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Midnight 🤝 Monument Bank Monument is set to become the first UK-regulated bank to tokenize retail customer deposits on a public blockchain — representing interest-bearing savings as digital tokens while remaining fully backed, redeemable in GBP, and protected under existing regulatory frameworks. Built on Midnight’s privacy-enhancing blockchain infrastructure, this approach ensures that transaction data remains shielded and accessible only to authorized participants — enabling the use of blockchain technology while maintaining the confidentiality and compliance required in regulated financial services. The initiative begins with a target of £250 million in tokenized deposits and represents the first phase in a broader rollout to expand access to tokenized financial products. Over time, this includes enabling exposure to asset classes such as private equity and structured products, and introducing more flexible lending models — capabilities historically reserved for institutional and private banking clients. Together, this partnership demonstrates how regulated financial institutions can bring traditional financial products on-chain — unlocking a more flexible, accessible, and programmable financial system without compromising privacy or regulatory standards.

While recording this quick showcase, we hit a new record, AGAIN: - 750 daily players - 1000+ players over 3 days - 1250+ players over 7 days - New to Cardano rate stays at about 70% - NFT sales are up, mostly because of ingame utility > hype Onboarding at its finest

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No incisions. No needles. Just focused sound waves destroying liver tumors from outside the body. The HOPE4LIVER trial treated 49 liver tumors across 44 patients with histotripsy and was published in Radiology last year. 95% technical success rate. Still a small, single-arm trial with short follow-up, so we don't have long-term survival data yet. But the direction matters. The part that interests me most is what happens to the immune system after you destroy a tumor this way. When a tumor is destroyed in place, the debris left behind contains cancer antigens. That's the raw material the immune system needs to recognize and hunt down remaining cancer cells throughout the body. I've built my career around this principle. Ablation combined with intratumoral immunotherapy consistently outperforms either approach alone. The technology will keep evolving. Sound waves, cryoablation, pulsed electric fields. The principle won't change. Destroy the tumor locally, leave the antigens, activate the immune system. That's the future of cancer treatment. Not one tool. The right combination.