🔥 BIG: Stablecoins processed $46T in transactions over the past year, nearly 3x Visa's volume and closing in on the ACH network that powers US banking.
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. China pushes for a new global order
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, President Xi Jinping outlined his vision for a new global security and economic order, with a focus on the Global South. This is seen as a direct challenge to the Western-led system.
Meanwhile, China held a massive Victory Day military parade in Beijing, joined by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un—signaling the rise of an “axis of upheaval” opposing the West.
🚨 UPDATE: Solana's SIMD-0326 Alpenglow voting process has started.
The proposal aims to reduce block finality time from 12.8 seconds to 150ms through new consensus protocol changes.
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🚨 NEW: Goldman Sachs leads institutional Ethereum ETF holdings with $721M exposure, followed by Jane Street at $190M and Millennium at $186M according to 13F filings.
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🚨 NEW: Former Polymarket and Kalshi team launches The Clearing Company, raising $15M led by Union Square Ventures to build regulated onchain prediction markets with participation from Coinbase Ventures and other major VCs.
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