Relaying what matters next.
The Relay is a new media project dedicated to covering slightly futuristic domains such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, longevity science, crypto and blockchain, advanced biology, and defense technologies. Our mission is to capture the signals of tomorrow and relay them forward with clarity, depth, and context.
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Chain Abstraction Goes Live: Avail Nexus Makes One-Click Swaps
Avail’s September 2025 Nexus upgrade turns multichain into a single click with cross-chain swaps, Avalanche and BNB Chain support, and a TEE-backed coordination layer. Here is how chain abstraction can retire manual bridging and redirect liquidity across L1s and L2s.
Meta flips the switch as AI chats become ad fuel at scale
Meta will start using conversations with its AI assistant to personalize content and ads across Facebook and Instagram on December 16, 2025. Here is what changes, who is excluded, and how product and policy teams should respond.
Programmable EOAs Are Here: EIP‑7702 Wallets Redefine Web3 UX
Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade unlocked EIP 7702, letting ordinary wallets act like smart accounts for a single transaction. Here is what that means for one‑click flows, gas sponsorship, safer permissions, and the new phishing tricks to watch.
CHIP Goes Mainstream: Slowing Aging Clones to Protect Hearts
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45Z Goes Live: A 2025 to 2027 Race to Ultra Low CI Fuels
Treasury and the IRS finalized how Section 45Z will work, turning lifecycle carbon intensity into dollars per gallon. Here is how the Clean Fuel Production Credit is already reshaping SAF, renewable diesel, methanol, and RNG-to-hydrogen before it sunsets on December 31, 2027.
L2s Go Permissionless: BoLD, Base Proofs, Neutral Sequencing
In 2025, rollups crossed a security threshold. Arbitrum activated BoLD on February 12 and Base shipped permissionless fault proofs on April 29, pushing withdrawals beyond trusted operators. This guide explains why it matters and how to build for neutral, shared sequencing and MEV-aware orderflow.
EA-37B goes live: G550 jammers rewrite allied EW
On May 2, 2025, the EA-37B Compass Call launched real training from Davis-Monthan, and by July Italy ordered two G550-based jammers. Powered by SABER software, these fast jets aim to mass network-kill effects with allies.
Compute-Agnostic Reasoning: DeepSeek Shock and Split Stacks
China-native backends just landed as U.S. standards scrutiny intensified. Cheap, open reasoning models now run on domestic NPUs and Nvidia, cracking the CUDA moat, accelerating model sovereignty, and reshaping inference costs. Here is the split-stack playbook.
Lucy’s bowling-pin asteroid and the Trojan decade ahead
On April 20, 2025, NASA’s Lucy skimmed within 600 miles of asteroid Donaldjohanson and found a young bowling-pin contact binary. Here is what that geometry says about early solar system smashups, and the near‑term moves that can supercharge the Trojan encounters.
The CMV Vaccine That Could Rewire How We Age in 2025
Moderna's pivotal cytomegalovirus vaccine readout in 2025 could do more than protect babies. If it works, it may slow immune aging, improve responses to other shots, and open a path to longevity vaccines against latent viruses.
The 2025 Transmission Reset: How Order 1920 Unlocks Capacity
With FERC Order 1920 in force, utilities are fast-tracking reconductoring, dynamic line ratings, and power flow controllers to free gigawatts on existing lines in 2025 to 2026.
ETF Superweek: How a Solana Approval Rewires Onchain Liquidity
October 16, 2025 is the next SEC deadline for spot Solana ETFs. If approved, new TradFi inflows could reshape staking yields, liquid staking and restaking markets, validator revenues, DeFi liquidity, and MEV. Here is what happens next and how to build for it.
Uniswap v4 hooks + Unichain: a DEX becomes a full‑stack L2
Uniswap’s v4 hooks turned pools into programmable modules, and Unichain added a fast, MEV-hardened home for them. Here is what that platform-plus-chain shift means for traders, LPs, and builders right now.
Microwaves Go Mainline: High Power Counter-Drone Weapons Field
This summer turned high-power microwave from demo to duty. Live fire in the Indo-Pacific, a Marine expeditionary prototype, and the Army’s Generation II buy show software-defined HPM becoming the mass-defense layer against drone swarms.
IM‑2’s tipped landing proved lunar prospecting is here
In March 2025, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lander reached the Moon’s south pole, tipped over in a crater, and still ran NASA’s TRIDENT drill and MSolo tests. That messy success marks the start of practical lunar resource prospecting and a fast CLPS learning curve.
EGS goes bankable: Cape Station’s 500 MW leap to 24/7
Fervo Energy’s Cape Station in Utah has pushed enhanced geothermal from pilot to bankable with major equipment awards, financing, and long-term PPAs. Here is the 2026-2028 commercialization roadmap and what it means for utilities and 24/7 buyers that need firm, clean capacity.
Engineered Tregs After the Nobel: Immunity Rejuvenated
October 2025 put regulatory T cells in the spotlight and turned immune rejuvenation from concept to clinical plan. Engineered Treg therapies and thymus regeneration are moving toward trials aimed at infections, inflammaging, and better vaccine responses.
Stablecoin Rail Wars: Visa and Stripe Go Mainstream
Clear rules just unlocked prime time for stablecoins. After the GENIUS Act became law in July 2025, Visa expanded multi coin, multi chain settlement while Stripe rolled out USDC checkout and a coin issuance platform. Here is what it means for builders, merchants, and finance teams—and how to act now.

















