Candy Box is an interactive game featuring a candy merchant with stock shortages and a hard mode where players access a developer's computer using lollipops as currency to execute bugs and create custom ones.
A social media post argues that Trump controls the Federal Reserve through Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and that high interest rates are strategically maintained to facilitate a transition from traditional banking to blockchain-based stablecoins, prevent bank runs, enable bank competition, and fund stablecoin infrastructure development.
China's central bank stated it has no intention to gain trade advantages through currency depreciation and does not engage in competitive devaluation. The RMB has appreciated significantly since 2005 reform, and the central bank uses macroprudential tools only during major external shocks, rejecting claims of systematic undervaluation.