Crypto rewards those who are early. This entire sector has gone up 100x or more since this article was first published. Rather than chasing moves and tracking wallets, the bigger edge comes from deeply understanding emerging technology before it reaches the mainstream. There are no shortcuts.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase all backing a stablecoin that shares yield with partners instead of keeping it. That's a direct challenge to the model that made Circle profitable. Not a marginal one. The stock reaction makes sense. Nearly all of Circle's revenue comes from yield on reserves. OUSD routes most of that same yield to the businesses driving adoption instead. The real question would be whether a 140-company consortium can actually execute. History says these things move slowly and fracture under misaligned incentives. But the names behind this one are unusually serious.
Reading letters off a brain signal is hard enough. Reading what someone is actually trying to say is a different category of problem entirely, and it's the one that matters most. For someone who's lost the ability to speak because of a brain injury or condition, this isn't really a technical milestone. It's closer to getting a voice back. This is what the real vision for AI was.
