After 6+ years, we're moving on. Over this time we: - Built a layer-1 that has produced 300M+ blocks without going down - Designed an onchain account management system used by 65,000 users - Worked with numerous blue chip partners including the likes of AMD and Ubisoft - Shipped a desktop client, browser extension, mobile friendly wallet, and various other onchain tools and services. We created an entire stack, owned and built by us. We promised to take blockchain gaming mainstream. Unfortunately, we didn't. Our plan failed, innovation in gaming was far from where we expected, and we ourselves made plenty mistakes. So today we're pulling the plug. Or should we say, We're becoming the plug. Introducing the Ultra Stack. Everything we built for ourselves, we can now build for you. Ultra is taking companies from offchain to onchain by unlocking business models that were previously impossible. Whether you spin up a new network or launch on Ultra Mainnet, run it yourself or let us manage it, the choice is yours. Our full technology suite is modular by design, so we deploy only what your business needs. All stacks are natively interoperable as part of the Ultrachain, a network of layer-1 networks, connecting all our partners with Ultra Mainnet as the central hub. The last cycle was about launching your own stack. This cycle is about plugging everyone in. Ultra September 2026

Do you know that Ultra runs on a closed set of globally distributed validators across 4 continents. Producing new blocks every 0.4 seconds with perfect uptime since launch in 2021. Ultra deliberately optimized it's validator design for reliability and performance to avoid unexpected outages and network degradation. So far so good!

Ultra used to take about 3 minutes to finalize a transaction. Since our Antelope Spring upgrade in April, it takes <1 second. For reference Ethereum is 13 minutes, and Solana is 13 seconds.

Free transactions could mean free spam, so we built POWER. Accounts stake for a share of network capacity, and when the chain gets congested those transactions go first. We also reserve 20% of capacity for everyone else, so any account can still transact under load.

On Ultra, transactions are completely free. No gas, no per-transaction fee, and no cost that grows with usage. We're built for teams who need scale on-chain.

Ultra is first and foremost a blockchain technology company. We built a Layer-1 that has produced blocks continuously since 2021, with 100% uptime and zero security breaches. We own the infrastructure, ready for any team that needs to scale on-chain.

*coughs* Custom Layer-1 Blockchain, Easy Blockchain Accounts Desktop Application, Game Store incl. GDC, NFT Launchpad & Marketplace, Tournament Platform, Chrome Wallet Extension, Tokenized game ownership, ... Gaming hasn't paid off but Ultra's team achieved plenty over the years.

5 years, 325,000,000 blocks, 185,000,000 transactions, 65,000 accounts, 100% uptime, 0 breaches.

46% of you said games, 32% said technology. What would actually bring you back to Ultra? The technology never left, tell us what you'd like to see built on it.

Wen Tether audit? nOw. Today Tether announces its first full financial audit for Tether International, conducted by KPMG U.S. which resulted in an unqualified clean opinion, marking the highest result possible. An unqualified opinion is the best possible audit opinion an independent auditor can issue. (“unqualified” in accounting jargon means without reservations — not that the audit was incomplete). Tether’s financial audit, by at least an order of magnitude, is the largest inaugural audit in the history of finance. My congratulations go to the entire Tether team and especially to our Finance function, which demonstrated its ability, precision and commitment to complete this review process within the highest standards across the whole digital assets and global financial industry. We couldn’t be more proud. Despite our Company being subject to several years of detractors’ false claims, competitors lies, political attacks and misinformed coverage by several mainstream newspapers trying desperately to discredit us for the benefit of their friends in the tall ivory towers, Tether delivered what it promised: a full financial audit issued by a Big Four accounting firm, KPMG U.S. Tether created the stablecoin industry with USD₮ in 2014, revolutionizing the whole financial industry. Today everyone talks about stablecoins, yet it all started 12 years ago, with a tiny team and a big mission. We were there when no one else could understand the disruptive potential of what we invented. Our Company has evolved into one of the most financially significant and operationally sophisticated private companies in the world. This audit demonstrates that our financial infrastructure and governance have evolved alongside that responsibility. Today, more than 650 million users across all emerging markets continue to rely on Tether daily, choosing USD₮ as their currency, for their life savings, for their commerce, for the future of their children. These are people that have been left behind by the traditional financial system and they trust our Company to remain resilient amidst all the global uncertainty that plagues the world - the proof of that stability is no longer just a Tether promise; it's now an independent signed opinion. “Never cared for what they say Never cared for games they play Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know And I know Nothing Else Matters”

ATTENTION: Many have said Ultra created one of the most die hard communities they had ever seen. Truth is we failed many of you trying to do too much at the time. In this reflection we want to know: What is the real reason why you started following Ultra?

Ultra is probably not going to win as the liquidity-seeking solution, but it could as an infrastructure-seeking solution.

This is our reality. We're rebuilding from close to zero, and we know it. No shortcuts or big claims. Making building on Ultra more accessible is part of it. Slow and steady.

We used our public knowledge base to build a demo on-chain messaging application. Yes, the app is basic and probably useless, but that's the point. With the KB and Claude Code it took only a few hours. It's now easier that ever to build dapps on Ultra. Try it out: chatroom.ultra.io/ Knowledge base: github.com/ultraio/ultra-age… Chatroom repo: github.com/ultraio/ULtra-Cha…