I worked on a year long project to rebuild our payments system only to learn the company had been undergoing talks and was acquired by a different payment syste

I worked on a year long project to rebuild our payments system only to learn the company had been undergoing talks and was acquired by a different payment system competitor. Even though the pending acquisition was going on for the last 6 months of the project nobody told us to stop working on this thing that the top level people knew would never be used.