MANTRA Announces Seven Projects Selected for RWAccelerator Program

**Circle's landmark IPO** raises $1.05B by selling 34M shares at $31 each, valuing the USDC issuer at $8B. Key developments in institutional crypto adoption: - Societe Generale FORGE partners with BCB Markets to distribute EURCV stablecoin - Santander explores retail crypto services and stablecoin launch under MiCA - Real World Assets market surges 260% to $23B in H1 2025 - Tokenized short-term funds reach $5.7B - BIS report: Stablecoins become 3rd largest US Treasury bills buyer *Want to learn more about the institutional adoption of digital assets?* [Read the full report](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/edition-1-31-may-6-june-2025-mantrachain-tfihc)

MANTRA announces a strategic collaboration with Dimitra Tech and KuCoin to bring agricultural real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain. The initiative focuses on green agricultural assets, emphasizing compliance and transparency in the tokenization process. Key participants: - Profoneur and Ben Smith from MANTRA - Dimitra Tech team - KuCoin representatives A detailed discussion will take place on June 6th at 11AM UTC, covering: - Green RWA implementation - Compliance frameworks - Agricultural asset tokenization [Join the Twitter Space](x.com/i/spaces/1nAKEgQDyXaJL)

Despite recent volatility in the OM token price, MANTRA continues to strengthen its ecosystem through strategic developments: - Full integration of MANTRA mainnet on Binance, enabling native $OM deposits/withdrawals - New listing on South Korea's Upbit exchange - Partnership with Win Investments for Real World Sports Assets - Collaboration with Dimitra for agriculture technology and sustainability projects - Addition of Nansen as chain validator - Bridge and burn of $165M OM tokens (~20% of ERC20 supply) - Launch of OnchainOMies NFT holder claims Earlier this year, OM hit ATH of $8.20 with 100%+ YTD gains, followed by Bybit listing and mainnet launch.

MANTRA Chain announced significant governance improvements focusing on decentralization. Key updates include: - Unwinding of MCA6 validator begins immediately - Plan to reduce internal validators by 50% by Q2 2025 - New external partners to be onboarded as validators This follows February's successful integration of seven major validators including **Vault Staking**, **Polkachu**, and **Cointelegraph**, who collectively bring substantial blockchain infrastructure expertise and security capabilities to the network. *View current validator status on [Mintscan](https://www.mintscan.io/mantra/validators/mantravaloper18se5kq0z86pqfym8uuuqp77kyd788npj3wx7fc)*