Patrick Witt, the guy who runs the President’s digital assets council and the Pentagon’s $200B strategic capital office, said a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve announcement is coming in weeks.
Add in the “crypto will take off like a rocket ship” comment after market structure passes…plus Clarity timelines pointing to May/June…
Something bigger is moving!
⚡️CARDANO STABLECOIN SUPPLY NEARLY TRIPLES IN A YEAR
Cardano’s stablecoin market cap has nearly tripled over the past year, signaling growing activity across its ecosystem.
COINBASE ACTIVATES XRP FUTURES TRADE AT SETTLEMENT ON MAY 1, PUTS XRP ON SAME FOOTING AS BTC AND ETH
@coinbase filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement (TAS) for XRP futures on May 1, covering both nano XRP and full-sized contracts.
TAS lets institutional block traders execute large orders at the official daily settlement price rather than fighting live intraday prices. It's a standard tool in traditional commodity futures markets.
The move puts XRP on the same TAS footing as Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil on Coinbase Derivatives.
It comes after ripple:native was classified as a digital commodity in March under the joint SEC-CFTC framework, and as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee.
⚡️ LATEST: SoFi adds $XRP deposits alongside $BTC, $ETH and $SOL, becoming one of the first nationally chartered U.S. banks to offer $XRP trading from FDIC-insured cash accounts.
🇨🇭ADOPTION: 137 SPAR STORES IN SWITZERLAND NOW ACCEPT CARDANO
137 SPAR supermarkets now accept $ADA via DFX .swiss Open Crypto Pay, reducing payment processing fees by up to two-thirds.
This is MASSIVE for the crypto market.
Coinbase has now officially received OCC approval to become a U.S. trust BANK.
With the crypto market structure bill coming, the fundamentals are the strongest they have ever been in history.
Trillions will enter the market and the next bull run will be the biggest ever in the history of crypto market.
BREAKING NEWS:
CARDANO IS OFFICIALLY IN THE QUALIFICATION STAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S GLOBAL CRYPTO PARTNER PROGRAM 😱😱😱
@phillip_pon says while Cardano wasn’t part of the initial 85 launch partners, @emurgo_io has been working behind the scenes with @Mastercard APAC team to change that.
Cardano is now officially in the Qualification Stage for Mastercard’s Global Crypto Partner Program.
⚡️RIPPLE LAUNCHES DIGITAL ASSET TREASURY PLATFORM
Ripple unveiled Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury, a system enabling management of fiat, RLUSD, and $XRP in one interface without manual reconciliation.
It's the first enterprise TMS with native digital asset support.
THIS IS VERY BULLISH
🇺🇸 US ISM Manufacturing PMI just came in at 52.7%, above expectations of 52.5%.
This is the 3rd consecutive monthly print above 52%, which shows that the US economy is in the expansion phase.
Last time ISM PMI had 3 consecutive prints above 52 was in Q3 2020, and here's what happened after that.
- Gold and Silver peaked.
- Stocks rallied hard.
- Alts entered a mega uptrend, which lasted for 6-8 months.
🔐 GOOGLE VALIDATES CARDANO AS SECOND-MOST QUANTUM-READY BLOCKCHAIN
Tech titan Google ranks $ADA as the #2 quantum-ready blockchain, spotlighting its advanced defenses against future quantum threats. This positions Cardano as a top contender for institutional trust in a rapidly evolving crypto landscape.
This recognition signals a new standard for blockchain security.
JUST IN: Banks are favoring Cardano’s Midnight over Ethereum and Solana.
A new Benzinga report highlights growing institutional interest in Cardano’s privacy-focused infrastructure.
This isn’t niche coverage.
Benzinga reaches ~25 million monthly readers.
🇺🇸 JUST IN: U.S. lawmakers unveiled a draft crypto tax bill proposing a stablecoin exemption for transactions under $200 but excluding any Bitcoin tax exemption.
We just performed the first Atomic Swap between Cardano and Bitcoin in Mainnet.
This means native BTC was traded for native ADA.
0.0001 $BTC swapped for 50 $ADA
Bitcoin is on Cardano 🧡 ↔ 💙
🚨CARDANO LANDS A MAJOR U.K. BANK DEAL
UK-regulated Monument Bank plans to tokenize GBP customer deposits on Cardano’s Midnight network as interest-bearing digital assets.
Charles Hoskinson says the partnership could bring hundreds of millions to billions in TVL.