USDC (USDC)

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#1 stablecoin by mc, most innovative, zero slippage bridge and now this all while USDC charges you money on their official bridge and @ShadowOnSonic made a bridge using the CCTP for free Circle is so fvcking greedy

Potentially a huge step for the Internet! AWS now allows publishers to charge AI bots per request. Instead of letting GPTs, agents, and crawlers fetch content for free, website owners can set a price and receive payments directly in USDC. The settlement runs through Coinbase's x402 protocol, which supports, among others, Solana. Suddenly, "bot traffic" becomes a new source of revenue. If this model takes off, the Internet's business model could shift: away from advertising and paywalls toward micropayments between AI agents and websites.

SpaceX's IPO Just Doubled the Tokenized Equity Market in Six Months The tokenized equities market hit $5.5 billion this month. In January it was $2.23 billion. That 147% jump didn't come from a dozen catalysts it came from one: SpaceX. 🚀 How exchanges got ahead of the listing Before SpaceX officially priced, crypto platforms were already selling it. Bybit rolled out tokenized SpaceX shares through its xStocks product, settled in USDC. Kraken made its version available across 110 countries. Binance Wallet joined in. Robinhood offered access to European users who couldn't touch the NYSE-listed stock directly. Each platform was betting that retail demand for SpaceX exposure was too large to leave to traditional brokers alone and they were right. The most telling signal came from hyperliquid:native , where perpetual futures on SpaceX were trading around $155 before the IPO priced at $135. That spread wasn't noise. It was the market saying the $135 floor was a gift, and it validated the entire thesis that tokenized derivatives can serve as genuine price discovery tools, not just synthetic side bets. 🪙 Republic's $50 bet on Solana The most retail-friendly play came from Republic, which built its rSPAX toke with a minimum buy-in of just $50. The offering closed November 1, 2025, months before the IPO, letting small investors stake a claim in a private company that had been inaccessible to anyone outside institutional venture rounds. That's the part Wall Street doesn't love to talk about: the gatekeeping was structural, and tokenization just walked around it. Per The Block, the surge in tokenized equities tracks almost exactly with SpaceX IPO chatter intensifying through late 2025 and into 2026. The asset class was growing before SpaceX, but slowly. The IPO acted less like a catalyst and more like a defibrillator. 📈 What $5.5B actually means for RWA The broader real-world asset tokenization space has been chugging along on treasury bills and credit instruments. Tokenized equities were the missing piece, too legally complex, too structurally tricky, too dependent on a compelling enough name to draw retail in at scale. SpaceX provided the name. CNBC reported that the IPO is shining a light on what the industry has been quietly building for two years: a product set that can genuinely challenge how equity is distributed and traded globally. The infrastructure worked. The demand was real. The next question is which IPO comes next and whether the platforms can keep pace without running into the securities regulators who've been watching all of this very closely.

Most points programs look the same until you actually check how they're earned. @tori_finance's Cores caught my attention because the highest earning rate isn't later. It's during the pre-deposit phase. Vault opens June 23. Deposit early, earn Cores faster than at any later stage, and stack them through multiple actions. I spent some time digging into how it works. Tori is built around two assets. trUSD is the synthetic dollar, backed 1:1 by USDC and USDT with the collateral rule enforced on-chain. Stake it and you receive strUSD, the yield-bearing version. The yield doesn't come from token emissions. It comes from delta-neutral carry strategies that capture interest-rate differentials across global money markets. That's also why I found the setup interesting in the first place. The Cores program is simple: → Hold trUSD → Stake strUSD → Use strUSD across integrated DeFi protocols All three activities earn Cores and stack together. Holding earns. Staking earns more. Putting strUSD to work across DeFi earns on top of that. If you're already sitting in stables, June 23 is probably the date worth paying attention to. DYOR as always.