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Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
Monaris joins Payy ecosystem to build private credit layer for stablecoin businesses
Monaris will use Payy's privacy-preserving rails to turn stablecoin cashflow and receivables into programmable working capital, targeting underwriting and lending products.
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.
Edge City opens rolling Mentor Residency in Bhutan for founders and operators
In partnership with Pelsung Innovation Lab, the program embeds mentors for 1–2 weeks to work directly with Bhutanese builders on live national challenges; visa and logistics provided.
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.
Sunnyside Labs launches Privacy Boost SDK for OP Stack chains
The audited SDK adds confidential payments and private smart contract logic to any OP Stack chain as a drop-in, using a ZK + TEE hybrid; live on OP Mainnet and Soneium.
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.
Congo Basin Bosenge tree campaign enters active matching window through July 21
Donations to the Indigenous-led tree planting and genome sequencing project in DRC are being multiplied up to 45× by Ma Earth Foundation and partner funders; 50 donors have contributed $3,054 toward a $27,319 goal.
Wise Ancestors joins MA Earth Studio Round 3 with Bosenge tree genome project in DRC
Donations to the Indigenous-led Botsike Village conservation project are matched up to 45x (up to $7,400 total); 26 donors contributed $1,592 within first 4 days; deadline July 21.
Prime Intellect releases Verifiers v1 open-source agentic RL environment stack
The redesigned framework decomposes environments into taskset, harness, and runtime components; enables training coding agents on trajectories beyond the model's native context window via DAG branching.
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.
Aeredium joins Lava Tokenization Sandbox to test RWA payment infrastructure
The sandbox, anchored to Alba Bay's $5.4B Dominican Republic development, tests payment-agnostic settlement across bank rails, stablecoins, and digital assets without requiring fragmented multi-chain treasuries.
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Protocol Labs’ vision for the future is built on four core focus areas that aim to harness humanity’s potential for good, navigate potential pitfalls, and ensure a future where technology empowers humanity.
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Build Innovation Network
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