💳 Mastercard has taught AI agents to make payments with cryptocurrency independently.
🪙 Solana conducted the largest update in its history — Alpenglow — reducing the final transaction confirmation time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.
📊 Altcoins are trapped — when Bitcoin rises, they remain stable, and when it falls, they lose even more.
🤔 Arkham launched a paid Enterprise platform for tracking cryptocurrency transfers and investigations, while cutting the capabilities of the free version.
🪙 More than half of the total BTC volume is stored at addresses whose owners are unknown.
⚰️ The L2 network cemetery continues to grow — following Kinto and Swellchain, along with recent announcements regarding the shutdown of Blast and Abstract, Sophon — a project from the zkSync ecosystem — announced its complete cessation.
🚬 Investor Li Lu, a disciple of the legendary Charlie Munger, called cryptocurrencies a fiction and predicted that over time they will disappear on their own.
🗽 The US approved the first stablecoin regulation rules under the GENIUS law, which will take effect on January 18, 2027.
💳 Western Union is preparing international transfers in its own stablecoin USDPT on Solana.