🚀 Biggest win this week: **agents now boot up to ~40% faster**, bringing ElizaOS one big step closer to smooth “click-to-run” experiences (and cheaper infra).

**Weekly highlights (2026-01-12 → 2026-01-18):**
- ⚡ **Runtime speedups:** optimized `runtime.initialize()` with parallelization + atomic upserts for **-30% cold start / -40% warm start**.
- 🧠 **Faster embeddings setup:** new `EMBEDDING_DIMENSION` setting can **skip the ~500ms embedding API call** on startup.
- 🗄️ **plugin-sql major refactor:** `BaseDrizzleAdapter` split into composable domain stores (same public API, way more maintainable) + improved RLS/Neon serverless support.
- 🌐 **v2 groundwork:** a **WASM-compatible Rust runtime** PR landed groundwork so agents can run in **browser/Node via WebAssembly**.
- 🔁 **Reliability & safety:** multi-step retry logic improvements, plus fixes to prevent **env var “secrets” leakage** and dev rebuild loops.

**Community pulse:**
- 📚 **Jin proposed an “AI-optimized docs” initiative** (using Claude + kapa.ai best practices) so agents can consume our docs more effectively.
- 🧩 Ongoing discussions on **better server organization** (e.g., a dedicated skill/job board) and a reported issue: **plugin-discord ↔ ElizaCloud compatibility** for Discord bot setup.

**AI16z / token / auto.fun:**
- 🏷️ Branding progress: **ai16z → elizaos** on the main X account; CoinGecko link added to linktree.
- 💬 Token talk continued: staking/rewards ideas + migration questions (no official new listing news).  
- 🤖 auto.fun: no confirmed updates surfaced this week.

🔜 Next up: pushing **cloud + app creation** toward launch readiness, starting the **docs overhaul**, and triaging the **Discord/ElizaCloud integration** report.