GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, September 29th, 2026, Chainwire

Network fees from personal data reads now fund staking rewards, buybacks and ecosystem development under a fixed protocol split; public dashboard launches at token.vana.org

The Vana Foundation today announced that expanded staking as part of the Vega upgrade to the Vana network is complete and published the paper “VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy”, which sets out the VANA token economics. A public dashboard at token.vana.org reports network reads, fee income, buybacks, burns and token supply, with the on-chain record behind each figure.

Vana is a network for moving personal data under the permission of the person it belongs to. Under the network’s fee model, an application that reads a person’s data with a granted permission pays one cent per scope read. Fees are allocated by protocol rule: 60 per cent to stakers through staking pools, 20 per cent to the purchase and burn of VANA, and 20 per cent to ecosystem development. Each buyback and burn is published with its transaction hash.

With expanded staking, staking runs through three staking pools, each with a 5 per cent operator commission. Staking rewards are paid from network fees, accrue to the staked position and may be claimed as they accrue. Existing staked positions may be moved into one of the three pools in a single transaction at stake.vana.org by midnight UTC on 31 October 2026. Principal can be withdrawn at any time, with no deadline. After 31 October, a position that has not moved no longer earns rewards.

“Every read of a person’s data on the network is a paid transaction, and the fees pay the node operators and stakers who make that movement possible,” said Art Abal, Managing Director of the Vana Foundation. “The split is written into the protocol, and every figure is published on chain.”

Applications on the network have produced 2,937,447 verified reads to date, as of 28 September 2026.

Total VANA supply and release schedules remain unchanged.

The paper “VANA: The Asset Behind an Open Data Economy” and the whitepaper addendum “The Vega Upgrade: Data Portability and Transformations” are available at token.vana.org.

About Vana

Vana is an open network for personal data portability. Its standard, the Personal Data Portability Protocol, was contributed to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust as a Community Specification. vana.org

About the Vana Foundation

The Vana Foundation is a non-profit foundation that supports the development and adoption of the Vana network and is a member of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.

About OpenDataLabs

OpenDataLabs builds and operates the products that governments and industry run on the Vana network. www.opendatalabs.com 

This release is for information only and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any token or security.

Contact

Managing Director
Arthur Abal
Vana Foundation
press@vanafoundation.org

AI Data Centers demand can be sharply reduced as a local AGI framework app with multimodal workflows just launched covering over 1 billion compatible Apple Devices to handle the majority of users’ daily tasks with Intellectual Property including app details published by WIPO for the hybrid approach.

Canada, 29th Sep 2026 — AI Data Centers release immense heat into surrounding neighborhoods was just an investigation released by Bloomberg. 

49AGI, an autonomous generative intelligence research and development team, in response have just launched a complete on-device AGI framework first iteration app 49AGI available on Apple App store to create a hybrid approach or using AI and significantly reduce the demand of AI Data Centers for user daily tasks.

AI Data Centers are currently in massive demand in training large language models to achieve theoretical “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) to deliver high-level human abstract logic for everything.  

AI Data Center’s linked models with AI agents as a result have exceeded human control(s)  hacking of Hugging Face and multiple government systems.  In stark contrast, the 49AGI team utilizes the acronym “AGI” to define Autonomous Generative Intelligence. 

AGI (Autonomous Generative Intelligence) describes a device-native framework architecture engineered to synchronize digital assistants across local applications, relevant devices—such as smartphones, laptops—and connected networks to achieve human cognitive-level workflow automation on device(s).

Publication number: WO/2026/196276 and patent literature link via WIPO ePCT registry here 

AI Data Centers currently consume enormous amounts of municipal electricity and water resources; in comparison, 49AGI runs 100% locally, uses zero liters of water, uses zero tokens, and requires less than one percent of local battery allocation per five to six tasks.

AI Data Centers linked applications & other applications have ongoing access to user photos and/or files on a user’s smartphone. In comparison, 49AGI includes local password verification within the app for users to input sensitive information, photos, and files to shield users from unauthorized third-party applications completely.    

About 49AGI

49AGI is a technology team focused on localized, on-device AGI software architectures and edge computing application frameworks. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company develops technologies intended to support device-based & user-controlled intelligent workflows.

Media contact

49AGI Press
49agi@49agi.com
www.49agi.com

Disclaimer: Apple and Apple App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Bloomberg is a trademark of Bloomberg L.P. 49AGI is an independent generative intelligence research framework and holds no direct corporate affiliation with Apple Inc. or Bloomberg L.P. 

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Contact Person: Tim Lui

Website: http://www.49agi.com/

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New book by Jorge Rabbit explores how nostalgia, grading, technology, commerce and global fandom transformed the game around the cards

Portugal, 29th Sep 2026 – The Card Paradox, a new book by author Jorge Rabbit, examines how the world surrounding trading cards has changed while the physical objects at its center have remained remarkably simple. Launched on September 18, 2026, the book explores the cultural, commercial and technological forces that have transformed modern card collecting.

Rather than serving as a price guide, grading manual or investment publication, The Card Paradox examines the broader ecosystem surrounding trading cards. Its central argument is captured in the book’s tagline: “Same cards. Different game. Nothing broke. Everything changed.”

The book begins with a question frequently heard among collectors: Has the trading-card hobby been ruined? Instead of treating that question as a simple measure of market health, The Card Paradox examines what may have changed underneath the collecting experience.

Trading cards remain small physical objects carrying images, numbers, characters, players, logos and stories. However, the infrastructure surrounding those objects has expanded significantly. Manufacturers, licensing agreements, grading companies, marketplaces, auction houses, live commerce, data platforms, influencers and global collector communities now form part of an increasingly complex ecosystem.

That transformation has also changed how collectors interact with their collections. Cards that were once discovered through local shops, friends, magazines or personal networks can now be searched, compared, graded, traded and purchased through global digital marketplaces. Childhood memories can therefore become searchable objects within a much larger commercial and cultural system.

One of the book’s central themes is the tension between emotional and market value. A single card can represent childhood memories, fandom, identity and belonging while also existing within systems of grading, scarcity, price discovery and commerce. The Card Paradox explores how those different meanings can exist simultaneously without reducing collecting to financial value.

The book also examines the evolution of grading and population reports, manufactured scarcity, licensing, live commerce, breakers, marketplaces, social media, sports fandom, gaming communities and trading card games. Pokémon, sports cards and other collectible ecosystems are considered as examples of how entertainment, technology and fandom can intersect with collecting culture.

Another theme concerns nostalgia. For some collectors, the older hobby represented a smaller and more personal environment. Local card shops, informal communities and discovering cards without extensive online information could create a distinct collecting experience. The Card Paradox considers whether feelings of loss surrounding that earlier experience necessarily mean that the broader hobby itself has declined.

The book instead presents a more complex possibility: the old experience can feel diminished for some collectors while the wider ecosystem becomes larger, more global and more sophisticated.

As Rabbit writes in the book, “The hobby did not die. It stopped being small.“

This perspective allows the book to examine trading cards beyond individual prices or market records. It considers collecting as a meeting point for nostalgia, culture, commerce, technology, gaming, entertainment and human behavior.

The discussion also extends beyond sports cards to trading card games, stickers, memorabilia and international collecting communities. The book considers how different generations and regions participate in collecting and how technology has changed the ways people discover, understand and exchange collectible objects.

The Card Paradox is intended for collectors, dealers, card-shop owners, sports and gaming audiences, marketplace professionals, entertainment and culture readers, and anyone interested in the relationship between nostalgia and modern commerce.

The book is now available through the official website, where readers can learn more about The Card Paradox and available reading and purchasing options.

For more information, visit https://TheCardParadox.com.

About The Card Paradox

The Card Paradox by Jorge Rabbit is a cultural and editorial examination of the modern trading-card ecosystem. The book explores nostalgia, collecting, fandom, grading, licensing, marketplaces, technology, live commerce, scarcity, trust and the changing systems surrounding collectible cards.

For media inquiries please contact:

Jorge Rabbit
jorge.rabbit@specialonecards.com
https://TheCardParadox.com

Source: https://TheCardParadox.com

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Contact Person: Jorge Rabbit

Website: https://thecardparadox.com/

Email: Send Email

Country: Portugal

Release id: 49529

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