The crypto industry's billion-dollar infrastructure problem isn't the blockchain—it's that nobody trusts the people running it. Trust, not technology, is the primary barrier to crypto adoption, according to panelists from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com, and 248 Ventures at Consensus Miami 2026
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A nationally chartered bank just picked the chain that most suits thought was for degens and NFT flippers. SoFi Bank is launching SoFiUSD, a fully reserved dollar stablecoin, on Solana — not Ethereum, not a permissioned chain, but the network known for memecoins and high throughput.
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The Senate calendar doesn't care about your altcoin's roadmap, and the next fortnight decides whether US crypto companies spend the next decade building or litigating. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the next two weeks are critical for passing comprehensive crypto legislation in the US Senate
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The first time an AI agent pays for cloud compute without a human credit card, we cross into a new economic territory.
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The token went up, then down, all while volume spiked—which means someone with real capital is making a decision, and the rest of the market is about to find out what it was.
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The compromise that was supposed to get stablecoins regulated in America just united banks in opposition — which tells you everything about who actually controls the rails.
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The meme stock that refused to die just made a bid that's either brilliant or delusional—and Wall Street can't tell which. GameStop offers $56 billion to acquire eBay, a company four times its market cap, in what would be the most audacious retail acquisition in tech history
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The billion-dollar bet just got real, and it's landing exactly where the infrastructure wars are heating up. Haun Ventures closed $1 billion across two funds focused on blockchain and AI investments, meeting the fundraising target the firm was reportedly pursuing since last year.
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Rain now sits at the same table as JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, which tells you everything about where card networks think stablecoins are going. Rain joined Mastercard as a Principal Member, putting a $1.95 billion stablecoin startup in the same membership tier as major banks.
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The same investor who bet on Coinbase when regulators still called crypto "funny money" just raised a billion dollars to fund the companies building AI agents that own crypto wallets.
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The company that taught the world to wire money just put its bets on a blockchain that processes 65,000 transactions per second. Western Union launched USDPT, a stablecoin now live on Solana, marking the 173-year-old remittance giant's first move into on-chain digital assets
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The same Senate that couldn't agree on lunch just pushed Bitcoin past $80,000 by almost passing a bill. Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on expectations that the CLARITY Act will finally get a Senate vote, despite Senator Tillis stalling the bill just days earlier
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The AI subscription you signed up for is charging you for gift cards you never bought—and the payment processor says it's your problem.
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While USD stablecoins dominate headlines, Europe is quietly building the rails for its own digital currency sovereignty, and it's choosing Solana as the fast lane.
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The bridge between TradFi and onchain yield just got a lot shorter. Coinbase partnered with Superstate to launch CUSHY, an institutional fund offering onchain access to stablecoin lending yields
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The seventh-largest economy just drew a red line through the stablecoin settlement layer, and it's not about consumer protection.
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The last roadblock just became a launch pad, and the banks know it. The CLARITY Act finalized stablecoin yield rules after Coinbase and Senate leaders reached a breakthrough compromise, clearing the main obstacle to passing landmark US crypto legislation.
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While everyone else is building AI agents to trade memecoins, one startup just raised $72 million to solve the problem that keeps those agents from actually working. Fun raised $72 million in Series A led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire to build infrastructure converting between crypto and fiat
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The compromise that gets stablecoins legal also walls off the part banks care about most.
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The credit card economy just opened its doors to non-human customers. MoonPay launched the "MoonAgents Card," a Mastercard-network debit card that lets AI agents spend stablecoins directly from onchain wallets
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