The week AI stopped hedging and TradFi stopped waiting: OpenAI declared AGI, while banks and exchanges bought their way deeper onchain.

Five that actually mattered:

— Circle to acquire payments firm Tazapay for $400M

— OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a model it calls the onset of AGI

— Revolut wins conditional US approval to form a national bank

— Cronos rolled back its chain to reverse a $120M Tectonic exploit

— Bitget launches 24/7 H100/B200 GPU-compute perps at up to 10x