NEXT STOP: MARS Did you witness SpaceX’s historic Starship launch and catch? Absolute history in the making! Here are some mind-blowing facts about Starship: • Biggest Rocket Ever Built: Standing 120 meters tall (394 ft), Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever created - built to reach the Moon, Mars, and beyond. • Fully Reusable: Unlike traditional rockets that burn up or sink after launch, Starship is designed for full reusability, slashing the cost of space travel and paving the way for frequent interplanetary missions. • Massive Payload Capacity: Capable of carrying 100+ tons to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Starship can deploy mega-constellations, deliver lunar cargo, or even carry entire Mars mission modules in one flight. • Built for Mars Missions: Designed to ferry up to 100 passengers, Starship is humanity’s vessel for multi-planetary life - turning Elon Musk’s vision into reality, one launch at a time. The dream of living on another planet just took its biggest step forward. Thank you @elonmusk

Last week @Ledger N3XT — our education program across college campuses — went to Cambridge. Honestly one of the most inspiring parts was just spending time with students who are thinking this deeply and rigorously about identity, ownership, AI, privacy, and the infrastructure being built underneath all of it. 800 years of academic history, two days of conversations about digital identity, consent, and trust. We started with a fireside chat and Q&A. The students came prepared. One Masters student asked whether Ledger is evolving from securing assets into infrastructure for human identity — and whether that future protects choice or concentrates control. Not a casual question. A CS student pushed on quantum risk, identity, and why hardware matters at all in an increasingly AI-native world. His point was essentially: if intelligence becomes abundant and synthetic agents become indistinguishable from humans online, software alone stops being enough. At some point you need a physical root of trust tied to consent, identity, and verification in the real world. Then he moved to privacy: send someone £2 for coffee on-chain and they can potentially see everything you own. Those questions earned him a Ledger device. Most of the room got close. Dinner at The Cambridge Union turned into conversations about decentralised infrastructure for interplanetary settlement, synthetic identity verification, and agentic systems. Less “future of tech” panel talk, more people actively trying to work through the implications. The next day we toured Trinity’s Great Hall, the Wren Library, Newton’s apple tree. What stayed with me wasn’t the history so much as the continuity of the questions. How people establish truth. Authority. Consent. Ownership. We met with professors and students and started laying groundwork for deeper collaboration. Cambridge has a habit of stress testing ideas until they either collapse or sharpen. That’s useful. We’ll be back.