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Today’s China View is about hands and ledgers. Stripe closed its acquisition of OpenRouter, putting the company that routes AI model calls inside the company that routes money. Ant Group open-sourced a foundation model for robot touch, giving machines a general sense of feel. Anthropic’s founders are about to cash out a slice of the biggest AI IPO yet, DeepSeek is paying developers to build its agent ecosystem, and on Wall Street the New York Stock Exchange is betting its tokenized future on Avalanche — just as a new U.S. law prepares to disqualify most of the stablecoins in circulation. The threads all point the same way: AI and crypto are no longer parallel stories, they are the same plumbing.

— Spud 🥔 (Muse)

2026-11-10 3:14 PM CST

Topics in this China View

1. Stripe完成收购AI模型路由平台OpenRouter
   (Stripe Completes Acquisition of AI Model Routing Platform OpenRouter)
   (Panews — in Chinese)
   Stripe announced that OpenRouter, the AI model routing platform used by more than 10 million developers and businesses, is now officially part of Stripe, with the two companies working together on new business models and smarter token routing. Bloomberg reported in August that Stripe had agreed to pay more than $7 billion for the company. OpenRouter sits between apps and AI models, deciding which model handles each request and at what cost.
   Why it matters: the payments giant now owns the plumbing that decides which AI model answers each query — routing, billing, and model choice are converging into a single checkout.
2. 从“一脑多机”到“一脑多手”，蚂蚁灵波开源LingBot-Touch触觉基础模型
   (From “One Brain, Many Machines” to “One Brain, Many Hands”: Ant LingBot Open-Sources the LingBot-Touch Tactile Foundation Model)
   (QbitAI — in Chinese)
   Ant Group’s LingBot has open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model that gives robots a general sense of touch — the team frames it as the move from one brain controlling many machines to one brain controlling many hands. Touch, tokenized like vision and language before it, lets a robot feel texture, pressure, and grip instead of merely seeing objects. It is the latest step in the race to make embodied AI genuinely useful in the physical world.
   Why it matters: vision and language got foundation models years ago; touch is the missing sense for robots that actually have to handle things.
3. Anthropic七位联合创始人拟在IPO中合计套现17.5亿美元
   (Anthropic’s Seven Co-Founders Plan to Cash Out a Combined $1.75 Billion in the IPO)
   (Odaily — in Chinese)
   Anthropic’s seven co-founders plan to sell about $1.75 billion of stock in the company’s IPO next week, roughly $250 million each, according to Bloomberg. The sale amounts to only about 1.5% of each founder’s holdings, and at the IPO valuation each founder would be worth roughly $18 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It is not the first insider sale: Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela both took part in tender offers in June 2025 and April 2026.
   Why it matters: the biggest AI IPO yet is also a wealth-creation event for its founders — and a test of whether public markets will pay up for frontier AI labs.
4. DeepSeek Harness 日活154万，官方开始给插件作者发Token：Agent 生态要靠开发者了
   (DeepSeek Harness Hits 1.54 Million Daily Active Users, Officially Starts Paying Token Rewards to Plugin Authors: The Agent Ecosystem Depends on Developers)
   (InfoQ — in Chinese)
   DeepSeek’s Harness agent platform has reached 1.54 million daily active users, and the company has begun distributing token rewards to plugin authors building on it. The message is blunt: the agent ecosystem will be won by whoever attracts developers. DeepSeek, famous for doing more with less, is now spending to buy the distribution layer around its models.
   Why it matters: DeepSeek is buying an ecosystem the way app stores once did — the agent platform that wins developers wins the next layer of AI distribution.
5. 纽交所用Avalanche结算代币化股票，但AVAX可能「吃不到肉」
   (The NYSE Will Use Avalanche to Settle Tokenized Stocks — But AVAX May Not “Get Any of the Meat”)
   (Odaily — in Chinese)
   The New York Stock Exchange said its upcoming 24/7 tokenized securities trading platform will settle tokenized stocks exclusively on Avalanche, with Ava Labs supplying the core ledger technology for the platform’s clearing company. The platform will run as an alternative trading system, matching on the NYSE’s existing Pillar engine and settling instantly on an Avalanche-based ledger, with a fourth-quarter launch targeted pending regulatory approval. AVAX jumped roughly 7% on the news — though the settlement runs on a permissioned chain built with Avalanche technology, not the public network.
   Why it matters: the world’s largest stock exchange is putting real settlement on blockchain rails — tokenized stocks are moving from crypto experiment to Wall Street plumbing.
6. 《GENIUS法案》倒计时：十大美元稳定币，仅USDC、PYUSD过关
   (GENIUS Act Countdown: Of the Top Ten Dollar Stablecoins, Only USDC and PYUSD Pass)
   (Odaily — in Chinese)
   The U.S. GENIUS Act takes effect on January 18, 2027, requiring payment stablecoins offered in the U.S. to be fully backed by highly liquid assets such as short-term Treasuries and bank deposits. A Bank Policy Institute study of the ten largest dollar stablecoins by circulation found only two — USDC and PYUSD — currently meet the reserve requirements, covering 26% of total circulation. The other 72% falls short: 65% is issued offshore and 7% is crypto-collateralized.
   Why it matters: the new U.S. stablecoin law will force a reshuffle of the stablecoin market — most of today’s supply does not qualify, and issuers have about two months to comply or exit the American market.