🎭 Plasma Hires Big Shots After $373M Raise: Will They Deliver or Just Drama? 🎭

Behold the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), where we learn that Murat Firat shall don the noble mantle of Head of Product. A former CTO at BiLira and TRYB, he now leads their product scope with all the gravitas of a man who knows his way around Turkish lira stablecoins. Joining him is Adam Jacobs, erstwhile global head of payments at FTX, who brings his expertise from Nuvei to steer the ship of global payments. And lo, Usmann Khan, a veritable titan of security research on ImmuneFi, takes up arms against vulnerabilities as Head of Protocol Security.

DeFi Drama: Ethena Throws Hat in Hyperliquid’s USDH Bidding Ring 🎩💸

The brains behind USDe and USDtb have concocted a version of USDH backed entirely by USDtb-a stablecoin cozying up to BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and soon to be birthed through Anchorage Digital Bank. If chosen, Ethena has vowed-on its honor as a blockchain entity-to return 95% of reserve revenue to the Hyperliquid community. And because no DeFi story is complete without a touch of governance theater, they’ve proposed a “guardian network” of elected validators to keep everyone honest. Or at least pretending to be. 🦹‍♂️

The Altcoin Riddle: Are We Witnessing the Dawn of a New Alt Season? 🤔💰

Lo and behold! An analysis by the sage known as CrypFlow reveals a thunderous truth: the total market capitalization of altcoins, that elusive creature which spurns Bitcoin, has just achieved a zenith-its highest monthly close in the annals of history! Could this herald the long-anticipated arrival of an alt season, or merely an illusion, a mirage shimmering on the horizon?