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The SEC Cannot Do This Alone

Key Takeaways (because who has time to read the whole thing?):

Key Takeaways:

The recent price sprint from the mid-$20s to flirting with $40+ is basically the market waving a shiny baton, signaling more futures positioning and a dramatic soap opera of higher highs and higher lows. Structurally, this asset is now riding an ascending trend with short-term moving averages cheering it on. Buyers are channeling their inner commitment-phobe-defending pullbacks as if it’s a long, emotional hallway at a fancy party.

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The 142-meter Lürssen-built beauty sailed out in the open from Dubai to Muscat between April 24 and 26, broadcasting its position via AIS while the sea traffic shuffled like sleepy tortoises on a sunny day.

In a thread that’s longer than my attention span after two glasses of Pinot Grigio, Crypto Tony breaks down how Ripple’s been juggling XRP like it’s a circus act. Back in 2012, XRP burst onto the scene with 100 billion tokens, because why not? Ripple’s founders grabbed 20 billion for themselves (nice), handed 80 billion to the company, and then spent five years doing whatever they wanted with it. Wild times.

a committee vote, a 60-vote Senate floor threshold, reconciliation between the Banking and Agriculture Committee versions, reconciliation with the House text from July 2025, and a presidential signature. Galaxy Research’s Alex Thorn warns that if the markup slips past mid-May, the probability of passage in 2026 will decline sharply. TD Cowen takes a bleaker view, placing odds at one in three and citing CFTC staffing gaps, prediction market politics, and Iran-related crypto payment concerns as additional hurdles beyond the calendar. Polymarket currently prices passage at about 46%, a chill in the air compared with the 82% high reached earlier in the year. As crypto.news observed, Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz remains publicly bullish, saying on a podcast this week that “this is going to get done” and that it “probably gets done in May.”

THORChain’s planned Monero support could create a direct route from Bitcoin to XMR, a path paved not with gold but with the giddy thrill of permissionless chaos.

The union was sealed with a flourish when KBank CEO Choi Woo-hyung and Ripple’s Asia-Pacific Managing Director Fiona Murray signed an agreement at KBank’s headquarters. The Korea Herald, ever the chronicler of such affairs, reports that the goal is to determine if blockchain can outshine traditional banking in speed, cost, and transparency. How quaintly revolutionary!