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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
@telcoin is hard to grasp at first, because it’s MUCH bigger than a product.
It’s an entire ecosystem, nearly 10 years in the making. The vision is massive, the promises sound crazy, and the price is asleep.
Yet I’ve never been more excited for what’s coming. 🚀
$TEL
I’ve been openly critical of the pace of Telcoin’s development. With a background in IT program management in banking, I understand the complexity involved and the importance of clear delivery updates.
After today’s @TelcoinTAO meeting, my confidence is growing.
The discussion felt more grounded in the nuts and bolts: completed tasks, work in progress and remaining blockers. That level of detail builds credibility.
As an outside observer, the team appears to be finding its rhythm. The meetings are becoming more professional and increasingly reflect the seriousness I’d expect from a project with these ambitions.
One constructive suggestion: where practical, turn cameras on when presenting. It’s something I encourage in delivery meetings because it strengthens engagement and makes the discussion feel more professional and personal.
I still have reservations about whether mainnet will launch in 2026, but today’s discussion eased them.
For the first time in a while, I’m actually excited about where things are heading. I’ve been willing to criticise the pace; I’m equally willing to recognise progress.
Credit where it’s due. Keep this level of transparency coming.
@Telcoin @TelcoinPaul @P4Cap @EleanorTerrett @RaoulGMI @paulbarron @SECPaulSAtkins
$TEL #Telcoin #Blockchain
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The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.
“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.
The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.
Incentives determine outcomes
If you give an NGO a certain number of dollars per homeless person, they will never solve homelessness
SF spends more than $1b/yr (up 5x) and the homeless population has only grown
NGO fraud is so insane, man.
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👀 Most “crypto bank accounts” are just fintech wrappers.
@telcoin is different.
You get a real U.S. account number.
ACH dollars in.
$eUSD mints 1:1 into a wallet you control.
Bank charter. Fed rails. On-chain dollars.
That’s the product.
Ticker is $TEL
The new Telcoin Wallet is here.
US residents can now open a bank account directly connected to on-chain digital dollars.
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
🔴 LIVE: President Trump and Xi Jinping are delivering remarks to the media at the White House
The legacy media has a camera but are REFUSING to use it without CNN, MS NOW, and Politico being let in.
Ain't happening! nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1YxNrbqDW…
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Telcoin is going to surprise a lot of people. Ticker is $TEL
We’re thrilled to support the ethereum:0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f upgrade ahead of Telcoin Network mainnet.
Telcoin Wallet users can upgrade to new TEL in a few taps beginning this Thursday, September 24th.
For holders using external wallets and exchanges, visit the official portal: tel3.telcoin.network/
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
The ethereum:0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f upgrade begins on September 24th.
Find step-by-step guidance, FAQ answers, and the latest exchange statuses on the official site: tel3.telcoin.network
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
Stablecoins will play a huge role in the future of digital assets – and can be a powerful tool to strengthen the US dollar.
With the GENIUS Act now law, I asked @SecScottBessent about getting rule making right and ensuring America leads during this era of crypto innovation 👇
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So you vote NO on regulating Crypto? Make that make sense 🫠
Today, I voted no on the Clarity Act, legislation meant to regulate cryptocurrency in America.
The ethics provisions in this bill are simply too thin. President Trump, his children, and his Cabinet are making billions of dollars in the crypto space, in part from bilking everyday Americans out of their hard-earned money. I cannot in good conscience vote for any legislation that codifies that behavior from public officials. Not for President Trump or Secretary Lutnick today, nor for any Democrat who may take advantage of it in the future.
On the national security front, there is more to be done to make sure we have the tools in place to stop money laundering and shut down funding avenues for terrorists and nations like North Korea and Iran. This was essential after 9/11 and remains essential to keep Americans safe.
And as of now, our agencies, including the CFTC, lack the necessary oversight and staffing to implement this legislation, and that should be addressed.
There are strong, bipartisan provisions in this bill that could serve as the foundation for a new attempt at providing the crypto industry with the guardrails it needs. I believe that the U.S. should lead the world in cryptocurrency innovation, but we need to get it right. I remain open-minded to that work ahead.
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
Totally false. I met with you and the Indian Gaming Association on June 25, and you were consulted on this fix at this meeting and did not express opposition.
News: Indian Gaming Association Chair David Z. Bean says in a statement this morning that recent changes to the Clarity Act to carve out prediction markets from DeFi exemption language “do not address the concerns of Indian Country”
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
In July, I called on the Senate to advance the Clarity Act — a bill to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and upgrade our ability to prevent bad actors from exploiting these critical technologies.
When the Senate returns from August recess, I strongly urge everyone to remain at the negotiating table, agree to the motion to proceed, and continue the legislative process. Failing to do so would send a troubling signal to our allies and adversaries alike that America is unwilling to lead on the future of digital assets and willing to forgo enhanced national security tools to combat their misuse.
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Don't miss our X Space with @Telcoin 🎙️
Uphold’s @onchainsanti joins @p4cap, EVP at Telcoin and Founder of the Telcoin Association @TelcoinTAO, to cover product updates and what’s next.
Set a reminder 👇
nitter.net/i/spaces/1RKZzBRlnawKB
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Derrick Shaft⚡ retweeted
Interesting little EY breadcrumb trail around @telcoin that I find interesting.
Start with Paul Neuner.
Congressman Mike Flood’s office recently mentioned in Paul’s Flyover Fintech bio that Paul previously founded the Internet application development department of Ernst & Young Technologies.
flood.house.gov/media/press-…
Then you start looking around and EY keeps showing up.
Telcoin Japan and EY ShinNihon were both participants in the Japan Cryptoasset Business Association NFT Business Subcommittee. They both appear in the official 2022 participant list.
cryptocurrency-association.o…
EY also has a pretty interesting position inside that same association when it comes to stablecoins. EY ShinNihon’s Chikara Adachi is Vice Chairman of the JCBA Stablecoin Subcommittee.
cryptocurrency-association.o…
Another one I found was Bradley Margol. In 2025, Telcoin LLC brought him in as a Payment Expert to look at stablecoins at point of sale, prepaid cards versus stablecoins and debit card processing. Earlier in his career he worked at EY as a CPA.
toptal.com/management-consul…
Then there’s Kevin Garcia at EY. He has reposted Telcoin’s MWC26 activity and also the GSMA stablecoin paper that highlighted Telcoin’s Ricardo Pires.
linkedin.com/in/kevin-garcia…
EY Financial Services Senior Manager Bhavik Patel has also interacted with Telcoin banking content, including material featuring Telcoin Digital Asset Bank President Patrick Gerhart talking about banks and stablecoins.
linkedin.com/in/bhavik75
And now we have EY Senior Manager Timur Akhmetzianov directly mentioning Telcoin alongside OpenReserve, Augustus National Bank and Erebor in a post about tokenized banking, programmable settlement, liquidity management and real time treasury.
au.linkedin.com/in/tim-av
You can even go back to 2018 and find EY Global Innovation Leader Paul Brody and Telcoin Marketing Director Yacine Farouk on the speaker roster at the same Blockchain Unchained conference.
blockchain-unchained.net/par…
So we’ve got Paul’s own history with Ernst & Young, Telcoin Japan sharing industry groups with EY, a former EY guy later doing payments and stablecoin work directly for Telcoin, current EY people following Telcoin’s banking and stablecoin work, and now an EY Senior Manager specifically putting Telcoin into the conversation around the next generation of tokenized banks.
EY is one of the “Big Four” accounting and professional services firms in the world. In FY2025, it reported about $53.2 billion in global revenue and more than 406,000 employees across 150+ countries and territories.
Could be nothing. Could be something.
But EY is one I’m keeping on the Telcoin watchlist. ethereum:0x467bccd9d29f223bce8043b84e8c8b282827790f
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Long time waiting. Congratulations @MultiversX $EGLD
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Unreal 🤯
Staten Island man struck by lightning while walking to a dentist appointment.
Thomas Fahmy says he is grateful to be alive and went to church on Sunday to thank God for giving him another chance.
"Once the lightning bolt struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were completely unprecedented; tingling, numbness, pain, just I feel this burning sensation."
"No burns. I had multiple body exams; no burns at all. I went to church on Sunday to say thank you, God."
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We have filed a provisional patent for a stablecoin smart contract with embedded depository functionality – merging payment stablecoin and deposit token concepts into a singular on-chain dollar that can operate within the banking system rather than draining liquidity out of it.
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