Friday Five: Tether’s $500B Play, SEC Opens the Door, and Vanguard Bows to Crypto
In this week’s Friday Five, we dive into Tether’s jaw-dropping $500B valuation bid, the SEC’s surprise innovation exemption, bipartisan momentum on a market structure bill, Ethereum’s latest Wall Stre...
27 Sep 202522min
Agentic Payments and the Next Internet Economy
Coinbase and Cloudflare are pushing forward with X402, a new crypto-powered payments protocol for AI agents. Could agent-to-agent transactions reshape e-commerce and the web itself? Meanwhile, Tom Lee...
26 Sep 202510min
Tether’s Half-Trillion Dollar Valuation
Tether is reportedly courting outside investors for the first time—at a staggering $500 billion valuation. In today’s Breakdown, NLW digs into Bloomberg’s report on Tether’s $15–20 billion fundraise, ...
25 Sep 202510min
Bitcoin’s September Shakeout: $1.7B in Liquidations Sets Stage for Q4
Bitcoin’s September rally finally stumbled, with a 3.5% drop triggering $1.7B in long liquidations—the biggest of the year. While traders were caught offside, on-chain data shows holders aren’t sellin...
24 Sep 20259min
Senate Democrats Push for Bipartisan Role in Crypto Market Structure Bill
On today’s Breakdown, NLW looks at the latest twists in the crypto market structure bill. A group of 12 Senate Democrats is pushing for true bipartisan authorship, raising the stakes as time runs shor...
23 Sep 20259min
The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week
In this week’s Friday Five, NLW digs into why Bitcoin’s September performance is surprising markets, what the Fed’s anticlimactic rate cut means for the economy, and how new SEC approvals are reshapin...
20 Sep 202521min
Fed Cuts Rates Amid Rising Labor Market Risks
The Federal Reserve delivered its first rate cut since last November, reducing the target range to 4–4.25% as weakening labor data outweighed inflation concerns. Chair Powell framed the move as a “ris...
19 Sep 202511min
Google’s New Agent Payments Protocol and What It Means for Crypto
Today on The Breakdown, NLW explores Google’s announcement of AP2, a new open-source payments standard that lets AI agents transact securely. Built with Coinbase and more than 60 partners, AP2 integra...
18 Sep 202510min
