Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after President Trump announced via Truth Social that he was canceling scheduled U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaling that a multi-nation agreement was close, citing approvals from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, and other regional powers.

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

LG Electronics is building a blockchain-based advertising network on its own Arbitrum-derived Layer 2, with a pilot completed and a commercial launch targeted for later this year.

New IC3 research finds most AI-agent crypto platforms show no clear evidence of autonomous trade execution, despite combined token valuations exceeding $3 billion. The paper covers 1,900+ surveyed projects and finds token holders lost $191.7M collectively while the top 1% captured 81.4% of gains.

Coinbase has launched two onchain USDC lending vaults built on Morpho and curated by Steakhouse Financial: a conservative Prime tier backed by BTC and ETH collateral, and a Higher Yield tier drawing on Ethena-powered assets.

Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a standalone account that lets AI assistants including ChatGPT and Claude execute crypto trades, manage portfolios, and pay for data autonomously under user-defined guardrails. x402 payments integration arrives next week.

The steward of the Cardano blockchain is seeding DeFi liquidity, backing an $80M venture fund and signing enterprise deals — a reversal of its hands-off posture that lands as onchain metrics fall and the network's founder feuds with it over governance.

Binance has activated its tokenized-equity layer, converting live stock positions on its brokerage platform into BNB Chain tokens tradable around the clock. The first five bStocks include Nvidia, Tesla, Circle, Micron, and Sandisk.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong disclosed three platform-scale metrics on Thursday: approximately $1 trillion in annual stablecoin movement, $20 billion in USDC held on platform, and more than 160 million autonomous transactions via the x402 agentic payments protocol in the last year.

Citigroup is making tokenized interests in private companies available to wealth-management and institutional clients on SIX Digital Exchange, the Wall Street Journal reported. The bank has already completed its first transaction and is in talks with additional private firms.