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Nubila is launching a new Validation Layer aimed at expanding participation in its climate data ecosystem. This initiative allows anyone to contribute to the decentralized data consensus layer through on-chain verification without the need to own a Marco weather station or a Validator Node. The campaign, which lasts for 90 days and incurs no upfront costs, is designed to broaden participation and reward early contributors while maintaining the value of existing holders. By making the Nubila Network more accessible, the project aims to enhance awareness and understanding of decentralized climate infrastructure. The Validation Layer is a limited-time opportunity for users with a VeChain wallet to validate real weather data and earn token rewards. Participants can engage in manual validation, where they review data from Marco weather stations and earn rewards for accurate entries, or opt for auto-validation for passive participation. The campaign emphasizes transparency, with all validation data being auditable, including timestamps, weather station IDs, and sensor readings. This initiative complements the existing Marco and Node holders, who remain crucial to the infrastructure by generating the data that is verified. To incentivize participation, Nubila has introduced a new weekly allocation model for B3TR rewards, reserving 10% of the total mining pool for validators. This structure ensures that participants can earn rewards based on their validation efforts while maintaining a fixed supply of data entries. The campaign not only aims to improve data quality for various applications, including AI and climate modeling, but also seeks to engage a broader audience in contributing to climate insights. With this launch, Nubila is redefining participation in its network, making it easier for anyone to join and make an impact in the climate data space.

Exclusive Interview with Raullen Chai, Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX Raullen Chai, a Ph.D. in cryptography from the University of Waterloo and with prior engineering roles at Google, Uber, and Oracle, leads IoTeX. He envisions DePIN—decentralized physical infrastructure networks—connecting IoT devices and blockchain to empower users with data ownership. IoTeX 2.0 aims to cater to developers, enterprises, and consumers, bridging the gap with modular tools like W3bstream and token primitives. Raullen discusses IoTeX's goal of onboarding 100 million devices in the next 3–5 years. The strategy involves partnerships with hardware manufacturers, community-led DePINs like DIMO and GEODNET, and empowering grassroots adoption. By expanding developer onboarding and scaling middleware, IoTeX plans to achieve this ambitious target. Raullen highlights the importance of the 'Identity' layer in the DePIN reference architecture. He emphasizes the need for secure and interoperable machine identities to establish trust in decentralized physical systems. IoTeX's ioID provides devices with programmable identities, revolutionizing trust in DePINs. W3bstream, a specialized solution for DePINs, focuses on verifiable real-world data ingestion. Unlike general-purpose off-chain compute solutions, W3bstream is tailored for handling physical-world inputs like sensor data and geolocation, bridging the gap between the physical and digital realms. With ioID's NFT-bound smart contract wallets for machines, IoTeX addresses lifecycle events like hardware replacement and identity migration. By combining secure hardware enclaves and on-chain NFTs, IoTeX ensures auditable continuity and composable trust in device identities.

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## Key Insights * NodeOps is assembling a cohesive, multi-layered ecosystem for decentralized compute, addressing staking, compute access, tooling, and security as interconnected challenges rather than isolated features. * Staking Hub, launched in April 2025, expands NodeOps’ role from node management to capital coordination through a no-code, non-custodial interface. * NodeOps launched Security Hub to provide real-time vulnerability scanning, mitigating security risks in decentralized compute environments ahead of the NodeOps Cloud mainnet. * The NODE-to-Credits model ties token value to platform usage, aligning incentives with long-term service adoption rather than short-term speculation.