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Robinhood Wallet Users Bought Dogwifhat With Credit Cards and Earned Cash Back, Because Visa Was Told They Were Buying E-Books
For months, memecoin purchases on Robinhood Wallet and Fomo ran through Crossmint under merchant code 5815, the category for audiobooks, movies and digital art. No separate KYC, and the buys earned ordinary points and cash back that Visa's own rules say crypto can never earn. Chase caught one transaction and opened a case. The New York AG is 'reviewing the matter.' Now Visa has told processors including Checkout.com that the code is 'not appropriate for memecoin purchases,' with a grace period that ends next week. One source's summary of Visa's message: 'Stop being cute, stay in your lane and use the appropriate codes.'
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140 Firms Including Visa, BlackRock, and Google Just Built a Circle Killer
Open USD (OUSD) launched June 30 with 140+ backers — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google — and a model that gives 100% of reserve yield to partners instead of the issuer. Circle's stock crashed 17% overnight.
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Jack Dorsey Hates Stablecoins. He Just Gave Them to 60 Million People Anyway.
Block's Cash App begins rolling out USDC payments to its nearly 60 million users — even as CEO Jack Dorsey publicly admits he doesn't want to do it.
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Vitalik's Anime Letter Triggered Ethereum's Biggest Talent Exodus — 8 Senior Researchers Gone
Eight senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026, five in May alone. The trigger? A Milady-themed 'Mandate' document staff were told to sign or be fired. Now a former EF dev wants $1 billion to replace the whole organization.
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You Can Now Bet on SpaceX's $2 Trillion IPO on Binance — Without Owning a Single Share
Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX's valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.
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Warren Just Called Coinbase's Bank Charter Illegal — and She Wants Trump's Texts to Prove It
Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing the OCC of illegally granting national trust bank charters to nine crypto giants including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, and Paxos — and demanding all communications between OCC officials and the Trump family by June 1.
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Visa Just Settled $7 Billion in Stablecoins — and Quietly Doubled Its Blockchain Network
Visa's stablecoin settlement pilot hit a $7B annualized run rate — up 50% in a single quarter — and just expanded to 9 blockchains including Base, Polygon, and Stripe's Tempo. TradFi isn't coming to crypto. It's already here.
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69,000 AI Agents Are Already Spending Crypto — And None of Them Asked Permission
Coinbase's x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.
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Stablecoins Are Broken in a Way Nobody Admits — a16z Just Paid $10M to Fix It
You can't swap USDT for USDC at face value without slippage. A former a16z partner just raised $10M to build the clearinghouse that makes stablecoins actually fungible — and Stripe, MetaMask, and Phantom are already signed up.