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We're honored to join @sphere as a validator partner and help onboard Korean financial institutions into the ecosystem!

Seoul-based @nodeinfra has joined the @sphere ecosystem as a validator partner. $400M+ in stakes across 10+ networks and 800+ servers since 2022. Zero slashing incidents. Now securing our compliance-native ledger from testnet through mainnet. Details:

Europe's largest telecom operator and the parent company of T-Mobile has joined the Sphere ecosystem and network as a validator partner. More than two trillion dollars moved through mobile money accounts last year, spread across 2.3 billion registered accounts. In many parts of the world, the largest retail payment network is a phone company. Telegraph operators were among the earliest money transmitters, wiring funds across the U.S. as far back as the 1870s; and the bank messaging layer that eventually became SWIFT was built to replace Telex, a telecommunications standard. And so it makes sense that the companies running those networks would want to have a hand in shaping what global money movement looks like next. Stablecoins and other blockchain-based payments are moving money onto rails that are real-time and programmable, and increasingly the thing initiating a payment is a device or an agent rather than a person. Compliance has always leaned on being able to retroactively freeze or claw back a payment after the fact, and so the combination of instant, irreversible rails and machines acting on their own present key challenges for the future of our financial system. To be future-proof, the screenings have to happen before the money changes hands, which I suspect is a harder problem than most of the agentic payments conversation is currently working on. That’s the layer @sphere is built for. Deutsche Telekom @mms_Blockchain runs the networks those machines will live on, and I'm grateful for their trust as one of our earliest validator partners among a growing group of licensed institutions onboarding ahead of a public launch.

Agentic payments need trusted infrastructure. 🌐 We are teaming up with @sphere_labs to support SphereNet, bringing enterprise-grade infrastructure to help secure its compliance-native ledger from testnet through its planned 2027 mainnet launch. More here: spherepay.co/blog/sphere-par…

Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, has joined the @Sphere ecosystem as a validator partner. @mms_Blockchain will run a node that helps secure our compliance-native ledger for regulated global finance from testnet through mainnet. spherepay.co/blog/sphere-par…

The industry can't afford another year of regulatory limbo. The CLARITY Act represents the kind of foundational stablecoin legislation we need to move forward. Not as a final answer, but as an initial framework that lets serious builders operate with certainty. At @sphere, we're building infrastructure that compliantly makes stablecoins interoperable with existing systems: Fedwire, BOJ-NET, central bank clearing, et cetera. The best future requires pragmatism: both systems working together on better rails. Last week our team was in Washington meeting with the White House, OCC, SEC, and other key stakeholders. We went to share what we're seeing from the infrastructure side, given that most of the policy focus right now is on market structure: stablecoins, custody, exchange oversight. That's necessary. But there are other hard questions coming: how do regulated institutions actually connect to on-chain systems without breaking anything? How do you make a stablecoin settlement hit Fedwire or BOJ-NET in a way that a compliance officer can sign off on? Legislation sets the framework. But the technical details around clearing, settlement, and cross-border interoperability will determine how it actually works day-to-day. We're building for that future at Sphere, and grateful for the openness from policymakers and builders alike to getting the important details right.

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