Welcome to The Node! This is Marc Hochstein to take you through the latest crypto news.
In today's news: Pump.Fun rakes in big bucks with 1M SOL in cumulative fees; Solana's crypto-governance hub, Realms, is under new management; Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen is flooding Kamala Harris' election effort with XRP; Buenos Aires adds ZK proofs to city app in bid to boost residents' privacy.
The Takeaway: SEC chair Gary Gensler has arguably been the individual with the greatest influence over the direction of U.S. crypto policies, but his days atop the agency are numbered, writes CoinDesk's Jesse Hamilton.