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• Kevin Hassett, a leading candidate for Fed chair, stated that President Trump's opinions would not influence interest rate decisions if he were appointed.
• Hassett is perceived as dovish and likely to support Trump's calls for significant interest rate cuts to boost economic growth.
• As of now, Hassett has a 52% chance of being nominated as Fed chair, according to Polymarket odds, surpassing Kevin Warsh's 40%.

• Crypto’s biggest adoption barrier is complexity — wallets, seed phrases, networks, and gas mechanics make the average web3 app unusable for mainstream users.
• Education and decentralization rhetoric won’t fix this; blockchain must become invisible through full abstraction, turning messy technical steps into simple, intuitive experiences.
• The next billion users arrive only when crypto apps work like normal apps — single-click actions, seamless wallets, hidden smart contracts, and no jargon — where the blockchain is under the hood, not in the user’s face.

Hackers working for the North Korean government have stolen more than $2 billion in crypto so far this year, according to blockchain analysis firm Elliptic.

On Tuesday, Elliptic published a blog post with this new estimate, which the company says is the largest annual total on record, with three months still to go, and is based on more than 30 hacks this year.

Decentraland World, a leading decentralized metaverse platform, has partnered with Lamar Advertising Company, one of North America’s largest outdoor advertising giants, to integrate Rubi 3.0 bonds and Mana-based contracts for all future virtual advertising transactions.

Under this agreement:

All advertisements within Decentraland’s virtual ecosystem will be processed using Rubi 3.0.

Transactions will be secured via blockchain-based smart contracts.

Payments will be instant, transparent, and fraud-resistant.

This collaboration marks one of the first major integrations of decentralized finance (DeFi) into mainstream advertising infrastructure, bridging virtual worlds with real-world visibility.