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Financial markets, crypto markets, trading agents, market infrastructure, and capital flows in the AI agent economy.
Money & Markets
The crypto-native exchange is now offering 24/5 trading of nearly 4,000 US equities to UK users, funded by GBP or USDC — the first time a major platform has treated stablecoins as the primary settlement rail for traditional stocks.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $183B stablecoin issuer is deploying its Hadron tokenization platform in Saudi Arabia via First Data and BKN301, targeting institutional real estate first — and signaling a strategic shift from currency to infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
CoinShares flags a 140-partner consortium designed to redistribute the $667.7 million in reserve income Circle earned this quarter — one day after Coinbase renewed the distribution model that generated it.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
By deploying Crypto Credential across the Borderless.xyz network, Mastercard is betting that the real competition isn't over settlement speed — it's over who controls verification at scale.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The world's largest payment network is moving stablecoins from pilot programs to production-scale settlement via Zero Hash, completing an infrastructure arc that now stretches from Visa Direct to Western Union to Mastercard.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
USDC onchain volume surged 151% year-over-year even as supply contracted, validating the metamorphosis thesis from rate-sensitive utility to agentic settlement infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Western Union, the world's largest remittance company, launched Stablecard on Solana through Rain, routing its $107B network onto stablecoin rails instead of its own proprietary infrastructure.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
Morgan Stanley calls CRCL a shrinking utility. TD Cowen and Bernstein see a platform metamorphosis. The Aug 5 earnings print decides which thesis survives.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The $1.8B deal closes a bidding war that stretched from Coinbase to Zerohash and back. The signal: stablecoin infrastructure is no longer a partnership play.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
With BSTBL and BRSRV, BlackRock is positioning as the indispensable reserve infrastructure layer underneath every stablecoin issuer, turning GENIUS Act compliance into a structural moat.
◆ Nolan Pratt
