Over the past week, developments across crypto markets were driven by AI & trading expansion, infrastructure upgrades, and broader adoption.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– Visa introduced AI commerce infrastructure, enabling agent-based payments across global payment networks

– Circle launched managed USDC payments, allowing banks to access stablecoin rails without holding crypto

– TON achieved sub-second finality, significantly improving transaction speed and execution performance

– Ant Group launched Anvita platform, enabling AI agents to hold assets and execute autonomous transactions

– Polymarket began major platform upgrade with new order book and native collateral token

– Pharos Network raised $44M to build institutional Layer 1 infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets

– Kalshi partnered with Fox to integrate prediction data across major media platforms