Old Xu's English has visibly improved—his accent is much better than it was at the end of last year, and he seems sharper overall. Rich people are always learning and working out, so what excuse do we have to just lie flat and get lazy Compliance and mainstream acceptance are still the main themes. Vitalik is still super skinny, looking good though. He spent quite a bit of time imagining how AI will impact our future lives, like how there might not be any Applications in the future. AI's influence on Crypto is just beginning—there are opportunities but also risks, like the Safe incident. When talking about Ethereum, he mentioned it will be faster and cheaper in the future, but unfortunately, there wasn’t much groundbreaking news. Both of them spent a lot of time discussing AI, since it’s currently the most imaginative direction, and some aspects are already implementable. Considering Binance’s AI product launch yesterday, we can expect AI to greatly accelerate its integration into both CEXs and on-chain applications moving forward. As more of our daily operations become interactions with Bots via natural language, will the trading interfaces we’ve been using for years eventually turn into conversations with AI Bots? For example, this morning I decided to go long on OKB. After Star finished speaking, I realized there wasn’t any major bullish news, so I wanted to close my long position. I manually operated several times, including closing half at market price and placing limit orders for the other half, which distracted me from listening to the talk. If I could just give one command to a Bot to execute everything, and even optimize the strategy based on real-time depth, that would be so much better. In the end, my OKB long position earned me $6,600 today. I didn’t wait for Old Xu to announce any major updates, so it was a bit less than expected, but it’s enough to cover my round-trip business class flight and hotel in Singapore. If you can make money yourself, who needs sponsored dinners and drinks There should be plenty of opportunities to make money in the next few days. What do you think—was coming to 2049 worth it?