Strategy made no bitcoin purchases or sales last week, holding steady at 845,050 $BTC and instead repurchased $176.3 million of $STRC preferred shares while doubling its digital credit securities buyback program to $2 billion.
⚡ Circle to Acquire Cross-Border Payments Firm Tazapay
Circle, the issuer of the world’s second-largest stablecoin $USDC, has agreed to acquire Tazapay, a Singapore-based cross-border payments platform serving 100+ markets, with over 60% of its volume running on stablecoins.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Ethereum, Jupiter, Binance, PancakeSwap, Avalanche, Canopy, Liquid Network, Flap, Harmony, Ondo Finance, and Router Protocol.
Plasma led blockchain growth in crypto card volume, up 49.9% MoM to $71.1M, while Tron remained the largest chain by volume at $262M despite a 15.6% drop.
Total value across chains is up 81.3% since February, led by RedotPay at $464M.
Robinhood's momentum shows across two fronts, $130.8M from its own issuer stack plus $104.4M on Robinhood Chain.
Reality by Bitget has carved out $166.2M, more than either Robinhood entity alone. Binance bStocks keeps climbing too, now $658.4M and 21.7% of the market, trailing only Ondo Finance.
BNB Chain kicked off a multi-week meme campaign for bStocks-paired tokens, with Week 1's $400,000 airdrop pool distributed based on a HODLer Index through 12 September.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Polymarket, Revolut, SoFi, Nvidia, Hyperliquid, Ethena, Ondo Finance, Chainlink, Bitget, LayerZero, Injective, and Kraken.
⚡ Chainlink partners with Bottomline for cross-chain payments
Bottomline, a top-three Swift service provider, will connect 600+ banks to public and private blockchains through Chainlink, processing over $16T in payments annually.
⚡ Hyperliquid introduces HIP-3 for permissioned markets
The upgrade will let deployers use onchain whitelists to restrict access to specific markets. It is optional, won’t affect existing HIP-3 markets, and is currently live on testnet.
Hyperliquid Labs has reportedly discussed partnering with Kraken parent Payward, potentially opening US access to Hyperliquid-linked perps.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Robinhood, Arbitrum, Pons, Chainlink, Securitize, Base, Cluster Protocol, Stellar, Coinbase, Jupiter, Hyperliquid, and Variational.
⚡ Chainlink to facilitate reserve verification for FRNT
Chainlink Proof of Reserve will provide more continuous near-real-time, onchain verification of the reserves backing Wyoming’s Frontier Stable Token (FRNT).