20 February 2026¶
Weekly Summary Letter
2026/02/20 Weekly Summary Letter
Hey NUMBERS community,
It’s Lunar New Year week for much of the team, and we leaned into shipping things the community can actually use. The biggest move: the NUM Gamification Portal is live, with on-chain rewards already flowing. Early activity was strong (half the reward pool drained within ~12 hours) and it drove a new internal record of roughly 7,000 daily transactions based on this week’s portal traffic.
We also ran a LNY POAP Campaign designed to make provenance feel lightweight and social. The POAP claim flow went live via our AMA page, and “Numbers Quiz Night” continued as a simple way to participate and leave a verifiable trail.
Finally, we’re continuing to show what x402 looks like when it lands in real media workflows. The PyroImage and BlockTrend collaboration is the kind of use-case we want to highlight: content that stays open on the internet, but gains machine-native licensing and receipts when AI agents come to read, scrape, or reuse it. Sofia also called out the PyroImage + BlockTrend discussion in Taipei as part of this broader push for auditable AI and sustainable creator economics.
If you want to help us keep momentum: try the gamification portal and report any edge cases, mint the LNY POAP, and share one real x402 use-case you want us to build next (a newsroom paywall, an image license flow, or an API pricing experiment). Human truth, machine proof only works when the community tests it in the wild.
Onward,
Chris & Steffen