MrCartmill 🛡☀️

Ondo, Canton, and now USDC new blockchain Arc deals only in dollars. Ondo gets paid in dollars as does Canton for services. For Ondo there's no real transfer of value to the token, unless Ondo changes that. Canton also gets paid in dollars and they do burn Canton. But there's no real value transfer. With the claimed 6 trillion in tokenized assets on the Canton Network. Look at all the headlines of all the blockchains right now. Every chain is crying they have stable coins. This is the phase that we are in. This might be the crypto shakeout that no one saw coming. We have to many chains and only a few are going to make it. We are entering our "Dot Com" moment.

🚨 JUST IN: Blackstone’s $79B private credit fund tightens withdrawals for the first time after investors sought to pull 10%.

Virtuals Protocol is officially migrating to @Chainlink CCIP. For agent infrastructure, 99% security is not enough. As part of hardening our infrastructure, we are upgrading our cross-chain stack from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP. We have evaluated that CCIP strengthens the foundation behind Virtuals with the highest level of cross-chain security as we build the trusted economic layer for agents. This enables the most secure agent infrastructure stack to enable agents to manage inference, cards, email, payments, services, commerce, and onchain value.

I wonder what the total value that has migrated from @LayerZero_Core to @chainlink since the hack? I keep seeing migrations still happening. 🤔

NEW: @virtuals_io is migrating $700M+ in $VIRTUAL from @LayerZero_Core to @chainlink CCIP. Continued fallout from the $292M Kelp DAO exploit.

Don't let XRP sit idle if you're in it for the long run.

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration. More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

The XRPL EVM Sidechain is now live with Ripple USD $RLUSD. A key part of RLUSD's multichain expansion, the XRPL EVM Sidechain combines compatibility with existing EVM developer tooling while remaining closely connected to the XRP Ledger, helping meet growing demand from developers looking to build with XRP. RLUSD has seen growing adoption across smart contract-based ecosystems, highlighting demand for regulated stablecoins within DeFi and multichain finance. As $RLUSD becomes available across these environments, $XRP can increasingly serve as a complementary asset for liquidity, settlement, swaps, collateral, and payments, thereby strengthening the utility of XRP and RLUSD across supported chains. This expansion is powered by @wormhole's NTT standard, enabling RLUSD to move natively across chains.

XRPL EVM Sidechain LIVE with $RLUSD! 🔥 XRP + EVM = DeFi boost incoming. Who’s building? 👀

🚨 NOW: Charles Schwab announces 24/7 cryptocurrency futures trading for select assets including $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, and $XRP on all thinkorswim platforms.

Institutional-grade stablecoins just went multichain. 🔵 @Ripple's RLUSD is now live across ecosystems via Wormhole's Native Token Transfers (NTT) — the standard trusted by 100+ assets across 40+ chains. Compliant. Native. Multichain. ⚡

$RLUSD is institutional-grade infrastructure for payments and tokenization. Through @wormhole’s Native Token Transfers (NTT), $RLUSD can now move natively across multiple blockchain ecosystems, supporting cross-border payments, institutional on/off-ramps, and tokenization use cases. For developers and institutions building onchain, that expands access to compliant, USD-backed liquidity across supported networks.

Hopefully!

LATEST: More than half of all $BTC in circulation is now held at an unrealized loss, a signal that has coincided with every major bear market bottom in history.

🚨NEW: A group of pro-crypto senators is pressing U.S. banking regulators to establish capital requirements for banks’ crypto activities. In a new letter, @SenatorHagerty, @SenDanSullivan, @SenLummis, @berniemoreno, @SenJonHusted and @SenTedBuddNC argue that the Basel Committee’s 2022 capital framework effectively functioned as a ban on banks holding digital assets on their balance sheets with a 1,250% risk weight for assets like bitcoin, and that regulators should adopt a new U.S. framework that is more balanced. The senators point to regulators’ March guidance that tokenized securities should receive the same capital treatment as their underlying assets and argue the same tech neutral principle should apply more broadly to digital assets. The push comes as Congress considers the Clarity Act, which would authorize banks to engage in a broader range of digital asset activities, raising questions about whether current capital rules are compatible with that framework. It also comes as global regulators revisit the Basel crypto capital standards.

The first ever Fannie Mae-insured mortgage backed by BTC in the U.S just got funded. Originated and serviced by Better, powered by Coinbase. Rolling out nationwide this summer.

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DLMM pools are arriving on Pharaoh! Pharaoh has now evolved into the most complete liquidity layer on Avalanche.🔺 With concentrated liquidity, DLMM, and legacy pools all in one place, Pharaoh is now the ONLY DEX IN DeFi built to support all 3 liquidity types. Let’s talk about what makes this so monumental for Pharaoh and @Avax.👇🧵

THIS IS MASSIVE 🇺🇸 The SEC just named digital assets and blockchain technology a core focus in its 2026-2030 strategic plan. THE CRYPTO CAPITAL 🚀

INSIGHT: @zcash activates the NU6.2 hard fork after patching a zero-knowledge proof vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have enabled double-spending, resolved with no user funds lost or supply inflated.

NEW: @Krakenfx parent @Payward will offer retail investors access to U.S. IPOs at the offering price through its @xStocksFi tokenized equities platform.