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Stripe's Reported $7B OpenRouter Deal Skips the Blockchain
OpenRouter meters sub-cent AI calls against prepaid deposits and charges less for crypto top-ups than for Stripe cards.
Tether Passes Its First Full Audit, Keeps the Statements Private
Plus, Neutrl pauses redemptions and ether.fi turns into a finance app
Memecoin Launchpad Fees Grew 77% in a Month
The category took $75.39 million over 30 days; Robinhood Chain grew 236% and now nearly matches Solana, while pump.fun earns more from a smaller share
Robinhood Chain's First Mint Sold Out in an Hour
Spritehood sold 44,444 tokens in 54 minutes on Robinhood Chain, off a contract whose source code nobody can read.
Lightning Nodes Swept While BTCPay Users Read the Warning
The flaw surfaced because a developer got robbed and read his own logs, after this week's AI audits missed it
a16z Says Anti-CLARITY Bank Lobby Keeps Stablecoin Yield Alive
Prediction Markets traders have the bill at 22 cents for 2026.
Degens Beat Uniswap to Its Own Memecoin Launchpad
Pools went live four and a half hours late on Robinhood Chain, and FRONG, minted before the product was announced, leads it at $12.1 million.
Ethereum Weighs Burning Validator Rewards to Cap Staking
Cloudflare gives AI agents a stablecoin wallet, Wells Fargo tokenizes deposits, and Western Union ships a stablecoin card in 37 markets
$114M Gone From Wallets That Did Everything Right
Losses near $114 million as a fourth sweep hits, Boltz pulls its bitcoin swaps over AI-assisted attacks, and DEXs take a record 24% of CEX spot volume.