Press Release
The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate
It’s been a tough year since 2020, but it’s been particularly tough for Asian-Americans: A Filipino-American was slashed across the face with a box cutter on the subway with no one came to his aid. The wound required a hundred stitches. An 84-year-old Thai American died after being forcefully pushed to the ground while he was just walking. An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped in the street and set on fire by two young men. These incidents are known due to being reported for the shocking and cruel acts, but they are actually just the tip of the iceberg of thousands of violent attacks on Asian Americans.
Initiator of the “China virus” rhetoric
Over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic, people reported nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate on the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate alone. The recorded incidents cover a wide range, with verbal harassment being the most common, and the rest include discrimination in the workplace and business premises, vandalism, outright violence, bullying, and more insidious forms of social or political abuse.
Last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of hate and violence against Asians began in the United States. There is no doubt that this prejudice was fueled by former President Donald Trump, who often used racist language such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus. Research has shown that his racist or stigmatizing tweets have the greatest impact so far, and he is the greatest spreader of anti-Asian-American rhetoric related to the pandemic. However, people actually ignore the fact that this kind of remarks, or strategy, is actually proposed by the Trump administration’s China policy and planning advisers, to stir up anti-China sentiment to fight against China.
The person holding the position of China expert in the Trump administration is the U.S. Naval Academy Professor Miles Maochun Yu, served as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy and planning adviser. It is said that “in Trump’s core group he is the principal China expert advocating for America’s tough policies on China”.
The policy proposed by Miles Yu to promote the conspiracy theory that “the virus originates from the leakage of Institute of Virology in China” is implemented as the public has seen, and the catastrophic consequence it brought about is that, the use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus, especially by Republican officials and conservatives, have led to a change in how Americans perceive Asian Americans. A study showed that on March 8, 2020-the day Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted about the “Wuhan virus”, discriminatory coronavirus remarks rose significantly, which was coincided with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interview the day before on “Fox and Friends” in which he referred to the “China virus” — was followed by a rapid reversal of a decade-long decline in anti-Asian bias.
Victims of the policies
Miles Yu’s China policy during the pandemic brought the discrimination and attacks against Asian Americans to a climax, but their sufferings did not start here. For a long time, Miles Yu, as the principal China policy and planning adviser, has been proud of the Trump administration’s tough China policy proposed by him, such as “China is at the top of our national security agenda, as there is no bigger threat than China”, declaring the existence of forced labor and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, inciting trade, security, and technical conflicts between the two largest economies in the world, reducing immigrant visas, H1-B visas, and student visas for certain graduate students from China to reflect the outsider conceptualization of Asians.
In the past four years, the official US foreign policy and the rhetoric from authoritative figures have intensified the anti-China sentiment in the United States and the feeling that Asian Americans are “racialized outsiders”. Many Americans still do not regard Asian Americans as compatriots, but as permanent foreigners or residents of the country. Asians unfortunately became victims of Miles Yu’s political game. “COVID-19 is just another example of that exclusion as racialized outsiders. Time and time again, we are told to ‘go back home.’ We are seen as outside threats, to be excluded.” They said. Verbal harassment has been commonplace. “Go back to Asia. We don’t welcome people who committed genocide.” “How dare you come and ruin my country and take my job?” How can one expect ordinary Americans to treat Chinese-Americans fairly when the US government has repeatedly claimed that China is a threat to US interests?
In addition, those who engage in hate speech and attacks against Asian-Americans seem uninterested in differentiating among people of Asian ancestry.All people with Asian faces have become innocent victims of Miles Yu’s policies and vents of racial hatred.
Flowing undercurrent
It was actually a political expedient that the last government blamed China for its failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a politicization of the pandemic, which not only hinders progress, but also exacerbates racial discrimination.
Therefore, during his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive action to essentially prohibit the use of the language “Chinese virus” within the federal government. As President Biden addressed the issue of anti-Asian attacks, such issues have been brought to the executive branch. In addition to referencing the violence in his first national prime-time address, he also signed a memorandum earlier this year, some of which issued guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the increasing number of anti-Asian bias incidents.
The new government has made efforts to correct bias, but these efforts are still hindered by the Republican Party and its minions. Although the claim that “the Wuhan Institute of Virology made or leaked the virus” has been publicly denied by almost all top scientists and disease control experts worldwide, on April 23, former Secretary of State Pompeo still teamed up with his “loyal” principal China policy and planning adviser, Miles Yu, publishing an article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that “the evidence that the virus came from Wuhan is enormous” without providing any solid evidence, and once again conveying bias to the public.
Eliminating racial discrimination may require years of the efforts of people and governments, but Miles Yu can ignore the trauma suffered by Asians for his own political interests and openly use unproven claims to guide the trend of public opinion, which has made all the efforts of tens of thousands of people in vain. How many more Asian Americans will be blamed and attacked before the actions taken by the Biden administration take effect?
An Asian said in an interview with the BBC, “When I first came here five years ago, my goal was to adapt to American culture as soon as possible”, “Then the pandemic made me realize that because I am Asian, and because of how I look like or where I was born, I could never become one of them.”
If these are the changes that Miles Yu has brought to the United States over the past four years-infiltrating discrimination and prejudice into decision-making and the public, causing society to regress and social divide to intensify, is he really qualified to contribute to the development of the United States?
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New York, USA, July 23rd, 2026, FinanceWire
Uniswap Labs today announced Permissioned Pools, a new hook standard for Uniswap v4 that enables permissioned asset trading through Automated Market Makers (AMMs) with compliance enforced directly onchain.
Permissioned Pools were built in collaboration with leading teams bringing regulated assets onchain. Launch partners include Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo: part of a growing set of issuers and platforms seeking compliant access to onchain markets for tokenized funds, securities, equities, and other permissioned assets.
Bringing permissioned assets to AMMs
The tokenized asset market is estimated to reach $11 trillion by 2030. As more regulated assets move onchain, issuers need infrastructure that can enforce each asset’s compliance rules. Uniswap Permissioned Pools are the first generalized, open source, institutional-grade standard for trading regulated assets on an AMM. Instead of relying on a frontend gate or an offchain compliance check, the pool itself verifies whether a wallet is approved before a swap or liquidity action can go through. The issuer keeps control of the allowlist, while approved users can access onchain trading and settle through Uniswap v4.
For issuers, this opens a path to AMM liquidity and DeFi composability without giving up required controls. For approved investors, it means direct onchain trading for assets that previously couldn’t trade on an AMM at all.
How Permissioned Pools work
Permissioned Pools use Uniswap v4 hooks to extend the functionality of a regular pool without breaking the security and interoperability guarantees of the protocol. The particular hook implements logic that checks an issuer-managed allowlist on every swap, verifies allowlist status before a user mints an LP position, and provides support for the administration controls permissioned assets require. These checks happen at the protocol level, not on the frontend.
Behind the scenes, the design uses Uniswap v4 virtual accounting to perform all exchange calculations remotely while permissioned assets remain held in a permissioned contract. You can learn more about this mechanism in the docs.
Uniswap powers tokenized value
Permissioned Pools bring a new standard for compliant trading, while the protocol itself stays permissionless. Developers and asset issuers can choose the approach that fits: deploy pools and build on v4 permissionlessly, or deploy a permissioned pool for a specific asset.
Tokenization’s next phase needs standardized market infrastructure that can handle compliance requirements, without compromising permissionless access. Permissioned Pools are the result of deep collaboration between the teams defining the standard, the teams building the compliance layer beneath it, and the issuers and assets putting it to use.
Superstate, an early design partner, helped shape the Permissioned Pool standard for tokenized equities and funds. Uniswap Labs and Securitize collaborated early on to ensure DS Protocol-issued tokens could trade compliantly onchain, laying the groundwork that Permissioned Pools now extends. Dowgo contributed the ERC-3643 integration for Permissioned Pools, and will use the standard once they receive DLT TSS authorization under the EU’s DLT Pilot Regime.
With these institutions already building on the hook, Permissioned Pools lay the groundwork for the next generation of value coming onchain.
Get started
For more information, visit the developer docs, or contact the Uniswap Labs team.
About Uniswap
Uniswap is the largest decentralized trading venue, having processed over $4.5T in volume with zero hacks. It is trusted by institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity, and Anchorage. Uniswap Labs is a core contributor to the Uniswap Protocol and builds products that make it easy to access and build on Uniswap including the Uniswap Web App, Wallet, and Trading API.
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About Superstate
Superstate partners with issuers to bring securities onchain, enabling access to new investor capital and modern financial markets. Through Opening Bell, Superstate partners with companies issuing tokenized equity. Through FundOS, it serves asset managers launching tokenized funds. Both platforms support compliant issuance, record keeping, direct investor registration, and onchain market integration via their SEC-registered transfer agency infrastructure. Superstate’s flagship funds USTB (now the Invesco Short Duration US Government Securities Fund) and USCC (now the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund) validated this infrastructure at institutional scale before transitioning to leading asset managers on FundOS. Learn more at superstate.com.
About Securitize
Securitize, the world’s leader in tokenizing real-world assets with $5B+ AUM (as of July 2026), is bringing the world onchain through tokenized funds in partnership with top-tier asset managers, such as Apollo, BlackRock, BNY, Hamilton Lane, KKR, VanEck and others. In the U.S., Securitize operates through its affiliates, including Securitize Markets, LLC, an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC that operates an SEC-regulated Alternative Trading System (ATS); Securitize Transfer Agent, LLC, an SEC-registered transfer agent; Securitize Capital, LLC, which has applied for SEC registration as an investment adviser and files as an exempt reporting adviser pending effectiveness; and Securitize Fund Services, LLC, which provides fund administration services. In Europe, Securitize operates through its affiliate Securitize Europe Brokerage and Markets, S.A., which is fully authorized as an Investment Firm and operates a Trading & Settlement System (TSS) under the EU DLT Pilot Regime, making Securitize Corp. currently the only company, based on its existing U.S. and EU regulatory authorizations, licensed to operate regulated digital-securities infrastructure across both the U.S. and EU. Securitize has also been recognized as a 2026 Forbes Top 50 Fintech company.
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About Dowgo
Dowgo is building a European regulated marketplace where shares, bonds and fund units are issued, traded and settled in tokenized form. Developed as a DLT Trading and Settlement System under the EU DLT Pilot Regime (EU 2022/858), for which its authorization is currently under review by the French authorities, its venue will enable issuers to raise capital and access a regulated secondary market operating 24/7, giving banks, brokers and professional investors direct access to on-chain markets. Securities are issued natively as ERC-3643 permissioned tokens on public Ethereum, meaning the tokens are the securities themselves rather than representations of assets held elsewhere, and settle instantly through atomic delivery-versus-payment in MiCA-compliant e-money tokens. Dowgo operates the market and never holds client assets or keys.
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Uniswap Labs
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Press Release
FX Junction Releases Research on the Role of Social Media Presence in Stock Intrinsic Value
Fomboni, Comoros Union, July 23rd, 2026, FinanceWire
New analysis finds that for a growing class of “social-media-native” equities, the communication channel itself — not just the information it carries — is shaping how the market prices the asset
FX Junction has released the findings of a new study examining the relationship between companies’ social media presence and stock valuation. Conducted by analysts at the global copy-trading platform, the research examines the intrinsic value that a range of stocks derive from the social media presence of the underlying companies and brands. The study concludes that social media has evolved from a neutral conduit for market information into an active driver of valuation, reflecting a broader shift in how digital platforms influence market perceptions.
For half a century, the models underpinning finance treated communication as a fixed background: a pipe through which information flowed toward prices that already existed. FX Junction’s research suggests that assumption no longer holds. The pipe, the analysis concludes, has a shape of its own — and that shape bends value toward itself. For a specific set of companies, being native to the medium — shareable, memorable, tribal — has become a measurable component of how the market prices them.
Major Findings
- A structural premium for “social-media-native” equities. The assets most amplified by online enthusiasm are overwhelmingly technology and platform names — Tesla, Nvidia, GameStop, AMC, Palantir and a rotating cast of crypto tokens. These are the businesses most legible to a medium built by and for the digitally fluent; a steady-cash-flow pipeline operator has no meme, while a chipmaker riding an AI narrative has a thousand.
- Value can be manufactured by the medium alone. In January 2021, a two-word endorsement (“Use Signal”) sent retail traders into shares of Signal Advance — a tiny, entirely unrelated electronics company that merely shared a name — which rose more than 5,000% before the error was corrected. Value was created not by information but by the pattern-matching reflexes the medium trains into its users.
- Founder-led social feeds now move billions. Tesla’s valuation has long floated above conventional auto-industry metrics, sustained by investor communication run through a social feed and a shareholder base that treats the stock as an identity. Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created as a joke, rose and fell for years on single posts alone.
- The medium keeps selecting for itself. When Reddit went public in 2024, the forum that powered the meme-stock era became a meme stock in turn; Trump Media traded at valuations explicable only as community and belonging priced in dollars.
Implications For Traders
FX Junction’s analysts conclude that valuation analysis increasingly requires a second question alongside the traditional one: not only what a company is worth, but whether it photographs well on the medium that now sets its price. The two are not the same question, and treating them as one is a common route to losses. The firm notes that this dynamic raises both opportunity and volatility risk, and reinforces the value of following verified, experienced traders through disciplined risk management rather than chasing social-media momentum unaided.
The investment and trading platform FX Junction has surpassed 40,000 users, placing it among the world’s leading social trading networks. In the area of CFDs and forex, FX Junction had already established itself as one of the global leaders among social platforms for traders.
About FX Junction
FX Junction was founded in 2011. The company’s launch was supported by a Swiss investor through the parent company Pine Group SA, alongside U.S. executive Ryan Novak.
The platform has established itself as a successful social network for online trading, enabling members to connect with other traders to exchange ideas, strategies, and additional information related to the financial markets. By linking their MetaTrader accounts, members can analyze their trading activity using a wide range of performance statistics and follow each other’s positions. They can also use the AutoCopy system to replicate trades from verified signal providers in real time.
For more information about the company, users can visit: https://www.fxjunction.com
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Press Release
Central Florida’s Largest Pebble Tec Applicator Extends Pool Resurfacing in Fern Park, FL
Classic Marcite brings 38+ years of certified pool resurfacing expertise directly to Fern Park, FL and the greater Seminole County area.
Orlando, FL, United States, 23rd Jul 2026 — Classic Marcite, the largest certified Pebble Tec applicator in Central Florida, is now directing its full service capability toward Fern Park, FL and the surrounding communities of Seminole County. The announcement means that Fern Park homeowners now have direct, local access to the most credentialed pool resurfacing team in the region — a company with 38 years of verified experience, 100,000+ completed pools, and a certified workforce that no other provider in this market can match. For a community where thousands of residential pools are approaching or past the 15-year resurfacing threshold, the arrival of pool resurfacing in Fern Park, FL at this level of expertise represents a meaningful upgrade in the options available to homeowners.
Pebble Tec is the premier pool interior finish in the Florida market — a natural, exposed aggregate surface known for its exceptional durability, resort-quality appearance, and resistance to the hard water and UV conditions common throughout Central Florida. Certification as a Pebble Tec applicator is not automatic; it requires meeting the strict installation and quality standards maintained by Pebble Technology International and sustaining a track record of consistent, certified application across a high volume of completed pools. Classic Marcite has held that certification for decades and has installed more Pebble Tec pool interiors in Central Florida than any other company in the region.
What this means for Fern Park homeowners is straightforward: a community that once had to look beyond its immediate area for premium pool resurfacing now has the region’s most qualified team available nearby. Classic Marcite’s facility is located on Fairvilla Road in Orlando — approximately 8 miles from Fern Park — and its team regularly serves Seminole County communities including Casselberry, Altamonte Springs, and Winter Springs. The proximity advantage is significant in a market where mobilization time affects both project scheduling and ongoing customer service responsiveness.
Classic Marcite owner Mike Folta said the expansion of focus to Fern Park reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to bringing certified expertise to every community it serves across Central Florida.
“Fern Park is a well-established community with a lot of pools that are at or past the age where resurfacing becomes necessary. Homeowners here deserve access to the same Pebble Tec certified team and the same transparent pricing that we bring to every market we serve. We want Fern Park residents to know that the most experienced pool resurfacing company in the region is right down the road.” — Mike Folta, Owner, Classic Marcite
The scope of pool resurfacing in Fern Park, FL available through Classic Marcite covers the full range of interior finish materials, from traditional Marcite plaster at the economical end to Pebble Tec, Pebble Sheen, Pebble Fina, Beadcrete, and Diamond Brite at the premium tier. Standard resurfacing projects in the Fern Park area are typically completed in five to seven days, minimizing disruption to your daily routine. All estimates are provided in writing before any work begins, with no hidden fees and no surprises at project completion.
The Pebble Tec certification represents more than a product license — it reflects the installation discipline that Classic Marcite applies to every project. Unlike commodity plaster work, which can be executed by uncertified applicators with inconsistent results, Pebble Tec installation requires trained crews, precise material handling, and a finishing process that must be executed correctly within a narrow time window. Classic Marcite employs only full-time, direct employees — never subcontractors — which ensures that certified application standards are maintained consistently across every Fern Park project, regardless of scope.
Beyond interior resurfacing, Classic Marcite offers comprehensive pool renovation services to Fern Park and Seminole County residents — covering waterline tile, coping replacement, pool deck refinishing, LED lighting, and energy-efficient equipment upgrades as part of a single coordinated project. This breadth of capability means homeowners can address the full condition of their pool through one company, with one project timeline and one written estimate covering all costs upfront.
Fern Park is a census-designated community in Seminole County, FL, bordered by Casselberry, Altamonte Springs, Eatonville, and the broader SR-436 corridor. The area’s established residential neighborhoods and year-round outdoor living conditions create consistent demand for professional pool care at a level that only certified, experienced contractors can reliably deliver. Classic Marcite’s position as the region’s most credentialed provider addresses that demand directly.
Classic Marcite serves all of Seminole County from its Fairvilla Road location, in addition to the greater Orlando metro area and the northeast Florida market from its Jacksonville office at 4960 Stepp Ave. Free on-site estimates are available with no obligation for homeowners throughout Fern Park and surrounding communities.
About Classic Marcite:
Classic Marcite is a family-owned pool resurfacing and renovation company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Founded in 1988, the company has resurfaced more than 100,000 residential and commercial pools across Central Florida. Classic Marcite is the largest certified Pebble Tec applicator in Central Florida and serves both the Orlando metro area and the northeast Florida market. All projects are completed by full-time, licensed employees — never subcontractors. Classic Marcite offers free estimates with no obligation.
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