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Japan will soon issue its sovereign bonds directly on a high-speed blockchain platform. This is to ensure the elimination of settlement delay and minimize high administrative expenses. 

Behold, the Layer 1 dreamers! They dance upon the precipice of obsolescence, shouting into the void, “Look upon our consensus, ye mighty, and despair!” Yet the void stares back, sipping its coffee, unimpressed. Will this listing birth liquidity, that fickle siren of markets? Will PROS rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of forgotten tokens? Or shall it join the graveyard of whitepapers penned by caffeinated idealists?

According to an SEC Form 13F filing, UBS has embraced the modern age by purchasing shares of the Volatility Shares XRP ETF. Specifically, 197,369 shares, valued at roughly $1.49 million-a mere rounding error for a bank that handles trillions. For context, this is to UBS what a toddler’s allowance is to a billionaire’s yacht fund. They also stashed $8,248 in Grayscale’s XRP fund, a gesture akin to tossing a crumb to a starving man while insisting it’s a feast.

This was the second consecutive quarter of loss for the exchange, and yet the quarter itself wore its misery with the bravado of a factory foreman who swears the machines are fine while the smoke crawls from the smokestacks. Volatility surged, and Bitcoin’s price collapsed by roughly half from its all-time fever, a reminder that the market is a cruel tutor with a broken ruler.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned on Friday that stablecoins could pose risks to the banking sector, which is basically the financial equivalent of telling a toddler they can’t eat the dog. She said the rapid growth of digital assets is forcing regulators to rethink financial stability tools, because nothing says “innovation” like a 200-page document written in a language that hasn’t been spoken since the Roman Empire.

The vote closed Friday, Hong Kong time, with 90% saying, “Yeah, let’s give this money back.” Because 30,765 ETH just sitting there was clearly too tempting for the Lazarus Group, who apparently used unbacked rsETH tokens as collateral. Genius. Or just bold. I’m still deciding.

Bitcoin’s price decreased by about 4.5% in the last day, briefly falling below $77,000 before rising a bit to around $77,400. Ethereum experienced a larger drop of over 6%, reaching approximately $1,980. Other major cryptocurrencies, including Solana, XRP, BNB, and Dogecoin, also saw significant price declines as selling increased.

The contracts in question-KAITO-PERP, SENT-PERP, SAHARA-PERP, CAKE-PERP, TOSHI-PERP, AKT-PERP, VET-PERP, ANIME-PERP, THETA-PERP, ZK-PERP, KERNEL-PERP, and BARD-PERP-are being asked to take a bow.

“Degraded performance,” they say. A charming euphemism for frozen charts, failed orders, and price updates that lag behind a tortoise on vacation. One might wonder if Coinbase’s engineers have finally mastered the art of dramatic pause-or if they’ve simply misplaced their coffee.