Season 6 wrapped on Sep 30, the first full quarter under Conversion 3.0.
It was also the quarter RIVER turned one. The token went live on September 22, 2025, and a year later the same season that closes the first cycle is the one that opens the next.
Three things stand out.
We're now riverai.inc. We upgraded from river.inc to riverai.inc on Sep 4. satUSD and every integration work as before. The upgrade is the first visible piece of an AI product line the team has been building toward. river.inc is dead, so swap any bookmark to riverai.inc.
The World Cup, with you. Team votes and score predictions ran from the round of 32 to the final, and we watched the matches with the LATAM community.
satUSD in new places. Spend it with a Visa card through MelonCash, pay PIX in Brazil through Yodl, keep it on a Tangem cold wallet. Your BTC and ETH stay onchain the whole time.
S6 Participation Overview
- 10k users participated in S6
- ~1.2M RIVER staked (~$10M worth)
- ~40M River Pts converted during S6
River Expanding AI-related Product
The domain upgrade is the visible part. Behind it, the team has been building with AI agents and models inside River's own product and ops over the past few months, and it kept finding the same thing: plenty of open ground in the market, and infrastructure underneath that is still early.
So River is building toward an AI product line on top of what already exists.
satUSD, staking and the app keep running as they do today. The product, its name and its release date come out when it's ready.
RIVER Staking and Governance
Staking and weekly rewards ran every week of the quarter, and S6 was the first season where every conversion went straight into staking.
- Jul 3: S5 Checker is live, 82k eligible
- Jul 7: S5 Airdrop claimable, open until S6 ends
- Jul 28: Weekly rewards
- Aug 7: S6 at 33% progress
- Aug 12: 50% of S5 airdrops claimed
satUSD Adoption
S5 got satUSD to checkout in four countries. S6 widened both where it spends and how you hold it.
- Jul 29: Visa virtual card through MelonCash, spend satUSD in 10+ countries
- Aug 10: satUSD live on Tangem, store and manage it from a hardware wallet
- Aug 14: PIX payments in Brazil through Yodl, scan the QR code and pay in satUSD, the merchant settles in BRL
River4FUN and Campaigns
Creators earned River Pts on the S6 leaderboard through content, voting and campaigns. The World Cup ran through the middle of it.
- Jul 9: Quarter-finals set, 150k River Pts by voting power
- Jul 10: Champion voting opens, 150k River Pts
- Jul 17: Score prediction challenge, $1,000 in RIVER
- Jul 19: 5,000+ predictions before kickoff
- Jul 20: Spain wins, 58k votes in the final round, 150k River Pts to the S6 leaderboard
- Jul 21: 15 winners share $1,000 in RIVER
- Jul 25: Rewards distributed
Global Community
AI, Tokyo. River Sessions co-hosted the AI First Robotics meetup with Axis Robotics on July 13, joined by 0G Labs, Kite AI, Weroam and Chainbase.
The topic was physical AI and the infrastructure that has to sit underneath it, the same question behind River's AI direction, and the first time it came up in public.
LATAM. Three World Cup watch parties in Buenos Aires with WaterX, from the round of 32 to the final. The people voting and predicting on River4FUN were the same people in the room.
River also joined Circle's presentation in Buenos Aires, then Blockchain RIO in Brazil with builders and partners across the region, the same month PIX payments through Yodl went live there.
- Jul 4: Watch party, Buenos Aires, round of 32
- Jul 13: River Sessions x AI First Robotics, Tokyo, co-hosted with Axis Robotics on physical AI and the infrastructure under it
- Jul 15: Semifinal watch party, Buenos Aires with WaterX
- Jul 19: Final watch party, Buenos Aires
- Jul 22: AI Sessions highlights, Tokyo
- Jul 27: Circle in Buenos Aires
- Aug 17: BNB Chain community event
- Blockchain RIO, Brazil, with builders and partners across LATAM
Claim Your S6 Airdrop
S6 settles after Sep 30. Once that's done, the checker and claim page open at app.riverai.inc/airdrop
- S6 claims open during Season 7
- Claim window closes December 31, when S7 ends
- Unclaimed River Pts are forfeited after that
- Once claimed, convert to Staked RIVER whenever you want
Conclusion
S6 was the quarter River moved beyond a single product. satUSD reached a Visa card, PIX and a cold wallet. The World Cup brought 58k votes and 5,000+ predictions. And the upgrade to riverai.inc marks the start of a second line of business.
One year after TGE, that is where River stands: a stablecoin people actually spend, a token people actually stake, and a second product line on the way. Thank you to the community for the journey so far.
See you in Season 7.
About River
River is building the first chain-abstraction stablecoin system that connects assets, liquidity, and yield across ecosystems.
Powered by the omni-CDP stablecoin satUSD, River allows users to collateralize assets on one chain and mint on another — natively earning, leveraging, and scaling across networks.
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