
Mastercard and Visa Continue Advancing Their Stablecoin Ambitions
The biggest card companies are taking different paths to the same goal: dominating the rails beneath stablecoins.

The biggest card companies are taking different paths to the same goal: dominating the rails beneath stablecoins.

Considering cold wallets post-Coldcard. What foundations would make a hardware wallet virtually impossible to exploit?

Solana validators weigh proposals to burn more fees and cut SOL issuance, but the plan needs more staker support to succeed.

Cloudflare unveils wallets that let AI agents use stablecoins to buy APIs and content through x402, with programmable spending controls.

EIP-8361 would burn more validator rewards as ETH staking rises, lowering issuance but raising concerns about validator consolidation.

HIP-4 permissionless deployments are live on testnet. Hyperliquid should make sure they get to mainnet by the midterms.

A weak RNG in Coldcard wallets has cost users an estimated +$100M worth of BTC in less than a week.

Two new BlackRock funds, BSTBL and BRSRV, are extending the asset manager's push into onchain finance.

Uniswap has facilitated $12.8B on Robinhood Chain in a month. How v4 hooks and a new Launches tab are pushing it beyond just liquidity.

Stock-paired memecoins are Robinhood Chain's newest meta.

Ethereum Institutional locks in +100 ecosystem backers to accelerate institutional Ethereum adoption.

The Ethereum Foundation adds privacy and security advocate pcaversaccio to its board.

Sportsbooks are using federal exchanges to offer sports contracts in states where their own books are banned.

Zcash's Ironwood upgrade is live, replacing the wounded Orchard pool with a formally verified successor.

Decrypt reported that Fanatics is buying an exchange and clearinghouse from BGC, following DraftKings and FanDuel in owning the rails for its own prediction market.

A single anomalous trade in South Korea sent Hyperliquid's SK Hynix perp down ~20%, raising concerns about effective pricing in HIP-3 markets.

A federal judge blocked Minnesota's prediction market ban, ruling it preempted by federal law, hours after Kalshi lost a separate motion in NY.

MoonPay, Circle, and Kraken all acquired infrastructure this month, but for very different reasons.

Lido's new Core upgrade adds ETH-backed operator bonds and validator consolidation to ease congestion and boost accountability.

Ondo Finance launches its Ondo Network days after its Oasis Pro Markets arm won SEC clearance for tokenized U.S. equities.