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For me it comes down to BTC and ETH. I am a big fan of utility and narrative. I know the BTC maxi's don't like ETH but for the life of me I can't understand. If BTC could do everything then fantastic, BTC only, but that's not the case. BTC has its limits on running complicated smart contracts and this is where ETH fills that hole. I think the writing is on the wall that tradfi is changing dramatically. The use of AI agents, instant settlement, open internet blockchain (ETH Main), 24/7 access via the chain...the list goes on. BlackRock is already tokenizing funds on Ethereum mainnet. The infrastructure is being built whether the price reflects it yet or not. The changing landscape is hard to deny at this point. This is why running a business is changing too. Your business needs strong collateral that can earn yield, be borrowed against without selling, and be managed at any time from anywhere. No banker's hours. No waiting 3 days for settlement. No asking permission to access your own capital. The businesses that figure this out now are going to have a massive edge over the ones still parking everything in a checking account earning nothing.

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Tell me you are using the power law without acknowledging the power law.

@_P0PY_ @FChristopher77 Jesus prayer!

@FChristopher77 Father please pray for me tonight, tomorrow i have a hard battle to win , Cristian 🙏

“He who boasts that he has overcome the passions is like a soldier who, while still in the midst of the battle, sings a victory song.” Saint John Climacus

@jolie6666 @TokenizedDollar Oh you mean that coin where the ceo went on live tv and sold all of his shitcoins (litecoin)

@TokenizedDollar Litecoin is the future of eth, not google

$ETH is the $GOOGL of Crypto. Google pioneered a new frontier for the internet much like Ethereum is for the financial system before expanding to unimaginable size. • $ETH market cap - $250 Billion • $GOOGL market cap in 2013 - $250 Billion • Current market cap - $4.6 Trillion • 18.5x growth • Would bring $ETH to $39,000 • $ETH today is $GOOGL in 2013 after a long consolidation period before and 18.5x surge

@TokenizedDollar This is a great comparison!

@paul78767602 Yeah so buy more.

Why hold or buy more ETH? There’s no selling pressure left. Most holders are already in the red, ETH is still ~60% below ATH, & millions are set to flow into ETH natively through Bitmine and Sharplink via Russell. In every scenario, ETH is dramatically higher in 2 years.

@DefiIgnas Pretty stupid reason to raise gas fees because you can’t double check the address.

Ethereum txs reaching ATH due to address poisoning attacks. Every time the gas limit is raised and tx fees go down, it costs less to 'dust' a wallet. For example, after Fusaka, sub-$0.01 dust txs increased by 600%. Etherscan reported that Ethereum address poisoning succeeds about 0.01% of the time: 1 in 10,000 transfers tricks a user into sending funds to an attacker. Actually, Ethereum might benefit from RAISING fees as they it makes address poisoning attacks more expensive and it burns more $ETH.

Good Day To Buy Some ETH @mmmikema

Three macro conditions need to resolve before the end of 2026. All three point in the same direction for crypto. The pressure to get these resolved isn't political — it's structural. Midterm elections are coming. Whoever is in power needs the economy feeling good or they lose seats. That means gas prices voters can stomach, stable foreign policy, and borrowing costs that don't choke out businesses and homebuyers. Every administration faces this same clock. The midterm economy is the report card. Middle East tensions need to cool off. Every time Iran escalates, oil spikes, markets go risk-off, and capital runs to treasuries. Doesn't matter what BTC fundamentals look like — when geopolitical fear takes over, people sell everything that isn't a bond or a bunker. A resolution or de-escalation removes a massive overhang from every risk asset including crypto. Gas prices need to come down. Gas is the tax everyone feels. When it's high, consumer spending drops, inflation stays sticky, and the Fed has no room to cut. When it drops, the whole chain reverses. Lower gas means lower CPI prints. Lower CPI gives the Fed cover to cut rates. Rate cuts push capital into risk assets. BTC and ETH have historically ripped in rate-cut environments. Bond yields need to get well under 5%. Right now the 10-year is hovering near 5%. At that level, big money has no reason to go anywhere near crypto. Why take the risk when you can get 5% risk-free? But when yields drop to 3.5-4%, the math changes. Institutions start looking for higher returns. That's when capital rotates into BTC, ETH, and on-chain yield. These three things are connected. Geopolitical stability brings oil down. Oil coming down brings gas and inflation down. Inflation coming down brings yields down. Yields coming down brings institutional capital into crypto. It's a domino chain. And right now the first domino is wobbling. You don't need to predict which way it falls.

@Cointelegraph Easy unfollow for me when you start shilling XRP 10x moves

🚨 INSIGHT: Bears are handing over heavily discounted Ethereum to Tom Lee, while XRP coils up for a potential 10x to 15x move upwards. Market Moves via Cointelegraph Magazine

@MilkRoad AOL tried that. History favors the open platform with network effects — unless the specialized chain delivers clear, hard-to-replicate advantages for the exact users (TradFi institutions) it targets.

Ethereum has $60B+ in DeFi. Solana processes thousands of transactions per second. So why aren't they the right home for RWAs? Here's the problem nobody talks about: General-purpose blockchains were built for crypto-native use cases: DeFi, NFTs, memecoins, permissionless apps. That's what they were optimised for. RWAs need something completely different. When you tokenize a treasury bill, you need compliance rails baked in. When you tokenize a bond or a piece of private credit, you need settlement finality. When you're onboarding banks and asset managers, you need a chain that speaks their language from the architecture up. General-purpose chains don't have this. So what do RWA projects do? They build workarounds: custom compliance layers, diddleware and protocol-level patches. It works. Sort of. But there are always constraints. You're always fighting the chain instead of building with it. @RealFinOfficial flips this model entirely. Instead of adapting RWAs to fit a general-purpose chain, they built the chain around RWAs. Full lifecycle support: compliance, interoperability, risk data, liquidity. All at the base layer. That's something no general-purpose chain has. The chains that won the RWA era won't be the most popular ones today. They'll be the ones built specifically for what institutions need.

BREAKING: Three of Europe's most powerful financial institutions just chose Ethereum. UBS. Société Générale. Banque de France. Repo markets. On-chain. $12.5 trillion market. 1% on-chain is $125 billion on Ethereum. Institutions are not experimenting. They're transitioning. Vitalik called it the secure chain. Three central banks just confirmed it.

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Last-minute negotiations between Banking Committee Republicans and Democrats this morning led to a compromise that removed language from the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) in Section 301 of the CLARITY Act. This is significant. The BRCA was the provision that explicitly protected noncustodial software developers from being classified as money transmitters. It was the direct response to the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet prosecutions, the carve-out that Senators Grassley and Lummis negotiated to shield good-faith developers while preserving prosecutors' ability to go after those who knowingly facilitate crime. That language has now been stripped to secure bipartisan votes. DeFi advocates are already raising alarms, saying the move could gut critical protections for software developers as the bill moves to the full Senate. Despite the concession, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) still did not vote to advance the bill, even after positively referencing the changes during the markup. Senator Bernie Moreno said during the hearing that there's "still work to be done on Section 301," signaling that negotiations on developer protections will continue as the Banking Committee and Agriculture Committee merge their texts ahead of a floor vote. The bill passed committee 15-9. But the developer protection language that made this bill matter to the people actually building in Bitcoin just got traded away for votes that didn't even materialize.

No, the core claim in the X post is not accurate—it’s overstated or misleading, though there is some partial context around ongoing negotiations and DeFi concerns. crowdfundinsider.com Here’s a clear breakdown based on the post’s details vs. what actually happened in today’s (May 14, 2026) Senate Banking Committee markup of the CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act): • The bill did advance 15-9: All Republicans + 2 Democrats supported it. This matches the post. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) voted no, despite some positive comments during debate. crowdfundinsider.com • BRCA language was not stripped: The post claims a “last-minute bipartisan compromise” this morning removed the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA) protections (non-custodial software devs not being classified as money transmitters) from Section 301. • Pre-markup draft text (released ~May 12) preserved BRCA (as Section 604) verbatim with only minor tweaks: a narrow criminal carve-out for specific intent to facilitate known illegal funds (aligning with DOJ positions on bad actors) and slight narrowing of a rule of construction. This was already the result of prior negotiations (e.g., with Sens. Grassley/Lummis). galaxy.com • Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) had a proposal/amendment to strip or significantly weaken BRCA/DeFi developer protections. It did not even make it to a vote—ruled out on parliamentary/procedural grounds (“parliamentary foul”). Multiple sources describe the final bill as advancing “relatively unscathed” with no major changes to core provisions like this. crowdfundinsider.com • Section 301 nuance: This section deals with DeFi protocol rules (e.g., decentralized vs. non-decentralized trading protocols and related BSA/money transmission issues). It interacts with BRCA (Sec. 604), and there were amendments targeting DeFi liability. Last-minute talks happened, and some language was likely adjusted for compromise. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) did note during/after the process that “there’s still work to be done on Section 301” as the Banking and Agriculture Committees merge texts for a full Senate vote. This part of the post tracks. tradersunion.com

@Mosesassawad Learn how to deliver feedback. 😊

ETH Is About to Stop Being Bitcoin's Shadow. For years, ETH has traded like a leveraged BTC bet. Bitcoin goes up 10%, ETH goes up 14%. Bitcoin dumps, ETH dumps harder. Every cycle. Same story. That's about to change. The CLARITY Act is moving through Congress right now. If it passes, ETH gets something it's never had — a legal identity. Not a security. Not a "we'll get back to you." A real regulatory framework that lets institutions deploy capital without their compliance team losing sleep. And that changes everything about how ETH gets priced. BTC trades on narrative. Digital gold. Store of value. You either believe in it or you don't. There's nothing to model. ETH has actual financials. $2-3B a year in fee revenue. A burn mechanism that shrinks supply every time someone uses the network. Staking yield paid out to holders. You can run a DCF on this thing. Nobody does — because the SEC could still call it a security on any given Tuesday. So institutions sit on the sidelines and ETH keeps trading like BTC's little brother. Remove that overhang and watch what happens. ETH stops trading on BTC's mood. It starts trading on its own fundamentals. Fee growth. TVL. L2 adoption. Burn rate. Real metrics. Real multiples. It's like a company going from pre-IPO to post-IPO. Before the filing — vibes and comps. After — audited numbers, institutional coverage, and a real valuation framework. The CLARITY Act is ETH's IPO moment. Now add this: if institutional adoption doubles on-chain activity, fees go up and supply goes down at the same time. Increasing demand. Decreasing supply. That's a setup most assets on Wall Street will never have. ETH doesn't need Bitcoin's permission anymore. This is not financial advice.

@Fragbaza This is beautiful. You need to do live streams on X. People here are listening to your words. ☦️

We spend hours watching videos, listening to talks, going from one Bible study to another online… always learning something new, always collecting more “knowledge.” And yet, somehow, we still feel tired… still unsettled… still searching. Not because learning is wrong, it’s beautiful. The Church has always loved truth, theology, understanding. But knowledge was never meant to stay in our heads… it was meant to become life. In our Orthodox faith, truth is not just something we know… it’s something we live. It’s not just hearing about Christ… it’s standing before Him. Not just analyzing the Gospel… but allowing it to shape our heart. Because there’s a quiet danger in all this… we can slowly convince ourselves that watching, listening, and understanding is the same as participating. But it’s not. You can know everything about prayer… and still not pray. You can study the Divine Liturgy… and still not be there. You can understand repentance… and still never actually turn your heart. And this is where the Church gently calls us back… Come and light a candle. Come and stand, even if your mind is tired. Come and receive, even if you feel unworthy. Come and live what you’ve been trying to understand. Because grace is not downloaded… it is encountered. Holiness is not watched… it is struggled for. And Christ is not an idea… He is a living presence in His Church. So yes, learn… read… listen… But don’t let knowledge replace life. At the end of the day, one small, sincere step inside the Church… one honest prayer… one moment of real presence before God… is worth more than hours of watching from a distance. Friends, let’s not just know about Christ. Let’s actually come .. and walk with Him. Fr. Avgoustinos

@aave The defendants have a very shaky claim to those funds. There is a clear chain of custody less then 30 hours old.

Aave LLC has filed an emergency motion to vacate a restraining notice served on Arbitrum DAO on May 1, 2026 that attempts to seize approximately $71 million in ETH belonging to victims of the April 18 exploit. A thief does not gain lawful ownership of stolen property simply by taking it, and the law is clear on this. Those assets were recovered to be returned to users victimized in the April 18, 2026 exploit. Freezing them harms the very people this recovery effort is designed to protect. We’ve asked the court for an expedited hearing and a temporary vacatur, and we are continuing to work alongside the Arbitrum community and DeFi United to make affected users whole.

@Fragbaza What is universal repentance?

Even if a person is sinful to such a degree that he is black from head to toe, if he approaches the Holy Chalice with a sense of universal repentance, he will gradually be cleansed, whitened, enlightened, and by God's grace will be purified and saved. Saint Seraphim of Sarov

They have a weak case to seek ownership. Those funds have a clear chain of custody less than 30 hours old. If I steal your car and drive it through 9 different states causing 300M in damages the court will eventually give the car back to you the owner and not sell it to make everyone else whole. These aren’t generic dprk assets.

When the Arbitrum Security Council confiscated the rsETH hacker wallet they didn't think of this. Now lawyers in the US are after that money to make whole DPRK victims from the past. Unlikely that 70M will be released to AAVE any time soon. Once you go centralized, RIP.