📈Ithaca Protocol Market Update

► ETH short sellers face a squeeze; delayed realization of Pectra's success and persistent FUD

► Meta exploring stablecoins

► Superstate acting as a tokenized equities transfer agent; Robinhood also involved

► Coinbase/Deribit deal boosts options, market makers, and legitimacy

► SEC and Ripple reach settlement agreement

► SEC’s Pierce discusses stocks on-chain

► US/UK deal and Trump’s support helped stocks and rates volatility continue declining despite a weak 30-year auction

► And a Pope born in Chicago