I am very glad to meet CZ in Tokyo. This is his return to Japan after 7 years, and during this time, the entire industry has undergone tremendous changes.
At this event, I asked CZ a question: How do you view the on-chain of everything and the tokenization of stocks?
He replied: There have not yet been large-scale coin-stock products on the market. The possible reason is that each country and region has different policies, making it difficult for coin-stock investors to receive dividends and easily redeem stocks. There are also price differences during trading. However, projects on the chain are usually global in nature, which was a significant pain point back then.
Restrict areas or try to solve it?
But he reiterated that the trend of RWA cannot be stopped. $BNB
An 8-year veteran practitioner tells you: How to spend the industry's garbage time
The market has gradually become quiet recently. Many colleagues have expressed that they can’t see the direction clearly or are forced to be friends with time. This is actually not the first time.
Looking back, since I entered the circle in 2016, I seem to have experienced four major garbage cycles. Although I often comfort myself in my heart that all this will pass, the positive cycle will come back, and liquidity will come back, but when we are really in the garbage time, we will feel more or less depressed or helpless.
Winter in Zhongguancun.
The first garbage time was when I entered the circle. At that time, the industry had just shifted from the cold winter of 2015 to the recovery period of 2016. OKCoin and Huobi, located in Zhongguancun, also stopped layoffs. The market was gradually recovering, and exchanges finally had positive income.
Feishu, considered a major hotspot for overtime by insiders at Byte, saw CEO Xie Xin release a statement urging everyone to cut down on long hours and late nights.
Right now in Beijing, BYD's boss Wang Chuanfu is riding the subway himself, government leaders are frequently visiting Xiaomi, and the ByteDance café in the new park on the North Fourth Ring is always packed.
770,000 RMB in a week. The influencer analyst Hong Hao started updating a new subscription package on WeChat last week, and has already released three paid insights.
To subscribe to this package, you need to pay 10,000 WeChat beans, which, according to WeChat's official pricing, is 1,428 RMB for iOS users and 1,000 RMB for Android users. Currently, 778 people have paid for this.
Based on the Android price, this translates to approximately 772,000 RMB in revenue.
This is a true historical moment, as the UAE has announced a unilateral exit from the world's largest oil cartel, OPEC.
This organization consists of 12 oil-producing nations, accounting for 38% of global crude oil output and holding 71.8% of the world's crude reserves. In the past, cartel members would discuss together whether to increase or decrease oil production, thus impacting oil prices.
Now, with the UAE's unilateral declaration to exit the organization and ramp up crude production, the profit-sharing alliance has fractured.
Previously hailed by Trump, the $1 million investment for the Trump Gold Card, which promised U.S. permanent residency, is now facing a major chill.
According to the Secretary of Commerce, during a congressional hearing yesterday, only 1 person has been approved since the card's launch, while hundreds of others are left in the queue waiting for review.
This is inconsistent with the previous claims of selling thousands of these cards.
The card was launched in 2025, after Trump took office. Individual investors need to fork over $15,000 for the Department of Homeland Security review fee, and after a government review of personal information, donate $1 million. This will supposedly allow them to obtain the Trump Gold Card in a quick turnaround, which is officially explained as equivalent to U.S. permanent residency.
However, many are skeptical about the card's validity after Trump leaves office, which could ultimately make that $1 million go down the drain.
Looks like the bro is really anxious; Trump just tweeted on his own platform that he has ordered the US military to fire on any ships laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
At the same time, he's sending out minesweepers at three times the current scale to clear the strait and ensure it gets back to normal as soon as possible.
Cook said that his biggest blunder during his tenure was Apple Maps.
As he prepares to step down as CEO of Apple in September, Cook admitted at the conference that the biggest mistake of his term was the rushed launch of Apple Maps.
User feedback and media reports at the time revealed serious functional flaws in this mapping app, such as disappearing buildings and frequent location errors.
This also led to the departure of Scott Forstall, who was a key player under Jobs and at that time the head of Apple's software division, as he bore the main responsibility for Apple Maps.
However, when talking about his proudest achievement, it was surprisingly the Apple Watch; he was deeply moved by the first user email he received stating that the Apple Watch saved their life. So he believes this is the best product of his tenure.