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MetaMask Confirms Stablecoin Plans. The wallet’s mUSD stablecoin will debut on 
Ethereum and 
Linea later this year. - 👻
Aave Expands Beyond EVM With 
Aptos Launch. The DeFi giant’s first non-EVM deployment supports USDC, USDT, APT, and sUSDe on Aptos. - 🤑 Kanye-Linked Memecoin YZY Money Takes Crypto Twitter by Storm. The Ye-linked
Solana memecoin spiked, then crashed below $1.
| Prices as of 3pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $3.83T | ↘ 0.9% | ↘ 4.3% |
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BTC $112,646 | ↘ 0.9% | ↘ 4.7% |
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ETH $4,267 | ↘ 0.7% | ↘ 6.1% |
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Crypto markets thrive on chaos, and this month has been no exception! July’s high-fliers became August’s rejects as new narratives flipped the script and traders rotated into fresher manias.
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Eric Peters, CIO of Coinbase Asset Management, joins Ryan to chart how crypto matured to today’s institutional market with deep liquidity, ETF rails, and stablecoin clarity.
They unpack why Wall Street is leaning in, why the next wave is digitally native issuance of treasuries, bonds, and equities on Ethereum, and how macro tailwinds (fiscal dominance, Fed-Treasury convergence, AI-driven productivity) intersect with crypto’s reflexivity.
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