Investment Policy

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Pinto’s worried that once the next administration rolls around, they’ll come back with a whole new set of “reputation risk” shenanigans. “Reputation risk is only as neutral as the administration wieldin’ it,” he warns, which is just a fancy way of sayin’ the Fed’s as fickle as a weather vane in a hurricane. “We need a stable standard,” he says, “not a game of musical chairs where the music stops at the worst possible time.”

Compound DAO, ever the gracious host, has proposed a modest donation of 1,900-3,000 ETH to DeFi United’s liquidity salvation project. At $2,300 per ETH, that’s roughly the price of a yacht… or a lifetime supply of existential dread for rsETH. The gesture arrives as protocols scramble to contain the fallout from a recent event that left DeFi’s liquidity pool looking more like a puddle.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), that paragon of fiscal diplomacy, has updated its sanctions designation of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), adding new cryptocurrency wallet addresses to its list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN). A list so exclusive, it’s rumored to require a passport and a PhD in bureaucracy to join.

Recently, the university disclosed a data breach that would make even the most hardened hacker raise an eyebrow. They’ve informed the state governments that a treasure trove of sensitive information is now floating around out there in the wild. We’re talking names, birth dates, addresses, Social Security numbers-you know, all the things you usually keep locked away under the last place anyone would think to look, like your sock drawer or your mother’s maiden name.

Word has it that a major announcement could grace our ears in the coming weeks, a melodious tune accompanied by the clinking of coins and the rustling of legal documents. How thrilling! The anticipation is palpable, as if we are awaiting the next installment of a particularly riveting soap opera where plots twist and characters change allegiance faster than a political campaign slogan. Final details, naturally, will rest upon the sacred altar of official documents and approvals, which are always as reliable as a politician’s promise.

Israel’s Capital Market Insurance and Savings Authority, that grand old sage of finance, has blessed this endeavor. They’ve deemed it “complementary” to an upcoming Stablecoin Law, a document so comprehensive it will probably require a PhD to understand. Meanwhile, the shekel itself has been enjoying a 30-year high against the dollar, as if it were sipping coffee in Tel Aviv and smirking at the U.S. market.

The onchain pricing aligns with Forge Global, a private marketplace exchange, which also places the valuation at that level. Because nothing says “serious business” like a gas giant’s stock market.

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