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News from the network
Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
Payy publishes technical post on EVM datadir rebuild via block replay
The engineering post details a deterministic migration model for Payy-EVM storage, separating source history from target genesis with dry-run support and archival of live data before promotion.
SurfCash joins Payy ecosystem to expand stablecoin use in emerging markets
SurfCash connects stablecoins to local payment networks across emerging markets, enabling everyday spending and onchain lending through the Payy infrastructure.
Payy publishes deep-dive on React Native + Rust bridge for wallet math
Post details how private-note accounting, yield commands, and treasury swap actions are handled in a shared Rust core exposed to the mobile app via a native module.
Toss, Optimism, and Sunnyside Labs sign MOU for Korean won stablecoin PoC
The three-month proof of concept will test OP Stack's ability to meet South Korea's KYC/AML rules, institutional payment control, and transaction privacy on a public network.
ether.fi card program runs on OP Mainnet
Optimism highlighted ether.fi's neobank card as a production example of OP Mainnet handling real-time card authorization, low fees, and payment traffic spikes.
OP Enterprise launched as managed blockchain infrastructure for enterprises
The product gives organisations a managed path to deploy on the OP Stack without running full operations themselves, targeting regulated and enterprise workloads.
Edge City India popup village announced for October–November 2026
The 3-week event runs October 11 to November 1 on India's coastline, open to builders, founders, researchers, creators, and artists; applications are now live.
Edge City announces India popup village in Goa, Oct 11–Nov 1
The flagship three-week gathering in Mandrem, North Goa targets frontier founders, scientists, engineers, and artists; residency groups of 5–50 people co-live around shared themes, leading up to Devcon Mumbai.
Privy launches global fiat onramps powered by Stripe Crypto Onramp
US and EU users can buy crypto with cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or ACH inside any Privy-integrated app; Privy's global aggregator auto-routes users in 100+ additional countries to the best available local provider.
Prime Intellect hires continual learning researcher
A new researcher joined Prime Intellect specifically to work on continual learning, signalling the team is expanding its core research focus beyond async RL training.
prime-rl open-source RL framework gets a first-class Algorithms layer
Six built-in algorithms (GRPO, MaxRL, OPD, OPSD, SFT, ECHO) are now selectable per environment in a single run; researchers can add custom algorithms by subclassing one abstraction without modifying the trainer.
Prime Intellect releases Algorithms layer for prime-rl framework
Six built-in RL algorithms (GRPO, MaxRL, OPD, SDFT, SFT, ECHO) now ship natively; each resolves per training environment, enabling multi-algorithm runs on trillion-parameter MoE models.
NEAR launches Confidential Intents for all developers and dApps
Developers can now add private transaction execution to any app via the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API with a single parameter; over $1.5B in ZEC settled and daily confidential TVL already above $30M.
NEAR Intents holds "Big Reveal" livestream with founders Illia Polosukhin and Alex…
The event, streamed on X and YouTube at 16:00 UTC, marks a major product milestone for NEAR Intents, which has crossed $22B+ in all-time volume and 28M+ total swaps.
NEAR Intents integrates Fogo Chain, enabling 100+ asset swaps across 30+ chains in one…
Users can now deposit and withdraw from Fogo directly via NEAR Intents with no wallet switching or gas management required.
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