Upbit operator Dunamu has reached a strategic partnership with Visa to build the next generation of financial and payment services around stablecoins and AI. （Cointelegraph）

Zach Pandl, the head of Grayscale Research, stated that the 90 day correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index has decreased from 60% to 33%, while the correlation with gold has risen to over 50%. The US federal debt has exceeded $40 trillion, and the fiscal deficit and rising US bond yields have drawn market attention to hedging assets. The maximum supply of Bitcoin is fixed at 21 million, and in an environment where the purchasing power of fiat currency is being evaluated, Bitcoin, as a scarce asset other than gold, is entering a more favorable market stage.

OKX Director Lennix stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 roundtable forum that financial products are accelerating their integration into the same account system, and in the future, users hope to trade and manage different types of financial assets under the same account. Lennix pointed out that the core challenge of financial super applications lies in the collaboration of the banking system, wallets, trading accounts, shared margin, and risk control compliance backend. Stock tokenization integrates traditional assets into the cryptocurrency exchange system, enabling longer trading and risk management. The strategic investment of Intercontinental Exchange in OKX Group reflects the positive development of tokenization and all-weather trading in the financial market.

Jihoz, co-founder of Axie Infinity, said that the current trend was driven by the problems in the yen and Japanese treasury bond market. The problems in fiat currency and debt system were one of the reasons for the original creation of Bitcoin.

Anza, the core development team of Solana, activated the first feature switch of SIMD-0437 proposal on the testnet. The proposal includes five feature switches, with the goal of reducing Solana's storage cost per byte by 90%. After completion, lamports_per-byte will be reduced from 6960 to 696, and the rent free deposit for token accounts will be reduced from approximately $0.16 to $0.016.