131: Stripe x Shopify x Privy =

Hey, it’s Marc.

Stripe is not stopping: It acquired the wallet leader Privy and enabled millions of Shopify merchants across 34 countries to use stablecoins.

Then: For over a decade, Bank of America dismissed crypto as “troubling.” Quietly, they were building the largest blockchain patent portfolio in finance.

This week, CEO Brian Moynihan confirmed what insiders have known for months: They’re building a USD stablecoin.

• X and Polymarket to launch Grok-powered prediction tools from social sentiment

• Societe Generale launches USDCV stablecoin and becomes first major bank to launch USD stablecoin

• NVIDIA unveils AI Factories

• Plasma, Tethers new L1 for stablecoins, raises $500M in an ICO

We also released our Stablecoin x AI report. 🔥 Access here

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Top Boardroom Reads This Week

Digital Assets

• Q2 2025 State of Crypto Report (Coinbase)

• Tether is not a Stablecoin Company (Fiftyone Insights)

• Soft Data, Hard Questions for the Economy (Galaxy Digital)

• The End of the Foundation Era in Crypto (a16z crypto)

• US Crypto Regulations to Watch for in 2025 (Electric Capital)

• Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy (Ethereum Foundation)

AI

• The Gentle Singularity (Sam Altman)

• 16 Changes to AI in the Enterprise: 2025 Edition (a16z)

• HBR study: What are people really using GenAI for in 2025? (51x)

• Apple vs OpenAI (51x)

• Trends – Artificial Intelligence (BOND)

• Sovereign AI Agents Think Local, Act Global With NVIDIA AI Factories (Nvidia)