💬LET'S TALK CURRENCY CONVERTIBILITY PT. 2 💡 🇮🇶 IRAQ EDITION 🇮🇶 So, we have learned what open convertibility means. Now let's apply it to the real world and take a look at the factors in that transition and what we could expect to hear in the media. 🔻 ➡️ Macroeconomic

Dutch FT: China is secretly building a giant stockpile of gold. .. I swear I heard this story before https://t.co/O9vPbS7vdN

Our crypto market structure work is about empowering the American people - including single moms like the one who raised me. We’re aiming to markup bipartisan legislation next month and get it to President Trump’s desk to keep America economically dominant for decades.

“There is NOT a final timeline for ISO20022 adoption. However, the CPMI (Bank for International Settlements) recommend alignment with those data requirements by end of 2027.” For those screaming that the 22nd is the final changeover, I suggest you do some digging. This deadline

🧩 ISO20022, the HUGE puzzle piece for financial messaging 🧩 🧩 ISO 20022 is an international standard for financial messaging that defines a common data format and structure for electronic payments, securities, trade, and other financial transactions. It enables

BREAKING: The US Labor Department announces that it is CANCELLING the October jobs report. For the first time since 2013, we will not be receiving a monthly jobs report.

Some more clarity here, pardon the pun: 😁 The CLARITY Act and the crypto market structure bill are the same thing. The CLARITY Act was passed by the House in July and the Senate has been working on its own version, which is what @SenatorTimScott was referring to below. The

🚨NEW: @SenatorTimScott, previously mum on the Banking side of market structure, revealed a timeline today: markups and votes in both Banking and Ag committees next month, with legislation expected on the Senate floor “early next year.”

US Treasury issuances are skyrocketing: The US government sold $693.5 billion in Treasuries last week, across 9 auctions over 3 days. $549.1 billion came from T-Bills with maturities ranging from 4 to 52 weeks. At the same time, $144.4 billion in notes and bonds were issued,

JUST IN 🚨: Japan's 30-Year Bond Yield jumps above 3.3% for the first in history 🤯😱👀

I HIGHLY encourage my silver bugs to read this. It can't be made any clearer than Craig Hemke has here. 😉 👇👇👇

Me, Dec ‘24: “The Chinese central bank is currently buying at least ten times more gold than what you read in the newspaper” Newspaper (FT), Nov ‘25: “China’s unreported gold purchases could be more than 10 times its official figures.” https://t.co/xaszZ34Ufq

🚨JUST IN: In a 222-209 vote, the House has passed a bill to end the longest government shutdown in history, which lasted more than 42 days. President Trump is expected to sign it tonight at 9:45 PM ET.

@ChadSteingraber Definitely not. Committee markups aren’t even tentatively scheduled until early December.

LayerZero is integrating Stellar — connecting its global payments network to the most widely used money infrastructure spanning 150+ blockchains and 500+ assets. With LayerZero, Stellar will be connected to all of Crypto.

🚨JUST IN: The Senate has passed the amended appropriations bill to reopen the government. The bill now heads to the House and the Senate will be out for the rest of the week. As one source of mine put it: “I thought they wouldn’t be done until later tonight but they sped

Sums it up pretty much…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced a comprehensive audit of all contracts and task orders awarded under preference-based contracting, totaling approximately $9 billion in contract value across Treasury and its bureaus. The audit will examine potential misuse of

At @Ripple Swell 2025, @FTI_Global Head of Innovation Sandy Kaul shared her vision for our industry to bring a wide-range of tokenized assets onchain. @reece_merrick @RyanRRugg @DigitalAssets

Developer activity ➡️ real-world applications. During Q3, the Stellar network saw 37% growth in full-time developers, 8 times (‼️) faster than the industry growth rate. More in thread 👇

Eleanor T you knew someone would post this! Brad Garlinghouse clears up XRP use when compared to RLUSD. I’ll add more context. Presently banks in the U.S. cannot use crypto until clarity acts creates separation of governing bodies and who looks after what. Also, the USD is