The CLARITY Act failed its Senate procedural vote. But the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets doesn’t need congressional approval. Next milestone: October 20, the public comment deadline. For Stellar and Ripple’s ecosystems and especially Sl8 I believe this proposal could matter even more: clearer pathways for token issuance and fundraising. Still a proposal, but a major opportunity for tokenization.

We’ve seen incredible interest from the XRP community since the announcement - and we truly appreciate the warm welcome. This is only the beginning. We plan to deepen XRP integration across Sl8 and see enormous potential in the XRP Ledger as we continue building a truly multichain financial infrastructure. Excited for what’s ahead. @Ripple @XRPLF

We’re building what’s next for Sl8. Behind the scenes, our team is constantly working on new ways to make Sl8 more useful for creators, communities, and their audiences. One of the next major steps currently in development is Streams — a new way to connect, interact, and earn directly on the platform. Creators will be able to go live from their profiles, schedule upcoming streams, set reminders for their audience, interact through live group chat, offer paid access and special requests, and receive gifts directly to their wallet. This is only one part of what we’re working on. Sl8 continues to evolve, and we have much more planned ahead. Every new feature is another step toward building a platform where creators have more control over their audience, content, and monetization. Thank you to everyone building this journey with us. Your support, feedback, and trust push us forward every day. We’re moving fast. And we’re just getting started. 🚀

Sl8 offers several ways to earn rewards. One of them is the 6-level referral system. It is not limited only to users you invite personally. If your referrals invite other people, and those users bring in new participants, the structure can expand up to 6 levels. Reward distribution: • Level 1: 6% • Level 2: 5% • Level 3: 4% • Level 4: 3% • Level 5: 2% • Level 6: 1% An important part of the program is connected to staking. When a user within your referral structure opens a staking position, you receive a reward based on your level. The more active participants you have in your structure, the more opportunities there are to receive such rewards. All referral rewards are credited to the Payout section. This is also where other funds earned in Sl8 are collected, including tips, payments for paid content, USDC / SSLX rewards for likes, and other earnings. To receive referral rewards, you must successfully complete KYC verification and have paid reserves in place to avoid wallet deactivation. The cost of KYC is $2. You can use a passport, ID card, or driver’s license for verification. The document must contain information in Latin characters. If the information is provided only in Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, or another non-Latin writing system, a certified translation will be required. About data security 🔐 Sl8 does not verify documents directly. Verification is carried out through Sumsub, a specialized international service that confirms users’ identities and stores and processes the data required for KYC. Invite your friends and contacts, grow your referral structure, and make the most of the opportunities available on Sl8! 🚀

The Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act today. Disappointing, but a procedural setback still leaves room for a better deal. Resolve the remaining disputes, refine the text and build broader support. America needs lasting crypto rules. Keep working. #CLARITYAct#

A key procedural vote on the CLARITY Act is expected in the U.S. Senate today, September 15. Here’s what matters 👇 - 60 votes needed to advance. This is a procedural hurdle, not final passage. - Republicans released a revised draft with 126 changes they say Democrats requested. - Trump accepted additional crypto ethics restrictions, but Democratic opposition remains. - Updated #DeFi# provisions clarify when #CFTC# registration and anti-money-laundering obligations apply. - Support remains uncertain. Even a Senate win would still require House approval of the revised text. An important test for U.S. crypto regulation. #CLARITYAct# #Crypto#

Article about @The_DTCC and Tokenized Securities: What Changes in October 2026 In October, the institution at the center of American securities markets plans to give Wall Street a new way to move some of its most familiar assets. Shares in major companies, index funds and U.S. government debt will be eligible for a service that connects traditional custody with blockchain networks. For banks and investment firms, that could change how securities are transferred, financed and used as collateral. For everyone watching the #tokenization# story, October will offer something more concrete than another announcement: an opportunity to see whether the technology becomes part of everyday market operations. The organization is the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. Through its subsidiaries, it helps process the transactions that take place after investors agree to buy or sell securities. Its depository subsidiary, DTC, reported $114 trillion in securities under custody and servicing for 2025. Across DTCC's subsidiaries, annual securities transaction processing reached $4.7 quadrillion. That enormous figure requires context. It measures transactions processed over a year, including repeated activity involving the same assets. It is not a pool of money scheduled to enter cryptocurrency markets. The October launch concerns a defined service for eligible securities, with adoption driven by participating firms. The eligible universe includes Russell 1000 stocks, exchange-traded funds tracking major indexes, and U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds. Participation is voluntary. Firms will decide which eligible holdings to convert into tokenized form. The first real transactions have already happened. On July 15, DTCC reported production trades involving more than 30 firms. The activity included collateral pledges, securities lending, Treasury financing and equity transactions. Assets were converted using DTCC's private Besu network and the Canton Network. October is the planned broader service launch following that limited production activity. The distinction matters: a successful day of transactions establishes that a process can work. A continuing service must demonstrate that it can work reliably as more firms adopt it. The mechanics begin with securities already held at DTC. When a participant requests tokenization, DTC moves the corresponding position into a dedicated account on its existing ledger and issues a token to a registered wallet. That token represents the participant's security entitlement. To return to conventional book-entry form, DTC destroys the token and credits the securities back to the participant's account. DTCC says the tokenized form preserves the rights and investor protections of the traditional holding. The underlying securities remain registered in the name of DTC's nominee, Cede and Company. Investors continue to rely on the established custody framework. In December 2025, @SECGov staff issued a conditional no-action letter covering the service for three years after the preliminary version launches. The SEC describes a voluntary pilot with operational limits, meaning a commercial launch can proceed within a limited regulatory framework. The business case centers on making assets easier to use. Consider a firm holding Treasury securities while needing to post collateral elsewhere. If it can transfer an eligible tokenized position efficiently, and the receiving institution accepts it, the firm may be able to meet that obligation with fewer operational steps. Across large portfolios, even modest improvements could reduce costs and make existing holdings more useful. DTCC points to collateral mobility and capital efficiency as potential benefits. The practical question is how much improvement survives the demands of real operations: compliance checks, funding arrangements, system integration and the willingness of counterparties to accept the assets. There are boundaries. Under the initial no-action framework, tokenized entitlements receive no collateral or settlement value within DTC's own risk-management calculations. Firms can explore collateral uses outside those calculations, but tokenization does not automatically expand their capacity inside DTC. DTCC also describes transfers between registered participant wallets on approved networks operating around the clock. That capability alone cannot make every stock market, broker or cash-payment system available twenty-four hours a day. Completing a purchase still requires arrangements for both the security and the money. Controls remain central to the design. Transfers are restricted to registered wallets, and DTCC's token controls include freezing assets and reversing transfers when necessary. For institutions, the appeal is the ability to use blockchain while retaining mechanisms for compliance and recovery. The network strategy is also broader than a single blockchain. July's transactions used Besu and Canton. DTCC has separately announced a connection with @StellarOrg, with DTC-tokenized assets expected there in the first half of 2027. That is a later milestone on the published timetable. @Ripple Prime appears in DTCC's industry working group, too. That participation does not establish ripple:native as the service's settlement asset. Institutional involvement and demand for a particular cryptocurrency are separate questions, and investors should look for evidence connecting them. As October approaches, the useful measures will be operational: whether the service launches on schedule, which firms use it repeatedly, how much value remains in tokenized form, and whether transfers produce measurable savings. Announced capacity matters less than sustained use. For most individual investors, the first changes may occur behind the brokerage screen. Over time, successful adoption could influence the services their brokers offer and the cost of delivering them. Those outcomes will depend on execution and competition. October gives Wall Street a chance to turn a demonstrated capability into a working business service. Its significance will become clearer in the months that follow, as firms decide whether tokenized securities are useful enough to become routine. Reporting notes and sources Source 1. DTCC, May 4, 2026: service timeline, eligible assets, industry participants and 2025 scale figures. Source 2. SEC staff no-action letter, December 11, 2025: token mechanics, legal structure, operating limits and duration. Source 3. DTCC, July 15, 2026: completed production transactions, participating firms, networks and October plans. Source 4. DTCC Tokenization Service: rights, registered-wallet transfers and token controls. Source 5. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, December 11, 2025: voluntary pilot, registered wallets and operational limitations. Source 6. DTCC and Stellar Development Foundation, May 27, 2026: expected Stellar availability in the first half of 2027.

USDC has processed more than $100T in all-time volume*. Stablecoins are having a moment. USDC has been moving money at internet scale for years. Already moving. Already trusted. Already here. *USDC lifetime onchain transaction volume as of 9.12.26

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Senate Democrats are meeting tonight for a sudden Sunday evening session to discuss the Clarity Act, per Politico. This comes right after president Trump met with advisors on Friday regarding the bill's ethics rules. The vote is in just 48 hours and feels like Something is cooking behind the scenes.

🤖 WILD: 30 robots were found PROTESTING in the streets of Warsaw demanding AI regulation. Humanoid robots and robot dogs marched in front of Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry chanting "Defend workplaces," "Time for rules," and "Don't wait, regulate."

Most people are dramatically underestimating the magnitude of what is happening right now. This isn’t just a transition of the global financial rails. We are tearing down and rebuilding the entire global operating system… Money. Banking. Capital markets. Energy. Logistics. Manufacturing. Intelligence. Communications. Identity. Ownership. Defense. Healthcare. Education. Media. Labor. Governance. And all of it is beginning to converge. That convergence ultimately changes the distribution of power itself between individuals, corporations, institutions and governments. The governments of the future will operate very differently from the governments of the industrial age, just as the corporations and financial institutions of the future will look nothing like those built for the 20th century. This isn’t one technological revolution. It’s multiple revolutions happening simultaneously, reinforcing one another and rewriting the infrastructure civilization runs on. We aren’t watching the next chapter being written. We’re watching the operating system of civilization being replaced.

US House Committee to hold a markup on crypto tax rules. The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is reportedly set to vote on a group of digital asset tax bills on September 16. This is the first time that crypto tax legislation has gone from being introduced as bills to a formal committee vote.

I think we should celebrate the launch of our very first bridge from @StellarOrg to other chains. And since our first bridge was launched with the @XRPLF network, we’re launching XRP Week. So, what should you expect? Commemorative Badges All participants may receive exclusive commemorative badges made of pure precious metals if they stake XRP or RLUSD for 180 or 360 days: 1) 999 fine Silver badge for staking tokens equivalent to 1,000 XRP or more The badge is made from a 10g silver bar. 2) 9999 fine Gold badge for staking tokens equivalent to 10,000 XRP or more The badge is made from a 10g gold bar. Each badge will have a unique serial number. The participant who stakes the largest amount will receive Badge #1#. The badge will also be visible on your Sl8 profile and alongside each of your posts. Additional APY rates for XRP and RLUSD: - 90 days: 44% APY 38% current event rate + 6% XRP Week bonus - 180 days: 58% APY 50% current event rate + 8% XRP Week bonus - 360 days: 72% APY 62% current event rate + 10% XRP Week bonus These rates combine the promotional Ukraine Independence Day Event rates with the additional XRP Week bonus and are available only during XRP Week. How to participate? 1) Register on Sl8 if you’re not already a user: 2) Activate your Sl8 wallet. 3) Top up your wallet with XRP or RLUSD through the XRP Ledger network. Inside Sl8, these assets are represented as sgXRP and sgRLUSD, our 1:1 backed versions of XRP and RLUSD. 4) Stake your assets for 90, 180 or 360 days before the end of the event. Event duration: Start: September 10, 2026 at AM UTC End: September 17, 2026 at AM UTC

⚠️ Technical Notice We are currently carrying out scheduled technical maintenance and a step-by-step database reindexing process on the Stellar nodes used by Sl8. The work is being performed sequentially across three nodes and is expected to take approximately 40 hours in total. During this period, you may experience temporary issues with the Sl8 wallet, including longer loading times for balances and transaction history, delays in updating data, delays in displaying or processing transactions, as well as occasional errors or temporary unavailability of certain wallet functions. If some data takes longer than usual to load or an operation appears with a delay, we recommend waiting a little and trying again later. The maintenance is being carried out gradually to keep Sl8 operational throughout the process and minimize any inconvenience for users. Thank you for your understanding!