Chris

#Innovation #DigitalAssets #Payments

[EndGame Macro @onechancefreedm]

Awake in a World That Cannot See Itself

One of the hardest things to accept is that the world runs on managed perception far more than most people realize. The deeper you go, the more you see how much of what passes for reality is filtered through institutions, incentives, fear, habit, and narrative. People are constantly being guided toward certain conclusions, certain emotions, and certain priorities, often without ever noticing how much of their worldview was shaped for them. That does not mean everything is fake. It means very little arrives untouched. Most people are not seeing the world as it is. They are seeing it through layers that were built long before they ever thought to question them.

What makes this even harder is that everyone wakes up to that fact at a different pace. Some never question the surface because life has given them no reason to. Some feel that something is wrong but cannot yet explain it. Some see through one layer of illusion only to get trapped inside another. Some become cynical and think cynicism itself is wisdom. And some reach a point where they can no longer look at politics, media, war, finance, or institutions in the same innocent way again. That uneven awakening is one of the biggest reasons true cohesion is so rare. People may live in the same country, watch the same events, and speak the same language, yet still be reacting from completely different levels of awareness. They are not starting from the same assumptions, the same trust, the same pain, or the same understanding of how power actually works. So even when large numbers of people are being pushed in directions that do not benefit them, they struggle to move together because they are not seeing the same reality at the same depth.

That is why life can feel so disorienting once the veil starts to lift. You realize this world was never a utopia, never as honest as it presented itself, and never organized around the well being of ordinary people as much as they were taught to believe. But that realization does not have to turn into despair. It can turn into discipline. It can teach you to become harder to manipulate, slower to react, more careful about what you accept, and more serious about the choices you make. Maybe that is the real task in a world like this. Not pretending you can wake everyone up at once, and not letting bitterness consume you, but learning to see clearly enough that you do not surrender your own mind. To think carefully. To move wisely. And to protect the people you love with as much truth, strength, and discernment as you can hold onto.

[Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein]

Today(), @stripe is launching a SDK built for AI agents:

- LLMs can call payment, billing, issuing, etc APIs
- Integrates with @vercel, @langchain, @crewAIInc
- Use any model via functions (w/ per token billing)

Excited what you, and your bots, build: https://t.co/3GiXmNm6en

[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ @arrington]

This deal is done. $1.1b https://t.co/J7ppK4uHw0

[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Pendle @pendle_fi]

Yields going supersonic 💥

A reality soon 🤝

[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Solana @solana]

Societe Generale’s digital assets subsidiary, SG FORGE, is adding support for Solana, starting with the launch of its EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) stablecoin.

EURCV is the first MiCA compliant stablecoin issued by a bank. In the future, SG FORGE may also bring its other tokenized security products to Solana, including Smart Cash, Structured Products, and Bonds.

[Deep Whale @DeepWhale]

🚨 l'État de Louisiane accepte officiellement le #Bitcoin et les crypto-monnaies comme forme de paiement valide.

#BTC 🚀

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

.@Circle has connected its $USDC stablecoin with payment systems in Brazil and Mexico for corporate customers through integrations with leading banks, the company said Tuesday.

https://t.co/AhKgsKO3Bg

[Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc @jerallaire]

re: my iPhone NFC USDC post....

Lots of chatter and questions about my tweet. A bit more clarity so that people don't make this into something it is not. Why is tap to pay using USDC on iPhones incoming soon, and what does it mean for Wallet devs to get going?

- Circle has no relationship with Apple and this has nothing to do with Apple Pay.

- The news article, which you should read, spells out what Apple is doing, which is opening up the use of the NFC chip to 3rd party app developers.

- Until Apple did this, the only payment app or wallet that could use NFC on iPhones was Apple's Wallet and Apple Pay.

- By opening up this capability to developers, other Wallet apps, for example, Web3 Wallets and Crypto Wallets will be able to invoke NFC for transactions.

- If a iOS wallet that supports USDC enables this, they could enable a UX where a receiving device (like a Point-of-Sale, or another iOS device) could receive the transaction info via a tap.

- This would allow a PoS to tell an iPhone what blockchain address it will accept USDC on, or the amount to pay, and then the iPhone-based wallet app could prompt the user to confirm a payment (like with FaceID) and initiate a transaction over the blockchain to settle the USDC.

- Combining this with high-performance and low-fee blockchain networks (most these days), this will open up a powerful pathway for direct to merchant USDC payments.

- FWIW, this applies to lots of things outside of USDC -- NFTs for tickets, other certificates, other stablecoins like EURC, etc.

So, yes, Wallet developers should start using the latest Apple iOS SDKs that support this and ready their apps for USDC Tap to Pay.

And, yes, PoS hardware/software companies should ready firmware updates so that they can send/receive these NFC instructions, and work with their Payment Processors to ensure that those firms upgrade to support native USDC settlement (many PSPs and Processors are already doing this).

Hope that helps explain! JA

[GaetanSemp @GaetanSemp]

La SVM (#Solana Virtual Machine) bientôt disponible en tant que L2 sur #Ethereum !

Disponible pour les développeurs uniquement pour l'instant, les plus grandes applications de Solana pourraient être bientôt disponibles sur un L2 d'Ethereum 😊

[Raphaël Bloch 🐳 @Raph_Bloch]

It's truly impressive to observe the developments at @SocieteGenerale, especially with their stablecoin #EURCV

"Our vision is that money will inevitably become digitized, serving both the crypto ecosystem and the traditional financial system" 👇 https://t.co/HzFUVRjMxf

[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Chris @CYanclo]

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[Chris @CYanclo]

Opinion de Bruno Colmant sur l' Euro numérique : vers une renationalisation de la monnaie ???
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[Chris @CYanclo]

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