NOW: "Families live here! Kids!" Protesters marched through Roosevelt Ave in Jackson Heights against Brothels and Prostitution - banging on doors, plastering “SHUT IT DOWN” signs, and confronting a worker they accused of running a brothel.
They moved storefront to storefront toward the 90th St triangle, ringing bells and shouting through a megaphone at women they alleged were sex workers - "No More Brothels in Our community!" organizer shouted, "it's disgusting!" a local joined the group as they marched.
Manhattan: West 204th Street & Sherman Avenue, several people, including a pedestrian, were injured this morning in the Inwood section of Manhattan.
Police said a Corvette was speeding eastbound on Sherman Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when it collided with a Mercedes-Benz near West 204th Street.
The Corvette then struck a 34-year-old pedestrian before coming to a stop near a building. The Mercedes continued into a parked, unoccupied moped.
The driver of the Mercedes fled the scene and remains wanted by police.
The Corvette driver, a passenger, and the pedestrian were all taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
Investigators are looking into whether the vehicles were drag racing before the crash. The Corvette driver has not been charged.
I mentioned that my garage door was making a sound.
An American immediately said, "I got a guy."
He did not ask what the sound was. He did not ask what kind of door. He produced a guy on the basis of the word garage.
I asked who the guy was.
He said, "Just a guy."
He did not have a company name. He had a first name and a phone number in his phone saved as "Mike Garage."
That is the contact name. Mike Garage. As though Garage is his surname. As though there is a family.
I asked how he found this guy.
"My brother-in-law used him."
I asked if the brother-in-law was satisfied.
He thought about it. Then he said, "He's still standing."
The house is still standing. That is the entire review.
Inside I said: THEY DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. THEY KEEP LOYALTIES.
I called Mike Garage. He answered from inside a vehicle. There was wind. He said he could come Tuesday between eleven and four.
Between eleven and four. A window of five hours. In my country this would be a scandal. Here it is generous. He gave me a window at all. Some guys do not give you a window. Some guys say "Tuesday" and that is the whole appointment.
He came at 1:40.
He fixed it in twenty minutes. He charged me less than I expected and he did not take a card, only cash or an app I had never heard of.
Before leaving he looked at my water heater, which I had not mentioned, and said, "That's gonna go."
I asked when.
"Couple years."
I asked what I should do.
He said, "I'll give you a guy."
He gave me a guy. Mike Garage has a guy. The guy has a guy. There is a network beneath this country made entirely of men named after their function, and none of them advertise, and all of them are busy.
Inside I said: THERE IS A SECOND NATION HERE. IT HAS NO SIGNS. IT IS ENTERED ONLY BY INTRODUCTION.
I have been given four guys since.
I have a guy for trees.
I did not know I needed a guy for trees.
I have trees now, apparently. They are my responsibility. A man named Rick told me so and then left.
Saturn x Strata Flywheel: A Yield-Stacking Strategy for Every Risk Appetite
@saturn_credit tokenizes STRC (Strategy's preferred stock offering ~11.5% APY dividends) and brings it on-chain as sUSDat. @strata_markets then divides this sUSDat into two risk-adjusted tranches. When these two protocols combine, a powerful flywheel begins to spin.
Here is the detailed breakdown of how this flywheel operates ↓↓↓
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The architecture of this flywheel is divided into 3 core components, operating seamlessly:
① Yield Engine: Originates from the Bitcoin accumulation strategy of a public company (Strategy). By issuing preferred stock, Strategy generates a fixed dividend stream (STRC Dividends) at ~11.5% APY
The strength of this approach is evidenced by their accumulation of an additional +77,000 BTC in Q1 2026 alone, solidly fortifying their balance sheet to maintain sustainable yields
② The Bridge: Saturn acts as the infrastructure layer bridging TradFi capital into the DeFi world. The 11.5% dividend from STRC is brought on-chain as USDat, which is then staked to become sUSDat (a yield-bearing asset)
③ The Risk Tailor: This is the bottleneck many RWA projects face: a fixed APY cannot satisfy everyone. Strata solves this by routing sUSDat into Vaults and tranching it into two distinct products:
▸ srUSDat (~7.8% APY): Prioritizes capital protection, perfectly suited for large, risk-averse capital from DAO Treasuries or Conservative Funds
▸ jrUSDat (~25% APY): The first-loss layer absorbing risk in exchange for leveraged yields, purpose-built for Yield Farmers and Degens
➠ Strata tranches risk to attract TVL → Saturn routes capital back to the source to accumulate STRC/BTC → Yield is reinforced to continuously pump new liquidity
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Real Data & Targets:
Traction: sUSDat reserves on Strata experienced an up-only growth within just a few days, hitting the $876.07K mark. Capital is continuously flowing in to absorb the 25% yield (jrUSDat) and to seek a safe haven (srUSDat).
Target Season 1: Saturn is aiming straight for the ambitious milestone of $500M TVL by August 8, 2026
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From the current level of ~$150M, the target represents roughly a 3.5x growth, and the flywheel is engineered to auto-run aggressively toward that number
➥ Saturn x Strata synergy transcends a simple RWA integration, it’s a perpetual liquidity flywheel.
apxUSD and apyUSD (tokenized $STRC) are now live on PancakeSwap @ethereum 🥞
Swap or add liquidity to earn yield on first dividend-backed stablecoin protocol with @apyx_fi.
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