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Niantic has published the final Results for the recent Shard Investigation, which was held in 9 locations worldwide on February 8th to test some new Shard mechanics.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ F - Shenyang, China
ENL 351 - 28 RES
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ G - Galle, Sri Lanka
ENL 9 - 685 RES
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป J - Jelgava, Latvia
ENL 99 - 308 RES
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ K - Karlovy Vary, Czechia
ENL 35 - 453 RES
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ M - Mexico City, Mexico
ENL 37 - 437 RES
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ P - Pare-Pare, Indonesia
ENL 250 - 64 RES
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท R - Rouen, France
ENL 525 - 22 RES
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ S - Santiago, Chile
ENL 103 - 208 RES
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ T - Toronto, Canada
ENL 326 - 41 RES

Total Score
ENL 1.735 - 2.246 RES

๐Ÿ”ต The Resistance wins the Shard Investigation

โš ๏ธ As a reminder, no score will be added to the +Gamma Season, nor Tokens have been awarded to Agents.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-q1-shardinvestigation

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The Lunar New Year celebrations are nearing once more! Ingress is celebrating accordingly by releasing a new Medal inspired by the Year of the Horse, which is about to start!

To obtain it, Agents will be able to complete the Year of the Horse Celebration Campaign, which will be available for purchase in the in-game store for 15.000 CMU.
The Campaign is available from February 13th @ 17:00 UTC to February 27th @ 17:00 UTC, and will feature a single assignment, rewarding the Medal.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-yearofthehorse

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Ingress Updates [ENG]
The Ingress team has removed the IFS 2x AP bonus going forward. After Agents have noticed that the IFS 2x AP bonus didn't activate today, Niantic Spatial has confirmed with Vanguards that this bonus has been intentionally removed. This means that startingโ€ฆ
The team has walked back the change and is reintroducing 2x AP for each First Saturday event!

Next month will see the First Saturday event with a 3x AP boost (or 6x with Apex) as an exception, but starting April the regular 2x AP bonus will be active each IFS from 8am to 8pm local time.
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In other news, due to issues with the Daily Bounties a few days back, a free pack of items as well as a free 3-day Bounty Pass can now be claimed in the store. This pack will be available until end of day next Monday (PST timezone). Remember that the Bounty Pass will activate instantly upon claiming the loadout, so if you don't have the time to complete the 4 additional Bounties until midnight today it might be better for you to wait until tomorrow to claim it!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/1098

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The +Gamma Global Op is now in full swing, and Agents are already discussing their strategies to achieve the Gold Medal for this campaign.

The challenge will remain active until February 23rd 2026 @ 17:00 UTC, and Agents can receive up to 7000 +Gamma Tokens for their Season Medal, as well as help their faction obtain as many of the 1000 Series Points at stake as possible.

For a full rundown of this challenge, check out our previous posts.

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Niantic highlighted the Portals which will be part of the playboxes in the upcoming +Gamma Anomalies of March 14th!

In Zagreb, Croatia, the portal count is 525, in a triangle of about 1.8km height. In Hong Kong, we can see 516 portals in an area 2.2km long and a max breadth of 1.2km.

As a reminder, if you are planning on participating in one of these events, make sure to register with your faction to ensure the best organization and strategic planning!

๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Zagreb, Croatia
๐Ÿ”ธEnlightened | ๐Ÿ”ธResistance
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Hong Kong
๐Ÿ”ธEnlightened | ๐Ÿ”ธResistance

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Niantic Spatial is looking for users to join their User Panel!

If you are a user of Scaniverse, a player of Ingress, a player of Peridot, or interested in participating in future AR and Spatial AI related research studies you can fill out the form below to indicate your interest. If Niantic Spatial is conducting a study that matches your profile you might get selected to participate in that research and get rewards for it! Note that you will need to sign an NDA before participating and anything you may see in that research study is not allowed to be shared.

The exact details of how this User Panel will work or what will be part of these studies isn't known, but we might be able to infer some things, as under the old Niantic Labs a similar program exists as well. Niantic runs a Discord with players from their games (Pokemon GO, Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom) in which various surveys about said games are posted from time to time. These surveys include giving feedback about upcoming game features, filling out forms and being invited to video interviews with the person from the respective game team to share your thoughts. The now Niantic Spatial games Ingress and Peridot also had channels in that Discord, but apparently they didn't really get used.

โš ๏ธ We want to stress that this is how things worked under Niantic Labs and that the surveys under Niantic Spatial might function completely differently. We also want to stress that this User Panel is not specific to Ingress only and is not the same as what Vanguards or XM Ambassadors did in the past, that being having a direct line to the Ingress team among other things.

If you feel like you want to give it a shot, you can sign up and show your interest via the Google Form here. Make sure that you read through it carefully, especially the NDA part as violating it may cause your Ingress account to be banned: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczWE1j3HuTdqJzflanTgxYRkRrk4gpa964PC3ChYm6Hqbfhg/viewform

A big thanks to @PkmnTrainerJ and the Ingress Insights Podcast who broke the news and who shared their experience with the Niantic Labs User Panel! You can check out the latest Episode with some more details here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LQ2XV2gmoURBA9pTLJ7h7

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Niantic announced the cities which will host an Ingress Mission Day Events in Q2 2026!

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Shah Alam, Malaysia โ€” April 25th
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด San Andres, Colombia โ€” May 2nd
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Schwerin, Germany โ€” May 2nd
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Sydney, Australia โ€” May 17th [Anomaly MD]
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Prague, Czechia โ€” May 17th [Anomaly MD]
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Kure City, Japan โ€” May 31st [Anomaly MD]
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Jersey City, USA โ€” May 31st [Anomaly MD]
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Foshan, China โ€” June 7th
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Espoo, Finland โ€” June 7th
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Geneva, Switzerland โ€” June 21st [Anomaly MD]
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ช Lima, Peru โ€” June 21st [Anomaly MD]

If you would like to apply for a Mission Day in your city for the rest of 2026, applications are still open!
Q3 Deadline: 17th April, 2026
Q4 Deadline: 17th July, 2026

Application Form for 2026: https://tinyurl.com/IngressMDApplicationForm2026

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-q2-md

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The Lightship Developer Platform is being shut down and migrated to Scaniverse (Enterprise). With it, it is now no longer possible to manually activate VPS for a Portal.

As part of the migration to Scaniverse (Enterprise), Niantic Spatial has decided to decommission the Geospatial Browser that developers have used to find public POIs and activate VPS for them. Going forward, Scaniverse (Enterprise) will focus on private VPS sites only and will not allow users to find and use public POIs in their projects. The platform will be completely separate and POIs or Scans created for it will not affect any other product.

Ingress uses these VPS activates POIs as a marker for Portals that can be Overclocked, and as such a number of Agents have also been using the Geospatial Browser so that they can activate Overclock on Portals. This is no longer possible as the Geospatial Browser went into read-only mode today. As such, there is currently no longer a reliable way to (re-)activate a Portal with Overclock. According to the Ingress team, Portals may be able to activate themselves if they receive enough Scans, however it is unknown if this behavior will be carried over with the migration.

โ„น๏ธ You will likely still be able to use Overclock on Portals that have already been activated.

Niantic Spatial has announced in their FAQ for the migration that they "will be following up with more news about Public Maps". It remains to be seen if this will allow users to manually request a VPS activation in the future.

Note that Scaniverse (Enterprise) is separate to the Scaniverse app that you can currently download and use on your phone. These two do not share any data with each other either.

Source: https://www.nianticspatial.com/faq/scaniverse-lightship-migration

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Filling out the survey should only take around 5 minutes and helps us immensely in running the channel! Thank you very much for giving us the time!

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๐Ÿž [This is a toast notification!] ๐Ÿž

To celebrate the historical Toast Day, Niantic has prepared two campaigns, one paid and one free.

From February 26th @ 18:00 UTC to March 9th at 18:00 UTC, the free Toast Day 2026 Campaign and the paid Toast Day Redux Campaign (15.000 CMU), will be available for Agents to purchase and complete.

The Toast Day 2022 Medal (or wings for Agents who already own it) will be awarded to agents completing the Redux Campaign. Toast Beacons are the reward for completing the free Campaign.

During the celebration window, a new Kinetic Program will be available: 8 L1 Resonators can be transformed into 2 Toast Beacons.

Finally, a limited number of Toast plushies are still available at Ingress' Shopify!
Big Toastie
Mini Toastie

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-toastday

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The +Gamma Global Op concluded yesterday, with a provisional result marked on the Scanner app.

The score is
ENL 48.9 - 51.1 RES
Which means that the split of Season Points between the Factions would be:
ENL 489 - 511 RES

Edit: Niantic confirmed the final results to be:
ENL 487.8 - 512.2 RES

While the final result has to be confirmed by Niantic, one thing is certain:
๐Ÿ”ต The Resistance captured the +Gamma Global Op!

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With Ingress First Saturday badge points and +Gamma Token's being transferred to Agents, Niantic also updated the participation metrics for IFS Events in the month of February!

Both Factions hit the cap of 3000 participations, earning 300 Season Points each in this +Gamma Series!

March IFS Events are listed at https://fevgames.net/ifs/events

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma-results

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Niantic revealed the design of the +Gamma Onsite Badge! This badge can be obtained by completing the Anomaly Campaign at one of the Anomaly Sites for this series!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma-anomalysites

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Today is Anomaly Day!

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Lisbon and Charlotte are getting ready for 3 hours of intense fun; but while Agents slept in preparation for their battle, some of them were involved in the GORUCK Stealth Ops.

The Cadres tested the Agent's physical performance in a series of challenges, and here are the results, with the Season Points in brackets!

Lisbon, Portugal
๐Ÿ”ธ6 (8.6) - (1.4) 1๐Ÿ”ธ

Charlotte, NC, USA
๐Ÿ”ธ3 (4.3) - (5.7) 4๐Ÿ”ธ

Big thanks to the Agents from the field for their reporting on the scores!

Good luck on the Anomaly Event later today!

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+Gamma Series - Lisbon Anomaly Event

Battle Beacons
Raw Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 517 - 611 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 45.8 - 54.2 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Shard Battle
Raw Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 47 - 80 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ37 - 63 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Anomaly Bounty
Bounty Average
๐Ÿ”ธ 4.68 -  4.89 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 18.3 - 21.7 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Anomaly Uniques
Average (mid 80%)
๐Ÿ”ธ108.35 - 103.67 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ20.4 - 19.6 ๐Ÿ”ธ

GORUCK Stealth Ops
๐Ÿ”ธ 8.6 - 1.4 ๐Ÿ”ธ
GORUCK Urban Ops
๐Ÿ”ธ 6.0 - 4.0 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Total Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 136.1 - 163.9 ๐Ÿ”ธ

๐Ÿ”ต The Resistance captures the +Gamma Anomaly in Lisbon!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma-results

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+Gamma Series - Charlotte Anomaly Event

Battle Beacons
Raw Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 408 - 206 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 66.4 - 33.6 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Shard Battle
Raw Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 85 - 17 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ83.3 - 16.7 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Anomaly Bounty
Bounty Average
๐Ÿ”ธ 4.88 -  4.85 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 20.2 - 19.8 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Anomaly Uniques
Average (mid 80%)
๐Ÿ”ธ186.73 - 97.13 ๐Ÿ”ธ
Final Score
๐Ÿ”ธ26.3 - 13.7 ๐Ÿ”ธ

GORUCK Stealth Ops
๐Ÿ”ธ 4.3 - 5.7 ๐Ÿ”ธ
GORUCK Urban Ops
๐Ÿ”ธ 8.0 - 2.0 ๐Ÿ”ธ

Total Score
๐Ÿ”ธ 208.5 - 91.5 ๐Ÿ”ธ

๐ŸŸข The Enlightened capture the +Gamma Anomaly in Charlotte!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma-results

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Niantic shared additional details about the three Campaigns that we reported about in the previous days, in particular regarding The Aberration Campaign.

All Campaigns will run from March 6th @ 18:00 UTC to April 6th @ 18:00 UTC. (If you are running the latest update of the official Telegram app, click the dates to view the times in your timezone!)

The Aberration
All Agents will be able to access a common Campaign called "The Aberration", which will contain both defensive tasks (deploy Resonators, create Links and Fields) and offensive tasks (destroy Resonators, fire XMPs, destroy Links).

๐Ÿ›ก Completing defensive tasks will unlock a campaign called โ€œThe Aberration: Superpositionโ€.
โš”๏ธ Completing offensive tasks will unlock a campaign called โ€œThe Aberration: Dissolutionโ€.
โš–๏ธ Completing both, will unlock a campaign called โ€œThe Aberration: Equilibriumโ€.

This is a chance for all Agents to obtain some additional +Gamma Tokens: a total of 3800 Tokens are up for grabs completing all the Aberration Campaigns.

The Feline Campaigns
Two additional premium campaigns (priced at 30.000 CMU) will be available for purchase in the in-app store: Bad Cat 2026 and Good Cat 2026.
Both campaigns, if completed will award their respective new medal.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-aberration

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We are receiving reports that Ingress is currently experiencing server issues with Agents not being able to take any action or being able to log in as well as the Intel Map not being reachable either.

This may not be isolated to just Ingress, as other services and sites are also having issues with reports from Facebook, Instagram, Steam and a lot others also being down.

We will keep you updated.

Current status: ๐ŸŸข The issue has been resolved and all systems are go. Daily Bounties progress is being caught up with. (00:09 UTC)

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Niantic Spatial has announced that throughout this and next week the team is working on updates to their servers. These updates are happening on the live server, so a heads up was given that there might be some unannounced latency or outages throughout the work.

The exact details of these upgrades to the servers were not divulged, so it is unknown if this is simply required maintenance to keep the servers running or preparations for new features and/or better stability and fixes to existing features overall.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/1111

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The Aberration, Good Cat and Bad Cat Campaigns have now started, and Agents are already tackling these tasks and progressing in the assignments. Posting all of the assignments for all 6 campaigns would be quite a wall of text, so here are some details about the Campaigns:

The Aberration (free)
Composed by 5 Assignments, each awarding 200 +Gamma Tokens by completing all of its 4 tasks.
Completing Assignment 1, unlocks The Aberration: Superposition Campaign.
Completing Assignment 2, unlocks The Aberration: Dissolution Campaign.
Completing Superposition and Dissolution unlocks The Aberration: Equilibrium Campaign.

The Aberration: Superposition Campaign (free)
Composed by 3 Assignments, each awarding 300 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

The Aberration: Dissolution Campaign (free)
Composed by 3 Assignments, each awarding 300 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

The Aberration: Equilibrium Campaign (free)
Composed by 2 Assignments, each awarding 500 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

Bad Cat 2026 (Paid, 30.000 CMU)
Composed by 1 Assignment with 5 tasks, awarding the Bad Cat 2026 Medal on completion of at least 3.
Other kit awarded by completing tasks includes: 200x L8 XMP, 100x L8 Ultra Strike, 3x ADA Refactor, 3x Jarvis Virus

Good Cat 2026 (Paid, 30.000 CMU)
Composed by 1 Assignment with 5 tasks, awarding the Good Cat 2026 Medal on completion of at least 3.
Other kit awarded by completing tasks includes: 100x L8 Resonator, 20x Hypercube, 4x Apex, 2x Portal Fracker.

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