This was a massive week for digital assets in the US with Coinbase, Circle and PayPal as the big winners:
This is a huge win for Coinbase. They just levelled up as the 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘯-𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. We’ll unpack it below.
There’s more: The White House has released a 166 page report outlining the United States' strategic approach to digital assets. In short: the US is going all-in on digital assets. The goal? To make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.” [Read the summary].
Meanwhile, the SEC launched “project crypto”, basically telling the world that they’re about to move mountains to massively accelerate crypto adoption and bring capital markets onchain. Wow.
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Fidelity Information Services (FIS), the $82B infrastructure giant behind 95% of the world’s top banks, enabled USDC payments for U.S. financial institutions through a new partnership with Circle, integrating stablecoin rails directly into its Money Movement Hub. This is a unified platform letting banks process ACH, wires, RTP, and stablecoins via one API in May 2025. [RELEASE] [ANALYSIS]
