In what can only be described as a veritable manifesto, Lian has put forth an 11-point critique of RWA, and I must say, this is not your run-of-the-mill outsider’s rant. Oh no, this comes from a seasoned veteran-he’s been part of the crypto circus since 2012, survived the ICO frenzy, and, for extra credit, even dabbled in tokenized real estate since 2018. So, he’s hardly an amateur.
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has, since March 1, used its most sophisticated tools to date to track crypto-assets and offshore financial interests. The implementation of the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and the expanded Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) regime marks a fundamental shift in the nation’s tax enforcement architecture.
Let us pause to marvel at the timing! Just as the weekend’s geopolitical fireworks erupted-missiles launched, tweets dispatched-the crypto markets, ever the nervous virgin, swooned. Darkfost, peering into his crystal ball (or perhaps a Bloomberg terminal), notes how swiftly the “first strikes” spooked the herd. How poetic that digital gold, birthed to escape fiat’s shackles, now trembles at the whim of oil-soaked geopolitics. The irony! The humanity!
How? By teaming up with AI agents for a wild experiment in “agentic coding.” These bots built a working Ethereum client prototype in 14 days-covering 65 roadmap items and writing 700,000 lines of code. It’s like if your college roommate cleaned your apartment and alphabetized the socks. Impressive, but also slightly terrifying.
When the great ledger has sagged for the second longest stretch since the roaring severities of 2018, one can only sigh like an old bibliophile turning the brittle pages of a forgotten novel.
Supported above $1.30, XRP embarked on a recovery wave, aping its more illustrious peers, Bitcoin and Ethereum. It climbed, with a certain élan, above $1.3250 and $1.350, entering a brief interlude of positivity.
Elsewhere, rival prediction market Kalshi, that beacon of ethical market practices, found itself in hot water after a contentious contract involving the Khamenei market. It’s a wonder the platform didn’t collapse under the weight of its own moral ambiguity.
President Donald Trump confirmed Feb. 28 that American forces, in collaboration with Israel, had begun major combat operations against Iran, sharply escalating tensions in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors. The announcement pushed geopolitical risk to the forefront of trading desks from New York to London and across Asia. Because nothing says “I’m stressed” like paying more for gas.
Aave, ever the innovator, has passed a proposal with all the subtlety of a marching band, moving forward with plans to redirect 100% of its product revenue to the AAVE token after it passed the Temperature Check-think of it as the warm-up act before the real voting begins.
On a day much like any other, February 28th, Buterin, with the air of a man who’s seen too many sunsets over the mempool, outlined a design as intricate as a spider’s web, built around account abstraction. This, he claims, could ride into town with the Hegota fork, a name that sounds more like a forgotten outlaw than a network upgrade.
