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BlockBeats News, June 5th, according to official sources, Billions announced that its identity verification product, Human Pass, built on Proof of Uniqueness technology, is set to land on Discord. This will provide online communities with a trustworthy and privacy-friendly real-world verification infrastructure. With the rapid growth of AI and automated accounts, community size has become inadequate to reflect genuine user engagement. Human Pass aims to assist Discord communities in identifying real and unique human members, establishing a higher-quality interactive environment under privacy protection. It will provide a trustworthy human identity layer for use cases such as reward distribution, community governance, member access, and exclusive benefits. Upon completing the verification, users will receive a Human Pass identity badge to prove their status as a real and unique human individual, not a bot or mass-created account. This solution employs privacy-enhancing technologies like zero-knowledge proofs, does not store personal data, and does not retain facial images, achieving a balance between identity verification and privacy protection. Billions stated that Human Pass will first open to the Discord community, further driving the internet's evolution from an "account network" to a "Human Network," establishing a trustworthy human participation infrastructure for the next generation of digital communities.

Glonghui June 5th｜Zumiez fell 10.65% pre-market to $20.98. The drop was mainly due to a newly released quarterly loss that was slightly worse than market expectations, and its guidance for the next quarter was also far below Wall Street's forecasts, leading to a clear hit to market confidence. The operating loss narrowed from $19.9 million a year earlier to $15.2 million, with the operating margin improving by 290 basis points year-on-year. However, the company has posted consecutive quarterly losses, with an average operating margin of -2.1% over the past two years. Zumiez's earnings per share have dropped at an annualized rate of about 39.7% over the past three years. The company expects to post a loss again in the second quarter, while the market had previously expected a profit. The CEO said that May saw some degree of weakness in the North American market.