NEAR announced XRP support on near.com, where users can deposit from the XRP Ledger, swap and pay others with transactions confidential by default. NEAR says recipients get the funds without seeing the sender's address or history.
The Opentensor Foundation announced eTAO, a new system that gives Bittensor subnets control over how their alpha emissions are divided. Subnet owners can now decide how much goes to miners, validators and themselves based on their subnet's needs.
NEAR launched NEAR Business, a confidential multisig treasury that lets teams pay staff and vendors, swap and allocate capital across 35+ chains with every action approved by their signers. It is free to start and invite-only for now.
Virtuals introduced agentic rule-aware trading on Virtuals App, in which its Butler agent tracks protocol rule changes, team news and onchain data and reprices users' farming positions automatically. It starts with Papertrade's PAPER and is in closed beta.
Venice added Mercury 3, Inception's diffusion-based text model, and says it is available anonymously. Venice claims it runs 4x faster than Haiku 5.5 and 8x faster than GPT-6 Luna and beats both on agentic search and coding.
Venice announced that Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Max is live on its platform. Venice says it is tuned for speed, producing a 10-second video in about 12 seconds, and runs fully private.
NEAR Protocol launched the NEAR Hackathon with more than $250K in prizes. There is no signup: builders ship a public repo and public demo post between November 1 and November 14 (23:59 UTC), building on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud and more. NEAR says judges include Illia Polosukhin, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital and Dragonfly.
Venice announced it has passed 5,000,000 users, saying the platform remains private, anonymous and unrestricted.
Venice announced that MiniMax M3.1 Flash is now available on its platform, including anonymously. Venice describes it as MiniMax's frontier model for coding, agentic work and visual reasoning, running at three times the speed of M3.
NEAR Protocol published an article titled 'The State of NEAR: Q3 2026' on X, its review of the third quarter. The post itself contains only a link to the article.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin announced the 12th Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco, which NEAR AI is co-hosting. He said he will speak on recursive self-improvement with Peter Norvig and on the benefits and risks of open-source AI with Matthew White; the quoted organizer post says the event is this Thursday afternoon, with sign-up linked in the post.
Virtuals Protocol announced that private payments between AI agents are now live on the protocol. The post quotes an article from ecosystem account @PRXVTai and gives no further technical details.
NEAR Protocol says users can update their NEAR accounts to post-quantum readiness now, highlighting co-founder Illia Polosukhin's explanation of how the network is preparing for the migration. The quoted interview clip says NEAR added ML-DSA signing in its July mainnet upgrade, so keys can be rotated without moving assets.
NEAR Protocol says it is joining the Unchained Summit in Mumbai, India, on November 5-6. Harshit Tiwari, VP of Growth at NEAR Intents, is on the speaker lineup and will discuss the growth of the NEAR ecosystem and onchain adoption.
Venice says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in the Venice app has been upgraded to DeepSeek's 1017 release, which Venice says outscores leading open-source and frontier models on most benchmarks. The upgraded model is also available through the Venice API as deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017.
Virtuals Protocol's weekly recap says Lighthouse launched via Virtuals, letting agents share one memory across Claude and ChatGPT. It also says VEX, Warden and Otto now let agents trade perpetuals and tokenized stocks, and notes two major Virtuals App updates.
Venice says six films are competing as finalists for its Lumara Grand Prize, worth $32,000 and 3.2M Venice credits. The winner will be revealed live on October 26 in New York; Venice is spotlighting the finalists, including Candy by @DiDi_OKK.
Render Network published RNP-024 for community discussion. The proposal introduces Forth to the Render ecosystem as a gateway for privately accessing leading AI models at scale, paid for in RENDER, and includes a proposed incentive program.
Venice added NVIDIA's open vision-language model Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, which can read images, documents, GUIs and video, with up to 10 images per request.
On Opentensor's Novelty Search, Bittensor Subnet 4 team Targon presented its confidential AI cloud, which protects models and data even on third-party hardware, and unveiled a public revenue dashboard. Targon said new GPU capacity is being booked by enterprise customers within a day, often on year-long contracts.
A NEAR blog post explains formal verification and how NEAR AI's Lean benchmark results point toward affordable, provable software.
Venice added Hy4 Preview, Tencent's flagship reasoning model for coding, data analysis and research, supporting long-horizon reasoning, tool use and agentic workflows.
Venice made Meta's Muse Wonder, a frontier reasoning model for agentic work with sub-agent delegation and parallel tool calls, available on its platform. It also added Muse Spark, Meta's open-weight reasoning model aimed at coding, the same day.
NEAR said its MPC network, which powers Chain Signatures behind NEAR Intents, now has 17 independent live mainnet operators funded by the protocol, following approval of House of Stake proposal HSP-007.
Brave's Leo assistant now offers private inference via NEAR AI Cloud: chats using GLM 5.3 Flash run inside hardware enclaves (TEEs) that neither Brave, NEAR AI nor the cloud host can read, and Brave verifies the enclave before sending data.
The Opentensor Foundation announced Null Consensus, a protocol update that raises subnet capacity from 256 to 2,500 participants and gives subnet owners an alternative to Yuma Consensus for determining miner rewards. Co-founder Jacob Steeves said it also enables proof-of-work registration, so agents can mine without holding TAO.
Bittensor's open robotics subnet (Subnet 80, @openroboto) now uses peaq's peaqOS to link robot training footage to capture devices with verifiable identities on Solana.
NEAR announced that Helius CEO Mert (@mert) has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, the foundation's governing body. NEAR described him as an early NEAR Intents user and a privacy advocate.
Aethir announced that Axe Compute has signed Penguin Solutions as a multi-year strategic partner for Axe Compute Build. Penguin will provide deployment and operations services, ClusterWareAI software and 24x7 NOC coverage as Axe moves more than $3.45B in contracted customer AI infrastructure projects into production.
io.net co-founder Tory Green said the network processed about 165 billion tokens through OpenRouter in the first 13 days of October, roughly 1.8x its total for July. At the current pace, he said October would come in around 4x July's volume.
Lighthouse (@LighthouseWeb3) launched on Virtuals Protocol with a shared memory layer that lets different AI agents access the same user memory. Its token is used to pay for memory, either locked for service credits or spent directly.
Akash Network said AkashML now averages 26 million requests a week, double the 13 million it averaged from mid-July to early August. The service has handled 260 million requests over three months on Akash GPUs.
NEAR's NEPs repository merged NEP-652, a protocol proposal to remove a persistently failing chunk producer from its shard's rotation within an epoch instead of waiting for the end-of-epoch kickout.
Render Network said it has now rendered more than 82 million frames, adding over 2 million since reaching the 80 million mark in September.
The Render Network Foundation's September report covers Dispersed's agent-infrastructure deep dives and new X account, Sunspark passing 50 festivals, the SUBMERGE exhibition at ARTECHOUSE DC and Render's showing at Motion + Design NYC.
Virtuals Protocol launched zero-setup buying on the Virtuals App, letting users describe a purchase to its Butler agent, which finds the route across intents, bridges and wallets and executes it.
Render Network and Solana announced BEYOND THE FRAME, an immersive art event at FRAMELESS London during Breakpoint 2026 week. Fifteen artists will show original 3D works rendered on Render Network on November 16 from 7:30–10 PM; attendance is free with RSVP.
Akash Network released a UI overhaul of Akash Console, with redesigned pages and a clearer layout for managing deployments end to end. Founder Greg Osuri also highlighted the update and invited user feedback.
Virtuals Protocol introduced automated scalping on the Virtuals App, where users describe a trading strategy in plain language and the Butler agent builds the trading setup.
Axe Compute, which Aethir works with on AI infrastructure, rang the Nasdaq opening bell on October 12 under the ticker AGPU. Aethir co-founder Mark Rydon cited more than $3.45B in signed contracts and roughly $700M in expected 2027 ARR for Axe.
Akash's community repo added notes from the Sept 3 Steering Committee meeting (published Oct 12) and, on Oct 8, notes from SIG and working-group meetings held between late July and late September.
Aethir said its decentralized GPU network has delivered more than 2.4 billion compute hours to partners and customers worldwide, serving production inference workloads.
House of Stake proposal HSP-029, now in voting, would lower NEAR's maximum protocol issuance from 2.5% to a 1.6% target on a 24-month per-epoch ramp, keeping the 90/10 staker-treasury split.