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Does Europe still want to play any role in the AI race? Does it still have the will to build what it takes? Not simply talk about it, or simply regulate it. But build. Compete at the frontier. Take the risks, make the investments, and do the difficult things that leadership actually demands. Today, access to frontier AI still comes with painful tradeoffs. Costs that compound with every user. Latency that slows down products. Compute concentrated in a handful of providers. And too little control over where intelligence runs and where data lives. Why should building with the world’s best intelligence mean accepting these constraints? We don’t think it should. That’s why we’re building alpha.sh. Open models. Exceptional performance. Radically lower costs. Sovereign infrastructure. All accessible through one API. Europe has an extraordinary history of discovery. Of people who questioned what everyone else accepted, built what didn’t exist, and changed what the world believed possible. Is that spirit of discovery, invention, and ambition still alive today? Because in this new age, infrastructure is more than compute, networks, and data centers. It’s what gives a small team with an extraordinary idea a fighting chance against the largest companies in the world. It’s what turns the world’s best intelligence into new products, businesses, scientific discoveries, and capabilities that matter. It’s also what gives our businesses and institutions the ability to remain resilient, independent, and in control as intelligence becomes critical to everything they do. Europe needs this infrastructure. And it needs companies willing to put it to work. More founders building at the frontier. More businesses adopting the best models, testing their limits, and turning new capabilities into real advantages. More infrastructure built here, serving the world. Build something that wouldn’t have been possible yesterday. The models are here. The talent is here. The opportunity is here. What are we waiting for? alpha.sh/blog/introducing-al…

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A few quick notes (1) Network. Supernova is live, running with remarkable speed and precision. (2) Exchanges. Over the next 5–10 days, global exchanges and other independent partners will begin reopening deposits and withdrawals. The rollout is gradual by design. Each exchange follows its own rigorous internal process, built to protect users and keep the recovery smooth. (3) Security report. An in-depth security analysis is still underway. Several critical elements are already mapped and understood, from the bugs and their fixes to the technical implications and the path to recovery. A few discussions with independent parties remain open. The findings are preliminary, but one stands out above the rest. The tools, methods, preparation, and coordination behind this attack appear to go well beyond those typically associated with amateur attackers. The observed sophistication bears the hallmarks of advanced, experienced, repeated threat actors, including groups operating at the level historically associated with hacker organizations such as Lazarus. Attribution is not yet confirmed, but it is worth stating this out loud: to have successfully defended our users against Lazarus, or another group of that caliber, is a milestone we are proud of! Huge respect to all independent partners, including global exchanges, who have mobilized with extraordinary speed for the greater good of protecting users and the network! (4) Lessons. More importantly, the larger lesson goes beyond this incident. As an industry, we have entered an era of permanent, constant, unending war. Open-source financial infrastructure operates on a global battlefield, continuously exposed to increasingly sophisticated attackers, tools, and methods. Under these conditions, the traditional definition of security is no longer sufficient. Three capabilities are becoming non-negotiable: (a) a relentless defensive and offensive security tooling arms race; (b) continuous, 24/7 red-teaming and penetration testing; (c) blitz-speed detection, coordination, and response. We have been intensifying precisely these capabilities over the past 3–6 months. What happened over the last few days is one visible incident among several potential threats that have been identified, contained, or neutralized through increasingly proactive security work. This reality is not unique to MultiversX. Every major open-source stack, every blockchain (bitcoin and ethereum not excluded), and soon, every closed source software stack, will increasingly have to adapt to an environment where infrastructure is continuously and deeply probed, attacked, and tested. That requires a much more rugged approach to code. A more adversarial approach to architecture design. And ultimately, a fundamental rethinking of how safety-critical software is built and defended. The three measures above are critical today. But over time, we will need to go much further and rethink security from the ground up for the new world we are actually operating in. Verifiably correct-by-construction software is about to have its moment and become fashionable very quickly. Reality has a way of accelerating standards. Not so much by preference, but by necessity.

SUPERNOVA IS LIVE Fix is deployed. Users and funds are secured. The network is working beautifully. Huge respect for all the partners involved in this mission-critical recovery, especially the team working day and night to get us here.