RaaS #577: Stripe Doubles Down on Crypto Payments!

Tether Makes Gold Spendable, Pumpdotfun Prints $1.27B, And Moar!

Stripe and Cryptodotcom partnered to make cryptocurrency payments easier for merchants and their customers. They will enhance crypto payments, integrating Cryptodotcom Pay into Stripe's checkout for millions of businesses. The exchange will also leverage Stripe to simplify cryptocurrency purchases using credit and debit cards.

Wall Street isn’t waiting around. Morgan Stanley filed with the SEC to launch spot ETFs tied to Bitcoin and Solana, signaling deeper institutional appetite beyond BTC-only exposure. TradFi wants a diversified crypto beta, and they want it fast.

MSCI confirmed that Bitcoin and crypto treasury companies will remain in its indexes. This removes a major overhang for firms like Strategy and shuts down fears of forced BTC selling tied to index rebalancing. Real bullish news for the crypto market!

Tether introduced Scudo, a new unit representing 1/1000 of an ounce of gold for XAU₮. The goal is to make digital gold easier to price, send, and transact without awkward decimals. Gold, but usable.

Somali daycares need to launch a token.

Ripple expanded its Japan footprint with major partnerships across Mizuho Bank, SMBC Nikko, and Securitize Japan. The focus goes beyond payments into tokenized securities and RWAs on XRPL. Institutional DeFi keeps going global.

Pumpdotfun just printed another Solana milestone. Daily DEX volume reached a new all-time high of $1.27B, driven by memecoin activity that refuses to cool off. Serious or not, liquidity talks.

Your daily dose of bite-sized crypto news.

1. PredictBase secured a strategic investment from Virtuals Ventures, including long-term aligned PREDI token exposure.

2. Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin climbed into the top 20 largest public Bitcoin treasuries, surpassing KindlyMD.

3. Arbitrum DAO deployed 3,117 ETH into Ether.fi’s weETH as a top-three treasury allocation.

4. Bitcoin Core warned of a rare wallet migration bug in versions 30.0 and 30.1 that could cause fund losses if wallets aren’t backed up.

5. White Whale accused MEXC of running an internal order desk on newly listed perps, raising serious market integrity concerns.

Senator Cynthia Lummis questioned whether the DOJ improperly sold seized Bitcoin despite Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve order. If confirmed, it raises uncomfortable questions about policy consistency at the federal level.

Rumors surfaced that Venezuela has secretly amassed 600,000 to 660,000 BTC since 2018 by converting smuggled gold and oil payments. There’s no on-chain proof yet, but if it’s real and seized, it could bolster America's Bitcoin Reserve under a no-sell policy.

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1. Hantengri argues that the easiest money in 2026 won’t come from chasing narratives, but from farming live, revenue-generating products.

2. Pat Scott makes the case that crypto investing is moving past hype and charts toward on-chain fundamentals. Metrics like revenue, fees, user activity, and capital efficiency are becoming the real signal.

3. Cuy Sheffield outlines a 2026 outlook where crypto and AI winners are defined less by theoretical potential and more by reliability and real-world performance. Adoption gaps, not innovation gaps, will determine where value accrues as both technologies mature.

4. Abraham Chase explains that most creators don’t fail due to bad content, but poor distribution. Visibility comes from focus, repetition, and patience, not trying to cover every topic at once or chasing viral moments.

5. HackerTrader distills trading down to two core strategies despite the illusion of infinite setups. Studying legendary traders shows that success comes from mastering one consistent edge.

opBNB completed its Fourier mainnet hardfork, cutting block times from 500ms to 250ms. Faster blocks, higher throughput, and better positioning against other L2 competitors.

SUI Group appointed former CFTC Commissioner and a16z crypto policy head Brian Quintenz to its board. Regulatory firepower meets Layer 1 ambition.

That’s all for today!