Huma Finance announced the completion of a $38 million financing round, which includes $10 million in equity investment and $28 million in real-world assets (RWA) investment. The round was led by Distributed Global, with participation from Hashkey Capital, Folius Ventures, and others. Huma will use these funds to expand its blockchain-based PayFi platform and plans to extend to the Solana and Stellar Soroban smart contract networks in the coming months. —link

U.S. CPI: +2.5% YEAR-OVER-YEAR (EST. +2.5%)
U.S. CORE CPI: +3.2% YEAR-OVER-YEAR (EST. +3.2%)

via News_Of_Alpha

cancerous pa on btc

not safe as of yet, i feel like we'll see one more down move this month before up, but this should be pretty much bottom or somewhere close

the chop continues and i hope to be wrong

brief piece on web3 payments

https://medium.com/@dpycm/payfi-and-the-future-of-payments-7ed31b237504

Ethereum L1 protocol revenue from Layer 2s is almost zero since the Dencun upgrade — link

add sui as well into the watchlist

hearing that the ecosystem is gonna have some new developments

+ increasing tvl flows
+ tech has always been great
+ grayscale trust

- needs more things to do other than defi, mostly money market stuff which is pretty passive
- wealth effect non existent, need to attract eyes/degens

will be one of the stronger alts in the continuation

#reads stablecoins

https://fxtwitter.com/nic__carter/status/1834224298447294523

report: https://castleisland.vc/writing/stablecoins-the-emerging-market-story/

> stablecoin usage has meaningfully decoupled from crypto cycles

would be very beneficial to the payments sector as demand for stables increase apart from trading collateral

https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1834229179845415327

looking to add a small bag of the top 3 protocols on sui

sca, navx, cetus

reading more first, but all three have decent charts

just a small beta punt on sui eco

#reads sui

https://www.ournetwork.xyz/p/on-265-sui-mega-issue

added some scallop on this

https://x.com/resdegen/status/1834235185379840094?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

bridged more liq to sui as standby

will park in some money markets and wait

i think if it heats up it'll heat up fast

giving me nov '23 sol vibes

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