USDC NANOPAYMENTS GO LIVE ACROSS 11 BLOCKCHAINSCircle has rolled out gas free Nanopayments on mainnet across eleven blockchains. Supported networks include Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum and others.The system enables $USDC transfers as small as one millionth of a dollar. It is designed to power AI agents paying per action in real time.The feature allows near instant payments without gas fees.Transactions are verified instantly and settled later in batches onchain. ...

BHUTAN IS STILL DUMPING BITCOINOn April 29, The Government of Bhutan moved another 100 $BTC, worth nearly $8 million at the time of the transfer, out of its holding wallets.According to Arkham, if they continue at the current rate, Bhutan will have exhausted its entire Bitcoin stacks by October 2026.Is the era of government Bitcoin holdings at an end...?! ...

TRADER TURNS $3,100 INTO $22 MILLION IN ONE TRADEOk so it's not what it sounds like...In short, one address bought 10,000 $ETH at a price of just $0.31 per coin during the @Ethereum presale over a decade ago.They held ever since, their holdings now worth around $22.4 million.According to Arkham, this works out to a profit of some 725,000% on a single trade... ...

ASTER & HYPE SEE $241 BILLION IN MONTHLY VOLUMEThe two largest perp DEX platforms, @Aster_DEX and @HyperliquidX, have seen a combined volume of some $241 billion over the past 30 days.Combined open interest also stands at an impressive $9.7 billion.Decentralised perps platforms are one of few applications to have seen real traction and real PMF in today's crypto industry...... Two other clear examples are (i) stablecoins and (ii) predictions. ...

VITALIK MAKES $470,000 SELLING MEMECOINSLegendary @Ethereum founder @VitalikButerin has been selling memecoins that projects have been sending him for free.In the past day, Buterin received a combined $469,600 in the form of both @Circle's $USDC and $ETH, in sale proceeds.For as long as we remember, various memecoins have been airdropping tokens to Buterin in order to claim the leading founder as a holder. ...

ALGORAND JOINS x402 AGENTIC PAYMENT STANDARD@Algorand is now natively supported on x402, the open standard for programmatic payment flows used by AI agents and machine-to-machine commerce.It joins EVM chains, Solana, Stellar, and Aptos. solana:EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v is configured as the default stablecoin on Algorand mainnet, with atomic transactions, sponsored transactions, and full spec compatibility.x402 is the open implementation of the HTTP 402 status code, repurposed for crypto-n ...

AGORA FILES FOR US NATIONAL TRUST BANK CHARTER WITH OCC TO SCALE AUSD STABLECOINAgora Finance (@withAUSD), issuer of the ethereum:0x00000000efe302beaa2b3e6e1b18d08d69a9012a stablecoin, has filed an application with the OCC (@OptionsClearing) for a national trust bank charter under the entity name Agora National Trust Bank, per CEO and co-founder Nick van Eck (@Nick_van_Eck).ethereum:0x00000000efe302beaa2b3e6e1b18d08d69a9012a has cleared tens of billions in transfer volume since launching nearly two years ag ...

HUMA FINANCE PICKS CHAINLINK CCIP AS EXCLUSIVE CROSS-CHAIN INFRA FOR $12 BILLION PAYFI NETWORKHuma Finance (@humafinance) has selected @chainlink CCIP as the exclusive cross-chain infrastructure for its PST yield product and all future yield products, choosing CCIP over LayerZero and other options after a security review.The PayFi network has surpassed $12 billion in cumulative onchain transaction volume with $170 million-plus in active liquidity across 100,000-plus users. CCIP will bridge Huma's Solana-bas ...

PAYPAL RESTRUCTURES INTO THREE UNITS, BREAKS OUT DEDICATED PAYMENT SERVICES & CRYPTO DIVISION@PayPal announced a strategic reorganization into three operating units: Checkout Solutions & PayPal, Consumer Financial Services & Venmo, and Payment Services & Crypto.The new Crypto unit consolidates Braintree, SMB processing, value-added services, and solana:2b1kV6DkPAnxd5ixfnxCpjxmKwqjjaYmCZfHsFu24GXo operations under one roof. Jeff Pomeroy leads it on an interim basis. Frank Keller was named President of Checko ...

MEGAETH'S MEGA OPENS TRADING, SPIKES TO $0.24 THEN CRASHES TO $0.15@megaeth's $MEGA token launched today after the Ethereum L2 hit its first ecosystem KPI on April 23. Trading opened at 11:00 UTC across Binance, KuCoin, and Bitget, with a Coinbase pre-listing.The token spiked above $0.24 within hours of debut before crashing to $0.1499, down 13.11%. Market cap sits at roughly $172 million with an FDV of $1.52 billion against a 10 billion max supply.The launch model is unusual. Roughly 53.3% of supply is tie ...