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TSMC earnings just hit an all time high.
Profit surged 77% to a record $22 billion.
Here's why, guys.
TSMC builds over 90% of the world's most advanced AI chips.
Nvidia, Apple and Broadcom all design them.
TSMC is the one that actually makes them.
When the entire AI industry depends on your factories, you don't compete on price.
You set it.

JCB just signed a deal with Circle, right?
Japan's largest payments network is now exploring USDC for cross-border settlement and merchant payments.
This is the pattern, guys. Adoption isn't retail buying the top anymore. It's payment rails quietly building stablecoin settlement into infrastructure that already touches millions of merchants.
Same month, South Korea moved to classify digital assets as national assets. Same month, the EU finished licensing 244 firms under MiCA.
Adoption used to mean more wallets. Now it means more plumbing.
What does real adoption look like to you?

President Trump to meet senators over the CLARITY Act.
The House already passed it with bipartisan support. The Senate still hasn't held a floor vote.
The debate isn't really about stablecoin yield anymore. It's about an ethics provision that could limit Trump's own crypto business ties, and that's become the key hurdle for Democratic support.
Bitwise says passing CLARITY could mark a major turning point for this cycle.
Congress has just weeks before the August recess.
So the question is simple.
Do we finally get crypto market structure this month, or does this deadline slip like all the other

Bitcoin pushed above $64K yesterday on softer inflation data.
Then Fed Chair Kevin Warsh made something clear.
The Fed isn't here to bail out crypto. His focus is still inflation.
Two signals. Same day.
Markets are pricing in rate cuts.
The Fed is reminding everyone Bitcoin is on its own.
That's the point.
Bitcoin was never built around a central bank safety net. It was built for a world that needs an alternative.
What happens when rate cuts finally arrive?

Bitcoin-backed lending is taking another step forward.
sui:native says fully decentralized credit with institutional-grade insurance is coming via Hashi.
If it works as intended, BTC holders could unlock liquidity without selling.

IBM just had its worst single day drop in over 25 years.
Down 20% in premarket. From $290 to $230.
The reason? Q2 revenue came in at $17.2 billion. Analysts expected $17.86 billion.
CEO Arvind Krishna blamed clients who shifted their spending toward servers and memory chips instead of IBM's software.
A 113-year-old company just got punished because its clients chose hardware over software.
The AI infrastructure race is so intense that even IBM's own customers stopped buying IBM to buy the picks and shovels instead.

Oil is pumping... no pun intended.
What does this mean for us?
New Daily Compass out soon

AI slop has spilled over into businesses.
This weekend I saw a report on the surge of AI slop startups.
People are calling themselves web developers, vibe coders, logistics specialists. Few of them deliver anything people are actually satisfied with.
AI didn't create the incompetence. It just removed the friction that used to weed it out.
That reminds me of a Veritasium video.
He asked questions that weren't impossible. You just had to think for a second. Most people said "I don't know" instead.
Same thing here.
Checking your own work, actually verifying it's good, takes effort. Most people

SUI absorbed a 33 million token unlock in 48 hours, guys.
Price hardly affected.
Network TVL sits at $440 million, daily active addresses averaging 61,000. That's real usage, not speculation.
Unlock to TVL ratio was only 4.2%. Comparable chains like Aptos and Solana absorbed similar hits within 72 hours.
Just noise, right?

The home price to income ratio just hit 5.08, guys. Healthy used to be 2.6.
Median home payment is $3,100 a month now, up from $1,700 in 2020.
Wages didn't come close to keeping pace.
None of the 50 largest US metros meet the affordability threshold. Not one.
So where does an entire generation put its capital instead, if the traditional path to owning property is closed?

🚨 China's money printing is pushing gold higher.
PBOC liquidity and gold have tracked almost one for one as Chinese investors rushed into gold as an inflation hedge.
Making the Shanghai Gold Exchange a key driver of global prices.
The bigger story?
If China alone can move gold this much, imagine what happens when the US and Europe are forced to debase their currencies to deal with mounting debt.

400 employees, guys.
That's how many former Apple staff Apple says OpenAI poached, and now Apple's suing them for trade secret theft in federal court.
Not a few engineers chasing a bigger paycheck. An entire division's worth of institutional knowledge walked out the door.
And it's landing right as OpenAI preps a $730 billion IPO filing.
Anthropic just overtook them on revenue too, $47 billion annualized versus OpenAI's projected $25 to $33 billion for the year.
Is this the start of the AI talent wars going to court?

Net equity supply just turned positive for the first time since the pandemic, guys.
It's the highest print since 2021. Companies are issuing more stock than they're buying back.
Buybacks have been the quiet bid under this market for over a decade.
When that bid flips into supply, who's left to absorb it?

Hospital services are up 304% relative to wages since 1977.
Tuition is up 190%. Tobacco 393%.
Meanwhile, toys are down 93%, audio equipment 95%, and software 89%.
Ignoring tobacco, the things that keep you alive keep getting more expensive.
But the things that keep you distracted keep getting cheaper.
That's not just inflation. That's where purchasing power has been disappearing.

The crypto Clarity Act is stuck in the exact spot everyone predicted, guys.
Congress heads into summer break with lawmakers still saying the bill "can happen" before the midterms.
But saying it can happen and it actually happening are two very different things, right?
Time's the real enemy here, not opposition.

Bitcoin fell 1.7% before 9am.
Guys, second straight day of US-Iran airstrikes, Hormuz traffic halted, traders dumped risk on reflex. Classic whipsaw, right?
Meanwhile Bloomberg reports the Trump Bitcoin Reserve is stuck in internal gridlock, departments fighting over who controls it.
A sovereign entity can't execute its own allocation.
So what's actually driving price, the geopolitics or the bureaucracy nobody's talking about?