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Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
Parsoid parser enabled on French Wikipedia, covering 78.9% of all Wikipedia page views
English Wikipedia desktop rollout follows this week; the new parser enables new reading and editing features across Wikimedia projects.
World opens London flagship on Oxford Street
The pop-up at 48 Oxford Street runs through July 12, offering Orb-based World ID verification to the public; 18M+ humans already verified globally.
StarkWare proposes STRK delegation overhaul, cutting validators from 130+ to 31
The third-round plan creates two channels: Channel A (26 slots, 15–20M STRK each) for top stakers and infra providers; Channel B (5 slots, 5M STRK) for active community validators.
StarkWare unveils three-phase post-quantum security roadmap for Starknet
The plan replaces Pedersen hash with BLAKE2, adds Falcon-512 post-quantum signatures, and includes migration tools; CEO Eli Ben-Sasson called it crypto's strongest quantum roadmap.
iroh v1.0.2 released with relay rate-limit and fairness fixes
The patch release adds live per-client rate-limit updates to iroh-relay, fixes a receive-lane fairness counter bug, and improves relay protocol proptest coverage.
CC Signals workshop in London shapes roadmap for AI-era open licensing
Experts reached consensus on simplifying CC Signals into testable components; pilot testers among data stewards sought ahead of Wikimania and a Sept. 21 UN General Assembly symposium.
Creative Commons recaps first 25th anniversary event series
Four panels covered open education, open science, copyright history, and open culture, featuring voices from South Africa, Taiwan, Denmark, and Brazil on CC licenses as global infrastructure.
CC Founders Fireside Chat marks 25 years of the open licensing movement
Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling reflected on origins and addressed AI's impact on remix culture; recording publicly available.
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.
Payy implements EIP-7702 for relayed account upgrades and meta-transactions
Engineering post explains how Payy's Guild backend uses an EIP-7702 relayer path to upgrade EOAs to smart-account behavior and relay meta-transactions under policy, without forcing users to migrate addresses.
Payy's Beam CLI adds HTTP 402 payment-challenge support
Beam, Payy's agentic EVM wallet CLI, can now parse a server's 402 Payment Required response, execute the on-chain payment, and automatically retry the request — enabling autonomous agents to pay for API access mid-request.
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