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The AI hardware operating system company, Boundless Ark, has recently completed two rounds of Pre-A financing, with investors including the globally renowned wearable device brand Shokz, Guoruiyuan Fund, Hengsong Capital, and Shanghai Angel Club, with ECA Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor.In the past year, the company has completed a total of 4 rounds of financing, raising hundreds of millions. Boundless Ark's core product is the AI operating system EVA OS, positioned as the "hardware version of OpenClaw" — essentially a set of Agent frameworks running on the hardware side, supporting various terminal devices such as robots, headphones, and glasses. Developers only need to describe their requirements in natural language, and EVA OS can autonomously complete program writing, driver debugging, and application deployment, averaging about half an hour, significantly improving efficiency compared to traditional solutions (3 people, 2-3 months).EVA OS adopts a cloud and local collaborative architecture, with voice latency below 250ms and multimodal feedback below 350ms, outperforming the industry standard of about 600ms; the self-developed end-to-end model reduces voice costs to one-twentieth of the industry standard, and perception model costs can be reduced by 70%-92%. Currently, since the release of EVA OS 1 three months ago, over 2,500 enterprises and R&D units have connected, covering multiple categories such as AI headphones, AI glasses, desktop robots, and robotic arms.

A bill in Kentucky, USA, aimed at regulating cryptocurrency ATMs (HB380), has sparked controversy in the industry due to newly added hardware wallet-related provisions. Critics claim that the regulation may "effectively ban self-custody."The bill originally focused on operators of virtual currency kiosks, covering licensing, compliance requirements, transaction limits, and user protection. However, in the latest revision, new provisions require hardware wallet providers to "offer mechanisms and assist users in resetting access credentials," including passwords, PINs, and recovery phrases. Industry insiders point out that this requirement conflicts with the core design of non-custodial wallets. Since private keys and recovery phrases are solely controlled by the user, wallet providers themselves cannot access or recover this information, making the provision technically difficult to implement.Institutions like the Bitcoin Policy Institute have stated that such regulations effectively create a "backdoor" for wallets, undermining the security of crypto assets and potentially forcing users to turn to centralized custodial services. The bill still needs to be reviewed by the state Senate, and the relevant provisions may still be modified or removed.

The High Court of England ruled last week that a lawsuit involving the theft of 2,323 bitcoins can proceed to trial. The plaintiff, Ping Fai Yuen, stated in court documents that his estranged wife, Fun Yung Li, secretly obtained the mnemonic phrase for his Trezor hardware wallet using home surveillance cameras in August 2023 and transferred 2,323 bitcoins without permission. At the time of the theft, it was worth nearly $60 million, and at the current price of about $74,000, it is now worth approximately $172 million.Court documents show that the transferred bitcoins were dispersed to 71 blockchain addresses not held on exchanges after multiple transactions, and no further transfers have occurred since December 21, 2023. Yuen claimed that his daughter had warned Li about attempting to steal the bitcoins, after which he installed recording devices in his home. After discovering the transfer, Yuen physically attacked Li and pleaded guilty in 2024 to actual bodily harm and two counts of common assault.Previously, Li had applied to dismiss the case, arguing that the plaintiff's core claim of "conversion" only applies to tangible property and not to digital assets like bitcoins. The judge agreed with this view but ruled that the case could proceed to trial based on other legal claims.

MVB10 member BitRing is about to be released. Users who have completed KYC can purchase a BitRing smart ring containing one gram of gold at the price of buying one gram of gold, which is lower than Oura. The product's appearance far exceeds that of Oura, and the health function detection is not much different from Oura. For subsequent purchases, the original price is required, and the prices are all significantly lower than Oura.The foundation promises to donate all hardware profits to educational public welfare projects in the countries and regions of the purchasing users, currently focusing mainly on China and South Korea.The BRT foundation mainly relies on income from the BRT protocol, while the BitRing hardware company will be supported by subscription fees.

According to Bitcoinmagazine, blockchain development company Blockstream has launched version 5.2.0 of the Blockstream Green app. This update connects Lightning payments with the Liquid network (a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream), utilizing atomic swaps to convert Lightning payments into Liquid Bitcoin (LBTC) secured by Jade devices.The report states that its Blockstream Jade hardware wallet is currently the first hardware wallet capable of interacting with the Bitcoin Lightning Network, allowing users to send and receive Lightning payments while securely storing funds in cold storage.

According to PR Newswire, Solana Mobile has announced the launch of the modular integration solution Solana Mobile Stack for Android hardware manufacturers, helping OEMs achieve hardware-level differentiation and transforming devices into hardware-level digital asset platforms.The Solana Mobile Stack supports the storage of stablecoins and digital assets through Seed Vault, and enables fast peer-to-peer or cross-border transfers via Seeker Wallet, directly integrating with ecosystems like Visa, Stripe, and PayPal. It supports staking, trading, and accessing applications through the Solana dApp Store, allowing Android hardware manufacturers to participate in revenue sharing for each transaction.

The robotics startup Axis Robotics announced that in an experiment codenamed "The Rose of the Little Prince," it mobilized 12,000 users worldwide to complete the crowdsourced collection of 10,000 high-quality trajectory data points within 5 days through its self-developed browser-based platform. This experiment demonstrated that robotic intelligence can be constructed outside of traditional, expensive laboratory environments, achieving data scale explosion through public participation.Leveraging the MetaSim architecture, Axis Robotics has created an end-to-end pipeline from task setup to real machine deployment, decoupling complex physical simulations from lightweight web interactions to ensure that the collected data has deep processing capabilities. The platform enhances data diversity through cross-simulation replay technology, replaying high-frequency physical data from MuJoCo in Isaac Sim and performing large-scale domain randomization.Currently, the official team has successfully achieved real machine reproduction on the Franka robotic arm based on this batch of data provided by ordinary internet users, validating the feasibility of this data collection model in industrial implementation.

According to the Financial Times, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger is planning to go public in the United States, with a valuation potentially exceeding $4 billion.The company has partnered with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Barclays to advance this deal, which could be completed as early as this year. Previously, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier stated last year that the company was considering a listing in the United States and mentioned that the company's annual revenue had reached over $100 million.

According to monitoring by ZachXBT, a victim lost over $282 million in LTC and BTC due to a hardware wallet social engineering scam.The attackers subsequently converted the stolen LTC and BTC into Monero through multiple instant exchange platforms, causing a temporary surge in XMR prices. Some BTC was also cross-chained to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin networks via Thorchain. A total of approximately 2.05 million LTC and 1,459 BTC have been disclosed as stolen addresses.

The Bitcoin mining infrastructure company Luxor announced the expansion of its hardware business from ASICs to GPUs and AI server fields, further extending its procurement, logistics, and financing capabilities to the high-growth artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) markets.Luxor stated that the core bottleneck currently faced by the industry is the actual shortage of deployable computing power, while mining companies have unique advantages in transitioning to AI data centers, including power contracts, sites, and advanced cooling systems. Since its establishment, Luxor has procured over $750 million in ASICs for Bitcoin miners, and this experience will now be extended to GPU and server procurement, providing end-to-end solutions that include new, refurbished, and used equipment.Its channels cover major manufacturers such as Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and PNY, and are supported by U.S. warehousing, international logistics, equipment installation, and hosting construction capabilities. Luxor pointed out that the global Bitcoin mining network currently has data center capacity close to 20GW, with an additional 10GW of potential expansion space, of which 35%-40% is located in the United States.As mining companies gradually shift some capacity towards AI and HPC hosting, Luxor will also adjust its service structure accordingly. As the only mining pool with comprehensive financing and hedging capabilities, Luxor can assist miners in obtaining GPU procurement funds through computing power and can provide structured financing such as sale-leaseback through partners. Additionally, its Tenki cloud computing marketplace can help operators immediately monetize computing resources once the hardware is online.Luxor stated that the company has built a full-process infrastructure network covering tax-advantaged warehousing in Montana and Delaware, OEM installation, warranty management, export control compliance, and old equipment disposal, aiming to meet the multi-billion dollar capital investment needs of customers in the AI and HPC era.

Zhao Changpeng (CZ) posted on X platform in response to Onekey founder Yishi, stating that his personal requirement for hardware wallets is: the private key must never leave the device under any circumstances. In addition, CZ also responded to why he calls himself "not an expert." He explained that experts are good at incremental improvements, telling you what is impossible, and identifying all potential issues, but they rarely invent something radically new.

Solayer Labs has officially launched its first ambassador program, aimed primarily at hardware enthusiasts, TPS optimization advocates, and supporters of crypto scalability.Solayer Labs welcomes all interested individuals to submit applications via an online form, which should include their experiences in content creation, meme production, or community engagement.Selected ambassadors will enjoy the following benefits: direct access to the core team and partners, opportunities for feedback on new products, and official support for innovative initiatives.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin previously suggested that developers in the fields of zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) adopt more practical performance evaluation metrics and proposed using the "efficiency ratio," which is the ratio of encrypted computation time to original computation time, instead of the traditional "operations per second" metric. However, some community users raised concerns about how to ensure hardware independence.In response, Vitalik Buterin stated that publicly available hardware can be used, and the geometric mean of the capital expenditure in dollars per second of operations and the joules per operation in both encrypted and original computations will become a reasonable initial pass metric.

ChainCatcher news, according to OneKey's Chinese Twitter, regarding the recent "Milk Sad incident" involving a random number vulnerability, the OneKey team clarifies that this vulnerability does not affect the security of the mnemonic phrases and private keys of OneKey's software and hardware wallets.The vulnerability originates from the Libbitcoin Explorer (bx) version 3.x, which uses a pseudo-random number generator based on system time and the Mersenne Twister-32 algorithm, with a seed space of only 2³² bits. Attackers can derive private keys through prediction or brute force. The affected range includes some older versions of Trust Wallet and all products using bx 3.x or older versions of Trust Wallet Core. OneKey states that its hardware wallets use EAL6+ secure chips with built-in TRNG true random number generators; older devices also pass SP800-22 and FIPS140-2 entropy tests; the software wallet uses system-level CSPRNG entropy sources to generate random numbers, meeting cryptographic standards. The team emphasizes that users are advised to manage assets using hardware wallets and should not import mnemonic phrases generated by software wallets into hardware wallets to ensure the highest level of security.

ChainCatcher news, Singapore-based cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ryder has completed a $3.2 million seed round financing, led by Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates. Other participants include venture capital firms Borderless, Semantic, Smape, VeryEarly, as well as angel investors Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Asymmetric CEO Joe McCann.Ryder will use the funds to increase production, expand its marketing and engineering teams, and develop its Ryder One wallet product. The Ryder One is equipped with a recovery system called TapSafe, which allows wallet access recovery through mobile devices and NFC tags. The company claims this method does not require traditional mnemonic phrases, which are a common method for recovering cryptocurrency wallets.

ChainCatcher news, Christie's CEO Bonnie Brennan stated that last year 80% of collectors participated in auctions online. Christie's Ventures will invest in innovative technologies related to the art market, focusing on four major areas: Web3, artificial intelligence, fintech, and hardware.It is reported that Christie's Ventures previously focused on three areas: Web3, art-related financial products, and art consumption solutions and technologies.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted hardware design company Citadel Wallet has announced the launch of SuiBall, the first Sui native hardware wallet. The product was unveiled at SuiFest, with core features including "clear signing," designed to present all transactions in a human-readable format, thereby eliminating the security risks associated with traditional wallets' "blind signing."According to reports, SuiBall integrates with the Sui ecosystem, supporting all native Sui assets, DeFi platforms (such as Suilend, Cetus), as well as native Bitcoin and BTCfi products. Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder of Mysten Labs, stated that SuiBall represents the next phase of the Sui device layer strategy. The product is now available for pre-order.