Svmuu News: Natalia Ameline, Decentralized Coordinator at Metis, released a community letter today outlining the project’s core strategic direction for 2026. The letter emphasized that as the market shifts from speculation-driven to real-world applications, Metis will focus on advancing the deep integration of AI and high-performance blockchain technology. Reportedly, Metis has built a unified stack comprising the settlement layer Andromeda, the high-performance layer Hyperion, and the application data layer LazAI. Among these, Andromeda offers transaction fees of approximately $0.01 and confirmation times of less than two seconds, while Hyperion boosts transaction processing capacity by over 50% through parallel execution. The METIS token has now become the native gas token for LazAI, enabling a single-token economy across the entire ecosystem. At the application level, CreateAI minted 20,000 works within three hours, and the whitelist event for the AI companion DAT Lazbubu attracted over 90,000 participants. The payment product GMPayer has achieved autonomous trading via AI agents.