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On August 4, Reuters revealed a set of very interesting data.
TCG products such as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and One Piece accounted for 61% of revenue on Asmodee in the last fiscal year; in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, TCG sales also grew by 23.1%. On the other hand, revenue from Hasbro’s card game business also increased by 27%.
This shows that physical card games have not declined despite the rise of digital entertainment; instead, they’ve become an important growth driver for game companies and publishers. In the Reuters report, even the CEO of Asmodee judged that this category will continue to exist long-term.
But there’s a gap that’s easy to overlook.

After a hackathon ends, the metric most easily used for promotion is the number of registrations.
@renaissxyz has recently released the results of the first Tech Hackathon S1: 70+ teams registered, 45+ projects delivered, participating teams came from all over the world, and the works span directions like AI applications, developer tools, collectibles, and RWA.
The first time I saw this set of data, I didn’t rush to interpret it as “Renaiss’s ecosystem being already formed.”
The threshold to sign up for a hackathon isn’t that high. “Delivery completed” means the competing teams submitted projects that can be demonstrated, and it doesn’t necessarily mean these initiatives are already officially in operation. After the competition, some developers may keep updating the work, and some may return to their original jobs.

Suppose my USDC is on Solana, but I want to buy a token on Arbitrum.
The traditional process isn’t complicated, but it’s fragmented: first confirm which chain the target token is on, find a cross-chain bridge that supports Solana, swap the assets into the coin supported by the bridge, initiate the cross-chain transfer, wait for the funds to arrive, then handle the Arbitrum Gas, and finally complete the trade on the target DEX.
If anything gets stuck at any step, I have to troubleshoot myself.
Is the bridge not confirmed yet? Is the target chain congested? Did the wallet switch to the wrong network? Did the assets arrive but there’s no ETH to pay Gas? Or, during the waiting period, did the coin price move beyond the slippage range?
The plan provided by @Velvet_Capital is to let users directly use assets on one chain to buy tokens on another chain. An official update in July says Velvet has already supported cross-chain transactions between EVM networks and Solana, with bridging and Gas handling handled in the background. On July 21, Arbitrum spot trading was also integrated into VelvetX, allowing users to swap into Arbitrum assets from networks such as Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Robinhood Chain.

On August 1, HertzFlow released testnet stage data: 117K users, $3.7 billion in cumulative transaction volume, and $170 million entering the test liquidity pool. The official direction that followed was “Mainnet next.”
These numbers show that the system has handled test activity on a fairly large scale, but I’m more concerned with another issue:
HertzFlow tried to put assets such as cryptocurrencies, foreign exchange, stocks, indices, and commodities into a single chain-based leverage engine. But these assets have different trading times, quote frequencies, and liquidity conditions.
When leverage increases to hundreds of times, even up to a maximum of 1,000 times, tiny time differences will become real asset-liability problems.

The same grading card may show up with four different prices across different platforms at the same time.
A seller’s list price is one figure, the most recent transaction price is another, a card shop’s buyback price is another, and private transactions in the community may keep changing the price.
The difference doesn't come entirely from an information gap.
The card’s language, release year, grading company, score, scarcity, transaction region, and condition history all affect the final price. Even for the same card, it’s hard to get an all-market consensus quote at any time like you can with BTC or stocks.
That’s also why I’ve been following @renaissxyz and the recent launch of the Renaiss Index.

On July 27, @Hertzflow_xyz launched four HzV Vaults on the testnet: Bluechip Crypto, Degen Basket, Tech Giants, and Macro.
Two days later, the team reset the testnet data again and updated the contracts, citing the reason that they were preparing for the mainnet.
Look at these two updates together, and it becomes very clear what HertzFlow’s priority is at this stage: before the mainnet takes on real capital, they first need to get the structure right—how liquidity enters the market, how risk is allocated, and how different combinations are formed—so it all works end to end.
When many people see Vault for the first time, their attention tends to stay on the APY. But in HertzFlow, the more worth studying part of the Vault is how it organizes liquidity for a leveraged protocol that can continuously expand the trading markets.

I went back and reviewed @velvet_capital’s recent product materials.
Compared with the broad label of an “AI trading platform,” I care more about a specific question: there are already many on-chain transaction tools—why does an ordinary user still have to keep switching back and forth between multiple pages to complete a trade?
After finding a token, first check its price and liquidity, then look up the project’s updates on X, then examine the holder addresses, the flow of smart money, and contract risks, and finally compare quotes from different aggregators to connect your wallet and complete the trade.
Each step has mature tools, but when you piece these tools together, it still feels like a makeshift assembled cockpit.