$CRCL — Circle just killed Open USD.👇
- They bought 680 Blockchain patent families and 1K patents Worldwide
- This forces $OUSD to pay tolls on Cloud & Banking Rails
- Creates IP litigation risks for OUSD
- Forces multi-million dollar workarounds
$USDC $EURC #Arc#Stablecoin
Most AI models are quietly converging.
Same scaling laws, same data diets, same benchmark chases -> capabilities getting eerily similar.
The gap that actually matters now isn’t raw intelligence. It’s personality, taste, speed, and who actually ships useful stuff. The homogenization era is here and @claudeai is clearly leading with the utility.
If ever differentiation era begins, whats going to be next ? 👀
CRYPTO CARD PAYMENTS JUST HIT A RECORD $7.8 BILLION.
Monthly volumes up 230% since May 2025.
People are spending crypto like cash.
Right now.
Not in the future. Not in theory. Not in a whitepaper.
Today.
Jupiter Global alone surged 648% in spending volume in just 2 months.
And Visa is capturing 90% of all onchain card transactions.
The largest payment network on the planet just became the backbone of crypto adoption.
Stablecoins are no longer a trading tool.
They are becoming the default payment rail for millions of people.
This is not a crypto milestone.
This is a financial system milestone.
The future of money isn't coming.
It is being spent right now.
In the domain of artificial intelligence, your ostensibly «intelligent» conversational agent TIA manifests a quite deplorable paucity of cognitive acuity. One might venture indeed, one emphatically recommends - an immediate upgrade to a system possessing markedly superior epistemological and inferential capabilities.
Billionaire Robert Friedland drops the reality check:
We need to mine 10,000 years of copper in the next 18 years.
The world has absolutely no clue about the supply squeeze we are facing.
Save this video to stay ahead of the curve.
🚨 BREAKING: NYSE announces new tokenization platform.
Here's what they're building:
A completely new trading venue with:
• 24/7 operations (no market hours)
• Instant settlement (not T+1)
• Stablecoin-based funding (not bank wires)
• "Tokens natively issued as digital securities"
Not retrofitting the existing exchange.
Not adding blockchain to the back office.
An entirely new venue.
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Think about what this means:
NYSE will run two exchanges.
The old one: 9:30-4:00 EST, T+1 settlement, bank wires.
The new one: 24/7, instant settlement, stablecoin rails.
They're not choosing between traditional and digital.
They're operating both in parallel.
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How does this compare to others?
Everyone else is building infrastructure to tokenize existing assets:
• DTCC tokenizes existing custodied securities
• State Street tokenizes MMFs and ETFs
• Nasdaq amends rules for tokenized trading alongside traditional
NYSE is building a new way to bring equities on-chain AND the venue to trade them.
This puts them in competition with Figure's OPEN and Superstate.
Native digital issuance. Native digital trading.
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Tokenized stocks enable a world where:
• Settlement happens on-chain
• Custody lives in wallets, not DTCC
• Trading never stops
• Capital formation happens in stablecoins
The question for every institution:
Are you digitizing your existing business or building the business that replaces it?
NYSE just answered: both.
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#fintech #tokenization #infrastructure #digitalassets #stablecoins
@imPenny2x AI4 by itself will achieve self-driving safety levels very far above human.
AI5 will make the cars almost perfect and greatly enhance Optimus.
AI6 will be for Optimus and data centers.
AI7/Dojo3 will be space-based AI compute.
Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
Make these habits. Say no to ETH else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax.
Victory is assured.
@naval
26 PREDICTIONS FOR 2026
From Bitcoin to DeFi, Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, Artificial Intelligence, and much more
The Galaxy Research team is back with predictions for the year ahead (and also an assessment of our predictions last year) 👇
Current situation:
1. The US is preparing $2,000 stimulus checks
2. Japan is preparing a $110 billion stimulus package
3. China has approved a $1.4 trillion stimulus package
4. The Fed is officially ending QT on December 1st
5. The US is issuing~$1.9 trillion in treasures per year
6. Canada is restarting its Quantitative Easing program
7. Global M2 money supply is at a record $137 trillion
8. Global rate cuts are at 320+ over the last 24 months
In what world is another wave of inflation not on its way?