Good talks, cold beer, and great people ๐ป
Thank you to @XDCNetwork, @PlatformD, @helloSQD, @nillion, @sphere_labs and everyone who joined us in Berlin for Telekom & Friends Vol.3.
The short foundation talks were only one part of it. The conversations, questions and people in the room made the evening special.
See you again soon. Maybe sooner than you think. ๐
Worldpay, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, Deutsche Telekom, and Google Cloud all run production DVNs on LayerZero today.
Together their core businesses represent more than $10 trillion in annual financial activity and each one now offers its name as a verifier in the security stacks of stablecoin issuers, tokenized asset issuers, payment applications, and onchain protocols.
Learn more about what a DVN is, what each institution has built, and how to compose your own verifier set in our latest blog.
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Fact Friday โ @helloSQD
This weekโs spotlight is on SQD, a decentralized data layer giving builders fast, validated access to onchain data. From real-time APIs to block-level verification, SQD is focused on making blockchain data easier to trust, query, and build with.
Hereโs what you need to know:
Strategic Institutional Push:
Subsquid Labs is repositioning SQD toward institutional clients, with a new CEO, Head of Transformation, and board focused on crypto, capital markets, AI, and enterprise adoption.
SQD Portal Is Agent-Ready:
SQDโs flagship data product, Portal, now ships with an MCP server, letting AI agents and assistants query blockchain data across 100+ chains. Agents can ask questions and receive validated onchain data in returnand theyโre doing it in growing numbers, with AI agent usage on Portal up around 200% in recent weeks.
Robinhood Chain Mainnet Live:
Robinhood Chain mainnet is now live on SQD, bringing historical and real-time data for an EVM-compatible L2 powering Stock Tokens and real-world assets.
TRON Goes Live on Portal:
TRON is now live on SQD Portal, with real-time Mainnet data available to query.
We are sunsetting our validator operations with @ZetaChain and @ASI_Alliance over the coming weeks.
As part of this process, we kindly ask all delegators to withdraw or redelegate their stake from our validator nodes.
Thank you to the communities and partners for the trust and support along the way.
Good talks, cold beer, and great people ๐ป
Thank you to @XDCNetwork, @PlatformD, @helloSQD, @nillion, @sphere_labs and everyone who joined us in Berlin for Telekom & Friends Vol.3.
The short foundation talks were only one part of it. The conversations, questions and people in the room made the evening special.
See you again soon. Maybe sooner than you think. ๐
๐ Recap: Telekom & Friends Vol.3, Berlin
Intensive day of institutional Web3 conversations with Deutsche Telekom MMS and partners across the regulated digital asset stack.
XDC delivered the opening keynote - making the case for purpose-built RWA infrastructure over experimental Layer 1s.
Key themes resonating across the room:
- Trade finance tokenization moving from pilot to production
- European institutional rails maturing post-MiCA
- Validator-side institutional adoption accelerating
The European institutional layer is forming. #XDC is structurally placed. @XDCNetwork
Thanks to Telekom @mms_Blockchain for hosting and to everyone who joined the conversations.
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๐๏ธ Institutional interest hitting unprecedented levels.
Eight institutional masternode validators onboarded in 60 days:
- HashKey Cloud - Institutional staking arm of HashKey Holdings (HKEX-listed), regulated under MAS Singapore and Hong Kong SFC
- Republic - Tokenized investment platform with large US retail tokenization base
- Animoca Brands - Web3 investment firm, runs validator infrastructure across 34+ chains
- Clearpool - Institutional credit marketplace, $930M+ originated loans
- BCW Group - Institutional crypto advisory and capital markets
- stakeFi - Multi-protocol staking for institutions and custodians
- SettleMint - Belgium-headquartered RWA tokenization infrastructure (DALP platform)
- InvestaX - Tokenization platform
Joining Telekom @mms_Blockchain , @sbixdc , and UOB Venture Management already on the network.
Name another blockchain with this caliber of institutional adoption in such a short window. ๐ @XDCNetwork #XDC #blockchain
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Berlin Blockchain Week, weโre coming.
Nillion is joining @mms_Blockchain for Blocks & Brews on June 18.
Come for verifiable privacy, stay for limited-edition Nillion beers.
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Cross-border payments, powered by stablecoins.
@sphere_labs joins us at Telekom & Friends Vol. 3: Blocks & Brews, bringing the next generation of payment infrastructure to Berlin Blockchain Week.
Stay tuned ๐
June 18 | @BerBlockWeek
RSVP๐
https://t.co/4mN2zJlwTb
10 days to go until Blocks & Brews ๐ป
Join us for Web3 talks, networking, drinks, and ecosystem exchange during @BerBlockWeek
๐ hub:raum, Berlin
๐ June 18, 2026
โฐ 19:00โ23:00
Register here: https://t.co/esCQ8sNzSj
Update: Our https://t.co/ruMM2eTX8f validator node is back live and operating normally.
Thank you to our delegators and community for your patience while we completed the recovery safely. Weโll continue monitoring closely.
Validator Update โ ๏ธ
Our @Fetch_ai validator is currently offline/jailed due to an unexpected infrastructure issue.
Weโve paused recovery actions until the root cause is fully verified to avoid additional risk to delegators.
Delegators are free to redelegate if needed:
https://t.co/4IYnJkMAZJ
Validator Update โ ๏ธ
Our @Fetch_ai validator is currently offline/jailed due to an unexpected infrastructure issue.
Weโve paused recovery actions until the root cause is fully verified to avoid additional risk to delegators.
Delegators are free to redelegate if needed:
https://t.co/4IYnJkMAZJ
Privacy isn't a feature. It's infrastructure.
@nillion joins us at Telekom & Friends Vol. 3: Blocks & Brews, powering the blind compute layer Web3 actually needs. ๐ป
June 18 | Berlin Blockchain Week
RSVP๐
https://t.co/stN2tJVPwh