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Polymarket Switches on Instant Bitcoin Lightning Deposits, Cutting 60-Minute Waits to Under a Second

Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, has enabled instant bitcoin deposits over the Lightning Network, with new rails powered by the Spark protocol crediting funds in under one second. Opening…

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Total Stablecoin Cap Falls $1.9 Billion This Week While Sky Dollar Leads the Slide

Tether lost $791 million this week, a single-token drop that accounted for 41% of the $1.9 billion pulled from the entire stablecoin market. Most of its top competitors also finished…

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Tron Hits Record Highs in June, Topping 385 Million Transactions and 26.9 Million Active Accounts

The Tron network set fresh usage records in June, with Lookonchain reporting that the ecosystem recently surpassed 385 million total transactions and 26.9 million wallet addresses as its stablecoin-driven activity…

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Tether’s USDT Flips Ether in Market Cap as Stablecoin Climbs to $186 Billion

Tether’s USDT stablecoin briefly overtook ether to become the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, reaching about $186.06 billion against ether’s $185.66 billion. Stablecoin issuance and a slumping ether seem to…

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Coinbase Enables Stablecoin Payments Across Checkout.com’s 1,000+ Merchant Network

Coinbase enables Checkout.com merchants to accept USDC and USDT through existing checkout systems. More than 1,000 enterprise customers can add stablecoin payments while settling in U.S. dollars. Checkout.com Partnership Pushes…

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Gravity Bridge Drained of $5.4 Million as Hacker Routes Stolen Funds Through Binance

Cross-chain protocol Gravity Bridge was drained of roughly $5.4 million on May 30, with the attacker reportedly funneling part of the haul through Binance and Changenow, blockchain security firm Peckshield…

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Stable and Theo Open Morpho Vault for USDT Holders Seeking Real-World Asset Yield

Stable, the USDT-native blockchain, went live this week with StableEarn, a treasury management product that routes USDT deposits into institutional-grade yield through a Morpho vault backed by Theo’s real-world asset…

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