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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

That’s the point. Lay the ground for emergency powers, laws increasing federal control of elections, troops at selected polling sites, cracking down on mail-in voting, etc. There will also be more of these speeches, to project him as the one true source of info and power.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Billionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates′ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/qIHIGQ6tmH

[gregrae.eth @gregrae1]

I just contributed to the Privacy Pools V2 Trusted Setup Ceremony 🔒
It's effortless and helps secure the future of privacy on Ethereum!
Participate at: https://t.co/s7jWubgHci

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Foreign debt demand is no longer keeping up with America's growing debt:

Foreign official holdings of US Treasuries are down to 12.5% of total Treasuries outstanding, the lowest this century.

This percentage has declined -24 points since the 2009 peak.

Over this period, marketable US Treasury debt has surged +$23 trillion, or +379%, to $29.1 trillion, near an all-time high.

At the same time, US Treasuries held by foreign government entities have increased by just +$1.5 trillion, or +63%, to ~$3.9 trillion.

China's Treasury holdings have more than halved, to $651.1 billion, the lowest since September 2008.

The US is issuing record levels of debt.

[gregrae.eth @gregrae1]

Eth is surviving in the wild. Continuously improving through open processes, voluntary adoption, and the cumulative work of thousands of contributors rather than a centralized capture-prone organization. Responsible orgs - e.g. governments - owe it to citizens to support it.

[gregrae.eth @gregrae1]

The #1 factor in the success of humans as a species is coordination. The internet and Ethereum together form the most important invention to date as a tool for coordination at world scale of the incentives of humans and their agents.

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

1/ Today, the Global Policy Strategy (GPS) team is publishing Ethereum Basics for Governments and Institutions, a non-technical primer to equip the leaders making policy and deployment decisions with an understanding of how Ethereum works, how it's governed, and how it compares with perceived alternatives.

[gregrae.eth @gregrae1]

https://t.co/vRiLSpbTbS

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Sasha and Davyd collect aid for Ukrainian Defenders. The boys prepared an amazing performance to thank our Warriors!

Warriors wrote to them in the comments:

"Good evening, you are playing great, we really like it. We are from Lviv, now we are at the "zero" line in Zaporizhzhia region.
Things are very hard, but we are standing."

Ukraine is standing.
It is very difficult, but we are standing.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The Russian Duma begins discussing the seizure of Russians' banking deposits.

Russian Duma member Zyuganov announced that the state should seize the populations' bank deposits as soon as possible so "all that money can work for the state".

Being now discussed includes 67 trillion rubles from citizens and 63 trillion rubles from businesses, which "are lying in banks and not working for the Russian economy". If this money were taken for the state's use, it would be possible to close all the budget gaps.

[sophia dew @sophiadew]

ethereum is the most impactful open source software project humanity has ever built

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

US Treasuries are experiencing the worst bear market in history:

The US Treasury Total Return Index has now been in a drawdown for 69 consecutive months, the longest streak in over 100 years of data.

The previous record stretch that ended in 2019 lasted for ~30 months.

This is also only the 3rd time in history that a drawdown has exceeded 20 months.

During the current drawdown, the US Treasury Total Return Index fell as much as -18% from 2020 to 2022.

Since then, it has recovered some of its losses, but it is still down -6% since 2020.

Meanwhile, the 20+ year Treasury ETF, $TLT, is down -40% since its April 2020 peak.

US bonds are more unpopular than ever.

[AdrianoFeria.eth 🦇🔊 🛡️ @AdrianoFeria]

Gold has been used as a store of value for over 3,000 years. It earned its monetary premium through historical lineage.

Bitcoin has only existed for 17 years. Its claim to monetary premium is not historical, it is structural.

Ethereum arrived later, but it now has even stronger monetary premium properties.

For much of its existence, Bitcoin advocates dismissed Ethereum as a rival by claiming that ETH was an unregistered security and that it could, and inevitably would, be debased by its founders.

Both claims have proven false. What remains is this: ETH is economically and structurally more sound and sustainable as a digital store of value than BTC.

BTC is still more widely accepted as the superior store of value, but that perception rests on false premises that went unchecked in mainstream media for years because it was too risky to talk about ETH's monetary properties due to regulatory uncertainty and political pressure that no longer exist.

People are inclined to dismiss the bull thesis for ETH as a digital store of value because they have been conditioned to, not because there is merit to it.

As an investor, you should draw your own conclusion after studying each side of the argument carefully.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

The US consumer sentiment index from the University of Michigan goes back to 1952.

It has never been lower than it is today.

Video: https://t.co/8USvFpWxZN

[zeugh.eth @theZeugh]

Claude outage
Coinbase outage
Ethereum unstoppable

[Reuters @Reuters]

Global perceptions of the US have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on democracy showed, as President Trump's policies continue to severely strain the NATO alliance https://t.co/fND2YhwgdK

[Etherealize @Etherealize_io]

Today we make the case for ETH as a superior monetary good—and how, if it captures the monetary premium currently held by gold and bitcoin, the implied long-term price could exceed $250,000 per token.

Executive Summary:

1. Gold and Bitcoin don’t compound. Warren Buffett never held gold. His objection was not about scarcity—he acknowledged gold was scarce. His objection was that scarcity without productivity is economically sterile: “If you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end.” The same criticism applies to Bitcoin.

2. ETH is the first monetary asset that compounds without counterparty risk. For all of human history, you had to choose: hold money (stable, unproductive) or invest it into productive assets (risky, wealth-generating). The two categories were mutually exclusive. Ethereum dissolves this distinction—you lock capital into the protocol’s consensus mechanism and earn yield generated by the network itself.

3. ETH is better money than gold and Bitcoin by every other measure. Its supply growth is capped at 1.5% by the protocol and offset by a burn mechanism that can make it deflationary. It can be transferred anywhere on Earth in seconds, stored in a memorized twelve-word phrase, and carried across any border beyond the reach of any government. And its proof-of-stake consensus mechanism is more secure and durable than Bitcoin’s proof-of-work.

4. The combined monetary premium of gold and Bitcoin is approximately $31 trillion. If ETH captured that premium — distributed across ~121 million ETH — the implied price would be north of $250,000. Today it trades around $2,300.

5. Productive money will outcompete dead capital. Over a long enough time horizon, productive assets outperform unproductive ones, because productive assets compound. The only question is how long it takes the rest of the world to figure that out.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in “countercurrent” politics, which focus on the common good. What is urgently needed is the courage of new visions and an educational pact that gives young people space and trust. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea https://t.co/81zzJos7Ij

[Leo Lanza | Lanza.eth @leolanza]

🚨 JUST IN: IMF says smart contracts will replace key functions of banks and financial institutions

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

ICYMI in 2025 (and previous years): Russian state TV said that in his second term, Trump would cut off aid to Ukraine, destroy relations with allies, disrupt internal workings of the U.S. government, lift Russian sanctions, and withdraw America from NATO.
https://t.co/OSTcaYCg2i

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

SEC Chair Paul Atkins: 🇺🇸“All U.S. markets will be on chain within two years.”

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Iran war is threatening US dollar dominance, pushing countries to use Chinese yuan in oil trade, Deutsche Bank says.