Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano, is very enthusiastic about a new partnership with Monument Bank. He believes this deal is the biggest one yet for Midnight, the platform behind Cardano, and could potentially bring hundreds of millions, or even billions, of dollars worth of assets to the network.
Gold, that once-revered symbol of divine patience, has. . . outran its own destiny, bleeding a staggering 11 billion dollars out of its fabled soft soil. Silver, not even a second, has mirrored this despair. JPMorgan, in its stark prose, has pointed out that while Bitcoin, the hard‑coded sentinel, remains stubbornly afloat, investors favour it over gold-a dangerous, perhaps, confession of humanity’s desire to conquer our own instincts.
Wilson stated at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on Thursday that traditional financial institutions will not publicly record all their trades on a blockchain. He explained that money managers would see this as a breach of their responsibility to clients, as it would reveal their trading strategies to the world.
On the fateful day of March 25, 2026, Visa-yes, that very same Visa which you might find lurking in the dark corners of your wallet-decided to grace the Canton Network with its presence. One cannot help but chuckle at the irony: a titan of the payment industry steps gingerly into a blockchain built for finance, as if it were a delicate ballet rather than a robust digital ledger. Now, banks and financial institutions can access this on-chain payment wonderland without the bother of reconstructing their entire operational edifice. What a relief!
Numbers, those cold sentinels of truth, speak their piece:
In a post that’s more explosive than a troll’s temper, Pumpius claimed SWIFT is quietly whitelabeling the XRP Ledger, as if it’s a knock-off handbag from a market stall. This comes hot on the heels of SWIFT’s announcement that they’re launching 24/7 cross-border payments with over 25 banks, using blockchain technology. Of course, they’re acting like they’ve invented the wheel, when really they’ve just found a fancier cart to hitch it to.
Meanwhile, the futures open interest took a dive, plummeting 3.5% to $108 billion, as funding rates turned negative-because who doesn’t love a little negativity in their lives? Traders, ever the opportunists, increased their short positions, perhaps thinking they were at an all-you-can-eat buffet of despair.
So, Peter St. Onge-Heritage Foundation guy, big brain-drops this bombshell on X: “Congress is trying to sneak a CBDC into their must-pass housing bill.” And what’s a CBDC? Oh, just a government-controlled crypto-token that’s supposed to replace the US dollar. No biggie. Only 80% of voters are against it. But hey, who’s counting?
Looking at the one-hour chart over the last eight days, Ethereum (ETH) started at $2,280 on March 19th. It fell to $2,040 on March 22nd, then bounced back to $2,200 on March 23rd with a significant surge in trading volume. However, this recovery didn’t last, and the price has been gradually decreasing since March 24th. Today, it dropped below $2,080 with another increase in trading volume.
This speedy reversal is like a Mel Brooks movie-unexpected and hilarious. Usually, these stablecoin folks move slower than a snail on a saltine, but this time, they acted faster than a New York minute. Why? Maybe they realized they’d frozen more than just wallets-they’d frozen their reputation too!