AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoVisa Stablecoin Push: Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform with native support for Open USD, aiming to let banks and payment firms mint, move, and manage stablecoins inside Visa rails—sending Circle shares down ~6% and Coinbase lower as TradFi races to own crypto payments. Tokenized Equities Expansion: SBI teamed with Ondo to tokenize Japanese equities, using SBI’s JPYSC stablecoin for settlement and collateral, while Alpaca raised $135M (plus up to $300M debt) to scale agent-first brokerage infrastructure for onchain stocks. Derivatives & Margin Plumbing: Kraken rolled out USD-settled BTC/ETH options, and Coinbase said Marex went live accepting USDC as margin inside regulated derivatives clearing workflows. Exchange/Platform Risk: Robinhood Chain’s Vlad.fun suspended after finding a “serious internal integrity issue,” and Dutch crypto exchange Knaken was declared bankrupt with ~€7M in customer funds unaccounted for. Market Mood: Bitcoin held near $64K as geopolitical risk capped gains; XRP bounced on whale buying and a Binance-linked RLUSD-linked XRP reward campaign. Regulation & Politics: The Senate unanimously opposed any clemency for Sam Bankman-Fried, while the CLARITY Act vote remains the big US crypto legislative watch item.
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