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GM. It's easy to get lost in a fruit salad of crypto opinions, but we're here to separate the bananas from the lemons.

Here's today's carefully-chopped lineup:

🍍 Traders watch the FOMC meeting;

🔒 Ethereum's finality hiccup;

🍋 CryptoUK & Digital Chamber align crypto rules, US banks can facilitate crypto trades + more

🍍 Market flavor today

🥝 Memecoin harvest

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🔒 Ethereum's finality hiccup

Most of the time, when you're locking your front door, it clicks instantly. You walk away. Life is good.

But once in a while, the lock jams. You jiggle it. You sigh. You question your life choices.

That's pretty much what just happened on Ethereum.

There was a bug in the Prysm client, one of the main software clients used by Ethereum validators (aka the computers that help run the network).

Because of that bug, Ethereum briefly lost something called finality.

Translation: the network couldn't officially guarantee that new transactions were 100% permanently locked in.

Vitalik Buterin confirmed it publicly.

Cue the panic 👀

But here's the key detail everyone needs to breathe through:

No funds were lost. No bad blocks were cemented. No chain rollback chaos.

It was just... a pause. Like the lock being stubborn for a minute while the network rerouted and fixed the jam. 🛠️

And here's the part that actually matters:

Ethereum is built so no one - not Vitalik, not the devs, not a hoodie-wearing mastermind - can just fix things instantly. That's decentralization. It's slower. It's messier. But it's why the system survives real stress instead of pretending it doesn't.

And "lost finality" sounds terrifying… until you remember this: Bitcoin doesn't even have true finality at all. As Fabrizio Genovese pointed out, it just gets safer over time.

So zoom out. Ethereum lost its "perfect confirmation" signal for a bit... and still kept running.

That's not a failure. That's the design doing its job.

🍋 News drops you can't miss

🤝 CryptoUK's joining up with the Digital Chamber in the US so the two can get their crypto rules on the same page. They've both spent years helping shape the rules for crypto on their own turf.

🏦 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave national banks the approval to set up crypto trades between clients without touching any coins themselves. Banks can act as matchmakers for your crypto trades, but never actually hold the crypto.

🕵️‍♂️ Circle launched USDCx, a version of their stablecoin that keeps details private. It means financial institutions can move big sums on public blockchains without everyone seeing what they're up to.

🧑‍💻 Tempo - the blockchain from Stripe and Paradigm - went public with its testnet and made the code open source. Anyone can jump in, run a node, and check out its tools and stablecoin features.

🍌 Juicy memes