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Bitcoin
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 34,164 BTC for about $2.54 billion on April 20 at an average price of $74,395, its third-largest single acquisition on record.
Stablecoins
DoorDash is working with the Stripe- and Paradigm-backed Tempo blockchain to roll out stablecoin payouts for merchants and Dashers in more than 40 countries.
defi
Polymarket's V2 exchange launches today with one hour of scheduled downtime at 11:00 UTC. The upgrade introduces pUSD — a new 1:1 USDC-backed collateral — retires USDC.e, cancels all open V1 limit orders, and ships behind a $5M bug bounty and audits from Cantina and Quantstamp.
Funding
Two of crypto's sharpest VCs back an infra play for the 'agentic commerce' thesis — trust rails so autonomous agents can spend without going off the rails.
AI Models
No blog post, no Altman tweet. API telemetry flagged a new model running at production scale — and crypto prediction markets are already betting on the release date.
defi
Two incidents — Drift on April 1 and Kelp on April 19 — account for most of it, but a dozen smaller exploits filled the gaps.
Funding
a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures back the verifiable-inference project. 10% of supply unlocks at TGE; trading opens 11:00 UTC.
AI Agents
Singapore custody veteran Cobo launches an MPC-backed wallet that lets AI agents trade and pay on-chain without ever holding a full private key.
defi
A bridge misconfiguration dragged $13.2B out of DeFi in 48 hours. Now the two parties are blaming each other over who chose the single verifier.