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Justin Sun: The BitTorrent team has completed the BTTC cross-chain bridge decommissioning plan, and all funds are safe.
PANews reported on July 8th that Justin Sun posted on the X platform: "The BitTorrent team has informed me that they have completed the BTTC Bridge Sunset Program. Going forward, the BitTorrent team will focus more on decentralized AI and the maintenance of the BitTorrent decentralized protocol. All funds are safe, and users can continue to deposit and withdraw BTTC Bridge funds through partner centralized exchanges."
During his research visit to Guangzhou on the development of the artificial intelligence industry, Meng Fanli emphasized: Accelerate high-level applications across all regions, all times, and all industries to fully promote the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry.
According to Mars Finance, Meng Fanli, Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Guangdong Province, visited several artificial intelligence (AI) companies in Guangzhou. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and instructions on Guangdong and Guangzhou, and to earnestly implement the deployments of the Guangdong Symposium on Accelerating the Development of the New Mechatronics Industry and the Guangdong AI Application Matching Conference. He stressed the importance of using more powerful and effective "policies + work" to fully promote the high-quality development of the AI industry and its high-level application across all regions, industries, and sectors, thereby accelerating the cultivation and development of new productive forces. Meng Fanli pointed out that global AI is currently experiencing explosive growth, and Guangdong possesses a strong industrial foundation, rich application scenarios, and a vibrant innovation ecosystem, making its AI industry development promising and highly valuable. He stressed the need to firmly grasp AI as a crucial driving force for the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, vigorously promote its rapid development and application, better empower various industries, bring it into every household, and drive high-quality development. We must fully leverage the advantages of mechatronics and hardware-software synergy, strengthen research and development of key core technologies and the transformation of research results in artificial intelligence, continuously attract investment and talent from across the country and globally, accelerate the strengthening of the entire artificial intelligence industry chain including chips, computing power, algorithms, data, and applications, cultivate a number of large-scale models in vertical fields and small-scale models for specific scenarios, develop and launch more industrial intelligent agents and life intelligent agents, and create a group of leading enterprises with outstanding technical strength, industry influence, and independent ecosystem construction capabilities. We must deepen and expand "AI+", adhering to full coverage, all-time response, and full industry penetration, comprehensively reviewing and fully developing all possible application scenarios in various fields such as intelligent manufacturing, smart parks, smart cities, smart healthcare, and smart transportation, especially accelerating the digital transformation of industrial enterprises, promoting the coordinated development of manufacturing and service industries, and better empowering the construction of a modern industrial system. We must create a first-class industrial ecosystem, comprehensively optimize policy supply, strengthen the guarantee of various factors such as finance, innovation, and talent, improve the artificial intelligence governance system, and promote the integration of large, medium, and small enterprises, upstream and downstream matching, and front-end and back-end closed loops in artificial intelligence development, creating a first-class environment and providing optimal services for high-quality industrial development. (Southern Plus)
EthLabs: Advancing hiring, fundraising, and asynchronous cross-chain interoperability based on ZooKeeper technology.
PANews reported on July 6th that EthLabs, an Ethereum ecosystem research organization, announced that it has entered its second week of operation and is actively recruiting and raising funds. The team plans to expand to approximately 10 people soon and 20 people in the medium term, and has already received over 300 applications. Regarding funding, it has secured initial support from Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joseph Lubin, and is seeking one or two additional anchor funders. Technically, EthLabs is accelerating the development of asynchronous cross-chain interoperability based on ZooKeeper technology, believing that more secure cross-chain bridges will provide issuers with confidence in the widespread distribution of assets across the network, while also focusing on the Fast Confirmation Rule's improvement of L1 to L2 link latency.
ZachXBT: A hacker withdrew 3200 ETH from Tornado and laundered approximately $5.5 million through Circle's CCTP cross-chain service.
PANews reported on July 5th that on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed on his personal channel that a hacker withdrew approximately 3200 ETH via Tornado Cash between July 2nd and 3rd. The funds are related to two private key leaks. The address subsequently used Circle's CCTP cross-chain bridge to launder approximately $5.5 million in assets across chains, further transferring USDC to seven deposit addresses on the Arbitrum network. ZachXBT pointed out that this fund flow exhibits a typical decentralized money laundering path, utilizing mixing tools and cross-chain infrastructure to reduce the difficulty of tracing. The related on-chain assets are still continuously circulating.
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EthLabs released its "Week2" update report, highlighting progress on Ethereum interoperability, PropAMMs, and funding.
According to Mars Finance, on July 6th, Barnabé Monnot (barnabé.eth), founder of EthLabs, released a "Week 2" update, summarizing the team's latest progress and ecosystem discussions during the launch and fundraising phases. Regarding interoperability, the team stated they are increasing their confidence in "asynchronous interoperability based on zero-knowledge proofs (zk)," believing this will help build more secure cross-chain bridges and improve the native distribution capabilities of assets across Ethereum's multi-layered network. Currently, some cross-chain paths still suffer from latency issues, especially in the L2→L1 direction; in this context, the intents mechanism can serve as a transitional solution, while sufficient L1 liquidity also helps match cross-chain solvers. Meanwhile, the L1→L2 path is expected to significantly reduce confirmation latency through the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), and some clients have already begun integrating this mechanism. In terms of ecosystem discussions, PropAMMs (proposal-based AMMs) have recently become a focus of attention for many teams and researchers, primarily due to their potential optimization space between L1 execution efficiency and transaction building. Meanwhile, ENS is emphasized as a "critical infrastructure for Ethereum," and the team continues to communicate with relevant stakeholders to advance its development direction. Regarding team building, Ethlabs has received over 300 applications and has processed approximately 20%. The short-term goal is to expand to approximately 10 people, and the medium-term goal is to expand to approximately 20 people, focusing on recruiting talent with engineering capabilities and domain expertise. Regarding funding, Ethlabs stated that its current funding round is nearing completion and has secured early support from BitMNR, Sharplink, and Ethereum Joseph. The plan is to bring in 1-2 more core investors before moving to the next stage.