🪙 Circle, issuer of the USDC stablecoin, raised $222,000,000 from BlackRock, Apollo, and other major players for its Arc blockchain — the company's valuation grew to $3 billion.
💎 Tokenized gold continues to gain momentum — in Q1 2026 alone, spot trading volume reached $90.7 billion, already surpassing the entirety of 2025 with its $84.6 billion.
The main market volume is held by PAXG and XAUT — crypto investors are increasingly using "gold on the blockchain" as a straightforward hedge asset.
🖥 Exactly 16 years ago, Bitcoin mining first switched to graphics cards — a developer showed that GPUs compute hashes much more efficiently than regular CPUs.
This breakthrough launched a new era of mining — the network's hashrate increased by approximately 130,000% after the transition from CPU to GPU.