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#135: US bank bets on Bitcoin
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134: Goldman invests in Layer 1
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133: Kraken vs. Paypal
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132: J.P. Morgan launches a stablecoin (sort of)
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131: Stripe x Shopify x Privy =
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130: Circle IPOs, Jamie bends and Wall Street buys in
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129: $2.3T just moved to stablecoin rails
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128: What dies first?
Wall Street just got tokenized. For real this time.
127: JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Dubai go onchain
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126: Stripe just skipped the banks
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125: Visa, PayPal, OpenAI kill the checkout
Mastercard brings stablecoins to 150M stores. SaaS is now a national security risk. Visa, Mastercard & PayPal roll out AI agent payment rails. BCG’s point of view on AI agents. And more.
#124: Bitcoin Beats Alphabet
Circle vs Swift. Tether + SoftBank's $3.6B Bitcoin play. Ledger's debit card. Paypal drops Agentic Toolkit. LayerZero lands $55M. Hidden Road (Ripple) wins FINRA approval.
123: Crypto Mining in Need of Creatine?
Top 20 chain collapses 90%. Crypto pivots to AI. Revolut takes on Amex. Visa joins the Global Dollar Network (USDG). Safe Superintelligence raises $2B. Futureverse acquires Candy Digital.
122: Crypto Gets Real
Ripple enters Wall Street with $1.25B acquisition. Kraken & Mastercard launch debit cards in Europe. Largest seed round in history. Google launches AI-coding studio. Facebook released Llama 4 & more.
📝121: Green Light
SEC greenlights stablecoins. Circle and eToro file for IPO. SMBC plans Avalanche stablecoin. Fidelity launches crypto retirement plan. Sony partners with Animoca Brands. Solana starts lobbying.
📝120: xAI acquires X
OpenAI's new killer model. USDC enters Japan. Trump launches stablecoin. Marina Abramović goes crypto. Visa + Worldcoin go live. Kraken preps IPO. Crocs land in Fortnite. Top reads & more.
📝119: Go big or go home
DAS New York impressions. Coinbase to buy Deribit. Sony Blockchain moves. Ethena Labs' & Securitize launch a new blockchain. FIFA Coin. TON's $500m raise. PENGU ETF. CME launches $SOL futures.
📝118: MoonPay vs. Stripe
MoonPay acquires Iron. VanEck files for Avax ETF. MEXC invests in stablecoins. Ripple is now regulated in UAE. Estée Lauder's AI strategy. Victoria's Secret launches Digital Product Passports.
📝117: Coinbase Wants to Tokenize Itself
Coinbase to tokenise its own shares. Trump announces crypto reserve. The first Web3-native LLM. OpenAI's $50M grant program. GPT-4.5, Clause 3.7 Sonnet released. Crocs & Victoria Secret's AI strategy.
📝116: AI > Memecoins
Bank of America to launch stablecoin. Circle attacks Tether. Microsoft & AWS both launch quantum chip. SEC on memecoins. Citatel enters crypto. Claude Sonnet 3.7 launched. OpenAI announces GPT-4.5.