Life has a way of reminding you what actually matters. If you still have your parents around, call them. Be there. Time moves faster than we think. The past few months have been difficult. Cancer took my mum recently, and she truly was the pillar of our family. One humble person can hold together far more than we realize. It changes your perspective on almost everything.

Payments that deliver, now in Romania 🇷🇴 @dominos x xMoney continues its European rollout. Cyprus started it ✔️ Greece scaled it ✔️ Romania confirms it ✔️ Read the full story 👇 xmoney.com/blog/xmoney-x-dom…

Six AI commerce protocols now run on MultiversX. The organizations behind them include @Google, @stripe, @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, the @linuxfoundation, @Visa, and @Shopify. Each solving a different layer of the autonomous agent commerce stack: tool access, commerce discovery, checkout execution, payment authorization, machine-to-machine payment requests, HTTP-native micropayment settlement. They were built by different coalitions, at different times, with no shared governance between them. What they share is a common dependency: A settlement layer that is fast enough for agent decision loops, cheap enough for micropayment economics, and open enough to serve all of them without picking a winner. This is what we are building toward with Supernova.

For the last years, we have been working toward a new breakthrough. A ground-up rearchitecting to set new records in speed, and UX (in addition to unprecedented throughput). Yesterday, with the same minimal technical specs, we have processed 1 Billion transactions, achieving a peak of 120k transactions/second in a LIVE community battlenet, with only 3 shards metachain. This is SUPERNOVA 🔥 The game has changed.

two weeks ago I wrote: "finality faster than the block slot. 120K TPS. same hardware." today: 1 billion transactions processed on Battle Net. 120K TPS confirmed live. still think nobody's building? RT this and tag someone who needs to see it.

Who's Actually Building? 171,000 commits. #6 in the entire blockchain industry. Ahead of Bitcoin. Ahead of Solana. Ahead of Avalanche, NEAR, Sui, Polygon, Aptos, and TON. Almost 2x Solana. Nearly 3.5x Aptos. The data is public. I'm not writing this to flex. I'm writing it because the people doing the real work deserve to see it reflected somewhere other than a Git log. ─── Building through a market like this is brutal. The price bleeds. Liquidity gets extracted by professionals who've never deployed a contract. Narratives rotate every two weeks. The projects that survive aren't the loudest, they're the ones that refuse to stop shipping. We shipped Supernova while the market did everything it could to make us irrelevant. 150,000 lines of new protocol code. 20 months. A complete rearchitecture of how consensus and execution interact. 88ms block finality on 600ms slots. The block finalizes before the round ends. 120,000 TPS burst mode on the same validator hardware. 3,200 nodes. Full sharding intact. We didn't build this because the market asked for it. We built it because it was the right thing to build. ─── The market rewards narratives. It rewards projects that rename themselves to match whatever's trending. It doesn't reward the team that designed inclusion proofs so blocks finalize before execution completes. It doesn't reward 171,000 commits. It barely notices. But here's the thing, infrastructure doesn't need the market's permission to work. Over 500 million transactions processed. 3,200 validator nodes across four continents. And now, sub-second finality on every transaction type. ─── People ask: "What's left for blockchain when AI takes over everything?" Wrong question. AI agents need to transact autonomously. They need identity. They need programmable money that settles in milliseconds. They need micropayments at scale without a human clicking "approve." Credit cards can't do this. Bank wires can't do this. These rails were built for humans, not machines. This is where the entire stack is converging. Look at what happened in the last 90 days: Visa launched agentic payment tools. Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8B. Coinbase is pushing x402 hard. Circle is racing for stablecoin dominance. Stripe built ACP with OpenAI. They're all building pieces of the same stack: identity, payments, settlement, stablecoins. We built the whole thing. On one chain. x402 for autonomous agent payments. MX-8004 for on-chain agent identity. UCP, ACP, AP2, MCP for agent communication and commerce. xMoney for regulated stablecoin issuance and fiat-to-crypto connectivity under MiCA. Relayed v3 for gasless transactions so agents don't need to hold tokens to start. Six protocols. Regulated stablecoins. Fiat rails. One network. The stack that Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase are assembling from separate pieces, we shipped as a unified layer. ─── And the community. Every validator who kept running through the drawdown. Every builder who deployed when nobody was watching. Every staker who stayed. 171,000 commits. Supernova. Battle of Nodes. Cointelegraph joining as a validator. EGLD named in an Arizona state strategic reserve bill. The signals are there. The infrastructure is live. The convergence between AI, payments, and blockchain isn't five years away. It's happening now. The teams that built through the hard part don't need to pivot when the opportunity arrives. They're already there. We're already there.

Stripe integration: DONE ✅

Supernova is the sonic boom of blockchain interaction. But in what way, precisely? Well, a sonic boom happens when an object outruns its own sound. There's no warning or no build-up. The thing just arrives before the sound it makes can catch up. With Supernova, the transaction lands before the user even registers they're waiting. The experience outruns the expectation. And creates a perception boom. Every architectural bet we made over the past five years points here. Right at this moment. The phase of instantaneous interaction has arrived.

Supernova.

Let’s gooo 🔥🦾

JUST IN: Cointelegraph is the largest crypto media company in the world. They are now becoming a MultiversX validator. 🔥 That's the strongest signal media can send, putting reputation on the line to secure a chain.

One theme kept surfacing in today’s discussions at @CryptoExpoEu: infrastructure is back at the center, and AI-ready infrastructure is non-negotiable. That’s exactly what we’ve been building toward. @MultiversX is ready. AI agents don’t care about narratives or marketing. They care about performance: speed, cost, and scalability under real load. On those metrics, we’re already there. This is our moment and we intend to capitalize on it.

All current (and future) JoAi app integrations now automatically connect to popular AI apps For example, you can browse the MultiversX Explorer, create xMoney payment links, and more... all directly inside @ChatGPTapp, @claudeai & co! 🔥

Full Shard Podcast: Episode 13 - A New AI Dawn 2026 is not business as usual. In this episode of the Full Shard Podcast, Lucian and Beniamin Mincu are joined by VP of Business Development Daniel Serb to unpack a world shaped by accelerating AI, volatile markets, and structural resets across industries. They discuss the rise of agentic systems, the emergence of machine-to-machine commerce, and why settlement speed and scale suddenly matter in a way they didn’t before. From agentic payments and commerce protocols to the positioning of Supernova, the conversation centers on building future-proof infrastructure for a time where demand for it finally arises. A wide-angle conversation about what’s breaking, what’s emerging, and where the next wave may land. 00:00 - What's Happening in 2026 6:13 - The Events Shaping the World 11:53 - Blockchain & AI Symbiosis 25:50 - Agentic Payments 35:51 - What Will be Built Next 50:10 - Mind-blowing Predictions 57:31 - Supernova in 5 Years 1:03:28 - Staying Alive

Really enjoyed this conversation. So much to unpack. Podcast dropping tomorrow 🔥

The future isn’t just Web3. It’s AI Web3 at scale. Proud to speak at @CryptoExpoEu 2026 about what @MultiversX is unlocking next: infrastructure, adoption, and intelligent decentralized systems. See you in Bucharest 🚀 #MultiversX #AI

UNFOLDING LIVE: MultiversX Introduces Universal Identity and Trust Layer for Agentic Systems via MX-8004 🔥 The 8004 standard is coming to MultiversX. It is our implementation of the ERC-8004 Trustless Agents standard and introduces a native identity and registry layer for autonomous systems. Soulbound agent identities. Onchain job validation with oracle verification. Reputation scoring anchored in verified work. Deterministic cross-contract reads tying it all together. The contracts are deployed. The code is public. The Explorer is indexing it. This is the universal trust layer for agents, on MultiversX. beniaminmincu.substack.com/p…

FRESH OFF THE PRESS: MultiversX Unveils Flagship Multi-Protocol Universal Agentic Commerce Stack 🔥 AI agents have now moved from experimentation to economic actors in production. They schedule travel, reconcile invoices, manage inventory, trigger payments, and coordinate workflows with minimal human involvement. Until very recently, the underlying infrastructure has lagged behind. Most payment protocols and blockchain systems were designed around interactive users, manual approvals, and sporadic transactions. Agent-driven systems operate continuously, programmatically, and across multiple environments. They require different assumptions at the protocol level. Over the past months, MultiversX has implemented a set of protocol integrations designed specifically for this mode of operation. Together, they form a complete stack for agentic commerce: discovery, authorization, execution, settlement, and performance.

Bringing @xMoney_com's infrastructure to @dominos Greece is a short sentence with a lot behind it. Food ordering is one of those environments where payments either work... or they don’t. Expanding this partnership is another step toward making payments something people never have to think about, even when everything is happening at once. That’s the vision. This is where payment systems earn their credibility. We're ready!

Another day another way for agents to transact on @MultiversX