Bitcoin gained 22.6% over seven days, its largest advance over any seven-day window since November 2024, after the president told crypto executives at the White House that Congress needs to pass market structure legislation.

Official materials name Circle and 11 founding validators, while an Arc documentation page describes approximately 20 validators at launch.

The president said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring the geoblocked perpetual futures venue into the US "in a fully compliant and legal fashion," sending HYPE and Hyperliquid Strategies shares up and CME and Cboe down.

Sid Powell, CEO and co-founder of Maple Finance, joins Chris Storaker on the Converge Podcast

Ether gained 9% and total crypto market value rose 5.1% after the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks. Short positions accounted for 91% of the day's liquidations.

Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems.

The Robinhood CEO published a case for US equity tokenization five days after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption for a second time.

The proposal pairs two registration exemptions with a conditional safe harbor that would take the "investment contract" label off a token, and preempts state securities law. All three sitting commissioners backed it in a vote held outside a public meeting.

The payroll platform's dollar balance, issued through Stripe's Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The US, UK, EU and Australia remain excluded.

OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.