[Variational Founder: TGE Still Planned This Year, Trading API to Launch This Month] Odaily Planet Daily reports that Variational founder and CEO Lucas Schuermann stated in an article on X: “In mid-September, we decided to dedicate significant development resources to protocol security audits and further optimizations. This includes additional audits of the codebase and operational processes, penetration testing using AI, red team testing, and a series of other initiatives. The Public Mainnet is now very close. The trading API is also being rolled out to a small group of whitelisted Alpha testers and is planned for a public launch later this month. We are still on track to advance this year’s TGE (Token Generation Event) and the major partner announcement previously mentioned in the token economics model update. More progress will be heard from the latter half of this month.”