Two backend improvements shipped for LiveAvatar: • Voice data caching - faster voice loading during avatar setup • Fixed a race condition causing intermittent "bad handshake" WebSocket errors on session start Smoother sessions, less waiting →

Stablecoin backends still depend on TradFi: commercial bank deposits, short-duration government bonds, reverse repo. Bringing that backend onchain is a major Canton initiative, matching creation and redemption to a front end that already runs around the clock.

🚀 vLLM's Humming backend can run Chord, @novita_labs' open-source W4A16 MoE kernels for Kimi K2.x. Kernel gains reach 1.33x on H200 TP8 vs tuned public Humming and 2.15x on B300 EP8 decode vs its untuned default. The indexed path works on compatible vLLM revisions; grouped integration is WIP. Great to see the kernels and benchmarks open-sourced! Details:

Factory's backend outgrew its original architecture. Now it serves one billion requests per month on Vercel using Next.js, Fluid Compute, and Vercel WAF. "We're growing rapidly, and are trusting Vercel to scale with us."

Pi App Studio backend support has been enabled! Backend capabilities begin with persistent storage for newly created App Studio apps, allowing apps to save and retrieve user-specific data across sessions. Creators can now build App Studio apps with user experiences that continue even after users leave and return. For example: - Game apps can remember a user’s high scores - Productivity apps can remember a user’s to-do lists - Note-taking apps can preserve notes automatically Before, Pi App Studio apps were largely limited to frontend-only, single-session experiences, where app data such as preferences or progress would disappear if users left the app. Adding backend support is a significant App Studio platform milestone because it expands what AI-created apps can practically do on Pi Network. Persistent storage is the first capability built on this foundation, enabling a broader range of useful, everyday applications. Learn more and create apps with this new feature in Pi App Studio today!