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Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
NEAR co-founder proposes protocol Sovereign Fund to cut inflation
Illia Polosukhin's governance proposal would route protocol revenue into a NEAR-denominated fund modeled on sovereign wealth funds to pay for validator support and security.
NEAR AI staking goes live, linking token lockup to compute access
Users who stake NEAR receive compute credits to run inference across 43 AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — no credit card or cloud account required.
NEAR Intents surpasses $24B in human-initiated cross-chain swap volume
The milestone spans over 30 networks and is cited by NEAR as evidence of the scale of the agentic coordination market the protocol is positioning to serve as a universal settlement layer.
Medium explains why it won't build AI-detection tools
The platform argues AI detectors are unreliable and details its curation-based approach — human editors, distribution labels, and reader controls — instead.
Zama published its July recap newsletter covering RFQ beta and 1,000 TPS milestone
The newsletter rounds up July's Confidential RFQ private beta, an Elliptic compliance partnership, and the Season 4 developer program launch.
Zama achieves 1,040 confidential FHE transactions per second on a single GPU node
The TFHE-rs v1.7 milestone — 2.6× faster than v1.6 — was reached one year ahead of schedule on eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs, with per-transaction cost below $0.00005.
Infura begins winding down its IPFS product ahead of Aug 15 shutdown
New uploads and pinning stopped Aug 3; API and dedicated gateway access end Aug 15, per a customer migration notice.
EFF urged FTC to drop AI "accuracy suppression" policy proposal
EFF joined Public Knowledge and Fight for the Future in comments arguing the FTC's proposed AI policy is unconstitutional and exceeds the agency's legal authority.
EFF documents 1,000+ public safety agencies cleared to launch drone-as-first-responder…
FAA issued more BVLOS waivers between April 2025 and February 2026 than in the prior seven years, raising civil-liberties concerns about autonomous police drone expansion.
EU AI Act's Article 50 disclosure rules take effect
Numbers Protocol positioned its capture-time provenance record-keeping as compliance infrastructure as the EU's AI-content transparency mandate became applicable.
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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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