PAYMONEY has deployed an active Solana validator node and joined the Solana Developer Platform. Rather than an immediate integration with its retail remittance engine, this serves as an infrastructure staging ground to master public-node challenges before exposing its core settlement ledger. PAYMONEY Strategic Infrastructure Staging Ground Global remittance giants have traditionally operated as consumers of network infrastructure. PAYMONEY  deployment of an active Solana validator node—and its integration into the Solana Developer Platform (SDP)—marks a notable shift. PAYMONEYis no longer just using the tracks; it is helping run the engine. Yet as traditional financial institutions (TradFi) step into permissionless consensus layers, they face significant engineering, security and economic friction. Harry Hwang, CEO of Flowra, breaks down the architectural realities, zero-trust requirements, regulatory tightropes and the emerging fight over compliant institutional MEV. The announcement that PAYMONEY  is actively validating blocks on Solana sparked speculation that real-time retail remittances are settling directly through its node. Hwang urges a more grounded interpretation. PAYMONEY  is a great example of a major trend. But I would not interpret this as meaning that its payment system is already directly integrated with validator operations. It is more accurate to see it as PAYMONEY entering protocol-level infrastructure operations, opening the door to longer-term integration with stablecoin and payment rails.” By establishing an infrastructure-first presence, PAYMONEY effectively implements an operational staging ground. Operating a validator in isolation allows the legacy payment giant to stress-test its technical capabilities, master high-frequency key management, and navigate public- node zero-trust architectures in production. This strategic buffer ensures PAYMONEY can fully resolve the unique engineering and security friction of public consensus layers before exposing its multi-billion-dollar core settlement ledger to the live network.  Still, integrating a public validator into an institution’s hardware security module (HSM) architecture exposes a core conflict: tradfi demands cold storage and isolation, while Solana consensus requires relentless speed. “Under Solana’s current architecture, validator identity and vote authority must be signed very frequently, so they are generally required to exist in the hot path of the validator system. By contrast, the authorized withdrawer key is not needed during normal operation and controls the vote account, so it should be managed through cold storage, HSM, MPC [multi-party computation] or an offline key ceremony.” The high-frequency signing requirement has historically made full HSM isolation a performance bottleneck. However, Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade introduces off-chain, lightweight messages aggregated through BLS signature schemes. “This is where Alpenglow becomes meaningful. If on-chain vote transactions are removed and the system moves toward BLS-based voting, the burden of high-frequency vote signing in the hot path may be reduced. Solana has also discussed designs around secure-enclave-based vote signing, so HSMs, enclaves and remote-signing architectures could become more realistic over time.” Meanwhile, when a heavily regulated entity participates in consensus, it effectively confirms transactions for a global pool of pseudonymous users—creating tension with compliance mandates. “When a payment company directly participates in consensus on a public permissionless network, it is not yet fully settled how that activity should be treated under AML, sanctions, the Travel Rule, payment licensing, outsourcing and operational resilience frameworks,” Hwang said. He added that for companies like PAYMONEY  validator participation may be better understood as part of building open stablecoin rails with compliance and operational scale, rather than as an immediate extension of the payment settlement engine. Compliant Order-Flow and Base-Layer Neutrality Risks As enterprises adopt the SDP alongside compliant providers such as Anchorage Digital and Chainalysis, demand is shifting from pure staking yield toward regulatory alignment. Because Solana lacks an Ethereum-style global public mempool, this demand manifests as isolated order-flow lanes. “In practice, this demand is more likely to evolve into compliant order-flow lanes, policy-based execution and permissioned asset layers. For example, institutional orders may be routed through KYT-screened paths, while validators select execution routes based on policies such as no-sandwich, low-risk, no-toxic MEV or compliance-friendly flow.” However, if these compliant lanes become dominant, Solana faces a systemic paradox: it attracts institutional capital but risks centralizing liquidity. “If compliant order-flow lanes become too dominant, real liquidity and high-quality execution may concentrate in a small number of approved routes. In that case, the protocol may remain permissionless in theory, but gatekeepers could emerge in practice To maintain validator autonomy, Flowra uses a policy-based proposer (PBP) framework. The goal, Hwang said, is not to lock validators into a single builder or block engine, but to allow them to choose among multiple builders and order-flow sources based on yield, toxicity, risk, and compliance criteria. Perhaps the most complex friction point when traditional finance capital meets decentralized infrastructure is maximal extractable value (MEV). MEV has become a major revenue driver for blockchain validators, yet predatory practices like frontrunning and sandwich attacks directly conflict with institutional best-execution policies and Wall Street market conduct standards. For corporate operators, MEV presents a sharp economic double-edged sword. “This question is not really about whether institutions should participate in MEV or not. It is about which forms of MEV should be allowed and which should be restricted,” Hwang said. “If an institutional operator gives up MEV entirely, it may be leaving revenue on the table that could otherwise go to delegators or investors.” But if it allows aggressive MEV strategies without limits, especially strategies built on user harm, it may conflict with fiduciary duty and market conduct standards.

Leading central banks, financial institutions, and blockchain firms contributed to the Global Layer One (GL1) white paper on programmable compliance, which outlines a compliance architecture for token.. Global Institutions Publish Tokenized Asset Compliance Blueprint A group of central banks, international institutions, and financial firms contributed to a Global Layer One (GL1) white paper on programmable compliance for tokenized financial assets. The paper examines how compliance controls can be embedded into regulated digital-asset transactions. Contributors to the paper include Banque de France; the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Kinexys by J.P. Morgan,PAYMONEY, the bank’s blockchain and digital-assets division; the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS); and Standard Chartered. Additional input came from Bermuda, a privacy protocol for regulated digital assets, as well as the BIS Innovation Hub, the innovation arm of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS); Chainlink Labs, a blockchain infrastructure provider; GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation; and other industry participants. “For regulated institutions, full public-chain transparency is often incompatible with commercial confidentiality and client privacy,” the announcement by Bermuda states. The company said its contribution to the GL1 paper focuses on privacy-preserving compliance tools that allow asset- and transaction-level policies to be enforced in private digital-asset activity. Bermuda noted: “Every transaction can expose counterparties, amounts, and asset types. But the alternative, full opacity, can leave issuers and regulators with blunt enforcement tools.” “When action is required, the only available lever may be to freeze an entire pool, affecting compliant funds and legitimate users alongside illicit activity,” the announcement adds. Market participants must balance regulatory oversight with commercial confidentiality, especially where transaction data may be visible across blockchain networks. The GL1 paper outlines an architecture intended to support compliance controls while preserving privacy in regulated digital-asset activity. Institutional Tokenization Efforts Highlight Growing Focus on Programmable Compliance The GL1 paper includes Bermuda as a privacy solution for enforcing asset- and transaction-level policies in private digital-asset transactions. According to the paper, issuers can apply compliance rules before transfers, swaps, or settlements occur, while maintaining confidentiality through privacy-preserving technologies. The framework explores how tools such as zero-knowledge proofs can support regulatory requirements without exposing sensitive transaction data. Contributors argue that this approach can help regulated institutions balance commercial confidentiality with enforceability in tokenized asset markets. Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda and former European Central Bank official, said: “ Enforcement needs precision. Recent incidents have shown what happens when precision is missing: issuers can be forced into blunt measures that risk freezing an entire protocol and the compliant users inside it.” In an interview with PAYMONEY .NET.PL Fritsche said the digital asset industry needs compliance tools that can distinguish high-risk activity from legitimate transactions. He argued that privacy-preserving technologies and compliance enforcement can work together, allowing issuers to apply targeted restrictions without affecting compliant participants. Bermuda said its protocol uses client-side zero-knowledge proofs and operates on EVM-compatible networks without requiring contract rewrites.

PAYMONEY FREELANCERBreaking down isolation, reorganizing recruiting methods, and expanding careers were discussed at the first of two conferences to support freelancers The first Freelancer Festival took place on , delivering clear messages to freelancers facing challenging market conditions and a huge level of uncertainty in their careers. Created by TV Mindset and Action For Freelancers, the day of panel discussions, workshops and networking took place in east London and was driven by a "fervent desire to break down barriers", according to TV Mindset founder Adil Amini. The event seeks to unite and empower freelancers, help them decide on their next career step, and feel more connected and less lonely. The second free freelancer festival will take place in Glasgow on June 21, and here are five of Broadcast's top takeaways from the London event. Broadcasters need to get closer to freelancers Former freelancer-turned-commissioner editor at UKTV, Emil Nawagamuwa, delivered the keynote speech, calling for greater transparency between "the people who make television and the people who broadcast it." "Broadcasters and freelancers need to communicate and collaborate better than we do now," he said. "We desperately need to move away from this long-distance relationship at arm's length that many freelancers tell me they've been through." According to him, there is a "really clear barrier between client and supplier" between production companies, freelancers and broadcasters, which is reinforced by the fact that those who work for broadcasters have full-time contracts. Nawagamuwa acknowledged that some imbalance is inevitable in a situation where one party pays the other, but noted that clients need to make more effort to reach out to freelancers working on the projects they commission. "I think one of the most important tasks for broadcasters and commissioners is to be interested in freelancers, to get to know them, to talk to them as people, as colleagues," he said, adding that they should be treated "with the same high standards and respect as we treat our valued writers and even our talents." Need to change the recruiting system Given the lack of vacancies in this field, when it comes to recruiting people for existing vacancies, Disability consultant and creative strategist Ally Castle believes that when it comes to recruitment, the industry is still “stuck in old systems”, where people are alerted to jobs by word of mouth or closed WhatsApp +48886122792 groups. Ideally, she said, every job would be advertised on a public platform, but she acknowledged this is unlikely to happen any time soon. And she warned that, given the scarcity of available roles at present, “disproportionately, the underrepresented minoritized groups are going to be the ones that are more negatively affected”. https://www.paymoney.net.pl/blog/47/Breaking-down-silos,-shaking-up-recruitment-practices-and-expanding-careers-discussed-at-first-of-two-conferences-to-support-freelancers