Crypto / Payments & Infrastructure
- South Korea's Shinhan Card to test real-world stablecoin payments on Solana
- Meta begins offering USDC creator payouts to crypto wallets on Solana and
Polygon blockchains
- Visa stablecoin settlement hits $7 billion run rate as pilot expands to nine
blockchains
- OKX rolls out Agent Payments Protocol designed to support AI business cycles
- Solana Ventures leads $18 million round in Squads to scale its stablecoin
platform Altitude
Regulation & Institutions
- Crypto VC Hashed gains financial services license in Abu Dhabi
- MoonPay acquires crypto key manager Sodot, launches institutional business led
by former CFTC acting chair
- FBI leads arrests of 276 in global crypto “pig butchering” scams
Market & Trading
- Bitcoin slips to $75,000 as Fed holds rates, dissenters chill Warsh “pivot
party”
- Grayscale's Zcash Trust volume doubles as ZEC’s shielded supply hits record
highs
- Prediction market volume tops $25 billion monthly as retail activity
dominates, crypto drives onboarding: report
Corporate & Industry Developments
- Trump-backed WLFI token falls 13% as controversial governance proposal opens
for voting
- Tether stakeholder's undisclosed £5 million gift to Farage adds to Reform UK
funding scrutiny: reports
Outlook & Research
- "DeFi bent, not broken": Standard Chartered says rsETH episode won't derail
path to $2T RWA market
