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2025 was a breakout year for PL network team Privy. Privy scaled from 30M to 120M accounts, raised funding, and joined Stripe, expanding from crypto-native apps to mainstream fintech. Partners like Klarna are using Privy to make self-custody seamless for everyday users. In 2026, the focus is on abstracting onchain complexity for developers and distributing globally through Stripe’s infrastructure. 👉 Privy is hiring, learn more: https://lnkd.in/gemQXfBX

Co-founder Timour Kosters shares how Edge City has become a global coordination layer for frontier innovation. In 2025, Edge City convened 12,000+ builders from 80+ countries, supported 30+ early-stage startups, and deployed $1M+ in grants, fueling early R&D across AI, cryptography, climate, and governance. These are intentional environments designed for people building at the edge of technology, science, and culture, where ideas move from conversation to execution. 👉 Apply to join an Edge City experience this year: https://www.edgecity.live/

What began as focused work turned into real momentum. Crecimiento set out to expand crypto adoption through products that solve real problems, strengthen Argentina’s startup ecosystem, and improve the regulatory environment. Hosting Devconnect brought the global crypto industry to Buenos Aires and highlighted Argentina’s potential to lead the next wave of crypto innovation. The impact is tangible. More than 10,000 people onboarded, over 1,000 startups engaged, and more than $20M raised, creating new opportunities to build and grow in Argentina. Learn more: https://crecimiento.build/

PL team BitRobot Network advances embodied AI through real-world robotics data collected at scale. Crypto incentives coordinate task-focused subnets that bring together hardware, teleoperators, compute, and real-world environments to run robotic deployments and generate diverse data across the embodied AI stack—from urban navigation to humanoid systems. This breadth of real-world data enables more generalizable models. Data from the network has already supported state-of-the-art research evaluated across multiple robotic platforms. Learn more: https://bitrobot.ai/

In 2025, PL team Zama not only grabbed the title of FHE’s first unicorn after their series B raise, they also made a major leap for blockchain privacy, making FHE nearly 100× faster and putting the first FHE protocol into production. With its first mainnet launching, Zama is moving privacy to the protocol layer, enabling confidential transactions across public blockchains without sacrificing verifiability. This is the shift toward blockchains that are private by default. 👉 Learn more about Zama’s mainnet launch: https://www.zama.org/

PL network team Synchron is developing the Stentrode, a self-expanding sensor array delivered via catheter through the jugular vein to the brain, eliminating the need for open brain surgery. The minimally invasive, endovascular approach is similar to widely used stent procedures and is designed to reduce surgical risk while enabling brain-computer interface technology. By translating neural signals into digital commands, the Stentrode aims to help address physical limitations by allowing people to control devices using their thoughts.