Anchorage Digital partners with Ethena Labs to launch the first GENIUS-compliant; federally regulated stablecoin — BusinessWire

Circle announced that Binance will accept its yield-based stablecoin USYC as collateral for institutional clients — Fortune

South Korea’s largest exchange, Upbit, has announced the listing of Maple Finance (SYRUP) and Huma Finance (HUMA) — Upbit

xAI has announced a partnership with Kalshi to integrate Grok into Kalshi’s prediction market platform — Twitter

TON Foundation and Kingsway Capital Partners are seeking to raise at least $400M for a TON treasury company — Bloomberg

VeChain partners with Franklin Templeton to integrate the company’s BENJI platform for enterprise payments — Cointelegraph

EigenLayer introduces multi-chain verification on Base, enabling AVSs to expand beyond Ethereum — Twitter

Metaplanet buys another 780 Bitcoin worth $93 million — Twitter

SharpLink Gaming buys $295 million in ETH, pushing total holdings over 438,000 ETH — The Block

Galaxy sells 80,000+ BTC for a Satoshi-era investor — The Block

Upbit lists OP trading pairs with KRW, BTC, and USDT — Upbit

EU and U.S. have reached a trade deal to avoid a tariff war. The EU agreed to a 15% tariff on most exports — Bloomberg

Bitfinex-backed Layer 1 Plasma raises $373 million in 10-day token sale — Twitter

PayPal to let U.S. merchants accept payment in more than 100 cryptocurrencies — Fortune

MetaMask adds stablecoin yield with DeFi giant Aave — CoinDesk

Ethena has launched its Liquid Leverage solution in partnership with Aave — Twitter

Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' buys 21,021 BTC worth $2.46B — Twitter

Linea confirms snapshot was taken for the airdrop — The Block

Bank of Korea announced an organizational restructuring, officially establishing a “Virtual Asset Team” — News1

Number of tokens created daily on Base has surpassed Solana for three straight days — Dune

Turkey’s largest Uber-like ride-hailing platform decided to invest 20% of its cash reserves in crypto assets — Twitter