2025-11-11
It's interesting Bessent personally tweeted this, speaks to relative priorities
Decrypt
The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing Wall Street crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor, easing institutional participation
Sander Lutz / Decrypt :
2023-08-01
$72.5B in treasuries $1b in excess profits per quarter Tether is holding more treasuries than UAE, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, Spain, etc Just staggering to be honest
The Block
Tether reports a $850M net profit in Q2, vs. $1.5B in Q1, with ~$3.3B in excess reserves, up from $2.44B in Q1, and $86.5B+ in total assets as of June 30
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
2023-04-04
Arbitrum, a popular ETH L2, recently hosted a governance vote to spend 750 million ARB tokens by the foundation. The community voted against it, and the foundation said “We already spent the money”. Governance is a dumpster fire in De-Fi https://twitter.com/...
CoinDesk
After a revolt, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up its controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Nothing here is intended to minimize that there was very clearly a shortfalling in communication. Danny Nelson / CoinDesk : Arbitrum's First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $...
2023-04-03
Arbitrum, a popular ETH L2, recently hosted a governance vote to spend 750 million ARB tokens by the foundation. The community voted against it, and the foundation said “We already spent the money”. Governance is a dumpster fire in De-Fi https://twitter.com/...
CoinDesk
After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation
Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
2022-05-20
If Tether continues being a big buyer of US Treasuries during a period of time where the US *desperately* needs treasury buyers.... I'm just saying...the US sold its manufacturing base overseas in exchange for treasuries buyers...wonder what they will do here https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Tether's accounting firm says Tether holds $20.1B in commercial paper, down 17% QoQ; Tether had $82.4B+ in total assets on March 31 and $82.2B in liabilities
but it's worth noting that Tether has a $100k USD transaction minimum, so this wasn't a universal option... https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mindao / @mindaoyang : Tether (USDT) relea...
2021-10-22
Miners are *literally* the only industry that has been successful *in any way* in reducing carbon emissions Get your shit together @WSJ https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at efforts by bitcoin miners to use green energy sources, including the voluntary Crypto Climate Accord framework signed by 180 companies in April
Shane Shifflett / Wall Street Journal :