Now, it appears, one can acquire these digital simulacra of Apple, Nvidia, and the enigmatic QQQ. These tokens, they claim, are backed by actual securities held in the vaults of proper, registered broker-dealers. One can mint and redeem them at any hour of the day, five days of the week – as if human beings require access to financial instruments at 3 AM! They can be shuffled between wallets, exchanged on crypto platforms, and even… *shudders*… integrated into decentralized finance protocols. This great privilege (or folly?) is bestowed upon the qualified investors of Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. But for the Americans? Nothing. A deliberate exclusion, perhaps, to spare them from utter chaos. 🙄