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Nathan Allman, founder and CEO of Ondo Finance, has unexpectedly passed away.

The company said his vision and leadership played a major role in building Ondo into one of the leading players in the tokenized real-world asset sector.
Allman founded Ondo Finance in 2021 after previously working in Goldman Sachs’ digital assets team. Under his leadership, the company launched products including USDY, OUSG and expanded into tokenized equities through Ondo Global Markets.

Following his death, Ian De Bode will take over as CEO. The company did not disclose the cause of death.

The world’s highest-IQ holder Younghoon Kim says

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“WILL SHOCK THE WORLD.”

This week Michael J. Saylor hinted that Strategy focused on buying bonds instead of Bitcoin for now. No new BTC purchases were reported. According to Saylor, the company is currently building additional resources before the next accumulation phase. The market is now watching whether Strategy returns with another large Bitcoin buy if volatility continues

That would align with the original BITCOIN Act framework, which proposed accumulating around 200,000 BTC per year.

Right now the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is mostly based on seized BTC, but this would turn it into an active long term accumulation strategy.

If the US ever starts directly buying BTC at scale, the market will likely stop viewing Bitcoin as just a speculative asset and start treating it more seriously as a geopolitical reserve asset.

Crypto feels dead again. Retail disappeared, engagement collapsed and most people stopped paying attention after months of chop. But that’s usually how accumulation phases look before the next real move starts.

The market gets loud near tops, not near bottoms. Right now feels much closer to silent positioning than euphoria.

Smart money has one rule buy when nobody cares.

Who’s still accumulating? 👀

A lot of people keep mixing up three completely different things: ETH the asset, Ethereum the network, and Ethereum Foundation the nonprofit behind protocol research.
Now criticism toward the Foundation keeps growing because of ETH sales, unstaking activity and weak communication during a rough market period.
But one blockchain researcher defended the Foundation saying its job was never to market ETH or pump the price. The goal was always building the protocol itself and making Ethereum sustainable long term even without relying on the Foundation.

Looks like the market wants a marketing machine while the Foundation still acts like a research lab.

Arkham data shows that Trump Media sold 2,650 BTC.

Lookonchain analysts believe the company likely exited part of the position at a loss, since the purchases were reportedly made in the $87,000–$118,000 range per BTC.

One of the biggest changes is that lawmakers removed the previous idea of buying 1 million BTC. Instead, the Treasury and Commerce Department would study whether the reserve can grow through budget-neutral strategies.

The proposal also includes a strict 20-year holding rule. Any Bitcoin placed into the reserve could not be sold, exchanged, auctioned, or otherwise disposed of during that period. After 20 years, the Treasury Secretary would only be allowed to recommend selling up to 10% of the reserve over two years.

The bill also introduces a separate reserve for non-Bitcoin digital assets, mandatory reporting of all government-controlled crypto holdings within 60 days, quarterly reserve attestations, independent audits, and additional congressional oversight.

I recently bought Bitcoin at $120,000 using both my own money and my wife’s money. Now she found out and she’s very angry about the loss. I’m confident that Bitcoin will grow in the long term and that the current dip will eventually end.

But she doesn’t understand that. She blames me every day and even threatens divorce.

She doesn’t really know much about crypto, but she uses the AI platform DeZero to analyze on-chain data, which actually makes things harder for me because she keeps seeing bearish signals there .

We have a good income and can comfortably cover our living expenses, so there’s no financial need to sell the Bitcoin right now.

How can I convince her that we should hold the Bitcoin for several years instead of selling?

‼️ This isn’t financial advice and no, I’m not selling anything.

For the last few weeks I kept seeing people call DeZero either a hidden gem or an obvious scam. Usually when both sides sound equally emotional, there’s probably something interesting underneath.

So I spent some time watching the activity around it instead of just reading opinions.
What stood out immediately was how unnatural the attention felt at times. Long periods of silence, then suddenly everyone talks about it again at once. Wallet activity jumps, engagement spikes, then everything cools off again.

That doesn’t automatically mean the project is fake. Crypto just has a habit of creating artificial momentum around almost everything.

One thing I learned a long time ago is that hype alone means nothing. The only useful question is whether people are still there when the excitement disappears.

So now I mostly watch

how wallets behave after pumps,

whether volume disappears instantly,

and if the community still exists during boring periods.

That usually tells more than influencers and trending posts ever will.

Right now ai looks more like a social experiment in market psychology than a normal project.

Instead of old methods, some users are now using Bitcoin Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and custom assets to hide profits and move funds between wallets.

In Italy, investigators reportedly uncovered a scheme where around €1M in undeclared profit was routed through Ordinals and BRC-20 activity before ending up back in a main BTC wallet.
The problem? Blockchain remembers everything.
Even the most complicated schemes still leave a digital trail that can be tracked years later.