A research team says it has built a smaller, cheaper version of OpenAI’s GPT-OSS 120B and, against normal expectations, ended up with a model that outperformed a comparable full-precision 60-billion-parameter version on most benchmark tests. The approach, described in a paper published Friday, is called Quantization-Aware Healing. Instead of training the compressed model to imitate an already reduced intermediate model, the method points the smaller system back to the original uncompressed teacher model and uses that as the supervision target. The team reduced GPT-OSS from 120 billion parameters to 60 billion and quantized the model to 4-bit precision, a level of compression that would usually come with a meaningful loss in quality. On 7 of 9 tests, the resulting 4-bit 60B model beat the higher-precision 60B counterpart, though the original 120B model still won most comparisons overall. The researchers said the healed model uses roughly a quarter of the memory of the original and half the parameters, lowering hardware demands for deployment. The model, Hypernova-60B, has been released as open weights on Hugging Face. Still, the underlying shrinking tool remains proprietary, and the team said its testing so far covers GPT-OSS only, not Llama, Qwen, or Mistral families.

Gnosis Chain has approved a strategic shift away from operating as a standalone Layer 1 and toward becoming an Ethereum-settled rollup under the Ethereum Economic Zone framework. The proposal, announced by Gnosis Chain and published on the GnosisDAO governance forum, would retire the network’s independent validator set and replace its settlement security model with Ethereum validators. If implemented, roughly 350,000 GNO would be unlocked as the validator set winds down, and the treasury-funded staking subsidy would come to an end. For users, the transition is designed to be minimally disruptive. xDAI would remain the gas token, while wallet addresses, balances, and contract state would continue without a migration to a new chain. The technical draw is synchronous composability with Ethereum, though the first version would only support atomic calls from Gnosis to Ethereum. Calls in the other direction, as well as broader cross-instance composability, are planned for later stages. The proposal does not finalize the technical architecture or request new funding. It does, however, state that Gnosis Ltd will initially operate a centralized composer responsible for transaction ordering, block building, and submission for proving and settlement. The first Ethereum Economic Zone block is targeted for December 2026 or January 2027, with bidirectional composability and real-time proving expected in 2027.

Proof-of-Authority replaces mining and staking with approved validators whose identities and reputations secure the network. It suits private chains, consortium setups, and regulated use cases, with clear trade-offs in decentralization.

AscendEX has listed Stratos (STOS) under the STOS/USDT pair and launched a limited-time campaign with pooled rewards worth 80,000 USDT. Stratos positions itself as a decentralized data mesh network for storage, databases, and computation.

AscendEX announces the listing of Stratos (STOS) with STOS/USDT trading pair, launching limited-time promotional events with a total reward pool of 80,000 USDT. Stratos is a next-generation decentralized Data Mesh offering scalable storage, database, and computation network.

AscendEX has announced the listing of Stratos token (STOS) with the STOS/USDT trading pair, alongside a limited-time campaign offering 80,000 USDT in rewards. Stratos positions itself as a decentralized data mesh network for storage, databases, and computation.

AscendEX will list Stratos (STOS/USDT) on Nov 23, 2021, offering a total reward pool of $80,000 USDT in STOS tokens through limited-time promotional events.

Perpetual Protocol V2 has moved to Optimism, offering up to 10x leverage on perpetual futures. This article explores its vAMM mechanism, fees, founders, and the PERP token's supply and all-time high.