Circle Soars, X Bets on Polymarket, Save Our Wallets

(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines(00:57) Texas Treats Bitcoin Like Gold: A State-Level Reserve(02:41) Bitcoin as Mortgage Collateral(04:33) Robinhood’s Big Bet: Tokenized Stocks, Staking, and a Blockchain of Its Own(07:32) Stablecoins Get Serious: Circle and Ripple Chase Bank Charters(08:55) Fiserv’s FIUSD: A Payments Giant Joins the Stablecoin Party(10:29) Betting on the Future: Polymarket and Kalshi Raise Millions(12:07) Fold Buys Lolli to Supercharge Bitcoin Rewards(13:46) Weekly Recap, Hot Take, and Closing Thought

(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines(00:47) Senate Says "Genius" to Stablecoins(03:44) Stablecoins in E-commerce: Shopify's Big Move(06:59) Walmart and Amazon’s Stablecoin Ambitions(09:52) Coinbase Card: AMEX with up to 4% Bitcoin Rewards (12:48) Bitcoin’s Supply Squeeze Heats Up(16:49) Weekly Recap, Hot Take, and Closing Thought

(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines(01:00) Circle's Explosive IPO and Its Implications(04:46) Tether's Astonishing Profits and Market Position(07:39) The Great IPO Rush: Gemini and Beyond(10:40) X Bets on Polymarket(13:51) Stripe as AWS of Internet Money(16:35) The Fight for Wallet Freedom in Congress(19:53) Conclusion: The Future of Money

(00:00) Intro and Major Headlines(00:49) VP Vance: Stablecoins Supercharge the Dollar(03:36) GameStop’s $513M Bitcoin Bet: Meme Stock Goes Full Saylor(06:16) Square Makes Bitcoin Payments Easy as Pie(08:32) Tether's Dominance and Global Impact(11:10) Russia’s Largest Bank Bets on Bitcoin Bonds(12:59) Circle’s IPO: Stablecoins Go Wall Street(15:01) SEC Drops Binance Suit: Regulation by Enforcement Dies(16:55) Conclusion: The Great Normalization

(00:00) Introduction and Overview(00:50) Bitcoin Outmuscles Amazon: The $2 Trillion Milestone(05:47) Kraken’s xStocks: Wall Street Meets Blockchain(09:46) The GENIUS Act: Stablecoins Get a Rulebook(14:14) Major Banks Entering the Stablecoin Arena(18:26) Weekly Recap and Final Thoughts

(0:39) Coinbase Joins the S&P 500(3:03) Coinbase Hackers Demand $20M Ransom(5:09) Robinhood Acquiring WonderFi for $179M(6:43) Steak 'n Shake Accepts Bitcoin(8:24) Gemini's Bitcoin Credit Card(10:12) AI Meets Shopping: Perplexity and PayPal Team Up(11:41) The GENIUS Act and Stablecoin Regulation(14:46) Weekly Recap and Closing Thoughts

(0:29) Bitcoin crosses $103K(1:53) Coinbase buys Deribit for $2.9B(3:23) Bitcoin-backed loans go live on Coinbase(4:34) New Hampshire passes Bitcoin reserve bill(5:34) Stripe launching stablecoin accounts globally(6:39) Meta eyes USDC payouts on Instagram(7:34) Lightning powers 15% of Coinbase BTC transactions(8:29) Robinhood building tokenized stock platform in Europe(9:23) Celsius CEO Mashinsky sentenced to 12 years(10:12) Visa backs stablecoin fintech BVNK(11:05) Stablecoin stack is the new banking stack