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Milei finally speaks on LIBRA—downplays everything.

Javier Milei finally went on the record about the $LIBRA disaster, and, unsurprisingly, he’s doing everything he can to downplay it. According to him:

• “I didn’t promote it, I shared it”

• “I did it because I’m a die-hard technoptimist.”

• “Did the State lose money? No.

• “Did Argentinians lose money? Maybe four or five at most.”

• “The vast majority of investors are Chinese and American.”

• “It’s false that 44,000 people were affected—at most, it’s 5,000.”

• “I made no mistakes because I acted in good faith.”

But then he also admitted that he needs to “raise his filters” and “not make himself so accessible.” Meanwhile, there are tons of other headlines, it was half of my newsfeed this morning:

• Jupiter and Meteora deny insider trading in LIBRA launch

• Meteora co-founder Ben Chow resigns amid Libra scandal

• Jupiter says LIBRA launch was ‘an open secret’ among KOLs

• Portnoy buys $170K of wrong LIBRA token, pumps it 3,000%

• Argentina's stock market tanks following LIBRA mess

• Hayden Davis says he’s sitting on $100M

• LIBRA team talked with Nigerian government about a launch

• Judge assigned to probe Milei over alleged crypto scam

The list goes on. I almost had to make a separate "LIBRA NEWS" section today.

Zooming out, I’m just tired of this circus. Memecoins can be fun, but when high-profile figures start treating them like political footballs, it makes crypto look like a degenerate casino instead of the revolutionary tech it actually is.

On days like today, I feel GREAT for never buying a memecoin. Stay focused, fam.

OpenSea is fumbling the bag.

Devin Finzer just announced OpenSea is putting a “pause” on XP rewards for listing and bidding—aka backpedaling hard after massive user backlash.

The issue? Their liquidity incentives are being gamed by wash traders, and people are pissed that OpenSea copy-pasted Blur’s worst mechanics while also nuking creator royalties.

Devin says they’re pausing incentives “for now” but made it clear they aren’t going away. His exact words, "We don’t think liquidity rewards are inherently bad... liquidity is fundamental to any marketplace.” So expect them to return in some form soon.

For now, they’re shifting XP rewards to “shipments,” which focus on buying and holding NFTs instead of farming transactions. While that’s a step in the right direction, OpenSea still seems to be facing massive reputation problem ‚ with users accusing them of simply copy/pasting Blur’s worst mechanics instead of actually innovating.

Will OpenSea have their redemption arc? Or is this just the beginning of the end?

⌐◪-◪ → Google is quietly building the future of wallets.

Kyle Song, a web3 specialist at Google APAC, just confirmed that Google is working on integrating Bitcoin wallets directly with Google accounts.

That means users could one day buy, sell, and hold BTC using their existing Google login—eliminating the need for complex onboarding and lowering the barrier to entry significantly.

Honestly, this feels like a perfect fit for Safe. We’ve already seen Google integrate ENS, making it easier to search Ethereum addresses. Now, if they go deeper into web3 wallets, it could onboard millions of users without them even realizing it. Think about it:

• First, we get login-based wallets, where your Google account manages private keys behind the scenes.

• Then, seamless integrations start popping up across the entire Google ecosystem.

• Eventually, “Log in with Google” is your crypto wallet.

This is the kind of shift that happens gradually—until one day, you wake up and your Gmail doubles as a private key manager.

Imagine a world where Google’s atomic unit of account isn’t a database entry—it’s a blockchain wallet. Bullish.

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