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We're at Meridian next week: CRO Manu Marchal (@manumarchal) and Head of Product Aaron Cottrell (@aaron_cottrell) are in Lisbon October 28–29. Message Manu or Aaron to find time to discuss institutional-grade access to Stellar: RPC, Horizon, RPC v2, and Tier 1 validator hosting. → validationcloud.io/stellar

mump2p from @get_optimum is live on Ethereum mainnet and the performance boost is impressive. Since implementing we’ve seen over 98% of blocks arrive faster, with an average speed boost of 2.2 times faster than libp2p.

Institutions have stopped asking whether tokenization will happen. The questions now are about how. @tradeon21x CTO Marc Hegen joins Alex Nwaka (@anwaka) on High Stakes: a few years ago the question was whether anyone would get licensed. Now it's custody, compliance, wallet integration, throughput. A regulated venue can't meet its SLAs or incident-reporting deadlines if its infrastructure partners don't. Performance and compliance are one requirement, not two. Watch the newest High Stakes episode here ↓ piped.video/AJdQ1CApND0?si=lAPP…

Arc Mainnet is live! Validation Cloud supports it from day one. → Full-archive Mainnet + Testnet RPC → Multi-region global infrastructure → 99.99% uptime → Ranked #1 globally for API response speed Get started: validationcloud.io/arc

What happens when AI agents start executing more financial transactions than humans? @blockaid_ Co-Founder & CTO Raz Niv (@R4ZN1V) joins Alex Nwaka (@anwaka) on High Stakes to discuss why crypto could become a natural payment layer for AI agents and the new security challenges that come with it. Watch ↓ piped.video/watch?v=JrBXgZSh…

Native USDT0, Stellar speed. No wrapped assets or fragmented liquidity, just dollars builders can actually ship with: settlement in seconds, fees that round to zero. Start building: developers.stellar.org/launc…

Getting dollars onto @StellarOrg is just the beginning. Use them to settle cross-border transfers, power B2B payments, or put idle balances to work. The dollars you know, faster, better, and everywhere.

What changes when banks stop treating blockchain as an experiment and start treating it as financial infrastructure? @mcvviriato, CEO of Parfin, the company behind @RaylsLabs, joins @anwaka on High Stakes to discuss stablecoins, collateral mobility, and what banks may put into production over the next 18 months. Watch the newest episode here ↓ piped.video/1i9woSpC5iA?si=E4kU…

What's the future of financial markets? Our CEO Xin Song (@xinsong86) talked with Alex Nwaka (@anwaka) about Wall Street, crypto regulation, trust as currency, and building GSR. Watch here:

Wall Street's real currency was never speed - it was trust. @xinsong86 built @GSR_io the same way: hard lines, regulation treated as an edge, the kind of culture tier-one banks want to work with. In crypto, that's not caution - it's the moat. Watch: piped.video/watch?v=QiX9etO6…

AI's next bottleneck may not be compute. It's trusted data — and verifiable records are what blockchains were built for. Andrea Muttoni (@devrelius), CEO of The DATA Foundation (@datafdn), and Avi Patel (@avipat_), Chief Data Officer, join Alex Nwaka (@anwaka) on High Stakes Ep. 32. Watch ↓ piped.video/9WM5yWvDccE?si=wXT1…

Node API is now programmable and agentic on Scale and Enterprise plans. The new Admin API lets you provision endpoints, pull CU usage, and automate it all in CI/CD. We also open-sourced a Claude Code skill: github.com/validationcloud/s…

Always a pleasure to sit down with @AlexNwaka. BlackRock's announcement yesterday tokenizing existing money market funds with billions of AUM is a step-function signal for Ethereum and the institutional adoption supercycle. We are going from tens of billions, to hundreds of billions, to trillions of tokenized assets, and they are going to launch on Ethereum.

20+ years at BlackRock. Now CEO of @Sharplink. @joechalom joins @AlexNwaka to discuss Ethereum, tokenization, and why institutional adoption is only getting started. Watch: piped.video/watch?v=r9lt41B9…

Every onchain app needs a reliable way to connect to the blockchain. That's why @ValidationCloud is now powering a trusted RPC for the Rayls Public Chain. For builders, that means: • Better uptime and scalability • Faster and more reliable connections • Access to the full history of the chain through archive nodes • Infrastructure run by an independent, enterprise-grade provider trusted across the industry One more step toward making Rayls ready for institutional-scale finance. Claim 50M free compute units to get started: validationcloud.io/rayls

We're excited to support the @RaylsLabs with enterprise-grade RPC infrastructure. As the Rayls Public Chain expands its ecosystem, developers need infrastructure they can rely on. With Validation Cloud's RPC, builders get institutional-grade high-performance access to the network, archive node support, and infrastructure trusted by leading institutions worldwide. Start building on Rayls with 50M free compute units/month: validationcloud.io/rayls

Tokenized real-world assets are moving onchain. @ValidationCloud is a Launch Partner for @RobinhoodCrypto, providing full-archive RPC infrastructure for Robinhood Chain mainnet and testnet. For builders and institutions: • 99.99% uptime, low-latency connections • Full archive nodes for complete chain history • SOC 2 Type II-certified infrastructure Get started with 50M free Compute Units/month: validationcloud.io/robinhood