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Spread Soars Beyond Historical Records, Signaling Imminent French Bond Market Collapse

The French debt crisis is escalating, raising increasing concerns about the nation's sovereign debt. On Monday, it was reported that Shinji Kunibe, a bond portfolio manager at Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management, decided to fully sell his holdings of French debt securities. Kunibe explained his decision by noting that while French bonds had offered…

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ESG, green taxonomy, carbon: measurement becomes the market Facts and structure

The European ESG taxonomy (CSRD + Green Taxonomy) is transforming investment flows into constrained flows: a poorly scored asset loses its place in the investable universe. On the carbon front: the voluntary market currently stands at ~$2 billion, with a trajectory toward ~$100 billion by 2030 (market consensus cited on your homepage); commodity tokenization is…

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ISO 20022, stablecoins and the GENIUS Act: the global monetary plumbing undergoes a major overhaul

On January 14, 2027, at a precise time, the SWIFT network will begin rejecting any cross-border payment whose postal address is not structured according to the ISO 20022 standard. By that date, according to market data, 65% of global payment messages remained non-compliant, and 44% of banks were behind schedule. Rarely has a technical deadline…

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Why a $108.9M long ETH 10× on Hyperliquid? Reconstruction, microstructure, revealed intention

The position is a long ETH-USD perpetual swap: 41,230 ETH at 10x cross leverage, entry price $2,693.92, mark $2,641.50, break-even $2,698.88. Notional is $108.91 million, with unrealized PnL of -$2.16 million and cumulative funding of -$137,658. Liquidation price is $2,514.72, implying 4.80% from mark and 6.65% from entry. Implicit equity is $8.81 million (the $7.35…

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Beyond the Controversy: How Schmidt’s 2024 Forecasts on AI Agents and NVIDIA Are Playing Out in 2026

Eric Schmidt’s August 2024 appearance at Stanford was an informal classroom conversation with economist Erik Brynjolfsson in the course “The Age of AI” (ECON295/CS323). Stanford posted the video, it circulated quickly, then was set to private after Schmidt asked for its removal. The episode became famous less for its technical content than for two unfiltered…

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From speculative token to yield instrument: the income paradigm in tokenized assets (2026–2035)

For a decade, the value of a digital asset depended on the promise of a higher resale price. The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) reverses this logic: value is now read in cash flows, rents, coupons, interest—generated by the underlying asset and distributed automatically. Analysis of a paradigm shift that brings crypto closer to private…

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Stablecoins & CBDC: the programmable currency war enters its terminal phase

Thesis. 2026 marks the global doctrinal shift. Private-regulated dollar (GENIUS Act), public-regulated euro (ECB), public-interest-bearing yuan (PBOC). Stablecoins become a treasury instrument; CBDCs become a sovereignty instrument. Key Data. Stablecoin market: ~$290–321B (USDT ~$184–190B; USDC ~$73B). MiCA: fully applicable since 30/12/2024, transition period ends 01/07/2026; approximately twenty licensed EMTs (USDC, USDG, EURC, EURCV, EURI,…

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