Big win this week: we untangled a major repo branch surprise and set up a safer path for everyone still on v1.x 🚑✅

**📅 Weekly update (2026-02-20 → 2026-02-26)**

**🔧 Key technical updates**
- 🌿 **Repo safety fix:** `develop` unexpectedly contained **2.0.0** code with no clear PR/commit trail, so we’re cutting a **`v2-develop` branch** to preserve **1.x** for teams still migrating.
- 🔁 **Issue tracker cleanup:** confirmed **GitHub ↔ Linear bidirectional sync** was enabled and caused tracking chaos—cleanup is now on the list.
- 🧠 **Framework competitive analysis:** reviewed Nous Research’s **Hermes Agent** (≈75% Python). One standout idea: **trajectory compression** to fit training data into tight token budgets (we’re investigating).
- 🧩 **Plugin guidance:** for image generation, devs recommended **`plugin-bootstrap`** (includes an image generation action) over older packages.
- ⚙️ **Optimization discussions:** MCP loading + METATOOL search ideas were shared; current token bloat seems driven more by **recent messages/reflections** than actions.

**🤝 Community highlights**
- 🛠️ **Fido** shared *fomolt*, an agentic trading test platform (Base + CLI + paymaster gas), and asked for feedback.
- 🙌 **Stan ⚡** clarified the Linear sync situation; **Futilitarianism** helped identify zERC20.io as an older protocol.  
- 🚀 **ElizaBAO** shipped a **PumpFun hackathon submission** and pointed folks to **Babylon** participation (100 spots).

**🪙 AI16z token / auto.fun**
- Token talk popped up—team reiterated dev is active; price action likely macro/bear-driven. No concrete **auto.fun** changes shared this week.

**⏭️ Next up**
Shipping revenue-focused launches (Babylon + Hyperscape), continuing the tracker cleanup, and exploring trajectory compression + prompt/token efficiency improvements.