According to The Block, the decentralized taxi app Teleport announced its shutdown. The project, founded in 2022, previously raised $9 million in seed funding led by Foundation Capital and Road Capital. Teleport will provide withdrawal support for users until February 28th, allowing users to withdraw their remaining USDC stablecoin balance and Private Key during this period.

Hong Kong Stock Market Fast Dog Taxi (02246.HK) rises more than 40%, with a turnover of over 16.01 million Hong Kong dollars.

On April 28, Jinshi Data learned that on April 26, the East China Regional Administration of the Civil Aviation Administration of China officially accepted the application for the type certificate (TC) of the V2000EM (Shengshilong) manned eVTOL electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft from Fengfei Aviation Technology. The approval process for the Shengshilong type certificate has officially begun.

Odaily Planet Daily News Axie Infinity officially posted on the X platform that it will cooperate with the Philippine taxi software Grab to provide additional benefits for Filipino users. Players can earn Grab points by visiting the Merch Store through the Grab app, and they will also be able to purchase discount codes for certain items from the Merch Store.

According to news on September 15, WarblerLabs, the company behind the decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch, and Ugandan lender Tugende have agreed on a loan restructuring plan that may recover a US$5 million loan for an East African motorcycle taxi financing project. Tugende previously defaulted on $5 million in funding it received from the Goldfinch agreement in October 2021 for its Kenyan operations. As of May this year, Tugende's monthly interest payments were $53,400, with defaults starting in June

According to Jiemian News, the Tianyancha App shows that Luobo Yunli (Hefei) Technology Co., Ltd. was recently established. The legal representative is Wang Haijun, with a registered capital of 5 million yuan. Its business scope includes software development, artificial intelligence basic software development, and sales of power electronic components. , new energy vehicle vehicle sales, small and micro bus rental and operation services, online taxi booking operation services, etc. Shareholder information shows that the company is wholly owned by Luobo Yunli (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliate of Baidu’s self-driving travel service platform “Luobo Kuaipao”.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that Southeast Asia’s multi-functional online service platform Grab (taxi, food delivery, payment application) has added a new Web3 tab that integrates an encrypted wallet. It is reported that Grab is one of the largest multi-functional online platforms in Southeast Asia and is headquartered in Singapore. It started as a taxi booking app and later expanded into food delivery, freight, payments, financial services and more. Grab's services are very popular in many countries and regions in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.

According to news from IT House on August 21, the research team of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed the world's first pilot robot. This robot named PIBOT is actually more like a "manipulator" and can adapt to traditional aircraft. The cockpit environment can automatically manipulate the cockpit, toggle the switches in the cockpit, and use the built-in AI model to execute flight charts and a series of emergency procedures. The researchers said that another advantage of the robot is the combination of ChatGPT technology. The robot can memorize Jeppeson air navigation charts around the world. Not only that, but the robot is also quite familiar with the "Quick Reference Handbook" (QRH) in the flight industry. It contains all procedures for "unusual and emergency situations such as power outages or system failures." Therefore, the researchers believe that these capabilities will enable the PIBOT robot to respond to various emergencies faster than human pilots. At present, PIBOT has not yet been tested on actual hardware. Officials claim that the robot has only been tested on a flight simulator for "taxi, take-off, cruise, loop and landing capabilities." The researchers claim that they plan to test it in reality soon. The robot was tested on a light aircraft. It is reported that the PIBOT robot is expected to enter the commercialization stage in 2026.

According to PANews on August 14, according to DL NEWS, the decentralized lending agreement Goldfinch development company Warbler Labs accused its borrower, the African motorcycle finance company Tugende Kenya, of defaulting on its $5 million cryptocurrency loan, claiming that Tugende Kenya made unauthorized payments to Its struggling Ugandan parent company provided the loan. Warbler Labs said it had hired a "global Tier 1 law firm" to pursue assets owned by Tugende's Mauritius-based holding company. Warbler Labs estimates that if the loan had to be written off, the lender's rate of return would fall to less than 2% from nearly 8% over the past year. The company, called Tugende Kenya, helps motorbike taxi operators in East Africa obtain financing to buy vehicles, rather than lease them. In June, the company defaulted on a loan it had taken from Goldfinch, which allows businesses to borrow cryptocurrencies using real-world assets as collateral.