Gate News message: On April 9, the quant yield protocol Axis announced the launch of a synthetic U.S. dollar USDx and completed its first minting, with a size of 10 million US dollars. It is currently in a private testing phase. After minting is completed, USDx will be deployed to Axis’s market-neutral arbitrage engine, covering more than 40 trading venues, to provide liquidity and capture opportunities from market price spreads.

# Article Source: Axis Axis Robotics is restructuring data diversity and scaled production methods for embodied AI through a simulation-first strategy. In 2025, multiple technological pathways in the robotics industry are rapidly converging: the commoditization upgrade of embodied hardware supply chains has made it possible for expensive prototypes to achieve scaled deployment for the first time; Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models bring robots the "brain" for semantic understanding, reasoning, and planning; and the multi-layered data pyramid composed of video priors to simulation synthesis continues to supply steady fuel for the continuous evolution of embodied AI. However, the industry still faces one critical bottleneck: data. Compared to large language models and autonomous driving, embodied AI still faces a massive data

Axis Robotics announced that they mobilized 12,000 users through their self-developed platform to crowdsource and collect 10,000 high-quality trajectory data points within 5 days, demonstrating that robot intelligence can operate outside traditional laboratories. Using the MetaSim architecture, the company built a pipeline from task setup to real machine deployment, enabling data collection and processing. Based on this data, Axis successfully replicated the system on a Franka robotic arm, validating the industrial feasibility of the model.

BlockBeats News, December 29 — The high-performance trading platform AZX, built on Axis technology, has now launched its Beta testnet. This testnet supports spot and perpetual contract trading. Relying on a low-latency order matching engine (P99 platform has received support from a professional market-making team to ensure trading depth and liquidity), and plans to continuously expand asset classes in the future. To incentivize early participants, AZX has also launched a feedback points program: users who trade on the Beta version and submit product feedback can accumulate points and receive early rewards.

Driven by strong investor demand, the native token NIGHT of the Cardano ecosystem project Midnight has recently strengthened continuously, with its price soaring nearly 50% at one point, reaching a new all-time high. As a privacy computing project associated with Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, Midnight is becoming the focus of market attention, with its token performance significantly outperforming the market. From a funding perspective, the rise of NIGHT is not driven by short-term sentiment. The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) indicator has consistently remained above the zero axis, indicating a net inflow of funds. Although the indicator has slightly retreated in the past 48 hours, there are no obvious signs of significant capital outflow, suggesting that investor confidence remains solid. This structural buying provides support for NIGHT to operate at high levels.