Some highlights from the past week: 

Shopify now supports USDC payments on Base. Merchants in the U.S. and select other countries receive up to 0.50% rebate on USDC transactions. In the U.S., customers will also get a rebate when paying in USDC, launching later this year.

Coinbase Unveils Four New Products: 

* Coinbase One credit card: up to 4% BTC cashback
* CFTC-compliant perpetuals for U.S. traders
* In-app DEX access to Base-native decentralized exchanges
* Coinbase for Business: global payments, trading APIs, and full integration with Shopify’s USDC support

Crypto as a Risk-Off Asset?
A graph made by BlackRock shows that Bitcoin often performs well 60 days after geopolitical events like wars or economic shocks — behaving more like a risk-off asset than a speculative one (https://x.com/thomas_fahrer/status/1934056640476770678)

Eigenlayer Launches EigenCloud: 
EigenCloud, a developer platform focused on verifiable compute, was introduced by Eigenlayer alongside a $70 million token investment from a16z. Think AWS but for onchain infra.

Bitcoin + Ethereum ETF:

Following its initial Bitcoin ETF filing, Truth Social has now submitted a second ETF proposal with 75% Bitcoin / 25% Ethereum, set to rebalance quarterly.