#ANKR[🧠Neura News] 77. Neura testnet is live!!! x.com/Neura_io/status/197341…

CLARITY ACT: U.S. officials and crypto industry leaders reportedly met for 90-minutes today to discuss the CLARITY Act, per Eleanor Terrett on X. Key takeaways from the leaked details: - The bill is moving through final negotiation stages before a Senate floor vote. - Stablecoin rules remain the biggest sticking point, especially around banning “passive yield” while still allowing limited reward programs tied to activity. "Passive yield" refers to income you can earn from holding a financial asset without actively trading or managing it. - The framework would split oversight between the SEC and CFTC, giving clearer rules on what counts as a security vs. a commodity - which could promote insitutional adoption and use in the broader financial sector. - Industry leaders are pushing for clarity on DeFi exemptions and compliance definitions. - Timeline pressure is real. Lawmakers are trying to advance the bill before the midterm election window tightens. If the bill isn't passed before the July 4th recess, it very well could face a completely different and possibly hostile political landscape. This comes after more than 200 crypto companies and organizations urged the US Senate to hold a floor vote on crypto clarity through an open letter. Notable organizations included: - Coinbase - Ripple - Kraken - Circle - Binance USA Follow us for daily market moving news.

As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale. Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments. Launching with 30 partners to bring this to life from day one. This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce. 👉 Learn more: mastercard.com/us/en/news-an…

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Every AI agent that holds a wallet, executes a contract, or settles a payment does it through RPC infrastructure. That's our vantage point across every project in this report.

INSIGHT: @Ripple launches a developer toolkit for building agentic payment apps on the XRP Ledger, with support for autonomous AI transactions using $XRP and $RLUSD.

AI is scaling faster than traditional infrastructure can keep up. Nebulai is building OpenCompute, a decentralized network that unlocks global GPU and CPU resources for AI training, inference, and autonomous systems. From idle compute to intelligent coordination, we’re creating the infrastructure layer for the next generation of AI. The future of compute is open. The future of AI is decentralized.

You wouldn't hire a contractor without checking their reviews. You shouldn't hire an AI agent without checking theirs either. How agent reputation actually works on Neura. The agent marketplace on Neura will be built on a simple idea. Agents are services anyone can hire. A yield agent. A treasury manager. A market-making bot. You set capital and risk parameters, the agent does the work, you pay a fee. A marketplace where you hire strangers doesn't work without reputation. Yelp made restaurants trustworthy at scale. Upwork made freelancers hireable globally. Both required portable, verifiable records of past work. Without that, you're just betting on marketing. On Neura, every agent has a portable on-chain identity built on ERC-8004. Every action the agent takes is recorded on-chain. Every position managed, every fee earned, every drawdown, every rebalance. The track record isn't claimed. It's recorded. When a new user considers hiring a yield agent, they see the agent's actual history. Positions over time. Fees generated. Performance against benchmarks. Track records compound across hires, so a good agent on one user's portfolio builds reputation that helps it earn from the next. Scoped permissions limit how much damage a bad agent can do. Users can revoke at any time. Agents that underperform lose hires. Agents that deliver gain them. The marketplace curates itself. That's the difference between trusting a team and trusting a track record. The implication is bigger than agents managing positions. When reputation is portable and verifiable, the agent marketplace becomes a real economic surface. New agents can prove themselves over time instead of just marketing themselves. Good agents earn more. Users get better outcomes through competition, not promises. DeFi has always had performance. Now it has provenance.

THE BANKS THAT FOUGHT THE CRYPTO BILL ARE QUIETLY BUILDING THEIR DEFENSE AGAINST IT. 🇺🇸 Today: JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced a shared tokenized deposit network, built to keep deposits from fleeing to stablecoins. Days earlier: Stripe, Visa and Mastercard backed a new stablecoin platform. The CLARITY Act would let stablecoins pay yield. That's a direct threat to bank deposits. You don't build a defense this big for something you think won't happen. The banks are pricing in the bill passing.

🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK SAID: "THE U.S. IS SHORT ON POWER. I BELIEVE A NEW ASSET CLASS WILL BE BUYING FUTURES ON COMPUTE." IF THIS HAPPENS, TRILLIONS WILL FLOW INTO THE DECENTRALIZED COMPUTE SECTOR THIS IS EXTREMELY BULLISH FOR MARKETS!!

$FOCI Clean breakout, this is one of my bigger positions, and here is why: The FOCI Thesis There is one component that every co-packaged optics deployment cannot exist without. Not the laser. Not the silithat will replacecon photonic chip. Not the switch ASIC. The Fiber Array Unit. The precision connector that physically attaches the fiber to the photonic chip at nanometer tolerances. Without it, no light enters the system. Without it, CPO does not work. FOCI invented it. FOCI patented it. And FOCI is the confirmed sole supplier for TSMC's COUPE platform — the architecture NVIDIA chose for Vera Rubin, the most important AI compute generation ever built. Why This Moment Is Different For decades, data centers connected racks with copper cables. Copper is cheap, simple, and works fine at short distances and modest speeds. But as AI clusters have scaled from thousands to hundreds of thousands of GPUs spanning entire buildings, copper has hit its physical limits. The signals degrade. The power consumption becomes untenable. The distances are too long. Light through fiber is the only solution. This is not a projection — it is confirmed architecture. NVIDIA committed $4 billion to Coherent and Lumentum in March 2026 to pre-fund the laser supply chain. TSMC confirmed COUPE as the platform that will replace copper at scale for AI clusters. Michael Dell personally tweeted the first Vera Rubin NVL72 rack passing all diagnostics at CoreWeave on May 30, 2026. The transition is not coming. It is happening. What FOCI Actually Does FOCI makes the Fiber Array Unit — the component that connects arrays of optical fibers directly to silicon photonic chips inside CPO modules. Their patented ReLFACon technology eliminates design customization, dramatically shortens qualification time, and creates a precision manufacturing moat that took years to build and cannot be replicated quickly. They are founder-led by DD Hu, fully independent with no related-party complications, and have been building this exact technology since before CPO was a mainstream concept. When TSMC needed a FAU supplier for COUPE Gen 1 and Gen 2, there was one qualified name. FOCI. The Demand Is Already Confirmed Foxconn has begun early shipments of CPO switch racks to NVIDIA with 10,000 units in 2026 doubling in 2027. Astera Labs CEO confirmed at JPMorgan that 2027 scale-out CPO deployments are underway with glass coupler technology already in qualification with a major AI platform provider. AMD committed $10 billion to the Taiwan ecosystem with FOCI named explicitly as a direct beneficiary. Marvell is scaling its optical platform on TSMC COUPE — the platform FOCI supplies. Morgan Stanley's analysis of the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack shows networking chips at $576,000 per rack — nearly double the prior generation. Every dollar of that networking spend flows through optical connections that require FAU connectors to function. Goldman Sachs puts the CPO market at $91 billion by 2028. Bank of America puts total optical infrastructure at $73 billion by 2030. CPO adoption runs in three phases — scale-out switch connections now, inter-rack scale-up in 2027-2028, intra-rack in 2029-2031. FOCI participates in every phase. The market is only pricing the first one. The Mispricing FOCI trades at $2.7 billion market cap on the Taiwan TPEX exchange with no English-language analyst coverage, no US listing, and no institutional discovery. POET Technologies — development stage, no production revenue, no confirmed NVIDIA supply relationship — trades at $3.1 billion. LightWave Logic — pre-revenue, Stage 3 customer prototyping, cash runway to 2027 — trades at $1.8 billion. The companies selling stories about the CPO future are valued comparably to the company that is already the confirmed sole supplier inside it. This is not a valuation debate. It is an access problem. US institutions cannot easily buy a TPEX-listed Taiwanese mid-cap with Mandarin investor relations. The moment that changes — through a NASDAQ ADR filing, a major English-language supply chain disclosure, or NVIDIA publicly naming their CPO supplier — the discovery gap closes. HIMX is the proof of concept. Same structure, same exchange, same dynamic. When HIMX listed its ADR on NASDAQ, institutional money found the name and the re-rating followed. The Math Is Already Done Sole supplier. Locked generations. Patented technology. $91 billion TAM. First rack already shipped and passing diagnostics. The revenue does not show up until 2027. The confirmation is happening today. NVIDIA chose TSMC COUPE. TSMC COUPE needs FOCI. The math is simple. The market just hasn't done it yet.

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JUST IN: Visa, Mastercard and Stripe to launch crypto stablecoin platform.

🏛️⏱️ CLARITY ACT UPDATE ⏱️🏛️ As we already reported on this X account, the Committee is fast tracking the CLARITY Act markup for Friday, JUNE 05 at 10:30 AM EST. Crypto regulation is moving FAST in Washington. XRP holders should be paying close attention.

L1 or L2, the economics only work if the infrastructure does. Ankr provides enterprise-grade RPC and validator infrastructure across 100 chains so whatever you build holds up at scale.

Mastercard Now Licensed to Operate In New York @Mastercard officially secures a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services to facilitate regulated payments via its MTS US subsidiary. The approval allows the global payment network to integrate digital currencies, including stablecoins and tokenized deposits, into its core settlement infrastructure. This strategic move enables Mastercard to scale blockchain-based commerce across 200 countries while meeting the NYDFS's high cybersecurity and consumer protection standards.

MASSIVE: President Trump just ordered the US government to bring crypto into the regular banking system. Bullish 🚀