Imagine being Powell right now. Brought inflation down from 9% to 2% while keeping the unemployment rate at 4%. Stocks, Bitcoin, and Gold are all at all time highs. And people are demanding he resign.

I’m really watching SafePal - Crypto Wallet and 1inch with their new Walletdrop — 300 limited hardware wallets aimed at rewarding real #DeFi users and boosting self-custody security. 🔐 No more bot farming. Just legit security for the community.

#Centrifuge ( Centrifuge ) just leveled up #RWA tokenization big time. V3 is live on 6 EVM chains — Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB, and Plume — powered exclusively by Wormhole. ✅ Cross-chain product issuance ✅ Borderless investor access ✅ Unified DeFi liquidity

Gemini Gemini quietly making real progress. Now offering 37 tokenized U.S. stocks to EU users — including Nike, Starbucks & Broadcom — all tradable 24/7 on Arbitrum. Also rolled out Solana staking for institutions. → SOLL ETF is already in → DFDV is scaling up with a $5B

#xStocks xStocks by Backed is picking up steam fast 👀 $300M+ traded onchain in just 4 weeks. Tokenized U.S. stocks, fully backed, live on Solana, Bybit & Kraken. 24/7, borderless, and DeFi-native. This isn’t hype — it’s real demand. TradFi is moving onchain. #BackedFi

President Christine Lagarde explained the importance of developing a digital euro to protect our currency at our July press conference. Our aim is to ensure that our currency is ready for the digital age, and that sovereign money is available in a digital form alongside cash.

JUST IN: PayPal to allow merchants to accept crypto payments.

Been deep in #DeFi research for a while now — and the numbers just keep surprising me. TVL just cracked $153B, the highest since May 2022. 📊 Ethereum still dominates with 59.5%, led by Lido and Aave holding a combined $66B. But what’s really heating up this month: 🔹Solana

Yesterday Saylor bought $2.6 billion Anchorage bought $1.2 billion Twenty One Capital bought $684 million ETF's bought $677 million and bitcoin did not go up at all?

#Onchain yields over 28% APY. Meet OmniVault by Orderly. Powered by Kronos Research, one of Asia’s top quant firms. Pro strategies generate real yield from trading PnL + liquidity flows,with up to 40% of Orderly’s protocol revenue injected. 📈 All-time PnL: +$248.8K

With $FIG we have another massive "POP" highlighting the gross inefficiency in the modern IPO process. It's very simple. They REFUSE to match supply/demand (that happened today). They brag about the mis-match - "30X oversubscribed." The outcome is expected & fully intentional.

Huge move for the Aptos ecosystem. Decibel just launched its devnet — aiming to deliver CEX-level trading fully on-chain. ⚡ 1M orders/sec ⚡ <20ms block time ⚡ Spot, perps, & yield strategies in one place If it works as promised, this could redefine DeFi speed &

🚀CelerNetwork just unlocked a huge upgrade: cBridge now supports Unichain ETH can now move seamlessly across 12 chains — including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain & more — straight into Unichain. With 1‑second blocks + daily 5,480 $CELR rewards for ETH LPs, Unichain

Just heard — Plasma and @Aave teamed up to launch an institutional fund pushing traditional finance onchain. Aave brought real yield to USDT at scale, now with Plasma, they’re accelerating what’s next — a co-incentive fund for fintechs and institutions building on Aave.

It’s not every day you see a chain go full EVM-compatible and aim to bring RWAs onchain at scale. MANTRA | Tokenizing RWAs just hit that milestone on testnet, with mainnet coming in September. They’re not chasing hype coins — they’re building for regulated, yield-bearing assets: e-bike

Stablecoins aren’t just “crypto dollars.” They’re a trillion-dollar unlock waiting to happen. 💥 Lower friction → faster money → better margins for merchants. DeFi takes it further by slashing credit costs (yes, even home equity loans in the US are already >100bps cheaper via

Many 20th century systems will melt down in a low-trust, high-tech environment. Fraud rates will just get out of control. We’ll need to rebuild those systems with cryptography. Digital signatures are much harder to fake than signatures.

I’ve been following Almanak closely — their ACM event on Cookie DAO 🍪 kicks off tomorrow, Aug 21 at 21:00 UTC. 🌟 Early users get 0.55% of the token supply, with top 25 Snappers and top 50 cSnappers scoring favorable terms. Snapshot is at 16:00 UTC. Target is $2M, hard