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As the press release unfolded like a dusty scroll from the vaults of Brussels, SWIFT revealed its plan to graft a blockchain-based ledger onto its ancient infrastructure. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT as the kids call it, is the kind of cooperative that probably still uses fax machines. Now it’s partnering with 30+ banks to build a system that makes real-time payments feel less like waiting for a reply from Neptune and more like a text message. Because the future is now, but so is the caffeine. ☕

Tensions between traditional finance and digital asset firms are escalating as policy debates over stablecoin rewards heat up. Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) shared on social media platform X on Sept. 29 that banks are pressing for measures that would prevent customers from earning rewards on stablecoin holdings. The crypto exchange framed the effort as an attempt to secure a bailout for traditional banks while undermining consumer benefits and suppressing competition. 🤯

If you thought international payments were stuck in the financial Stone Age, think again. Swift just dropped news at its Sibos conference in Frankfurt on September 29 that it’s diving headfirst into the blockchain pool. Picture this: a shared digital ledger that keeps the cash flowing 24/7 across borders, like a financial espresso shot, fueled by more than 30 banking giants spanning 16 countries. The goal? To twist Swift’s usual role into something that sounds like fintech magic-real-time tokenized value flying across the globe, wrapped in a snug blanket of compliance, resilience, and interoperability. Sounds fancy, right?

One particularly dashing specimen, Hypurr #21, fetched a princely sum of 9,999 HYPE ($467,000), proving once again that people will pay absurd sums for digital doodads if they’re rare enough. Most of these pixelated treasures were handed out to participants of the November 2024 Genesis Event-though, naturally, the Hyper Foundation and core contributors snagged a few for themselves. Priorities, darling.

Adams, always the smooth talker, blamed the lack of public matching funds and his past legal baggage for derailing his campaign. Apparently, without the cash to back him up, the momentum was *poof*, gone! 🏃‍♂️💨

And guess what? This is all in line with the FATF, the *IRS of the crypto world* (but with more paperwork and fewer refunds). 📜💸 The bill is coming to the Grand National Assembly, which is basically the crypto version of “let’s see if this works.” 🤷‍♀️

Binance, that most cunning of digital pioneers, has conjured a new elixir for the institutional class: a white-label Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform. With this, licensed banks, brokers, and exchanges may now peddle crypto services as effortlessly as one might serve tea at a St. Petersburg salon-though with slightly more volatility and far fewer crumpets. The platform boasts custody, compliance, liquidity, and trading infrastructure, all bundled into a neat package for institutions to deploy with the grace of a well-rehearsed ballet. 🎭

Poland’s lower house, the Sejm, has officially given the thumbs-up to the Crypto Asset Market Act-yes, you read that right, Poland’s crypto world is about to get a serious makeover. Approved last Friday, this bill now heads to the Senate for some fine-tuning. If the Senate approves it (fingers crossed), it could totally change how crypto asset service providers (CASPs) do business in Poland. We’re talking about licensing, penalties, and a whole lot of financial supervision from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF). 🌐💸

Our sleepy bitcoin whale finally rolled over at block height 916840, according to btcparser.com. After a solid 11 years, 10 months, and 9 days of “Do Not Disturb” mode, it casually shifted 400.07908897 BTC. Back in the day, on November 20, 2013, those coins were worth about $236,000-basically pocket money for the ambitious hodler. Fast forward, and that stash is now a jaw-dropping $45.6 million, boasting a mind-blowing 19,221.19% gain. Yeah, if only my money grew like that while I slept! 🙄