Cere Network Announcement Channel

📢Update on the recent Hyperbridge incident

We want to reassure our community that Cere Network's operations remain unaffected.

Due to our secure lock & release integration and minimal exposure, the impact on Cere is negligible. A small batch (valued at $4,500) of $CERE tokens was affected and they have already been absorbed by the market. There is no further impact.

Hyperbridge is actively working on fixes and out of caution, they closed the bridge temporarily. It's expected to last at least one week as we await full verification & audits before re-engaging funds.

🚀 New Runtime Upgrade Referendum is Live!

We've just proposed Release-v7.3.14, a runtime dependency upgrade from polkadot-stable2506 → polkadot-stable2512, keeping Cere aligned with the latest audited Polkadot/Substrate runtime and unblocking future upgrades.

🗳️ Referenda is live now: vote before execution on Wednesday at 2 PM CET!

What this upgrade brings
✅ Latest security patches, consensus & runtime bug fixes from upstream
✅ A clean upgrade path for future Polkadot-stable releases
✅ Better compatibility with current PolkadotJS, benchmarking & ecosystem tooling
✅ Safe, deterministic runtime upgrade with validated storage migrations & correct weights

Benefits by stakeholder
🔧 Validators & DevOps:
Reduced maintenance burden, fewer edge-case bugs, better tooling compatibility & smoother future upgrades.

🔒 Security & Reliability:
Inherits upstream fixes and lowers the risk of known issues already resolved in newer stable branches.

🗺️ Product & Protocol Roadmap:
Unlocks newer Polkadot runtime APIs needed for upcoming initiatives and enables faster iteration.

🗳️ Vote now: https://cere.polkassembly.io/referenda/46

🚀 New Runtime Upgrade Referendum is Live!
We’ve just proposed an upgrade to run the Cere chain on Polkadot-stable2506 (from 2503). This keeps Cere aligned with the latest audited Polkadot/Substrate runtime and unblocks future upgrades (2509, 2512, etc.).

What this upgrade brings
- ✅ Latest security patches, bug fixes & protocol improvements from upstream
- ✅ A clean upgrade path for the next Polkadot-stable releases
- ✅ Better compatibility with current Polkadot/Substrate tooling & ecosystem

Benefits by stakeholder
- 🛠 Validators:
More stable nodes, fewer edge-case bugs, clearer upgrade roadmap (less firefighting later).
- 🧩 Users:
Higher network reliability and security, reducing the risk of incidents or unexpected behavior.


🗳 Vote now:
https://cere.polkassembly.io/referenda/45

🚀 Referendum 44 is live: unblock nomination pool users 🗳️

This proposal re-enables users to access the funds that were previously stuck in the Subwallet and Talisman nomination pools — a follow-up to the successful fix in Proposal 43.

🗳️ Cast your vote here: https://cere.polkassembly.io/referenda/44

🗳️ Referendum 43: Fix for Withdrawals From Nomination Pools
TL;DR: Some delegators couldn’t withdraw their unbonded funds due to a delegatedStaking.notEnoughFunds error. This referendum ships a runtime fix that correctly links Staking and DelegatedStaking, so unbonded tokens properly propagate and become withdrawable.

What’s changing
- Ensures proper linkage between the staking and DelegatedStaking modules.
- Once your unbonding era has passed, you’ll be able to successfully call:
nominationPools.withdrawUnbonded

Why it matters
- Delegators: Withdraw unbonded funds without the notEnoughFunds error ✅
- Validators & Node Operators: Fewer support tickets and troubleshooting ✅
- Governance/Developers: Better state consistency between pallets; fewer migration risks ✅
- Ecosystem Stability: No unexpected token lockups; higher confidence in staking/unstaking ✅

Desired outcome
- Restore normal withdrawal functionality for all affected delegators.

How you can help
Review the proposal and cast your vote here:
👉 https://cere.polkassembly.io/referenda/43

Every vote counts. Thanks for helping keep the network reliable and user-friendly! 💪🚀

🔈Cere × UofT AI Agents Club Hackathon 🔈

We’re excited to collaborate with the University of Toronto AI Agents Club on a 3-day AI agents hackathon (Oct 27–30). The program is designed for UofT students to explore Cere’s AI Stack, building and deploying live agents on real Telegram data.

What this partnership highlights
- Event-driven data processing with Streams & Rafts
- Modular agent deployment and real-time observability
- End-to-end agent lifecycle: concept → deployment → live output

We’re excited to see the projects and insights that emerge from this academic collaboration 👏🏻

🗳 Referendum #41 — Temporarily chill underperforming validators
TL;DR: This proposal temporarily chills a set of consistently underperforming/unstable validators on Cere mainnet so the network can finalize blocks reliably, protect nominators from unnecessary slashing, and unblock the pending runtime upgrade. Please review and vote below.

Nominators: Unstake / re-delegate away from the underperforming validators now to preserve rewards.
Validators: Please resolve uptime, networking, and monitoring gaps (alerts, auto-restarts, backups). After remediation, you can rejoin the active set.

Why this matters
- Offline validators miss blocks, which causes instability, blocks upgrades & increases slashing risk for nominators.
- Chilling removes them from the active set until they fix their setups.
- A smaller, stable active set = safer yield for nominators & a more stable network

What to do
- Check if you’re nominating any validators flagged for chilling.
- Unbond or re-delegate to consistently online, well-monitored validators.
- Vote to support the chill so risk drops immediately.

Vote here: https://cere.polkassembly.io/referenda/41

Your quick re-delegation and vote help secure the network and your stake.

Going live in 2 minutes with the community AMA on Discord: https://discord.gg/f8Jqxk5M?event=1425602957537312848 🫡

Tomorrow at 4PM UTC Bren will be holding a community AMA on Discord: https://discord.gg/f8Jqxk5M?event=1425602957537312848

🔥 Cere AI Stack Alpha test 🔥
We need your help to stress test our new system.

👉 How to join:
1️⃣ Jump into @thisiscere
2️⃣ Type /fun
3️⃣ Send the bot a selfie 🤳

💰 Bonus: The funniest/coolest selfie wins $50 USDC

💡 Why this matters
This bot isn’t just a toy, it’s a fun way way to test our the underlying Cere AI Stack end-to-end.

- Custom/open source models are hosted on Cere’s DDC (in this test we use SAM2 Hiera Large & OWL-ViT Base Patch32 )
- Model hosting, inference, and agent orchestration all happen natively inside our stack.
- Every interaction streams directly from Telegram into your personal data vault

🌍 What’s next
In the coming weeks, external devs will drop new agent flows, using larger & more complex models, into the same data stream without needing to spin up servers, pipelines, or worry about security. Design → deploy → have fun .

Jump in now and break things with us! 🔥

We are currently the #1 farm on Quickswap BASE 🔥 Give this post some love: https://x.com/quickswapdex/status/1970087754651643993

🚀 Live now with WeRate on X 🚀
Come and join us at the WeRate live stream: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXWjBYePKZ

Live now 🔥

In 1h Bren will be joining the X spaces of WeRate to talk about AI and data privacy.

WeRate will drop the link to the spaces on X as soon as they go live.

Give their Tweet some love: https://x.com/weRate_Official/status/1962885193632498138

🚀 Excited to announce our official integration with LayerZero! 🚀

This opens up $CERE to the broader EVM ecosystem, starting with BASE. A major step towards true interoperability 🔗✨

You can bridge your $CERE using Stargate Finance and start farming on Quickswap today 🚀

Give this Tweet some love: https://x.com/cereofficial/status/1962846524666188258

🔥 Be the first to launch an AI Agent in a live data stream🔥
Are you a developer and you have a passion for AI & ML? Then sign up for the AI Agent Image Challenge! You'll learn how to build an AI agent that’s ready to drop straight into a user's data stream! Limited slots are available, so sign up quick!

Goal of the Challenge
1. Create a Computer Vision AI agent – Doing something fun, creative, and viral-ready.
2. Deploy your AI Agent into the user data stream in minutes.
3. Our devs will give you guidance and support to do this very quickly.

Prizes You Can Win
- $200 bounty for launching your AI agent.
- You’ll win $100 each time a user wins by using your AI agent.
- Your Agent will be showcased in a live partner campaign, reaching real communities.

Sign up through our Github: https://github.com/Cerebellum-Network/grant-program/blob/master/hackathons/AI-Agent-Image-Challenge-v1/README.md

🚨New Bullish Campaign live with Minima 🚨
A new Bullish campaign is now live! Our friends over at Minima just launched their second campaign, so give the tweet some love and join the campaign: https://x.com/cereofficial/status/1960368549018448115 🔥

Each Bullish campaign runs on Cere's Decentralized infrastructure and every user is assigned their own personal data wallet. Private & secure 🤝

$CERE tokens are now available on @base through @QuickswapDEX 🔥

Join the CERE/USDC pool now & earn $QUICK: https://dapp.quickswap.exchange/farm/0xF2408Ecf94a691998983204E3eFbAC2A7cD39c14?chainId=8453

You can bridge your $CERE (EVM) to BASE using the official Stargate bridge or swap for $CERE directly on BASE using Quickswap.

$CERE is whitelisted on Quickswap, so no need to look for a contract address.

📢 FIXED: unbonding bug & low fees error 📢

⚡️ Unbonding your staked funds
Recently, Polkadot updated their staking pallet, making fundamental changes to how bonded tokens are managed. As part of this upgrade, a "lazy migration" feature was introduced. This means anyone can now call the “migrate_currency” extrinsic on behalf of others to help with this transition.

⚡️ Low funds issue
Regarding transaction difficulties caused by low fees: this was due to outdated fee calculations that relied on deprecated modules. Our upgrade removed these deprecated dependencies and replaced them with the latest versions, ensuring fee calculations are now accurate and aligned with current protocol standards.

👥 If you are still facing related issues, please create a ticket on Discord. Don’t react to DMs, we will not reach out to you directly.

In 1h (2PM UTC) we'll be going live on an AMA with our partner Aurora to highlight what Cere Network can do for builders in the Aurora ecosystem.

Be sure to tune in at: https://www.youtube.com/live/wd7tWycsfW4