Looking at the Zcash issue:
I prefer the generation of assets (crypto or RWA) on a fully transparent layer 1.
When privacy is required this should happen on another layer.
Flare Confidential Compute (FCC) provides the privacy layer and Flare (transparent L1) provides the ingress and egress of assets either created on Flare or elsewhere (eg XRPL) to FCC.
The U.S. Senate has just rejected a motion to add the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation on a 48-50 vote.
Republicans who voted against it:
-Thom Tillis
-Lisa Murkowski
-Mitch McConnell
-Susan Collins
Seeing a lot of panic about $STRC trading around $94.
A reminder: preferred stocks trading below par is completely normal. Many preferreds spend long periods below their $25 or $100 liquidation preference.
STRC’s $100 par value is not a price floor. It’s the stated value used for liquidation preference and certain redemption provisions.
What’s unique about STRC is that its dividend rate is adjusted monthly with the stated goal of encouraging the stock to trade near its $100 par value. That mechanism can influence demand, but it does not guarantee the stock will always trade at par.
A 5% discount to par is not evidence that something is broken. It’s evidence that investors are demanding a higher yield, pricing risk, or reacting to market conditions – exactly what preferred stocks do.
This is a preferred stock trading like a preferred stock.
SITUATION DETECTED: Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 reactor has achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory, what the U.S. Department of Energy is calling one of the most significant technological achievements in nuclear energy in over 40 years.
How are Democrats cheating in L.A.?
Let me show you…
There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles.
I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot.
No homes. No mailboxes. No businesses. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here.
Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom.
This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — and we must pass the Save Act NOW.
Starlink V3 satellites
Bandwidth per Satellite:
• V2: 96 Gbps
• V3: 1,024 Gbps
Bandwidth per Launch:
V2: 2,600 Gbps
V3: 61,000 Gbps
Deployment per Launch:
• V2: 27 satellites (on Falcon 9)
• V3: 60 (on Starship)
Starlink V3 satellites will begin to be deployed in late 2026 on Starship.
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The execution across Elon Musk’s companies right now is operating at an unprecedented scale
• SpaceX — The largest IPO in history expected around June 12
• xAI — Grok V9 (1.5T parameters) launching mid-month to push the frontier
• Tesla — Unsupervised FSD Robotaxis actively scaling across Texas
• Optimus — Production lines spinning up this year
• Neuralink & Starship — Blindsight implants and full orbital reuse both incoming
This is civilizational-level progress. We are living in the most interesting time in human history. This is a literal turnaround
BREAKING: Mastercard is introducing always-on stablecoin settlement on Solana.
3.7 billion cards. 210+ countries. One of the largest payment networks on earth, now settling onchain.
Spencer Pratt: “I didn't know I'd be here tonight, but this is obviously God's plan, and I'm going to go all the way, and I'm going to show everybody that I'm their mayor.”