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According to ChainCatcher, HSBC has announced the recent completion of experimental testing for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s “e-HKD+” project. HSBC’s technical use cases in the “e-HKD+” project primarily focused on addressing practical issues that may arise in the design, implementation, and operation of a digital currency ecosystem. As Hong Kong continues to explore the full potential of digital currency, HSBC has not only conducted surveys on public awareness of the e-HKD, but also contributed new technical and business insights for potential design solutions of the e-HKD. HSBC has conducted experiments across a range of public distributed ledger technology (DLT) environments—including Arbitrum, Ethereum, Linea, and Polygon—as well as on a private DLT developed by HSBC on Hyperledger Besu. These outcomes will support the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the industry in exploring how innovative digital currencies can create value for the public in Hong Kong.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Story has officially released its latest development roadmap, “Chapter 2,” outlining its future focus on building foundational infrastructure for real-world data ownership and circulation in the AI era, aiming to capture opportunities in the global IP market worth up to $70 trillion. According to the roadmap, Story’s upcoming development will center on three main directions:Building an efficient data circulation system to support the legal training and use of AI with information from the physical world;Advancing the tokenization of global IP across various application scenarios, expanding beyond music and fashion into broader cultural and physical industries;Transforming viral online content from chaotic dissemination into verifiable, tradable assets, driving UGC into brand asset systems.Story was previously led by a16z Crypto in three funding rounds, with total disclosed financing reaching $140 million. Top-tier institutions such as Samsung NEXT Q Fund, Polychain Capital, Foresight Ventures, and Nomad Capital also participated. Recently, Story and a certain exchange’s Ventures arm announced the establishment of a $10 million fund to support early-stage teams focused on the intersection of IP and AI.