Today is a sad day in Brisbane and across our Proton Pussy family. 💛🐾 At 2:33 pm on Saturday, 26 September, our new baby Pippa Pussy Monster was euthanized after an unfortunate event. We are heartbroken and still in shock. Pippa was our sweet, kind monster with big paws and an even bigger heart. She never got the chance to become a meme token, but she became part of our family. Her short life and the love she brought to the Pussyverse will stay with us forever. And no more Pippa Golden Showers of love raining down on us. Rest gently, Pippa. ✨

Marshall Hayner Quote of the day; 26th Sept 2026 @MarshallHayner @MetallicusTDBN

405 MILLION+ BLOCKS. ⚛️ Six years of XPR Network. Block after block. ~0.5 seconds at a time. The infrastructure didn't appear overnight — it's been running and evolving for years. And now? ACCELERATE. 🚀 “Six years of blocks behind us. Now comes the acceleration.” 🎥 Featuring Paul Grey — Business Development Manager, Metallicus @XPRNetwork @MetallicusTDBN @paulgrey #XPRNetwork #Metallicus piped.video/shorts/G50B39Tn_…

🏦 Another piece of the future banking architecture just appeared. IBM is connecting its Digital Asset Haven to Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger, allowing banks to initiate tokenized-deposit transactions using standard ISO 20022 messages. Think about what that means: 🏦 Existing banking infrastructure 📡 ISO 20022 messaging 💵 Tokenized deposits ⛓️ Blockchain execution ⚡ 24/7 movement of value 🔐 Institutional control & compliance 🌐 Existing financial rails for settlement Blockchain isn't replacing the banking system. It's increasingly becoming infrastructure inside it. And that's why I'm watching Metallicus, PulseVM, TDBN, DaLand and Coin2Core so closely. Different companies. Different implementations. Same architectural direction. The Internet of Banks is taking shape. 🌐🏦 @MetallicusTDBN @XPRNetwork @MetalBlockchain #Metallicus #PulseVM #TDBN #TokenizedDeposits #Stablecoins #Blockchain #Banking

🤖⚛️ XPR AGENTS — ANOTHER MAINNET SECURITY UPGRADE Paul Grey continues hardening the infrastructure behind autonomous agents on XPR Network. A new batch of security fixes has now been merged and deployed to mainnet through multisig, with Paul confirming the deployed contract hashes match the reviewed builds. The improvements strengthen: 🔐 Agent escrow ⚖️ Arbitration & dispute handling 🛡️ Validation challenges 🧹 Contract storage protection 💰 Platform-fee enforcement 🤝 Trusted-arbitrator controls But the bigger story isn't another GitHub PR. It's the security model beginning to emerge: On-chain rules where blockchain can enforce them. Off-chain trust policies where it can't. Add what we've already been watching: 🔑 Fine-grained agent permissions 👤 Agent identity 💵 Escrowed settlement 🤖 Permissioned automation ✍️ Chain + recipient-bound signatures 🏦 Human-defined guardrailsThis is what the machine economy actually needs. Not AI agents with unlimited access to money. AI agents with identity, permissions, limits and accountability. That's a much more interesting future. 👀 @MetallicusTDBN @XPRNetwork @airobotkitty ethereum:0xd7efb00d12c2c13131fd319336fdf952525da2af $METAL #XPRNetwork #Metallicus #AI #Blockchain

🚨 $XMD → ETHEREUM WATCH The picture is getting clearer. Metal Dollar says its Ethereum deployment is underway — bringing: 🔵 Native $XMD minting 🔵 Native redemption 🔵 No bridge required 🔵 Access to Ethereum DeFi & liquidity But here's the key detail 👀 The official Ethereum contract address has not yet been published. That’s the milestone I'm watching next. Once that contract goes live, we can start watching where $XMD liquidity flows — DEXs, lending markets, integrations and potentially a much bigger multi-chain role. XPR Network ⚛️ Ethereum ♦️ Metal Blockchain ⛓️ Metal L2 🏦 The Metal Dollar story is expanding. @MetalDollarXMD @MetallicusTDBN @XPRNetwork #XMD #Ethereum #DeFi #Metallicus

🚨 $50 TRILLION CRYPTO MARKET CAP THIS CYCLE? Sounds crazy… until you think about what may actually be coming. Bruce Stewart's thesis is that crypto has finally found real product-market fit. But the part that really grabs me is AI agents. 🤖 Potentially 1 BILLION AI agents by 2029. These machines won’t just generate text and images. They’ll transact. They’ll buy services. They’ll sell services. They’ll trade. They’ll negotiate. They’ll manage assets. They’ll pay other AI agents. And suddenly the question becomes: What financial rails are built for billions of autonomous machines making transactions 24/7? Not bank branches. Not business hours. Not card networks designed around humans. AI agents need programmable money, digital identity, wallets, smart contracts and blockchain settlement. That’s why I keep saying: AI may become one of the biggest users of crypto ever created. So could crypto reach a $50 TRILLION market cap this cycle? That’s an enormous forecast — definitely not a certainty. But if we’re moving toward a world of 1 billion AI agents operating inside a tokenized global economy, then maybe we need to start thinking much bigger about the infrastructure required to power it. 🌎 Humans built the internet. 🤖 AI agents may build the machine economy. ⛓️ Crypto could become its financial system. Metallicus has built the infrastructure. @MetallicusTDBN @MetalBlockchain @XPRNetwork $BTC $ETH ethereum:0xd7efb00d12c2c13131fd319336fdf952525da2af ethereum:0xf433089366899d83a9f26a773d59ec7ecf30355e #Crypto #AI #Blockchain #AIAgents #MachineEconomy

Metal Blockchain Is Bigger Than Most People Realize 👀 Listen as a senior Metal Blockchain validator dev breaks it down: EVM compatibility. Gasless transactions. Tokenized assets. Credit union infrastructure. No dependence on vulnerable third-party bridges. 🙊 This is why I keep saying people are sleeping on what @MetallicusTDBN is building. metal-blockchain:native isn’t just another chain, it’s infrastructure designed for the real-world financial economy. Know What You Hold!!! 🔥 #KWYH #XPR #MetalBlockchain #Crypto #Tokenization #RWA

405 MILLION+ BLOCKS. ⚛️ And XPR Network keeps producing another one roughly every half second. That’s the part of blockchain infrastructure people often overlook. It isn’t built overnight. It’s built block by block, year after year — until suddenly the infrastructure that has been quietly running in the background is ready for something much bigger. From XPR Network to the expanding Metallicus ecosystem, the pieces are starting to connect. Identity. Payments. Stablecoins. DeFi. Institutional infrastructure. Six years of blocks behind us. Now comes the acceleration. 🚀 @XPRNetwork @MetallicusTDBN @protonnz #XPRNetwork #Metallicus #Blockchain #Fintech

Metallicus Internet of Banks Ecosystem Metal Blockchain = connectivity / coordination layer PulseVM = banking & financial-institution execution BitcoinVM = Bitcoin-oriented execution Warp/ICM = communication between chains Digital identity = institutional compliance layer XMD / stablecoins = programmable money & liquidity @MetallicusTDBN

This one from Marshall Hayner really connects the dots. ⚛️🏦 The future of institutional DeFi may look very different from simply bridging banks into public DeFi. Think: 🏦 Private bank & credit union subnets 🔗 Warp Messaging 🪪 Digital identity ⚛️ Metal Blockchain 💵 Stablecoins & institutional liquidity Each institution operating within its own rules and compliance environment — while still being able to communicate across a connected blockchain ecosystem. This is the Internet of Banks thesis starting to take shape. Not blockchain replacing banks. Banks becoming part of the blockchain. And @MetallicusTDBN is building toward that architecture. $METAL $MTL ethereum:0xd7efb00d12c2c13131fd319336fdf952525da2af $XMD #MetalBlockchain #Metallicus #DeFi #CreditUnions #Stablecoins #Blockchain

Meet the Proton Pussy family! 🐾💜 🎩 Uncle Monty brings his wisdom. 🪽 Flappy our super girl, flies to the rescue. 💛 Pippa the Monster Pussy, keeps on delivering her golden shower of love to everyone. Three characters, three Gold Ring tokens, one growing Pussyverse. Which one is your favourite? ✨ @protonpussymeme #ProtonPussy #XPRNetwork

🚨 METAL BLOCKCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE Another important piece of the underlying stack is moving forward. ⚙️ Granite is now live on the Tahoe testnet, while PulseVM has merged compatibility with the latest MetalGo infrastructure. Why does this matter? 🔐 More mature validator infrastructure ⛓️ Support for evolving validator sets 🏦 Better foundations for sovereign institutional networks ⚡ Continued PulseVM + Metal Blockchain development For the Metal L2 Homecoming story, this doesn’t change the $MTL/XMD thesis—but it strengthens the infrastructure underneath the wider architecture. One important distinction: this does not yet confirm that Metal L2 will use these specific validator-management mechanisms. But the direction continues: Different networks. Specialized execution. Shared infrastructure. The plumbing behind the Internet of Banks keeps getting built. 🌐🏦 #MetalBlockchain #MetalL2 #Metallicus #PulseVM #MTL #XMD #TDBN

⚛️ PULSEVM — THE XPR COMPATIBILITY LAYER IS TAKING SHAPE Another meaningful development in the XPR Network → PulseVM story. Two important pieces have now merged into PulseVM: 🔵 RPC protocol v45 Bringing PulseVM into alignment with MetalGo 1.14.2 / Granite. 🟣 Native /v1/chain compatibility PulseVM can expose the familiar nodeos-style APIs already used across the XPR ecosystem — including account queries, tables, required keys and transaction submission. Why does that matter? Because the goal isn't simply to build a faster blockchain. It's to make existing XPR infrastructure able to recognize and interact with PulseVM without rebuilding everything from scratch. Think: ⚛️ Existing accounts 🔑 Existing permissions & keys 🧩 Existing XPR tooling 📱 Existing applications ⛓️ New PulseVM infrastructure underneath That could make an eventual crossover feel less like: “Move to a completely different blockchain.” and more like: “Upgrade the engine while preserving the ecosystem. There's another interesting development too: PulseVM has moved to the PulseVM Business License, with commercial deployment licensed by Metallicus while the contract development kits remain MIT. ⚠️ Important distinction: these are real merged engineering developments, but they do not constitute confirmation that an XPR mainnet migration has begun or has a launch date. The production decision still belongs to Metallicus and network governance. But piece by piece, the technical path is becoming much easier to see. XPR NETWORK → PULSEVM Same ecosystem. New infrastructure. Bigger possibilities. ⚛️ ethereum:0xd7efb00d12c2c13131fd319336fdf952525da2af $METAL #XPRNetwork #PulseVM #Metallicus #MetalBlockchain

⚡ **PulseVM just took another important step toward institutional deployment.** The **Granite upgrade is now live on Tahoe**, adding validator-epoch functionality for sovereign L1 networks. But there’s another development worth watching: 🏦 **PulseVM now has a commercial licensing framework through Metallicus.** Public for testing, research & development. Commercial deployments require licensing from **Metallicus**. Meanwhile, **The Clearing House** has selected Quant for an on-chain initiative connecting **tokenized deposits** with existing RTP + CHIPS banking rails. Different infrastructure. Same direction. **Blockchain is moving underneath the banking system.** And Metallicus is positioning PulseVM for that world. ⚛️ Sovereign networks 💵 Stablecoins & tokenized deposits 🏦 Institutional infrastructure 🔗 Existing financial rails 🌐 Programmable money The Internet of Banks isn't one network. **It's an emerging architecture.** #Metallicus #PulseVM #MetalBlockchain #TDBN #TokenizedDeposits #Stablecoins #Blockchain

Regulatory clarity does not finish the stablecoin race. It starts it. 🏁 After CLARITY and the GENIUS Act, the conversation moves beyond headlines toward: 🔹 Custody 🔹 Liquidity 🔹 Compliance 🔹 Interoperability 🔹 Production deployment Pilots are not the finish line. The winners will be those capable of turning regulation into working financial infrastructure. 🎥 Episode 25: After CLARITY—The Real Stablecoin Race Begins #CLARITYAct #GENIUSAct #Stablecoins #Blockchain #DigitalBanking piped.video/shorts/8_RsY6Xr5…

Episode 29 is coming. THE MACHINE-NATIVE ECONOMY Who Builds the Banking Layer for AI? Stablecoins may have opened the gates. Now AI agents, tokenized assets, programmable money and onchain markets are starting to walk through them. AI can think. Blockchain can settle. Stablecoins can pay. Tokenization can represent assets. Banks and credit unions connect all of it back to the real economy. And that leads to the bigger question: What financial system will AI agents actually live inside? Mavis doesn’t merely need cryptocurrency. Mavis needs an economy. Episode 29 explores the infrastructure behind that future — identity, permissions, wallets, stablecoins, liquidity, markets, settlement and the banking layer connecting machines to the real world. ⚛️ Metallicus 🤖 AI agents 💵 Programmable money 🏦 Banks & credit unions ⛓️ Onchain settlement The machine-native economy is beginning to take shape. @MetallicusTDBN

Meet Pippa Monster Pussy, the newest member of the Proton Pussy family! 🐾💛 She’s fluffy, fearless, and famous for giving friends a Golden Shower of Love—a sparkling rain of hearts for everyone in the Pussyverse. ✨ Big paws. Bigger heart. Welcome, Pippa! 😻 @protonpussymeme #ProtonPussy #XPRNetwork

Marshall Hayner Quote of the day; 24th Sept 2026 @MarshallHayner @MetallicusTDBN

👀 This caught my attention. The U.S. Faster Payments Council is increasingly looking at FedNow, RTP, stablecoins, tokenized deposits and blockchain infrastructure as parts of the same evolving payments landscape. Meanwhile, Metallicus’ Frank Mazza remains involved with the FPC through its Board Advisory Group and Digital Assets Work Group. No — this does not mean the FPC has selected Metallicus technology. But the direction of the conversation matters. 🏦 Faster payments 💵 Stablecoins 🪪 Digital identity ⛓️ Blockchain 🔗 Interoperability Two worlds are starting to converge. Deep dive coming soon. #Metallicus #MetalBlockchain #FedNow #Stablecoins #FasterPayments