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Just now, the DeFi lending protocols preside over the land, their treasure chests brimming with $53.6 billion. That’s 43% of the $124.6 billion secured within all DeFi. Picture the pile: gold coins spilling out of imaginary smart contract vaults, and not a dragon in sight. This sum, by some inexplicable twist of fate, even bests liquid staking, which—like my Aunt Vera’s jam—once promised much, but now only clings desperately to the edges of the table.

Once, OpenAI proclaimed itself a nonprofit shepherd, leading humanity gently toward the Promised Land of safe artificial intelligence. Enter Microsoft, with pockets so deep you’d need a Siberian drill to touch bottom—first a modest billion dollars, then another thirteen billion, like tossing logs onto a fire they fear will die in the taiga night.

Cast your mind back a mere handful of days, or as the mathematicians like to say, on May 8—when the ever-enigmatic Pi Core Team (whose X account is guarded by more than 4.3 million followers, all desperate for enlightenment) teased an “ecosystem” announcement scheduled for May 14. At that tender moment, PI was dawdling around $0.6, like an indecisive poet in a Parisian café.

Now, it tried to get through, like a guy at a movie theater yelling “I know the owner!” at the exit. But no, nothing clear. The price range is like a velvet rope at a club, and XRP’s not on the list. Yet. Traders are hovering, watching, waiting—like pigeons near a dropped sandwich. Total suspense.

Elsewhere, Donald Trump dusted off his map of lesser-known lands—twenty, to be precise—and began checking his Rolodex for those countries he deemed sufficiently fashionable for early negotiation. Japan and Korea got invitations; Vietnam, too, that perpetual bridesmaid of global trade.

XRP, once the quiet and humble player in the grand game of cryptocurrency, has suddenly found itself at the pinnacle of success. With a staggering 11.3% share of Upbit’s colossal $3.59 billion daily volume, it has surpassed Bitcoin and Ethereum combined. Yes, you heard that right—combined. Analysts are now whispering among themselves, speculating that this could mark the beginning of a grand liquidity takeover by XRP. Who would’ve thought?