I see Flock has also joined the Wall Street DAT (Digital Asset Treasury) narrative. Interestingly, the collaboration between Flock and CIMG Inc. is quite different from the common practice of buying ETH and BTC as reserve assets to drive up stock prices. Let's explain: Specifically, Flock and CIMG Inc. have adopted a deeply integrated business model. CIMG will purchase FLOCK tokens as reserve assets. The two parties will also jointly develop an AI health monitoring and intelligent recommendation product called LifeNode, for which Flock will provide AI privacy computing and federated learning technical services. 1) The DAT model, currently all the rage on Wall Street, is essentially a rehash of the Crypto (3.3) model: buy coins → stock price rises → issue bonds → buy more coins. Its positive flywheel operation relies on a unilaterally positive market, somewhat resembling a "Ponzi" approach. This was part of the first wave of speculative DATs. Wall Street listed companies leveraged crypto to hype their stock prices, and the crypto market leveraged Wall Street's Fomo to obtain incremental external capital to drive up the market. The FLock and CIMG partnership model employed a deep "business + token" integration. On the one hand, due to the token acquisition, the value of FLock's tokens was substantially tied to the listed company's core business. On the other hand, FLock's AI technology provision services would directly impact CIMG's strategy and market performance. In other words, the partnership between the two companies went beyond simple speculation, but rather generated business synergy and value linkage. To understand this in depth, we must also delve into CIMG Inc, a listed company. This company is very interesting. On the surface, it started out as a coffee company, but through a series of acquisitions (Xilin Online's AI smart product selection, Huomao Culture's "industry + AI + capital" four-wheel drive), it has transformed itself into a digital health group with "technology + marketing" dual engines.
This cooperation with FLock is equivalent to jumping directly from AI applications on the marketing side to AI innovation on the product side. With the implementation of LifeNode, CIMG has truly transformed from a "company using AI" to a "company making AI products." The key is that FLock's federated learning and privacy computing technologies just hit the core pain point of health data applications: how to achieve AI personalized services while protecting user privacy?
3) In fact, if the cooperation model between FLock and CIMG can be successful, it may usher in the era of DATs 2.0 - production-oriented DATs. Because this model benefits both parties: for FLock, with stable B-side customers and financial support, it can focus on technology research and development; for CIMG, it not only gains advanced AI technology capabilities, but also can obtain the growth dividend of the Crypto industry through token reserves; the key is that the application of LifeNode will become the foundation of the cooperation between the two parties, and its subsequent user growth, technology iteration, commercialization process, etc. will all be fed back into the benefits of cooperation.