TODAY IS THE DAY! 🇨🇦🔥 Digital Asset Summit Canada kicks off this morning in Downtown Toronto. If you're attending, get here early for what promises to be an incredible opening keynote from Don Tapscott. Doors are open. Networking, coffee, and conversations start immediately. Let's build Canada's digital asset future together. ⛓️🍁

The plunging cost of large-scale battery storage is a potentially game-changing development for the electricity sector — one that is just starting to get the attention it merits. Could this usher in a new wave of 24-hour solar and wind power? The trouble with solar and wind power plants, as everyone knows, is that they don’t provide electricity when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind’s not blowing. No longer, argues Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). “This question of intermittency has been played against renewables for a long time, by lobbyists that are looking for the eternal life of an energy system based on fossil fuels,” he told me yesterday at the FT-Kathimerini Energy Transition Summit in Athens. Our conversation came soon after Irena published a report hailing the arrival of “24/7 renewables”. The study portrayed as obsolete the conventional wisdom which holds that, despite the emergence of solar and wind power as the cheapest form of energy, you’ll always need more reliable “baseload” sources such as gas or nuclear plants as the core of your electricity system. FT 15th May 2026 ft.com/content/b5c53f48-0f8c…

We use our treasury to support the growth of the Solana economy. That is, definitionally, DeFi. But economies don’t exist in isolation. For Solana to be healthy, all of defi has to be healthy. We like competition. We compete hard. But if we zoom out, we’re all pushing toward open finance and open systems. We’ve deployed our treasury into Solana DeFi for many years. We supported Tether’s recovery plan for Drift. In moments like these, it’s important to show up for the broader ecosystem too. That’s why we are lending USDT into @aave for the first time to support their recovery efforts, and we will also be bringing $AAVE to Solana this weekend. DeFi United

Applebaum's line is the one to hold: "If Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too." The model was supposed to be unbeatable. Capture the courts first. Then the media. Rewrite the electoral rules so challengers need a landslide just to break even. Build the international network of illiberal funders and validators. Make corruption invisible by making it structural. Magyar beat it anyway... and the tapes that broke late in the campaign showed why it was vulnerable. Orbán spent 16 years railing about foreign interference - Soros, Brussels, migrants - while privately telling Putin he was the mouse to his lion. The sovereignty rhetoric was a performance. The dependency was real. The crowd at Heroes' Square Friday night chanted "Russians, go home." Same words as 1956. Seventy years later, same answer. The EU's blocked €90 billion Ukraine loan now has a path. Putin loses his primary EU veto. The MAGA movement loses its proof of concept. History does not bend. It gets pushed.

Our newly added speakers are here 🚀 This July 21–22 in Toronto, hear from the leaders shaping the future of Web3 and AI at @Futurist_conf 🚀 ▪️ @IOHK_Charles of @IOGroup ▪️ @AdaVaughan of @StellarOrg ▪️ @_michaelsanders of @0xPolygon ▪️ @StaciW_DC of @AlgoFoundation ▪️ Wayne Chen of @EukaPay ▪️ Regan McGrath, CPA CA of @MetricsCPA ▪️ Luther M. of Stablecoin Partners ▪️ @christiansauer of @soonami_io ▪️ Landon Gardner of @Web3To More announcements coming soon! 🔮 See you in the future: futuristconference.com

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What a day! Last week during PDAC Digital Asset Summit Ontario brought together an incredible group of builders, policymakers, investors, industry leaders, institutions, allocators and innovators to talk about the future of digital assets and markets in Ontario and Canada. Huge thanks to everyone who came out and contributed. Let’s recap the conversations 👇

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