Thanks to @bitwise for the merch!
Responded to one of their give-a-way posts and then they reached out to me letting me know I won and to coordinate delivery. Very grateful. Its taken months to get round to posting this but wanted to share.
🚨🗞️NEW: House Turns to Crypto Taxes as Clarity Act Negotiations Continue in the Senate
Plus, what we're watching this week and a roundup of weekend headlines. ⬇️
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🚨AMAZON OFFICIALLY LISTS Ripple As An AWS Partner — Making Ripple Technology Available To Millions Of AWS Customers 🤯☁️🔥
Most people are getting this WRONG. 👀
❌ This does NOT mean Amazon is USING $XRP for payments or that https://t.co/6SmRiSFbPz is running on @Ripple.
✅ What it DOES mean is that Ripple is OFFICIALLY listed in the AWS Partner Network, ALLOWING:
👉 banks, fintechs, and payment providers
ALREADY using Amazon’s cloud infrastructure to deploy @Ripple’s technology much more easily. 🚀⚡
🚨Ripple OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED For DTCC’s July 2026 Tokenization Launch Alongside BlackRock & JPMorgan 🤯🏦🔥
@Ripple Prime has OFFICIALLY been named among 50+ financial giants participating in @The_DTCC’s July 2026 launch, alongside @BlackRock, @JPMorgan, @GoldmanSachs, @Circle, and @OndoFinance. 👀
📅 JULY 2026: DTCC begins LIVE production trading of tokenized assets using real money, real data, and real institutional workflows.
📅 OCTOBER 2026: The platform expands into a FULL-service rollout, allowing DTCC participants to adopt tokenized record-keeping at scale. 🚀
Many are confusing Ripple’s role with Stellar’s, but they’re completely different.
✅ @Ripple Prime is helping TEST, VALIDATE, and SHAPE the institutional infrastructure alongside Wall Street’s biggest players.
✅ @StellarOrg is the PUBLIC blockchain DTCC plans to integrate into its multi-chain strategy, enabling tokenized assets to move on a public network.
EXPLAINED: ⚡ Hyperliquid has become one of crypto’s strongest performers, expanding from on-chain perpetual futures into commodities, pre-IPO markets, prediction markets, and more.
Can HYPE keep running? Read on to find out. 👇
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THIS IS VERY CONCERNING.
Anthropic just called for a global pause in AI development, warning that AI is getting close to improving itself without human help.
In April 2026, Claude ran a full AI research project completely on its own. Humans picked the topic. Claude came up with every experiment, ran every test, and delivered the results.
Two human researchers spent a full week on the same problem and got 23% of the way there.
Claude got 97%.
Claude Mythos Preview is now 52x faster than a skilled human at improving AI training code. The same task takes a human 4 to 8 hours. Claude does it better.
Claude already writes 80% of Anthropic's own code. Their engineers are getting 8x more work done than in 2024, not because they work harder, but because Claude does most of it.
In March 2024, Claude could handle a 4 minute task on its own. Today it handles 12 hour tasks. That number doubles every 4 months. Week long tasks are expected by 2027.
Anthropic warns once AI can build and improve its own next version without any human help, nobody knows how fast things move after that or if humans will still be able to control it.
🚨NEW: As the banking lobby prepares to ramp up its campaign against the Clarity Act ahead of a floor vote, I asked @SenLummis whether its influence could complicate the bill’s path to 60 votes.
@dom_kwok@Kalshi_Finance Ironically thats done already. I read that Apple Intelligent was trained on Googles data servers...they were one of their biggest customers for a spell
LATEST: 🇺🇸 The House Ways and Means Committee is circulating seven crypto tax bill drafts ahead of a June 9 hearing, covering de minimis transactions, stablecoins, and mining and staking proceeds.
🚨SCOOP: The House Ways and Means Committee is circulating a package of SEVEN digital asset tax discussion drafts that would overhaul how crypto is taxed in the U.S.
The bills tackle everything from stablecoin transactions, mining and staking, crypto lending and wash sale rules to charitable donations and a voluntary disclosure program for taxpayers with past digital asset reporting issues.
The move effectively breaks apart the broader Miller-Horsford Digital Asset PARITY Act, as well as similar legislation introduced last year by @SenLummis, into a series of standalone proposals.
The drafts will likely feature prominently at Tuesday’s scheduled Ways and Means hearing on crypto taxation.