🚀 Big week: Eliza v3 is *almost* ready — and the stack just got a huge upgrade in automations + monetization plumbing.

**🛠️ Key technical updates (2026-04-20 → 2026-04-26):**
- ✅ **Safer workflow deploys:** added a `validateAndRepair` pre-deploy pass with anti-hallucination defenses + deterministic credential injection.
- 🔔 **Triggers actually fire now:** runtime events are wired to handlers, including **Telegram `MESSAGE_RECEIVED`** support for event-kind triggers.
- ⏳ **Better UX while agents think:** new **6-stage workflow generation progress UI** (clearer feedback during 10–30s builds).
- 🧠 **Smarter prompting:** `RuntimeContextProvider` extensions improved prompt engineering + keyword extraction.
- ⚡ **Fewer timeouts:** streaming chat generation timeout bumped to **180s** for heavier LLM workloads; plus expanded native desktop app support.

**🌍 Community highlights**
- 🤝 @igor.peregudov demo’d **@elisym/plugin-elizaos-elisym**: a decentralized agent services marketplace (Nostr discovery + Solana payments).
- 🧩 Great planning convo on **HTN (Hierarchical Task Networks)** and a path from HTN-lite → full HTN planning for agents (thanks @thirti.eth + crew).

**🪙 Token / degenai notes**
- Token utility direction: **accept any payment method**, then use revenue for **buybacks** (min friction, better UX).
- Proposal gaining traction: pay protocol fees in **USDC or ELIZAOS** (discounts for ELIZAOS; USDC triggers buyback+burn). Also: **$degenai updates are imminent**.

**🔜 Next up**
v3 release + app finishing sprint, Eliza Cloud integrations scaling, review multi-chain A2A payments + auth consent flow, and fixing the broken **Milady Play Store link**.