🪼 Smack Back now has prizes. Play daily on @XPRNetwork, and every day you play is an entry into the weekly Mythic draw. This week: Deep Blue Monarch, 1 of 1. Plus collectible badges. Free, Face ID, no fees. jelli.protonnz.com/game

⚡️NEW: FedNow, the Fed’s instant payment service for U.S. financial institutions, is going CROSS-BORDER, but it is NOT using stablecoins. FedNow will handle the U.S. leg of international payments in DOLLARS, while correspondent banks handle the overseas leg. That puts stablecoins in direct competition, as banks gain a 24/7 regulated alternative for faster cross-border payments.

Almost 700k ethereum:0xd7efb00d12c2c13131fd319336fdf952525da2af given away back to the community! A cool marketplace,NFTs and more. New updates soon. dice.blocksforge.com/

BTC, LTC and DOGE now deployed as VMs on @MetalBlockchain Credits to @paulgrey

Introducing XMD on Ethereum. One stablecoin. Many ways to mint and redeem with leading financial institutions. The era of fragmented liquidity across stablecoin ecosystems comes to an end. That’s Metal.

Accelerate.

🚨TODAY: The SEC just released NEW FAQs on CRYPTO assets, clarifying how securities laws apply to certain tokens and transactions. KEY POINTS: - A token and the investment contract used to sell it are not necessarily the same. A token can later exist as a non-security crypto asset. - Functionality and decentralization depend partly on what the issuer actually promised buyers. - Staking receipt tokens are not automatically securities. Some may qualify as digital tools or digital commodities. - A true crypto “receipt” only represents ownership of the underlying asset. The issuer cannot lend, pledge or rehypothecate it. - Marketing a network’s utility or future features alone does not necessarily create an investment contract. - If another party takes over the issuer’s promises, the investment contract does not automatically disappear. - Developers can continue maintaining and upgrading a functional network without those efforts necessarily satisfying Howey. - On a decentralized network with no central controller, issuer statements are less likely to create a new investment contract. - Token buybacks are not automatically securities-related, unless tied to promised yield or returns before the network is functional. - Exchanges offering secondary trading are not automatically considered promoters. OVERALL, the new SEC FAQ is focusing more on what the token actually represents, how functional and decentralized the network is, who controls it, and what was promised to buyers. Of note, these are FAQs issued by the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance staff, NOT new SEC rules.

FedNow just took another step into cross border. 1,700 US banks and CUs already on the rail. Proposed rule lets them use correspondent banks so FedNow settles the US leg in seconds. International piece still rides the old correspondent network. Not a global Fed rail. But it is instant USD settlement bolted onto the same problem @Ripple has been selling XRP for. So why would a bank pay for Ripple / XRP as the bridge when they can just sit on FedNow? They already have the Fed account. They already have the compliance stack. They already have correspondents. Instant domestic settlement is now the default, not a pitch. The remaining pain is the foreign leg and the last-mile wallet / member experience. That’s where @MetallicusTDBN actually sits. Metallicus is a certified FedNow service provider (Send, Receive, Liquidity Management, Request for Payment). Banks and credit unions can plug into FedNow and run @MetalBlockchain + @XPRNetwork for the speed and cost they actually feel: instant, cheap, on-chain identity, BSA-friendly rails, white-label @webauthwallet so the institution keeps the member relationship instead of handing it to another fintech. FedNow does the regulated USD instant settle. Metal / XPR / WebAuth is the stack they white-label on top so the bank doesn’t need a separate crypto vendor and a separate wallet vendor. Ripple still has a story on thin corridors with no correspondent depth. For the US bank that already lives on Fed rails? The question is getting louder: Why add XRP to the flow when FedNow + a certified provider that already white-labels the wallet is sitting right there? Not financial advice. Just the architecture. finance.yahoo.com/markets/cu…

I built a portfolio dashboard for XPR Network and Metal Blockchain! 🚀 XPR Pulse is now live → xprpulse.com Built for the Metallicus community. It's a real-time dashboard for the ecosystem: 📊 Token Explorer — live prices, 24h volume, TVL & candlestick charts (1m → 1d) for every token on Metal X (XPR, METAL, XMD, LOAN, xTokens, and more) 💼 Portfolio Tracker — connect your WebAuth wallet and plug in ALL your XPR Network and Metal Blockchain accounts. Sees liquid balances, staked XPR, LP positions, yield farms, Metal chain stakes — everything valued and totalled 🔬 Research Assistant — AI-powered, ask it anything about the ecosystem 📰 News Feed — curated XPR / Metal / crypto news in one place Pro tier unlocks extra features and it's paid entirely through a 'payment streaming', made possible by the XPR Network — no credit cards, no middlemen. You stream 7.5 XMD per 30 days through the vest contract, and you can withdraw your unstreamed balance any time. First native streaming subscription on XPR Network 👀 Check it out: xprpulse.com

We are investigating an issue affecting Metal Blockchain staking visibility and P-Chain Explorer functionality. Thank you for your patience. status.xprnetwork.org/incide…

Metal Blockchain and XPR Network are not competitors in the stack — they do different jobs. If A-Chain sits between private subnets, that solves coordination / settlement. It does not suddenly make the user-facing liquidity, trading, wallet UX, and asset layer irrelevant. That’s where XPR Network comes in. XPR Network is the retail + access + liquidity rail. Metal Blockchain is the institutional + compliance + subnet rail. You need both. Without Metal Blockchain, you lose the infrastructure for compliant institutional flows. Without XPR Network, you lose the gasless UX, WebAuth rails, Metal X access, and the place where users actually interact with assets. So no — the thesis is not “Metal Blockchain wins, therefore XPR doesn’t matter.” The real thesis is: Metal Blockchain expands the backend. XPR Network remains the frontend liquidity and user access layer. One powers the institutional machine. The other powers the network effect. And in crypto, the chain with the users still matters.

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This is how i built the cloud trading bot vaults 👇 You own the vault. full control, always. The keeper bot gets one permission: trade... it can't call any other vault action. And every trade is fenced by your own price bands and daily budget. Native @XPRNetwork permissions, no custodian.

The future of institutional DeFi won’t be oracle-based bridging, it will be private bank and credit union subnets over warp messaging on @MetalBlockchain with digital identity.

Warming up…

UPDATE: @SimpleDEXFun Updates — September 24 NEW: One-Transfer Multi-Hop Swaps (for bots, aggregators & power users) - Route a swap through up to 4 pools with a single token transfer — memo: route:<pool1>,<pool2>,...:<minOut> - No direction flags needed: the contract works out each hop from the token you send, and the whole route is atomic (any failed check refunds everything) - Same pattern aggregators already use on other XPR Network DEXes — so SimpleDEX pools can now be part of their routes - Docs for developers & AI agents: simpledex.fun/llms-trading.t… Smart Contract Upgrade — SimpleDEX V2.1a (live on mainnet) - Paused pools are now blocked on every swap path - Deposits only accept the pool's own tokens — fake or unrelated tokens are rejected - New pools must use each token's real decimal precision, so liquidity can never get stuck in a mis-configured pool - Fairer multi-hop fees: a multi-pool swap now pays the protocol fee for every pool it uses, the same as doing the swaps one by one - Two independent code reviews, tested against the live contract code with 60+ automated checks, verified end-to-end on testnet (including a full token launch → graduation), and deployed via a 2-of-4 multisig Security: Admin Keys Moved to Multisig - Control of the DEX contract now sits with a 2-of-4 multisig behind a timelock — no single key can change it Live Trades - Token pages now update in near real time — everyone's buys and sells appear within about 30 seconds, not just your own - Swap quotes now include the protocol fee, so "minimum received" matches what you actually get - TikTok links now show on token pages (thanks MsJb for the feedback!) More Accurate Portfolios, PnL & Tax Data - Bonding-curve accounting rebuilt to be exact: every buy, sell and claim now reconciles to the chain to the last unit - 3,000+ previously missing swaps restored to trade history, plus two-step swaps that weren't being recorded - Fixed PnL double-counting of tokens bought on the curve and later claimed - Cross-checked against tax.protonnz.com's independent on-chain booking — every test account matches - Tax exports: tax.protonnz.com For Developers & Agents - New API: GET /api/portfolio/:account/holdings — all on-chain token balances valued in USD - Trade history API now supports cursor paging and type filters, so even accounts with millions of trades page quickly - AI-agent guides (llms.txt) updated with the new swap route, exact fee maths and error codes Faster, Tougher Backend - Point-in-time database backups with a tested restore - The indexer now recovers on its own from database restarts - Our full-history Hyperion node now repairs its own gaps automatically, and alerts us if anything goes missing Try it: simpledex.fun Powered by @XPRNetwork - thanks for voting @protonnz when you stake $XPR 🫡⚛️

RT @metalpaysme: Crypto sentiment shifted fast. The Fear & Greed Index climbed from Neutral at 51 last week to Greed at 71 today, after re…

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RT @paulgrey: 🛠️ xpragents.com update Made the job board faster and more resilient: 🔹 SDK v0.5.0 on npm - npm i @xpr-agents/sdk…

RT @XPRNetwork: ALL. SYSTEMS. GO. ⚛️ Instant transactions. Zero gas fees. Your @ username, your identity. This is XPR Network. https://t.…