We are receiving reports of a particular e-mail being sent out to some Ingress Agents.

In these e-mail, the recipient is invited to sign up to the Wayfarer Explorer - VPS Activator Pilot, described as an "opportunity to elevate your scanning and exploring experiences".
Chosen Agents, who have been selected by their "outstanding track record in scanning" and "as a reward to their contributions to the Wayfarer community", will be granted additional rights to activate VPS points of interest making them interactable via the AR features of Niantic games.

By scouring the sign-up form, we can observe that participants will be expected to submit 10 scans for each Activation Request filed, Niantic will not check the amount of scans submitted and Participants are expected to follow this requirement in good faith. Participants who do not meet this requirement can be removed from the Pilot at Niantic's discretion.

We are looking into more information about the VPS Activator Pilot and we'll keep you updated as more details emerge.
Many thanks to Agents @arda0413 and @boffeliten!

@IUENG

*🏆 EDIT CHALLENGE REWARDS*

We have seen reports that rewards for the most recent Wayfarer Challenge have started being received.

As is typical now with how the rewards have been sent in the last few challenges, those with only a Pokémon GO account for Wayfarer have received them firstly, we expect that those with only an Ingress account to receive them next, and those with both accounts to receive them last/closest to the 29th.

Don’t panic if you only have a Pokémon GO account and haven’t received anything yet. Check your junk and keep an eye on your emails.

*?? FOURSQUARE PORTALS ??***

Ingress Agents are reporting that Wayspots imported from Foursquare in to Ingress in Türkiye have now been removed.

In addition, Agents in Poland are reporting the Foursquare imports there have also been removed. This was not announced previously.

The Wayspots do remain in Pokémon GO as well as the Lightship/Wayfarer database.

?? PSA to all Turkish Agents!

Niantic has announced a while back that the team is working on removing Foursquare portals Türkiye and re-enabling Machina. There Portal removals are now ready and will happen in the near future.

All Foursquare Portals will be removed, even if they have been updated since they were added to the game via Title/Description edits or if they have received a picture. If you know of such Portals or have Portals with important Links, make sure to screenshot them. After the Portals have been removed you can appeal them to Niantic via the Wayfarer Forums and have them and any potentially broken Link restored.

Source: @KodBilenAdam via Niantic

@IUENG

*➡️ *INGRESS SYNC *⬅️***

Agents have confirmed sync has now happened. Whether this will be the standard time going forward for Ingress or was a blip is yet to be seen