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Taking banks onchain. Brand & growth for regulated crypto. Advisor & mentor. Recovering degen. DMs open for collabs.

London
Joined August 2010
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See it. Stake it. Sorted.
With delegated staking, any $RLS holder can participate in securing the Rayls Public Chain. Getting started takes 3 steps: 1. Get $RLS on the Rayls Public Chain. 2. Choose one of 8 active validators. 3. Delegate your stake and earn rewards, currently around 18% APY. Just choose a validator, delegate, and become part of the network's security.
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London has more Michelin-starred restaurants than San Francisco, LA and Chicago combined, and more than New York too. If you can't find good food in London that’s a skill issue. Don’t be lazy: guide.michelin.com/ae-az/en/…
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Slowly, then suddenly.
TokenOne is bringing tokenised Brazilian credit to the Rayls Public Chain. TokenOne is a Brazilian securitisation company and CVM-authorised investment platform. It turns the receivables of businesses that sell on credit into debentures investors can hold, and has tokenised more than $13M across 17 structured assets so far. Its first three assets on Rayls, the NF01, NF02 and NF03 debentures, worth R$35M (around $6.3M), are now onchain.
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Gm from the (un)banked. A great lineup of speakers and calibre of attendees here today, nicely done by the organisers. There is a lot happening in Canary Wharf today, and in London this month, focusing on Tradfi, DeFi and regulation. @RaylsLabs is that convergence.
The city changes, finance follows. #TheunBankedbyINPUT lands in London on Monday. 500+ leaders meet at Canary Wharf for a day on tokenization, stablecoin payments and UK regulation, with banks and regulators shaping how digital assets enter institutional finance. Lineup 🧵
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An interesting session with our friends at @CNPYNetwork , not just for Devs, but marketers with a penchant for vibe coding. I will try not to take it personally, but I always seem to get edited out of videos...
When anyone can build software over a weekend, the edge comes from customers, community, and network effects. @AdamLiposky and @x10xalex on where founders should focus now.
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Its been especially busy in the Raylsway station this week. Check the board, more to come.
Over 10M $RLS burned today. That takes total burns to 68.6M $RLS, permanently removed from supply. It rounds off a big week for $RLS. Investors and team extended their vesting, and together with Parfin's lock-up, 1.12B fewer $RLS will unlock through 2027. And with over 267M $RLS now staked, more than double since early September, more of the supply is helping secure the network. The Rayls Transparency Portal provides public access to these figures, allowing anyone to verify them onchain.
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Your ledger? Bugged. Your hot wallet? Compromised. Your CEX? Hacked. Your wife? Chinese spy.
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Big news for the community. Parfin, Team and Investors re-affirm their commitment to Rayls- ahead of more milestones dropping this quarter. But where do people get better music for their animated videos?
Rayls Investors and Team have extended the vesting of their $RLS allocations. Their tokens will now unlock monthly over four years from May 2027, replacing the unlock originally planned for December 2026. Together with @parfin_io's lock-up extension announced in August, the two locks combined mean ≈1.2B less $RLS in circulation through 2027, around 25% less than originally planned. It also means over half a billion $RLS will remain locked in December 2026. The result is slower, smoother $RLS unlocks, reinforcing the long-term alignment between Rayls' early backers, its core builders, and the wider community. Watch the full breakdown of the new schedule.
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Crypto has spent years building the infrastructure. But what will actually bring the next 100 million users onchain? From payments and consumer apps to better user experiences, we're exploring what it will take to make Web3 mainstream. Join us tomorrow for our Genzio Roundtable featuring: 🎙️ @petebidewell | @RaylsLabs 🎙️ @vivianonchain | @UPayOfficial_EN 🎙️ @dingusUSA | @DabbaNetwork Hosted by @ActionCEO 📅 October 27 | 12 PM ET teapawt.org/i/spaces/1wxWjlXAoZAJQ…
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Very excited for this one. A lot of unseen work goes on behind the scenes to get to this point. Each finish line is a new starting line. The race to Top 20 Chain TVL starts now.
Something big is coming to Rayls. On 15th October, Rayls Vaults go live. We’re starting with AmFi-powered receivables, following the extended agreement reached during Febraban Tech. More details on the Vaults, the assets, and what’s next will be revealed over the coming days. Stay tuned.
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Congrats to Canopy on a successful TGE. I am excited to collab on some campaigns to bring our communities closer together.
Canopy is partnering with @RaylsLabs. Rayls is the EVM Layer 1 connecting institutions to blockchain liquidity, with built-in privacy and compliance. Canopy is the agent-native development framework for launching sovereign onchain apps. Together, we're bringing the Canopy and Rayls communities closer through shared initiatives, education and community activations. This is the start. More to come.
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Yesterday at Febraban Tech, João Pirola co-founder and CPO at AmFi came by our booth. We’ve now agreed engineering timelines for bringing AmFi’s $400m on-chain book onto Rayls under our existing agreement. Work starts in September. We also agreed to expand the scope of what we’re building together (more on that in the next couple of weeks - it’s part of a larger announcement related to Rayls vaults).
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Reuters has covered the launch of Rayls Sovereign. The coverage explores how financial institutions can bring assets and transaction activity onchain while maintaining the privacy, control and compliance requirements of existing financial infrastructure As Sovereign becomes publicly available, we’re proud to see this next chapter of institutional blockchain infrastructure covered by one of the world’s leading financial news organizations. Read the full @Reuters coverage below 👇
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Thanks to the whole team for their work on launching Sovereign today. This is the culmination of over 2 years work with 30 financial institutions, resulting in architecture, performance and interoperability, worthy of celebrating with current and future clients at @FEBRABANTECH.
The wait for institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure is over. Today, we’re launching Rayls Sovereign: rayls.com/products/sovereign A private blockchain that gives each financial institution its own sovereign ledger. It runs inside the institution’s own perimeter, integrates with existing banking and treasury systems, and connects to private networks and public liquidity. The underlying platform has been in production since June 2024, with 30+ financial institutions installing and using it across tokenised deposits, stablecoins, tokenised assets, and regulated settlement.
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Soon.
Rayls staking opens to everyone this Thursday. For the first time, every $RLS holder can delegate to a validator and earn rewards while helping secure the Rayls Public Chain. Staking launches at 18% APY, with a dynamic reward model planned as network participation grows. Read the full guide to staking and how to get started below 👇
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I highly recommend everyone watches this. XP is a massive company, a Nasdaq listed (ticker $XP ), regulated financial institution with $330 billion in assets under management. Rayls is a core part of their digital assets strategy, and although it was challenging to get their Marcos Horie, who leads their digital asset strategy to this AMA due to conflicting agendas, I am happy to see it worked out in the end!
We’ll be joined by Marcos Horie from XPInc, and @mcvviriato to discuss how institutional finance is making the leap onchain. Together, we’ll explore what it takes to bring blockchain into the world’s largest financial institutions. 📅 13 July, 1 PM UTC Don't miss it 🔔
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Put your $RLS to work. Delegated Staking is now live on Rayls, with access reserved for early supporters who participated in the pre-commit and liquidity seeding campaigns. Eligible participants can stake $RLS, help secure the Rayls Public Chain, and access boosted 55% APY for the first three months. To make participation easier, the Rayls Foundation has sent 1 $USDr to eligible wallets to cover staking fees for the community that backed Rayls early. Start staking ↓ staking.rayls.com
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$RLS is now live on Revolut. Available to users across the UK and EEA through Europe’s largest fintech. @revolut serves over 70 million customers globally and more than 15 million crypto users, bringing $RLS to a wider European retail audience. Find $RLS on Revolut.
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Community safety is a shared effort. @ChainPatrol helps monitor and protect the Rayls ecosystem from scams, phishing attempts, fake accounts, and other online threats. If you see something suspicious, report it here: app.chainpatrol.io/rayls
🛡 We are proud to protect the @RaylsLabs ecosystem🛡 24/7 Real-time monitoring and precision targeting of scams and other online threats. You can also help protect the Rayls community if you see a scam, phishing attempt, fake account or suspicious link report it here: app.chainpatrol.io/rayls
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What a day to be alive. We did it. 🦅
Stolen from TikTok but what a video #cpfc
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