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I have just informed my colleagues that I will step down as @ECB President on 7 February 2027. It has been a source of great pride to serve this institution. I thank all of those who have supported me on this journey over the past seven years.

🇪🇺 Christine Lagarde quitte la BCE le 7 février 2027 !! Départ anticipé de 8 mois Mandat officiel jusqu’à fin octobre 2027 Je vous l’ai dit plusieurs fois ici Ce n’est pas une démission surprise C’est un calendrier... > Fin de mandat de Macron : printemps 2027 > Élections françaises : Marine Le Pen favorite dans les sondages > Objectif : que Macron et Merz puissent encore placer leur poulain à la tête de la BCE avant que le rapport de force politique ne change en France Le WEF est dans la boucle depuis des mois. Elle a déjà dit "Ready to serve" et Klaus Schwab la voulait depuis longtemps Larry Fink et André Hoffmann restent jusqu’à Davos 2027, puis la transition peut se faire Résultat... La présidence de la BCE et la présidence du WEF restent dans le même cercle pendant plusieurs années supplémentaires ! Le poste change Les priorités non Euro numérique, Pontes, Appia, traçabilité, plafonds, waterfall… tout continue exactement dans la même direction C’était juste écrit à l’avance.

This is probably the best time to get some $LIT too Hyperliquid goes higher but Lighter benefits too

trade[XYZ] and ICE, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, are joining forces to bring 24/7 perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to the United States. In just over a year, our markets on Hyperliquid have surpassed $650 billion in volume. They provide continuous price discovery for stocks, indices, and commodities, and have become trusted reference points for retail and institutions alike when traditional markets are closed. Much of the world trades them. Until now, Americans could only watch. We intend to change that. Subject to CFTC approval, trade[XYZ] and ICE plan to establish a new, dedicated U.S. market, with novel exchange and clearing infrastructure built on Hyperliquid. Planned contracts span equities, indices, commodities, FX, and crypto, with access through participating brokers and platforms. We’ll share more on products, eligibility, and timing as approvals progress. ICE brings more than 25 years of experience operating regulated markets, clearing, and managing risk. trade[XYZ] brings the product development, market design, and technology behind the most liquid and robust markets on Hyperliquid. Innovation and the protections of U.S. regulation shouldn’t be a trade-off. Together, we plan to prove it. ICE is making a strategic investment in trade[XYZ] and joins us in building towards the future of Hyperliquid. A small group of market luminaries is joining as well, beginning with Stan Druckenmiller. For more than four decades, few investors have anticipated the great turns in markets as often as Stan. We’re proud to have him with us for the next one. We’re building the U.S. market in parallel with our existing HIP-3 markets, which we’ll continue to expand and innovate on. We expect both to flourish. They each have a long road map ahead, from new asset classes to new ways to trade them. To the Hyperliquid community, whether you were here before us or came because of us, thank you. You took a chance on new markets and you made them matter. You’ll forever be a part of this story. Anything. Anytime. On ICE[XYZ].

SAFO is now the world's largest tokenized fund. 🥇 Seven months after we launched it with @Amundi_ENG, it holds $2.39B, ahead of Circle's USYC ($2.37B) and BlackRock's BUIDL ($2.19B). More than 10,000 entities and individuals hold it. 1/7 Blogpost: spiko.io/blog/safo-worlds-la… PR: cdn.spiko.finance/press_rele…

DotHenge is seeing incredible early traction, and we've just deployed some significant upgrades to take its capabilities even further. These include: - Better character consistency across cuts - Better handling of multiple reference images - More natural movement - Better prompt adherence - Clearer generation progress Try a new and improved DotHenge at: app.usedot.xyz/henge More updates coming soon.

Full page ad in WSJ against tokenized equities:

Full page ad in WSJ against tokenized equities:

Arthur Hayes: "governments have already de-anonymized Monero. in the AI era, Zcash is the ultimate 1000x." the Kraken story isn't an outlier. it's the compliance layer catching up to what cryptographers already know. Monero's privacy guarantees weren't broken by exchanges. they were broken by state-level actors. the freeze is downstream of that. Zcash shielded supply hit 29% of total issuance this month. institutions can touch it without going dark on the regulators. capital is already picking the version that scales. the full Hayes/Naval case is in the clip.

The word “crypto” is still a red flag. Adding “backed by a16z crypto” to our website and X actually did more harm than good. We scrapped it a long time ago. If you’re still using “crypto”, it’s time to pivot.

[ ZOOMER ] A16Z TO DROP CRYPTO FROM ITS FLAGSHIP BLOCKCHAIN FUND'S NAME, FOCUS ON OTHER INVESTMENTS, ITS FIRST FOUNDING MEMBER TO ALSO LEAVE: THE INFORMATION

Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.