Good news, everyone! HEMI listed on Binance Spot at 8 a.m. Eastern. Crypto.com added a listing the same morning. This means HEMI liquidity improved and discovery widened. This is the start of a longer road, not the finish line.

Engineering spent the week on zero-knowledge provability. The team is building a TBC indexer that lets us prove facts about Bitcoin state inside the hVM state transition. That work moves Hemi toward a ZK rollup on Ethereum and sets up hBiVM. It is careful work, tested step by step. Alongside that, the team is finishing an end-to-end test environment for L1 smart contract upgrades. There are updates coming to the Bitcoin tunnel. Routine security checks continue. None of this makes noise, yet it keeps the chain steady.

The hBiVM white paper is nearly done. The goal is to publish before the team heads to Singapore for Token 2049. One new section shows how most of the design could support native Bitcoin staking without one-time signature limits. Expect testnet trials by the end of the year. Mainnet could follow late this year or early next year.

Testnet gets housekeeping next. We plan to move from Bitcoin testnet3 to testnet4. Testnet4 still reorgs, yet it is more stable than testnet3. Mainnet remains the thing that matters. We will break testnet if we must, so that we avoid breaking mainnet.

Governance arrives in two phases. First comes a simple, snapshot-style vote in roughly two months. Then we move to on-chain governance. The aim is precise. We will update zero-knowledge verifiers for Ethereum state and hVM through a secure process, so upgrades do not outrun safety. VE-HEMI positions are transferable. The team is not planning a marketplace for them, though anyone can build one.

Community roles are moving. The OG role claim is tracking for early October. You will be able to link multiple addresses, then pick one as your primary for rewards. The claim window will run for fourteen to thirty days. Rewards go out after the window closes, based on final headcount. If you minted a Deimos MeID on testnet and did not verify on mainnet, you can verify before claims start. VBK claims are targeted for next week, with travel as the only risk to timing.

Incentives are getting rebuilt. The next program removes friction and cuts delay. Some rewards will be instant where that makes sense. Points will remain where they help. For now, liquidity providers can use Miracle and see rewards settle four times a day. Staking terms should arrive in about two weeks, after final modeling. If you missed Spectre or DOTA points in mainnet season one, the extra claim group is live. Check the claim site for the second tab.

Proof-of-Proof payouts are getting a new algorithm. Testing ran long due to other priorities. Expect deployment late this week or early next. Earlier PoP rewards will unlock on a similar timeline.

NFT questions came up, as they do. Hemi Hatchlings remain open source. If you want new features, you can build them today. More marketplaces may appear, though nothing large is locked. The focus is on curation and clean paths for creators.

Costs drew a direct question. Is Hemi cheap enough for tiny payments like per-API calls or per-inference billing. Not on the base layer. The L2 is tuned for security and stability. High-throughput and very low fee cases fit better on L3s built with Chain Builder. Those L3s can trade some decentralization and data costs for speed, then settle back to Hemi. That is a trade worth making when you care about scale and still want finality you can trust.

One builder asked about a ZK-checked model market for AI. The advice was straight. Keep full model data off chain. Commit a Merkle root on chain. Verify proofs against that root. You keep weights private and still let buyers prove what they pay for. If you want open weights for compute markets, low-cost data layers can work. Pick your trade-offs with care.