"We need smarter regulation, not less!"

The so-called "smart" regulation:
https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1916120249176358950

Ethereum

🚨 Ethereum’s Strategic Reserve just hit 550,000 ETH! 📈

Here’s why this number will keep climbing and why it’s bullish for Ether:

🔹 L2s, DeFi protocols, and other ecosystem stakeholders all directly benefit from a stronger ETH.
🔹 Better aligned incentives across ecosystem participants will encourage more organizations to join and hold ETH.

➡️ A strong ETH price means more liquidity, higher collateral values, and increased borrowing potential throughout the DeFi ecosystem.

➡️ Layer 2 solutions significantly benefit from Ethereum’s price appreciation, as increased liquidity and valuation enhance their long-term viability and success.

🎯 In short, every Ethereum project, protocol, and Layer 2 network has a vested interest in ETH’s strength and growth.

aesthetic

Yesterday, pet3rpan_ brought up that solana is more "operationally competent" than Ethereum, and I thought that was an interesting framing to the problem

So I asked the question "but how exactly?"

One good response so far!

Serious question: in what ways is Solana more "operationally competent" than Ethereum?

(Like specific ways, not "bc SOL/ETH is up")

@fubuloubu Ethereum has been focused on problems that are too remote from users' concerns.
Ethereum does a lot of weird technical stuff (e.g. EIP-7623, EIP-7251 or EIP-7002)
Solana mostly does IBRL and cheaper validators (e.g. SIMD-0268, SIMD-0266 or SIMD-0257)

Dodecahedr0x

Yesterday, pet3rpan_ brought up that solana is more "operationally competent" than Ethereum, and I thought that was an interesting framing to the problem

So I asked the question "but how exactly?"

One good response so far!
https://x.com/Dodecahedr0x/status/1915015222315585954?s=19

Quote cast with your first car. Mid 70's Datsun 240z, white like this but in way worse shape. Bought for $500 cash out from an AutoTrader classified. No title or 1st gear, and sometimes required lifting the hood and sparking the battery to get it to start. I have no idea what happened to it.

Quote cast with your first car

'73 Mercury Capri, got it for free from the kid of my neighbor, who blew up the motor. Rebuilt it for $500, drove it around high school and college, and unfortunately got too old and finicky to drive every day after I graduated. Still sitting in the garage waiting for me to fix it up again.

Favorite part was using a large olive oil tin as antifreeze overflow. Couldn't hold it down no matter what I did lol

(Not mine, but same trim and model year)

2025 has been overwhelmingly full of doomerism

Feels like the most contrarian bet to make right now is that it's all actually gonna be okay

Silverback

It's really freaking crazy how you can just talk to an AI about your bots, and it will tell you about them

🎉 THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!! 🎉

With your help and amazing contributions we blew past our @gitcoin goal!

Every cent donated will go to creating, maintaining, and expanding our tools to help you make the project you always wanted. This funding goes farther than you know and we will love you forever for it ❤️

Thank you again.

- ApeWorX Team

🦍

Such a good turn out for this one, thank you!

Controversial opinion: the Chinese version of Three Body problem is better than the US one

BREAKING: Fed’s Powell: federal debt is on an unsustainable path. We are now running crisis-level deficits at full employment

Geopolitics

The number of people who don't understand that China thinks Taiwan is a part of China, and therefore invading it is a domestic security issue (to them, and anyone who agrees with them) and not a foreign invasion (like say Ukraine), really astonishes me

BREAKING: Donald Trump right now: We may want countries to choose between us or China

Do you want to buy cheap goods?
Or have a market to sell yours to?

Ouch, not a fun choice

JPMorgan $JPM CEO Jamie Dimon filed to sell 134,000 shares of $JPM at $236/share.

You can see all this data and build alerts in realtime for when company insiders sell or buy on Unusual Whales!

Link: unusualwhales.com/stock/JPM/insiders

Beginning of the end for US financial service profitability?

Ethereum L2s and appchains are more than just chains that settle on the most secure and decentralized base layer blockchain

They are and should be *cultural extensions* of Ethereum, extending the network's principles into various countries, corporations, and communities

You gotta think of this like how we read about the United States' role in the world post-WW2

A strong unifying force that brought together many hurting nations, providing a strong network of trade and security that helped bring about the largest period of growth in human history

señor doggo 🏴🏴‍☠️

Ethereum's goals are not modest
https://x.com/fubuloubu/status/1911993211804930266?s=19

Ape Framework

Sometimes I am really astonished at how smooth and powerful ape has gotten in the past year, and insane amount of effort has gone into this tool

Crypto dev has only gotten harder and more complicated, but ape can handle the most complex scenarios!

Stablecoin bill coming out of committee, DeFi/market structure in works for August timeframe

You are simply not bullish enough

NEW: SENATE BANKING CHAIR SCOTT SAYS MAJOR #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO BILLS WILL BE PASSED BY AUGUST 

"DIGITAL ASSETS ARE CRITICAL TO AMERICAN DOMINANCE." 🚀 https://t.co/f3B0nN3Drg

The Bitcoin Historian

Stablecoin bill coming out of committee, DeFi/market structure in works for August timeframe

You are simply not bullish enough
https://x.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1911098530657157613?s=19

Crypto and the Trump Admin could experience friction over stablecoins.

Some in the Admin want to devalue the $ to spur domestic industry. Others don’t because this would diminish reserve-currency status/global influence.

Bringing stablecoins to billions of people would increase $ demand and make devaluing harder

This is close to getting it, but they don't want to devalue the dollar. They want to devalue the dollar *relative to other country's currencies*, as that is significant cause of trade imbalance

If the dollars move on chain, then... The trade imbalance is not with any actual country!

I know FC is Base-aligned but where would Ethereum be without Arbitrum? Where? 🤷🏼‍♂️

The sentiment that Farcaster is Based-aligned is not a good one for this platform to grow
(Many people feel this way, just a good example)

politics

Evenly balanced in 2024

AI decimates service sector exports
Robotics captures good sector exports

By 2040, if left unchecked we are all Chinese vassal states selling natural resources to the empire

Either way, there is no (soverign-issued) global reserve currency by then