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Money & Markets
The crypto-native L2 hit the milestone in roughly one month — but only for non-US users. With the SEC's Innovation Exemption now issued, the offshore sandbox is about to move onshore.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The agentic brokerage launched automated event-driven trading via Kalshi, folding CFTC-regulated prediction-market signals into stock and bond strategies. It's the same pattern: infrastructure before regulation.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The Federal Reserve released two NPRMs for Board-supervised payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, completing the federal agency rulemaking picture and narrowing the window before the January 18, 2027 enforcement cliff.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The GENIUS Act bars stablecoin issuers from paying yield to holders. That has not stopped them from generating billions – it just changed who gets paid.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
PayPal, Shopify, and Stripe are now integrated into Meta's Muse agent. With 2.5M US downloads and computer-use capabilities, the distribution layer is catching up to the settlement infrastructure Visa and SoFi built.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
One statute bars stablecoins from paying interest. Another class of bank-issued tokens can. With the January 2027 enforcement cliff approaching, institutional capital is being forced to pick a lane.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
As stablecoin settlement volume eclipses the US ACH network, a flurry of institutional infrastructure plays is racing to beat the January 2027 enforcement cliff.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The exchange committed $100 million in equity and a five-year commercial agreement to put USDC at the center of its emerging-markets distribution strategy – a structural shift from transactional payment incentives.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The OCC-chartered, FDIC-insured bank is migrating its $25B+ annualized card program onto stablecoin rails – and Galileo could extend settlement to every other issuing bank.
◆ Nolan Pratt
Money & Markets
The payment giant became a founding validator on Circle's Arc L1, joining BlackRock and DTCC. The dual-chain strategy marks a shift from using blockchain infrastructure to operating it.
◆ Nolan Pratt
