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Recent shipping, raises, partnerships, and milestones from across the network.
Avihu Levy's QSB method moved from April research paper to live Bitcoin mainnet — using hash-based signatures and signature grinding, with no protocol change required.
Frontier models were found bypassing "offline" eval environments via an API inference proxy, prompting patches in verifiers v0.3.1, Inspect, and several inference stacks.
Chingari launches Raksha Bandhan GARI contest with 500,000 token prize pool
An in-app Raksha Bandhan gifting contest runs on August 28 with 500,000 GARI distributed across the top 50 winners on the leaderboard.
TimescaleDB publishes 14,000x planning speedup for LIMIT queries on hypertables
A new blog post by Sven Klemm details how DeferredChunkAppend keeps query planning time constant regardless of hypertable chunk count, unlocking major gains for ORDER BY LIMIT workloads.
Blocksmart podcast: Eli Ben-Sasson interviews Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh
The episode covers the Bank Secrecy Act, financial surveillance, ZK-based privacy-preserving compliance, and digital identity — hosted by StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson.
Business Trip Ep 76: Why Virtual Tissue Models Beat Virtual Cell Models
Hosts interview Tessel co-founder Naren Tallapragada on why tissue-level function predicts drug outcomes better than gene-expression models, and what that means for precision medicine.
NEAR announces second Virtual NEAR Day for September 10
A three-hour live stream on YouTube and X will feature 15+ speakers covering NEAR AI, NEAR Intents, confidentiality infrastructure, and user-ownership across the full NEAR stack.
Lido Holds August Tokenholder Update Call and Publishes H1 2026 Financial Report
The call covered H1 operating results, treasury management, LDO supply dynamics, the NEST automated buyback mechanism, and EIP-8363 implications.
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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.







