RP1 Updates
Development updates and project announcements from the team building the velocity layer of digital money.
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Bank issuance and native Vaults join the RP1 capital layer
RP1 added full-reserve institutional stablecoin issuance and donation-resistant native vault accounting behind separate control boundaries.
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Sub-500ms finality, measured across four validators
RP1's live evidence gate now binds committed transaction latency to per-validator CPU and memory samples across a four-node set.
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Less work per transaction
A chain-wide hot-path pass removed copies, allocations, retained buffers, and repeated formatting across consensus, agents, and MPP.
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Cross-chain deposits gain source-aware liquidity routing
Ethereum and Solana deposit metadata now survives the InstaWrap path into RP1 liquidity workflows.
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Native machine payments arrive on RP1
The new MPP module lets services issue HTTP 402-style payment challenges that settle through native RP1 bank transfers.
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Controlled automation for agents and treasuries
RP1 added enterprise treasury controls, agent onboarding paths, and a live benchmark workflow while hardening transaction delivery under bursts.
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Deterministic privacy state and live validator admission
RP1 hardened shielded-pool consensus state and completed the path for admitting validators to a running testnet.
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Velocity Scripts enter the chain runtime
Velocity moved from an interface idea to typed onchain intents, queryable queues, generated services, and a relayer execution loop.
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One consensus runtime: RP1 goes DAG-first
RP1 removed the legacy Comet block-production path and made Narwhal-Bullshark the chain's runtime, with lower gossip memory pressure and stronger liveness handling.
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Confidential Transactions: Secure Enclave Processing is Live
RP1 now supports hardware-backed confidential transaction processing. Encrypted payloads stay encrypted until they hit verified enclave hardware.
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Testnet Progress: Heading Into First Deployment
We're in the final stretch before our first testnet goes live. Here's where things stand, what shifted, and what's coming for partners and developers.
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Building for a Post-Chart World
The market is chaos. We're building technology that works whether the chart goes up, down, or sideways.
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Introducing RP1 Updates
Welcome to RP1 Updates - your source for development progress and project announcements.
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RP1 Stables: Pay for Coffee with Any Crypto
How RP1 Stables enables real-world payments — scan a QR code, pay with any crypto, merchant receives their preferred currency, your wallet stays private.
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Introducing the Velocity Layer
Sub-second cross-chain transactions, near-zero fees, one universal account. Here's how the Velocity Layer works.
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Development Update: Major Consensus Engine Milestone
We replaced CometBFT with custom Narwhal-Bullshark DAG consensus. 100,000+ TPS, 300ms finality, finished two weeks early.
