Robinhood strike a deal with Crypto[.]com to add prediction market contracts to its platform and takes a minority stake in the exchange and its prediction-markets business, per WSJ
Strive acquired an additional 1,375 BTC for $109M, bringing total holdings to 24,531 BTC
Strategy repurchased $176M of STRC and increases its Digital Credit Securities repurchase program to $2B
Circle agreed to buy cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400M, with 60%+ of Tazapay’s volume already running on stablecoins
Qivalis, a consortium of 37 European banks across 15 countries, is bringing a MiCA-regulated euro stablecoin to Ethereum, with EMI licence pending and H2 2026 target launch
Etherscan launched Etherscan Flow, letting users map fund movement across transactions manually or via an AI agent skill
Trezor rolled out Clear Signing, decoding supported EVM transactions to show action, tokens, amounts and destination on-device
Robinhood Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain hit $150M in TVL
Tether froze $39.3M USDT across 10 TRON addresses linked to Telegram-based escrow platform Xinbi Guarantee
F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang said Zcash’s rally is narrative-driven and its fundamentals don’t match its market rank versus networks like Solana and Hyperliquid
Nike went live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities
Aave launched Aave Agents, an official MCP server letting AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT read protocol data, manage positions and prepare transactions across Aave deployments
Jack Dorsey’s Block applied to the OCC to establish Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank for bitcoin and stablecoin custody
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff reported $107M in 2025 income from a holding company tied to his World Liberty Financial stake, up from $34M a year earlier.
DeFi Development Corp. closed an $11M CHAD preferred stock offering with participation from Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, carrying a 13% initial dividend to fund more SOL purchases
ZKsync developer Matter Labs open sourced its Prividium permissioning engine, with Bundesbank testing the platform
Visa also unveiled a new onchain lending model with Credit Coop letting stablecoin card programs access working capital, having supported $2.5B+ in financed settlement volume since 2023 with zero defaults
UBS, Sygnum and other Swiss firms began testing a CHF stablecoin (CHFD), with SIX and TWINT joining as new partners through end of 2026
StablecoinX appointed Christopher Jensen, ex-Franklin Templeton, as CEO to oversee its treasury including 3.03B ENA tokens (20% of Ethena’s total supply)
Strive bought 1,375 more bitcoin this week for $109M. GameStop hasn't bought one in 15 months. Strategy is buying back its own stock instead of BTC. Same "bitcoin treasury" label, three completely different bets.
Crypto is quietly moving from an asset story to an infrastructure story. The most important signals aren't just token prices they're banks, brokers and fintechs adopting onchain settlement, tokenized assets and programmable financial products.