The future of sending money starts here: Ogvio is LIVE!

Experience instant borderless transfers with no hidden fees 💸

Sign up NOW! 🚀

GM. If today's crypto updates had a flavor, they'd be a bold citrus - tart, tangy, and impossible to ignore.

Grab a glass and let's pour 'em out:

🍍 Crypto markets pause after CPI report.

🤔 Coinbase = everything app?

🍋 Best way to send money to Vietnam, Vitalik urges Ethereum simplicity + more

🍍 Market flavor today

🥝 Memecoin harvest

Today's top memecoins made more flips than a chef making pancakes 🥞

Data as of 09:35 AM EST.

Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.

🤔 Coinbase = everything app?

Picture your friend group planning a weekend trip.

For years, one person has been "the flights friend."

But hotels? "Nahhh, not my thing." Rental car? "Ask someone else."

And everyone still ends up juggling five different apps and screenshots.

Now imagine that the flights friend says: "You know what? I'll actually do flights and hotels and the rental car this time."

That's basically what Coinbase is trying to do.

Coinbase - the app most people think of as "the place you buy crypto" - is pushing beyond crypto and into regular money stuff.

They're adding two big things into the Coinbase experience:

1) Stock trading

So instead of using one app for crypto and a totally different app for stocks, Coinbase wants you to be able to buy things like Apple/Tesla-style stocks right alongside your Bitcoin and Ethereum.

2) Prediction markets

This is the spicy one. Prediction markets let you take a position on "will X happen?" by trading contracts tied to real-world outcomes. Think: an event happens → contract pays based on the result.

Coinbase is doing this via a partner that already runs these markets.

The immediate impact: Coinbase is no longer acting like "just a crypto exchange."

It's trying to become a financial hub - the app you open whether you're in a crypto mood or a "normal investing" mood or a "betting on the future" mood.

And it's a signal about where crypto is trying to go next.

👉 Crypto platforms are chasing "default app" status.

In the early days, crypto apps were basically specialty shops: you went in, bought coins, left.

But the longer Coinbase keeps you inside its ecosystem - checking positions, moving money around, placing different kinds of trades - the more it becomes your home base for money decisions.

And that’s not just about convenience. It's about survival.

Because crypto trading alone can be feast-or-famine:

• When markets are flying, exchanges print money;

• When markets are boring (or painful), activity drops.

So if Coinbase can also earn engagement and revenue from stocks or event contracts, it's less dependent on whether Bitcoin is having a good day.

👉 For everyday people, it's less app-hopping

One app can reduce friction. If you're crypto-curious but also want exposure to "regular investing," it's nice not needing a second setup, a second identity check, a second account, and a second mental model.

👉 For institutions, it's Coinbase saying: "We're growing up"

Big institutions don't just want "a crypto casino."

They want infrastructure: places where different asset types can live, settle, and be managed with clean rules and predictable plumbing.

When Coinbase expands into stocks and regulated event contracts, it's basically pitching: "We're not a niche corner of the internet. We're trying to be a real financial platform."

And that's part of a bigger trend: crypto companies are increasingly trying to blend into mainstream finance without losing the speed and product energy that made crypto compelling in the first place.

If Coinbase used to be the flights friend, this is them trying to become the friend who plans the whole trip.

Not necessarily because they suddenly love hotels, but because whoever owns the itinerary owns the power.

🍋 News drops you can't miss

👀 Trying to send money to Vietnam without losing a chunk to hidden fees? We rounded up the best ways to do it quickly and without the headache.

🧠 Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum should be easier to get, not just more high-tech. He believes real 'trustlessness' comes from making the system clearer.

🏦 The Fed scrapped a rule that kept some US banks out of crypto. Now, every bank they supervise, insured or not, goes through the same process if they want to offer crypto.

🇮🇳 Coinbase got the approval to buy a chunk of CoinDCX, one of India's big crypto exchanges. India's Competition Commission approved it to keep the market fair.

💰 World Liberty Financial, linked to the Trump family, wants to use $120M worth of WLFI tokens to boost its stablecoin, USD1. They've proposed teaming up with major CeFi and DeFi players to help USD1 grow.

🍌 Juicy memes