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The ECB’s “preparation phase” began in November 2023, and it has been, as you might expect, a slow march towards… well, something. The formal end of this phase was supposed to be in October 2025, but who are we kidding? Of course, they’ll keep plodding along after that. Rules to build, tests to conduct, privacy concerns to tackle, and perhaps the smallest detail of all: making sure the thing actually works. Nothing is final until the legal framework is in place – or so they say, as if that’s a small matter.

Linea (LINEA), ConsenSys’ zkEVM prodigy, parades under Wall Street’s klieg lights this week. SharpLink, that paragon of corporate largesse, declared it would hurl $200 million of Ether (ETH) into Linea’s maw via ether.fi and EigenCloud-a “strategic deployment” for staking and restaking theatrics tied to “verifiable AI” (read: more blockchain buzzwords 🤖).

The root of this calamity lies in the ill-regulated uniswapV3SwapCallback() function, which, lacking proper oversight, allowed nefarious transferFrom calls to deplete the victim’s wallet. A most grievous oversight, one might say, for even a gentleman of modest means would not so carelessly leave his pocketbook unattended.

The markets, finally recovering from the decision to cut interest rates by a quarter point, are now shifting their focus elsewhere – earnings, geopolitics, and everything in between. Forget the Fed – let’s talk about what really matters now!

Together, these trends point to a growing risk of a short-term pullback that could extend beyond 3% if key support levels give way. 🚨

According to a bit of gossip on X, YZi Labs has led a jolly $11 million seed funding round for VideoTutor, the brainchild of young Kai Zhao, a Silicon Valley whippersnapper. This marks YZi Labs’ maiden voyage into AI software, having spread their wings earlier this year. Top hole!

According to on-chain data (read: blockchain’s version of a grocery list), Buterin’s recent purge involved CAT tokens, which he offloaded just two days after they arrived. The price dipped 0.81%-probably because the market realized even Vitalik isn’t impressed. Meanwhile, his wallet also got hit with 1 billion SPURDO and 6.439 billion TWOGE tokens. If this were a movie, it’d be called The Token Deluge: A Vitalik Tale.

For Chairman Yoshitaka Kitao, it’s not just digits on a screen – it’s akin to a flag unfurled on a distant, monetarily promising planet. In what can only be described as a hyperbolic dash of it’s-time-speak on X (that’s not Twitter, it’s X), he proclaimed this growth spurt as the start of a “new phase,” marking a shift towards the kind of buzzworthy thing where traditional money meets future money.

This “passive” creation, they assure us, will mirror the HYPE token’s performance with the precision of a Soviet-era typewriter. No active managers to bloat fees, no frenetic trading to tax our souls-just a daily ledger of holdings, as if transparency could absolve the sin of speculative madness. Tax efficiency, they whisper, as if the state would ever let you keep your gains. 😂