Hong Kong Web3 Carnival 2027 | Exclusive for Community Partners This code is just for you if you don’t want to show up at the door broke Hey, Web3 fam, don’t scroll away just yet. I know there’s only one thing on your mind right now: “It’s not like I’ve never been to a conference before. Why do I have to go all the way to Hong Kong this time?” Because I’ve got a 15%-off code, and the ticket it applies to jumps from $199 to $299 on November 1. You read that right—it jumps. These days, ticket prices go up with more confidence than your altcoins go down. Can you believe it? That extra $100 is enough for three proper meals at a Hong Kong cha chaan teng—and you won’t even have to queue.
Today, we’re officially announcing something: our custom memoir service for older adults is now available.
How does it work? We come to your home and sit down with the older person in your family for a chat. No list of questions, no airs—just like old neighbors dropping by. We listen as they talk at their own pace. They don’t need to know how to write or use a computer; all they need to do is speak.
Don’t underestimate those three words: “all they need to do is speak.” When an older person starts talking about their younger days, they might tell you how they saved ration coupons, which factory they were sent to work at, how they met their spouse, or what illness their child had as a little one. Their children may never have heard all these details—not because they don’t care to listen, but because no one usually sits down with them to listen, attentively and without a phone in hand.
This isn’t just for the “rich and famous.” Quite the opposite: the more ordinary a person’s life, the less likely anyone has ever thought to record it. An ordinary worker, an ordinary mother, an older person who devoted their whole life to the kitchen and their children—their stories may not be earth-shattering, but they are the true path that most Chinese people have traveled. What we do is draw that path out of memory and set it down on paper.
Honestly, there’s nothing high-tech or romantic about this, and we have no intention of dressing it up with grand phrases like “saving family bonds.” It’s simply a heartfelt wish: while they’re still here, preserve their words. Then one day, when you open this book and hear the lilt of their voice, you’ll feel that you’ve done that small thing you needed to do in this life.
If you’re interested, leave a comment or send us a private message.
The First Full-Stack, Aggregated Infrastructure Platform for the BTC Ecosystem - PayFi.Fun
PayFi.Fun is a full-stack, aggregated ecosystem infrastructure platform with native integration for BTC, ETH, Solana, and ICP. It is the world’s first full-stack, aggregated infrastructure platform for the BTC ecosystem. Powered by ICP’s chain-fusion technology, it bridges the gap between payment and financial services, significantly reduces transaction fees, and improves capital efficiency. Seamlessly connect to ICP’s thriving DeFi, NFT, and Web3 ecosystems to enjoy faster, more affordable payments on the ICP network. Use smart contracts to create innovative BTC-backed applications and freely transfer and optimize your asset allocation across different blockchains.
Is NEAR Stealing DFINITY’s Proprietary Technology?
Someone just brought this article to my attention. It was published by NEAR and appears to be a response to my earlier article. In the interest of fairness, I think it’s important to share it. https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/2113254511527465454 According to the information they disclosed, their dashboard shows that their server cluster currently consists of 16 nodes (rather than the 8 I had previously been told), operated by different parties. Of course, this doesn’t dispel concerns about whether there are backdoors; whether NEAR can directly upgrade the software running on these “MPC” nodes; whether, if they wanted to, they could use such software updates to extract key shares; or whether private key shares were distributed at the outset by a “trusted dealer.” These are all issues that a truly decentralized architecture is designed to address.
Your project team isn’t short on money—it’s short on someone who knows how to communicate
Most teams spend millions on tokenomics, then leave the whole marketing operation to a part-time community manager and Google Translate. I’ve observed quite a few crypto project teams. It’s pretty surreal. They can raise money, get listed on an exchange, and write a white paper that reads like a sci-fi novel. Then comes the marketing, handed off to a part-time community manager: on Monday, he posts a tweet that reads like Google Translate got drunk; on Wednesday, he puts together an AMA clip where the subtitles and lip movements tell two different stories; and on Friday, the community content is last week’s post with a different color scheme. You ask if they should hire an outside agency. He says they tried, but the quote was 30,000 a month. They can’t afford it.
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🔥 As a sponsor, it was fantastic to be there cheering on the team and to witness HCC’s victory!
We wish the players and the entire team all the best for the season ahead. We’ll be cheering you on all the way!
ORIGYN was at the European Parliament in Brussels, taking part in discussions on “Strengthening Europe’s Power in the Digital World.”
Tom Fraczak joined discussions about the infrastructure for Digital Product Passports and shared his insights on how the EU can support European technology and AI companies.
🇪🇺 We’re part of this high-level conversation!
Blockchain certification shouldn’t require a crypto wallet—and now it doesn’t!
This quarter, ORIGYN Minting Studio received its biggest upgrade yet, making it easier for all kinds of businesses to certify products on-chain:
🔌 No wallet required
Connect your existing systems to the platform with a simple API key. Create certificates directly from the tools you use every day, while ORIGYN handles all the blockchain complexity in the background.
👥 Built for teams
Bring your entire company together under one organization account. Admins can invite colleagues and assign each member a role.
🔒 Private certificates
Certificates and Digital Product Passports can now include encrypted information, such as internal documents or supplier details, visible only to the people you specify. Everything else remains public and verifiable.
⚡ More efficient
New certificates can be created in seconds.
That means you don’t need any cryptocurrency knowledge to use ORIGYN. Simply connect your systems and start issuing certificates with OGY.
Read more about these upgrades in our “2026 Q3 End-of-Quarter Update.”
ICP applications can interact directly with Solana to read and write data.
Additionally, thanks to ckSOL, which is backed 1:1 by SOL, DeFi applications such as Liquidium, MULTI/DEX, and ICPSwap can integrate SOL natively—just like they integrate BTC, ETH, and ICP.
No cross-chain bridge required.
Interact with your ICP (Internet Computer) applications directly in ChatGPT.
The “Internet Computer” plugin is now available in the OpenAI ChatGPT plugin store.
The plugin connects ChatGPT to a range of applications on Internet Computer, allowing you to read their data in a conversation and even work with multiple applications at once.
Try asking:
“Would it be too hectic to plan a family vacation at the end of the month?”
“Find a day in August when Alex and I are both available, and schedule a one-on-one meeting.”
“Organize my to-do list and tell me what I should do next.”
Search for “Internet Computer” in the ChatGPT plugin store to find it.
What have you bought your parents with the money you made trading crypto?
I know—the thing crypto folks hate most is someone showing up with a story to get your U. So let me make this clear upfront: this isn’t telling you to add to your position, and I’m not asking you for money. You can read it just for the thought, then close it and walk away without spending a cent. I’ve been in this space for eight years. I’ve seen coins double in a day, and I’ve seen them go to zero overnight. We all have one thing in common: hundreds of group chats on our phones, still watching the charts at three in the morning, always saying, “Just wait a little longer and I’ll break even.” We’re great at crunching numbers—position sizes, profits and losses, odds, and when someone else will take the bag.
ICP “Cloud Engines” launch roadmap: DFINITY is about to begin issuing vouchers containing enough Cycles (computing power/resource tokens) to create and keep a Cloud Engine running for over a month. The following phases will then unlock in sequence: 1. Agentic infrastructure ⚡️ Use tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Caffeine to rapidly build secure, autonomous, production-grade on-chain applications. 2. Open SaaS beta launch ⚡️ Install AIware apps as easily as mobile apps to run all kinds of business operations.