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On February 24, a miracle happened. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $258 million, according to SoSoValue (whoever they are). In a day. That’s right, $258 million in just 24 hours. It’s like the institutional market suddenly remembered that it was supposed to be doing things. Fidelity’s FBTC led the charge, contributing a whopping $82 million to the party, with Grayscale ETH barely trailing behind with $11 million. Ethereum ETFs threw in a modest $9 million, like that one friend who always brings chips to the party but pretends it’s enough. And just like that, institutional participation was back – like an old friend who shows up just when you’re about to give up on them.

Ethereum, that digital-age Don Quixote, is charging headlong into its most ideologically fraught upgrade yet. Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL), aka EIP-7805, has been anointed the star attraction of the Hegota upgrade, penciled in for late 2026. One imagines developers clinking virtual glasses in a digital tavern, toasting their latest attempt to outwit regulators with a side of Byzantine logic.

With the technicals compressing and the XRP price displaying relative strength, will the crypto manage to rise above the upper threshold? One can only hope it doesn’t collapse into a heap of despair, as is its habit.

The trading floors, once alive with the frenzied hum of activity, now echo with the silence of hesitation. The dips, those tantalizing sirens of opportunity, are left unheeded, as if the players have suddenly discovered a newfound wisdom-or perhaps merely a paralyzing fear. The market, that fickle prima donna, has taken a bow, and the audience, once so eager, now sits with arms crossed, skeptical.

In a chat with Solid Intel, shared on X-because, of course, Twitter’s now X, let’s just pretend that makes sense-Collison let slip that AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity (remember those names, they might be in your dystopian future) are already using Stripe’s tools for commerce. So, while we’re out here manually approving payments, the robots are already busy making purchases.