What interests us about crypto has never just been whether the price goes up. Look at what’s happening around the world right now. 🌎 People are dealing with unstable economies, expensive cross-border payments, broken supply chains, limited access to banking and trade systems that often leave entire communities on the outside. Blockchain won’t magically solve all of that, but it can give us better tools to work with. If we can make it easier for someone to get paid across borders, sell what they produce to a global market, prove where a product came from or participate in an economy they were previously locked out of, that matters a lot more to us than what Bitcoin does this week. That’s the side of this technology we’re interested in building.

Only ~7% of the world owns crypto. But ownership may end up being the least important measure of blockchain adoption. Billions of people could eventually use systems built on blockchain without ever thinking about the blockchain itself. Payments settle faster. Supply chains become easier to verify. Ownership records become harder to manipulate. Cross-border trade becomes less dependent on layers of intermediaries. That’s where the impact gets much bigger than crypto ownership.

Internet access can be the first step out of poverty. What Elon Musk and Starlink are doing to connect people who have never had reliable access to the internet can open the door to education, information and the global economy. But connection alone isn’t enough. The next step is giving people a real way to earn, trade and build prosperity for their families. This is where blockchain can become incredibly important by creating systems that allow people to participate in the global economy, even where traditional financial infrastructure is limited. When people are no longer consumed by survival, they have the opportunity to build, contribute and care for the world around them. That is how greater access can ultimately lead to greater prosperity, stability and peace.

Inflation is still too high and for millions of people, that isn’t just some abstract economic talking point. 💸 It’s the grocery bill. 💸 The rent. 💸 The mortgage. 💸 The cost of keeping a business open. PEOPLE FEEL THIS EVERY SINGLE DAY. We need an economy that gives people more room to breathe, more opportunity to build, and better systems that don’t leave everyday people carrying the weight when things go wrong. At Peace Through Trade, that’s a big part of what drives us. The economy should work for people, not the other way around.

The CLARITY Act did NOT advance today. It’s disappointing to see, but this was not a final vote on the bill itself. It was a procedural vote, and there are still disagreements in Washington around ethics provisions, enforcement, stablecoins, and banking that lawmakers have not resolved. For Peace Through Trade, today doesn’t change the road we’re on. We’ve never built our future around the outcome of one vote or one country’s timeline. From the beginning, we’ve focused on doing this carefully, building with Singapore regulatory standards in mind, and putting compliance far ahead of shortcuts. We still believe clearer rules for digital assets are coming. The path may take longer than people hoped, but the direction of the industry hasn’t changed. So neither has ours. We keep building, we keep doing the work and we keep preparing for what comes next.

This is bigger than one bill. 👇 The U.S. has spent YEARS asking innovators to build in an environment where the rules were never fully clear. Today is a chance to change that. If America wants to lead in the next era of finance, it needs regulation that protects people without pushing innovation somewhere else.

This could be a big one. 👇 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. plans to sanction a major bank next week. Worth watching closely because moves like this can ripple through global finance, markets, and cross-border capital fast.

Apple's first foldable just launched and it's more than a new shape, it's a bet. New CEO, new category, biggest hardware swing in years. If it pulls even a fraction of lapsed users back into the ecosystem, that's the upgrade doing its job. But the real takeaway isn't the fold mechanism, it's the pattern: you ship, you take the feedback good or brutal and you build the next version anyway. Growth doesn't rewards showing up again. That's true for Apple. It's true for anyone building something right now.

$3.2 BILLION flowed into crypto funds in one week. Then U.S. spot crypto ETFs pulled in another $2B+ the following week. This isn’t one big Bitcoin trade anymore. Capital is spreading across the crypto ecosystem, through regulated products, at a scale that would have sounded impossible a few years ago. INSTITUTIONAL ADOPTION IS HAPPENING. 😎

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