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In a world where blockchain payments have become as essential as tea at a Russian dacha, the OCC has issued Interpretive Letter #1186, dated Nov. 18, 2025. It declares that banks may now squirrel away crypto-assets as principal to pay those pesky network fees-gas fees, if you will, the digital equivalent of oil for a horseless carriage. One wonders if the OCC’s typewriters were greased with cryptocurrency to produce such clarity.

This partnership, announced with great fanfare in a press release dated November 18, comes as Tether continues its relentless march across the financial landscape, leaving no stone unturned in its quest for dominance. Ledn, for its part, has had a banner year, originating over $1 billion in loans, with a staggering $392 million issued in the third quarter alone. Truly, a tale of two worlds colliding-one of stability, the other of ambition. 📈💼

According to the eagle-eyed sleuths at Whale Alert, this little maneuver hasn’t exactly slipped under the radar. The market’s abuzz with speculation, old bean, and not a soul can quite put their finger on what Ripple’s up to. Is it a bullish gambit, or merely a spot of housekeeping? The jury’s still out, what?

Picture this: May to November 2025, Bitcoin’s trading at a cool $92,838. Butterfield, armed with his Wyckoff wand, maps out a distribution so textbook, it’s like Shakespeare wrote it. The summer rally hits a Buying Climax (BC) just north of $123,000-cue the confetti! 🎉 But then, an Automatic Reaction (AR) swoops in, setting support at $112,000. A Secondary Test (ST) tries to revisit the glory days, but that white resistance line at $123,000 says, “Not today, buddy.” 🚧

The integration, which quietly debuted in December 2024 (as if it were a shy debutante at a ball), allows UK and EEA customers to send USDC, USDT, and POL with the speed of a Cossack’s horse and the cost of a single samovar’s worth of tea. The result? Over $690 million in transactions, proving that sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. 🤫💸

Ah, the marvels of the modern world! Grab, the super-app so grand it makes other apps look like mere crumbs, has joined forces with StraitsX, a stablecoin sorcerer from the land of Singapore. Together, they plot to weave a Web3 payments system so slick, it’ll make traditional banking look like a snail on a Sunday stroll. 🐌

The timing and the scale have raised urgent questions about political responsibility, judicial oversight, and the fate of funds tied to one of Argentina’s most contentious crypto investigations. 🧠

Lo, Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick, that most patient of sages, beholds the carnage of Tuesday’s midnight plunge and chuckles, as if witnessing the third act of a divine comedy. “Behold!” he proclaims to his clients, “this sell-off is but a familiar specter, a ghost from the past two years, haunting us with its predictable wails!”