Filecoin announced its latest network upgrade is complete. Under the upgrade, a growing share of rewards goes to services that bring paying customers onto the network, and that share grows as paid demand grows. Filecoin's status page lists the upgrade as MainNet Version 29 'Solstice'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filecoin published a recording of its Oct 8 Storage Provider Community Forum, which explains how the Solstice upgrade changes how storage providers earn power and rewards.
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.