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🔥HUGE: 🇺🇸 Fed will inject $15,172,000,000 into the economy this week.

@BSCNews @PiCoreTeam Non-compliant nodes disconnected after the hard deadline. 421K still active, the network self selected for operators who are serious and that matters for what is coming in May

PI MAINNET COMPLETES PROTOCOL 22 UPGRADE, PROTOCOL 23 SMART CONTRACTS DUE MAY 11 The Pi Network mainnet has successfully upgraded to Protocol 22, per @PiCoreTeam. Node operators with non-compliant systems were disconnected after the April 27 hard deadline. Protocol 22 is the foundation for Protocol 23, scheduled for May 11, which introduces full smart contract functionality on Pi Mainnet for the first time. The upgrade window now extends through Protocol 26 by June 22, packing five major milestones into a 10-week run. Roughly 10 billion pi-network:native has migrated to Mainnet so far, with around 6 billion still locked. Active node count sits at approximately 421,000 against an 18 million KYC-verified user base. Co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan will be present at Consensus 2026 in Miami next week.

@PiCoreTeam The PiRC process turning community feedback into protocol decisions is quietly one of the most underrated governance mechanisms in this ecosystem. PiRC1 set token standards. PiRC2 is setting subscription infra, the pattern is becoming clear

To open the Testnet subscription smart contract to technical review and community feedback, Pi has released the second Pi Request for Comment (PiRC2). Developers are encouraged to try integrating subscriptions in their own apps, review the subscription contract design, and test for bugs or edge cases, if any. github.com/PiNetwork/PiRC…

@PiCoreTeam Projects that figured out distribution before utility are smart but the ones that figured out verified human distribution before utility are basically JUST Pi! that context is what makes May 7 interesting to me..

Pi is tackling one of the most urgent problems in the AI era: proving real human identity online. Pi Founder Nicolas Kokkalis will speak on a panel at Consensus 2026 on Thursday, May 7, from 10:15-10:45 AM EDT at the Convergence Stage. The session, “How to Prove You're Human in an AI World (Without Doxing Yourself),” explores how the internet’s trust model is breaking as AI systems become capable of creating bots that can generate profiles and interact like real users. At the core of the discussion is a simple challenge: how do you verify a real human online without exposing private identity data? Want to know how? Join us in Miami on May 7th! See you there!

@PiCoreTeam Most chains have transfers and swaps. Recurring payments tied to real services is where mainstream adoption actually lives. @PiCoreTeam just got there first and did it on a network of verified humans, that combination does not exist anywhere else, period!

Pi’s first smart contract capability is now live on Testnet: subscriptions! This fosters real, recurring, utility-driven use cases. Think e-commerce, streaming, online tools, and more, powered on-chain. Read more in the Pi mining app.

@Aptos @okx The partner list reads like a who's who of people who actually ship. Uniswap, Base, QuickNode, Nansen, MoonPay. These aren't names that sign up for things that don't have legs tbh

The agent economy just got payment rails. Open protocol. Machine-speed settlement. Agent-to-agent commerce with escrow and dispute resolution. Learn more about @okx's Aptos-ready Agent Payments Protocol 👇

x402 gave agents a way to pay. APP gives them a way to do business. @okx just published the Agent Payments Protocol (APP)—the first open standard for agent-to-agent commerce. Escrow, settlement, disputes. Built for every chain. Aptos is proud to be a day-one partner!

@Mr_BULL1 @Aptos The combination of 99.99% uptime and gas under $0.001 is what serious infra is all about

@Aptos The uptime stat is the one that should be leading every institutional conversation 99.99% since 2022 means this network has been running without meaningful interruption for over three years while processing billions of transactions, MAD!

The Global Trading Engine. ~30ms block times with instant finality. 5B+ transactions processed. 99.99% uptime since 2022. Gas under $0.001 per transaction—all burned. 274M+ transactions in March. Block space to spare. Not a testnet. Not a demo. Mainnet. Every day. Aptos.

@Aptos Yeah, I mean block space to spare while running 274M monthly transactions is the part that separates @Aptos from chains that get congested the moment something goes viral. The capacity was built in from day one fr 🤔

@Aptos Imo the opt-in structure is the part that makes this actually work in practice, full transparency stays available for those who want it + privacy becomes available for those who need it, regulated entities get selective disclosure via view keys 👌👌

Imagine every ATM printed your full bank statement on the receipt. That's onchain without confidentiality. Just use Confidential APT.

@diamante_io Most cyberattacks exploit a weakness in the implementation vs Quantum exploits the foundation the implementation was built on

Quantum computing doesn’t hack systems. It makes their security irrelevant. Most people imagine cyberattacks as breaches. Forced entry. Exploits. Quantum is different. It doesn’t need to break into your wallet. It doesn’t need to bypass security. It simply changes the math that security is built on. When that happens, what was once considered “unbreakable” becomes readable. Quietly. Instantly. Permanently. This is why quantum matters. Not because it creates new attacks, but because it invalidates existing defenses. Diamante was built with that shift in mind. Post-quantum security from genesis, designed so your assets don’t rely on assumptions that can expire. Because the future won’t break your security. It will outgrow it.

@diamante_io The reason quantum gets ignored is the same reason it is so dangerous "Nothing looks wrong yet" which is the whole problem, period.

The real risk isn’t visible. That’s why it gets ignored.

@diamante_io The race framing is accurate but undersells the stakes. In a normal race being late costs position. In this one being late costs the permanent historical record of every transaction ever made on your chain becoming readable = catastrophic!

In most industries, being late costs opportunity. In blockchain, it could cost everything. Security upgrades aren’t instant. They require coordination, consensus, migration, and time. And time is exactly what quantum removes from the equation. Diamante eliminates that risk entirely by starting where others are trying to get to. Because in a race against technological progress, late isn’t just inconvenient, it’s dangerous.

@diamante_io Most people will not take quantum seriously until something breaks visibly and publicly, wether they like it or not, consider it or not, it's on it's way!

Nothing looks broken. That’s what makes it dangerous.

@diamante_io To me it was never a security standard It was a time estimate dressed up as one and time estimates expire.

Most systems aren’t built to be unbreakable. They’re built to be “hard enough” to break. That works… until it doesn’t. For decades, encryption has relied on one idea: that breaking it would take too long to matter. Quantum computing changes that equation completely. What once took thousands of years could eventually take minutes. Diamante isn’t built on “secure enough.” It’s built on the assumption that technology will catch up, and that security needs to outlast it.

@multibank_io 2 million clients in 100 plus countries means the trust was built in markets with completely different risk tolerances, languages, and legal frameworks, talk about depth without talking about it

What makes ⬡ mb io different? 👀 Honestly? It starts with who's behind it. MultiBank Group. 20+ years in institutional finance. $35B daily trading volume. 18+ regulatory licenses worldwide. Most exchanges are built on hype. This one is built on a track record. 🔑

@MariamAliBrown @multibank_io Fr the combination of scarcity, regulation, and a buyback program in the same offer is 👌👌👌

@multibank_io That “after that? gone.” line is doing real psychological damage right now. I’m one of the ones pulling late hours trying to catch the wave before it’s over 😎

64,000 tokens allocated and counting. ⏳ 2 days left to lock $MBG and earn 420.69% interest. After that? Gone. Don't miss this one. 🔑 Available in select jurisdictions only. T&Cs apply.

@multibank_io Talk about a regulated exchange running a program with real mechanics behind it and a community that showed up before the deadline 🔥

@multibank_io The fastest way to understand what this statement means is to count how many compliance teams inside major financial institutions just had a very different Monday morning meeting😅

Fed Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, just said crypto is already integrated into the US financial system. 👀 Crypto isn't "the future". It's already here. ⤵️

@multibank_io @Zak_MBG Knowing that the fastest growing crypto adoption region in the world just had a regulated exchange CEO walk into a palace that has stood for centuries says everything about the difference between announcing Africa and actually showing up in Africa

MultiBank Group and ⬡ mb io are proud to sponsor the World-Meets-in-Ghana Executive Dinner Ball. 🌍 Honouring His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, as a Pillar of Peace on his 27th coronation anniversary. Our CEO @Zak_MBG will be in attendance 📍 Manhyia Palace, Kumasi 📅 April 24 Proud to stand alongside history in the making. 🤝

@Mr_BULL1 @Aptos Those aren't small names either the infra was already being used at institutional scale before the privacy layer even arrived

Timing is on point with confidential APT is hitting mainnet at exactly the moment institutional appetite for onchain infrastructure is actually real. Six months ago this was a nice to have, with Archax, PACT and Tria already live on the rails the demand for this was always coming tbh

It's here. The governance proposal for Confidential APT is now LIVE! Encrypted balances. Encrypted amounts. Identities stay onchain. Entirely opt-in.