DoorDash has begun building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Tempo, the Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, to pay delivery workers and merchants across more than 40 countries at near-instant settlement speeds and fixed US dollar fees, in one of the largest real-world stablecoin payment deployments by a publicly traded US company to date. Summary
Five years into building DeFi, @kaiynne now feels more scared than ever about keeping money on chain, following the Kelp DAO hack. The market predicting another $100M+ hack by December 31, 2026, sits at 100% YES. North Korea’s Lazarus Group has been linked to the $292-294 million exploit. The hack triggered over $13-15 billion in
Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatory April 27 deadline for all node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22. Summary Pi Network
The Iran war has exposed global reliance on oil and gas imports, with the Strait of Hormuz closure disrupting 15-20% of global oil flows. Crude oil hitting $90 by the end of June is a key market, though odds are currently unavailable. The ongoing supply disruption has traders watching the Crude Oil Predictions for June
There is a growing tension in Ethereum’s market structure that is worth addressing directly. On-chain, the supply picture is arguably the most constructive it has been in a while. On the chart, however, ETH is still struggling to clear a resistance zone it has now tested four times in six weeks. The resolution of that
Coinbase has filed with the CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price. Summary Coinbase will launch Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, covering both nano XRP
The first group of Iranian pilgrims arrived in Medina on April 25, resuming Hajj travel to Saudi Arabia. The Polymarket contract on UK military action against Iran by April 30 sits at 0.9% YES. The UK strike on Iran by April 30 market is flat at 0.9% YES, down from 2% a day ago. Other
The official TRUMP memecoin is down more than -95% from its January 2025 peak of $75, and the traders who rode that wave up are done pretending the story has a second act. The upcoming Mar-a-Lago conference for the token’s top 297 holders drew just $1.4Bn in trading volume in the run-up, compared to $12.9Bn
Getting from the current price of around $1.43 to the base zone would mean a drop of anywhere between 35% and 50%. A closely watched analyst has argued that XRP may drop to $0.70-$0.90. However, this is not a call for a crash but rather a call for patience, as the market watcher claims
BridgeTower Capital has officially deployed Chainlink’s full infrastructure stack to tokenize securities tied to the DOM X Arizona Copper-Gold Project, an $11 billion US natural resource initiative, in what the companies describe as live production infrastructure rather than a pilot. Summary BridgeTower Capital is using Chainlink’s complete stack, including CCIP, Proof of Reserve, NAVLink, and