Bitcoin's hashrate is finally starting to rise again after the longest period of decline in the mining market that we have ever observed. However, it is still almost 10% below its all-time high.

Binance’s bStocks has surpassed $1 billion in assets just four months after launch, making it the fastest-growing tokenized stock product to reach this milestone. More than half of trading takes place outside regular U.S. market hours, while conversion volume between bStocks and underlying stocks has already exceeded $6 billion.

Visa, Mastercard and a Consortium of Over 200 Companies Launch OUSD Stablecoin Three months after its initial announcement, the Open Standard consortium has launched OUSD, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin. Its partners include more than 200 financial institutions, banks, fintech companies and crypto firms, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock and Coinbase. At launch, OUSD will be available through Coinbase, Mastercard, Stripe and Visa. The stablecoin has launched on the Base, Ethereum, Solana and Tempo networks, and will be available for trading on Coinbase, Kraken and Uniswap. OUSD is issued by Bridge, a company owned by Stripe. The stablecoin’s reserves are held by BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. The project’s announced crypto partners include Coinbase, Tempo, Bybit, Solana, OKX, Ripple, Crypto.com, Fireblocks, Gemini, MetaMask, Aave, eToro, Galaxy, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Morpho, EtherFi, Privy, Bitget Wallet, Stellar, Polygon, Aptos, Plasma and others.