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Apparently, 2,649 new accounts decided to slide into XRP’s DMs in a single day. And no, they’re not just here for the free crypto merch. The network’s payment counts are hitting over a million transactions daily-because who doesn’t love a little financial drama? Speculative spikes? Nah, this is the real deal, honey.

The list reads like a roll call of the forgotten: PRAI (Privasea AI), COMMON (Common), PINGPONG (PINGPONG), TAKER (Taker Protocol), JANITOR (Janitor), GATA (Gata), KLINK (Klink Finance), CORL (Coral Finance), SWTCH (Switchboard), ARIAIP (Aria Protocol), LONG (Belong), ZKWASM (ZKWASM), GORILLA (Gorilla), ECHO (Echo Protocol), LITKEY (Lit Protocol), FIR (Fireverse), GM (GOMBLE), DELABS (Delabs Games), DONKEY (Donkey), and WHY (Why). Yes, even WHY-though we’re all asking the same question.

The larger-cap alts, those fickle companions, are bathed in red today. SOL, ever the dramatic one, slid by more than 4%, while UNI, with a flourish of despair, dumped by 5%. And poor ICP-what can one say?-plunged by 9%, as if it had stumbled into a Chekhovian abyss of despair.

The revised plan now lets companies invest up to 60% of their reserves in short-term UK government bonds, with the remaining 40% held as cash at the central bank. This, alongside existing temporary support and a financial safety net, suggests regulators have given in to pressure.

The total crypto market capitalization, once a towering giant, shrank by 1.6% in a mere 24 hours, landing at a modest $2.58 trillion. Bitcoin, poor soul, slipped below the $80,000 mark, its psychological fortress breached, falling from $82,300 to a pitiful $79,600 before clawing back to $79,800-a recovery as convincing as a politician’s promise.

In 2019, Bhutan, with the quiet determination of a Turgenev protagonist, began mining Bitcoin, harnessing the surplus electricity from its glacier-fed rivers. The state-owned Druk Holding and Investments, a name that rolls off the tongue like a forgotten noble family, oversaw the operation. By late 2024, their reserves had swelled to nearly 13,000 BTC-a hoard that would make even the most avaricious of characters in Fathers and Sons pause in admiration.

It is, indeed, a most curious turn of events, and one cannot help but wonder if Mr. Warsh’s tenure shall be as dramatic as the novels of our time, replete with twists, turns, and the occasional scandal. Only time, that most relentless of narrators, shall tell.