ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated in an interview with Wu Blockchain that after the Ethereum main chain was launched in 2015, the foundation was nearly out of funds. Wanxiang purchased 410,000 Ether at a price of $1.20 each, investing a total of $500,000 to support the foundation's development, which may have "saved the foundation's life." Vitalik believes that the idea of large blocks is more correct, but the lack of execution capability is the main reason for its failure. He pointed out that the Bitcoin community is currently too focused on price, and the prospects for technological development are not optimistic.Regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, Vitalik stated that this conflict has completely changed him. After publicly supporting Ukraine, he realized that he might never be able to return to Russia and could even face a 10-15 year prison sentence.As for Ethereum's positioning, Vitalik prefers the concept of a "world computer," believing that it is not just a chain, but an ecosystem that can support various applications.

ChainCatcher news, Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKey Capital jointly launched the Web3.0 innovation incubation platform Future3 Campus, and the first recruitment phase has begun. No more than 15 outstanding teams will be selected for a three-month deep incubation and up to nine months of long-tail tracking, including comprehensive entrepreneurial support such as technical guidance, product strategy, professional training, resource connection, publicity exposure, market activities, and financing services.It is reported that Future3 Campus focuses on three major tracks: Web3.0 Massive Adoption, DePIN, and AI, with Shanghai, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Singapore as the main incubation bases, radiating the global Web3.0 ecosystem. At the same time, Future3 Campus will launch an initial seed fund of 50 million USD for Web3.0 project incubation. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Demo Day event at the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" has officially started. Hao Yukun, Senior Director of Wanxiang Blockchain, announced the launch of the Web3 incubator at the conference. This incubator is jointly launched by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKey Capital, aiming to provide high-value content, funding, market resources, technical development, community operation, and other resource support for Web3 startups, helping to build a dual-driven Web3 ecosystem that connects Web2 and Web3, and promotes large-scale applications of Web3. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, at the 2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival event, Zhao Deli, Director of the Basic Vision Team at Alibaba DAMO Academy, delivered a keynote speech stating that future trends in the AI industry include the continued deepening of vertical industry AI algorithms, the emergence of open-source platforms (like the ModelScope model launched by DAMO Academy), and the unification of underlying algorithms.The roadmap of the ModelScope model launched by DAMO Academy has gone through three stages in Text-to-Image: Foundation Models (Composer 1.0), Customized Generation, and Controllable Generation (Composer 2.0). This year, ControlNet, Composer 2.0, and T2I-Adapter have been released.In addition, Zhao Deli stated that the "Tongyi Wansxiang" product built on Alibaba Cloud will be opened at the end of the month.

ChainCatcher news, Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, HashKey Group, and W3ME will jointly host the "Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023," with the inaugural carnival taking place from April 12 to 15 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This four-day event will feature 5 venues, covering nearly 9,000 square meters, and is expected to attract over 10,000 on-site attendees, more than 300 globally influential speakers, as well as over a hundred popular Web3 projects, communities, and media exhibitors.The Web3 Festival will focus on the core topics of various Web3 tracks, inviting globally renowned Web3 project leaders and experienced practitioners to share cutting-edge technological solutions in Web3; it will also invite well-known investment institutions to participate, along with representatives from regulatory bodies to deeply analyze regulatory policies and clarify development boundaries. At the same time, in the spirit of open collaboration in Web3, the organizers will recruit partners to co-create event content and seek mutual development. (Source link)

The Chain Catcher news announces the winners of the 2022 Wanxiang Blockchain Autumn Hackathon. The first prize was awarded to the FindTruman team, which focuses on gaming, with a reward of 50,000 RMB in cash and a 10-minute speaking opportunity at the 8th Blockchain Global Summit. FindTruman is the first alternative reality game in the metaverse, attempting to create a co-creation narrative gaming platform similar to STEAM in Web3.The platform CLabel, which focuses on "product carbon labels," and the distributed curation platform Wormhole3, incubated by Coincidence Lab, won the second prize. The third prize winners include the virtual digital content co-creation platform Sonar Exploration, the soul-bound NFT social network Social Layer, and Team N, which is building a distributed memory storage platform called Myshot. CGP Lab, CryptoBlessing, Crypto Geeks, and CloudSlit received the Blue Future · Web3.0 Best Potential Award. (Source link)

Chain Catcher News: At the 8th Global Blockchain Summit hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, Xiao Feng, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Wanxiang Holdings, and Chairman and General Manager of Wanxiang Blockchain, delivered a keynote speech titled "New Stage of Blockchain: Explosion of Application Protocols." He stated that whether it is the Internet protocol stack or the blockchain protocol stack, all application layer protocols are flourishing, and in the future, there will be a significant explosion of application layer protocols in blockchain.At the same time, the Ethereum merger event a few days ago marks the third important historical moment following the release of the Ethereum white paper and the launch of the mainnet, and it is also a significant moment for the blockchain industry. It signifies that the infrastructure construction phase of global blockchain is nearing its end, and the commercial application phase of blockchain is about to begin. (Source link)

Chain Catcher News: The 8th Global Blockchain Summit, hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, officially opened online today at 9:30. This summit features an opening ceremony and eight thematic venues, including blockchain technology, Layer 2, privacy computing and data governance, Internet of Things and carbon neutrality, metaverse, blockchain economics, DAO, and Web 3.0.On the first day of the summit, Xiao Feng, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Wanxiang Holdings, will deliver a speech and a keynote address titled "New Stage of Blockchain: Explosion of Application Protocols." Other speakers include Dominic Williams, Founder and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, and Avery Ching, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aptos.The 8th Global Blockchain Summit started on September 20 and will last for 9 consecutive days, with 2 to 3 hours each day, inviting technology leaders, experts, scholars, and industry elites to discuss various topics. (Click here to watch the live broadcast)