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Spring Begins in the East, Joy Shared Worldwide — 2026 Galloping into Prosperity Overseas Happy Chinese New Year to Open a New Chapter in Civilizational Exchange

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From February 10 to February 18, the Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau will organize delegations to eight countries—the United States, Mexico, Greece, Finland, Australia, Malaysia, Belarus, and Russia.

Spring Begins in the East, Joy Shared Worldwide — 2026 “Galloping into Prosperity” Overseas Happy Chinese New Year to Open a New Chapter in Civilizational Exchange
Beijing,February 16th.From February 10 to February 18, the Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau will organize delegations to eight countries—the United States, Mexico, Greece, Finland, Australia, Malaysia, Belarus, and Russia—to host the “Galloping into Prosperity” Happy Chinese New Year cultural exchange activities. The events will integrate a variety of activities, including traditional temple fairs, the “Hello, Beijing” photo exhibition, intangible cultural heritage experiences, cultural and tourism promotion conferences, and zodiac-themed flash mob performances. These initiatives aim to promote the cultural significance of the Chinese New Year and showcase Beijing’s rich cultural and tourism resources. It is expected to attract over a million overseas participants to celebrate the Chinese New Year together.

Zodiac Culture · Contemporary Innovation—The 2026 Bingwu Year of the Horse Zodiac-Themed Flash Mob Conveys Auspicious Meanings

The year 2026 marks the Chinese lunar Bingwu Year of the Horse. In New York City, USA, and Mexico City, Mexico, Zodiac-themed flash mob activities will appear as “unexpected encounters,” with the “Zodiac Horse” making surprise appearances at various landmarks and public spaces. This dynamic and modern approach will introduce Chinese zodiac culture to local communities in a vibrant and engaging way.

“Global Auspicious Zodiac Design Exhibition” Makes a Splendid Debut at United Nations Headquarters in New York

On February 2, the “Global Auspicious Zodiac Design Exhibition” opened at the United Nations Headquarters, showcasing outstanding creative achievements from the twelve-year history of the Global Zodiac Design Competition. On February 11, the Year of the Horse Zodiac Window Display will be unveiled at the Empire State Building in New York. Through the theme of “Two Horses Advancing Together,” the exhibition is expected to convey the auspicious symbolism of prosperity and blessings to an estimated audience of one million visitors. During the event, the book “The Zodiac Culture of China” will also be donated to several universities and cultural institutions in the United States, fostering cultural exchange at both academic and public education levels.

Celebrating Together, Friendship Forever—Sister Cities Open a New Chapter of Friendship
Beijing has long-established sister-city relationships with New York City in the United States, Mexico City in Mexico, Minsk in Belarus, and Moscow in Russia. Choosing these sister cities as the primary venues for the “Happy Chinese New Year” celebrations reflects both a heartfelt retrospective of these enduring friendships and a forward-looking vision for the future.
In 2026, Beijing and Helsinki, Finland, will mark the 20th anniversary of their sister-city relationship, coinciding with the 20th consecutive edition of the “Happy Chinese New Year” celebrations in Finland. A delegation from Beijing will host a Chinese New Year temple fair in Helsinki, which is expected to attract over 30,000 participants. The event will also extend into local schools, offering immersive experiences such as Peking Opera and traditional music performances, allowing Finnish youth to engage with Chinese culture up close.

In Greece, Beijing and Athens mark the 21st anniversary of their sister-city ties, as well as the 10th consecutive year of the “Happy Chinese New Year” event held in Greece. For the first time, in collaboration with the Athens municipal government, a “Happy Chinese New Year” temple fair will be held at the City Hall Square, and a high-quality Chinese cultural performance will be staged at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre. The festive spirit of the Chinese New Year will radiate along the Aegean coast, adding a heartwarming chapter to the friendship between the two nations.

Square Temple Fairs: Public Celebrations – Iconic Landmarks Around the World Transform into New Year Cultural Festivals

This year’s overseas “Happy Chinese New Year” events have gained remarkable popularity, bringing celebrations to prominent squares, parks, commercial districts, and landmark buildings across multiple countries, allowing local communities to immerse themselves in Chinese New Year traditions up close.
Large-scale New Year temple fairs will be held at locations such as Kamppi Square in Helsinki, Athens City Hall Square, Sydney’s Chinese Garden of Friendship, TRX Square in Kuala Lumpur, and Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. These events will integrate cultural performances, intangible cultural heritage workshops, culinary experiences, and interactive traditional activities, featuring joint performances by Chinese and international artists to create an open, joyful, and participatory public cultural space.

Renowned Artists and Troupes · Intangible Cultural Heritage Craftsmanship—High-Quality Cultural Performances Enhance Cultural Identity

This year’s event brings together numerous outstanding artists and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at the provincial level and above. The cultural performances integrate diverse art forms such as folk music, dance, martial arts, and acrobatics, showcasing the charm of Chinese culture through high-quality presentations. In Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, several National First-Class Performers and national-level athletes will deliver spectacular performances. In Belarus and Russia, Chinese and international artists will jointly present renowned Chinese and foreign pieces, including “Jasmine Flower” and “Veselukha” (The Merry Moment), creating a harmonious cultural exchange.

At the “Happy Chinese New Year” event, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) experience workshops and masterclasses will be set up, allowing audiences to listen to stories of ICH and participate in hands-on creation. Through interactions with ICH inheritors and practical experiences, participants will deepen their understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture. In Sydney, Australia, ICH inheritors will demonstrate Cao-style kite making, paper cutting, and sugar figure crafting amidst the scenic landscape of the Chinese Garden of Friendship.

Cultural Tourism Promotion · A Two-Way Journey—Comprehensive Promotion of Beijing’s Inbound Tourism

Beijing is actively leveraging the overseas “Happy Chinese New Year” platform to fully promote China’s inbound tourism. Activities such as the “Hello, Beijing” photo exhibition, B2B promotion sessions and seminars, and direct C-end consultations are being held in succession. Local KOLs are invited to share their experiences of traveling and living in Beijing, highlighting the city’s cultural tourism resources and entry facilitation policies. Efforts are also underway to promote the “Beijing Gifts” initiative in Russia, vigorously advocate for the direct Beijing-Helsinki flight, and explore collaboration opportunities with relevant enterprises to help Beijing’s cultural tourism products expand into overseas markets.
In cities like Mexico City and Moscow, B2B seminars targeting tourism enterprises will be organized. Representatives from over twenty key tourism companies will engage in practical dialogues focusing on route development, service alignment, and market demands. Additionally, dedicated B2B matchmaking sessions for Beijing’s cultural tourism promotion will be held in New York, Kuala Lumpur, Helsinki, Athens, and other cities, actively building cooperation platforms for local tourism businesses. Meanwhile, cultural tourism booths will be set up at public events in various countries, distributing multilingual promotional materials to bridge the “last mile” of overseas marketing.

In Finland, Finnish vlogger Rebekka has been invited to serve as an ambassador to enhance communication effectiveness from the perspective of local Finnish citizens, precisely reaching key stakeholders in the local tourism industry. A major announcement will be made at the event: China Southern Airlines will launch a new direct flight from Beijing to Helsinki, covering multiple seasons and long holidays. The service is set to commence on March 29, further fueling the enthusiasm of Finns for traveling to Beijing.
In Malaysia, an innovative promotion model combining “culture + tourism + technology” will dazzle Kuala Lumpur. The “Kaka Digital Camera” will allow audiences to virtually check in at Beijing landmarks, while the globally acclaimed Jiqing Zodiac Design Competition’s collaborative trendy toy, WAKUKU, will engage visitors through interactive activities. This lighthearted and fashionable approach aims to spark overseas interest in traveling to Beijing.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, Beijing’s splendor is set to bloom. During the 2026 Spring Festival, a series of cultural exchange activities—using “Chinese New Year” as a cultural bridge and “Beijing Stories” as an emotional link—will kick off. Let us look forward to this spectacular Spring Festival celebration transcending borders and shining on the world stage across eight countries!

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AI Expert Amol Walvekar Builds First-Ever RAG-Powered, Custom AI for Finance Processes

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Anchor, from Adra Technologies, builds the first retrieval-augmented generation to the finance back office built by a product leader who shipped enterprise-grade AI at JP Morgan, WePay, Lead, Bolt, and Insight Data Science.

San Francisco, CA, August 7th, 2026— Amol Walvekar, an AI expert who has spent his career building enterprise-grade machine learning systems, today announced the launch of Anchor’s industry first RAG for finance teams, and custom agents built specifically for finance processes. Anchor by Adra Technologies Inc. enables finance teams to build, operate, and scale AI agents for complex back-office work directly within their ERP, CRM, and data warehouse.

Understanding RAG, Its Enterprise Value, and Proven ROI

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an architectural framework that enhances the functionality of Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external data retrieval mechanisms. Rather than relying solely on static training data or forcing models to guess. The core business value of RAG lies in its ability to deliver secure, highly accurate, and audit-ready outputs across complex structured and unstructured corporate data.

By grounding LLM responses in an organization’s internal datasets—such as contracts, policies, and systems records—RAG dramatically reduces hallucinations, eliminates the risks of stale static knowledge, and maintains strict enterprise-grade compliance without the high expenses of continuous model retraining.

Leading industry implementations and technical benchmarks highlight the significant operational ROI of optimized RAG systems:

  • Error Reduction: Advanced semantic filtering has demonstrated the ability to reduce incorrect or partially correct RAG outputs by up to 80% while boosting baseline retrieval accuracy by over 20 percentage points.
  • Frontier Accuracy: In standardized end-to-end evaluations like the RAG-QA Arena, optimized systems utilizing fully integrated architectures consistently outperform general frontier models.
  • Efficiency Gains: Deep-dive development platforms focused on enterprise AI evaluation loops have successfully accelerated engineering cycles, delivering up to a 10x improvement in model prototyping, validation, and production deployment speeds.

Walvekar’s expertise was forged inside some of the most demanding enterprise AI environments in financial services. At WePay, through its acquisition by JP Morgan, he built enterprise-grade ML for risk and payments systems where a model’s decisions carry real financial consequences and must hold up at bank-level standards of accuracy, auditability, and scale. He continued that work across Lead and Bolt, applying machine learning to payments infrastructure where reliability is non-negotiable. As an AI Fellow at Insight, he built and shipped an abstractive text summarization platform for knowledge workers — early, hands-on work in the language-model techniques that now power Anchor.

“Finance processes have resisted automation because generic AI doesn’t know your chart of accounts, your contracts, your ERP, or your policies,” said Walvekar. “Anchor is different by design: it’s retrieval-augmented and custom to each finance team, grounded in their own systems and documents. That’s how you get the accuracy and reliability of a trained analyst. The model isn’t guessing, it’s retrieving and reasoning over the customer’s actual financial data.”

RAG, purpose-built for the finance back office

Anchor’s retrieval-augmented architecture connects directly to the systems where finance work lives including NetSuite, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Snowflake, and more than a dozen other platforms and grounds every agent in the customer’s own data, documents, and processes. Finance teams create custom agents in natural language, with no developer effort, to automate work arising from reconciliations, budget management, sales and marketing spend, commissions, and revenue compliance. The platform is SOC 2 Type II compliant, meeting the highest requirements for data protection and privacy.

The result is AI that behaves the way enterprise AI has to behave: precise, explainable, and dependable at production scale now applied to the finance back office.

Beyond building Adra, Walvekar is an active angel investor and writes on enterprise AI adoption, agentic architectures, and market structure. He holds a graduate degree from Boston University.

About Amol 

Amol is the Cofounder of Adra Technologies Inc. is the company behind Anchor, the first RAG-powered, custom AI platform for finance processes. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at www.getadra.com.

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Movement, El Vecino and RISE Partner to Launch First Digital Dollar Wallet for Mexican Remittances

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Palo Alto, California, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire

Launch allows Mexican families to send money home from the U.S. instantly via WhatsApp across the largest remittance corridor in the world without requiring a bank account or app download  

Global, on-chain payments network Movement has announced a partnership with New Jersey-based Mexico remittance expert El Vecino and on-chain wallet provider RISE to power a digital-dollar service that lets customers hold their own money and send it home in seconds through WhatsApp.

Leveraging El Vecino’s 19 years of experience in US-to-Mexico physical remittances, RISE’s wallet capabilities and LATAM network, and Movement’s access to regulated, sub-second payment rails, the partnership enables stablecoin-settled transfers to be sent to Mexico almost instantly, giving customers a simple way to initiate transfers without opening a bank account or downloading an app.

Rather than having to visit a physical location to initiate every cash transfer, El Vecino customers can now begin the process through the familiar WhatsApp messenger. Funds settle in seconds before recipients cash out through Mexico’s extensive OXXO and Circle K retail networks, or receive funds directly via the country’s SPEI banking system. 

Currently, El Vecino processes approx 25,000 transactions per month valued at $70 million annually through remittances, international and domestic bill payments, check cashing, and more – with 85% of transactions heading to Mexico.

The new WhatsApp service will first be trialled among El Vecino’s 20,000 users before being rolled out through RISE’s network to an estimated 800,000 in the second phase. This and future phases will look beyond Mexico to LATAM regions including Guatemala and El Salvador.

Founder of RISE Richard Mas will be appearing live from the New York Stock Exchange on Pulso Del Mercado, one of the region’s most influential news segments, to speak about the partnership on Tuesday, August 11, at 11:30 am EST. 

The launch meets the growing demand for accessible cross-border payment solutions across the U.S.- Mexico corridor, which forms the world’s largest remittance route, through which over $62 billion passed in 2024. [Source].

The ability to send money home through a trusted local provider is a financial lifeline for Mexican migrant families, with the Movement-engineered solution streamlining a process that has traditionally entailed cash handling and multi-day settlement times.

Torab Torabi, CEO of on-chain global payments network Movement, says: “For too long, Mexicans have often struggled to send hard-earned money back home. Partnering with El Vecino and RISE will address this imbalance while proving the versatility and reliability of stablecoins as a settlement mechanism. In doing so, we’re also proud to be demonstrating that regulated blockchain infrastructure can modernize one of the world’s busiest remittance corridors.”

Mike Burns, founder of El Vecino added: “El Vecino has been built on the trust brought by face-to-face interaction. Families rely on us because they know we’ll help them support their loved ones back home. The partnership with RISE and Movement allows us to bring that built trust to a remote digital vehicle that provides the same safeguards and surety that money sent will reach home. Technology should make life easier, and that’s exactly what this collaboration achieves.”

Richard Mas, founder of RISE says: “Every year, tens of billions of dollars cross from the United States into Mexico, most of it earned far from home by people the banking system overlooked. El Vecino spent 19 years earning trust at the counter, one household at a time, and we are proud to join Movement in giving those customers access to new, safe and compliant digital solutions.”

Powered by Movement’s access to licensed payment infrastructure, El Vecino’s new WhatsApp service replaces the traditional chain of correspondent banks with blockchain-based settlement while maintaining full regulatory compliance. This model removes the need for pre-funded liquidity and reduces settlement from days to seconds without the hidden costs often associated with legacy cross-border payment rails.

Movement’s globally licensed payment infrastructure, which spans the United States, Canada, and Europe, will provide El Vecino with compliant fiat on- and off-ramps that have historically been difficult for community remittance providers to access.

The collaboration between Movement, El Vecino and RISE demonstrates how established community operators can adopt institutional-grade blockchain payment infrastructure without the complexity of self-development and management. Combining El Vecino’s local relationships with Movement’s access to a regulated settlement network has yielded a model that could potentially be replicated by remittance providers serving immigrant communities worldwide.

About Movement

Movement provides access to globally licensed and regulated blockchain payment infrastructure that enables businesses to move money across borders using compliant stablecoin settlement rails. Its payment network offers licensed access across the United States, Canada, and Europe, helping financial institutions and payment providers deliver fast, low-cost international transfers without relying on traditional correspondent banking networks. https://www.movementnetwork.xyz/

About El Vecino

El Vecino is a trusted community financial services provider serving Mexican communities across New Jersey. Processing more than $70 million in annual remittance volume for over 20,000 customers, the company offers money transfer and financial services designed to help families maintain strong economic connections across the U.S.-Mexico border. Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/company/el-vecino-franquicias/ 

About RISE

RISE is a self-custody digital dollar wallet that lets customers hold and transfer USD-backed digital dollars while keeping direct control of their own funds. Offering an alternative to slow, high-cost, and often inaccessible banking rails, RISE customers can open a dollar account inside WhatsApp, hold their balance in USD-backed digital dollars that resist local inflation, and send money across borders in seconds for a flat fee. Learn more at https://risefinance.xyz.

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Carbon Launches TradFi-Native On-Chain Derivatives Venue With 950+ Markets in One Account

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Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire

250+ TradFi markets join Carbon’s 530+ crypto perpetuals & 150 24/7 RWAs in one venue. Wall Street depth at listing, stable overnight rates, and on-chain settlement.

Carbon, the on-chain prime broker for global markets, today opened public trading on 250+ Carbon TradFi markets spanning equities, indices, forex, and commodities. Each position is hedged 1:1 at regulated TradFi venues, making Carbon the largest TradFi-native on-chain derivatives venue. Alongside 530+ crypto perpetuals and 150 24/7 RWAs, total tradeable instruments now exceed 950 in one account. 

Carbon TradFi is Carbon’s own on-chain instrument. A trader opens a position on-chain, in their own wallet, and Carbon’s solver architecture hedges it 1:1 at a regulated broker off-chain. The trader never leaves self-custody, and the price and depth they receive are the underlying market’s, not bootstrapped on-chain order books.

That structure removes the cold-start problem that has constrained real-world assets on-chain. Every Carbon TradFi market opens at full institutional depth on its first day, because the depth is inherited rather than manufactured. There is no per-market incentive program to run and no waiting period while liquidity accumulates.

Carbon now offers traders both in one account. Its 150 24/7 real-world markets trade around the clock, for traders who want access at any hour. Its 250+ Carbon TradFi markets track market hours with carry prices from the underlying, for traders who want institutional depth and predictable holding costs. Roughly 30 assets are live as both, letting a trader hold one against the other and capture the difference between the two financing rates without leaving the account.

The global market Carbon connects to is substantial. TradFi clears over $1.5 trillion daily in CFDs across thousands of markets, liquidity that until now had no direct route on-chain.

Carbon TradFi coverage at launch:

  • 200 stocks across US, EU, and Asia markets
  • 62 forex pairs
  • 12 indices
  • 8 commodities

Carbon can list a trending name within the same week it begins moving in Seoul, Tokyo, or Hong Kong, a cadence order-book venues cannot match because they lack the off-chain rails to stand up a new market that quickly. A further 150 listings are scheduled.

The launch also opens the Carbon Liquidity Provider (CLP) vault to public deposits. The CLP is a delta-neutral yield product: it funds the hedge behind trader flow rather than taking directional positions, earning from the difference between on-chain demand and off-chain liquidity. Modeled APY is illustrative and ranges from 20.3% at launch utilization to 57.1% at maturity, depending on flow and capital utilization.

“Traders have had to choose between the assets they want and the execution they need. Carbon ends that trade-off. Every position is hedged into the deepest liquidity in the world and settles in the trader’s own wallet, with 950+ markets in a single account. This is what global markets look like when they finally arrive on-chain properly.” – Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Carbon

“One of the biggest challenges for bringing traditional financial assets onchain has been delivering deep liquidity. Carbon is operating an architecture that connects onchain trading with established market infrastructure while preserving self-custody. We want Arbitrum to be home to teams building this next generation of financial infrastructure” – David Garcia, Ecosystem Lead at Arbitrum Foundation 

About Carbon

Carbon is the on-chain prime broker for global markets, combining crypto perpetuals and Carbon TradFi in one venue. Carbon’s solver architecture connects on-chain traders to institutional liquidity through bilateral 1:1 hedging, delivering Wall Street-grade depth and stable carry with on-chain settlement and self-custody. Live since 2023, Carbon has processed $20B+ in cumulative trading volume across 36K+ unique traders. Carbon operates on Arbitrum. Users can learn more at carbon.inc.

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