André Beganski

“The idea that you have to KYC for a credit card is a little silly.” Caught up with @josephdelong to discuss his new project. While everyone else is partnering with the likes of Visa, he’s trying to collapse the entire stack with a sovereign, stablecoin-driven credit card rail. Fully story:

Pretty fascinating to see the trade group behind SPDR Gold Shares—the $127 billion ETF—outline its approach to tokenization An executive wants the World Gold Council to attach its name to tokens in the same way that Intel promotes its chips with stickers on laptops

@AviFelman Appreciate the reminder. Here goes nothing

The ability to converse with God and ask of him for strength, forgiveness and fortitude is available to all of us, and utilized by so few. We’ve replaced him with self affirmations and introspection. A tragedy of the ages.

Bitcoin, Ethereum Slip on Inflation Surprise as Oil Prices Jump decrypt.co/361556/bitcoin…

You Can Now Trade Official S&P 500 Perpetual Futures via Hyperliquid decrypt.co/361597/now-tra…

Bitcoin, Ethereum Waver as Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady decrypt.co/361603/bitcoin…

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) appears to throw some rare shade at the Trump admin today over its continued prosecution of crypto software developers. “Frankly I assumed that would go away when you had an admistration coming in that was crypto friendly,” Davidson said onstage at the DC Blockchain Summit. Last week, the Trump DOJ filed to retry Roman Storm, the creator of Ethereum privacy software. Storm was convicted of operating an illegal money transmitter last year. The jury hung on two other counts, which the Trump DOJ now wants a retrial on. The Trump DOJ also extracted guilty pleas from two Bitcoin privacy software developers late last year, who are currently serving federal prison sentences. President Trump told me in December he would "look at" pardons for the developers of the software, Samourai Wallet. But none have since materialized. The Trump admin previously signaled it would refrain from continuing such Biden-era criminal cases against decentralized software developers.

SEC Declares 'Most Crypto Assets' Not Securities, Including Staking, Airdrops and Bitcoin Mining decrypt.co/361446/sec-mos…

Democrats Target Prediction Market Insider Trading, Claim Trump Allies Are Profiting decrypt.co/361398/senate-…

Mastercard said Tuesday that it will acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK in an effort to connect fiat and crypto payment rails. decrypt.co/361371/masterc…

#WorthReading decrypt.co/360444/bitcoin… Bitcoin Die-Hard Jack Dorsey Doesn't Like Stablecoins, But Block Will Use Them Anyway

How Florida's Stablecoin Bill Mirrors 'Big Brother' Tools Outlawed Under Ron DeSantis' CDBC Ban decrypt.co/361074/florida…

Trump-Backed World Liberty Puts $5.3 Million Price Tag on 'Guaranteed Access' to Team decrypt.co/361259/trump-b…

Strategy Makes Biggest Bitcoin Buy Yet in 2026 as Preferred Share Demand Surges decrypt.co/361228/strateg…

Several crypto companies have been cutting staff lately, and I recently learned that the team behind Story Protocol is among them. Meanwhile, PIP Labs is prioritizing infrastructure for AI agents

@valueandtime Sureee

Also, this is not an undisclosed ad for stake. I do not work with them. it's just a picture of a puppy.

My sister got a new puppy

@FinanceLancelot Clicking his tongue like someone just got into a fender bender… What has this man seen?

BREAKING: Two oil tankers have reportedly been hit in the territorial waters of Iraq

By moving to settle its case against Justin Sun last week, the SEC may have opened a can of worms. Democrats slammed the $10 million fine as a "free pass" for Sun, who spent far more on Trump family crypto tokens. But the deal required the SEC to assert jurisdiction. A source familiar with the agency's thinking told me the Trump SEC felt it could settle the case bc Sun's TRX token "was offered and sold subject to an investment contract." That's quite a statement, given the SEC dropped many crypto cases involving similar crypto tokens and the exchanges that listed them. Experts tell me the political particularities of the Sun case could have backed the SEC into a strange corner: decrypt.co/360721/justin-…

Learned that @TThompson has stepped back from @bsktballdotfun, which began publicizing a refund option for users a few days ago, as it builds towards its trading debut next month

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Filled up my car at $3.20 last week Today gas is $3.48

Filled up my tank before oil prices jumped more than 25% this weekend