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MEGA Discloses 20% Staff Cut Amid AI Product Push
Departing staff worked on the chain, wallet and ecosystem. The disclosure comes three days after a $30 million product pledge.

Osmosis Restarts After Halt; Upbit Pauses Transfers
Onchain records show block production resumed after a roughly four-hour interruption. Upbit kept OSMO trading open but suspended deposits and withdrawals.
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MEGA Discloses 20% Staff Cut Amid AI Product Push
Departing staff worked on the chain, wallet and ecosystem. The disclosure comes three days after a $30 million product pledge.

Osmosis Restarts After Halt; Upbit Pauses Transfers
Onchain records show block production resumed after a roughly four-hour interruption. Upbit kept OSMO trading open but suspended deposits and withdrawals.

Pyth Adds Real-Time NYSE Data to Its Data Marketplace
The Level 1 feed covers five NYSE Group exchanges. Clients must license the data directly with NYSE before receiving it through Pyth.

MEGA Pledges $30 Million for Products, Starting With AI
An inference marketplace is planned for December, with the product-development budget coming from MEGA's existing treasury, according to co-founder Shuyao Kong.

Telegram Adds In-Message Widgets With TON Payments
Production access is limited to private bot chats, while group use and forwarding remain on Telegram's test server.

Matter Labs Launches Prividium Connect With ZK Fee Plan
Proposed public deployments would channel interoperability fees into ZK, but activation, integration and fee parameters still need governance approval.

Cosmos Contributes IBC to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Cosmos Labs holds five places on the initial seven-person technical committee, alongside maintainers from Datachain and OpenZeppelin.

Durov Says 700,000-Plus Wallets Were Created on Telegram in 48 Hours
The Gram explorer’s creation count includes wallets without onchain transactions, a different measure from active wallets.

Carbium Runs Sovereign Solana Infrastructure in Switzerland, From the Fibre to the Node
Carbium RPC answers Solana requests from bare-metal hardware Carbium owns and operates in a private Swiss data center, connected over dark fibre it runs itself, rather than from rented cloud servers.

Top Wallet-as-a-Service Providers for Ethereum in 2026
Wallet-as-a-service solutions on Ethereum are led by a small group of established providers, including Aligned, Privy, Dynamic, Turnkey, and Magic. All are non-custodial and compete on key security, account and gas model, stack scope, and ownership.