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Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself

AI & the Future of Technology2026.07.03
Stablecoins Are the “Royalists” of the Crypto World: Open USD Lets the Old Monetary System Enter the Arena Itself
Introduction｜The arrival of Open USD shifts stablecoin competition from a scramble for market share among crypto startups to a contest over infrastructure in which traditional finance, payment networks, technology platforms, and public-chain ecosystems all take part together. Around this new alliance involving more than 140 institutions, scholar Hu Yilin argues that stablecoins are not the moderate wing of the crypto revolution, but rather something like the “loyalist reformers” inside the old monetary system: they inherit the efficiency of blockchains while preserving the central position of the dollar and the Federal Reserve. The real crypto revolution, in the end, still has to return to a more fundamental question: must market life…
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2026年7月3日
“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09

AI & Scholarship2026.01.06
“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
This is a written interview, published in issue 160 of Xinrui Weekly; it was abridged when first published, so here I am posting the original text. Q1.[Required] First, could you talk about what took up the most of your energy this year, and why you wanted to push this thing forward? The thing that took up the most of my energy this year was actually raising a child, after all, life matters more than affairs. Of course, the more official thing is that I founded a technology and art studio. Today, with AI and other technologies (such as biotechnology) developing at a breathtaking pace, every industry will undergo drastic change,…
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2026年1月6日
The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)

Philosophy & Thought2025.09.26
The Great Blockchain of Being—Decentralized Philosophy in This Age (An Introduction to Blockchain Philosophy)
I am in the process of building my own “blockchain philosophy” — not using philosophy to discuss blockchain, but using blockchain to construct “universality,” that is, whether it is possible to pursue universal knowledge in a decentralized (anti-absolutist, anti-dogmatic) way. Universality is philosophy’s eternal pursuit, yet in modern times it has fallen into confusion; I believe blockchain is one way of responding to this. Below is the preface I wrote for Blockchain Philosophy; perhaps this book could also be called The Great Chain (Block) of Being, or Using the False to Cultivate the True, and so on. This book will gather together everything I have learned in my life, so…
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2025年9月26日
The Network State and Its Technological Foundations

Web3 & Bitcoin2025.09.25
The Network State and Its Technological Foundations
This article is the draft I wrote for a video recording (the very last small section had no draft; it was improvised and then the recording was turned into text), and the video has already been released on Bilibili and YouTube. The video was actually recorded back in April (at the time, Trump had raised tariffs on China to 104%), but my studio took nearly half a year to piece together these five segments one after another before finally finishing everything (though they mostly had other things to do, this level of efficiency really is hard to defend, so I’m now thinking of recruiting some new people to help me…
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2025年9月25日
Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism

Web3 & Bitcoin2024.12.29
Seedao Node Conference Talk: Bitcoin: Reconsidering the Disappearance of the Nation-State, the Network City-State, and Pluralism
This was an online talk I gave for SeeDAO, which some friends in the SeeDAO community整理成 a written version. There are a few places where the tone does not quite match my original words, but overall it is fairly accurate. I am reposting it here. Guide This article comes from Professor Hu Yilin’s sharing on the third day of the Ninth Node Consensus Conference of SeeDAO (December 1, 2024). Eleven years have passed since Professor Hu’s “first discussion” in 2013, and he again undertakes a profound exploration of the topic of the “disappearance of the state.” In this talk, Professor Hu combines the media philosophy and technological revolution of Bitcoin…
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2024年12月29日
Common Knowledge as Life

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.11.16
Common Knowledge as Life
A while back I went to Chiang Mai to attend ckcon, where I read Simondon to the ckb community and also gave the somewhat endorsement-like talk below. Of course I have a personal relationship with ckb and also a stake in it, but what I said was indeed sincere. ckb’s distinctive design really does fit quite closely with my own entrepreneurial direction: digital artistic creation that fuses life, culture (history), and information (blockchain). Both my ideas about “a new history of the blockchain” and “an AI life with individuality” can be done on ckb; moreover, the new “Common Sense” (from Common Sense to Common Knowledge) can serve as the foundation…
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2024年11月16日
Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed

AI & Scholarship2024.04.21
Accelerationism Is Not Liberatory Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Unleashed
Thanks to Wanxiang Blockchain, I was invited to attend the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, and on April 6 I gave two talks, respectively at Sub-venue 2 and on the OpenAI Stage. Their titles were “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Released” and “The Possibility of Reviving Traditional Chinese Culture in Web3.” Since the lecture time was limited, I’ll expand a little here and organize the relevant content into an essay. Who Is Alignment Alignment to? My title, “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough,” is aimed at “accelerationism.” But I am not trying to endorse “decelerationism” or “alignmentism,” so let me begin…
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2024年4月21日
On “Fair Launch”

Web3 & Bitcoin2024.03.22
On “Fair Launch”
What Is Fair Launch? “Fair launch” is a slogan that has risen again along with the Bitcoin inscription craze, but now I find that some coins with 50% locked, 10% reserved, and the like also tout themselves as “fair launch.” This abuse of the concept dilutes its meaning. Of course, language is free; I can’t do anything about their misuse. But we should strive to build consensus and discuss the bottom line of “fair launch.” “Fair launch” is a kind of revival (please refer to my “The Threefold Great Crypto Renaissance” https://yilinhut.net/2023/12/29/9432.html ), because Bitcoin itself was launched this way, and the early altcoins likewise all took fair launch as…
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2024年3月22日
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”

Culture & Public Commentary2024.02.05
A Few Rambling Thoughts on “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3”
Yesterday, in my capacity as the initiator of Huawendao, I took part in a roundtable discussion titled “How to Lead One Billion People into Web3.” Recently, whenever I’m invited to participate in a program in the name of Huawendao, I’m willing to join for free. That said, I actually don’t much like the so-called roundtable format, especially when the participants aren’t very familiar with one another and there are more than three people. In practice, everyone is basically just talking past one another, and the time is so tight that the topics can’t really be unfolded in depth. Of course, there are indeed times when some sparks of thought do…
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2024年2月5日
Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.01.14
Chinese Character Inscription Is About to Launch
See @epr510 on Twitter for details Let us proudly inscribe Chinese writing into blockchain history! (Tutorial in a follow-up tweet https://twitter.com/epr510/status/1746151703915725284?s=19) We have launched two sets of Chinese-character inscriptions, classical and modern: the classical version is the Thousand Character Classic, containing one thousand unique traditional characters, forming a beautiful rhymed prose—“Heaven and Earth dark and yellow, the universe vast and ancient…” This is a foundational textbook that every scholar in ancient China had to read, and it is also the main way of sorting sequences by character count. This set of characters is positioned to attract some cultural elites from the humanities, arts, and technology fields to join in reviving…
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2024年1月14日