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Open Campus (@opencampus_xyz): One year. Twelve months. Education infrastructure moved from idea to reality on-chain.

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One year. Twelve months. Education infrastructure moved from idea to reality on-chain. Here are some of the highlights, month by month: • January – EDU Chain mainnet launched on Arbitrum Orbit with 25 dApps live. Yuzu First Harvest introduced on-chain incentives for builders and users. • February – 900,000+ Open Campus IDs claimed. EDULand NFTs enabled permissionless node participation and rewards via Gelato and Easeflow. • March – Yuzu’s first season closed with 420K+ users. EDU Chain surpassed 80M transactions and 430K wallets. April • 35+ university clubs began validating transactions. • ChainReaction brought hundreds of UK student builders on-chain. • May – Pencil Finance raised $10M to reimagine student loans, signalling momentum for EduFi. • June – OC Kickstart shipped for rapid dApp launches. Spring Bloom wraps with $15.5M in volume and 82M $EDU staked. • July – The first $1 million raised on-chain has now been distributed to borrowers directly funding student loans across Southeast Asia with PencilFinance. • August – OC Badges launched to power engagement. OC joined the Build With AI Time Challenge to scale on-chain learning. • September – Pencil Finance marked its first interest payment to investors, and EduFest became a meeting point for EDU Chain builders, investors, and the wider community. • October – Africa’s first on-chain student finance program launched in Kenya. Open Campus closed a $5M strategic raise. • November – ANPA joined Open Campus and Animoca Brands with up to $50M in EDU committed. A crypto employability tool launched with R3ACH. December • The Capy airdrop landed just in time for the holidays • Open Campus joined Consensus Hong Kong 2026 as an official community partner. This year established EDU Chain as a home for serious builders. 2026 takes everything further 🚀

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