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@EtherfuseDave @etherfuse I saw it in action yesterday!

I doubt there is a team that knows more about global stablecoin regulation than @etherfuse

Read it here: americanbanker.com/payments/news/…

We had an empty media avail at Consensus 2022 the day we announced MGI ramps live. CPI at 8.6% owned the news cycle. But we kept telling the story and kept building. Through crypto winter, through every shiny narrative that came and went, through the years when nobody wanted to talk about payments. This week the partnership expansion landed in American Banker. Payments was always the story.

@defindex_ @DevMonsterB @esteblock_dev @coderipper @BuildOnStellar Dream team

2nd day at Stellar House Mexico City, and the momentum is real! This is the first stop of our tour, where conversations with investors and partners start turning into real opportunities. @devmonsterb, @esteblock_dev and @coderipper are on the ground with @buildonstellar, open to talk with wallets, neobanks, financial apps, and investors exploring what’s next on @stellarorg.  Let's connect! 💫

@solana @SuperteamBlack @superteam If you’re a payments founder you belong on @StellarOrg

Meet @SuperteamBlack A founder success program from @superteam

@chainspect_app @RektHQ @DefiantNews @StellarOrg you said it

@RektHQ @DefiantNews @StellarOrg Chains exist to let everyone see the network while keeping participants safe. Transparency without sacrificing privacy is the core purpose 🙌

Can privacy and transparency coexist on a public blockchain? We investigated. With @DefiantNews, in partnership with @StellarOrg. Full documentary out now. youtube.com/watch?v=knj8VZ…

@StellarOrg @maria_ariza @BIVAMX @DenelleDixon One of my favorite discussions of the day

Change starts with establishing trust, between regulators and businesses, and between businesses and customers. No one understands disruption better than @maria_ariza, CEO of @BIVAMX. Maria stopped by Stellar House to chat with @DenelleDixon about how to build that trust.

Building on Stellar is destiny ✨

@nickwingfield @leomschwartz @theinformation Congrats!

Super excited to welcome @leomschwartz to @theinformation as a new reporter covering the intersection of politics and tech! talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the…

@inslop It’s time

@ElCanale A re-evaulation is needed

TVL is chips sitting on the table. Revenue is the house take, and on Solana, the house is mostly skimming memecoins and MEV. Neither tells you if the network is doing anything real. Utility is value in motion. We don’t have a good metric for that yet. That’s the conversation we should be having.

@rickdanielm With projects like decaf it can!

@ElCanale Let's hope that Utility becomes the benchmark metric for the blockchain industry.

build on a blockchain that looks at you like @tomerweller looks at @sshankar

@StellarOrg is worth a look. The conversation is no longer private v open. You can get privacy where you need it, retain the advantages that come with a healthy open network, and have it secured by validators you know and trust. It’s the network of choice for @FTI_US @Refugees @MoneyGram @usbank

The Canton v Eth/Sol debate is everywhere. My take, not from a technical perspective, that's not my background, but from where we sit in institutional finance. Asset ownership on a public blockchain is completely fine. A tokenized title deed on XRPL is no different to a property sitting on a public land register but the lending layer on top of that, Interest rates, payment terms, borrower details, payment history, LTV, that is not something that can be public. It needs to be private, permissioned, seen only by the right parties, regulators and auditors. That's exactly what we use Canton for at Realworld. Different assets will naturally end up on different chains. That's fine. Our infrastructure is built to lend against assets wherever they sit, any blockchain, any public or permissioned ledger. The whole point is that institutions can provide term lending against those assets, across multiple assets, across multiple chains, in a single facility, privately. I don't think we ever pick one chain, you need the right layer for the right job. Public chains for ownership and the correct privacy tech for the lending logic. Is this the way it will always be, maybe not but for now its the only way I see things working.

"In the 90s, every company had an Intranet because the Internet wasn't secure." "Today, Intranets are dead. Permissioned blockchains are facing the exact same extinction event." "The only reason institutions use private networks is a lack of privacy on public ones." "Once technologies like FHE bring encryption to the public ledger, the 'Private Blockchain' becomes an obsolete relic." Rand Hindi on why FHE is the HTTPS moment for blockchain.

@CamiRusso The real takeaway here is how he says “canTON” though, right @CamiRusso?

When I interviewed Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz for The Defiant podcast recently, he wouldn't say “Canton is permissioned,” but I think his answer made it clear. tldr: to become a Canton super validator, you submit a business proposal to the existing validator set explaining the value you'd bring to the ecosystem, and if you get a two-thirds vote, you're in. He framed this as superior to Ethereum's 32 ETH barrier because it's based on merit, not money. Clip 👇

All those firsts on @StellarOrg

@JasonYanowitz @blockworksDAS Crypto will win

Our goal for DAS this year was simple. Inject optimism back into this industry. Optimists always win. Always. But I get the sense crypto has been overtaken by pessimism. We need to snap out of that NOW. We have been building Blockworks since Dec 2017. I have never seen this much momentum, this many tailwinds, this much institutional and political support for crypto, this much real world adoption. And all I hear on this app is complaining about the tokens going down. Most tokens will stay down, that’s ok! But what most seem to be missing is that the winners are emerging. Their tech will get adopted globally. Their platforms will be seen as staples of society. And yes, their tokens will go up (a lot). We wanted to show you with DAS this year that crypto will win. I hope we’ve played a small role in sparking your optimism in this idea. Crypto will win.

"The reason why blockchain is so useful to financial services...is because an open public network is constantly evolving. You have people all over the world who are contributing to that network and making it better constantly." @DenelleDixon @StellarOrg