The B2B payments market is 1,000 times bigger than consumer crypto has ever touched, and it just got its first real Bitcoin-native stablecoin. Paystand launched USDb, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin built on Bitcoin's Liquid and Rootstock layers, targeting the $100 trillion B2B payments market
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Traditional finance is buying Bitcoin through ETFs while the crypto-native crowd stays on the sidelines, and that gap tells you everything about where we are in the adoption curve.
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A $1.6 billion token launch triggered by hitting a product milestone, not a calendar date or investor FOMO. MegaETH cleared its first KPI milestone of 10 live applications, triggering a seven-day countdown to the MEGA token generation event on April 30
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The corporate Bitcoin playbook just got louder: buy the dip, declare victory, repeat. Strategy's Bitcoin holdings are up 3.3% as BTC hits $78,000, and Michael Saylor is signaling another purchase is coming
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A 22-year-old moved just $3.5 million and got six years; the people who built the quarter-billion-dollar theft machine are still out there.
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The first pound-pegged stablecoin on Coinbase signals less about crypto innovation and more about where traditional finance is willing to let the rails get built. Coinbase listed tGBP, its first GBP-backed stablecoin, as the global stablecoin market crosses $300 billion
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The payments giants and the crypto builders just said the same thing out loud: your next customer doesn't have a pulse. Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents are the next big wave for crypto payments, pointing to the open-source x402 protocol as critical infrastructure
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Institutional money is treating crypto like gold when the world wobbles. Ethereum spot ETFs logged a 10-day inflow streak totaling $633 million, with a single day pulling $96.4M during US-Iran diplomatic progress
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The institutions aren't just buying Bitcoin anymore—they're absorbing nine times daily mining output and pulling supply off exchanges at rates not seen since 2021. Bitcoin ETFs pulled in over $2 billion across an 8-day streak, with BlackRock's IBIT fund alone absorbing 9x the daily mining output
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The federal government says prediction markets are legitimate financial instruments. Wisconsin says they're illegal gambling. Five companies are now caught in the crossfire.
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The prediction market platforms racing to launch perpetual futures just got sued for sports betting by Wisconsin, proving that moving fast and breaking things works until a state AG decides you broke the wrong thing.
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Prompt-to-production blockchain apps just became real, and Microsoft's venture arm is betting you won't need to know Solidity to build them.
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The global banking watchdog just called out crypto's worst-kept secret: your exchange is offering bank products, taking bank risks, but skipping the boring part where they actually protect your money.
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The money that backed Coinbase when it was still a scrappy bet is back in the market, and it's hunting at both ends of the risk curve. Blockchain Capital is raising $700 million across two funds: its seventh early-stage fund and second growth fund, targeting completion in five to six months.
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BlackRock just moved nearly a billion dollars into Bitcoin in a single week while a U.S. Congressman publicly bet $250K that BTC hits $80K, and the market is starting to believe them both.
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BlackRock has moved $8.4 billion into Bitcoin ETFs in recent weeks, and a sitting Congressman just bet $250K that they're right about where this is going.
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DoorDash just turned 3 million gig workers into the frontline of stablecoin adoption, and none of them will notice. DoorDash is deploying stablecoin payouts to Dashers through Tempo, a Stripe-backed blockchain network designed for enterprise payment flows.
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Bitcoin holders aren't selling on Binance anymore, and that's the first real signal the market has flipped since 2023. Binance BTC inflows dropped to their lowest level since 2023, signaling reduced selling pressure as traders hold rather than deposit to exchange wallets
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New York just declared war on the prediction market economy, suing Coinbase and Gemini for running what it calls illegal gambling operations.
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Coinbase just told the crypto industry it has a quantum computer problem, and the clock is already ticking. Coinbase's quantum advisory board published a 50-page paper concluding blockchains are safe today but vulnerable to future fault-tolerant quantum computers
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