A week where geopolitics felt like it was written by a delirious screenwriter: Trump and Maduro sending signals, Cuba watching from the window, and Polymarket turning everything into soap-opera probabilities. I break down who’s playing, who’s bluffing, and why these scenes — which look like memes — move millions.

While Harvard positions itself in Bitcoin, banks test tokenized money, regulators sharpen their global oversight, and Ethereum renegotiates its relationship with privacy, the real transformation of the financial system advances quietly. This post traces the signals that aren’t making headlines — but are already shaping what comes next.