I interviewed Andy Lee, Partner, HashKey RWA last week. By the time we wrapped up, it was already late night on the East Coast. Despite a few internet hiccups here and there, I really enjoyed this conversation. It’s packed with insights, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
If blockchain's next chapter is about real-world utility rather than speculation, few topics illustrate that better than the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs). Before speaking with Andy, I hadn't fully appreciated how quietly and how quickly Asia has emerged as one of the most active regions driving this transformation. Andy offers a front-row perspective on what's happening and why it matters.
Andy has an accomplished career before joining HashKey to focus on RWAs, including building a ditial gaming studio and listing its token on Base.
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Franklin Templeton supports passage of the CLARITY Act.
The bill would make clear how crypto is regulated. Investors would know what protections apply. Firms would know which regulators they answer to.
It’s time to provide the industry the clarity it needs.
Tomorrow at 5PM ET — The Percent Pulse: Q2 2026 Retrospective.
Q2 performance. New borrowers. Macro read. Product roadmap. Live Q&A.
Hosted by @prathreddy, CEO of Percent. Register → https://t.co/TMgyRLWQFz
Stop whatever you’re doing.
I don’t care that it’s a Friday in the middle of summer.
If you work in crypto, take two minutes to submit a letter urging the Senate to bring the Clarity Act to the floor for a vote.
This is one of the easiest ways to make your voice heard.
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Princeton Summer Theater presents "True West" across two weekends from July 23 to August 1st at the Hamilton Murray Theater.
Read about it here -> https://t.co/8VhhH1dnBT
@PrincetonST2018
BREAKING: Samsung is bringing native $USDC support to 1 billion+ Galaxy users via Samsung Wallet.
The feature will allow users to hold, send, and receive stablecoins directly in the built-in wallet.
Sad to see BitMex go. Some thoughts:
BitMex pioneered 100x perps in crypto back in 2014. Delivery futures existed before then, making Fridays hectic.
BTC deposits only, one chain only, withdrawals only once per day, through a multi-sig wallet. The constraints that seemed inconvenient kept them unhacked.
All four founders pled guilty to BSA violations a month before trial, after 18 months of fighting it. $10m fine each, home confinement. No one went to prison.
However, their business didn’t survive the “war on crypto” from the Biden admin.
Lastly, wind down appears orderly, users can withdrawals their assets. Respect to @CryptoHayes 🫡
Percent is partnering with Trillium Technologies to bring compute credits to private credit investors.
Data center capacity as an investible asset, built on Percent's infrastructure, with $2B+ in private credit already structured and distributed on the platform.
Full story via Exclusive: https://t.co/yxz8YPTq54
Over the past two decades of painstaking work, @yibinkang’s team has identified a gene — MTDH, or metadherin — that allows animals to accumulate fat for lean times but contributes to obesity and cancer.
After years of trying molecule after molecule to disable metadherin, he found a compound with the potential to thwart breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and colon cancer. More recently, his team identified a separate pathway involving retinoic acid — a metabolic derivative of vitamin A.
Several of his team’s discoveries have begun the long journey to FDA clinical trials.
“You can almost call cancer a metabolic disease,” Kang said. “A poor metabolism weakens your immune system, promotes the proliferation of cancer cells, damages organs’ renewal ability. So I think that to cure cancer, you have to correct metabolism as well.”
Learn more about this vital research happening at Princeton: https://t.co/GyrtYJyJCE
I don't think AI will replace humans soon, at least in customer service. One of my tech service providers uses AI for customer service, but the service is awful. AI does not understand my requests, but refuses to transfer me to a live person. I squawk, asking AI to go away. I have been hearing from some friends who share a similar experience.
Key Takeaways on Tesla outlook from my @BloombergTV conversation with @SheryAhnNews and @HaidiLun.
1. It seems that Elon Musk is never comfortable unless he’s daring investors to bet against him.
2. Musk is now pushing all of Teslas chips to the center of the table, making a giant bet on autonomous cars and humanoid robots.
3. Elon promises an extraordinary breakthrough with an impossible timeline. He’s late to deliver. The stock drops. Then Tesla produces something that blows past expectations. Stock pops.
It’s a permanent high stakes roller coaster.
What everyone is holding their breath on right now is a potential Tesla merger with SpaceX. You can see a future where Tesla SpaceX becomes a super company with all the best features of physical AI.
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