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HederaCon brings together builders, enterprises, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore the future of trust in the digital economy. Can't make it to HederaCon? Watch the main stage afternoon sessions live. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The Hedera Ecosystem just keeps growing! Welcomed Accenture to the Council this week. Check out the interactive ecosystem map here: hederamap.com

AI agents can now spend anywhere @Mastercard is accepted 🌐 @MoonPay launches MoonAgents, a $USDC debit card on @Solana. MoonPay CEO: Agents already manage wallets. Now they can spend at merchants. Galaxy projects $3–5T in agentic commerce by 2030. genfinity.io/2026/05/01/moo…

@UpholdInc @Amy3000Gt Have had an Uphold account since 2019! Great platform.

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆! We’re giving away XRP to say thanks to our community for the support at XRP Vegas 🎰 How to enter: ◼️ Follow @UpholdInc ◼️ Like this post ◼️ Leave a comment 5 winners will receive $100 in XRP each. Good luck! U.S. only. Terms apply. Ends in 24 hours.

🇯🇵 SBI and Visa launch Japan’s first credit card that earns Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP Spend fiat → earn $BTC $ETH $XRP One of Japan’s largest financial institutions is now turning everyday payments into crypto accumulation. genfinity.io/2026/05/01/sbi…

🔥 HederaCon Approaches. Three Builders. Bringing the Heat to Miami. @TateOnChain sat down with IvyFi, Starfall V, and Helix Group ahead of Hedera's conference on May 4th. • IvyFi: staking as NFTs, zero smart contracts • Starfall V: AI comic series, anniversary mint • Helix membership: lifetime access to events • HashBash: May 3rd Miami pregame, open bar, builder networking The builders show up first on HBAR. Featuring: @IvyFi_io. @SFVHbar. @HelixgroupTX Podcast powered by @HashPack

We finally got @Genfinity on Google News. It might not seem like a big deal, but to me it is. This industry often runs on who you know, not how hard you work. We’ve worked our asses off. Every inch of ground. The only person who decides what you cannot achieve is you.

This is peak technology

⚛ Exclusive | State of Algorand 2026 | Tokenization. Agentic Payments. Distressed Markets. The executive who scaled Android to billions of users at Google on Algorand's 2026 strategy: "There is no way an agent will wait T+3 days for a 50-cent transaction. It's just not going to happen." • ALGO: SEC/CFTC digital commodity, quantum-ready • Tokenization: permissioned markets, institutional DeFi • Agentic payments: x402, NPP, AP2 live • xChain accounts: Algorand from any EVM wallet Google cited it 32 times. Coinbase agreed. 30% of Afghanistan's electricity payments run on Algorand today. The machine economy has its settlement layer. @Genfinity | @AlgoFoundation | @Algorand | @marcvl Full Interview:

⚡️ BREAKING: Accenture Joins Hedera Council One of the world’s largest systems integrators now holds governance on @Hedera. @Accenture works with governments, Fortune 500s, and major banks. They’re building AI governance infrastructure for government, enterprise, and finance.

Korea's first internet-only bank, Kbank, is deploying Ripple Custody wallet infrastructure—institutional-grade, Multi-Party Computation (MPC)-based wallet infrastructure to securely manage digital assets across multiple blockchain networks: on.ripple.com/42FcxP2 Already the exclusive banking partner for Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, Kbank is going deeper into digital asset infrastructure.

🎤 Next week at @consensus2026: Dr. @leemonbaird takes the stage for “Agents Meet the Enterprise - Supply Chains, Compliance and the Trust Stack” alongside Jessica Scrimale (@Oracle), George Xian Zeng (@NEARProtocol), and @BWarburg (@AAI_Society). 🗓️ May 6 | 9:45AM | Convergence Stage

PACK THE MIC 🎤 TOMORROW HederaCon is right around the corner and the momentum is building! Whether you're attending, speaking or crafting, come up and PACK THE MIC - we want to hear you. Catch you then:

Starting today, @Rakuten_Wallet users in Japan can convert @Rakuten Points into XRP, spot trade in-app, and spend across 5M+ merchant locations. 🇯🇵 With 44 million Rakuten Pay users and $23B in loyalty points now redeemable for XRP, this is one of the largest retail deployments of $XRP as a payment method to date.

DTCC. Euroclear. Citi. The White House. Google. Moody’s. FedEx. The world’s leading financial and policy institutions are walking into the same room. May 4, Miami Beach. HederaCon 2026: DTCC, Euroclear, White House, Google, Institute of International Finance, Accenture, Moody’s Ratings, Citi, Ledger, Aberdeen, Fireblocks, Hedera, The Digital Chamber, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, 21Shares, LayerZero, Linux Foundation, Blockchain Association, Atlantic Council, Nairobi Securities Exchange, Canary Capital, Global Blockchain Business Council, Pairpoint by Vodafone, Kaiko, Clear Street, Hashgraph, BitGo, ERC-3643 Foundation, Wyoming Stable Token Commission, Blockchain For Energy, zerohash, DLA Piper, Mondelez International, Fasanara Capital, BakerHostetler, Figure Markets, Hedera Council, FedEx, McLaren, Australian Payments Plus, DFNS, Crypto ISAC, Kraken, Crypto Council for Innovation, Halborn, Inveniam Capital, Roland Berger, Ownera, Verra, Shinhan Bank, Archax, Chainlink Labs, Coinbase Institutions aren’t coming to Hedera. They’re already here. Full breakdown: @itsbrandond @thehbarbull @filhetu @IOV_OWL Podcast powered by @hashpack

The winners of the 2025 Hedera Africa Hackathon are in. 13,000+ developers came together to build real infrastructure on Hedera across finance, sustainability, AI, and digital identity. The hackathon was co-funded by The Hashgraph Association and @Exponential_Sci, with operations led by @DarBlockchain. A strong signal of where real-world adoption is heading. #Hedera #Web3 #Africa #Innovation

Algorand is building for the agentic future, where the primary users may be machines, not humans. Full interview tomorrow on @Genfinity algorand:native

@Genfinity ZKP on XRP!!! 🤯

XRP Exclusive 🤫 Zero Knowledge Arrives "Institutions needed compliance and confidentiality, they couldn't deploy capital onchain" We sat down with Boundless VP of Engineering Emiliano Bonassi on the first ZKP verifier on XRP ledger. • Privacy and compliance co-exist • ZK verifier live on XRPL testnet • Institutions gain selective disclosure • Smart Escrows: conditional payments • Smart Vaults: ZK-encoded lending • AI agents: identity, reputation, payments. The last domino to institutional XRP adoption just fell. @Genfinity | @boundless_xyz | @xrpl_commons | @emilianobonassi Full Interview:

Looks like Bitwave now supports solana:EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v and hedera-hashgraph:native on Hedera for institutional-grade payments. Found this during research for my video today. Can you confirm @BitwavePlatform?