South Korea is quietly becoming one of the most important institutional blockchain markets in the world.
Because banks, payment providers, and securities firms are building the next generation of financial infrastructure.
Here’s what it means 🧵
I have my thoughts on regulation around the World and the way it will play for our industry, some comments I made to @TheBlockCo around Mica to share with you.
https://t.co/84EyfAlCCB
Very thoughtful report showing Korea”s Institutions need for blockchain infrastructure.
We are very excited about the opportunity, that’s why Allan Monteiro from @RaylsLabs team has been going to Seoul few times this year!
Yesterday we hosted the “Whose stablecoin, whose rails” event by the lake in Zurich. The event was very oversubscribed, more than 50 bankers, investors, founders and executives came to meet the Rayls team.
These events are important because it allows us to show to these decision makers that Rayls is a solid platform with a serious team, capable of delivering institutional-grade solutions. We left with several new sales leads and potential partnerships.
We had guests from every major financial institution attending the Point Zero conference, and I personally spent all my time talking to many of them, answering questions and showing how Rayls can be used by their companies.
We build with the clear vision that banks and financial institutions will need privacy, scalability and compliance, but since the beginning with focus on Revenue, real users, retention, integration, this is already happening with private networks and since we launch the Mainnet, working with partners and clients to scale in the same way.
I really like the @a16zcrypto synthesis of the momentum.
Monaco, thank you 🇲🇨
Our CTO, Dr. Jacob Mendel, took the @waibsummit stage with a question most of the industry keeps dodging:
When quantum computers break today's cryptography, will crypto and privacy survive?
The answer: yes, but only for the chains built for it before Q-Day.
Most are still debating whether the threat is real.
We shipped Enygma quantum-private security from day one.
Private by design. Quantum-safe by default.
Back to building 🫡
$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.
The Rayls Public Chain is now live 🔥
Go to https://t.co/m1I06gYQ8P to connect Rayls to your wallet.
More dapps and use cases are launching over the next days and weeks.
Bringing Finance Onchain. It starts now.
We have been working with @LayerZero_Core for the last few months, not only into the interoperability technology stack, but more important, on the use cases we will allow Financial Institutions to bring services on-chain.
One of the cases I like more is a Financial Institution to issue their stable coin in @RaylsLabs as the base chain, and through LayerZero stack, have the possibility to port it over to 160 chains
→ The Korean Web3 community is deeply connected and ready to move
The best business trips are the ones where you come back with more than a pipeline — you come back with a deeper understanding of the people and culture behind the market. This one delivered
감사해요
🇰🇷 Just wrapped up a week-long roadshow in Seoul for @RaylsLabs & @parfin_io
Korea is building the regulatory infrastructure for institutional crypto — and the timing to bring Rayls to APAC couldn't be better.@Rayls_Korea
Here's what I learned🧵👇
Over 7 days I met with banks, institutional investors, VCs, and key Web3 players across the Korean and APAC ecosystem.
Takeaways:
→ Appetite for regulated institutional DeFi is accelerating fast
→ Strategic partnerships in the region aren't optional — they're essential
We’re about to cross the point where everything connects.
> Mainnet activates our tokenomics.
> Revenue already being generated in private networks now expands onto the public chain.
> That revenue feeds the loop: RLS buybacks → 50% automated burns + 50% validator rewards.
Real usage → real revenue → real value capture → real security.
Massive respect to the Rayls product and tech teams.
23 days until the switch flips 🚊🔔
Good rooms are rare.
Last night was one of them.
We spent time on how institutional capital is actually moving onchain, and what's still holding the last wave back.
Good to be back in NYC.
@xpinvestimentos just launched its own stablecoin through Clear, its digital assets subsidiary.
Let that land for a moment.
Brazil's largest investment platform — with over R$2 trillion (~$400 billion) in total assets — isn't experimenting with digital assets anymore. It's issuing programmable money. This isn't an innovation lab project. It's a strategic infrastructure move by one of the most consequential financial institutions in Latin America.
And it raises an urgent question for every bank, asset manager, and financial institution watching: when you're ready to do the same, what infrastructure will you build on?
This is where @RaylsLabs becomes critical.
Rayls was purpose-built for exactly this moment — a privacy-preserving blockchain network designed from the ground up for regulated financial institutions. Built specifically so institutions can issue, settle, and manage digital assets with the privacy, compliance, and performance their operations demand.
When an institution issues a stablecoin, the underlying rails determine everything: who can see the transaction, how it settles, how it integrates with existing compliance systems, and whether it can scale beyond a pilot. @RaylsLabs solves all of that, XP is using it at @RaylsLabs in production, not in a sandbox.
XP's move is a signal. The race to own the digital asset relationship with Brazilian financial clients is on.
The institutions that win won't just be the ones who decide to move. They'll be the ones who move on the right infrastructure.
press in Portuguese, use translator.
https://t.co/Kh9gCdQtXI
The Rayls team is going live to talk through what’s shipped, what’s evolved, and what’s coming next.
> Product updates
> Architecture decisions
> The road ahead
🕛 Friday, 12 PM UTC
📌 Featuring: @mcvviriato, @x10xalex, @TomdBTC, @AlexJupiter23
Share your questions below 👇
Institutions aren’t testing the waters anymore.
They’re stepping in because the infrastructure is finally built for how they operate - transparent, compliant, credible, and truly onchain in a way that meets their standards.
To me, this is the moment the RWA space stops chasing narratives and starts pushing the industry forward in a real, measurable way.
Proud that we’re finally moving the needle where it matters.