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    We signed Feed the Children. The White House debunked the banks. Iran priced Hormuz in Bitcoin. 20,000 meals.

    $EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.

    By Aaron Rafferty·WYDE Newsroom· 7 min read
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    We signed Feed the Children. The White House debunked the banks. Iran priced Hormuz in Bitcoin. 20,000 meals.

     

    WYDE Weekly | April 13, 2026

    • April 3: A single injection restored hearing in all ten patients, ages 1 to 24. Average improvement 106 dB to 52 dB.

    • April 6: Orange County pharmacy operator Paul Richard Randall pleaded guilty to $270 million in fraudulent Medi-Cal claims.

    • April 8: We signed Feed the Children as our exclusive national hunger-relief partner.

    • April 8: We published "The Path to 1 Billion Meals," a 20,000-scenario Monte Carlo model. Base case hits 1 billion meals by June 2033.

    • April 8: Iran will charge $1 per barrel in Bitcoin for Strait of Hormuz oil passage. Supertanker tolls approach $2 million.

    • April 8: White House CEA: banning stablecoin yield would add $2.1 billion to bank lending (0.02%) while costing consumers $800 million.

    • April 8: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's WSJ op-ed "Digital Asset Rules Need Clarity" called on the Senate Banking Committee to send the CLARITY Act to Trump's desk.

    • April 9: Atkins, Selig, Sacks, and Lummis all echoed Bessent. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reversed course and endorsed the bill after blocking it twice earlier this year.

    • April 10: Kansas City Fed deadline passed on Rep. Waters' letter questioning the legal basis for Kraken's limited-purpose master account.

    • April 11: Two of three FDA gates cleared for what would be the first longevity drug approval in any species.

    • April 11: $EAT set an all-time high on CoinMarketCap.

    • April 12: NYC Mayor Mamdani selected La Marqueta in East Harlem as the city's first city-owned grocery store.

    • Also this week: CMS Special Alert tied Medicare hospital food to the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines. Nicklaus Children's signed the first Florida Farm-to-Hospital pledge.

    • Meanwhile: 21,000+ meals funded. $EAT up 564% in 30 days. BitMart listing April 28 opens Impact Summer. Aaron's book The New Money Order is available for pre-order and ships May 9. Here's all of it.

    [NEW PODCAST] A Deep Dive Into WYDE

    🔨 The Build

    This was the week our thesis went from promise to published results.

    📜 The Crypto Market Structure Push Hit Critical Mass

    Three stories moved in lockstep this week, and all three point the same direction.

    None of this is new. What's new is the pace. We covered the FDIC's GENIUS Act rulemaking, the Coinbase OCC trust charter, the Schwab crypto waitlist, and three states legalizing the DUNA framework all inside the last two weeks. The infrastructure is being laid in public.

    🛢️ Crypto Stopped Being Theoretical as Sovereign Infrastructure

    Iran will charge oil tankers $1 per barrel in Bitcoin to pass the Strait of Hormuz.

    🏛️ California's Trust Problem Keeps Closing Different Files

    This lands the same month we covered the FBI's Operation Never Say Die hospice crackdown. Federal administrators estimate roughly $3.5 billion in fraud occurred in the hospice and home health care industry in Los Angeles County alone.

    Two unrelated California accountability files. Same week. Same pattern. Trust-based systems keep producing the same story.

    🍽️ The Food System Got Rewritten from Both Ends

    🧬 Biotech Did What Institutions Spent Decades Promising

    The common thread with last month's Anthropic Coefficient Bio acquisition is the same thread we keep seeing. The technology works. Regulatory pathways exist. The results are real and measurable. What used to take institutions decades takes small specialized teams a few years.

    📊 Crypto This Week

    BTC surged above $71,700 on the Iran Hormuz news before paring gains. SOL and ETH ran harder in sympathy at +7% and +8%. The CLARITY Act push and the White House stablecoin yield study moved institutional sentiment in coordinated fashion. Polymarket now prices the CLARITY Act at 59–72% to be signed in 2026, depending on which book you read.

    🍽️ $EAT

    Price: approximately $0.0009034. 30-day gain: 564%. Meals funded: 21,000+. ATH set April 11 at $0.0009477. Trade $EAT • CoinMarketCap profile • Community on Telegram via eat.ong.

    $EAT CA: 0x680bc6ed5c7222e2f29bdbc87f8e8f3400d8ce04

    📖 The New Money Order

    Two technologies are quietly rewriting every business model on earth. Yours is on the list.

    Aaron's new book, The New Money Order: The Business Leader's Guide to Programmable Money, AI Agents, and the Financial System That Replaces Everything You Know, ships May 9, 2026. If the last 18 months have convinced you that AI, agents, programmable money, and tokens are reshaping the competitive map, this is the operator's guide to what happens next.

    ✉️ Join

    We are looking for creators, traders, and future $EAT Card holders who want to be in on the first weeks of Impact Summer. The card launches Q2. BitMart listing is April 28. Four more CEX listings follow through Q3. Reply to this email or join the Telegram for early access. Join the waitlist →

    The rails are being laid in public. We are on them.

    🔗 Links

    Trade $EAT: wyde.org/eat
    Trade $EAT on Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/price/wyde-end-hunger-base-0x680bc6ed5c7222e2f29bdbc87f8e8f3400d8ce04
    Buy $EAT merch: eat.ong 
    $EAT on Coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/wyde-end-hunger
    EAT Card Waitlist: eat.ong
    GTM War Room: gtm.eat.ong
    DexScreener: dexscreener.com
    Follow on all socials: https://linktr.ee/wydeorg
    Disruptors for Good podcast: https://www.causeartist.com/wyde-crypto-impact-exchange/
    Token Unlocks and Rewards Official announcement: https://x.com/wydeorg/status/2001562658949206255
     

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