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 🤩 South Korea elects pro-crypto candidate Lee Jae-myung as president

Bottom line: South Korea’s new president aims to promote cryptocurrency donations, stablecoins, and investments in digital assets.

My take: Another country capitulates to the power of crypto. In 2025, this embrace has driven some of the biggest bullish narratives (“liquidity” has driven the others). It will have an even greater impact when the next bear market reaches its depths, as legacy buyers with deep pockets will have easier access to the market from many countries, not just the US.

Why you should care: Remember this when the market goes down for months and you feel like everybody’s abandoned crypto. There will be another chance to get in “on the ground floor.”

😳 Stripe Acquires Crypto Wallet Startup Privy to Expand Blockchain Infrastructure Push

Until proven otherwise, crypto’s killer app is stablecoins.

What about wallets? They’re still hard to use.

Stripe may change that with its acquisition of Privy.

OGs may laugh because historically, Stripe’s attempts to get into crypto signalled the top was near or already in (look it up).

Methinks there’s a bigger game afoot: Stripe is quietly building a competitor to Web3.

First, stablecoins and a wallet. Next, AI-run payment services and basic swap and DeFi apps.

Once it has those parts assembled, the company can leverage whatever anybody builds in crypto and deliver it to its customers in a nicely wrapped, integrated package. Users can continue to use a fully self-custody wallet to get the benefits of Stripe’s offerings. Stripe is free of expensive privacy and data management risks.

If Stripe nails this, it sets a precedent for how fintechs can integrate crypto. Control the user experience = control the outcome?

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