After doing a Defera Invasion event last night, I've been stuck with 17 of the unstable matrixes in my inventory. You're suppose to use them to blow up borg devices located all over the map, but they do not disappear when the event is over. They cannot be destroyed and they cannot be sold. I tried to drag it to my replicator and all it did was switch it out with the remodulation device I had slotted into my character's first device slot.
The only way to get rid of them (that I've found) is to take the mission again and use the ones in your inventory. Don't take the offered ones of course, that will make things worse :p Drop the mission after you've used them up.
Funny, I use to be albe to discard them. This sounds like a new issue. Yes, after the mission is over, the player should be able to trade them to the mission giver or the crafters for 1EC a piece.
It's ridiculous. The Node Data disappears less than a second after the event ends, leaving you with a completed Hard which refuses to allow you to turn it in without the Node Data.
But this junk stays on forever. I submitted a GM ticket weeks ago, back when the Zone-Wides were first introduced. Got a standard reply a couple of days later and nothing coming of it.