Marcelo

Entrepreneur | RWA Tokenization | DeFi Aficionado | tweets ≠ financial advice | retweets ≠ endorsements

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

Small team, shared context.
Compounding from day one.

How we actually run Ascend 👇

[Ascend @AscendFi]

https://t.co/JLiunnMneF

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

Last cycle put a lot of assets onchain. Very little of it became something you could underwrite or lend against... least of all regulated securities.

On July 8 our team gets specific about what Ascend has been building. Get a reminder about when to join in our post below.

[Ascend @AscendFi]

Ascend's leadership goes live Wednesday, July 8, 10:00 AM ET.

@RealDennisO, @marcelofleitas and @manymoneymanny share the credit market structure Ascend is building for onchain, regulated securities; and the firm's AI-first operating model.

Join here:
https://t.co/XyHItFV96J

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.

https://t.co/OoM83SyISN

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

We're launching Claude Tag today. Tag Claude into Slack and it works in channel with you. It’s proactive, multiplayer, with its own identity and memory.

But it’s not just a bot in Slack. Over the last few months, it’s totally changed how we use Claude

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

Ascend’s leadership is set. Next up, excited to share how we’ve built a team designed to be small and mighty from day one.

[Ascend @AscendFi]

https://t.co/rvNcvK8VSv

[Ascend @AscendFi]

Ascend is built on @chainlink .

Happy 7th birthday to the data layer that makes onchain credit infrastructure like ours possible.

[Ascend @AscendFi]

The headline number keeps climbing.

The harder question is how much of that value is actually being put to use.

[Kraken @krakenfx]

Kraken is deprecating its existing cross-chain provider and migrating to @Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra to secure Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) & all future Kraken Wrapped Assets.

Kraken chose Chainlink CCIP because it offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with strict security & risk management requirements, including:

• ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications
• Secure by default architecture
• 16 independent nodes
• Native rate limits, and more.

Together, Chainlink and Kraken can help accelerate the global adoption of crypto by unlocking utility and distribution for all Kraken Wrapped Assets across DeFi.

For kBTC customers, no action is required. More details on the migration process to follow on official Kraken channels.

[DennisOConnell @RealDennisO]

ERC-3643 is the #1 standard in the world for Digital Securities and Permissioned RWAs.

$110B announced just for April.

ERC-3643 Major Initatives into DeFi are Accelerating.

🔗@Chainlink stack is powering ERC-3643 at scale.

Receipts 🧾:

✅ @ApexGlobalGroup 🤝 @trex_network
https://t.co/M0CDds5R9k

✅ @BridgeTowerCap 🤝 @avax
https://t.co/YFX0ndj5ZS

✅ @AscendFi 🤝 @StellarOrg
https://t.co/MOKZKhrHix

✅ @zama 🤝 @0xPolygon 🤝 @trex_network
https://t.co/0yXTHRqPyc

‼️@ERC3643Org is conducting its 2026 Census of Tokenized ERC-3643 projects, we encourage our members and institutions to participate, and thankful for help from @TokenySolutions , @PSGDigitalLLc , @RWA_xyz and @TACoalition 🙏

Grex.

[Stellar @StellarOrg]

.@AscendFi is solving a critical gap in the market by building credit infrastructure purpose-built for regulated, real-world assets.

This is how RWAs move from being issued onchain to being actively used across financial markets at scale.
https://t.co/KDSshTBEgR

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

Credit utility is what will move the RWA market forward.

This is why the work with @StellarOrg matters: regulated assets need a path into real credit and collateral flows.

[Ascend @AscendFi]

Today, Ascend is announcing a strategic partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (@StellarOrg), including a direct investment in Ascend.

The work is centered on a simple market question: what comes after tokenization?

Ascend is being built to help regulated real-world assets become usable as onchain credit collateral under explicit compliance controls. That includes permissioned vaults, continuous risk monitoring, and structured resolution for distressed assets.

This work extends Ascend’s compliance-first framework for regulated RWAs to the Stellar network and reflects a broader push toward making tokenized assets usable within public blockchain credit infrastructure.

Read the full announcement:
https://t.co/sO7tFIOJ57

[Ascend @AscendFi]

https://t.co/OZEIP1GEZM

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

ERC-3643 enables restricted, identity-aware assets to be tokenized onchain.

@AscendFi is making that collateral usable.
Markets scale from here💪

[T-REX Network @trex_network]

T-REX Network has partnered with @AscendFi to enable ERC-3643 tokenized assets to function as compliant collateral in onchain credit markets 🚀

The first wave of tokenization proved assets could go onchain compliantly. What it failed to prove is that markets would form around them.

For regulated assets to scale, they need to do more than exist onchain. They need to generate yield, be borrowed against, and access liquidity, all without breaking the compliance rules that govern them.

Two layers, one stack:

🔸 T-REX Network handles compliance: ERC-3643 rules and identity traveling with every asset across networks, verified by the T-REX Ledger before every transaction.

🔸 Ascend handles credit: Permissioned vaults enabling compliant assets to be borrowed against and put to work in onchain credit markets.

The institutional momentum behind this is already building. @ApexGlobalGroup (servicing $3.5 trillion) recently committed to adopt the T-REX Ledger as its default infrastructure, with a target of $100 billion in tokenized assets by June 2027. Those assets are eligible across Ascend's credit infrastructure. Ascend brings an additional $8 billion pipeline of institutional RWAs ready for deployment.

Compliant. Interoperable. Productive.

This is the tokenized future 🦖

Read full PR: https://t.co/X6KvKGfjym

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

Huge for DeFi.

[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov]

NEW 🚨: As part of Project Crypto, the Division of Trading and Markets issued a staff statement providing its views on broker-dealer registration requirements in connection with certain interfaces used to prepare transactions in crypto asset securities.

https://t.co/8jCwFOJZcw

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

@AscendFi Honestly a very overlooked decision in DeFi protocol economics, though it underpins everything downstream

[Ascend @AscendFi]

$100B in tokenized assets is only meaningful if those assets can be used.

Today, most regulated RWAs remain economically idle after issuance. They can be recorded onchain, but cannot be pledged, moved, or connected to liquidity without breaking compliance. Ascend is being built to solve this.

Working with @trex_network, bolstered by its recent $100B commitment via @ApexGlobalGroup, helps us enable ERC-3643 assets to function as compliant collateral within onchain credit markets.

Much thanks to @0xMuchScience , @LucFalempin and @RealDennisO for helping facilitate this partnership.

[Marcelo @marcelofleitas]

@AscendFi @ApexGlobalGroup @trex_network Venue-by-venue compliance is no longer an option. To standards! 🥂

[DennisOConnell @RealDennisO]

Compliance before execution.

Exactly what we're building at @AscendFi.

This is how SECURITIES will come onchain: with our architecture that uses @ERC3643Org on @ethereum and @trex_network.

Powered by @chainlink, built by @OpenZeppelin.

Scaling is coming.

[DennisOConnell @RealDennisO]

New platforms for tokenized securities are emerging - but this only fragments liquidity recreating costly inefficiencies.

Only @The_DTCC understands this challenge and uniquely provide interoperability as the key unlock, detailed in their ground breaking report with @Clearstream @EuroclearGroup and @BCG.