Hey Crunchers,
We are back with another week’s rundown. This week was a testament against those who believe that innovation should begin in a conference room.
In a well-lit building with a whiteboard, And a team of salaried minds waiting for inspiration to strike between standups and stakeholder syncs.
We have seen different by now, through Crunch.
We’ve seen it start at odd hours across diverse geographies; by someone sipping tea in Bangalore, or staring at a code in a quirt train Tokyo train, or tuning into a dataset somewhere on the coast of Brazil.
The frontier of machine learning and innovation in general doesn’t live in a corner office anymore. It lives in collectives.
With that in mind lets look at the amazing stuff that happened in crunch this week across crunchers getting the slice of the pie to running thought leaderships and workshops across the world! 
ADIA Lab Causality Discovery Challenge Payouts Are LIVE!
If you’re new here, buckle up: The winner of our ADIA Lab Causal Discovery Challenge just bagged $40K from the $100K prize pool.
From reverse-engineering causality to outperforming benchmarks, this Crunch proved what permissionless science can do when coordination meets computation.
Certificates incoming for the Top 20. Because who needs a resume anymore?
Don’t Miss the New $100K Challenge: ADIA Lab Structural Break
The next wave is already here.
Can your model detect when the market shifts? Join the ADIA Lab Structural Break Challenge, co-designed with Prof. Marcos López de Prado, Prof. Alex Lipton, and Dr. Horst D. Simon.
$100,000 prize pool
Deadline: September 15th
Submission walkthrough by CEO Jean Herelle → Watch the ETH Zurich Workshop
Payouts for DataCrunch is NOW Live!
We’ve just released payouts for DataCrunch April and May 
If you submitted your code and ranked on the leaderboard, you should now see your rewards live:
April → View your payout
May → View your payout
If something doesn’t look right, drop your questions in Discord or on the forum and we’ll get back to you.
Mid+One Round 2: Payouts Now Live
If you’ve been attacking the mid-price with us, your time has come. Round 2 of Mid+One payouts just dropped.
If you participated and submitted your code, you’ll find your reward waiting here:
If your model didn’t run or you’re missing a reward, reach out to us on Discord or the forum. We’re here to help.
New Feature Drop: Whitelisted Libraries Are Live!
You can now safely use an approved list of Python packages in your submissions.
Need something added? Request it directly from:
Resources → Whitelisted Libraries → Request Whitelisting
We’ve approved every request so far. Let’s keep that streak going.
Crunch in the Wild: Granada Edition!
After ETH Zurich, CEO Jean Herelle visited University of Granada in partnership with ADIA Lab and DASCI. 50+ students joined us for a hands-on session on structural breaks. One kid even brought a chessboard. You win some, you checkmate some 
Privacy AI Panel Highlights
We teamed up with Arcium, Phala Network, and Mind Network for a panel on how privacy-preserving AI infrastructure is shaping the future of AI. Twitter Spaces might keep rugging, but the ideas? Absolutely gold.
Let us know who you’d like to hear from next.
Where Are You Crunching From?
Crunchers come from every corner of the world. Reply and tell us where you’re tuning in from, we’re building something global, and you’re a part of it.
Plus, if you have questions, we are listening. We’re collecting questions for a live AMA. Drop yours here: https://app.sli.do/event/rzACmbZujN3X49g5A3NfqX/live/questions
Meme of the Week
When you submit your model and end up in the Top 10…
Make your own and drop it in #memes on Discord. We dare you.
That’s a wrap.
CrunchDAO is shipping, rewarding, and growing, all at once.
You in?
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Team CrunchDAO