🇫🇷 Ciotti’s Crypto Coup: Bitcoin as France’s New Baguette? 🥖💰

Éric Ciotti presenting his Bitcoin bill

In October 2025, Ciotti unveiled his masterpiece, a bill so bold it could make Molière blush. France, he proclaimed, shall not merely dabble in Bitcoin but embrace it as a strategic national asset. Imagine, if you will, the Louvre’s basement brimming not with forgotten masterpieces, but with 420,000 BTC. A treasure fit for a 21st-century Napoleon! 🎨💎

Hong Kong & Mainland Investors Chase Tokenized Gold: A Digital Dash!

A grand alliance of Aptos Labs and BCG, cloaked in the robes of October 28, 2025, has unveiled a tale of 500 souls in Hong Kong and beyond, who, under the watchful gaze of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Project e-HKD+, now yearn for digital riches. This saga follows a pilot with Hang Seng Bank, where Phase 2 of e-HKD+ promised not gold, but faster withdrawals and less paperwork. How romantic! 📜

LTC $135? ETF & PEPENODE Surge! 🚀💸

LTC’s $135 dream feels as plausible as a drought-ending rain, especially with the ETF’s Nasdaq debut today. The SEC, that fickle gatekeeper, finally gave the green light, and the market, like a farmer after a long drought, rejoiced. 🌾

Wall Street Meets Crypto: Citi and Coinbase Brew Stablecoin Magic 🤑

Coinbase stock chart

According to the press release (which was about as exciting as a tax return, but hey, we’re here for the details), the first phase of this partnership will focus on making fiat pay-ins and pay-outs as smooth as a jazz saxophonist on a Saturday night. 🎷 The goal? To beef up Coinbase’s on/off-ramps-those handy bridges between your boring old dollars and the wild west of digital assets. Payment orchestration? Oh, it’s getting a glow-up too. ✨

UK Crypto Frenzy: KR1’s Bold Move to LSE!

Co-founder Keld Van Schreven, ever the optimist, called the move a “starter gun for this new asset class on the LSE.” If only the starter gun could also double as a fire extinguisher, because I’m sure the LSE is about to catch fire with all this digital gold. 🎯