From PayPal’s major checkout upgrade to prediction-market AI and a flurry of fresh lending experiments, here is the week in tokens.
PayPal will soon allow its US merchant network to settle transactions in over 100 different cryptocurrencies, offering lower fees than cards and requiring no extra integration for businesses.
The move follows months of wallet upgrades aimed at making crypto simpler for everyday purchases and brings millions of merchants a brand-new customer base.
Elon Musk’s AI start-up xAI has struck a deal with regulated prediction platform Kalshi to integrate its Grok chatbot, blending large-language-model insights with real-money event markets.
Users will be able to query Grok for context before placing trades, a step that could widen retail access to on-chain forecasting.
Traditional finance is warming further to digital assets.
JPMorgan is preparing dollar loans collateralised by bitcoin and ether ETFs, aiming to roll out the service next year, while research outfit Divine has already issued 30,000 under-collateralised USDC micro-loans verified through World ID, testing the limits of unsecured crypto credit.
Collectors are flocking to Solana as platforms like Collector Crypt mint Pokémon trading cards as NFTs, complete with gacha-style drops and instant buy-backs.
Nearly $95 million in volume has flowed through the niche so far, and single pulls of rare Charizards are fetching thousands.
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