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According to HackQuest (@HackQuest_), the 0G APAC Hackathon has officially announced its winners. The event attracted 1,145 participants globally and received 293 final project submissions, generating over 1.04 million social media impressions. Winners are as follows: First Place: Ghast AI (@Ghast_AI) — A crypto-native AI agent client built on 0G, supporting decentralized inference, user-controlled long-term memory, censorship-resistant access, and portable agent IDs. Second Place: NeoSoul (@NeoSoulAI) — A trust layer designed specifically for the emerging agent economy, providing infrastructure such as verifiable agent permissions, accountability mechanisms, and recovery systems. Third Place: Anima (@anima_0g) — A CLI-native agent framework where agent identity, memory, inference, wallet, and economic activities all run atop 0G’s decentralized infrastructure, enabling cross-device, independent, and persistent operation. Excellence Awards: - @Alsphere0G — Collective intelligence memory layer for AI agents - @Hash_PayLink — Payment-gated AI infrastructure for the agent economy - @railbeam_ai — Payment rails and financial operations workspace for humans and agents - @stealth_pay — Privacy-preserving payment-related project
Syndicate Labs stated that after five years of developing on-chain infrastructure for customizable Ethereum Rollups and sequencers, the company has decided to shut down due to a drastic contraction in the Rollup market. Syndicate Labs previously completed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2021.This decision caused the SYND token price to drop 21% in the past three hours, hitting an all-time low of $0.012, a 99.5% decline from its peak of $2.61 in September 2025.Additionally, Syndicate Labs stated that the Syndicate Network Collective operates independently of Syndicate Labs, so the governance of the SYND token will not be immediately affected. The decision to shut down was not influenced by the previous hacking incident involving bridged assets.
Syndicate, a DAO infrastructure service provider, has announced it will gradually cease operations. It stated that after five years of continuously building on-chain developer infrastructure, the Rollup market has undergone fundamental changes. Currently, the Rollup market has significantly shrunk, some Rollup projects are gradually shutting down, and the market has shifted from EVM Rollups to custom chains built from scratch by consulting teams, leading to a notable decline in reusable technology and network value.Syndicate stated that its system consists of two parts: Syndicate Labs, responsible for development, will be closed, while the independent entity Syndicate Network Collective (Wyoming DUNA), which holds SYND tokens and has governance rights, will continue to exist. SYND governance will not be affected in the short term.Furthermore, Syndicate emphasized that this decision to cease operations is unrelated to recent cross-chain security incidents. Affected users and SYND holders have been fully compensated through the treasury reserves, and team and investor tokens are currently still in a lock-up period.