MARA Holdings shares surged ~15% after the Bitcoin miner agreed to acquire a 2 GW Texas site from HIF for ~$600M, paid partly in Bitcoin, nearly doubling its power capacity to 4.8 GW.
PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin is now issued natively on Polygon via Paxos, ditching bridged tokens and integrating into Polygon's Open Money Stack for cross-border dollar settlement.
Total crypto market cap rises 0.84% to $2.29T but Fear & Greed holds at 28. ETH gains 2.51%, Zcash surges 5.57%, while BTC holds $64,167 and alts bleed weekly.
Pakistan's crypto regulator PVARA pushes back on Mufti Taqi Usmani's ruling rejecting USDT and crypto payments, calling for separate technical and Shariah reviews.
The White House says it requested Democratic commissioner nominees for the SEC and CFTC but got nothing back, leaving both crypto regulators without minority-party representation.
ARB surged ~19% after Offchain Labs confirmed every Arbitrum Orbit L2, including Robinhood Chain, must route 10% of net protocol revenue back to the ARB ecosystem.
Bitdeer (BTDR) shares jumped 14.1% to $14.33 after breaking ground on a $36M, 187,000-sq-ft SEALMINER assembly plant in Sparks, Nevada, to cut tariff exposure.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank has launched a proof-of-concept to tokenize money market funds on a public blockchain, targeting full digital securities issuance in fiscal 2026.
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf is pursuing $3.5B in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds led by Morgan Stanley to build a Kentucky AI campus under a 20-year Anthropic lease.
Adam Back's BSTR and Cantor Equity Partners have scrapped their original SPAC merger terms, leaving the $1.5B financing for a 30,021 BTC treasury void as renegotiations begin.
