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According to an announcement from Forma's official X account (@Formachain), the Forma mainnet will cease operations at block height 34,567,890, expected around November 5. Users will have approximately two weeks to withdraw on-chain funds. Following the shutdown, the team will take a snapshot of the on-chain state and migrate any remaining TIA to Eden. As both chains are EVM-compatible, users can use the same wallet address to withdraw funds from Eden once the migration is complete. Modularium will migrate to Ethereum, with related NFT assets transferred as well. Holders must claim them manually through the relaunched Modularium website; the NFTs will not be automatically airdropped. Officials noted that the migration may take several days after the shutdown. Further announcements will be issued upon completion of each migration phase, with additional details and instructions to be released in the coming weeks.
Odaily News: Modular blockchain project Celestia has announced the launch of Eden, a high-performance EVM-compatible chain running on Celestia, serving as an experimental sandbox for testing AI Agent autonomous payments, trading, and model calls. Eden supports atomic batch transactions, application-sponsored gas, and larger smart contract deployments, with TIA as its native gas token. Eden's first experimental project is Botfun, currently in closed beta, where participating Agents can independently issue tokens and trade around narratives generated by other Agents; each model inference call is paid on-chain via x402.
: Celestia Labs has announced the acquisition of Sovereign Labs, a developer of high-performance blockchain frameworks. Since 2021, Sovereign Labs has been deeply involved in the Celestia ecosystem, with its framework providing underlying support for projects such as the cross-chain bridge Relay Protocol and the high-performance perpetual contract trading platform Bullet. Following this acquisition, Celestia Labs' technical capabilities will extend from Layer 1 to the execution and application layers, positioning it as a full-stack custom blockchain development partner for enterprises. As projects like Hyperliquid, Polymarket, and Robinhood have chosen to build their own chains, enterprise demand for full-stack blockchain infrastructure is growing.
OpenGradient, a verifiable AI computation layer, has announced the completion of a $9.5 million funding round. Investors include a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures, Pragma, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon, NEAR, Celestia, Thanefield Capital, and angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase. The new funds will support the development and expansion of a decentralized infrastructure network for hosting, executing, and verifying AI models—enabling open and auditable model execution.