Crypto markets suffer a brutal selloff as gold and silver see one of their sharpest reversals in decades. Big buyers step in, stablecoins move to the center of regulation, and Washington pulls crypto directly into U.S. political and financial policy.

Pump.fun has launched a $3 million Build in Public hackathon designed to flip the traditional startup funding model on its head. Instead of closed-door judging, founders launch openly and let user participation determine which projects earn support.

This week, Visa, KuCoin, Apple, and onchain markets all pointed to the same shift: crypto is moving from a trade to embedded infrastructure.

Maple, the largest onchain asset manager, has officially launched on Base — the fast-growing Layer 2 incubated by Coinbase — opening its credit & yield products to millions of users & developers across one of Web3’s most active ecosystems.

x402 quietly introduces HTTP-native, onchain payments — unifying identity, authorization, and settlement into a single flow built for APIs, AI agents, and creator platforms.

As museums and cultural institutions continue to grapple with how to exhibit, preserve, and contextualize digital-native art, the Tezos Foundation and HEK (House of Electronic Arts) are leaning into the challenge — together.