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Odaily Odaily News: The Over Foundation announced on X platform that due to financial constraints, it has decided to cease operations of the Over Protocol. All infrastructure and services, including OverWallet, OverNode, OverFlex, RPC endpoints, block explorers, and APIs, have been shut down with no plans for restoration. While the Over Protocol was designed as a decentralized Layer 1 mainnet, it is highly likely to become inoperable in practice following the Foundation's cessation of services. The continued production of blocks will depend on independent validators running open-source client software.
According to Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, the platform announced two community feature updates: First, it launched a “joinable link” feature for XChat group chats, enabling users to create public links and share them directly on their timelines; each group chat currently supports up to 350 members, with this cap set to increase continuously. Second, due to persistently declining usage, the X Communities feature will be officially discontinued on May 6. X recommends that current community admins pin their group chat links within the next two weeks to facilitate member migration. Nikita Bier stated that these changes are part of X’s broader initiative to streamline the product experience, and that the platform will continue investing in vertical communities through features such as Custom Timelines.
Lattice, a blockchain gaming infrastructure team, announced it will gradually shut down after five years of operation, with its Redstone network officially ceasing operations on May 15, 2026, at 23:59 UTC. Lattice urges users to withdraw their funds from Redstone as soon as possible—especially assets held in smart contracts such as Uniswap—since, after shutdown, the Layer-1 withdrawal contract will only support withdrawals for externally owned accounts (EOAs); funds held within smart contracts cannot be retrieved via this method. Founded in 2021, Lattice focused on building on-chain autonomous virtual worlds and developed several projects during its tenure, including MUD, Redstone, Quarry, and Dozer. The team stated that the DUST project has migrated to DUST Chain and will continue to be supported by 0xPARC. Meanwhile, MUD, Quarry, and Dozer have all been open-sourced, enabling users to freely migrate and utilize them.