We've come a long way. From an idea to almost mainnet. Just a couple more touches. Beta testing starts this week. If you have the Xpectrum Beta or Based roles, head to the Beta whitelist channel on discord and drop your wallets (Full instructions in there) Early access to the first ever marketplace mechanics before public launch. Just one of the perks of being early. Soon!

Fantastic progress by @RedbellyDAO 🎉

On Octra, you can have data that's encrypted, on-chain, and privately stored. Circles make this possible - isolated on-chain spaces where you control what's readable and what isn't. We initially intended circle support to be a v2 build but a conversation in the community opened our eyes lol We'll be building our Genesis on it. Every NFT's metadata lives in a circle. No IPFS. No third party. Just on-chain storage that's actually yours. The traditional IPFS build won't be dropped entirely for the legacy crowd, but circles are the standard going forward. Exact implementation is still being finalized. Already deployed 2 circles for a collection prototype on devnet: - image: oct://octGVPXtUKBbj3RtRLnJ5zE1uZRqU31uGLK9RA21tFr6Lam/heart.png - metadata: oct://octEZZ2kABwh6P4WPhyWZcPdBCQ9S8vraHDkXB8aQfPaiyV/0.json through /99.json 100 tokens. Full metadata on-chain. Zero external dependencies. Circles can be public (any node can serve the asset) or sealed with encryption. oct://circle_id/path - the URI IS the address. No pinning service. No IPFS downtime. No middleman. Native Web3 storage at its finest, powered by octra Still devnet. Still early. But the primitive exists and we're already shipping on it. Octra.

Everyone talks about tokenising real-world assets. Tokeniser is doing it. $1B issued. 20,000 investors. 150 companies. Built on @RedbellyNetwork The future of capital markets isn’t coming. It’s live.

Now a @RedbellyNetwork owned business, Tokeniser (no x-page): The Digital Asset Platform for Financial Services linkedin.com/company/tokenis… tokeniser.com/ $1B issued. 20,000 investors. 150 companies. Trusted by @IQEQ_Group Australia, @JellyC_, Holon Global Investments and EnviroMission. More to come. #RWA #DeFi #RBNT #Tokenization

Tokenized bonds are first cab off the rank for Project Acacia. The bank bill market? "Nothing's changed since 1980" @DrewGbradford from @Macropod_AU on why this is the logical next step 👇 Unpacking the Acacia final report all month.

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Total stablecoin supply just crossed $320 billion. That growth isn't retail speculation. It's treasury management, remittance corridors, and DeFi collateral. Stablecoins are becoming settlement infrastructure and the CLARITY Act moving through Senate is the regulatory signal the market has been waiting for. Check out the full breakdown:👇open.substack.com/pub/stacks…

Xpectrum Devnet Update Since our last update, we've basically rebuilt everything ground up. Contracts are cleaner, more robust, and far more capable than before. 1) The Rewrite As we earlier communicated our rename, our contracts too need some rewriting: Spectrum has now fully evolved into Xpectrum in name and code. Our core contracts are now: - XNS-1 >> The base NFT standard - Xcollection (v2) >> Main drop contract - Xlist >> Whitelist manager (Xcollection companion contract) - Xmarket >> Secondary marketplace Each of which has a single clear responsibility which they perform seamlessly. If a collection speaks XNS-1, it’s tradable on Xpectrum! 2) What we've tried and dropped - The factory contract (built it, verified it, fought with it… and eventually killed it). We have now settled for a much cleaner creator direct deployment approach (more on this in a later post) - Single-letter variables in AML (they cause enum compiler errors) - Having `transfer()` `call()` in one function (AML atomically reverts all prior transfers if call() fails). Everything is now properly pull-based. 3) What's working for us Xcollection v2 is solid. It handles the full drop lifecycle: - Three phases (GTD, FCFS, Public) with independent pricing, epoch windows, caps, and Xlist whitelisting. - Genesis Injection - Up to 20% of supply (hard capped at 222) for Genesis holders (THE NFT!). Each Genesis token ID works once per collection only. After GTD, `sweep_injection()` locks it down permanently. - Airdrops (up to 20 per tx, bypasses all logic, all-or-nothing). - Pull-based proceeds (97.5% creator / 2.5% platform). Full test suite (25 cases) passed on devnet, also squashed several logic bugs during the process. 4) Circles Progress Merged Tom’s (@tomismeta) PR for optional Circle references in XNS-1. NFTs can now point to encrypted content in Octra Circles. On the access side, we're currently testing a key server approach (on-chain ownership verification challenge/response) for v1. Full on-chain enforcement will come later. GitHub: github.com/h8rmitt/xpectrum-… Beta Access coming real soon.

Our Scalable #Accountable #Consensus solution is being presented today at @IEEESSP in San Francisco. Come along to the presentation to learn more about how one can secure #blockchains and #crytopcurrency.

We're now Xpectrum. After a lot of thought, we’ve decided to evolve from Spectrum to Xpectrum. Why the change? Uniqueness: We’re building the first privacy-native NFT marketplace on Octra. That deserves a name that stands out and truly belongs to us. Legal Protection & Brand Clarity A cleaner, more distinctive name gives us better long-term protection and avoids confusion with other projects. The “X” It represents the intersection of privacy and NFTs, the unexplored territory we’re carving out. It also ties into our existing identity and the encrypted, next-level experience we’re creating. We’re right on the edge of launch. Genesis mint is coming soon and Beta testing is about to kick off. This is the perfect time to sharpen our identity before we go live, instead of after. For those that have been here since the Spectrum days you’re a true OG. We see you and we appreciate you. Welcome to Xpectrum. More soon

Introducing StackSats Club: StackSats Club is a research and education community built for investors who actually want to understand what’s happening in crypto to make informed decisions. Here’s exactly what we are, what we publish, and who this is for 👇

hello everyone, a new mini-announcement regarding circles and the private web services protocol on octra as you've probably seen more than once, we've always referred to octra as being more than just a treechain, but a full fledged network, and so on well, that is indeed true, today i'd like to give a brief introduction to the concept of circles, circles are a substrate with their own runtime and mem for programs and resources in the octra network, but they're not just a single tx point where the entire state considers your contract and operates on separate functions, circles are about something else: they're a truly first of its kind private substrate, where addressing, program runtime, publishing, sealed delivery, and wallet access all live in the same space. this can be compared, in part, to .onion resources: you can deploy anything in a circle, from a simple website, forum, web form, or checkout store with specific products, and anything else, to full fledged ml inference, complex apps, or entire program stacks this is our attempt to reimagine the hidden internet (we're working on this concept from a security perspective), much faster than our beloved @torproject (160 kilo bytes per sec are a thing of the past), but here you won't find single exit nodes that could get you in trouble, we propose a new concept - disposable nodes for specific tasks that operate as unikernels without a full operating sys and are not touched by anyone or anything, an example of such a unikernel will be published separately with a full flow for your convenience currently, circles are available as an alpha ver and a night build for a narrow scope of tasks, we are testing the flow and verifying network behavior next week, additional tools for developing and comfortably deploying your circles will be available for everyone among other things, webcli has been updated to give you access to these features, in addition, webcli security has been improved, several network connection issues have been fixed, and unlock flow issues have been resolved, including cases where an unresponsive rpc endpoint could block wallet unlock please make sure to recompile your webcli (setup sh file if you're using linux or macos, setup.bat if, G-d forbid, you're using win) after building and running, you'll find a new menu item at the top: "circles" when you open it, you'll see a browser and an input field for entering the circle address, as well as a password field if the circle uses sealed delivery for your convenience, we've deployed an example of such an application with an end to end fhe flow, you can explore it, next week will also be packed with nice mini-updates thanks, everyone refs: - demo circle octrascan.io/address.html?ad… in circle browser pls use this entry: oct://octAhnQDHEGUx9dk1iSFaYBcBsJaftZ1bXktZVkn4GBuvmL/index.html pwd: circlepass - webcli github.com/octra-labs/webcli

Team's been busy, might be safe to say big week ahead. Everything's coming together. Stay ready.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍 blockchain.com/explorer/addr…

Hello CT! StackSats Club Has Arrived!🚀

I'm backing $OCT from @androolloyd on @novadotmarkets. 🙂‍↕️ app.nova.markets/thesis/168

Beautiful illustrated article from @reggnam_quant ...this is a must read! 🤯 #RBNCommunitySpotlight

devnet was just updated and all nodes in the circles have caught up with the mainnet, now all the new fixes and zk funcs (at the .aml and octra vm level) are available directly through devnet scan: devnet.octrascan.io/ public devnet rpc: http://165.227.225.79:8080/rpc examples of zk things written in @elixirlang (if you are planning to build inter-network interactions, this may be useful): github.com/lambda0xE/octra-g… the next update will affect the webcli and built in dev tools, they will be expanded to include the ability to fully locally compile and test on network spanshots in real time

Community AMA w. Alan Burt x.com/i/broadcasts/1YGNrZyEz…