Nvidia currently surpasses 6 out of 11 sectors of the S&P 500 index by market capitalization, as well as all global stock markets combined — except for the five largest ones.

Nvidia and Deutsche Telekom are building one of Europe’s largest “AI factories” in Munich, with an estimated cost of €1 billion.

An existing data center will be converted to house 10,000 top-tier Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, increasing Germany’s AI computing capacity by about 50%.

The launch is expected early next year, with Perplexity already named among the first clients planning to use the resources for its AI services.

Visa has launched a pilot service that allows companies to send payments in stablecoins to crypto wallets from fiat accounts.

CoinDesk has published its annual Exchange Benchmark 2025, in which Binance took first place among centralized exchanges and received the highest AA rating — the only platform to score over 90 points in both spot (93.4) and derivatives trading (93.65).

Analysts note that the crypto exchange sector is showing steady growth in maturity and transparency: nearly 60% of platforms now operate under regulatory oversight, and more companies are publishing Proof-of-Reserves and reports.

According to CoinDesk, major exchanges today are more reliable and institutionally resilient than they were five years ago.

The number of active addresses on the Solana network has fallen to a 12-month low amid declining hype around memecoins. Despite the downturn, the ecosystem continues to expand thanks to new DEXs, prediction markets, and tokenization protocols.

Binance Pay has surpassed the milestone of 20,000,000 connected merchants worldwide — a 1700-fold increase since the beginning of 2025, indicating the mass adoption of crypto payments across various industries and regions.

Stablecoins dominate the ecosystem, accounting for over 98% of all B2C transactions on the platform thanks to instant transfers, low fees, and borderless functionality.

The success of Binance Pay and the growing popularity of stablecoins are pushing traditional financial institutions to adapt blockchain technologies — for example, SWIFT has already launched an initiative to integrate blockchain ledgers to speed up international settlements.

During last week’s downturn, altcoins showed unusual relative strength compared to BTC, with most sectors actually outperforming the first cryptocurrency — Glassnode.

Strategy stated that it will be fine even if BTC falls to $25,000.

Tether has become the world’s largest independent holder of gold — only the central banks of economically developed countries hold more.

Against this backdrop, S&P Global downgraded the stability rating of the USDT stablecoin to the lowest level, citing the growing share of volatile assets in the company’s reserves, including Bitcoin and gold

Tether sharply criticized the assessment, calling it outdated and noting that the stablecoin has never failed redemptions, processes billions in volume daily, and generates multi-billion profits.

The company also emphasizes that its assets include a substantial package of U.S. Treasury bonds and that USDT has long evolved into critical financial infrastructure for emerging markets — far from just a speculative token.

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It is expected that a spot LINK ETF will be launched next week — Nate Geraci, head of ETF Store