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Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi is pumping the brakes on agentic payments hype. 

According to the latest proclamations from the oracle known as CoinGlass, we are met with a most disheartening revelation: vast sums have congregated betwixt $72,300 and $72,600, forming a bastion of resistance that laughs in the face of recent attempts to ascend higher. How utterly tragic! It is as if the very fates conspired to keep our intrepid Bitcoin from its rightful place among the stars.

This pricing pattern suggests there isn’t much demand right now. Typically, a strong market rebound overcomes any initial obstacles and establishes a new base price above them. However, XRP did the opposite – it paused, faced resistance, and then declined.

Last week’s four‑hour hearing was the equivalent of a set‑piece where Wall Street suits and hoodie‑wearing developers squawk and swagger about tokenization like it’s a competitive dance. The debate was less “sympathy” and more “let’s see if anyone can get a spreadsheet under their own crypto‑driven fork.” Analyst VirtualBacon, ever the director, has sketched out the script for the coming act.

The search giant, in its infinite wisdom, warns of two calamities. The first, a scheme of such devious simplicity it borders on the comical: “store-now-decrypt-later.” Imagine, if you will, the rogue actors of our age, hoarding encrypted secrets like squirrels with acorns, biding their time until the quantum dawn. The second, a threat to the very signatures that authenticate our digital lives, from the humble email to the vaunted crypto asset. Oh, the irony! The very tools of our progress may yet be our undoing.