David Constantino

Visa unveiled the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), a new product that lets banks, fintechs and crypto firms mint, move and manage stablecoins inside a single Visa-managed environment, the company said in an official announcement. Visa expects the launch to expand stablecoin use across its network of roughly 15,000 financial institutions and more than 200 million merchants, which already settles about $15 trillion in payments each year.

Aave has launched its V4 lending protocol on Avalanche, the first time the platform has expanded its latest infrastructure beyond Ethereum. The launch is built around dedicated credit markets for tokenized real-world assets and institutional finance. The move gives institutions a second network, alongside Ethereum, to access Aave’s newest lending infrastructure for tokenized collateral.

HoodTracker is a platform that tracks campaigns on Robinhood Chain. It watches X activity, wallet holdings, staking, and referrals, then rewards new token projects for the community activity they build. Its first big campaign, Genesis, gives $HDTX holders a share of tokens set aside from the project’s dev wallet.