with Web2's AI products, the courage is commendable.
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Today, GPT supports direct payments in Shopify through conversations.
AI permissions have advanced further.
The method used is Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol.
This means that cross-border e-commerce/retail/payments/AI assistants can actually access GPT and payments with one click.
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Stripe's ambitions are immense.
In the blockchain space, the main layout direction is stablecoins and the public chain Tempo.
Stripe itself is a king-level payment product, and with the open-source Apache 2.0 (especially led by GPT), it has basically secured at least a third of the web2+AI payment field.
If it combines with Tempo in the future, it is not hard to imagine that another giant will emerge.
Web2 payments (including cross-border e-commerce) + AI + blockchain (stablecoins + public chains), the era of great unification.
OpenEden is a compliance-first real-world asset (RWA) on-chain platform
The core goal is to safely and transparently tokenize traditional assets such as U.S. Treasury bills and bring them into the blockchain and DeFi ecosystem.
Positioned as "Trust and Compliance"
Core products consist of two parts:
TBILL:
A tokenized fund backed by short-term U.S. Treasury bills and reverse repos, which has received official ratings from Moody's and S&P.
Only qualified investors who have completed KYC/AML are allowed to participate, and transfers must also occur between whitelisted wallets.
USDO:
A yield-bearing stablecoin fully collateralized by TBILL, issued under Bermuda regulation.
There is also a wrapped version cUSDO, which facilitates integration with DeFi protocols, with yields reflected through token price appreciation.
Scale: Approximately $290 million in circulation.
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The team has a strong background, coming from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Gemini, etc., with investors including GS Futures, Binance, and advisors like Arthur Cheong from DeFiance. The compliance structure is distributed across BVI, Bermuda, and Singapore, aiming to create a safety net of legal and regulatory compliance.
In terms of ecosystem, it connects with institutional resources such as BNY Mellon, Binance, Ripple, Arbitrum DAO on one end, and collaborates with Lightnet and AEON Pay in emerging markets and payment implementation on the other.
It has endorsements from large institutions and actual payment use cases.
In terms of security, it has undergone multiple audits (ChainSecurity, Hacken, Ernst & Young), with known risks being possible front-running attacks during oracle updates, which need to be mitigated through mechanism optimization.
The token EDEN is responsible for governance and incentives, having designed a "HODLer bonus mechanism" that rewards long-term holding by penalizing short-term selling.
1. Release Positive News After a Stable Rise and Drop, Open Short
Reasons and Key Points
* Short-term Reference * Positive News Not Sustained, Just Short-term Sentiment Sign * Price Rises, Then Drops, After Initial Stabilization Open Short, Risk-Reward Ratio Appropriate
People's ongoing pursuit of modularity largely stems from the trade-off between efficiency and security Mobile phones, housing, furniture, computers, and even AI agents have future debates between single agents and multi agents. From monolithic to modular: the deconstruction of execution, settlement, and data availability The development history of blockchain technology is largely a continuous exploration of the "trilemma" of scalability, security, and decentralization. Initially represented by Bitcoin and Ethereum, adopting a "monolithic" architecture, as Ethereum moves towards Layer 2 and begins to decompose, the overall system trends towards modularization.