I highly recommend everyone watches this. XP is a massive company, a Nasdaq listed (ticker $XP ), regulated financial institution with $330 billion in assets under management. Rayls is a core part of their digital assets strategy, and although it was challenging to get their Marcos Horie, who leads their digital asset strategy to this AMA due to conflicting agendas, I am happy to see it worked out in the end!

Yesterday we hosted the “Whose stablecoin, whose rails” event by the lake in Zurich. The event was very oversubscribed, more than 50 bankers, investors, founders and executives came to meet the Rayls team. These events are important because it allows us to show to these decision makers that Rayls is a solid platform with a serious team, capable of delivering institutional-grade solutions. We left with several new sales leads and potential partnerships. We had guests from every major financial institution attending the Point Zero conference, and I personally spent all my time talking to many of them, answering questions and showing how Rayls can be used by their companies.

I’m representing @RaylsLabs in Zurich today with @mcvviriato at the Point Zero conference. This is arguably the most important conference for blockchain and banking in Europe. Marcos is speaking in a high profile panel with central banks, regulators and major banks. It’s a long panel - 1.5hrs and answers tend to be quite long and comprehensive, very different from pure crypto conferences.

Since the rayls:native token launched in December I've constantly been asked "wen staking". Well, today it's live, but we had to do a few things first: 1. Finish the coding of the mainnet (creating an L1 instead of using some copy and paste L2 stack is difficult!) 2. Get mainnet code audited. 3. Launch our own stablecoin. 4. Spin up the first validators. 5. Improve network stability. 6. Launch staking pre-commiter campaign. 7. Launch mainnet (there's about 1,000 smaller things in this point alone). 8. Get bridging live amidst the most hacker intensive time in our industry. 9. Get delegated staking dapp live. 10. Test all of the above thousands of times. 11. AND MORE! So yeah, trust the @RaylsLabs team that we'll deliver as soon as we can, but sometimes there's a long-road to get there :).

Took a LOT of work to get this done! From getting bridging operational to USDr seeding and validators ready. But it’s here now! This marks a new stage of the development of Rayls. We’ll keep it coming!

Bridging to the Rayls Public Chain is live. Rayls has integrated @LayerZero_Core, connecting the Public Chain to broader cross-chain liquidity and making it easier to move assets into the ecosystem. To bridge, head to Stargate, connect your wallet, select your source chain, and choose Rayls as your destination. Once bridged, users can interact with Rayls dapps and prepare for staking, due to go live in the next few days for eligible Pre-Commit and Mainnet Liquidity Seeding participants. Read the full blog ↓

Liquidity is where institutional assets become usable. Rayls Swap is the official DEX on the Rayls Public Chain, built with Algebra Integral to support swaps, routing, and capital-efficient liquidity across the ecosystem. Tokenised assets from Privacy Nodes, yield-bearing vault tokens, $USDr, $RLS, and wider onchain capital can all interact through one unified trading venue. That is the two-way flow Rayls is built for: institutional assets moving into public liquidity, and onchain markets gaining access to those assets. Read the full blog ↓

Great day yesterday at the B3 - Brazillian Stock Exchange for the Tokenization day. I shared a panel with Tatiana Guazzelli from Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Antonio Carlos Berwanger VP of Regulation from Securities Commison and Humberto Costa - Head of Products and Digital Assets from B3. Key points of discussion around stable coin, tokenization of securities, new services for On chain tokenizatized Depositary and clearing together with all relevant aspects of regulation. Since B3 invested on Parfin 4 years ago through their corporate venture L4, we have been working together to transform financial markets and more important, seen one of the largest exchanges in the World adopting blockchain technology at their core business is very exciting.

Banks and AI agents may become two key interfaces between users and blockchain. On Searching for Mana, @x10xalex joined @LloydWahed to discuss what that means for financial infrastructure. High throughput. Fast finality. Short block times. Predictable gas fees. Alex also breaks down why Rayls was built as a Layer 1, with stablecoin gas, instant finality, and hybrid private/public architecture designed for financial institutions. A conversation on bringing TradFi liquidity onchain, connecting it with DeFi, and building for the next phase of financial markets. Listen here ↓

𝗥𝗮𝘆𝗹𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 | 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 🇬🇧 Last week, I had the pleasure of joining @RaylsLabs and their partners for dinner at Restaurant St. Barts in London. A big thank you to the Peter Bidewell, Tom Dickens, Malak Alba & @RaylsLabs team for hosting an intimate and thoughtful gathering. Always valuable to exchange perspectives with builders, partners, and industry leaders pushing the ecosystem forward, looking forward to the next one! #Rayls# #DigitalAsset# #London# #Kiln#

I’ve built a faucet that disburses 10 RLS and $0.10 USDr so people can play with the Rayls mainnet chain ahead of the Layerzero integration. To use it: send a message to @rayls_faucet_bot in Telegram. Have your wallet address ready. Maximum 1 request per telegram user/wallet. Enjoy!