This is the biggest % fall in a single week for Bitcoin since the collapse of FTX. The FTX fraud marked the bottom of the bear market in November 2022. This time? 🤔

BREAKING: Mastercard is introducing always-on stablecoin settlement on Solana. 3.7 billion cards. 210 countries. One of the largest payment networks on earth, now settling onchain.

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Solana's RWA ecosystem just hit a new ATH: $2.8B in total value

One Bitcoin is worth $80,000 today.

ONE CHAIN does 54% of all transactions of all chains.... and now even TradFi sees it The rotation has already begun The image perfectly captures the classic capital move from the established 'Incumbent' #Ethereum, to the 'Emerging Winner' #Solana. Persistent outflows vs. accelerating, substantial inflows. Are you positioned for the shift? #ETH #SOL #CryptoRotation

Bitcoin is better money than gold. It has superior monetary properties. In fact, Bitcoin beats gold on 25 different dimensions. 1. Portability: Move billions across borders with 12 or 24 words. Gold needs guards, vaults, trucks, customs, and prayers. 2. Divisibility: Bitcoin divides into 100 million sats per BTC. Gold is awkward to divide, verify, and spend in small amounts. 3. Verifiability: Anyone can verify Bitcoin supply and ownership with a node. Gold requires assays, trust, and specialists. 4. Scarcity certainty: Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million. Gold supply expands with mining, new discoveries, and potentially asteroid mining. 5. Supply auditability: Bitcoin’s total supply is publicly auditable in real time. Nobody knows the exact amount of above-ground gold. 6. Settlement speed: Bitcoin can settle globally in minutes. Gold settlement is slow, expensive, and institution-heavy. 7. Custody sovereignty: Bitcoin can be self-custodied without a vault. Gold self-custody is physically dangerous and logistically annoying. 8. Confiscation resistance: Properly secured Bitcoin can cross borders invisibly. Gold is obvious, heavy, and historically confiscatable. 9. Storage cost: Bitcoin can be stored for near-zero physical cost. Gold requires vaulting, insurance, security, and transportation. 10. Transport cost: Bitcoin travels at the speed of information. Gold travels at the speed of armored logistics. 11. Programmability: Bitcoin can integrate with multisig, time locks, Lightning, smart custody setups, and financial infrastructure. Gold is inert metal. 12. Global liquidity: Bitcoin trades 24/7 globally. Gold markets still rely heavily on traditional financial rails and business-hour settlement layers. 13. Settlement finality: Bitcoin can provide direct bearer settlement without trusted intermediaries. Gold often settles through paper claims. 14. Resistance to counterfeit: Bitcoin units are mathematically validated. Gold can be plated, diluted, faked, or rehypothecated. 15. No trusted issuer: Bitcoin has no central issuer, board, treasury, or refinery bottleneck. Gold custody often depends on institutions. 16. Easier inheritance: Bitcoin can be structured with multisig and recovery planning. Gold inheritance is physical, messy, and theft-prone. 17. Collateral efficiency: Bitcoin is easier to pledge, move, audit, and financialize digitally. Gold collateral is slower and more custodial. 18. Transparency: Bitcoin’s monetary policy and ledger are open. Gold’s market is opaque, with hidden reserves, paper claims, and unclear leverage. 19. Censorship resistance: Bitcoin can be sent peer-to-peer globally. Gold needs physical handoff or trusted transport. 20. Energy-to-scarcity conversion: Bitcoin turns energy into digitally verifiable scarcity. Gold turns energy into heavy rocks guarded by men with sunglasses. 21. Monetary upgradeability: Bitcoin can absorb software improvements at the network edges. Gold cannot become more useful without wrapping it in trust-based systems. 22. Unit consistency: Every bitcoin is perfectly fungible at the protocol level. Gold varies by purity, form, assay, and bar history. 23. Lower friction: Bitcoin is easier to buy, sell, send, receive, verify, split, secure, and integrate into modern finance. 24. Digital-native compatibility: Bitcoin fits an internet economy. Gold belongs to a world of vault receipts, musty central bankers, and men named Klaus guarding basements. 25. Personal sovereignty: Bitcoin lets one person hold immense wealth directly. Gold makes you become your own medieval castle.

BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Uday Kotak warns of a massive fuel price shock from the Middle East war. “The shock is coming and it’s coming big.”

𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗜 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗘𝗧 — 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 Read what the PM just told the nation. Then read it again. → Cut petrol and diesel use. Public transport. Carpool. Switch to EVs. → Avoid foreign tourism → Pause non-essential gold buying → Revive 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 → Farmers — slash chemical fertilizers by 𝟱𝟬% This is not advice. This is a 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 dressed up as a citizen appeal. Every single ask hits the same three pressure points — 𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀, 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘅 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄, 𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀. The exact three things that bleed India when global energy markets explode. The PM doesn't say this kind of thing on a normal Tuesday. Something is moving in the world. Iran. Hormuz. Russia. Something is about to crack — and Delhi is locking the doors before the storm hits. When Modi speaks like this, the smart money listens. 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 — 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗶 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁?

Solana processed 696M transactions this past week Every other chain combined? 593M. One chain. More than all of crypto. 54% of total on-chain activity. There's no debate anymore.

$SOL Alpenglow is now live - rem in the AGE of AGI FINALITY IS THE PRODUCT - SOL is 5000 to 6000 times faster than ETH... AI Agents will not hang around for 15 mins... to see if a Tx has finalized. #Solana $ETH

HUGE: SOLANA JUST ACHIEVED 100X FASTER FINALITY Anza’s first successful Alpenglow “Alpenswitch” cut finalization from ~12.8 seconds to ~100–150ms That’s Visa-level speed on a public blockchain! solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 🤯

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BlackRock, JPMorgan, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Visa, and Mastercard are all building crypto-related products. The gap between Wall Street and crypto is getting smaller every year. - Bitwise

🚨JUST IN: @anza_xyz Head of Research says the first successful Alpenswitch has taken place on the Alpenglow community cluster, with “Solana finalization time improved 100x.”

MICHAEL SAYLOR - In the future, working hard alone won't make you rich. AI and robots will do most of that work. The next 10 years are your chance to adapt before full automation begins. That’s why owning scarce assets like Bitcoin becomes important

RT @Excellion: US debt will hit 1 QUADRILLION dollars by 2070. That's 1,000 trillion dollars. Growing at 7.6% per year, that's $87,685 ad…

FBI DIRECTOR, KASH PATEL I started learning about Bitcoin seriously, thinking about my family's future investments, and building a strong financial base.

🇺🇸White House Executive Director Patrick Witt says a big update on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is coming soon. Within weeks, a major step forward is expected.