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This union, as audacious as it is absurd, signals a desperate attempt to drag traditional financial markets into the blockchain era, kicking and screaming if necessary. One can only imagine the boardroom conversations: “Let us take the chaos of cryptocurrency and the boredom of shareholder services, and from this unholy alliance, create something neither fully understands.” The deal, expected to close in January 2027 pending regulatory approvals, leaves us with one burning question: Will this be a harmonious marriage of innovation and tradition, or a divorce waiting to happen, with blockchain as the contentious custody battle?

The crypto market’s in a right frolic after Bitcoin busted through that $80,000 barrier like a bull in a china shop. BTC’s sittin’ at $80,690, up more than 1% since the clock struck midnight UTC. Ether, bless its heart, is laggin’ at $2,370, still dreamin’ of April’s glory days.

According to a recent report, South Korean regulators are proposing changes to rules governing virtual assets, aiming to increase monitoring of activity in this area. However, 27 local cryptocurrency exchanges, through their industry group DAXA, are objecting to the proposed changes. They worry the new rules could disrupt their operations and potentially increase financial risks for customers. The debate now centers on finding the right balance between stricter regulation and protecting the interests of everyday users.

finally, some useful gossip.

Polygon announced on Sunday that its latest update includes a new wallet feature. This feature uses a secure system called a shielded pool to process payments, and relies on zero-knowledge proofs to verify transactions, as part of its work with Hinkal.

Key Takeaways (or, as Jeeves would say, the gist of the jolly affair):

The discourse began when the esteemed Dean Little drew attention to progress upon a Solana Falcon implementation, declaring that version “0.1.2 now costs just ~173-183k CUs to verify,” with Lean and Kani proofs expected anon. This, I suppose, prompted Mr. Yakovenko to advocate a more intimate native support within Solana’s transaction fabric, writing therefore: “Syscall to lift PDA is_signer to the transaction processor, charge fees to valid signers at the end of the block. Make it so, pls.”

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Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), who chairs the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets and has been the bill’s most vocal champion, posted on X: “This finalized, bipartisan text is the culmination of months of hard work to deliver a compromise on yield we can all live with. We are closer than ever to getting the Clarity Act across the finish line.”

I was reading a report by Sam Daodu, and he thinks XRP might need more than just one positive event over the next few weeks to break through the $1.45 resistance level. He’s looking at two specific things happening between now and May 21st that could move the price, but isn’t convinced one alone will be enough.