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Happy Wednesday 🎉
Prediction markets delivered an all timer this week.
This week’s X Post of the Week goes to @JeongHaeju, who surfaced one of the wildest Polymarket storylines we’ve seen yet: a trader who appears to have turned Google’s search rankings into a personal high frequency ATM.
According to the post, Google briefly pushed its “Most Searched People of 2025” results early, then pulled them down. But not before one user went 22 for 23, ballooned to $3.9M in open positions, and pocketed $1 million in a single day.
The same account reportedly made $150K+ predicting the early release of Gemini 3.0 before anyone else had the numbers.
The market consensus: either he’s the luckiest man alive, or a Google insider just speed-ran Polymarket…
The thread exploded with comments ranging from formal conspiracy to co-signing insider trading.
@WiiMee with the hot take…
If you think you have the next insider trade hot X post of the week shoot us a DM.
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Meet Eugene (@toxzique), Founder of Chainstack, a leading RPC provider recognized for its best price-performance in the market.
As a seasoned CTO with deep roots in cybersecurity and research, Eugene brings a wealth of experience in Web3 infrastructure.
He's passionate about building sustainable businesses and, when he's not focused on infra, you might find him hiking, skiing, or skydiving.
We're thrilled to welcome him to the Introduction.com network!
Adding a key player in the RWA space, we welcome Jesse Guglielmo (@jg_xyz_), the new Chief Commercial Officer at Hashfire.
Jesse is bringing his full-circle career to the community, starting as a Wall Street market maker on the NYSE floor before becoming a fintech executive at Bloomberg, where he ran the electronic equities brokerage business for the sell side.
His journey into Web3 was fueled by the conviction that all financial markets would change.
After a successful run as CMO of a Binance-backed DeFi protocol, he's now focused on Hashfire's mission: turning contracts into on-chain, verifiable agreements with built-in payment logic and real-time financing options.
Jesse's expertise in large RWA and capital markets plays will be a huge asset to our members.
We're thrilled to have his Wall Street to Web3 expertise in the community!
From fund manager to founder, Jonah Blake (@jonahblake) joins the community with a wealth of experience in gaming and crypto.
Jonah is the founder of Liveframe.ai, an onchain creator economy platform that recently came out of stealth.
While his fund is now on management, he's been heads-down building Liveframe.ai, which is focused on the intersection of onchain economics and creator markets.
His unique blend of content, finance, and gaming makes him a powerful addition to our members.
We're thrilled to have Jonah's veteran perspective in the community!
Kirill Pimenov @ Kalatori
Welcoming a true technical veteran, Kirill Pimenov (@kirushik), the former CISO at Parity Technologies.
Kirill has been full-time in crypto since 2017, when he was hired by Gav Wood into Parity.
Before that, his experience ranged from helping SUSE Linux build cluster management APIs to working on high-performance computational models for optics.
Now, he's building a non-custodial stablecoin payments solution for eCommerce, with LatAm as the top GTM priority.
This project aims to bring stablecoin payments to a wider audience.
And for a fun fact: Kirill has had a small involvement in two Nobel Peace Prize-winning projects in a row!
Welcome to Introduction.com, Kirill!
Bringing a unique blend of music industry flair and VC strategy, we welcome CJ Huntzinger (@CJ_Huntzinger), Head of Platform at Galaxy Ventures.
CJ has been at Galaxy for four years, where he works directly with portfolio companies on everything from marketing and communications to talent and events.
His professional journey is particularly valuable: before Galaxy, he worked in the music industry and ran comms for another VC fund.
That diverse experience makes him a highly valuable resource for founders in our community.
Welcome to the Introduction.com network!
We're excited to introduce Zach Heerwagen (@zheerwagen), CEO and Co-founder of Snag Solutions, the platform helping top Web3 projects execute custom growth strategies by tracking contributions and managing incentive distribution at scale.
Zach started Snag 3.5 years ago after an early career at DoorDash, where he launched new markets and progressed into a set of S&O leadership roles.
His experience in scaling a major tech company is a huge asset to our community.
Today, he works with projects like Flow, Moonbirds, Horizen, and Pudgy Penguins to launch and sustain valuable tokens by growing highly engaged communities.
Welcome aboard, Zach!
Table of Contents
What We’re Looking at 👀
🌟 The rails are getting rebuilt in real time
This week is about staking going institutional, banks coming back on chain, exchanges redrawing regional power, and markets never sleeping again
From Galaxy to N3XT to Ostium to state banks and CNN, crypto is moving from the edge straight into the core🌟
Money Moves(Funding/M&A): 🤑
From Introduction.com Members 💳️
Galaxy x Alluvial
Staking Goes Institutional: Galaxy Buys the Rails 🚀
Galaxy is acquiring Alluvial, the institutional staking infrastructure company behind Liquid Collective,
Galaxy looks to default enterprise staking provider(Galaxy).
Who Is Alluvial 🔍
Alluvial is an institutional grade staking infrastructure company designed for banks, custodians, asset managers, and exchanges rather than retail users (Alluvial).
It is essentially white glove staking infrastructure for institutions.
So instead of retail users clicking “stake” in a wallet, Alluvial lets banks, custodians, and funds:
Stake at scale
Stay compliant
Keep liquidity through a receipt token
Treat staking yield like a fixed-income-style product
Lay of the Land 🗺
Alluvial is the company. Liquid Collective is the protocol.
Alluvial is the company and engineering team.
Liquid Collective is the institutional liquid staking network and receipt-token system that runs on top of Alluvial’s infrastructure (LiquidCollective).
Key milestones
2022 Founded to build an enterprise-grade liquid staking standard
2022 Seed round completed
2023 Liquid Collective launched
2023 Series A completed
2024 Strategic financing secured
2025 Achieved SOC 2 Type 1 compliance on May 19, 2025
Capital and backers
Total reported funding approximately $22.5M
Blue chip backers include Coinbase Ventures, Kraken, Variant, and Ethereal Ventures
The Merger 🤝
What we know
Galaxy acquired Alluvial outright
Alluvial’s engineering team and staking infrastructure moved inside Galaxy
Galaxy became the official development company for Liquid Collective
The deal is framed as a long-term infrastructure expansion, not a partnership (Galaxy)
What we do not know
Purchase price
Valuation
Revenue multiple
Token exposure or earn-out structure
The Full Stack 🏦
Galaxy is best understood as the Goldman Sachs of digital asset trading and asset management.
It operates a vertically integrated institutional platform across markets, capital, and infrastructure (GalaxyAbout).
What Galaxy already controls
Institutional trading and market making
Crypto asset management and funds
Prime brokerage and lending
Derivatives and structured products
Mining and data center infrastructure
By absorbing Alluvial and becoming the development company for Liquid Collective, Galaxy adds staking and liquid yield rails directly into its institutional stack.
What Alluvial adds to Galaxy
Validator orchestration and staking middleware
Liquid receipt token engineering
Institutional staking APIs
Enterprise grade validator economics
Protocol level yield infrastructure
Signature Is Gone. What’s N3XT? 🚀
N3XT raised fresh capital to build a blockchain-powered, full-reserve U.S. bank led by the former Signature Bank (CoinDesk).
Who Is N3XT 🔍
N3XT is a narrow, full-reserve, crypto-native bank built under Wyoming’s special-purpose banking framework (Reuters).
Its pitch is simple.
Crypto needs a compliant U.S. bank that can move dollars 24/7 with the speed and finality of blockchain settlement.
Why Signature matters
Signature powered instant USD settlement for Coinbase, Circle, Gemini, Paxos, market makers, and funds
Signet became the backbone of dollar liquidity for the entire U.S. crypto market
Its 2023 collapse arguably created a void
N3XT is the attempt to rebuild those rails with
Full-reserve deposits
Programmable payments
On-chain settlement rails
Institutional-grade compliance
What N3XT Actually Does ⚙️
N3XT combines traditional banking supervision with blockchain infrastructure (CoinDesk).
Customers hold dollars and digital assets under one regulated roof, but deposits are never loaned out and every dollar is backed 1:1 with cash or short-term Treasuries.
Wyoming’s special-purpose bank license lets N3XT operate as a real U.S. bank for crypto and payments without using customer deposits for lending or taking traditional banking risk.
What the platform is designed to offer
Instant USD transfers with on-chain finality
Blockchain-verified settlement
Enterprise custody for fiat and crypto
A compliance stack modeled after bank regulation rather than fintech shortcuts
A real bank charter instead of a money transmitter patchwork (needs source)
This is not a crypto exchange.
It is meant to be the banking layer underneath exchanges, custodians, funds, stablecoin issuers, and blockchain-native enterprises.
The Raise 💰
N3XT has raised $72 million across three private financing rounds, backed by crypto-native investors including Paradigm, HACK VC, and Winklevoss Capital among others (CoinDesk).
The capital is destined to build out licensing, payment rails, settlement infrastructure, and institutional onboarding ahead of launch.
What we do not know
Valuation
Total deposits committed
Size or timeline of the first institutional customer cohort
Why Tho ❓
Crypto has spent 2 years without a real U.S. banking partner.
Signature’s collapse exposed a simple truth.
Crypto thrives with real-time dollar movement.
If N3XT succeeds, it becomes the first bank designed for the 24/7 blockchain economy using a regulatory structure the U.S. already understands.
If it fails, the industry remains trapped between offshore banks and fintech middlemen.
Either way
Signature is gone. The question is what’s N3XT.
Ostium
Wall Street Without Walls: The Everything Exchange for Perps 🌍
Ostium raised a $20M Series A to scale a non custodial perpetuals exchange.
The hype: Traders have access to both crypto and real world markets from a single on chain venue (Fortune).
Who 👤
Ostium is an on chain perpetuals exchange that turns a crypto wallet into a global trading desk.
Instead of only offering crypto perps like most DeFi venues, Ostium lets users trade synthetic exposure to gold, oil, FX, indices, and equities alongside BTC and ETH.
How ⚙️
Ostium is non custodial.
Users never deposit funds with a company. They trade directly from smart contracts using their own wallet.
in this case, the Perp contracts are synthetics that track real world prices through oracle feeds while collateral, margin, funding, and liquidation all settle on chain.
Mechanics in simple terms
Traders post on chain collateral
Open long or short perp positions
Prices are anchored to real markets through oracles
Funding rates and liquidations enforce pariy
No broker, no account, no custody
This all runs on Arbitrum, an Ethereum rollup Layer 2 that batches transactions off chain and settles them back onto Ethereum for final security. That gives Ostium Ethereum level trust with much lower fees and near instant execution.
The result is global macro trading without brokerage accounts, settlement delays, or withdrawal risk.
Resisting Regulation🛡️
Ostium does not custody funds, does not run a centralized order book, and does not offer deliverable exposure to real world assets.
All markets are synthetic perps priced by oracles and enforced by smart contracts.
That design keeps Ostium out of the legal definitions of
Broker dealer
Futures exchange
Clearinghouse
Securities platform
Instead of matching buyers and sellers, Ostium lets traders interact with on chain liquidity pools.
Instead of trading actual stocks or commodities, it settles profit and loss relative to external prices.
This is the same regulatory architecture used by leading crypto perps protocols but extended into TradFi markets.
For example, If we were to compare Ostium to, let’s say, Kraken’s xStocks, the difference is that Kraken offers regulated, jurisdiction-gated access to tokenized equities, while Ostium delivers 24/7 global exposure by synthetically mirroring real TradFi instruments on-chain without ever touching regulated securities.
The complexity is higher but the legal structure remains software first, custody free, and globally accessible.
By The Numbers 📊
Early network signals
Total disclosed funding now sits near $28M including earlier rounds
~$5B in reported metals trading volume alone (needs source)
Growing open interest across crypto, FX, and commodity perps
Industry Leaders 🤠
Paribu
Turkey Buys the Gulf; Exchange War Begins ⚔️
Paribu, Turkey’s largest crypto exchange, has acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA for $240M.
Gaining control over one of the Middle East’s only fiat-native crypto on-ramps and redrawing the region’s banking-to-crypto rails map (Investing).
The Players 🎭
Paribu 🇹🇷
Turkey’s dominant retail crypto exchange with deep local bank integration and one of the most liquid native TRY trading ecosystems in the region.
Founded in 2017
Serves millions of domestic users
One of the primary price-discovery venues for TRY crypto markets
Deeply embedded across Turkish banking and payments infrastructure
CoinMENA 🇧🇭🇦🇪
One of the few crypto exchanges in the Gulf with direct, regulated fiat on and off ramps into local banks.
Founded in 2019
Licensed in Bahrain and Dubai
Serves users across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond
Native AED and BHD banking connectivity
Built as a regulator-first, onshore crypto brokerage
The Acquisition 🤝
What we know
Paribu bought a majority stake in CoinMENA for $240M, the largest fintech-crypto deal in Turkish history (Investing)
CoinMENA retains its Gulf banking licenses and fiat rails
The deal creates a direct Turkey ↔ GCC crypto and fiat settlement corridor
Paribu gains immediate regulatory access to UAE and Bahrain markets
What we do not know
Whether order books, custody, or branding will merge
How liquidity will be routed between platforms
What regulatory conditions were attached by Gulf authorities
Whether further acquisitions follow
Why It Matters 🌍
This is not a token-listing race. It is a battle for fiat rails.
The Middle East is leaving behind the startup-exchange era and entering the consolidation era, where only well-capitalized, heavily licensed platforms will survive long-term.
Control of local banking access, not just trading volume, is now the true competitive moat.
For the first time, Turkey’s retail crypto economy is now directly linked to Gulf banking and private wealth infrastructure, creating a new regional crypto-capital corridor.
This changes how cross-border settlement, liquidity, and institutional access will scale across MENA.
Global exchanges still matter for price and depth. But local champions now control the last mile of money movement. That is where this exchange war will actually be won.
Events 📆
Top Stories 📰
Cascade
The City That Never Sleeps Just Got a Market to Match 🌃📈
What’s Happening 🚀
Cascade unveiled a 24/7 neo-brokerage that lets users trade crypto, perpetuals, and synthetic U.S. equities from a single always-on account.
The round is backed by about $15M in Seed funding and early support from Coinbase Ventures and other crypto native funds (CoinDesk).
The company is still early stage with an invite-only rollout planned into 2026 and founder details not yet fully public.
What Makes It Different 🧑⚖
Cascade is not a bank and that is the point.
PNC, JPMorgan, Goldman are bound by SEC market hours, DTCC clearing, and T+1 settlement
Banks cannot unify crypto, equities, and perps in one margin system
Real stocks cannot trade 24/7 by law
Bank custody, capital rules, and clearing windows force scheduled downtime
That structural difference is what allows it to stay open when Wall Street closes.
How It Works ⚙️
What we know
Users post crypto collateral instead of fiat
Trades settle through smart contracts, not bank rails
Crypto, perps, and synthetic stocks live inside one risk engine
Oracles anchor synthetic markets to real world prices
What we are assuming based on standard architecture
Cross-asset margin across all positions
Funding rates enforce price parity
Auto liquidation replaces broker margin calls
Oracles likely power stocks, FX, and commodities
This is DeFi mechanics packaged as a brokerage interface.
Why This Matters 🔎
If this model works, market hours become optional and brokerage becomes pure software. Cascade is not just extending trading hours. It is testing whether Wall Street even needs a closing bell anymore.
PNC
PNC Breaks Rank and Brings Bitcoin Into the Bank 🏦
What’s Happening 🚀
PNC has launched direct spot Bitcoin access inside its native banking platform for select Private Bank clients.
This comes after roughly 4 years of internal development and regulatory coordination with Coinbase powering custody and execution (CoinDesk).
The rollout is being driven by PNC’s wealth and digital assets leadership as part of a long term strategy to embed crypto directly into core banking rather than through ETFs or external brokerages.
How It Will Work ⚙️
What we know
Clients can buy, hold, and sell real spot BTC inside their PNC interface
Coinbase provides custody, execution, and compliance infrastructure
PNC does not custody the assets directly
Access is currently limited to Private Bank and HNW clients
Trading is BTC only at launch
Broader client access is expected later in 2026
PNC vs Other Major U.S. Banks 📊
PNC
Native spot BTC ownership inside a bank app
Real on chain asset exposure
Not an ETF wrapper
JPMorgan
BTC and ETH ETF access only
No direct crypto ownership
Morgan Stanley
BTC ETF access for approved risk profiles
No direct custody
Bank of America Merrill
Wells Fargo
Limited BTC ETF exposure
No spot access
BNY Mellon and U.S. Bank
Institutional crypto custody only
No retail trading
What it means 🔮
This is not an ETF moment.
This is Bitcoin becoming a native banking product at one of America’s largest commercial banks and the first true break in the wall between crypto and the U.S. banking core.
VTB x BTC
Crypto Behind the Curtain 🛰️
What’s Happening 🚀
Russia’s state controlled bank VTB announced it will launch regulated spot crypto trading for qualified clients in 2026.
VTB will be the first Russian bank to offer direct ownership of assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum inside the banking system (CoinDesk).
How It Works ⚙️
VTB will act as the client facing broker inside its banking interface
Trades will route through Russia’s domestic digital asset platforms rather than Western exchanges
Custody will remain within Russia using state regulated providers
Access will be limited to high net worth and qualified clients at launch
Assets are expected to include BTC and ETH only in the initial phase (CoinDesk)
What This Means For Sanctions 🔒
Technically, crypto can move across borders without permission from any government.
Legally, Western banks, exchanges, and payment processors are still forbidden from interacting with Russian financial institutions even if the assets move freely on chain.
Why Russia Is Doing This Anyway 🏗️
This is not about bypassing the West directly. It is about replacing it.
Russia is building its own parallel crypto banking stack driven by both state strategy and growing domestic demand for crypto as an alternative store of value and settlement rail
Prediction Goes Prime Time 📺📊
What’s Happening 🚀
CNN announced a formal partnership with Kalshi to integrate real time prediction market odds directly into on air graphics, digital coverage, and political analysis (CoinDesk).
How It Works ⚙️
What we know
CNN receives live API access to Kalshi’s federally regulated prediction market data
Market odds appear in on air graphics, digital articles, and analysis segments
CNN does not operate the markets, custody funds, or facilitate trading
Kalshi remains the regulated market operator under the CFTC (Kalshi)
What we do not know
Whether CNN receives direct revenue share
Whether the partnership is exclusive
How long the integration agreement lasts
Whether CNN personalities are permitted to trade on platform
State Of Prediction Markets 🔮
Prediction markets have moved from crypto novelty to mainstream financial signal, with major media outlets and institutional desks treating market odds as realtime sentiment indices. Coverage, liquidity, and cultural relevance have all surged as traders gravitate toward event based markets.
By the numbers
Combined Kalshi and Polymarket activity has crossed $10B in peak monthly volume (Vox)
Polymarket alone has recorded multi billion dollar months during elections and major geopolitical events (Block)
Bloomberg terminals now surface Polymarket odds next to FX, rates, and macro data
Hundreds of thousands of active traders participate across event markets globally
Markets now span politics, inflation, sports, earnings, geopolitics, and entertainment
🧭 Regulation Roundup
U S derivatives markets just crossed a major threshold.
The CFTC has formally opened the door for stablecoins and major crypto assets to be used as collateral, pulling Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC directly into the core infrastructure of regulated trading.
From tax enforcement to new licenses, property rights, and global bank access, this week’s actions show regulators no longer circling crypto but wiring it into the financial system.
🇺🇸 CFTC Launches Digital Assets Pilot For Crypto Collateral
The CFTC approved a pilot program allowing Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC to be used as collateral for derivatives, marking a structural shift in how crypto plugs into U S regulated markets (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 SEC Approves Second U S Crypto Index ETP
The SEC approved Bitwise’s BITW crypto index ETP, giving U S investors another regulated vehicle for diversified digital asset exposure (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Judge Presses Do Kwon Over Prison Assurances
A federal judge demanded clarity on whether Do Kwon would actually serve time before finalizing sentencing in the Terraform fraud case (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Prosecutors Seek 12 Year Sentence For Do Kwon
U S prosecutors requested a 12 year prison sentence for Terraform founder Do Kwon over fraud tied to the Terra collapse (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Digital Chamber Integrates CryptoUK As Affiliate
The Digital Chamber formally added CryptoUK as an affiliate, linking U S and U K lobbying infrastructures as global regulation accelerates (CoinDesk).
🇦🇪 Plume Wins ADGM Commercial License For RWA Expansion
Plume secured an Abu Dhabi ADGM commercial license as it targets Middle East expansion for real world asset infrastructure (CoinDesk).
🇦🇪 Circle Secures ADGM License For USDC Expansion
USDC issuer Circle received an ADGM license to expand regulated stablecoin operations across the Middle East (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Banks Push Back On Crypto Trust Charter Applications
U S regulators pushed back against banks attempting to block crypto firms from obtaining trust charters, escalating the fight over banking access (CoinDesk).
🇨🇦 40% Of Canadian Crypto Users Flagged For Tax Risk
Canada’s tax authority revealed that 40% of crypto users it reviewed show indicators of possible tax evasion risk (CoinDesk).
🇦🇷 Argentina To Allow Banks To Offer Crypto Services In 2026
Argentina’s central bank confirmed that domestic banks will be allowed to provide crypto services beginning in 2026 (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Ondo Token Gains As SEC Ends RWA Investigation
The SEC closed its investigation into Ondo Finance’s RWA tokenization platform, sending the ONDO token higher (CoinDesk).
🇨🇦 Canadian Court Allows Forfeiture Of QuadrigaCX Assets
A Canadian province won default judgment allowing the forfeiture of assets tied to the QuadrigaCX co founder (CoinDesk).
🇮🇳 Coinbase Reopens India Signups After 2 Year Freeze
Coinbase resumed India user onboarding and is targeting a fiat on ramp launch in 2026 (CoinDesk).
🇦🇪 Binance Wins Full ADGM Approval
Binance received full ADGM approval for exchange, clearing, and brokerage operations in Abu Dhabi (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Texas Lender Monet Joins Crypto Focused Banking Field
Small Texas bank Monet announced plans to operate as a crypto focused lender, adding to the specialized banking ecosystem (CoinDesk).
🌍 IMF Warns Of Global Stablecoin Risk
A new IMF report warned that rapid stablecoin growth could introduce systemic risk, sparking sharp criticism from crypto market participants (CoinDesk).
🇪🇺 EU Moves To Centralize Crypto Oversight Under ESMA
The European Union proposed shifting crypto supervision to its central securities watchdog ESMA, tightening bloc wide control (CoinDesk).
🇬🇧 Crypto Investor Donates $12M To U K Political Party
A crypto investor donated $12M to the U K Reform party, raising new questions about political funding in the digital asset era (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 CFTC Driven Spot Crypto Trading Goes Live
The first wave of CFTC supervised spot crypto trading is officially going live, opening a new regulated arena for U S markets (CoinDesk).
🇲🇾 Malaysia Shuts Down 14,000 BTC Mining Rigs
Malaysia deployed joint air and ground task forces to shut down 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining rigs (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Citadel Challenges DeFi Framework At The SEC
Citadel submitted objections to the SEC against a proposed DeFi regulatory framework, triggering sharp industry backlash (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Connecticut Orders Kalshi, Robinhood, Crypto.com To Halt Sports Betting
Connecticut regulators ordered Kalshi, Robinhood, and Crypto.com to cease sports related prediction market offerings (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 Trump’s CFTC And FDIC Picks Advance In Senate
Trump’s nominees to run the CFTC and FDIC moved closer to agency control with Senate advancement (CoinDesk).
🇺🇸 American Innovation Project Appoints First Crypto Education Director
The U S crypto education group appointed its first executive director to lead national digital asset curriculum and policy outreach (CoinDesk).
🇬🇧 U K Passes Law Recognizing Crypto As Property
The U K formally passed legislation recognizing crypto as legal property, strengthening ownership rights and asset protections (CoinDesk).
🇹🇼 Taiwan To Launch First Regulated Stablecoin In 2026
Taiwanese authorities confirmed the island’s first regulated stablecoin will launch in 2026 (CoinDesk).
The takeaway
The guardrails are being poured into concrete.
With the CFTC now allowing crypto and stablecoins as derivatives collateral, the United States is no longer debating whether digital assets belong in core market infrastructure, it is actively wiring them into it.
At the same time, courts, tax authorities, and central banks from Canada to Taiwan are locking in standards for ownership, enforcement, and stablecoin issuance.
Crypto is no longer testing the perimeter of finance, it is being inserted directly into the load bearing structure
Wrap Up ✌
✨Every thread this week points to the same shift
Yield is becoming infrastructure, banks are becoming crypto native, and markets are becoming perpetual
The debate is no longer whether crypto fits into finance, it is how fast finance can reshape itself around crypto ✨
