This Market Sucks. The News Doesn't. • Chainlink NYC: DTCC & the global financial elite. • Solana: Securitize, tokenized equities & speed. • Canton: SEC, digital commodities, DTCC, Uber & CME. • Ripple: RLUSD vs. XRP, OCC & banking. • Hacks. Hacks. More hacks. • Hedera: DTCC & the CFTC's Superintelligence Forum. Meanwhile, we're all still waiting. $XRP $CC $LINK $HBAR $SOL $RLUSD

🌐 EXPANSION: Securitize expands tokenized U.S. stock offerings on Solana to 25 equities, adding ExxonMobil, Disney, Uber, Salesforce, GameStop, and eight others. Securitize expects the equities to trade on the NYSE's planned 24/7 digital trading venue, subject to launch and regulatory requirements. solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 ethereum:0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48

DTCC President and CEO Frank La Salla just confirmed DTCC leverages Chainlink for interoperability across multiple blockchains. Speaking alongside Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov at Link:NYC. ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca

🌋 BREAKING: At Ripple Swell, CME Group CEO Terry Duffy says the world's leading derivatives marketplace intends to participate in Canton Network. "The banks seem to like the Canton network, so we will participate in that as well." Asked about stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and tokenized money market funds as collateral, Duffy outlined CME's plans: • Tokenized cash with Google. • A CME-issued stablecoin on decentralized infrastructure, potentially Canton. • Willingness to accept JPMorgan-issued tokens as collateral. For context, CME Group: • Reports approximately $311 billion in average customer collateral balances. • Processes over $1.1 trillion in average daily trading notional through BrokerTec. $CC $XRP $RLUSD

🚨 BREAKING: Monolith and Ascend have partnered to develop institutional commodity derivatives trading and onchain clearing infrastructure in the USA. Examining the teams and technologies potentially involved: $HBAR $XLM $LINK $POL $ETH MONOLITH Monolith is pursuing CFTC registration as a Designated Contract Market, initially focused on cash-settled energy and commodity perpetual futures. The platform is being built by Windhelm Labs, which has extensive connections to the Hedera ecosystem. • Rufus Daniel (@Zepzi), formerly Hedera Foundation • Milan @MilanWiercx, member of Linux Foundation's Hiero Technical Steering Committee. • Jason Fabritz, developer of the Hiero .NET SDK. • Monolith identifies Hashgraph as a technology partner. The team brings experience spanning institutional derivatives, quantitative trading, Citi, and Citadel. ASCEND Ascend is developing institutional credit and collateral infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets. Its ecosystem connections are equally interesting: • Stellar ($XLM): Received a $1 million investment from the Stellar Development Foundation and recently completed an institutional repo transaction on Stellar mainnet. • Chainlink ($LINK): Participates in Chainlink Build, incorporating CRE, CCIP, and oracle infrastructure. • Ethereum ($ETH): Uses ERC-3643, the standard for permissioned tokenized securities. CEO Dennis O'Connell also serves as president of the ERC-3643 Association. • Polygon ($POL) and Hedera ($HBAR): Both appear in Ascend's published ecosystem, although their specific deployment roles have not been established. WHAT THIS MEANS Monolith plans to operate the derivatives venue, while Ascend intends to provide onchain tri-party clearing infrastructure. The objective is to enable eligible real-world assets, including physical oil shipments, to serve as collateral for institutional derivatives trading, reducing collateralization timelines from weeks to hours. This potentially brings together physical commodities, institutional credit, tokenized securities, and derivatives clearing within a regulated U.S. market structure. These are existing technology and ecosystem relationships. The companies have not confirmed which networks will underpin the Monolith–Ascend integration, and Monolith's regulatory registration remains pending.

BREAKING: The Bank for International Settlements just built and tested a system to anchor government economic and banking data on XRP Ledger. Chainlink named as a possible future connection. ripple:native 🌋 $LINK

It Is Time ⌛️ "The era of speculation is over." Swift. Solana. Ripple. Chainlink. Hedera. Basel. Bank of Thailand. HSBC. Citi. BNP Paribas. XDC. MoneyGram. • Solana raises $158K+ for Nepal • Ripple: from speculation to infra • Swift exclusive interview goes live • Basel & Bank of Thailand aligned • Chainlink brings US GDP onchain • MoneyGram interview inbound • Hedera's CLPR. The HIPS don't lie • Telcoin new interview is upon us • Firelight raises multiple millions • XDC & Osaka, Japan trade finance hedera-hashgraph:native $SOL $LINK xdce-crowd-sale:native $TEL ripple:native ethereum:0x8292bb45bf1ee4d140127049757c2e0ff06317ed $MGUSD $USDC $FLR $XLM

I’ve spent years researching how the global financial system is moving onchain. Today, I interviewed the Managing Director and Head of Innovation at Swift about their blockchain ledger. Thank you @Nick_kerigan @swiftcommunity

The Floodgates Are Open 🌊 Charles Schwab. Nasdaq. Ripple. Kraken. Pantera. Robinhood. Chainlink. Solana. MoonPay. The SEC. Hedera. The European Central Bank. MUFG. • $672M XRP treasury. Tick tock. • Schwab adds SOL, AVAX & LINK • Ripple Prime launches Delta One • cbBTC live on Robinhood via Chainlink • SBI XDC tapped for Osaka initiative • ECB's Pontus goes live in September • Algorand enables post-quantum wallets • US debt crosses $40 trillion. Yikes. • 8 of top 10 US P&C insurers in Hedera-linked RiskStream ecosystem The institutions are already here. The dam is about to break. ripple:native hedera-hashgraph:native $SOL $LINK avalanche-2:native xdce-crowd-sale:native algorand:native bitcoin:native

I never thought I’d have the opportunity to meet the people I’ve met, and I’m incredibly humbled to have been part of an event like Solana’s WSOP Showdown in Las Vegas. Everyone was so welcoming. It was awesome meeting all the other players. There’s a ton to learn from each of them. It was equally awesome meeting and talking with all the incredible leaders, builders, creators, and everyone on the Solana team who made this event possible. My sincerest thank you to everyone who supports me, my content, Genfinity, and everything we’re building. Thank you to everyone reading this. This is a memory my wife and I will have forever. This was probably the most impressive event I’ve ever had the opportunity to be part of. From the WSOP on ESPN, to the Solana Showdown, to the coordination and logistics behind it all, it was an incredible experience. I’m looking forward to seeing who gets the next crack at it because there were so many passionate Solana community members in the comments. Maybe in a decade or so, they do a legacy rematch. If I missed anyone, I apologize. It was truly great meeting all of you. @AshleyDCan @CryptoWendyO @Banks @blknoiz06 @gabrielhaines @rasmr_eth @MINHxDYNASTY @bangerz @rganizedgeneral @Pedromiranda @JFFR50N @fluffyonchain @Lauren__Croke @vibhu @niran7 @RealJamieGold @solana @WSOP @PokerNews

⏳ I just found proof BlackRock, UBS, State Street, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank are testing orchestration of simultaneous settlement across every major network at once. "Orchestrating cross-platform settlements that touched Ethereum, Canton, Polygon, Hedera, Stellar, and institutional cash networks such as Fnality." • DTCC 24/5 live. Tokenization in October • DTCC 50+: Ripple, Canton, Ondo, Backpack • GDF: JPM, BlackRock, Archax, Vanguard • GDF: Hedera, Quant, Canton, Stellar, Ripple • BlackRock fund (Hedera & Archax) S&P AAA • EU/UK: Quant, Canton, Corda, LSEG, Hedera • Sandbox on Ownera FinP2P, tied to Hedera • Linux now holds Hedera's code, w/ Chainlink • x402: Coinbase, Ripple, Solana, Visa • x402: Mastercard, Stripe, Quant, Stellar • US Treasury: 10-point roadmap with UK • XDC & Stripe Bridge agentic settlement • Claynosaurz (Solana) Amazon Prime milestone The narrative for one network to settle everything is now dead. This isn't theory. This isn't narrative. This is part of the blueprint for how every ledger settles together. Two Minutes to Midnight: $HBAR $SOL $CC $QNT $LINK $XDC $XLM $ETH ethereum:0x455e53cbb86018ac2b8092fdcd39d8444affc3f6 $ADA $XRP