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Through a fundraising round led by YZi Labs and Sora Ventures, Saturn is challenging regulators with USDat, offering a payout structure that US banks are fighting to make illegal.
Liam 'Akiba' Wright 5 min read 
Incumbents are lobbying to define crypto rewards as illegal interest because they can't afford to compete with yields that track the real government rate.
They earn $176B on Fed reserves and $187B in swipe fees, and now they’re lobbying to shut the rewards door.
Earn yield in Bitcoin on both your USD and BTC balances with Xapo Bank’s wealth offering, which turns traditional banking and short term credit strategies into potential daily sats paid straight into your account.
WLFI’s move to become a "narrow bank" reveals the hidden mechanism that will soon gatekeep crypto wealth.
Kobeissi argues the "repo spike" was just noise; the real signal is a boring policy tweak that guarantees the money printer is back on for 2026.
Wall Street’s sudden demand for cash looks suspiciously like 2019, but the data tells a deeper story.
Year-end stress tested the central bank's "ample" reserve theory, creating a binary scenario for risk assets in January.
That viral US Bank collapse rumor obscures a real silver trigger that is actively wiping out leveraged traders.
