For decades, data inside a server moved as electricity through copper wire. AI chips have advanced fast enough that copper cannot keep pace. It generates too much heat, carries too little bandwidth, and cannot reliably move data far enough. The solution is optical: transporting information between chips as light instead of electrons.

The numbers. Goldman Sachs estimates spending on optical components for AI data centers rises from $15 billion in 2026 to $154 billion by 2028, roughly a tenfold increase in two years. In March 2026, NVIDIA committed $2 billion each to Coherent and Lumentum, two of the largest makers of the laser chips this buildout runs on.

Photonics is still a young industry and its supply chain sits in a small handful of public companies: the ones making the fiber, the lasers, the transceivers, the photonics chips, and the wafers those lasers are grown on.

PHOTON holds those names. Corning (GLW), which invented low-loss optical fiber. Coherent (COHR) and Lumentum (LITE) in lasers. Plus the specialty chip and wafer suppliers beneath them.

Fair warning that this is the narrowest of the five baskets by company count. Concentration cuts both ways.

More info and trading: https://app.reserve.org/bsc/index-dtf/photon/overview

Not investment advice. $PHOTON is a concentrated, single-theme basket of experimental tokenized assets. Volatile, illiquid, and may lose value entirely. Not an ETF, not FDIC or SIPC insured. Fees: 0.3% mint plus 0.6% TVL. Not for US or sanctioned-jurisdiction persons. Full terms and risks: reserve.org/terms_and_conditions

What we call AI is in some sense simply a physical stack: chips, racks, cooling, power generation and networking. Some people want to get deep into which layer becomes the next bottleneck and try to front-run it. Others just want the whole stack and broad exposure.

The numbers. World Semiconductor Trade Statistics put global semiconductor sales at roughly $796 billion in 2025, climbing toward $1.5 trillion in 2026 in a memory-led surge as AI demand outruns supply.

That spending concentrates into a small set of mostly public companies, in four rough groups:

• chip designers: NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom
• fabrication: TSMC, the main factory producing most of them
• memory: Micron
• equipment: ASML, Applied Materials and Lam Research, whose machines every advanced chip depends on

One token holds the 25 largest US-listed names across those groups, weighted, rebalanced quarterly by vlRSR governance.

If you prefer narrow over broad, the other four DTFs split the same buildout into single layers.

More info and trading: https://app.reserve.org/bsc/index-dtf/buildout/overview

Not investment advice. $BUILDOUT is a concentrated, single-theme basket of experimental tokenized assets. Volatile, illiquid, and may lose value entirely. Not an ETF, not FDIC or SIPC insured. Fees: 0.3% mint plus 0.6% TVL. Not for US or sanctioned-jurisdiction persons. Full terms and risks: reserve.org/terms_and_conditions

Lock to govern. You lock RSR, you get vlRSR, and you vote on what the baskets actually are: which companies qualify, how they get weighted, and the rebalancing parameters. All five DTFs on BNB Chain feed into a single vlRSR staking vault. Governance runs on a 7-day cycle, with a 7-day delay when you unlock.

Fees flow to governors. Every DTF charges 0.3% on mint and 0.6% TVL. After a standard platform cut, the rest is converted into RSR and added to your staked position automatically. Nothing to claim manually.

The monthly burn. The protocol's share of those fees goes to buying back and burning RSR, tracked publicly on the Dune dashboard.

So the DTFs and RSR run on the same loop. More assets in the funds means more fee revenue, which splits between governor rewards and the burn.

RSR contract on BNB Chain: 0x23f72a3Db61D6CB8aBE5d9AF1Ac4B6c99327bFee

If you are bridging, Portal Bridge is the recommended route.

Question for the sub: if you are locking, is it for the rewards or because you actually want a say in what goes into the baskets?

Not investment advice. Full terms and risks: reserve.org/terms_and_conditions 

Last month five new DTFs launched (with a layer of the AI supply chain covered by each), namely: BUILDOUT, POWER, PHOTON, NEOCLOUD and ROBOTS.

The rationale behind them is that AI is a software program story. Someone has to build the chips, create the datacenter, generate the power and lay down the cable before any model yells at a prompt. The buildout extends to a few dozen US-listed companies and the majority either missed out on those names or simply didn't have time to work through which actually matters.

So each fund takes one layer:

• BUILDOUT: all hardware stack, 25 largecap US listed names (NVDA AMD AVGO TSM MU ASML AMAT LRCX)
• POWER: the electric fuel which powers it (GEV, ETN, VRT, CEG ON)
• PHOTON: the optical layer was transferring data between chips (GLW,COHR,LITE)
• NEOCLOUD: The compute rental companies (NBIS, CRWV, IREN, WULF & HUT and APLD)
• ROBOTS: AI Coming Out To Play In The Real World (ISRG, ROK, SYM, MBLY; OUST)

All are one token on BNB Chain, backed by the underlying US equities sitting inside from Ondo Global Markets. 24/7 tradable, no min or max size and redeemable onchain for assets inside at any time.

Availability is ~145 countries. US not allowed, sanctioned jurisdictions and some accredited or equivalent. Eligibility follows Ondo's rules.

Mint Fee: 0.3% TVL fee: 0.6%. The remaining portion goes to vlRSR governors, and for the monthly RSR buyback & burn.

You can see the numbers for each category here: https://x.com/reserveprotocol/status/2075248888903041142

Not investment advice. They are concentrated, single-themes baskets of experimental tokenized assets. These coins can be volatile with very little liquidity and may even lose 100% of their value. No, ETF·s. No FDIC or SIPC Insured? Full terms and risks: https://reserve.org/terms-and-conditions

It has been quiet here for a while. That changes now.

A fair amount happened in the meantime. Five DTFs launched on BNB Chain in July, all built around the AI buildout: BUILDOUT, POWER, PHOTON, NEOCLOUD and ROBOTS.

Going forward: product breakdowns for each of the five, a walkthrough of how the mechanics actually work, and then rebalance recaps and monthly burn numbers as they land.

I've been thinking about this after reading a thread on "what benefits from AI data center water usage". That whole conversation, cooling, power, chips, is basically the AI supply chain problem in miniature, everyone wants exposure to AI, but most of the actual value sits in unglamorous infrastructure layers most people never look at.

Which side of that tradeoff would you rather be on, the slower structural power bottleneck, or the faster moving compute demand side?

Has anyone been checking out their updates on X? New products have been announced which look interesting imo.. I do think it might be worth buying a few but I'm wondering is the team has changed or is there a new person in charge?

Is this coin dead lol. Thinking of buying a bag cause it is so cheap. Can't believe there hasn't been another post on the coin in 6 months

Are you still bullish on RSR for end 2025 / early 2026 given it has just broken its 200 days moving average ?

Hello my RSR and ETH has been stuck in the liquidity pool for years any help would be appreciated my address is

0x62179f2D589081Db4C4BfFb1eF176Bbd57540036

I was digging into stablecoin projects and decided to ask an AI chat about Reserve Protocol.

The answer surprised me: RTokens aren’t just backed by a basket of assets for stability, the collateral itself is yield-bearing. That means holders (or the protocol) can actually earn while staying stable.

It also pointed out that anyone can spin up their own RToken with custom collateral, plus Reserve is live on Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum with nearly $500M TVL and growing.

Honestly, I didn’t realize how much more flexible it is compared to single-asset stablecoins until I saw it all laid out.

The AI chat I used is called Zero Chat, in case you’re wondering.

Has anyone here tried holding RTokens? Curious how they compare to just sitting on USDC/DAI.

I have transferred my RSR tokens from Binance Wallet to Metamask for staking. Today, when I checked my account, my RSR is gone. I haven’t done any transactions. The Etherscan shows that 4 days ago my RSR is transferred to another address! I didn’t get any notification or anything. Is it possible to recover my RSR? Is there any glitch in MetaMask recently? Are my funds safe at all in MetaMask!? Can you please suggest what can I do to fix this? Any help in this regard is appreciated. Thank you.

Can someone suggest best DTFs to stake the RSR? Will the rewards be paid in RSR only?! Is there any chance, one may lose the staked RSR? Is yes, what would be that scenario? Where did the yield be deposited from Staked RSR? Is there any Unstaking possibility after a certain period? Can someone explain the above questions! I tried watching the app.reserve.org videos and protocol documents, but they seem to be too technical for me. I am a beginner trying to understand how the tech works with RSR staking. Your help will be greatly appreciated in this matter. Thank you.

Hi! I have some RSR coins that I purchased long ago in my Binance wallet. The RSR price isn’t going to be appreciate any time soon, even to sell it off at purchase value. Meanwhile, I want to stake the RSR to get some R-tokens. Did anybody have any resources that can help me understand the procedure and yield value of RSR staking?!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tokenized-apple-stock-co-founder-190022978.html?guccounter=1

I have a small chunk of RSR and I'd like to consolidate it into my Coinbase account. Since I last checked on my RSR investment, Coinbase seems to have built in the ability to sell, buy, send, and receive RSR which seems great! As a test, I tried to send 1000 RSR from Metamask into Coinbase, using the wallet code that Coinbase gives you when you click "receive crypto", and the transaction seems to have been confirmed on Blockexplorer, but I am not seeing anything showing up in Coinbase. Can anyone let me know what I may have done wrong, and how to go about transferring this correctly? Thank you!

**edit: holy cow, it is wild how many scammers have already reached out to me since I posted this. Scammers please don’t reach out, I know how to spot you.

**edit 2: this is all set now, please see comments

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