10M is just the beginning.
Thank you, and congratulations to every Linker who has been part of this journey, whether you joined us from day one or somewhere along the way. From the bottom of my heart, I am truly grateful to be a part of this journey with all of you.
Along this journey, there have been things that I or the InterLink Labs team could have done better, and mistakes that we have made. I sincerely hope for your understanding, and we will continue to learn, improve, and do better. What I can promise is that we will continue learning, improving, and working even harder to be worthy of the trust every Linker has placed in us.
There is still a long road ahead. As we enter our next chapter, I would like to share the path we are building and the key areas we will focus on over the next five years.
1. Post-Quantum Security
With the extraordinary acceleration of AI and quantum computing, we believe the threat to today’s cryptographic systems can no longer be treated as a distant possibility. Six months ago, we began recruiting world-class researchers and cryptographers to prepare InterLink for this challenge.
Our goal is not simply to react when quantum computers become powerful enough to threaten existing cryptography. We want InterLink to be prepared long before that day arrives.
The InterLink Foundation has already made important early progress in researching post-quantum digital signatures and cryptographic architectures. This includes mechanisms that allow users to generate new private keys from their existing seed phrases while using Address Alias to preserve their existing wallet addresses, tokens, and NFTs during migration to a new security architecture. We are also experimenting with SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s (FIPS 205) within IRC smart contracts to introduce an additional layer of post-quantum protection for vaults and high-value digital assets.
These experiments are currently being conducted on the InterLink Taj Mahal Testnet, where our early implementations have successfully passed the NIST-based simulation tests we are conducting.
For us, post-quantum security is not something to think about five years from now. The preparation has already begun.
2. Infrastructure for Real-World Assets
As we can already see, RWA and tokenization are no longer concepts for the future. They are becoming reality right now.
Stocks, bonds, funds, commodities, and many other traditional assets are gradually moving on-chain. Even exposure to shares of some of the world’s largest companies, such as Google and Amazon, can now be accessed through tokenized products. What once looked like an experiment is increasingly becoming part of the global financial infrastructure.
To me, RWA will be one of the most sustainable long-term trends of the next decade, alongside AI. McKinsey estimates that the market for tokenized financial assets could reach approximately $2 trillion by 2030. But I believe the bigger transformation is not only about bringing existing financial assets on-chain. It is about making tokenization accessible to millions of businesses around the world.
So where does InterLink fit into this?
Today, tokenizing a business remains extremely difficult. A company needs blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, liquidity mechanisms, technical expertise, and significant legal and regulatory resources. For smaller businesses and startups, these barriers can make tokenization almost impossible.
This is exactly the infrastructure gap we want InterLink Business Token Exchange (IBTE) to address.
Most tokenization platforms today focus on bringing assets onto infrastructure built by someone else. For example, tokenized assets may be issued and distributed through existing networks such as Ethereum. InterLink’s vision is different: we want to build the entire infrastructure required for businesses to tokenize within one ecosystem.
From business token consulting and deployment to blockchain infrastructure, AMM, liquidity infrastructure, protocol support, and eventually broader RWA infrastructure, our goal is to create an end-to-end environment where businesses can move from the real world to on-chain markets without having to assemble everything themselves.
Over the next five years, we want to continuously reduce the technical and operational barriers to tokenization until launching a business token becomes dramatically simpler and more accessible than it is today.
3. Open Mainnet
Open Mainnet is targeted for 2027 and will mark the stage where InterLink becomes fully connected to the broader blockchain economy. The network will open to external liquidity, wider integrations, and unrestricted interaction with ecosystems outside InterLink.
This will also mark the end of mobile mining. No new ITLG will be generated through mobile mining after Open Mainnet. However, users who already hold ITLG will continue to go through the verification and migration process to receive ITL. The ITLG earned by early Linkers will therefore remain recognized under the migration mechanism.
After this transition, the primary way to earn new ITL directly from the network will be through validation. Participants will be able to stake ITL, operate validators, help secure and maintain the blockchain, and receive ITL validator rewards in return.
This represents the transition from InterLink’s early distribution phase into a fully operational blockchain economy. Mobile mining helped InterLink reach millions of people; Open Mainnet will shift the network toward staking, validators, external liquidity, applications, businesses, and real on-chain economic activity.
4. Listing Tier-1 Exchanges
Another major objective is to bring ITL to Tier-1 global exchanges, with Binance, OKX, and Coinbase among our key targets.
Reaching this stage requires much more than simply submitting listing applications. Over the coming period, we will focus on building relationships and negotiating with leading market makers and liquidity providers, establishing sufficient liquidity and healthy market structures, completing the necessary legal and compliance frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, and meeting the technical, security, operational, and due-diligence requirements expected by major exchanges.
At the same time, we will continue discussions with exchanges and strategic partners to ensure that any listing is supported by sustainable liquidity rather than short-term incentives or artificial trading activity.
Our objective is not to list ITL everywhere as quickly as possible. We want to build the legal, liquidity, compliance, and institutional foundations necessary for ITL to be accessible through the world’s leading exchanges and markets.
5. Continue Expanding the Digital Asset Treasury Company List
Over the next five years, our target is to have at least 500 companies and institutions holding ITL as part of their Digital Asset Treasury, with more than 20% being publicly listed companies.
To achieve this, we will focus on establishing the necessary legal, accounting, custody, compliance, disclosure, and risk-management frameworks across different jurisdictions, making it easier for companies to hold ITL on their balance sheets under clear and compliant structures.
We will continue working with legal advisors, accounting firms, institutional custody providers, and strategic partners to reduce regulatory and operational barriers for both private and publicly listed companies.
6. Expanding ITL Utility
This will be one of the most exciting areas to watch. A growing number of companies are preparing to integrate ITL into their products and services, and several of these integrations will be announced progressively in the coming period.
Our goal is to make ITL usable across everyday life: airline tickets, hotels, travel, fashion, shopping, food, entertainment, gift cards, digital services, and many more categories. Instead of building isolated use cases, we are working toward an expanding network where ITL can move across different businesses, services, and markets.
Some of what is being built has not yet been announced. As these partnerships and integrations go live, Linkers will gradually see ITL move from something they hold in their wallets into something they can spend across a growing real-world economy.
The next chapter of ITL utility is much bigger than what you see today. And many of the most important integrations are still ahead of us.
7. Scaling Verification & Democratizing Digital Asset Ownership
Our long-term objective is to democratize access to digital asset ownership, making it possible for anyone, regardless of geography or economic background, to participate in the digital economy and own ITL.
To achieve this at global scale, we will continue expanding verification capacity and accelerating the verification process while maintaining rigorous KYC/AML, anti-fraud, sanctions screening, identity integrity, and risk-based compliance standards where applicable. Speed and accessibility must scale together with security and regulatory responsibility.
We will continue strengthening AI-assisted verification, human review systems, duplicate and synthetic identity detection, and global verification infrastructure to support a significantly larger verified user base.
Ultimately, our ambition is to make ITL one of the most widely held digital assets in the world, distributed across a broad base of verified human participants rather than concentrated among a small number of holders. Digital asset ownership should not be limited to a few. Our goal is to make it accessible to everyone.
These seven priorities will serve as the key pillars guiding our direction over the next five years.
Thank you all, and once again, congratulations to every one of us on reaching this incredible milestone. 10M is just the beginning.
10 MILLION LINKERS. WE MADE IT TOGETHER. 💜
Today, we celebrate more than just a number.
10,000,000 Linkers represents millions of people who believed, contributed, shared, built communities, ran Human Nodes, and stayed with @inter_link throughout this journey.
To every Linker who has been here with us, whether from the early days or somewhere along the way:
Thank you for being part of InterLink. Thank you for building this milestone with us.
And the celebration is only getting started. 🎉
We already have many important dates ahead to celebrate the First 10 Million Linkers together:
🔄 REVERSE AUCTION BUYBACK
Our current Buyback event will conclude on August 24. After the event, the repurchased ITL will be used to give back to the First 10M Linkers, together with exclusive 10M Badges and NFTs created to mark this historic milestone.
🎁 VIP MERCHANDISE
Exclusive InterLink VIP merchandise is already on its way to outstanding contributors who have helped build and support our community.
🌍 GLOBAL OFFLINE EVENTS | AUGUST 23–31
From India, Korea, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and beyond, Linkers around the world will come together to celebrate 10M in person.
🖼 10M LINKERS AVATAR CAMPAIGN
Don't forget to update your profile picture with the special InterLink 10M frame and join the celebration. You may become one of the lucky Linkers to receive a special reward.
10M is not the finish line.
It is proof of how far we have come together, and the beginning of an even bigger journey ahead.
To the First 10 Million Linkers:
This milestone belongs to you. 💜
#InterLink #ITL #ITLG #WeAreTheFirst10MLinkers
🔥 10,000,000 LINKERS IS ALMOST HERE!
The countdown to 10M InterLink users has officially begun! 🌍
Think you can predict the moment we hit the milestone? 👀
🎯 20 winners with the closest predictions will each receive 10,000 XP & !
📅 Comment your prediction with:
Date + exact time (UTC) + ID Interlink
Example: 20/08/2026 – 14:30 UTC-9999999
⚡ BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!
The exact moment InterLink reaches 10,000,000 users, we’ll activate an XP BOOST across the entire Telegram & Discord community! 🔥
10M Linkers.
10,000 XP.
One massive XP Boost.
⏳ The countdown is on.
Who’s ready to hit 10M with us? 🌍
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL #InterLinkCommunity
🎉Today Marks a New Peak: 10,000 Linkers Migrated to InterLink Private Mainnet!
Today, InterLink reached a new milestone in the Migration journey, with 10,000 Linkers successfully migrated to Private Mainnet at today’s peak. 🔥
This is not a one-day migration event. Migration has been happening continuously and will continue every day. Today simply represents a new peak in the scale and momentum of that ongoing process.
The milestone shows how quickly Migration is accelerating as the ecosystem continues expanding toward 10M Linkers.
Every day, more Linkers are moving forward. Every new migration brings more users into the next stage of the @inter_link ecosystem and strengthens the foundation for what comes next.
🌐 Still Waiting for Migration?
If you haven’t been migrated yet, keep going.
Migration is an ongoing process, not something that happens only on specific milestone days. More Linkers are being migrated continuously, and today’s 10,000 peak shows the growing capacity and momentum behind that process.
Stay active, continue contributing, and keep your metrics strong. Your turn may be part of one of the next migration waves. 🫡
10,000 at today’s peak is another step forward, not the finish line.
As @inter_link moves closer to 10 million Linkers, Migration will continue bringing more of the community into Private Mainnet and preparing the ecosystem for a much larger scale.
Congratulations to everyone who has successfully migrated, and thank you to all Linkers who continue to stay active and grow with the ecosystem.
Migration continues. The pace is accelerating. The next wave is already ahead. 🚀
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL
📊 ONE WEEK IN | INTERLINK LABS’ FIRST REVERSE AUCTION BUYBACK
One week has passed since Phase 1 of InterLink Labs’ first Reverse Auction Buyback officially opened.
The community response is already showing strong participation. Based on the latest dashboard update on August 17, 2026, here is where Phase 1 currently stands:
🔹 ~1K total offers submitted
🔹 ~130K ITL available across submitted offers
🔹 Lowest verified ask: 0.15 USDT / ITL
🔹 Median ask: 20.00 USDT / ITL
🔹 Highest verified ask: 314,159.00 USDT / ITL
The Reverse Auction is designed differently from a traditional fixed-price buyback.
Participants decide how much ITL they want to sell and the price they are willing to accept.
Once the submission period closes, InterLink Labs will review valid offers and prioritize the most competitive asking prices based on the available treasury budget. This means every submitted offer contributes to the price discovery process.
📈 Check the latest Buyback data here:
https://t.co/1JuHFCNaPq
You can use the dashboard to follow the latest submitted offers and current asking price statistics before deciding on your own offer.
⏰ ONE WEEK REMAINING
Phase 1 will officially close on:
August 24, 2026 at 23:59:00 UTC
If you are planning to participate, there is still time to review the current offers, consider your asking price carefully, and submit before the deadline.
The ITL repurchased during Phase 1 will support rewards and special activities for the First 10 Million Linkers Celebration Program. Any remaining repurchased ITL that is not used for the program will be permanently burned.
🔗 Submit your offer:
https://t.co/3KYFpINGUc
⚠️ Please carefully verify your ITL amount, asking price, deposit TxHash, and BEP20 USDT wallet address before submitting.
One week completed. One week remaining. The first Reverse Auction Buyback continues.
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL #WeAreTheFirst10MLinkers
Post-Quantum Cryptography: InterLink Is Preparing Before the Threat Arrives
Quantum computers powerful enough to threaten modern cryptography may still be years away, but for InterLink, waiting until that moment arrives would already be too late. Post-quantum cryptography is not about using quantum computers to perform cryptography. It is about developing cryptographic systems that are secure today and can remain secure in a future where large-scale quantum computers exist.
One of the most important concerns is known as “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later.” A sophisticated adversary does not need a powerful quantum computer today. They can collect and store encrypted information now, wait for quantum computing to mature, and attempt to decrypt that historical data later. For blockchain networks, the challenge is even more fundamental because cryptographic signatures are directly connected to asset ownership, transactions, validators, and network security.
This is why InterLink is preparing carefully and far ahead of the potential threat. Instead of treating post-quantum security as something that can simply be added later, InterLink is approaching it as a long-term infrastructure challenge. Researchers, cryptography specialists, engineers, and scientists are being brought into the discussion to study how quantum-resistant cryptography can eventually be integrated into different layers of the InterLink Network without sacrificing security, scalability, or usability.
This work requires much more than choosing a new signature algorithm. InterLink must consider how quantum-resistant signatures interact with wallets, accounts, validators, consensus infrastructure, smart contracts, key management, transaction size, network performance, and millions of users. Post-quantum algorithms can also introduce different computational, bandwidth, and storage requirements compared with the elliptic-curve systems commonly used by blockchains today. Designing the correct architecture therefore requires extensive research, testing, benchmarking, and security review.
Fortunately, this transition is no longer purely theoretical. NIST has already standardized the first generation of major post-quantum cryptographic standards, giving researchers and engineers a much stronger foundation for real-world implementation. InterLink is closely following the development of these standards and the broader cryptographic research community while evaluating what approaches can provide the right balance between long-term security and practical blockchain performance.
More importantly, InterLink does not believe that a network serving millions of people should depend on a rushed migration after a quantum breakthrough is announced. Changing the cryptographic foundation of an entire blockchain ecosystem could take years. Wallets may need migration paths, infrastructure may require upgrades, validators must remain compatible, and users need a secure way to move from existing keys to quantum-resistant ones. These problems should be studied before they become emergencies.
For this reason, post-quantum security and AI are becoming two important long-term research priorities for InterLink. The objective is not to create fear that quantum computers will break blockchain tomorrow. It is to build the scientific and engineering foundation today so that InterLink has a clear path forward if that threat becomes real.
The next generation of blockchain infrastructure should not only be secure against the threats we understand today. It should be designed with enough foresight to survive the cryptographic world of tomorrow.
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL
InterLink’s Early Vision for NIST-Standardized Post-Quantum Cryptography
Within the next five years, whether a digital asset is truly secure or not will have a much clearer answer. It will no longer be something complicated or difficult to understand. Ultimately, it will come down to one critical factor: whether it is quantum-resistant according to NIST standards.
Speaking of NIST, most InterLink users are probably already familiar with it. Our Human AI Model is currently ranked #51 globally, and NIST is one of the most important institutions under the U.S. Department of Commerce responsible for developing and evaluating standards related to post-quantum cryptography.
The rapid development of AI models today is raising serious concerns about their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities. At the same time, advances in quantum computing are bringing the potential threat of breaking today's cryptographic algorithms to a level of concern greater than ever before.
Recent experiments and research from Google have demonstrated that what was once considered practically impossible, using quantum computing to threaten the cryptographic security underlying networks such as Bitcoin, is increasingly becoming a risk that cannot simply be ignored.
This means that digital assets and blockchain networks that do not actively research, prepare for, and implement post-quantum cryptographic protection could eventually face serious security risks. In a future where sufficiently powerful quantum computers exist, vulnerabilities in existing cryptographic systems could potentially be exploited by attackers, putting assets stored on those networks at risk.
InterLink Foundation has been conducting research into digital signatures and cryptographic algorithms, and we have already achieved several important early results.
Our research includes mechanisms that allow new private keys to be generated from an existing seed phrase. At the same time, through the Address Alias mechanism, users can retain their existing wallet addresses together with all associated tokens and NFTs while migrating to a new cryptographic security architecture.
InterLink Foundation is also implementing SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s (FIPS 205) within IRC smart contracts to provide an additional layer of post-quantum protection for vaults and high-value digital assets.
We are currently conducting these experiments on the InterLink Taj Mahal Testnet, and so far, our experimental implementations have successfully passed the NIST-based simulation tests we are conducting.
Our goal is to fully integrate this architecture into the InterLink Open Mainnet in 2027, bringing InterLink closer to becoming one of the world's most secure blockchain networks built around post-quantum cryptographic standards established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The future of digital asset security is becoming increasingly clear.
In the quantum era, security will not only be about protecting your private key. It will be about whether the cryptography protecting that key was built to survive quantum computing.