How I view it

How I view it

The way I see it


‎Circle Climbs as Wynn Crashes

6 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

‎Circle has officially priced its IPO at $31 per share, raising $1.1 billion and valuing the stablecoin issuer at $6.9 billion - $8.1 billion on a fully diluted basis. The offering, initially pitched between $24 – $26, saw overwhelming demand that pu...

Changing of Guards, Shifting of Gears

3 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Cecilia Hsueh is stepping down as CEO of Morph, handing the reins to Colin Goltra, former COO of YGG and ex-Binance. The move follows the earlier departure of co-founder Azeem Khan, marking a leadership reset for the Layer 2 project.   Founded in 202...

Code Leaks, Power Deals, and Bot Wars: Crypto’s New Season Begins

1 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Telegram might just become Grok’s next playground. Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly in talks with the platform to deploy its chatbot across Telegram’s ecosystem. The proposed one-year deal would see Telegram pocket $300M in cash and equity, plus half th...

Crypto Staking, Blocked Access, and the Ongoing Tug-of-War

30 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

The SEC’s latest guidance just split the room. On one side, relief: common staking activities - like self-staking and delegating to node operatorswon’t trigger securities regulation, at least for now. On the other, dissent: Commissioner Caroline Cren...

Bitcoin, the Crown, and the Crowd That Still Doesn’t Get It

27 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Bitcoin sits above $110,000. Again. This time, not with a bang but with a breath. A brief tariff panic over Trump’s EU import threats shook the charts, but Sunday’s walk-back soothed the market like a delayed slap. Saylor’s Strategy added another $76...

The Dinner That Could Cost a Presidency

25 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

As the GENIUS Act trudges its way through the Senate floor, what should have been a landmark moment for stablecoin regulation is now drenched in scandal. At the center of it all: a dinner. But not just any dinner - President Donald Trump’s private ba...

The Stablecoin Race: XSGD, GENIUS Act & the Infrastructure Power Play

20 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Stablecoins are finally stepping into their big-league moment.   StraitsX, a Singapore-based crypto infrastructure provider, has deployed its regulated Singapore dollar-pegged stablecoin, XSGD, on the XRP Ledger. Fully backed by reserves held with DB...

Bitcoin’s Flex: Rising Fees, Falling Calm

19 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Bitcoin’s latest dance with volatility has been anything but boring.   In a single day, BTC made a run at $106K - matching its May 12 high - only to retrace just as fast. Whipsawing between $103K and $106.5K, the market’s indecision left over $670 mi...

$4.8M to Dine with Trump - Memecoin Mania Hits Peak Absurdity

16 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

That’s the average stash held by the top 25 wallets that qualified as “VIPs” for a meme coin-fueled dinner event at Trump National Golf Club. The leaderboard, tallied using a time-weighted average of token balances from April 23 to May 12, crowned wh...

Crypto Just Crashed the American Mainstream

12 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Roughcore/Purein10th

Bitcoin hits the drive-thru next week. Steak ‘n Shake will accept it nationwide starting May 16 - no pilot, no test-run, just over 100 million customers suddenly offered the option to pay for milkshakes with sound money. It's a bold move in a fast fo...