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UPDATE: Stablecoins hit $7.2T monthly volume, surpassing U.S. ACH and Visa.

⚡️VISA LAUNCHES AI AGENT PAYMENT PLATFORM
Visa unveiled "Intelligent Commerce Connect", enabling AI agents to make purchases for consumers across multiple card networks.
The platform is in pilot and expected to launch broadly by June, per Axios.

BREAKING: Iran says the ceasefire has been violated before negotiations even began, on Day 1.
Three clauses already broken according to Iran: Israel continuing to strike Lebanon, a drone shot down over Iranian airspace, and Trump publicly denying Iran's right to enrichment which was part of the agreed framework.
Iran's statement ends with one line: "The very workable basis on which to negotiate has been openly and clearly violated, even before the negotiations began."

BIG: Morgan Stanley launches its Bitcoin ETF $MBST, with forecasts of $5B AUM in year one and $30M in day-one volume.

BREAKING: Meta stock surges +8% after unveiling "Muse Spark", its first AI model from its superintelligence group under Alexandr Wang.

Crypto markets are recovering::
Crypto funds recorded +$224 million in inflows last week, posting the 4th weekly intake over the last 5.
This was led by XRP, at +$120 million, the largest weekly inflow since December 2025, bringing year-to-date inflows to +$159 million.
Bitcoin and Solana followed, at +$107 million and +$35 million, respectively.
US-listed Bitcoin ETFs alone attracted +$471.3 million in inflows on Monday.
Crypto sentiment is slowly recovering.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷 Iran is accepting bitcoin for transit toll payments — Financial Times

UPDATE: Bitcoin long term holders absorb over 4,000,000 physical coins completely removing them from active circulation.
By hoarding this massive supply they are engineering an unprecedented macroeconomic liquidity vacuum.
The absolute scarcity of the underlying asset is fully validated.

📈 ONLY XRP IS ATTRACTING MONEY RIGHT NOW
BTC, ETH, and SOL spot ETFs all saw outflows, losing $159M, $64.7M, and $15.4M, respectively.
XRP stood alone with a $3.32M net inflow.

JUST IN : FDIC APPROVES GENIUS ACT RULE - BANKS CLEARED FOR STABLECOINS & BITCOIN CUSTODY 🇺🇸
The FDIC has approved a rule under the GENIUS Act, paving the way for banks to integrate digital assets. Banks can now issue payment stablecoins via subsidiaries, though these are not FDIC-insured.
Tokenized deposits will be treated like traditional ones with a 1:1 reserve requirement in cash or T-bills. Institutions such as JPMorgan & BNY Mellon are accelerating their crypto services.

Aster DEX and World Liberty Financial team up to bring RWA markets onchain, setting USD1 as the base layer for RWAs on Aster.

RETAIL IS COMPLETELY IGNORING THE BIGGEST DEVELOPER MIGRATION IN AVALANCHE HISTORY.
Two weeks. That is all it took.
10 massive in person events across an entire country. 700 builders showing up in real life to write code.
180 fresh smart contracts deployed directly to the network in a matter of days.
30 different founders actively pitching tangible products.
The most incredible part is who orchestrated this.
This was not funded by corporate headquarters. This was not the foundation pushing massive marketing dollars. This was pure organic community takeover engineered by local builders taking

ANTHROPIC REVENUE TRIPLES TO $30B, IPO EXPECTATIONS SOAR
Anthropic reported its growth in run-rate revenue more than 3x since the end of 2025, to over $30Billion.
Odds of Anthropic's IPO closing over $600Billion surges to 70%

Solana Foundation launches STRIDE and SIRN, bringing 24/7 threat monitoring, formal verification for top protocols, and real-time crisis response to the Solana ecosystem.

THE DATA DOES NOT LIE:
If you want to understand where enterprise liquidity is actually flowing, you have to look at the raw on chain data.
The recent Messari report on the Stellar network paints a very clear picture.
In the final quarter of last year, their Real World Asset market capitalization grew by over 180%
By January of this year, that specific sector officially crossed the $1,000,000,000 threshold.
This volume is being driven by massive traditional entities like Franklin Templeton and Red Swan Digital.
This is not retail speculation or meme coin velocity. This is structural enterpri

Chainlink is currently orchestrating a massive middleware expansion into traditional finance.
Wall Street will never abandon its entrenched operational moats and legacy mainframes to rebuild entirely on chain.
Instead of replacing these massive systems Chainlink is building the exact middleware required to seamlessly route global banking directly to decentralized networks.
By allowing institutions to operate exactly as they always have while settling securely on chain Link has solidified its status as the definitive bridge for the legacy financial sector.
This frictionless architecture is exac

MASSIVE WALL STREET GIANTS ARE TRYING TO DESTROY CRYPTO.
Traditional finance gatekeepers like Citadel are actively using the government to fight decentralized architecture!
They are absolutely terrified because transparent ledgers will completely destroy their hidden market monopolies.
But the industry is fighting back hard!
The Blockchain Association just submitted a massive response to the SEC to defend tokenized equities and DeFi protocols.
Hedera is standing right on the front lines of this historic regulatory battle to protect the future of finance.
Wall Street cannot stop a technologic