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Electro Andes Episode One Passes 2.4 Million Views

Unknown — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Bellolandia released the first episode of Electro Andes, “The Night of the Andean Beast,” on YouTube on October 4, 2026. By October 12 it had 2,446,058 views and 193,410 likes.^{1</a></sup></p>}

The episode</h2>
The episode runs about 22 minutes and is available free in Latin American Spanish and English. The series was created by Nacho Malter, Damián Fernández Gómez, and Martín Gil, and is directed by Malter and Fernández Gómez. Original music is by Gris. The first season is planned at eight episodes.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>

Release</h2>
Before the YouTube release, the episode was screened at Cinemark DOT in Buenos Aires on September 17, 18, and 21. The pilot was presented earlier in the year at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and its market, MIFA. The production team now numbers more than 100 people.2</a></sup></p>

Sources</h2>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNUhFe1i-0</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li>

https://eltribunodejujuy.com/vida-y-tendencia/2026-10-8-16-11-0-electro-andes-estreno-su-primer-capitulo-y-conquista-al-publico</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Brandywine Festival UK 2027 Tickets on Sale

Unknown — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tickets are on sale for the 2027 Brandywine Festival UK, the Shire-themed live-action roleplaying event organized by Burgschneider under license from Middle-earth Enterprises.1</a></sup></p>

The event</h2>
The festival runs for five days and four nights. The first UK edition was scheduled for September 2026 at Weston Park, on the Staffordshire–Shropshire border. It followed the first US edition in Kentucky in October 2025.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>

Sources</h2>

https://burgschneider.com/pages/event/brandywine-uk</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li>

https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2026/03/25/121635-exclusive-brandywine-festival-comes-to-tolkiens-homeland/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Stabileo: Open-Source Structural Analysis in the Browser

Unknown — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stabileo is a structural analysis platform that runs in the browser. The solver is written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, so models are solved on the user’s own machine with nothing to install. The code is published under the AGPL-3.0 license.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>

Modules</h2>
The Basic module solves 2D and 3D frames and trusses with the direct stiffness method and returns internal force diagrams and member stresses. Models can be loaded from Excel templates and shared as links. It is free.1</a></sup></p>
The PRO analysis module adds slabs and walls, staged construction, and non-linear and dynamic analysis, with import from DXF and IFC files. The PRO design module checks elements against CIRSOC, the Argentine structural codes, and is structured so other countries’ codes can be added. Both are in development and open to anyone who wants to try them. An education module lets teachers write exercises inside the app and send them to students as links. It is free for universities.1</a></sup></p>

AI and the solver</h2>
On August 12, Bautista Chesta, Raúl Bertero, Federico Carrone, and Diego Kingston published the architecture for Stabileo AI, an agent that builds, reviews, and explains models, adapted from a paper presented at JAIE 2026. The agent interprets requests and proposes typed changes. Every number comes from the deterministic solver, which the agent cannot modify. The AI module will be priced to cover its running costs.3</a></sup>1</a></sup></p>
The solver is written from scratch in Rust with no external linear-algebra dependencies. It has about 6,800 passing tests, and on the same models its results differ from a commercial program by less than 0.1%. In one worked example, enlarging the beam of a concrete portal frame from 25×40 to 30×55 cm raises its governing moment from 80.8 to 105.6 kN·m. The beam passes only because its capacity rises faster, so the frame has to be solved again rather than estimated. In another, removing an interior ground-floor column from a three-storey frame raises a beam’s governing moment from 54.2 to 203.9 kN·m.3</a></sup></p>

Sources</h2>

https://stabileo.com/en/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li>

https://github.com/lambdaclass/stabileo</a> ↩</a></p> </li>

https://stabileo.com/en/blog/the-determinism-boundary/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

FuzzingLabs Compromises a Brother Printer at Pwn2Own Ireland 2026

Unknown — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On the third day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 in Cork, FuzzingLabs researchers took control of a Brother MFC-L8970CDW printer with a single zero-day vulnerability. The entry earned $20,000 and two Master of Pwn points.1</a></sup></p>

Disclosure</h2>
The vulnerability was reported to the Zero Day Initiative and to Brother. Technical details remain under embargo until a patch is available.1</a></sup></p>

FuzzForge</h2>
On September 28, FuzzForge received the second Coup de Cœur in the innovative cyber suppliers category at the Nuit de la Sécurité Globale 2026, held at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris. FuzzForge tests compiled binaries and firmware without access to source code.2</a></sup></p>

Sources</h2>

https://fuzzinglabs.com/pwn2own-ireland-2026-brother-printer/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li>

https://fuzzinglabs.com/coup-de-coeur-nuit-securite-globale-2026/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Laderas de los Andes Releases Five New Lines

Unknown — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Laderas de los Andes has released five new lines: Sedimento, Retamo, Nessia, Sagrario, and Precipicio. Together they comprise twelve wines from a single vineyard in La Consulta, San Carlos, in Mendoza’s Uco Valley.1</a></sup></p>

The vineyard</h2>
The vines grow at 1,100 meters on alluvial soils deposited by the Tunuyán River. The vineyard is planted at 5,000 plants per hectare, drip irrigated, and harvested by hand. All wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts. The team is Bernardo Bossi Bonilla, winemaker; Gabriel Mauricio Allende, agronomist; and Pablo Enrique Perelló, director.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>

The lines</h2>

Sedimento.</strong> Malbec 2026 and Chardonnay 2026. Yields of 10,000 kg per hectare. Stainless steel, no oak.</li>
Retamo.</strong> Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Semillón, all 2026. Unoaked.</li>
Nessia.</strong> Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay, all 2025. The Malbec and Cabernet Franc spend 12 months in used French oak; the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are split between 500-liter barrels and steel.</li>
Sagrario.</strong> Single-vineyard Malbec 2024 and Cabernet Franc 2024. Yields of 7,500 kg per hectare, 12 to 16 months in French oak.</li>
Precipicio.</strong> Blend de Altura 2023: 60% Malbec, 20% Cabernet Franc, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. Yields of 6,500 kg per hectare, 18 months in new 500-liter French oak.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></li> </ul>
Sources</h2>

https://bodegaladeras.com/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li>

https://bodegaladeras.com/fichas/pdf/FichaTecnica_Precipicio_BlendDeAltura_LDA.html</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Restolia Adds Consolidated Reporting Across Branches

Unknown — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Restolia version 1.95.0 adds a Consolidated menu for organizations with more than one location.1</a></sup></p>
Reports</h2>
The menu has two tabs that share a period and branch filter. The income statement runs from gross sales to result, with one column per branch and a total. The P&L tab shows income, expenses, and margin, with a daily chart and the result per branch. Amounts are summed, and percentages are calculated on the totals.1</a></sup></p>
Access</h2>
The screen flags branches that calculate cost of goods sold differently. It is visible only to users with access to two or more branches and permission to view reports or finances.1</a></sup></p>
Sources</h2>

https://restolia.com/novedades/todas-tus-sucursales-en-una-sola-pantalla</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Lambda VM: An Open-Source RISC-V zkVM

Unknown — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lambda, Aligned, and 3MI Labs published the design principles of Lambda VM, an open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine for the RISC-V RV64IM instruction set.1</a></sup></p>
Design</h2>
Lambda VM proves execution with STARKs over the Goldilocks field and uses Keccak-256 for hashing. It requires no trusted setup. The codebase is about 50,000 lines of Rust, licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>
Compatibility</h2>
The VM passes all 72 tests of the RISC-V Architecture Compatibility Test suite. The Ethereum Foundation uses the same suite to evaluate zkVMs intended for proving Ethereum blocks.1</a></sup></p>
Sources</h2>

https://blog.alignedlayer.com/lambda-vm-design-principles/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li>

https://github.com/yetanotherco/lambda_vm</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

LCB Game Studio Releases STUNTCOASTER and Kingbots

Unknown — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LCB Game Studio published two free browser games on itch.io in September 2026.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p>
STUNTCOASTER</h2>
A roller coaster building sandbox with PSX-era graphics, playable in the browser.1</a></sup></p>
Kingbots</h2>
Released on September 30. The player’s castle transforms into a mech and fights endless waves of bugs. It also runs in the browser.2</a></sup></p>
Sources</h2>

https://lcbgamestudio.itch.io/stuntcoaster</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li>

https://lcbgamestudio.itch.io/kingbots</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>

Lambda's PropAMM Router Goes Live With Audited Code

Unknown — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The audited version of Lambda’s PropAMM Router went live on Ethereum mainnet on September 18, 2026. The router requotes proprietary automated market makers at block inclusion, executes against the best quote, and falls back to Uniswap V3 if that venue reverts or under-delivers.1</a></sup></p>
Audit</h2>
The router had run on mainnet since July 3 on pre-audit code. Least Authority reviewed it between July 15 and 22 and delivered its final report on August 28. The review found two medium-severity issues and one low-severity issue, all resolved. There were no critical or high-severity findings.1</a></sup></p>
Volume</h2>
The router handles about $13 million in daily volume across roughly 1,000 swaps. Connected venues include Fermi, Kipseli, Bebop, Tempest, TaurusFi, Metric, and El Zorro. The proxy contract is deployed at 0x4ddf368080cd7946db5b459ad591c350158175e1</code>.1</a></sup></p>
Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/lambdaclass-propamm-router-audited-version-now-live/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>
Fruto Ranks 11th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026 Unknown — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Fruto placed 11th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026, a national ranking of 100 coffee shops published in September.1</a></sup></p> The ranking</h2> The list combines a public vote with the assessment of a specialist jury. Fruto appears between Raíz, in 10th place, and Lattente, in 12th. It is a separate ranking from South America’s 100 Best Coffee Shops.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sabado/las-mejores-cafeterias-argentinas-publicaron-el-ranking-con-las-mejores-quienes-estan-en-el-top-ten-nid16092026/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Río Negro and Neuquén Lotteries Certify Results on SovraChain Unknown — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lotería de Río Negro and Lotería La Neuquina register their official draw results on SovraChain. Anyone can check that a published result has not been altered.1</a></sup></p> Mechanism</h2> Each night’s official list of winning numbers is hashed. The hash and its registration date are recorded on SovraChain through Sovra Trace. A verifier downloads the list, recomputes the hash, and compares it with the on-chain record. La Neuquina offers a public verifier for this. The system certifies the published results, not the conduct of the draw itself.1</a></sup></p> Prize credentials</h2> Río Negro, which has certified its results this way since 2024, extended the system to prizes in Quini 6, Loto 5, Telebingo Patagónico, and Pozo de la Quiniela. Winners receive a verifiable credential they can present to a bank, a notary, or a property registry. San Juan’s lottery is expected to follow.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.sovra.io/p/lotteries-verifiable-credentials-draws-prizes</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Sovra Introduces Propia, a Public Trust Layer for Credentials Unknown — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 In August, Sovra introduced Propia, a public trust layer for verifiable credentials, built with Lambda and Aligned. It is an Ethereum validium that stores no personal data in its registries.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> Architecture</h2> Propia consists of three public registries. The issuer registry records which institutions may issue which credential types, under which trust framework and jurisdiction. The identifier registry records which keys control an identifier. The status registry publishes suspension and revocation state. Credential contents and personal data stay between issuers, holders, and verifiers. SovraChain, the underlying network, is an ethrex validium operated through Aligned’s rollup-as-a-service and is being moved onto Aligned’s proof aggregation service.2</a></sup></p> Nuevo León</h2> In September 2026, the government of Nuevo León, Mexico, launched Billetera NLínea, presented as the first government wallet in Mexico. Governor Samuel García announced it at a regional CIAPEM forum. The wallet was built with Sovra.3</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> Bogotá</h2> Bogotá is developing a citizen SuperApp for public services, financed by CAF, the development bank of Latin America, under a cooperation agreement signed on March 2, 2026. The app will bring together services from Bogotá’s 62 district entities, which handle more than 1,400 procedures. Sovra runs the identity layer: the citizen wallet and the issuance of verifiable credentials. The first module covers economic inclusion. Its credential layer runs on Propia and SovraWallet.4</a></sup>5</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.sovra.io/p/introducing-propia-a-public-trust</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://blog.alignedlayer.com/propia-the-public-trust-layer-for-verifiable-credentials/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> https://www.nl.gob.mx/es/boletines/lanzan-primera-wallet-gubernamental-en-mexico-billetera-nlinea</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://bogota.gov.co/mi-ciudad/gestion-publica/la-transformacion-digital-de-bogota-se-acelera-con-respaldo-de-caf</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://blog.sovra.io/p/bogota-moves-toward-a-superapp-for-citizens-public-services</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> FuzzingLabs Finds Bugs in Linux Mesh Networking Unknown — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs fuzzed batman-adv, the Linux kernel’s mesh networking module, and found three bugs. The fix for one of them was merged into the Linux mainline.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> Method</h2> The researchers used Syzkaller with a custom grammar targeting batman-adv’s packet receive path. Syzbot, Google’s continuous kernel fuzzer, had 0% coverage of routing.c</code>, the file that handles it.1</a></sup></p> Findings</h2> An integer overflow in OGM fragmentation, caused by a signed 16-bit buffer position. Fixed in commit 0799e594</code>.</li> A use-after-free in the throughput meter, already known.</li> A size truncation in the translation table TVLV handler.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></li> </ul> Sources</h2> https://fuzzinglabs.com/fuzzing-batman-adv/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=0799e5943611006b346b8813c7daf7dd5aa26bfd</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> ethlambda Runs a 1,024-Validator Devnet Unknown — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lambda ran a devnet of its lean consensus client, ethlambda, with 1,024 validators and published the results.1</a></sup></p> Setup</h2> The network ran on 32 nodes with 32 validators each, split across 8 aggregation subnets. Each aggregator handled 128 signatures per interval. Slots lasted 4 seconds, with 0.8-second intervals. A signature is 1.3 KB; a block proof is 220 KB.1</a></sup></p> Results</h2> 97% of signatures arrived within their interval. Only 5% of blocks arrived on time. Block building averaged 2.5 seconds and recursive aggregation 1.3 seconds. 11% of blocks were reorged, and finality lagged by 24 slots, close to two minutes.1</a></sup></p> Findings</h2> The proposer was the bottleneck. Late blocks were orphaned, and slow aggregation drove the finality lag. The team expects committee aggregation to hold at 2,048 validators.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/ethlambda-what-we-learned-running-a-1024-validator-devnet/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> 3MI Labs Publishes Cryptanalysis of Round-Reduced Poseidon Unknown — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Amit Singh Bhati, Sundas Tariq, and Tomer Ashur of 3MI Labs published an algebraic attack on round-reduced Poseidon on IACR ePrint (2026/1692).1</a></sup></p> Target</h2> The paper studies Poseidon over the KoalaBear field with state width 24 and S-box degree 3. This is the instance the Ethereum Foundation’s Poseidon Cryptanalysis Initiative designated for LeanVM. The standard configuration has 4 full rounds, 23 partial rounds, and 4 more full rounds, 31 in total.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> Technique</h2> The attack restricts inputs to subspaces on which selected S-boxes become inactive. This lets the attacker skip S-boxes in the first full round and in several partial rounds, producing a distinguisher that holds with probability one. The distinguisher is then combined with interpolation, resultant, and Gröbner basis methods to solve the CICO problem, the constrained-input, constrained-output problem used to measure the security of algebraic hashes.1</a></sup></p> Results</h2> On a variant with one initial full round instead of four, the authors solve CICO-1 for 28 of 31 rounds and CICO-2 for 25 of 31 rounds in practical time. On the standard configuration, the attacks reach 20 rounds for CICO-1 and 15 for CICO-2. On a smaller 3/10/3 instance, estimated costs fall from 2^560 to 2^121 for F4 and from 2^404 to 2^71 for FGLM. Full-round Poseidon is not broken.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1692</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li> https://www.poseidon-initiative.info/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> 3MI Labs Publishes STARK-Based Signatures From the RPO Permutation Unknown — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 “STARK-Based Signatures from the RPO Permutation” was published in IACR Communications in Cryptology, Volume 3, Issue 2, on August 3, 2026.1</a></sup> The work first appeared as an IACR ePrint preprint on October 3, 2024.2</a></sup></p> The journal authors are Shahla Atapoor of KU Leuven, Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem of KU Leuven and 3MI Labs, and Al Kindi of Miden.1</a></sup></p> Construction</h2> The scheme proves knowledge of a pre-image of the RPO permutation using a STARK, with DEEP-ALI and the BCS transform over the Goldilocks field. It needs no trusted setup. The parameter sets provide 113 or 122 bits of average-case security, against adversaries with access to up to 2^64 signatures.1</a></sup></p> Performance</h2> With Blake3 as the hash, signing takes 4.6 to 7.2 milliseconds and verification 0.46 to 0.52 milliseconds. With RPO, the setting required for verification inside another proof, verification takes 5.09 to 5.79 milliseconds. The authors proved a signature verification inside the Miden zkVM.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://doi.org/10.62056/absgbn-3y</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li> https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1553</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> ethrex: Six Months on Ethereum Mainnet Unknown — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ethrex, the Ethereum execution client built by Lambda, has completed six months in mainnet production. It is run by three professional node operators and has passed its first external security audit.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> Operators</h2> Serenita has run ethrex continuously for six months as one of five execution clients in its setup. RockLogic, a Lido curated node operator, runs it in production. Stakely added ethrex on July 8, 2026, after testing on the Hoodi testnet with more than 15,000 genesis validators.1</a></sup></p> Audit</h2> Least Authority audited ethrex between January and May 2026. The review found 20 issues and 8 suggestions. The final report, delivered on May 4, confirms all issues were addressed. Both reports are published in the ethrex repository.2</a></sup></p> Releases</h2> ethrex has shipped 13 major releases in 2026, on a weekly cadence since May. They run from v9.0.0, which introduced snap sync and made RocksDB the default, to v21.0.0, which adds Hegota fork support. A full mainnet sync takes about 1.5 hours on a machine with 4 to 8 cores, 32 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB NVMe disk. On Ethproofs, mainnet blocks are proven using ethrex’s EVM as the guest program, on ZisK since December 2025 and on Airbender since April 2026.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/six-months-of-ethrex-in-production/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/ethrex-completes-its-first-external-security-audit/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Sovra Introduces GDE2 Case Files Unknown — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sovra introduced GDE2 Case Files, a records system for government administrative procedures. It is part of the SovraGov platform.1</a></sup></p> Records as data</h2> GDE2 stores each administrative act as structured Markdown with metadata and a detached signature, using SHA-256, CAdES, and X.509 certificates. PDFs can still be generated when a procedure requires one. Signed acts can optionally be anchored on SovraChain.1</a></sup></p> Workflow</h2> The system includes full-text search, templates, reviewer assignment, bulk signing, and an audit trail. Identity is handled through SovraID and SovraWallet. An AI drafting assistant cites the applicable regulations and requires human review; it can run on open-source models.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.sovra.io/p/introducing-sovra-gde2-case-files-replace-pdf</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Electro Andes Premieres Its First Episode Unknown — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The first episode of Electro Andes will premiere in an exclusive screening at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.</p> Created by Bellolandia Studio, the eight-episode series blends Andean mythology, cyberpunk and South American aesthetics.</p> Production</h2> The full season of Electro Andes is currently in development. The completion of its first episode marks a major milestone for Bellolandia Studio as the team moves forward with the production of the series’ complete narrative arc.</p> Distribution and streaming opportunities are currently being explored, while short clips and trailers are being released across Bellolandia Studio’s official platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.</p> For fans eager to learn more about the project, follow, or support its development, Bellolandia Studio has also launched a Patreon</a> account featuring additional exclusive material.</p> What Comes Next</h2> Beyond the series itself, Bellolandia Studio is developing Electro Andes as a transmedia project, expanding its universe through an art book, art toys, apparel and other companion pieces. Rather than remaining only on screen, Electro Andes is being built as a larger creative world, one that can grow across formats, audiences and communities while continuing to explore its unique blend of Andean mythology, cyberpunk and South American animation.</p> Sources</h2> [1] https://www.bellolandia.com/</a></p> FuzzingLabs Joins the Cyber Defense Factory Unknown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs was selected for the Cyber Defense Factory, an incubator run by the French Ministry of Armed Forces.1</a></sup></p> The program</h2> The program runs for six months. FuzzingLabs will apply FuzzForge, its vulnerability detection platform, to defense use cases, working directly with teams from the Direction générale de l’armement. The program is supported by the DGA, the French cyber command COMCYBER, and the Agence de l’innovation de défense.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://fuzzinglabs.com/fuzzinglabs-cyber-defense-factory-cdf-dga/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> FuzzingLabs Finds Memory-Corruption Bugs in RTKLIB Unknown — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs found four memory-corruption bugs in RTKLIB, the open-source library used for Real-Time Kinematic GNSS positioning. RTK corrects satellite positioning to centimeter accuracy by comparing a receiver against a base station.1</a></sup></p> Attack surface</h2> RTKLIB parses correction streams in the RTCM3 format, often delivered over the internet through NTRIP casters, and observation files in the RINEX format. Each bug is reachable from a single crafted RTCM3 message or RINEX file.1</a></sup></p> Findings</h2> One is an out-of-bounds write. RTCM3 type-1033 messages carry five 8-bit length fields for antenna and receiver descriptors, and the decoder copies up to 255 bytes into 64-byte buffers without checking. The other three are out-of-bounds reads in the SSR, epoch-count, and observation-code paths. All four were reported upstream as RTKLIB issues #796 to #799.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://fuzzinglabs.com/breaking-rtklib-gps/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Lambda, Aligned, and 3MI Labs at Rome Cryptography Week Unknown — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three portfolio companies attended the May 2026 cryptography week in Rome: LambdaClass, Aligned, and 3MI Labs. The week ran zkSummit 14 on May 7, zkProof 8 on May 9–10, and Eurocrypt 2026 on May 11–13.1</a></sup></p> LambdaVM</h2> At zkSummit 14, LambdaClass presented “LambdaVM: minimalistic and performant zkvm.” The talk covered the design philosophy of a new zero-knowledge virtual machine built along the same lines as the ethrex execution client.1</a></sup> The codebase is at github.com/yetanotherco/lambda_vm.2</a></sup></p> Joint attendance</h2> LambdaClass and Aligned attended together. The Center on Cryptography and Distributed Systems at the University of Buenos Aires was present with the team. 3MI Labs is cited as a partner on conversations covering algebraic hash function security and post-quantum signatures.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/all-the-ways-lead-to-rome-a-summary-of-our-trip-to-eurocrypt-zksummit-and-zkproof/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> https://github.com/yetanotherco/lambda_vm</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Lambda's Ethereum Stack: ethrex, ethlambda, lambdaworks Unknown — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three milestones in Lambda’s Ethereum work over the past months: ethrex passed its first year and joined a core developer interop, ethlambda was introduced as a Lean Consensus client, and lambdaworks published its 2026 roadmap.</p> ethrex</h2> ethrex began as a three-person exploratory project and now has a forty-person team.1</a></sup> It functions as both a full L1 execution client and an L2 ZK-rollup client, allowing a single command to deploy an EVM-equivalent based rollup. ethrex was the first stack to incorporate based rollups from day one and was admitted to Ethereum’s Hive testing suite.1</a></sup> In early 2026, ethrex participated in the Soldøgn Interop above the Arctic Circle alongside other client teams working on the Glamsterdam upgrade.2</a></sup></p> ethlambda</h2> On January 20, 2026, Lambda introduced ethlambda, a Rust consensus client for Ethereum’s Lean Consensus track.3</a></sup> Lean Consensus targets three-slot finality, post-quantum hash-based signatures, lower staking minimums (1 ETH), SNARKified state transitions, and Gossipsub v2.0 networking with four-second slots. ethlambda is under five thousand lines of code and runs full devnet-1 consensus. The post-quantum devnet sequence ran through pq-devnet-0 in September 2025, pq-devnet-1 with leanSig in November 2025, and pq-devnet-2 with full signature aggregation targeted for January 2026.3</a></sup> By April 2026, the team reported a threefold speedup in the signature aggregation work that the leanConsensus devnet depends on.4</a></sup></p> lambdaworks</h2> On February 3, 2026, lambdaworks published its 2026 roadmap.5</a></sup> Priorities include completion of STARK with logUp/FRI, Plonk with lookup tables, Circle STARKs, GKR logUp, GPU acceleration across CUDA, Metal, and WebGPU, the KoalaBear field, and post-quantum signatures including Lean Ethereum’s XMSS. The roadmap frames lambdaworks around two operational regimes for Lean Ethereum: Fort Mode for nation-state-grade resilience, and Beast Mode for one gigagas per second on L1 and one teragas per second on L2.5</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/celebrating-a-year-of-ethrex/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/a-week-above-the-arctic-circle-ethrex-at-soldogn-interop/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/introducing-ethlambda-a-lean-consensus-client-for-ethereums-next-era/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/ethlambda-how-we-got-a-3x-speedup-in-signature-aggregation/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/updated-roadmap-and-priorities-for-lambdaworks-for-2026/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> ethrex at Soldøgn Interop in Svalbard Unknown — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ethrex took part in Soldøgn, a week-long interop in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, where just over a hundred Ethereum core contributors worked on the Glamsterdam network upgrade. It was ethrex’s first interop as a participating client.1</a></sup></p> The week</h2> ethrex ran on every devnet of the week: bal-devnet-4 through 6 and glamsterdam-devnet-0 through 2, picking up each spec change within hours. The team implemented FOCIL during the week for inclusion in the first FOCIL devnet. ethrex was added to benchmarkoor, the cross-client benchmark suite maintained by EthPandaOps. EthPandaOps named the team MVPs of the week.1</a></sup></p> Next</h2> The team discussed with the Ethereum Foundation a path for ethrex to appear on the staking Launchpad. It requires a multi-month audit by the EF’s Protocol Security team.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/a-week-above-the-arctic-circle-ethrex-at-soldogn-interop/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> FuzzingLabs Finds a Hash Collision in Solana's Poseidon Syscall Unknown — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs published its analysis of a vulnerability in sol_poseidon</code>, the Poseidon hash syscall in Agave, the Solana validator client maintained by Anza. Different byte inputs could produce the same hash. The issue was disclosed to Anza in January 2025 under Solana’s security policy.1</a></sup></p> The flaw</h2> Agave delegates the syscall to the light-poseidon library. Its byte-hashing functions accepted inputs shorter than 32 bytes and converted them to field elements without enforcing a fixed length. Leading zero bytes in big-endian, or trailing zero bytes in little-endian, did not change the resulting value, so a padded input and an unpadded one hashed identically. FuzzingLabs reproduced the collision through the syscall itself. Programs relying on sol_poseidon</code> for uniqueness or commitments were exposed to double claims and repeated redemptions.1</a></sup></p> The fix</h2> light-poseidon enforced fixed input lengths in August 2025. SIMD-0359 formalized the rule for the validator: fixed 32-byte inputs for BN254, with explicit zero padding. Agave merged the change behind a feature gate in October 2025. It was activated on testnet, then on mainnet-beta on March 12, 2026. Anza acknowledged the bounty in April 2026.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://fuzzinglabs.com/solana-agave-vm-crypto-syscall-vulnerability/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> LCB Game Studio Releases Crossedout Cauldron Prototype Unknown — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 LCB Game Studio released Crossedout Cauldron on itch.io in April 2026.1</a></sup></p> The prototype</h2> Crossedout Cauldron is a one-week game jam prototype built around a single mechanic: crossing out words in a recipe to change what the cauldron produces. The release includes six secret potions and runs in the browser as an HTML5 game.1</a></sup></p> LCB notes that the prototype could grow into a fuller game with shop management, journaling, farming, and longer stories shaped by townspeople and the player’s experiments.1</a></sup></p> Continuity</h2> The release sits beside the Pixel Pulps line rather than within it. The shared thread is text as a game material: reading, choosing, editing, and discovering consequences.</p> Sources</h2> https://lcbgamestudio.itch.io/crossedout-cauldron</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Ōtoro Wins the Sushi World Cup 2026 Unknown — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 On April 6, 2026, Ōtoro won the Sushi World Cup at the Salón Ocre of La Rural in Buenos Aires.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> The competition, organized by Hanami & Co and Jump Agencia, was the first edition of the event.</p> The competition</h2> Twenty-seven teams from Argentina and across Latin America competed across multiple categories. Around ten thousand attendees passed through the venue. More than fifty thousand pieces of sushi were produced live during the day.3</a></sup></p> The restaurant</h2> Ōtoro is a fourteen-seat counter at José Hernández 2730 in Belgrano, run by chef Facundo Santander. Canal 26 describes it as a small bar without reservations, with direct service, sushi prepared in real time, and a menu shaped by daily market availability.4</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sabado/todos-los-ganadores-del-campeonato-mundial-de-sushi-nid06042026/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://elplanetaurbano.com/2026/04/sushi-world-cup-2026-buenos-aires-corono-a-otoro-tras-una-jornada-record-con-50-000-piezas-de-sushi/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://www.vinetur.com/2026040798546/buenos-aires-se-consagra-como-capital-del-sushi-cronica-de-una-sushi-world-cup-historica.html</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://www.canal26.com/turismo/2026/04/06/otoro-el-restaurante-de-belgrano-que-se-consagro-campeon-de-la-sushi-world-cup-2026-precios-dias-y-horarios/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Lambda Introduces Spawned, Erlang-Style Actors for Rust Unknown — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lambda introduced Spawned, an actor framework for Rust modeled on Erlang/OTP.1</a></sup></p> Design</h2> Actors and the messages they accept are declared with #[actor]</code> and #[protocol]</code> macros. Actors can run in async mode or on dedicated threads. A panic stops only the actor where it occurred; the rest of the system keeps running.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/introducing-spawned-erlang-style-actors-for-rust/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Burgschneider Brings the Brandywine Festival to the United Kingdom Unknown — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 On March 26, 2026, Burgschneider announced that the Brandywine Festival will hold its UK debut at Weston Park in September 2026.1</a></sup></p> The festival</h2> Brandywine is a five-day, four-night live-action roleplaying event set in the Shire under Burgschneider’s official Middle-earth Enterprises license. Guests inhabit Hobbit life across costume, food, music, and craft.1</a></sup> The UK expansion follows the first annual Brandywine Festival, which Burgschneider says ran in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in October 2025.1</a></sup></p> The location</h2> Weston Park is a working estate with rolling parkland, formal gardens, and historic buildings. Birmingham is the city of J.R.R. Tolkien’s childhood; the West Midlands countryside surrounding it is among the landscapes that shaped the Shire.1</a></sup> Burgschneider’s CEO, Markus Böhm: “We are incredibly honored to bring The Brandywine Festival back to the land where the story took flight.”1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://burgschneider.com/blogs/middle-earth/bringing-the-shire-home-burgschneider-announces-the-brandywine-festival-s-uk-debut-at-weston-park-in-2026</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a> ↩5</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Aligned Introduces Wallet-as-a-Service Unknown — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Aligned introduced Wallet-as-a-Service, a smart-contract wallet product built for applications that need to onboard large numbers of non-crypto-native users.1</a></sup></p> The product uses ERC-4337 account abstraction, Google sign-in, device passkeys through WebAuthn, and a paymaster that can sponsor gas. The design goal is that users do not need to manage a seed phrase, install a browser extension, or hold a native token before interacting with an application.1</a></sup></p> The user layer</h2> Aligned started with ZK proof verification and has expanded into a vertically integrated Ethereum stack: proof aggregation, rollups, interoperability, and wallets. Wallet-as-a-Service is the part closest to the user.</p> That matters for institutional and public-sector applications. A citizen accessing a government credential, an employee using an enterprise treasury tool, or a retail customer making a first on-chain payment cannot be expected to understand private keys and gas management.</p> Full stack</h2> The wallet is designed to work with Aligned’s EVM-compatible rollup offering. Aligned frames the stack as one provider for chain infrastructure, proofs, and wallets, reducing the need to stitch together multiple vendors.1</a></sup></p> Aligned’s own framing is direct: the wallet is how the stack becomes usable by people who may never know they are using Ethereum.</p> Sources</h2> https://blog.alignedlayer.com/introducing-aligneds-wallet-as-a-service/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Sovra and POK Partner on Digital Trust for Education Credentials Unknown — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 POK and Sovra announced a strategic alliance to connect educational credentials and digital identity within shared trust infrastructure.1</a></sup></p> Scope</h2> POK issues verifiable digital educational credentials and microcredentials for universities, educational institutions, and training programs. Sovra provides decentralized digital identity infrastructure for governments, public institutions, and institutional ecosystems.1</a></sup></p> The integration runs in both directions. In Sovra deployments, POK’s education credential products are offered to universities and training institutions. In POK’s institutional rollouts, Sovra provides digital identity and verification infrastructure for public-sector use cases.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://www.pok.tech/blog/posts/pok-sovra-strategic-alliance-digital-trust-infrastructure</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> FuzzingLabs Named FIC 2026 Bronze Partner Unknown — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs announced that it would participate in Forum InCyber 2026 in Lille as a Bronze Partner, presenting FuzzForge to the European cybersecurity community.1</a></sup> The company was listed in the Cybersecurity for Industry village at stand E1-11-F.1</a></sup></p> FuzzForge in the open</h2> The FuzzForge codebase is published under an open-source license.2</a></sup> The v0.8.0 release replaced the previous module system with the MCP Hub architecture, connecting AI agents to containerized security tools discovered and orchestrated at runtime.2</a></sup></p> Funding</h2> FuzzingLabs raised one million euros in pre-seed financing during 2025 to accelerate FuzzForge development.3</a></sup> The company continues to ship audits and security research alongside the product.</p> Sources</h2> https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuzzinglabs/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://github.com/FuzzingLabs/secpipe/releases/tag/v0.8.0</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/patrick-ventuzelo_weve-just-raised-1m-in-pre-seed-funding-activity-7389685284315226112-kIZj</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> 3MI Labs and Fireblocks Present Threshold Schnorr Work at NIST Unknown — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 3MI Labs appeared in the NIST Computer Security Resource Center program for MPTS 2026, the Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes.1</a></sup></p> The presentation</h2> The talk, “Fireblocks-3MI Plan for NIST Threshold Schnorr/EdDSA,” previewed a planned submission to the NIST Threshold Call. The team described an intended distributed Schnorr signing protocol based on the folklore three-round construction, extended to cover EdDSA.1</a></sup></p> Authors</h2> NIST lists the work as joint between Fireblocks and 3MI Labs, authored by Michael Adjedj, Tomer Ashur, Amit Singh Bhati, Geoffroy Couteau, Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem, Michael Gutkin, and Nikos Makriyannis.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://csrc.nist.gov/presentations/2026/mpts2026-1a3</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Aligned Releases Proof Aggregation Service Mainnet Alpha Unknown — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 On January 23, 2026, Aligned released the mainnet alpha of its Proof Aggregation Service.1</a></sup> The service batches zero-knowledge proofs into a single recursive proof verified on Ethereum, distributing verification cost across the batch.</p> Mechanics</h2> Proofs from individual users are grouped into chunks and recursively combined into a final aggregated proof. Verification on Ethereum costs approximately 300,000 gas per aggregated proof, with the cost amortized across the batch. Proof commitments are stored as blob data for an 18-day retention window. The initial release supports SP1; additional proof systems are planned.1</a></sup></p> Ethrex integration</h2> The Proof Aggregation Service is integrated with Ethrex, Lambda’s Rust execution and ZK-rollup client, enabling based ZK-rollup deployments to settle aggregated proofs through the AlignedProofAggregationService contract.1</a></sup> The service complements the Proof Verification Layer that has been live on Ethereum mainnet since December 2024.</p> Pricing</h2> Access is metered through a prepaid subscription: clients deposit ETH and receive a daily proof quota.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.alignedlayer.com/proof-aggregation-service-mainnet-alpha/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> FuzzingLabs Launches FuzzForge Unknown — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 FuzzingLabs has launched FuzzForge, an AI agent-powered platform for automated security research.1</a></sup> Where traditional fuzzing generates random inputs and monitors for crashes, FuzzForge uses autonomous agents that reason about code structure, track coverage, and adapt strategies during execution.2</a></sup></p> Method</h2> Classical fuzzing is effective but blind. It has no understanding of what the code does or which inputs are likely to expose vulnerabilities. FuzzForge puts AI agents in the loop. Each agent reads source code, analyzes execution traces, formulates hypotheses about where bugs may exist, and generates targeted inputs to test them.</p> Application</h2> Smart contracts manage substantial assets with no reversal mechanism. The attack surface is broad: EVM bytecode, Cairo contracts, Solana programs, Move modules, each with distinct edge cases.</p> FuzzingLabs has spent years building fuzzing tools for these environments. Their Cairo fuzzer, Starknet analysis tools, and blockchain-specific harnesses represent accumulated knowledge about where these systems fail. FuzzForge makes this autonomous—running continuously across every commit, surfacing findings for human review.</p> Sources</h2> https://fuzzforge.ai/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://fuzzinglabs.com/build-fuzzforge-rethinking-security-automation/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Cresium Launches Cuenta Empresa with Banco Mariva Unknown — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cresium has launched Cuenta Empresa, a business account built with Banco Mariva.1</a></sup> It is the first Argentine fintech offering a CBU bank account in pesos and dollars combined with full eCheq operations.1</a></sup></p> Mechanics</h2> The account supports issuance, endorsement, deposit, rejection, repudiation, and cancellation of eCheqs. Onboarding is fully digital and completes in under 24 hours. Automated collections reconciliation and programmed payments run on top of the account, with ERP integration for clients that need it.1</a></sup></p> Scale</h2> At launch: more than 400 active clients, year-over-year growth of 1,831%, one transfer processed every 30 seconds.1</a></sup> Stated 2026 targets are 3,000 Argentine SMEs and regional expansion to Chile, Peru, and Colombia.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://www.infobae.com/economia/2025/12/10/cresium-lanzo-cuenta-empresa-la-primera-solucion-fintech-para-pymes-con-cbu-bancario-y-echeqs-en-dolares-y-en-pesos/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a> ↩5</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Devconnect Argentina: The Next Ten Years of Ethereum Unknown — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 On November 17, 2025, Federico Carrone delivered a talk at EthDay, the opening event of Devconnect Argentina at La Rural in Buenos Aires.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> He spoke alongside Vitalik Buterin, Danny Ryan, and Jesse Pollak.1</a></sup></p> The argument: Ethereum is not a world computer. It is a verifiable computer—a system where every computation can be proved and every claim checked without re-executing the work.</p> Verifiable, not fast</h2> The world computer framing invited the wrong comparisons, as though Ethereum were competing with AWS on throughput. The verifiable computer distinction is more precise. Ethereum is not optimizing for speed. It is the only computer where you do not need to trust the operator.</p> Performance</h2> Carrone argued for increasing the gas limit by 100x, targeting 1 Gigagas. With work from Nethermind, Reth, and LambdaClass’s Ethrex client, he considers 300-400 Megagas achievable on adequate hardware.</p> On Layer 2s, the assessment was direct: most implementations are not working. The path forward requires simpler rollup operations and decentralized sequencers that remove dependency on centralized cloud infrastructure.</p> Post-quantum preparation</h2> LambdaClass is building ethlambda, a Lean consensus client designed for cryptographic resilience against quantum computing. Work that pays no dividend today but prevents structural failure later.</p> Tone</h2> The cultural message was plain. Carrone cited Andy Grove—“Only the paranoid survive”—and warned against complacency. The Ethereum ecosystem has succeeded enough to become comfortable.</p> The full talk is available on YouTube</a>.</p> Sources</h2> https://devconnect.org/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/03/05/devconnect-2025</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Sur Launches ARSs, the Argentine Peso On-Chain Unknown — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Sur, a company formed by Lemon and Lambda, launched ARSs, a stablecoin tied to the Argentine peso on Ethereum.1</a></sup>2</a></sup></p> The partners</h2> Lemon brings distribution: 5 million users and 1.8 million cards issued. Lambda brings the infrastructure: Ethereum development, distributed systems, cryptography, and node clients.2</a></sup></p> Next currencies</h2> ARSs is the first of a planned family of Latin American stablecoins on Ethereum. Sur lists the Colombian peso, the Peruvian sol, the Brazilian real, and the Mexican peso as next.1</a></sup></p> “Today the whole economy runs in pesos: credit markets, stock markets, repos, and practically the entire financial system are denominated in local currency,” said Marcelo Cavazzoli, founder and CEO of Lemon.2</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://sur.money/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://www.forbesargentina.com/money/furor-criptopeso-hay-detras-nuevo-activo-invade-mercado-n82236/amp</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Federico Carrone Receives Senate Honor Mention for Scientific Merit Unknown — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 On November 12, 2025, Argentina’s Senate awarded Federico Carrone the Mención de Honor al Valor Científico, the chamber’s annual distinction for scientific and technical contribution.1</a></sup> The ceremony was held in the Salón Azul of the National Congress.</p> The award</h2> The Mención de Honor al Valor Científico is granted by the Senate’s Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología. The 2025 ceremony was led by Senator Silvina García Larraburu and Senator Víctor Zimmermann, president and vice president of the commission, and the recipient list includes INVAP, the Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba, research institutions, schools, foundations, and individual researchers.1</a></sup></p> Citation</h2> The Senate’s citation describes Carrone’s work as distinguished by “combining science, engineering, cybersecurity, education, and community” and by turning frontier research into concrete solutions that strengthen national development.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://www.senado.gob.ar/micrositios/nota/23423/noticias</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Lambda Forge Ships the First Hour of Kenzu Unknown — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 In November 2025, Lambda Forge released the first playable hour of Kenzu: Shadow and Light, a hand-drawn metroidvania.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> The game is free to play in the browser. The team publishes devlogs twice weekly on itch.io.1</a></sup></p> The game features a boss-heavy campaign, hand-drawn visuals, and a world drawing from Japanese and Latin American aesthetic traditions. It was shown at the Devconnect Demoday in Buenos Aires.3</a></sup></p> Development in the open</h2> Lambda Forge publishes each step: new bosses, biome design, narrative scenarios, animation work, mechanical adjustments. This is unusual in game development, where studios typically work in secrecy until a polished trailer is ready.</p> The approach has trade-offs. Early builds expose rough edges. But players who follow the devlogs invest in the development and become the game’s most committed audience.</p> Current state</h2> The initial release covers the first biome and several boss encounters. Combat emphasizes pattern recognition and timing. A second biome is in active development.</p> Sources</h2> https://lambdaforge.itch.io/kenzu</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://lambdaforge.itch.io/kenzu/devlog/1112101/devlog-1-first-hour-released</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://lambdaforge.itch.io/kenzu/devlog/1117649/devlog-3-devconnect-demoday</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Cresium Wins Endeavor and Banco Nacion Innovation Award Unknown — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Cresium has received the Premio a la Innovacion con Impacto 2025, a joint initiative by Fundacion Banco Nacion and Endeavor Argentina.1</a></sup> It was selected from 436 projects.</p> Operations</h2> Argentine SMEs operate in a financial environment where routine business operations remain unnecessarily difficult: reconciling collections, scheduling payments, managing multi-user bank access, invoicing in a high-inflation economy.</p> Cresium automates these. AI-powered collections reconciliation matches incoming payments to invoices. Programmed payments execute on schedule. Multi-user access allows teams to operate a shared treasury without sharing credentials. Yield-generating accounts put idle cash to work.</p> Later that year, Cresium planned to launch Cuenta Empresa with Banco Mariva—the first fintech in Argentina to offer a bank account with CBU in both pesos and dollars combined with full eCheq operations.2</a></sup></p> Growth</h2> 1,831% year-over-year growth. More than 400 active clients processing one transfer every 30 seconds.</p> Expansion into Chile, Peru, and Colombia is planned for 2026.</p> Sources</h2> https://www.endeavor.org.ar/blog-article-novedades-premio-innovacion-impacto-fundacion-banco-nacion/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://cresium.com/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Lemon Closes USD 20 Million Series B Unknown — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Lemon raised USD 20 million in Series B financing on October 8, 2025, led by F-Prime and ParaFi, with participation from DRW Venture Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Van Eck, Persea VC, Alumni Ventures, Lambda Class, and Stani Kulechov.1</a></sup></p> Use of proceeds</h2> The capital funds expansion into Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile, with a target of 10 million users within twelve months.1</a></sup> Lemon and Lambda Class are behind Sur, the on-chain local-currency infrastructure for Latin America.2</a></sup></p> Statement</h2> Federico Carrone, founder of Lambda, said: “I’ve seen many fintechs try to simplify finance, but very few manage to earn people’s trust at scale. Lemon Cash is doing both.”1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://lemon.me/en/blog/serie-b-20-m</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a></p> </li> https://sur.money/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Aligned and Sovra Partner on Digital Trust Infrastructure for Latin America Unknown — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Aligned and Sovra announced a partnership covering rollup infrastructure, ZK verification, and account abstraction tooling for Sovra’s Digital Identity Stack.1</a></sup></p> Scope</h2> The partnership integrates the Ethrex ZK rollup stack with Aligned’s verification layer through a Rollup-as-a-Service offering. Aligned says its upcoming Wallet-as-a-Service will power SovraWallet with scalable deployment and account abstraction, while its meta-proving service and interoperability protocol are intended to reduce costs for SovraChain and support cross-chain integrations.1</a></sup></p> Deployments</h2> Sovra’s identity infrastructure is operational in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, providing more than 8 million citizens with on-chain credentials and access to digital public services.1</a></sup> Aligned reports that more than 700,000 residents of Buenos Aires use the QuarkID protocol to store and present data from official government documents.1</a></sup></p> Sources</h2> https://blog.alignedlayer.com/aligned-sovra-partner-to-power-digital-trust-in-latin-america/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a> ↩3</a> ↩4</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> LCB Game Studio Wins Best Game Latin America at gamescom latam Unknown — Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 At gamescom latam BIG Festival in São Paulo on April 30, 2025, LCB Game Studio’s Grizzly Man won Best Game: Latin America.1</a></sup> The award was judged by a 49-member panel at an event drawing over 131,000 visitors.2</a></sup></p> Grizzly Man is the first entry in the Pixel Pulps Direct-To-Video collection and the first title self-published by LCB. It launched on Steam in December 2024.</p> Pixel Pulps</h2> Pixel Pulps are short narrative games drawn from pulp fiction aesthetics: exploitation cinema, horror paperbacks, conspiracy thrillers. Each is a contained experience, playable in a few hours, with pixel art and branching narratives.</p> Grizzly Man combines slasher storytelling with MKUltra conspiracy. Previous titles—Mothmen 1966, Varney Lake, Bahnsen Knights—were published by external studios. With Grizzly Man, LCB handled publishing directly.</p> Self-publishing</h2> Moving to self-publishing means the studio controls the full lifecycle: marketing, pricing, launch timing, community. The economics flow directly to the creators. The studio builds its own relationship with players rather than relying on a publisher’s audience.</p> Grizzly Man is the first of a new trilogy, the Direct-To-Video collection, which includes Dark Side Sewers and Possession Junkies.</p> Sources</h2> https://latam.gamescom.global/en/gamescom-latam-big-festival-sponsored-by-banco-do-brasil-announces-the-winners-of-latin-americas-biggest-video-game-awards/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://latam.gamescom.global/en/with-over-130000-visitors-in-2025-gamescom-latam-announces-dates-for-its-next-edition/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> LambdaClass and Nous Research: Distributed Systems for Decentralized AI Unknown — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Nous Research, an open-source AI lab focused on decentralized training, has raised $65 million in a round led by Paradigm.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> LambdaClass is collaborating with Nous on the distributed systems infrastructure underlying decentralized AI training.3</a></sup></p> The problem</h2> Training a frontier AI model requires tens of thousands of GPUs concentrated in a few data centers controlled by a few companies. Decentralized training distributes this computation across many participants. Instead of one organization owning a massive cluster, a network of contributors provides compute and is compensated for participation.</p> The demand for AI compute is growing faster than any single organization can build capacity. Distributed training is one way the field scales past the current constraint.</p> What LambdaClass contributes</h2> Decentralized training is a distributed systems problem: consensus on model state, efficient communication between nodes with varying bandwidth, detection of faulty participants, coordination protocols that work at scale.</p> LambdaClass has been solving these problems in the blockchain context for years—Ethereum execution clients, consensus implementations, zero-knowledge proof systems. The collaboration with Nous applies this expertise to a different domain. The underlying engineering challenges are similar: reliable distributed computation with economic incentives.</p> Sources</h2> https://www.finsmes.com/2025/04/nous-research-raises-65m-in-funding.html</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://www.theblock.co/post/352000/paradigm-leads-50-million-usd-round-decentralized-ai-project-nous-research</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://nousresearch.com/nous-psyche/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Burgschneider Receives Lord of the Rings License Unknown — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Burgschneider, the German company that has spent over two decades making medieval clothing and equipment and organizing historical reenactment events, has secured an official license from Middle-earth Enterprises to produce Lord of the Rings costumes and host immersive LARP events.1</a></sup> The first project under the license, the Brandywine Festival, raised over $538,000 on Kickstarter from more than 1,100 backers against an $80,000 goal.2</a></sup></p> Background</h2> Burgschneider started in the early 2000s making tunics, cloaks, and accessories for the historical reenactment community. Functional garments built with period-appropriate materials and construction. Over two decades they built a loyal community across Europe. Their annual events draw thousands. Their catalog runs into hundreds of items.</p> The license</h2> When a rights holder needs someone to produce a hobbit cloak that functions as a cloak, the choice falls to people who have been making cloaks for twenty years. Burgschneider’s existing products already belong aesthetically in Middle-earth. The overlap between historical European clothing and Tolkien’s world is substantial. Their products under the license are handcrafted garments, not printed merchandise.</p> Brandywine Festival</h2> The Brandywine Festival is a five-day immersive experience set in the Shire, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The campaign exceeded its goal by more than six times. The collection includes cloaks, tunics, bags, and accessories. The funding came fast because the trust was already established.</p> Sources</h2> https://burgschneider.de/en/blogs/middle-earth/press-release-middle-earth-adventures-announces-first-official-live-action-roleplaying-event-the-brandywine-festival</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burgschneiderlarp/middle-earth-adventures-the-brandywine-festival</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Fruto Cafe Ranked Among South America's Best Unknown — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Fruto Cafe has been ranked number six on South America’s 100 Best Coffee Shops 2025, a regional edition by The World’s Best Coffee Shops organization.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> The ranking was evaluated by over 200 professional judges, whose scores account for 70% of the final result, with public voting making up the remainder.2</a></sup></p> Direct trade</h2> Fruto was built on direct relationships with producers and precise roasting. The menu is not large. What they do, they do consistently. The baristas improve. The roasting profiles are refined. The relationships with producers deepen.</p> Expansion</h2> In 2025, Fruto opened a second location: Fruto Cabrera, in a two-story house in Palermo Hollywood. The new space adds room for courses, tastings, and co-working, and includes their first in-house roasting operation—direct control over a critical part of the supply chain.</p> Sources</h2> https://theworlds100bestcoffeeshops.com/locales-south/fruto-cafe/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://elcafedemitierra.com/south-americas-best-100-coffee-colombia-expo.html</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Finding a Critical Vulnerability in SP1: A Story of Collaborative Security Unknown — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 In early 2025, researchers from LambdaClass, 3MI Labs, and Aligned Layer jointly discovered a critical vulnerability in Succinct’s SP1, one of the most widely deployed zero-knowledge virtual machines in production.1</a></sup>2</a></sup> The flaw allowed an attacker to generate fraudulent proofs that would pass verification, breaking the soundness guarantee of any system built on SP1.</p> The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed. Succinct patched it before any exploitation occurred.2</a></sup>3</a></sup></p> The flaw</h2> SP1 is a zkVM: it takes a computation, executes it, and produces a cryptographic proof that the execution was correct. The vulnerability was in the proof generation pipeline. Under specific conditions, it was possible to construct inputs producing a valid-looking proof for a computation that never occurred.</p> The flaw was not in the cryptographic primitives but in how they were composed—an interaction between the VM’s constraint system and the underlying polynomial commitment scheme. This class of bug resists detection through standard testing.</p> The discovery</h2> The finding came from researchers across three portfolio companies. LambdaClass contributed knowledge of virtual machine implementation and constraint system design from their work on the Cairo VM and Ethereum execution clients. 3MI Labs brought cryptographic protocol analysis and the formal tools to identify trigger conditions. Aligned Layer, building ZK verification infrastructure on Ethereum, assessed the practical implications.</p> The bug was found through manual code review, formal analysis, and adversarial testing. No single technique would have been sufficient.</p> Disclosure</h2> Succinct responded quickly. The vulnerability was patched, affected users were notified, and the fix was deployed before public disclosure. The three teams coordinated on disclosure rather than acting independently.</p> Sources</h2> https://blog.lambdaclass.com/responsible-disclosure-of-an-exploit-in-succincts-sp1-zkvm-found-in-partnership-with-3mi-labs-and-aligned-which-arises-from-the-interaction-of-two-distinct-security-vulnerabilities/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://blog.succinct.xyz/sp1-security-update-1-27-25/</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://github.com/succinctlabs/sp1/security</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> QuarkID: Decentralized Identity for 3.6 Million Residents Unknown — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Government of Buenos Aires has deployed QuarkID, a blockchain-based digital identity system built on Sovra’s infrastructure, to 3.6 million residents.1</a></sup>2</a></sup>3</a></sup> Citizens hold verifiable credentials on their phones: birth certificates, proof of residency, academic records. No centralized database holds their data. No single authority can revoke access.</p> Architecture</h2> QuarkID uses a ZK-rollup backbone to anchor decentralized identifiers on Ethereum. Each credential is issued by a government authority and held by the citizen in a mobile wallet. Verification uses zero-knowledge proofs: enough to confirm a claim without revealing the underlying data.</p> The architecture is privacy-first by construction. There is no database to breach because there is no database.</p> Context</h2> Argentina has dealt with identity fraud, bureaucratic overhead, and fragmented record systems for decades. Buenos Aires adopted QuarkID because it solves an operational problem: issuing, holding, and verifying official documents without building another centralized system that becomes a target and a bottleneck.</p> The deployment started with the Buenos Aires digital ID (miBA) and expanded to academic credentials, proof of address, and civil registry documents.1</a></sup></p> Scale</h2> Once identity infrastructure is in place, subsequent services—voting, healthcare access, licensing—build on top of it. The initial deployment is the hardest part.</p> Sources</h2> https://buenosaires.gob.ar/innovacionytransformaciondigital/miba-con-tecnologia-quarkid-la-ciudad-de-buenos-aires-incorporo</a> ↩</a> ↩2</a></p> </li> https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/10/22/2967256/0/en/Buenos-Aires-Sets-Global-Precedent-by-Empowering-3-6-Million-Citizens-with-Blockchain-based-Digital-Identity-on-miBA-platform.html</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/22/buenos-aires-adds-zk-proofs-to-city-app-in-bid-to-boost-residents-privacy</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section> Electro Andes at Annecy Unknown — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bellolandia’s Electro Andes, a Latin American cyberpunk anthology weaving Andean folklore into dystopian futures, was presented at MIFA 2024, the international animation market attached to the Annecy Festival.1</a></sup> The project, directed by Nacho Malter and Damian Fernandez Gomez, is produced in partnership with LambdaClass.2</a></sup></p> MIFA is where studios present projects to distributors, broadcasters, and investors internationally.</p> The series</h2> Electro Andes is an anthology. Each episode is self-contained, set in a world where Andean mythology coexists with technological dystopia. Pre-Columbian gods share narrative space with surveillance states and cybernetic augmentation. The visual language draws from indigenous artistic traditions and classic cyberpunk.</p> Latin American speculative fiction has a long tradition of blending the mythological with the technological. Electro Andes extends this into animation.</p> Production</h2> Latin American animation is underrepresented globally. Most animated content consumed in the region is produced in the United States, Japan, or Europe.</p> Electro Andes is Bellolandia’s most ambitious project: a series with production values designed for international distribution. Animation is expensive and slow. A pilot episode requires months of work from a full team. The partnership with LambdaClass provides the financial backing to sustain this.</p> Catsuka, the French animation reference site, featured the project. The pilot is in production.</p> Sources</h2> https://latam.bubbleblabber.com/2024/06/electro-andes-saca-su-teaser-trailer/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> https://bellolandia.com/</a> ↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </section>