OpenClaw has officially announced on social media platform X the launch of an official Chinese mirror site for its skill marketplace, ClawHub, aiming to improve the access and user experience for customers in the region. According to the announcement, users can now utilize proxy servers or the mirror address to access ClawHub resources and directly invoke relevant skills within the OpenClaw agent to extend system capabilities. The company stated that the mirror site's infrastructure is sponsored by BytePlus, the cloud services brand under ByteDance, and Volcano Engine. BytePlus commented on the post, noting that enhancing convenience and reliability is key to helping more developers get started and expressing pleasure at seeing increased developer participation.
Previously, there were reports that Tencent Holding Ltd. was scraping skills from ClawHub and importing them into its own AI skill app store, Skillhub. In response, Peter, referred to as the "Father of Lobster," replied that he had received an email complaining that his rate limits prevented others from quickly scraping data. He accused Tencent Holding Ltd. of copying without supporting the project in any way. Tencent Holding Ltd. responded by stating that SkillHub is a localized skill platform built on the OpenClaw ecosystem, designed to offer better usability and speed for Chinese users. The company acts as a local mirror and always credits ClawHub as the source. During its first week, Skillhub processed 180GB of traffic for users, comprising 870,000 downloads, while pulling only 1GB of data from the official source through non-concurrent requests. Many Tencent Holding Ltd. team members are active contributors, submitting code and pull requests, and are eager to support the ecosystem and become better sponsors. Three days later, Tencent Holding Ltd. Cloud's logo appeared on OpenClaw's list of sponsors. Now that OpenClaw has an official mirror site in China, with infrastructure sponsorship coming from ByteDance, it raises questions about Tencent Holding Ltd.'s perspective on the matter.
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