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Just completed Vibe's bullish interactive onboarding pitch & quiz and picked up my first Onboarding Points. What they're building on HyperEVM feels absolutely innovative. Take the quiz, and unlock your own access code 👇 vibe.permissionless.credit/?… Hyperliquid

RT @MetalBlockchain: Over 220 validators now securing Metal Blockchain. That’s the foundation for institutional blockchain infrastructure:…

🚨 FOLLOW THE PURPLE BRICK ROAD 🚨 The Federal Reserve just posted about ISO 20022 and used a very familiar color... purple. 👀 For years people laughed at ISO 20022 discussions. Today the Federal Reserve is openly highlighting the global financial messaging standard that is already transforming payments, interoperability, compliance, and data exchange. Now here's the part most people miss: ✅ ISO 20022 Live ✅ Banking & Fintech Infrastructure ✅ Digital Identity / KYC ✅ Compliance Focused ✅ Blockchain Technology ✅ Smart Contracts ✅ Credit Union Partnerships ✅ Real-World Utility Ⓜ️ iso20022.metalblockchain.org ⚛️ iso20022.xprnetwork.org Metal Blockchain / Metallicus is still the only blockchain fintech company I know of with every box checked. While others are debating memes and narratives, Metallicus has been building the rails for regulated finance, identity, payments, and digital assets. The purple brick road isn't leading to speculation... It's leading to compliance, identity, and the future of finance. Know What You Hold! #KWYH #ISO20022 #MetalBlockchain #XPRNetwork #Metallicus #DigitalIdentity #FedNow #Fintech #RWA #Crypto #Blockchain

50 credit unions across New Jersey and Pennsylvania are testing their own branded stablecoins through CrossState and @MetallicusTDBN . Not a whitepaper. Not a partnership announcement. A live sandbox where credit union leadership is evaluating issuance models, transaction flows, and governance on $XPR infrastructure. This is Innovation Program 2.0. The first round already ran. They came back for more.

1/7 How we plan to solve model verification? Most AI APIs ask you to trust the label. “GPT-5.5” “Claude-Opus-4.8.” “Minimax-M3.” “Premium model.” But if an endpoint silently routes you to a cheaper model, mixes traffic, or wraps another API, what evidence do you actually have? Usually: almost none. AntSeed changes that. antseed.com/blog/model-verif…

Blockchain infrastructure for banks, credit unions, and fintechs. Made in the USA. Built for institutions. Powered by Metal Blockchain. Stablecoins, payments, settlement, tokenized assets, and AI agents need compliant infrastructure.

PulseVM support coming soon to WebAuth Wallet!

I spent this week deep in Metallicus research. Fourth FedNow certification, Request for Payment live, the CrossState pilot with 50 credit unions. Then a friend in the ecosystem made it less theoretical: @echodatruth put up a governance proposal on @LOAN_Protocol to add $DAG to the lending market. He pinged me after posting it, and I'm fully behind it. Context for both communities below. $LOAN is the DeFi lending protocol on @XPRNetwork that powers Metal X Lending. Zero gas fees, instant settlement, supply assets to earn yield or borrow against collateral, compliance-first like everything in the Metallicus stack. The vote is live: add $DAG to the lending market with rewards. It's at 90% in favor across 245 votes. The number that actually needs attention is quorum, sitting at 6.68% of the required 25%. Strong consensus, thin turnout. If you hold LOAN or SLOAN, your vote is the whole game this week. What XPR holders get: @Conste11ation carries the deepest federal résumé in crypto, years of US government work and the kind of regulatory scrutiny most chains never survive, now positioned as the data integrity layer inside AIAI Holdings. What DAG holders get: a compliant on-ramp to real financial rails, because @MetallicusTDBN is wiring credit unions and community banks into FedNow instant payments right now, and DAG liquidity earning yield in that ecosystem is a bridge no one else is offering. The DAG side shows up with momentum too. Gate AI published a prompt-injection benchmark that beats Lakera, the category leader, at matched false-positive rates, and shipped a free Apache-2.0 audit plugin for OpenClaw agents the same week. I've never understood the my-chain-or-nothing reflex in crypto. Every other industry wins by interoperating. Two ecosystems with real regulatory roots choosing to work together is the thing this space keeps saying it wants. Here it is, with a live vote attached. gov.xprnetwork.org/communiti… $XPR x $DAG

Get ready for the Metal Pay credit card powered by @LOAN_Protocol @MetalDollarXMD

Metallicus closed Q1 2026 with its fourth FedNow certification. Request for Payment now joins Send, Receive and Liquidity Management. RFP is the piece that lets credit unions run payment requests, settlement and reconciliation on the Fed's own instant rail. Most crypto companies are still asking regulators for a meeting. This one is certified infrastructure operating inside the Federal Reserve's payment system. Same quarter: WebAuth went live on XRPL and a stablecoin pilot opened with 50 credit unions through CrossState. $XPR

The company behind $XPR just completed certification to process live transactions on the Federal Reserve's FedNow instant payment rail. Not a partnership announcement. Not an MOU. Live transactions. @MetallicusTDBN is building what they call "bank chains." Banks communicating with each other on-chain to process payments and handle settlements while staying connected to FedNow. No oracles required. Meanwhile the same team runs Metal X on @XPRNetwork with $39.88M in deposits and perps testing on testnet right now. Zero gas fees. Biometric wallet authentication. Fiat on-ramp coming for US, Australia, and New Zealand. Most L1s are chasing exchange listings. This one is plugged into the Federal Reserve.

Very cool to see secondary markets for compute forming. These prices are provided by DIEM holders who aren't using all their capacity.

Erik Voorhees explains how Venice's dual token model actually works "You can stake 100 VVV to get pro access to Venice. We take a bunch of our revenue, buy the token, and burn it" "We want to take that to its extreme and try to buy every last token we can and burn it all" "You lock up VVV to mint DIEM. Each DIEM you hold gives you $1/day to use on any AI model you want" "We built it so AI agents could hold an asset and get marginally free inference" "It changes the economic calculation. We thought that'd be an interesting design space to explore"

Inference prices on AntSeed 🤯

June is going to be an important month for AntSeed 🐜. Our focus is simple: make AntSeed trusted, reputation-driven, and easy enough for anyone to use. What we’re planning to ship: • $ANTS staking with providers with a new emissions distribution model. • Decentralized identity and verification flows to better help navigate the network. • TEE verification and stronger provider trust signals. • A smoother onboarding experience and improved UX across AntStation, Portal and CLI. The next phase of decentralized AI infrastructure needs more than access to compute and models. It needs trust. That’s what we are building.

The new Metal Blockchain Explorer design is live. A cleaner interface, improved navigation, and a clearer way to explore the network across chains, validators, subnets, blocks, and transactions. This is just the beginning. More coming soon ↓ explorer.metalblockchain.org

Claude Opus 4.8 just dropped. The best model on the planet. Run it for 75% less on Surplus. @AskSurplus

CHAIN RUNNER $XPR GAME · SEASON 0 $1,000 $USDC prize pool · ENDS 8 JUNE UTC 🏆 Top 3: $300 · $150 · $75 legendary NFTs 🐛 $400 bug bounty pool, tiered by severity Built on @XPRNetwork gas-free with testnet.webauth.com wallet, deterministic-sim anti-cheat in enforce mode. Play → chainrunner.fun

6 weeks in. More than 30b tokens consumed via the network. 🐜s favorite food.