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FED RATES CUT or INTEREST RATE CUT does we the newbies understand this word (FED RATES CUT) and how it have effects in crypto industry since the crypto industry have been anticipating for it so let dive in. Fed rates cut means the U.S FEDERAL RESERVE (the fed). @inspectxyz $TAO

@richardanya8 lesson learnt my bro regardless we move.

Sorry my brother! Losses like this can really feel so overwhelming, I get it. But the truth is crypto is no different from any other business. There are wins, and there are painful losses as well. One thing I’ve learned is this never get emotional with crypto. The market doesn’t care about your hopes, your patience, or your beliefs. Always invest what you can afford to lose, because things can go south fast. Last year, my investment in Ice Open Network was worth almost $4,000 at ATH. I was in a whole lot of profits. But Today, it’s less than a $100.😂 Why? I got emotionally attached and didn’t take profits when I should have. It’s a hard lesson, but a necessary one. In this space, discipline will save you more than hype ever will.

@Prestigious_Gt chief you don talk something of this before. He no supposed climbed mountain for he own financial problem.

A pastor back home do gaslight me into sending him money and all when I enter Uk 🇬🇧 new I do send money to him willingly though but there was a time I was not in the position to help because I wanted to get a car I explained to him how broke I was and all I thought he understood me, only for him to message me days later for another billing It was then I change it for him oo His response was “ he has been supporting me with prayers since I left Nigeria and do I know how many mountain he climb because of my matter” Ah! I told him, my parents prayers brought me this far I blocked him everywhere till date

@jon_d_doee I don't see anything wrong with her educational background ooh but on the aspect of her profession is a red flag for me too. Although everyone knows their level Sha.

It's alright. I respect your decision.

@jon_d_doee How will you fall in love with an OS na, as how na. bro you deserve what you are getting right now oooh. better just move on and be responsible for your son, even the son self better run DNA test oooh.

Please advise him 👇

@jon_d_doe real men make una just dey mumu dey go na.

Mtsheww.

@GloriousGod01 She has said it already that you are not a real man, actually eeeh real men are the ones enabling all those nonsense from ladies oooh. Although Thank God you refuses to be a real man oooh. God punish her mama

Part 2... I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt but she said she was testing me 😂 😂 Blocked 🤝 Above all, love God.

@_justmykel @jon_d_doe women sabi gaslight eeeh. pulling out unnecessary explanation after you don go man house spend one week there. you guys thinks all men are dumb right?

Some years back, I decided to start dating again after being single for a long time. I started "a talking stage" with one of my sister's friends. I thought she had sense. She turned out to be a very nonsense girl. I ended everything after just two months because of a similar situation. She called one day to inform me that her friend (a man) is inviting her to another state for a one week visit. She asked if I could allow her to go. Me: Who is this man to you? Her: He is just a friend. Although he has been asking me to marry him, I don't want to marry him. Me: So, why do you want to visit him? Her: He wants me to come so we can talk. Should I go? Me: I don't know. Do what you feel is the right thing. Two days after the conversation, she called telling me that she had decided to go to the guys place. I tell am "No wam" The day she called me to inform me that she had gotten to the guy's, that was the day I ghosted her. I stopped picking her calls or replying her texts. She wan mad. She just dey bomb me with mumu explanations. "Babe, I swear nothing happened" Me wey don move on. Nigerian man invited you over, hosted you for one full week, and sent you back, and he no paste you? You don see mumu 😂

Just thinking about the DM that we read yesterday on the backup page. Your girlfriend told you that she was going to visit her ex. You then called her multiple times, until the ex picked and told you to stop calling her. You broke up, then later went back to her to continue the relationship. She later told you that she's seeing someone else, & that they have even collected marriage list. And that they have canceled the wedding date 4 times. She's now insisting that you should marry her, and that anytime she wants to go visit the man, she should inform you. And you want me to advice you. Shebi una see why I say make una dey pay me $20? End.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Senator Thom Tillis says he plans to release the stablecoin yield draft agreement this week to resolve the lobbying standoff between banks and crypto, per Politico.

The Dangote Refinery IPO is about to happen and most Nigerians do not fully understand what is coming. Let me break it down. What it is. A $20 billion oil refinery in Lekki, Lagos. Largest single-train refinery in the world. Processes 650,000 barrels of crude oil daily. Already operational. Already producing petrol, diesel, aviation fuel, and petrochemicals. Already supplied 62% of Nigeria’s petrol in January 2026. What is happening. Dangote is selling about 10% of the refinery to the public through an IPO on the Nigerian Exchange between June and July 2026. Ordinary Nigerians will be able to buy shares. The part that changes everything. You buy shares in naira. You receive dividends in US dollars. The refinery earns $6.4 billion annually from petrochemical and fertilizer exports. Those dollar earnings back your dividends. This is a legitimate way to earn in dollars from a Nigerian stock. The historic part nobody is talking about enough. On April 1, NGX Group brought together chiefs of FIVE African exchanges to discuss cross-listing this stock. Johannesburg Stock Exchange - South Africa Ghana Stock Exchange Nairobi Securities Exchange - Kenya Ethiopian Securities Exchange BRVM - serves 8 West African countries If this goes through, an investor in Nairobi or Accra could own the same Dangote Refinery shares as an investor in Lagos. First time anything like this has happened at this scale in African capital market history. Future growth. Capacity expansion from 650,000 to 1.4 million barrels per day is planned within 3 years. Revenue could more than double. What you should do now. Open a brokerage account (preferably a traditional stockbroker) if you do not have one. Set aside the money you want to invest. Wait for official SEC and NGX announcements on share price and subscription details. Do not rely on unofficial sources. Risks to know. Oil price volatility affects revenue. IPO could be priced aggressively. Naira fluctuation still matters for domestic earnings. Regulatory changes could affect dollar dividend structure. One man controls the company. This could be the most significant listing in Nigerian capital market history. But treat it like any investment. Research it. Budget for it. Do not put all your money in one stock. This is not financial advice. Strictly for educational purposes. Always do your own research. Save this and share it with someone who needs to understand what is coming.

A market order means buy or sell immediately at whatever the current price is. A limit order means buy or sell only at a price you specify.   If a stock is at ₦100 and you place a market order, you might get filled at ₦101 or ₦99 depending on available orders. With a limit order at ₦98, you only buy if the price drops to ₦98.   Beginners should almost always use limit orders. It gives you control over your entry price instead of letting the market decide.

Another unpopular opinion. Most people should not be trading stocks. They should be buying and holding.   Day trading requires 6-8 hours of screen time. Advanced technical knowledge. Emotional control that most humans do not have. And even then, research shows 80% of day traders lose money.   Buying quality stocks and holding for 3-5 years requires 30 minutes of research per week. And historically it works for the vast majority of people who do it.

OPEC production just crashed 27% in one month. Biggest drop in decades. From 28.7 million barrels per day to 20.8 million. Iraq down 61% Kuwait down 53% UAE down 44% Saudi Arabia down 23% The Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut down because of the US-Israel-Iran war. Saudi tried rerouting through their East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. Iran attacked the pipeline. While all of this is happening, Nigeria is one of the few OPEC members whose production actually went UP. We are still pumping. Oil is above $100. And the Gulf states that normally dominate global supply are struggling to export. Nigeria has never had this kind of window before. Less competition. Higher prices. Steady output. The naira, the reserves, and every oil stock on the NGX are direct beneficiaries right now. But wars end. Supply comes back. Prices correct. Position for the opportunity but do not build your life around $100 oil lasting forever.

BREAKING: The US asked Iran to freeze uranium enrichment for 20 years. Iran countered with a "single digit" number of years, Axios. This was the core sticking point that prevented a deal in Islamabad over the weekend. Iran also rejected the US demand to remove all highly enriched uranium from the country, offering a "monitored down blending" process instead. Pakistani, Egyptian, and Turkish mediators are now working to bridge the remaining gaps before the ceasefire expires on April 21.

BREAKING: Trump says 34 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. Calls it the highest number since the closure began.

@BullTheoryio Sharp one

THIS IS BIG WIN FOR DEFI. The SEC just told DeFi front ends they do not need to register as broker dealers. For years, the biggest legal risk in DeFi was that the SEC could classify any interface that helps users make trades as a broker. That would mean registration, compliance costs, and effectively the end of permissionless crypto trading tools. That risk is now significantly reduced. Here is what the SEC actually said today 👇 Wallets, browser extensions, and swap interfaces that help users prepare crypto transactions do not need to register as broker dealers, as long as they meet certain conditions. Those conditions are: - Users must be able to customize their own trade settings - The platform cannot push users toward specific trades - Fees must be fixed and transparent - No control over how orders are routed - Full disclosure of conflicts of interest, fees, and how the software works - No holding of user funds at any point If a DeFi app follows these rules, the SEC will not come after them for operating without a broker dealer license.

🚨 THE FED IS NOW PRIVATELY PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE $2 TRILLION CREDIT MARKET COLLAPSE. For the first time in over a decade, the Fed has started directly asking U.S. banks to hand over their exposure numbers to the private credit market. This is the exact move regulators make when they stop trusting public numbers and start preparing for real stress. Bloomberg reported on April 11 that the Fed has formally reached out to major U.S. banks for detailed information on how much risk they're carrying from private credit firms, and whether stress inside that sector could spread into the wider financial system. Here's why this is happening now. Over the past few weeks, three of the largest private credit funds in the market have limited investor withdrawals: - Blue Owl Capital restricted redemptions on its $14B fund - BlackRock capped withdrawals on its $26B HPS Corporate Lending Fund after investors requested $1.2B in redemptions - Cliffwater capped withdrawals on its $33B fund after investors tried to pull 14% and only 7% was allowed to exit Three of the biggest names in the industry, all hitting redemption limits within a short period. That's not random. That's investors trying to get out faster than the funds can return their money. At the same time, Apollo executive John Zito publicly said private equity marks are wrong across the board. He said he "literally thinks all the marks are wrong." His estimate: loans to a typical mid size software company bought between 2018 and 2022 could recover only 20 to 40 cents on the dollar in a slowdown. That implies losses of 60 to 80 percent. So the pattern: - Investors trying to withdraw from private credit funds - Funds blocking those withdrawals - A senior Apollo executive saying valuations across the industry aren't real - The Treasury calling a meeting with insurance regulators this month to discuss the $2T private credit market - The Fed directly asking banks for their exposure numbers Now here's why this matters far beyond the U.S. Private credit has grown to around $2T over the past decade, but it's not isolated. It sits in the middle of the global financial system. Pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and foreign banks all have money parked in these funds because they were marketed as higher yielding and more stable than public bonds. If valuations are revised down the way Apollo's own executive is suggesting, the losses don't stay with a handful of U.S. firms. They flow directly into: - Public and private pension funds across Europe, Canada, Japan, and the Gulf that allocated heavily to private credit for yield - Insurance companies, some of the largest buyers of private credit whose solvency ratios are tied to these valuations - Banks in the U.S., Europe, and Asia that lend to the private credit firms themselves, which is exactly what the Fed is now trying to measure Most people miss this part. A private credit fund limiting withdrawals isn't just a problem for that fund. The banks lend to the funds. The funds lend to private equity. Private equity owns thousands of mid sized companies. Those companies employ millions. When valuations at the top are wrong, the entire chain underneath is mispriced. The exposure also ties directly into the AI infrastructure buildout. Blue Owl alone is behind some of the largest AI infrastructure deals in the world: - $27B joint venture with Meta in Louisiana - $15B deal with Crusoe in Texas - $5B backing CoreWeave Oracle now carries over $100B in debt, much tied to AI infrastructure that will take years to generate returns. Companies like CoreWeave, Crusoe, and others are funding their buildouts through private credit rather than public bond markets. The structure works as long as AI revenue grows fast enough to service the debt. If it slows, the stress doesn't stay in tech stocks. It moves straight into the credit side of the system, which is the exact part the Fed is now trying to get a clearer picture of. Globally, this is also colliding with: - Japan dealing with the weakest yen in decades and rising bond yields - Europe trying to manage weak growth and stretched sovereign balance sheets - China still working through its own property and local government debt problems - A U.S. consumer already showing signs of strain at the lower end The world financial system has been running on elevated debt and loose valuations for years. Private credit is one of the largest and least transparent parts of that system. If the valuations are wrong, if redemptions keep accelerating, and if AI revenue assumptions disappoint, losses could cascade through pensions, insurers, and banks across multiple countries at the same time. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last month he doesn't currently see private credit issues infecting the wider financial system. St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said stress is "largely limited" to the sector. But the fact the Fed is now pulling exposure numbers directly from banks suggests the central bank wants to verify that for itself rather than take those statements at face value. And this happens when regulators are no longer comfortable being surprised by what they find later. If stress inside this $2T market turns into actual losses, it won't stay inside the U.S., and it won't stay inside one sector. It will move through pensions, insurers, banks, and AI infrastructure debt across the global system at the same time.

The Pi Mainnet has successfully upgraded to Protocol 21. Node operators, please ensure your systems are up to date and stay tuned for instructions regarding the upcoming v22 upgrade.

The Iran tension is not just about energy anymore. It is about the future of money. For decades, global power has been tied to one structure, the U.S. dollar system. Oil is priced in dollars. Trade is settled in dollars. Reserves are held in dollars. This is what gave the United States invisible control over the global economy. But that system is now under pressure. BRICS nations are not just aligning around energy. They are aligning around settlement. The real question is no longer who produces energy. It is who prices it, and in what currency. Once energy begins to move outside the dollar system, the balance shifts. Now go back to Iran. Iran has been operating outside the traditional dollar network for years because of sanctions. China buys oil using alternative structures. Russia has already moved large parts of its trade away from the dollar after sanctions pressure. This is where everything connects. You are not just looking at a conflict zone. You are looking at a testing ground for a post-dollar system. Every sanction, every restriction, every disruption forces these nations to build alternatives. Payment systems. Trade agreements. Currency swaps. Digital rails. Pressure is not stopping them. It is accelerating them. And this is where CBDCs come into the picture. Central Bank Digital Currencies are not just about technology. They are about control and efficiency in cross-border trade. They remove intermediaries. They reduce dependence on systems like SWIFT. They allow nations to settle directly with each other. Imagine energy trade moving through digital currencies issued by central banks, bypassing the dollar completely. That is not theory. That is where things are heading. So when you see tension around Iran, or the Strait of Hormuz, you are not just seeing a military situation. You are watching pressure being applied to the old system while a new one is quietly being built underneath it. The dollar system survives on trust, stability, and dominance over trade routes. But every conflict at a major choke point introduces risk. And once risk enters the system, countries start asking a dangerous question “What if we don’t need the dollar anymore?” That question alone is enough to reshape the future. Because the moment energy, the backbone of civilization, is priced and traded outside the dollar, the world does not just adjust. It resets.

$BTC crossed $75K. $SOL crossed $85. $BNB broke over $610. But what’s more important is the BTC and ETH dominance: Bitcoin dominance has dropped to 57.2%, while Ethereum has risen to 11%. When BTC dominance falls, capital tends to rotate into altcoins. Next up: the CLARITY Act and a new Fed chairman. You will be tired of winning. I said so.