The next RWA wave needs more than tokenization of assets. It needs a way to finance the things trying to become real-world assets in the first place. That is where Ignition fits, a DePIN-style funding layer for physical products.

SIMARENA IS COMING TO MUNICH 🏰 We're partnering with robo.innovate for their 2026 hackathon, alongside @nvidia, @Universal_Robot, @NEURARobotics, @peaq, Doosan Robotics, @Teradyneinc, @Microsoft, and more. SimArena will be used across the major challenges each partner is putting in front of the young builders.

The 1st Garage is full. Teams are selected and getting ready to launch. The Foundry stays open. We're always looking for new hardware teams. Do you know someone who fits? There's a bounty for finding them. 👀

The first hardware teams are weeks away from launching onchain. Six weeks ago, most of them had never touched crypto. You've seen Microduck all over your TL. There are hundreds of machine ideas like it, from builders trying to turn a prototype into a real product and running out of resources before they get there. That's the gap. machine(dot)fun started as a joint project between @codecopenflow and @peaq, around a simple observation. Hardware got easy to build. It never got easy to kickstart. A robotics team can spend months on a prototype, train a model, prove the thing works, and still hit the same wall. How do you turn that into capital? Crypto already has a mechanism for this. Launch, raise, trade. It works for internet-native projects. We think it works for hardware too. One problem. Most hardware builders have never launched anything onchain. So six weeks ago we opened The Foundry. A program that takes serious hardware ideas and gets them ready to launch. The first round told us a few things: a) 1 in 3 applicants found us through ChatGPT search b) Teams came from robotics, DePIN and everyday hardware - some are weeks away from launching Foundry teams get hands-on support and go through stricter transparency and verification. Their progress isn't a pitch. It's something you can follow and check. Applications are still open: But you don't need to be in The Foundry to launch. machine(dot)fun is open to anyone building hardware. You don't need a finished product either. A prototype, a working concept, or a simulation is enough to start. The goal is simple. Make hardware fundable before it's fully built. First teams coming soon.

A tracker can follow a ball perfectly, then meet it as a stranger the second a cup covers it. Object permanence isn't free. Classic trackers bolt it on. World models and VLAs learn it.

Congrats to @_lilkm_, core contributor to @LeRobotHF and one of our co-founders, on the acquisition by @nvidia. CodecFlow was built on the same cornerstone: open-source robotics, making the tools accessible to anyone.

Full breakdown of the Microduck by @pollenrobotics. Bipedal and self-balancing on fifteen smart servos, with a single Rockchip RK3566 board handling the onboard compute, control loop, and AI inference. state of the art robotics.

Simulate-first isn't a research-lab method anymore. Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 robot you train yourself in a sim and run on the hardware, all open on GitHub. The same policy is now being retrained, ported to new engines, driven by language models. A robot's behavior is turning into a platform. The layer between the model and the robot is what we're building.

Microduck is now available in SimArena. Play with it from your browser, make it pull some skills, then record a clip and drop it straight on your timeline. These are the default skills, more coming soon.