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DogeOS Opens Public Testnet, Bringing EVM Apps to Dogecoin
Built by the team behind the MyDoge wallet, the ZK-rollup uses DOGE for gas, though native verification of its proofs on Dogecoin depends on a soft-fork proposal that is still in draft.
Asia's Next-Generation Wealthy Want AI for Payments, Humans for Planning, Crypto From Their Private Bank
A new WealthSummit survey finds demand for crypto access among heirs running close to gold and strongest among Gen X, which puts the burden on private banks to supply it before clients who have already left the family bank look elsewhere.
Open USD Goes Live as Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Open Minting to Businesses
The consortium's pitch to businesses rests on economics – free 1:1 minting, reserve income passed back to partners and equity in the issuer – as it takes on a market where USDT and USDC hold close to 90% of supply.
EU Regulators Question Binance's Use of MiCA Exemption to Keep Serving European Customers
Three months after Europe's licensing deadline passed with Binance unauthorised, the exchange's reliance on reverse solicitation and an Abu Dhabi entity is testing how narrowly ESMA's carve-out will be enforced.