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PayYoda analyzing the Blockchain payment characteristics and putting forward the Blockchain payment security reference

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The industrial circle and academic circle have begun to realize the importance and value of Blockchain payment security, and have carried out active exploration now. However, the current Blockchain payment is still in the early stage of industrial development with systematic study lacked. PayYoda analyzes the Blockchain payment security demand characteristics and defines the Blockchain payment security boundary, laying the foundation of Blockchain payment security reference frame.

Blockchain payment problem: Serious security privacy problem and lack of trust between both parties of the transaction

The traditional payment way is always of high risk, poor efficiency and many restrictions. Especially for the international trade, the buyer shall transfer money to the supplier’s account which needs to be confirmed by many international banks midway with complicated formalities and a long time taken (varying from several days to ten days and a half months) after a deal is closed. More importantly, the account is often frozen for no reason and the high service charge needs to be paid in the whole process because all countries have strict regulations on the amount and types of transactions when international payment. Furthermore, the centralized settlement system is with non-transparent data and unsafe hidden dangers, so the personal information may be disclosed.

Based on the problem, PayYoda puts forward the solution:

I. Credit-driven ecosystem

PayYoda constructs the credit-driven ecosystem by the credit scoring system to solve the security payment problem. Various payment security accidents (including merchant fraud, malicious user attack, phishing site and privacy disclosure) happen to the online payment and offline payment. How to create a safe payment environment becomes the high-priority tasks of all the payment networks.

The PayYoda ecosphere is credit-driven. To achieve the goal, related measures (including credit-driven ecology, merchant caution money, safety fund, privacy protection, credit score, and decentralized risk control anti-fraud) shall be taken to ensure the user asset security in many fields thoroughly.

II. Publicity, transparency and traceability

In addition to this, PayYoda’s strategy is solving the data source and data trust problems by its hardware equipment with machine language, and ensuring the data authenticity of the whole chain based on Blockchain characteristics-decentralization and immutability. The PayYoda’s design ensures the payment transaction data security in the process of acquisition, transmission, storage and computation with stable and reliable technology platform provided for data transmission and value circulation on the digital asset trading.

III. Decentralizing the payment on the Blockchain

After PayYoda implements the actual scenario of digital currency and realizes the integration with payment transactions via Blockchain, it won’t rely on the system in the central position for fund clearing and trading information storage any longer, but can transfer the value directly based on consensus mechanism which doesn’t need any trust coordination. The mechanism transformation result is as follows: On one hand, the huge service cost and maintenance costs of the third party of the third party institution are saved, the business process is simplified and the business costs for banks and customers are lowered; On the other hand, the flattening of the process increases the transfer speed and realizes the real-time transfer, and the security of the whole system can be ensured even though multiple nodes are attacked because a complete set of data copies is stored at each node of the system.

IV. Secure trading system based on artificial intelligence

The PayYoda secure trading protection system is based on multi-core concurrent technology, integrated safety engine technology, zero-copy technique, and other high performance architectures. It integrates ten layers of fine filtering function based on data header and data content (including DOS defense, user authentication, application control, intrusion prevention, site classification and filtering, virus filtration, web application defense and data leak prevention), forms the integrated security defense system from the network layer to the application layer, and realizes the clean flow delivery.

On the basis of artificial intelligence, PayYoda provides such abilities as data analysis, knowledge extraction, independent study, intelligent decision and automatic control which can create the innovative applications in the fields of network information security (such as network protection, data management, message audit, intelligent security and financial risk control).

V. Construction of sustainable payment ecosystem

The sustainable evolution of the platform (as the basic payment network) is of great importance. And the continuous evolution of the platform happens due to sustainable innovation ability in the premise of abiding by common rules. The common rules of the platform are ensured by the governance mechanism and consensus mechanism. As for the innovation, the development history of e-payment in these decades clearly shows: As long as the power is given to the innovators closest to the market, there will always be an endless supply of ideas. In terms of governance mechanism, PayYoda adopts the fully open ecological model so that the ecosphere participants can focus on the tasks they are best at and maximize their respective profits by the corresponding incentive mechanism with innovation driven via the market end.

PayYoda will continue to be rooted in the Blockchain-fertile soil and cooperate with various financial institutions and entity industries to build the decentralized payment ecology together based on Blockchain in the future!

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ELFBAR’s German Business Is Now Built Around Reusable Pod Systems

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The brand holds about 60 percent of the country’s pod system market and around 80 percent of its German shipments are in reusable formats, with four products honoured this year by the German Design Award and the CMF Design Awards

United States, 1st Jun 2026,
 

Global vape brand ELFBAR today set out how its German business has shifted toward reusable pod systems over the past several product cycles, following recognition of four of its products by the German Design Award and the International CMF Design Awards in 2026.
 

ELFBAR's German Business Is Now Built Around Reusable Pod Systems

The two juries honoured the ELFX Mini, the ELFX 2, the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFA pod system. The group together accounts for a meaningful share of ELFBAR’s German sales. The German Design Award is organised by the German Design Council. The International CMF Design Awards evaluates excellence in colour, material and finish. ELFA Master Stein and ELFX Mini are now available in Germany.

What the data shows

According to internal company data, ELFBAR holds about 60 percent of the German pod system category. That makes it the largest player in the country’s largest vape submarket. Prefilled and refillable products — the ELFX and ELFA pod systems and the ELFLIQ e-liquid range — make up roughly 80 percent of the company’s shipments to Germany. Single-use formats, once a defining part of the category, no longer drive the brand’s German business.

The product mix has shifted gradually rather than overnight. The change reflects deliberate prioritisation inside the company: ELFBAR has steadily reduced the share of single-use formats in its German offer and reinvested behind devices that can be refilled, recharged and serviced over a longer life.

Design language

The shift toward reusable formats has been accompanied by a change in how ELFBAR’s products look and feel. The ELFX and ELFA series — including the four products honoured this year — share a quieter design vocabulary than the bright single-use silhouettes that defined the category’s earliest growth. Colour palettes are subdued. Casings are contoured for one-handed use. Materials are selected for grip and longevity. Branding is small.

“Good design should feel confident, not loud,” said Becky Liu, Head of Industrial Design at ELFBAR. “With ELFX and ELFA, we focus on a clean-cut form, precision, and a calm material touch-feel to bring an elegant and intuitive user experience.”

That visual approach has now been independently endorsed. The German Design Award named the ELFX Mini and the ELFA Master Stein as 2026 winners. The CMF Design Awards recognised both the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFX 2. The combined recognition applies standards normally used to assess mainstream consumer electronics to a category that has historically been judged on different terms.

The reusable approach in practice

ELFBAR describes its reusable design approach in three working principles, drawn from how the products are engineered and sold rather than from marketing language.

The first is that components are designed to be replaceable. Pods, cartridges and, in some models, batteries can be exchanged so that the body of the device stays in use beyond the life of any single consumable.

The second is that everyday friction is engineered out of the product. Visible e-liquid windows, magnetically secured cartridges, structured status displays and adjustable airflow and power settings are integrated to reduce small daily annoyances that often push users back to single-use products.

The third is that safety features are built into the cartridge. The ELFX POD 2.0 generation, which launches with ELFX 2 in Germany in June 2026, adds a child lock, an upgraded airway for richer flavour, and a 5A leakproof system designed to contain e-liquid during everyday use.

The regulatory backdrop

The shift inside ELFBAR’s German business has played out against a broader change in European regulation. National-level restrictions on disposable products, higher expectations around packaging and e-waste, and closer scrutiny of product safety have all put pressure on bright, short-lived devices. Brands able to demonstrate genuine reusability, supported by replaceable components, accessible spare parts and durable design, are increasingly separated by retailers and regulators from those that cannot.

ELFBAR’s German position is being treated inside the company as a test case for how the rest of its European business will be structured. The plan is to introduce the award-winning ELFX and ELFA designs to additional European markets in due course, with ELFX 2 leading the next wave from Germany in June 2026.

— ENDS —

About ELFBAR

ELFBAR is a pioneer in the global vaping industry. Since its inception in 2018, it has been providing a distinct and diverse vaping experience with innovation at its core. ELFBAR stays committed to youth access prevention and sustainable growth as a leading brand favoured and used by tens of millions of adult smokers and ex-smokers worldwide as an alternative to smoking. For more information, please visit elfbar.de.

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ELFBAR’s German Business Is Now Built Around Reusable Pod Systems

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The brand holds about 60 percent of the country’s pod system market and around 80 percent of its German shipments are in reusable formats, with four products honoured this year by the German Design Award and the CMF Design Awards

United States, 1st Jun 2026,
 

Global vape brand ELFBAR today set out how its German business has shifted toward reusable pod systems over the past several product cycles, following recognition of four of its products by the German Design Award and the International CMF Design Awards in 2026.
 

ELFBAR's German Business Is Now Built Around Reusable Pod Systems

The two juries honoured the ELFX Mini, the ELFX 2, the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFA pod system. The group together accounts for a meaningful share of ELFBAR’s German sales. The German Design Award is organised by the German Design Council. The International CMF Design Awards evaluates excellence in colour, material and finish. ELFA Master Stein and ELFX Mini are now available in Germany.

What the data shows

According to internal company data, ELFBAR holds about 60 percent of the German pod system category. That makes it the largest player in the country’s largest vape submarket. Prefilled and refillable products — the ELFX and ELFA pod systems and the ELFLIQ e-liquid range — make up roughly 80 percent of the company’s shipments to Germany. Single-use formats, once a defining part of the category, no longer drive the brand’s German business.

The product mix has shifted gradually rather than overnight. The change reflects deliberate prioritisation inside the company: ELFBAR has steadily reduced the share of single-use formats in its German offer and reinvested behind devices that can be refilled, recharged and serviced over a longer life.

Design language

The shift toward reusable formats has been accompanied by a change in how ELFBAR’s products look and feel. The ELFX and ELFA series — including the four products honoured this year — share a quieter design vocabulary than the bright single-use silhouettes that defined the category’s earliest growth. Colour palettes are subdued. Casings are contoured for one-handed use. Materials are selected for grip and longevity. Branding is small.

“Good design should feel confident, not loud,” said Becky Liu, Head of Industrial Design at ELFBAR. “With ELFX and ELFA, we focus on a clean-cut form, precision, and a calm material touch-feel to bring an elegant and intuitive user experience.”

That visual approach has now been independently endorsed. The German Design Award named the ELFX Mini and the ELFA Master Stein as 2026 winners. The CMF Design Awards recognised both the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFX 2. The combined recognition applies standards normally used to assess mainstream consumer electronics to a category that has historically been judged on different terms.

The reusable approach in practice

ELFBAR describes its reusable design approach in three working principles, drawn from how the products are engineered and sold rather than from marketing language.

The first is that components are designed to be replaceable. Pods, cartridges and, in some models, batteries can be exchanged so that the body of the device stays in use beyond the life of any single consumable.

The second is that everyday friction is engineered out of the product. Visible e-liquid windows, magnetically secured cartridges, structured status displays and adjustable airflow and power settings are integrated to reduce small daily annoyances that often push users back to single-use products.

The third is that safety features are built into the cartridge. The ELFX POD 2.0 generation, which launches with ELFX 2 in Germany in June 2026, adds a child lock, an upgraded airway for richer flavour, and a 5A leakproof system designed to contain e-liquid during everyday use.

The regulatory backdrop

The shift inside ELFBAR’s German business has played out against a broader change in European regulation. National-level restrictions on disposable products, higher expectations around packaging and e-waste, and closer scrutiny of product safety have all put pressure on bright, short-lived devices. Brands able to demonstrate genuine reusability, supported by replaceable components, accessible spare parts and durable design, are increasingly separated by retailers and regulators from those that cannot.

ELFBAR’s German position is being treated inside the company as a test case for how the rest of its European business will be structured. The plan is to introduce the award-winning ELFX and ELFA designs to additional European markets in due course, with ELFX 2 leading the next wave from Germany in June 2026.

— ENDS —

About ELFBAR

ELFBAR is a pioneer in the global vaping industry. Since its inception in 2018, it has been providing a distinct and diverse vaping experience with innovation at its core. ELFBAR stays committed to youth access prevention and sustainable growth as a leading brand favoured and used by tens of millions of adult smokers and ex-smokers worldwide as an alternative to smoking. For more information, please visit elfbar.de.

Media Contact

Organization: HG INNOVATION LIMITED

Contact
Person:
Media Relations

Website:

https://www.elfbar.de/

Email:

marketing@elfbar.de

Country:United States

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ELFBAR to Launch Award-Winning ELFX 2 Pod System in Germany in June 2026

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Reusable device debuts with the new ELFX POD 2.0 generation, featuring a child lock, an upgraded airway and a 5A leakproof system

United States, 1st Jun 2026,
 

Global vape brand ELFBAR will launch the ELFX 2, a reusable pod system already honoured by the International CMF Design Awards, in Germany in June 2026. The device will be the first in the company’s lineup to ship with the new ELFX POD 2.0 cartridge generation, which adds three upgrades focused on safety, flavour delivery and leakage protection.

ELFBAR to Launch Award-Winning ELFX 2 Pod System in Germany in June 2026
ELFX 2 will go on sale through ELFBAR’s authorised retail and online channels. Specific on-sale dates, pricing and full channel availability will be confirmed closer to launch. The product is intended for adult smokers and ex-smokers as an alternative to combustible tobacco.

What is new in ELFX POD 2.0

The ELFX POD 2.0 cartridge generation ships standard with ELFX 2 in Germany and changes three things from the prior generation.

The first is a child lock. The dedicated locking mechanism is designed to make unintended activation by a child significantly less likely. The feature reflects ELFBAR’s youth access prevention commitments and aligns with European regulatory expectations around pod-level safety engineering.

The second is an upgraded internal airway. The redesigned airflow path is tuned for more consistent flavour expression across the life of the pod. This is an area where adult users moving from disposable to reusable formats have historically reported the largest gap.

The third is a 5A leakproof system. The architecture is intended to keep e-liquid contained during everyday pocket carry, temperature change and travel. Leakage has been one of the most common complaints across the wider pod system category, and addressing it has been a focus of ELFBAR’s engineering team for the past two product cycles.

The device itself

ELFX 2 is a reusable device with a refillable architecture, a rechargeable battery and replaceable pods. Its physical design earned the CMF Design Award earlier this year, in a cycle that also recognised the ELFA Master Stein. Sister product ELFX Mini, alongside the ELFA Master Stein, won the German Design Award in the same year. ELFA Master Stein and ELFX Mini are now available in Germany.

The casing is contoured for one-handed grip. The colour palette is subdued and the material finish is low-gloss. Pods are held in place magnetically and click into position without alignment effort. The e-liquid window keeps refill timing intuitive. The status display communicates battery and pod state at a glance. Airflow and power settings can be adjusted by the user.

“Good design should feel confident, not loud,” said Becky Liu, Head of Industrial Design at ELFBAR. “With ELFX and ELFA, we focus on a clean-cut form, precision, and a calm material touch-feel to bring an elegant and intuitive user experience.”

Why Germany first

Germany is ELFBAR’s largest European market. The company reports a 60 percent share of the country’s pod system category, based on internal data. Prefilled and refillable products — including the ELFX and ELFA pod systems and the ELFLIQ e-liquid range — make up roughly 80 percent of its German shipments. The country has also been the first market to receive several previous ELFBAR product introductions, and the company’s local distribution footprint is the deepest of any of its European markets.

The June launch puts ELFX 2 into German retail at the same moment that European regulators are tightening rules on disposable formats and packaging waste. Reusable pod systems with replaceable components are increasingly being treated by retailers as a separate product category from disposable vapes, and ELFX 2 is positioned within that distinction.

European rollout to follow

ELFX 2 will be the lead product in ELFBAR’s broader European introduction of the award-winning ELFX and ELFA designs. Subsequent market launches will follow Germany in waves. Dates, pricing and channel partners will be communicated market by market.

— ENDS —

About ELFBAR

ELFBAR is a pioneer in the global vaping industry. Since its inception in 2018, it has been providing a distinct and diverse vaping experience with innovation at its core. ELFBAR stays committed to youth access prevention and sustainable growth as a leading brand favoured and used by tens of millions of adult smokers and ex-smokers worldwide as an alternative to smoking. For more information, please visit elfbar.de.

Media Contact

Organization: HG INNOVATION LIMITED

Contact
Person:
Media Relations

Website:

https://www.elfbar.de/

Email:

marketing@elfbar.de

Country:United States

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