Institutional support for crypto is accelerating, with major players like JP Morgan launching a stablecoin, Cash App enabling stablecoin payments, and Franklin Templeton backing stablecoins and RWAs. Companies are integrating digital assets into their economies, and even Harvard tripled its Bitcoin holdings, signaling growing institutional confidence.
Kaspa developers describe vProgs as tiny sovereign rollup-like structures, and argue that true sovereignty comes from Dapp-level privacy rather than Layer-2 rollups. Moreover, Kaspa Kii showed real energy pilots demonstrating Kaspa’s real-world industrial potential
In the news this week: Kaspa’s 4th Birthday; an update to the 1,000 node challenge; Yonatan delivered a mic drop moment after winning the Binance Blockchain Innovation Award; Igra Labs released its litepaper for their based rollup L2 built on Kapsa; and Kaspa at the Dii Desert Energy sparks new interest for Kaspa in the clean energy space.
Welcome to the new weekly series covering traditional finance on-chain DeFi news beyond Kaspa (but with a Kaspa twist). Last week, Trump was featured again at the American Business Forum and on CBS 60 Minutes. Balancer exploit drained over $128M from V2 Composable Stable Pools, a new crypto legislation is advancing in the UK, Canada, and Malaysia, and Africa is paving the way for a continental stablecoin network.
