Benjamin (🖤,🤍)
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Degen exploring all things crypto and beyond. Economics, politics, science, trading, finance, NFTs, DeFi, investor, founder.
Australia
Joined December 2021
Interesting… because earlier today Brian Armstrong was on Fox and told everyone “banks are going against Trump’s crypto agenda.” Now the reports say the White House is furious with Coinbase. This is exactly what I’ve been saying: Coinbase isn’t fighting banks, it’s trying to
🚨SCOOP: The White House is considering pulling its support for the crypto market structure bill entirely if @coinbase does not come back to the table with a yield agreement that satisfies the banks and gets everyone to a deal, a source close to the Trump administration tells me.
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🚨SCOOP: The White House is considering pulling its support for the crypto market structure bill entirely if @coinbase does not come back to the table with a yield agreement that satisfies the banks and gets everyone to a deal, a source close to the Trump administration tells me.
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Parmigiano-Reggiano is the most protein dense food on earth at 34% protein per 100g. It has more protein than chicken and beef. It is one of the most efficient sources of bioavailable nutrition humans have ever created. Fermenting it for up to 1.5 years means -easier digestion
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Swift is an orchestration layer in the new financial system. Swift’s orchestration move is defensive, but necessary. It doesn’t control the rails anymore. It’s trying to control how those rails are sequenced. And when you bring Ripple/XRP/RLUSD into this frame, the distinction
The future of digital finance is interoperable - and we’re helping make it real. We’ve completed pioneering digital asset interoperability trials with @BNPParibas Securities Services, @intesasanpaolo , and @SocieteGenerale - FORGE demonstrating how Swift can orchestrate
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🚨NEW: Nearly 24 hours after the @BankingGOP markup was pulled, industry players, lawmakers, and staffers have had time to digest what happened and what comes next, though many are still "pissed" at the way things went down yesterday. Consensus among some industry and Banking
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There's a reason why Coinbase said "No" to Clarity while Circle and Ripple said "Yes"...
Everyone keeps saying banks are panicking about stablecoin yield. They’re not. Exchanges are. The market structure bill doesn’t ban rewards, it bans idle yield. No more parking stablecoins and earning just for sitting still. Why does that matter? Because exchanges want you
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$MATIC have just let 30% of their workforce go... the industry is running on fumes.
Given all the Cosmos projects that have shut down already this year, it's probably time to update this list... - Mantra have let everybody go. - Milkyway have closed down. - Nomic never did properly launch or make their token tradable (forever compounding). - Mars got hacked
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A great step forward for X.
BREAKING: Multiple "InfoFi" crypto projects crash after X says they will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on the platform. "These projects were paying us millions for Enterprise API access. We don’t want it," Head of Product Nikita Bier says. This is huge.
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If BTC breaks all time highs in 2026 and breaks the whole notion of the 4 year cycle then I believe this will trigger the peak euphoria event. This would be massive levels of speculation and things might get very stupid.
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🚨JUST IN: The Senate Banking Committee has decided to pull tomorrow’s scheduled market structure markup following today’s drama with Coinbase. It’s unclear whether a new date has been set.
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@andyyy It's about time others are starting to say this out loud: Institutionalized chains are coming. Distribution > doctrine > bag holders. Normies will come on chain and have no clue they are using crypto. Incumbents will be in shambles - as will be their chains that Stripe and
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The Sui browser indicates that the Sui mainnet has been down for over an hour. Sui's official X account stated: The Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a network stall, and the Sui Core team is actively working on a solution. https://t.co/lPoIuvksoq
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Iran has now been under a total internet blackout for 150 hours, it is extremely possible we won’t know about U.S. strikes until there is a report from international news networks and/or there is an official announcement from Iran or the United States.
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After reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48hrs, Coinbase unfortunately can’t support the bill as written. There are too many issues, including: - A defacto ban on tokenized equities - DeFi prohibitions, giving the government unlimited access to your financial
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A Gen Z joined the team. Week one. During onboarding, the manager said, “We sometimes stay late during peak periods.” Gen Z nodded. Then asked, “Is that paid… or just expected?” The room went quiet. - No attitude. - No rebellion. - Just a question. Later that day, HR
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Circle have decided to launch their own blockchain, Arc, to compete with the likes of XRPL / Ripple.
For users and institutions, the promise is simple: faster, cheaper, always-on finance. But regulated stablecoins are just the beginning. A new system is taking shape. → @Arc, a new blockchain network designed as the Economic OS for the internet → Regulated digital assets
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Sec. 302 of yesterday's draft would severely handicap US based dApp front-ends. I don't think this is how the US becomes the global hub for crypto.
18/ Fourth, developer protections. Non-custodial software developers are not money transmitters and should not have to KYC users, end of conversation. But Title 3 has several references suggesting that the surveillance state could take over DeFi. These must be removed or fixed.
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We’ve secured our preliminary Electronic Money Institution license approval from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). 🇪🇺 This is a pivotal step toward scaling Ripple Payments across the EU, bringing institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure
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The biggest scam in America isn’t left vs right - it’s the banks. The @federalreserve wasn’t created to protect Americans. It was born from secret meetings on Jekyll Island after massive bank runs and failures. Private bankers got together in secret and formed a cartel that
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