TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting. Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border. -> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves -> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees -> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates -> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones -> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US -> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy REPORT: economics.td.com/ca-silent-b…

Today, Neutron’s services have come to an end. This wasn’t an easy call. We’ve been sitting with it for a while, and honestly, it’s tough to write this. When we started, the goal was simple bring Bitcoin and Lightning into Southeast Asia in a way that actually worked. Not just talk, but real usage, real payments, real infrastructure people could rely on. Looking back, we’re proud of what we managed to do. We were early, we pushed hard, and we got to work with some great people along the way. The space here has come a long way, and we’d like to think we played a small part in that. To everyone who used Neutron, supported us, or built alongside us, thank you. It meant more than you probably realized. Really appreciate it. We still believe in where Bitcoin and Lightning are going, especially in this region. That hasn’t changed. Just the chapter. ⚡

ARBITRUM RECOVERS $70.9M FROM KELPDAO EXPLOITER The Arbitrum Security Council just removed $70.97M ETH from the KelpDAO Exploiter’s addresses. They sent it to the address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000DA0 North Korea stole the money and Arbitrum stole it back.

Trump Should Freeze Carney’s U.S. Assets. @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

Professor Jiang Xueqin claims bitcoin was created by the CIA. "Why would you spend years, possibly decades, in your basement creating a new technology and then just give it for free to the world? That makes no sense." "When you do game theory analysis, you look at all possibilities, you end up with the deep state. You end up with the CIA."

🇮🇷 Iran is charging $2M per ship to cross the Strait of Hormuz and they want it in Bitcoin. 😳 At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC. Pre-crisis, 130 ships crossed daily. • Daily: 3,611 BTC • Monthly: 108,333 BTC • Yearly: 1.3 million BTC The entire Bitcoin network only mines 450 BTC per day. Iran would accumulate 8x the monthly mining supply. Every month. A sanctioned nation building a Bitcoin treasury through a toll booth. This is the most important geopolitical Bitcoin story nobody is talking about. 🔥

"Every software company in the world, needs to have an @openclaw strategy" - Jensen at @NVIDIAAI GTC Framing OpenClaw as one of the most important open source releases ever, they have announced NemoClaw - a reference platform for enterprise grade secure Openclaw, with OpenShell, Network boundaries, security baked in.