Rhythm X Zhihu Event Process Revealed, Featuring Skills Demo, Keynote Speech, and Roundtable to Deep Dive into Agent and On-Chain Finance
EvoMap's mention of Hermes's plagiarism is something that many of you must be somewhat familiar with.
Just as Claude mentioned OpenClaw's plagiarism, similar incidents are bound to increase.
Because fundamentally, it's a turf war: users choosing which Agent to perform similar tasks, or where the originality boundary of a core competence within an Agent lies. This argument signifies one thing—the competition between Agents has become so intense that it can make founders lose their cool. The choice is in the user's hands.
And this will also soon be an issue that each of us will have to face. With an increasing number of Agents capable of doing many things, what should we do? This is precisely the issue we will discuss at our event.
April 21, Hong Kong. Rhythm BlockBeats and Zhihu will host the theme event "Decoding Web 4.0: When AI Agents Take Over On-Chain Permissions." The guests have been announced and can be seen in "Rhythm X Zhihu Event Guest Announcement, covering AI Agent's new financial model from academic, institutional, and personal perspectives."
What we want to discuss are specific issues that have actually occurred: How to choose Skills, how to build a trust layer, and how far we are from a completely new financial paradigm. Below are the contents you will hear and see at the event.

Two Keynote Speeches
Keynote: "Handing Over the Keys of AI, Web 4.0 Infrastructure through the Eyes of a Security Engineer"
Speaker: MuleRun CTO (MuleRun) Junliang Shu
In the 90s, the Bloomberg Terminal allowed analysts to dominate retail investors, and today, Agents are replaying this scenario. However, when AI starts touching your money, security becomes a matter of life and death. Listen to a security engineer discuss how to give capabilities to the Agent while retaining control for oneself.
Keynote: "Building the Trust Layer of the Intelligent Economy"
Speaker: Cobo AI Head of Growth, Brad Bao
AI is evolving from "answering questions" to "acting on our behalf." When software begins to call funds, execute transactions, and manage assets, trust is no longer an add-on but the infrastructure itself. How can we empower the Agent with enough autonomy while ensuring that humans have enough certainty to trust it? We are exploring the answers.
Roundtable Discussion
Theme: "After OpenClaw, How Far Away is the New Financial Paradigm for Agents?"
Participants include MuleRun CTO Junliang Shu, Associate Vice President of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor Jialong Xu, Infini Founder Christian, and Box from the Monad Foundation Greater China Developer Relations.
During this roundtable, you will hear about the guests' daily use of their own agents and skills, the impact of agents on the financial landscape, and the potential synergies between stablecoins and agents following the launch of the Hong Kong stablecoin.
Skill Demo, Showcasing Real-time Skills
Capital flow is the first dimension in which AI Agents and Crypto integration are being tested. We have invited several teams working on concrete initiatives in this dimension:
Brad Bao (Cobo) will start from an x402 payment to demonstrate how two AI agents take their own Hello World step. However, the true operation of the agents' economy relies not only on the occurrence of payment but also on the layer of trust behind each transaction.
xingpt is working on a global macro and commodity trading monitoring skill, exploring the difference between machine-readable signal density and human-readable financial news.
Donut Founder Chriz presents D0, an active trading agent that monitors the market 24/7 and continuously recommends trading opportunities—it doesn't wait for you to ask, it proactively reaches out to you.
Agentese CMO Scarlett takes a different approach: instead of creating a general agent, she focuses on a vertical AI Employee, narrowing the boundary of capabilities and increasing execution accuracy.
Insider.bot Founder Ryan's skill serves market prediction, emphasizing speed, flexibility, and accuracy—three words that hold different meanings in the prediction market, which will be demonstrated during the live demo.
We believe that the insights shared by these guests on the new financial model brought by AI Agents will provide everyone with a different perspective. The event hosted by Rhythm X Zhihu on April 21 in Hong Kong is still open for registration. To register, please click: https://luma.com/r3h4eqkv
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The privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin announced today the launch of its U-based perpetual contract (a derivative priced in USDT). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin has taken a new approach by "liberating" derivative trading from isolated matching engines and embedding it into the instant messaging environment.
Users can directly open positions within the app with leverage of up to 200x, while sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copy trading within private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into the same interface.
Based on its non-custodial architecture, Mixin has eliminated friction from the traditional onboarding process, allowing users to participate in perpetual contract trading without identity verification.
The trading process has been streamlined into five steps:
· Choose the trading asset
· Select long or short
· Input position size and leverage
· Confirm order details
· Confirm and open the position
The interface provides real-time visualization of price, position, and profit and loss (PnL), allowing users to complete trades without switching between multiple modules.
Mixin has directly integrated social features into the derivative trading environment. Users can create private trading communities and interact around real-time positions:
· End-to-end encrypted private groups supporting up to 1024 members
· End-to-end encrypted voice communication
· One-click position sharing
· One-click trade copying
On the execution side, Mixin aggregates liquidity from multiple sources and accesses decentralized protocol and external market liquidity through a unified trading interface.
By combining social interaction with trade execution, Mixin enables users to collaborate, share, and execute trading strategies instantly within the same environment.
Mixin has also introduced a referral incentive system based on trading behavior:
· Users can join with an invite code
· Up to 60% of trading fees as referral rewards
· Incentive mechanism designed for long-term, sustainable earnings
This model aims to drive user-driven network expansion and organic growth.
Mixin's derivative transactions are built on top of its existing self-custody wallet infrastructure, with core features including:
· Separation of transaction account and asset storage
· User full control over assets
· Platform does not custody user funds
· Built-in privacy mechanisms to reduce data exposure
The system aims to strike a balance between transaction efficiency, asset security, and privacy protection.
Against the background of perpetual contracts becoming a mainstream trading tool, Mixin is exploring a different development direction by lowering barriers, enhancing social and privacy attributes.
The platform does not only view transactions as execution actions but positions them as a networked activity: transactions have social attributes, strategies can be shared, and relationships between individuals also become part of the financial system.
Mixin's design is based on a user-initiated, user-controlled model. The platform neither custodies assets nor executes transactions on behalf of users.
This model aligns with a statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2026, titled "Staff Statement on Whether Partial User Interface Used in Preparing Cryptocurrency Securities Transactions May Require Broker-Dealer Registration."
The statement indicates that, under the premise where transactions are entirely initiated and controlled by users, non-custodial service providers that offer neutral interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers or exchanges.
Mixin is a decentralized, self-custodial privacy wallet designed to provide secure and efficient digital asset management services.
Its core capabilities include:
· Aggregation: integrating multi-chain assets and routing between different transaction paths to simplify user operations
· High liquidity access: connecting to various liquidity sources, including decentralized protocols and external markets
· Decentralization: achieving full user control over assets without relying on custodial intermediaries
· Privacy protection: safeguarding assets and data through MPC, CryptoNote, and end-to-end encrypted communication
Mixin has been in operation for over 8 years, supporting over 40 blockchains and more than 10,000 assets, with a global user base exceeding 10 million and an on-chain self-custodied asset scale of over $1 billion.

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