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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jordan Brewer writes on the missing piece in token markets: institutional-grade investor relations. Then, Martin Burgherr breaks down how crypto markets are maturing, becoming more efficient and lower risk for institutions.
In early March, just three months after a Solana Breakpoint mainstage appearance by Ranger Finance co-founder Fathur Rahman, and two months post-ICO, tokenholders forced the liquidation of the protocol’s treasury. How does a 14x oversubscribed ICO unravel so quickly? The answer: poor investor relations.
Institutional-grade investor relations remains the missing piece in token markets. Crypto has spent years in a venture-style framework, but protocols now seek public market investors to provide more durable capital. A key part of investor relations is a regular investor call where management walks through forward guidance — teams at Maple Finance and EtherFi are leading here. These calls are solid, but this is just the start, and the stakes are high. Done well, token valuations are rewarded; done poorly, the downside is steep.
Research shows the value of forward guidance isn't just in providing it, it's in its accuracy. Bartov, Givoly, and Hayn (2002) found that firms that consistently meet or beat their own guidance enjoy a measurable stock price premium over firms that don’t. This premium compounds for "habitual beaters," meaning the market increasingly trusts and rewards management teams that repeatedly deliver. Additionally, beating guidance is a leading indicator of future stock performance, regardless of whether the beat was genuine or a result of earnings or expectations management. Skinner and Sloan (2002) also demonstrated the inverse: growth stocks that disappoint on earnings expectations experience an asymmetrically large negative price response, far exceeding the upside reward of a positive surprise. Guidance accuracy is a proxy for management credibility, and credibility is a direct input to valuation multiples.
Crypto is beginning to produce its own version of this dynamic. In December 2024, when Maple’s AUM was $460 million and their ARR was $4 million, Maple set guidance of $4 billion in AUM and $25 million in ARR for 2025 and later raised guidance to $5 billion in AUM and $30 million in ARR. Maple delivered, hitting $5 billion in AUM and $28 million in 30 day annualized revenue in October (see table below). That's a guide-and-deliver cadence that any public market investor would recognize and reward. From December 2024 to June 2025, the SYRUP token price rose from $0.10 to a high of $0.60, outperforming competitors like AAVE by 475%.
EtherFi is a good example of this dynamic. On their March 2026 tokenholder call, the team projected a 55% reduction in customer acquisition cost while raising their advertising budget 420% throughout 2026, which would imply 11x year over year customer growth. That's the kind of specific guidance that gives investors something concrete to hold them to.
However, guidance without delivery is just marketing. Investor relations in crypto doesn’t end with a dashboard, that’s where it starts. Guidance and accountability are at the heart of credibility for protocol teams, and it is credibility that builds conviction in public investors.
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BOSTON, April 24 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday expanded the reach of restrictions stopping the Trump administration from forcing universities to turn over sweeping amounts ​of data so it can examine the schools' use of race as ‌an admissions factor.
Boston-based U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor said, opens new tab the department could not require the data to be produced by dozens of universities nationally, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia ​University and other members of the Ivy League.
The U.S. Education Department ​had sought seven years of admissions data on the race ⁠and sex of students to track compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's ​2023 ruling ending affirmative action in higher education.
Six academic groups including the Association ​of American Universities as well as several individual schools had intervened in a lawsuit by 17 states to secure the same type of relief that Saylor had granted to the states' ​public universities in an earlier April 3 ruling.
Saylor cited a failure to consider ​the Education Department's capacity to implement the "massive" data reporting requirement on a rushed timeline as ‌the ⁠Trump administration works to dismantle the agency.
The Education Department and a lawyer for the academic groups did not respond to requests for comment.
The department requested the data through an Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey that it created at ​the direction of ​President Donald Trump.
Trump ⁠had cited universities' "rampant use" of "hidden racial proxies."
The case is Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Education, U.S. District ​Court for the District of Massachusetts, No. 1:26-cv-11229.
For the Department of Education: Brittany Bruns of the U.S. Department of Justice
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April 24 (Reuters) - Pop artist Robert Indiana's former agent has won a $102 million verdict in Manhattan federal court against another ​entity it accused of exploiting Indiana during his final days, forging thousands of his ‌works and selling them for millions of dollars.
A jury found on Thursday that art publisher American Image Art and its founder Michael McKenzie must pay Morgan Art Foundation for interfering with its contracts and violating its rights ​in Indiana's works including his iconic "Love" image, according to a verdict sheet, opens new tab made public on Friday
American ​Image's trial attorney, Nicole Brenecki of Jodre Brenecki, said that McKenzie disagrees with ⁠the verdict and "will carefully evaluate his post-trial options."
This verdict restores trust to the Robert Indiana ​market," Morgan's attorney, Luke Nikas of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said in a statement on Friday. "We ​exposed these forgeries, held Michael McKenzie accountable, and protected the integrity of the artist’s legacy.”
Indiana was best known for his image of the letters L, O, V and E arranged in a square with the O tilted ​diagonally to the right, which he created in 1965 for a Christmas card by the ​Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. The image appeared on a U.S. postage stamp in 1973.
Morgan Art Foundation, ‌which began ⁠working with Indiana in the 1990s, said in a 2018 lawsuit that the then-89-year-old Indiana had become isolated and bedridden since giving Jamie Thomas – whom he had allegedly hired to run errands around his Maine home – power of attorney, enabling American Image Art and McKenzie to profit at the ​artist's expense.
Indiana died the ​day after the ⁠lawsuit was filed.
The lawsuit accused Thomas of conspiring with McKenzie to sell forgeries of Indiana's art to galleries. Morgan's attorney said in a closing ​statement at trial on Wednesday that McKenzie had forged thousands of Indiana's ​works, according ⁠to a transcript.
Thomas could not immediately be reached for comment.
American Image denied the allegations and countersued Morgan in 2022, alleging it falsely claimed to own copyrights in Indiana's work. A Manhattan judge dismissed that ⁠case ​in 2024.
The case is Morgan Art Foundation Ltd v. McKenzie ​d/b/a American Image Art, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 1:18-cv-04438.
For Morgan: Luke Nikas of ​Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
For American Image: Nicole Brenecki of Jodre Brenecki
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April 27 (Reuters) - Afghanistan is at risk of losing more than 25,000 female teachers and health workers by 2030 if the Taliban-led country's ​restrictions on girls' education and women's employment are not lifted, according ‌to a new UNICEF report released on Monday.
The Taliban has banned women from most public sector jobs and limited girls to receiving an education only until the age ​of 12.
These restrictions, according to the report, have already affected at ​least 1 million girls - a figure that is expected to ⁠double by 2030 if nothing changes. UNICEF called on the Taliban to ​lift the ban that it imposed after returning to political power in 2021.
UNICEF's "The ​Cost of Inaction on Girls' Education and Women’s Labour Force Participation in Afghanistan" report found a rapid decline in qualified women entering the teaching and healthcare sectors.
Up to 20,000 ​female teachers and 5,400 health workers could be lost by 2030, ​according to the report, which estimated that this figure is about 25% of Afghanistan's 2021 ‌workforce. ⁠As many as 9,600 health workers could be lost by 2035, it added.
Afghanistan cannot afford to lose future teachers, nurses, doctors, midwives, and social workers, who sustain essential services," UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said. "This will ​be the reality if ​girls continue ⁠to be excluded from education."
Female healthcare workers are required to attend to female patients, and female teachers are preferred ​for girls in gender-disaggregated schools whenever possible, the report ​noted.
The growing ⁠decrease could have at least a AFN 5.3 billion ($84 million) annual economic impact on Afghanistan's economy, according to UNICEF, which added that this is the ⁠equivalent ​of about 0.5% of the country's gross domestic ​product.
Afghanistan's de facto authorities should safeguard skills training and allow women to participate in the ​labor market, UNICEF said.
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STOCKHOLM, April 27 (Reuters) - FIFA should scrap its peace prize ‌to avoid getting drawn into politics, Norwegian Football Association (NFF) President Lise Klaveness said on Monday, suggesting that the awarding of such prizes be left to the Nobel Institute in Oslo.
Led by Gianni Infantino, world ​soccer's governing body came under fire for awarding its inaugural peace prize to U.S. ​President Donald Trump in December at the draw for the 2026 World ⁠Cup.
The FIFA peace award was seen by many as a consolation prize for Trump, ​who has said on numerous occasions that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ​and whose country will co-host this year's World Cup with Canada and Mexico.
We (the NFF) want to see it (the FIFA peace prize) abolished. We don't think it's part of FIFA's mandate to give such a ​prize, we think we have a Nobel Institute that does that job independently already," ​Klaveness told an online press briefing.
We think it's important for football federations, confederations and also FIFA to ‌try ⁠to avoid situations where this arm's-length distance to state leaders is challenged, and these prizes will typically be very political if you don't have real good instruments and experience to make them independent, with juries and criteria et cetera.
That is full-time work, it's so ​sensitive, I think from ​a resource angle, ⁠from a mandate angle, but most importantly from a governance angle I think it should be avoided also in the future," she ​said.
The 45-year-old lawyer said the NFF board would be writing a ​letter saying ⁠it supported calls for an investigation into the awarding of the prize by non-profit organisation FairSquare, which has alleged that Infantino and FIFA may have breached their own ethical guidelines regarding political ⁠impartiality in ​awarding the prize.
There should be checks and balances ​on these issues and this complaint from FairSquare should be treated with a transparent timeline, and that the reasoning ​and the conclusion should be transparent," Klaveness said.
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Also: North Korea’s 6-month plot with Drift, Solana Foundation’s new ad and Alchemy AI.
SOLANA FOUNDATION NEW AD ‘DONT WASTE TIME ON CRYPTO’: The Solana Foundation is taking a deliberately contrarian approach to crypto marketing in San Francisco, rolling out a billboard campaign that reads: “Don’t waste time with crypto.” At first glance, the message may seem a bit confusing as a crypto foundation is saying not to waste time with crypto. But according to the Solana Foundation, it is a bullish bet on the future of crypto that intersects with agentic AI. Essentially, what this means is that rather than wasting your time executing transactions with crypto, which might be cumbersome and time-consuming, let your AI agents do the hard work. The ad directs passersby to the x402 account on X, a nod to a growing push within the Solana ecosystem to position blockchain not as a consumer-facing product, but as invisible infrastructure for the next phase of the internet.
Polymarket removed a betting market tied to the rescue of U.S. service members in Iran, after intense backlash and criticism from lawmakers this weekend. The market allowed users to wager on when the U.S. would confirm the rescue of two airmen after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran. The crew members have since been rescued. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, criticized the listing in a post on X, calling it “disgusting” and arguing it reduced a military rescue effort to a financial trade. Moulton has taken a hard line on prediction markets, recently banning his staff from using platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi over concerns that financial incentives could influence policy decisions. A Polymarket spokesperson said the listing did not meet its integrity standards and the contract was removed shortly after it appeared. The company added that it is reviewing how the market passed internal safeguards.
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. formally proposed its approach to stablecoin issuers as one of the federal financial regulators required to write and oversee rules under last year's Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. The FDIC's proposal —meant to align closely with what its sister banking agency, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, proposed in February — will be open for a 60-day public comment period on the lengthy list of 144 questions posed Tuesday by the agency. The FDIC's job is to police U.S. depository institutions, and under the GENIUS Act, its role is to regulate such institutions issuing stablecoins from their subsidiaries. To that end, it posed capital, liquidity and custody standards for those firms, though the details won't be set in stone until the rule is finalized — not likely to occur until the agency spends further months reviewing input and writing the final language. This is the second GENIUS Act proposal from the banking agency after its December pitch on the issuer application process. As expected under the law, stablecoins won't enjoy the deposit insurance that the banks maintain on traditional banking accounts, according to the proposal.
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Have you ever asked yourself: Am I becoming the person I truly want to be? 🤔

I believe the answer lies not in big life changes, but in the small things we do every single day. And I hope this message inspires you to take control of your habits 🌟.

The truth is, daily habits shape our future more than we realize. Here’s why:

Small Steps Add Up 🪜 – Every day you read a page, save a dollar, or exercise 10 minutes, you’re building long-term results.
Consistency Builds Identity 🧱 – The more you repeat a habit, the more it becomes part of who you are. For example, if you write daily, you don’t just “do writing,” you become a writer.Habits Work in Both Directions ⚖️ – Positive habits push you forward 🚀, while negative ones hold you back ⛓️.Discipline Creates Freedom ⏳ – I believe real freedom comes when we control our actions, instead of letting laziness or distraction control us.
🌟 Conclusion
So, who do you want to become? 🌅 Every habit you choose is a vote for that future self. I hope you remember: it’s not about massive changes, but daily decisions 📝✨.

Stay consistent, and watch yourself grow into the person you’ve always dreamed of 🌱💪.
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