Cookie DAO 🍪 (@cookiedotfun): Stablecoins flipped between crisis and credibility in the span of 72 hours.

Stablecoins flipped between crisis and credibility in the span of 72 hours. Here’s what happened. → On April 22, Justin Sun filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial, pulling political and crypto audiences into the same narrative loop. Eric Trump stepped in publicly within hours. → On April 23, Tether froze 344M USDT for law enforcement. The headline went viral, hitting 1.28M impressions on a single post. → At the same time, the 292M KelpDAO / rsETH exploit continued cascading through Aave and DeFi liquidity pools, forcing emergency responses across the ecosystem. 3 separate shocks. One combined effect: A crisis-driven narrative that took over stablecoin mindshare mid-week. The fallout didn’t stay contained. Weekly signal dropped -31% WoW. Impressions fell -20%, and Unique authors down -11%. But this wasn’t disengagement. It was post-spike normalization after a high-intensity news cycle. What the CT conversation actually looks like. Neutral posts dominated volume (~89%), but high-signal engagement skewed bearish, concentrated around the exploit and the Tether freeze. 2 sides of the same market. “Stablecoins are fragile” Exploits, freezes, lawsuits → systemic risk concerns “Stablecoins are going mainstream” Institutions, governments, enforcement → proof of relevance Both gained traction at the same time. What got overlooked. Gemini launched agentic trading, enabling AI models to execute trades directly using stablecoins.