Alex and Emily back at the Trust Issues desk for a two-hour deep dive on the regulatory and structural plumbing nobody else is breaking down this clearly. Clarity Act update first: the Banking Committee version cleared committee, the Ag Committee version is next, and the two big sticking points (software developer protections + the yield definition) are where the bill gets fought over.

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party just put forward an AI-plus-blockchain finance plan that calls for tokenized deposits, yen stablecoins, 24/7 programmable settlement, and possible wholesale CBDC use — Emily walks through why Japan's ZIRP/NIRP carry-trade history makes this consequential in ways the U.S. isn't tracking. Then the DeFi explainer series: AMMs, liquidity pools, the Uniswap patent suit, concentrated liquidity / DLMM, and the brutal honesty on Solana validator MEV / front-running. Alex gives James from Carrot the only credit anyone in the Drift exploit fallout earned — communicating adequately and accurately while every other affected party went silent. And the breakdown of the XRP influencer pump scheme — pay-to-shill economics, why the 'shake you out' narrative shows up on cue, and how Bitwise's XRP-positions report buries the lede on what they're doing instead.

Closing portfolio reveal: Alex's mostly wrapped BTC + wrapped ETH (because the Ethereum mainnet is still expensive and Bitcoin's a pain to interact with), some Optimism, Solana, and a tiny JTO bag. He's hunting a Jito hoodie. Tomorrow morning Alex co-hosts RUMS 512 with Will + Nil (Strategic Partnerships, Blockworks). Trust Issues is dark next Tuesday — Alex has last-minute Miami travel. Following week he's in NYC for the Ethereum conference — what he hoped Consensus would be.

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