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DoorDash has begun building stablecoin payment infrastructure on Tempo, the Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, to pay delivery workers and merchants across more than 40 countries at near-instant settlement speeds and fixed US dollar fees, in one of the largest real-world stablecoin payment deployments by a publicly traded US company to date. Summary…

The U.S. Navy intercepted the M/V Sevan, a sanctioned vessel, in the Arabian Sea. The likelihood of 80 ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz by April 30 is at 2.8% YES, down from 51% a week ago. The interception represents direct U.S. enforcement action in the region and has raised doubts about whether normal maritime…

Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatory April 27 deadline for all node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22. Summary Pi Network…

Nvidia’s stock closed at an all-time high yesterday, its first in 177 days. The Polymarket contract for Nvidia to become the largest company by market cap on June 30 is now at 92.5% YES, up from 90% a week ago. The stock rally followed a temporary easing in US-China trade tensions, which lifted the chip…