Issued by Hua Xia Financial Leasing (a subsidiary with all the romance of a Soviet-era commissar), these bonds offer a paltry 1.84% yield over three years. A pittance, you say? Ah, but it’s the principle that matters! 📜✨ Or perhaps the principle of eliminating middlemen who once feasted on the crumbs of financial revolution.
Adding to the renewed optimism, a new missive from the esteemed CryptoOnchain, in collaboration with CryptoQuant, unveils a most remarkable surge in XRP Ledger Velocity, marking one of the most robust on-chain signals of 2025. On December 2, the Velocity metric leapt to 0.0324, its highest value of the year. Velocity, that most discerning of metrics, measures how frequently XRP doth traverse the network, serving as a direct indicator of economic activity, liquidity, and transactional demand.
It’s official: a bridge between Coinbase’s Base and Solana is up and running! Now, developers and users alike can waltz assets from one ecosystem to the other. Think of it as a digital road that makes sure no crypto gets left behind.
“A 24-month buffer makes one thing clear: they’re bracing for the bear market.” Basically, it’s a financial version of throwing on a sweater and clutching a cup of hot cocoa before the market gets cold enough to snow on your investments.
The all-stock deal would see Solmate swallow RockawayX’s validator infrastructure, onchain liquidity business, venture funds, and credit funds. The combined entity would then manage over $2 billion in assets. Let’s just say the board meeting had more excitement than a disco in a library. 🎉📜
Jurisdictions are busy building their own Maginot Lines, protecting against front-door risks like money laundering and market manipulation. But guess what? The real threats are sneaking in through the back door, and not every regulator even has a back door policy. 🏰🚪
Acting Chairman Caroline Pham, with all the seriousness of a cat contemplating a mouse, announced with a sly smile that this move aims to “make America the crypto capital of the world.” Because nothing says ‘trustworthy’ quite like trusting Uncle Sam with your digital treasure chest, right? And perhaps, just perhaps, providing traders with safer, more transparent markets-though the line between transparency and spectacle remains ever blurred. 🕵️♀️💼
So get this: AltPlus is setting up a whole division to buy and hold Bitcoin and XRP. You can just picture them in a boardroom, hashing this out. “You know what we need? MORE crypto.” It’s like a treasure hunt, but for blockchain enthusiasts. Their plan? Capital strategy supported by blockchain transparency, a shaky regulatory environment, and the institutional acceptance of these digital assets. Big words, right? And let’s not forget that Bitcoin and XRP are scarce, decentralized, and FAST. It’s like they’re describing a Ferrari of finance here-if Ferraris were, you know, digital assets. Oh, and don’t forget the low-cost transactions-because that’s exactly what you want when you’re moving billions around.
Some whisper that this retracement below $90k was but a cyclical reset, a necessary purgatory before the bear market claws its way back into our lives. A drawdown, they say, is inevitable. But what if-oh, the audacity of hope!-this was not the end? What if, instead, it marked the bottom, as it did in April, when the world briefly remembered how to laugh? 😂
Harborne, a Brit currently basking in Thai sunsets (or perhaps fleeing them), has a history of throwing cash at parties like confetti at a royal wedding. He once funded Boris Johnson’s Conservatives and later backed the Brexit Party, now rebranded as Reform UK. One might call it loyalty; we’ll call it a midlife crisis with a 401(k).
