Tether and Fasset have launched the world’s first Visa card fully backed by tokenized gold.
The card offers up to 6% cashback in $XAUT on eligible purchases, with a round-up feature that turns spare change into gold exposure.
Tether Gold ($XAUT) already commands over $2.24 billion in market cap and 520,089 ounces in audited reserves, giving the product a strong asset base.
The partnership also plans co-branded gold ATMs in Dubai and emerging markets, closing the loop between digital and physical.
A $1M $XAUT rewards pool seeds the program, and users can spend $USDT at any Visa merchant with real-time conversion at the point of sale - no pre-loading or exchange hops required.
A Michigan couple just closed on the first-ever conventional, Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using $BTC as collateral for their down payment - a historic bridge between legacy housing finance and digital assets.
Coinbase and lender Better enabled the loan by structuring it as a two-part product: a standard mortgage that follows Fannie Mae rules, plus a second lien backed by pledged Bitcoin. This setup lets holders avoid selling their $BTC, sidestepping capital gains taxes while keeping price exposure intact.
The move follows a push from federal housing officials to align with pro-crypto policy, and the product will roll out nationally in coming months, initially supporting $USDC as well. For $BTC holders, it’s a direct path to homeownership without parting with their stack.
Crypto mortgage history was just made, with a Fannie Mae-backed home loan secured by $BTC for the very first time. A Michigan couple pledged Bitcoin as collateral through Coinbase and Better without selling their holdings or triggering capital gains tax.
The structure uses a two-loan model where price swings don’t force liquidations, sidestepping one of the biggest fears around crypto-collateralized debt. This opens the door for long-term holders to tap real-world value from assets like $BTC and eventually $USDC.
With regulatory winds shifting under FHFA pressure, expect more integrations bridging TradFi rails with on-chain wealth - this isn’t theoretical anymore, it’s live origination.
Starting a little crypto experiment today
i'm putting $1k into crypto over the next 20 weeks
$50 every week split across:
> btc: 50%
> eth: 25%
> sol: 15%
> hype: 10%
i don't really care about the price
i'll be buying the same amount every week no mater what happens
if it goes well, i might increase the amount after the 20 weeks are over
let's see where we end up
i'll keep y'all updated
Tether and Fasset have launched the world’s first Visa card fully backed by tokenized gold.
Users can spend $USDT anywhere Visa is accepted while earning up to **6% cashback** in $XAUT - each token redeemable for one troy ounce of physical gold held in Swiss vaults.
A **$1M rewards pool** seeds the program, with a round‑up feature that silently turns spare change into gold holdings on every purchase.
Dubai will get co‑branded ATMs that let users withdraw physical bullion directly against their token balance.
With more than **$2.24B** in audited reserves backing over **520k ounces**, this move transforms digital gold from a static store of value into an everyday medium of exchange at global scale.
my advice for anyone building in the @bankrbot ecosystem: hold on to your tokens, sell the WETH to fund your project.
as your project grows you will want to have accumulated as many tokens as you can for market makers, cex listings, otc deals, etc.
we are building more tools to make treasury management easier and more transparent. more on this soon.
if you need more capital reach out, we have ideas for you.
beauty of 60-Day mechanism
note that $OS is a 60-day experiment and dev @adamwebthree has not commited yet which is the beauty!
his team gets to deploy a token tied to his name with the option of not commiting - they only get the fees / funding post commitment
we degens also get to assess if the devs are lifelong keepers or a fuckboi
Sui experienced three mainnet halts on May 28–29 after a gas smashing bug in its v1.72 release collided with a risky interim fix. The team intentionally skipped gas smashing to restore the chain, knowing it could trigger another halt - and it did, freezing the network again the next morning.
The outages forced $1.88M in liquidations, mostly on long positions. $SUI has dropped ~13% in a week to around $0.87, now trading 84% below its January 2025 all-time high of $5.35.
The Sui Foundation is planning deeper gas logic refactoring and end‑of‑epoch resilience upgrades, but the sequence of upgrade‑driven downtime is drawing uncomfortable comparisons to early‑era reliability struggles.
Why is my timeline suddenly full of $ONDO? 🤔
I didn't even shill that #RWA project.
Opened X today and every second post is:
"Buy $ONDO"
"$ONDO to $10"
"$ONDO is the future"
Did I accidentally join the $ONDO marketing team? 😂
$SUBLY ran from the lows, got attention, and now the market is doing what markets do testing conviction
The chart isn’t asking who’s excited.
It’s asking who understands the vision
When on-chain subscriptions become a major Solana vertical, today’s MC won’t matter
$ZEST isn’t hype. It transforms Bitcoin from pure “digital gold” into a productive asset in the most decentralized and secure way possible today. Perfect for Bitcoin maximalists who want real DeFi utility without compromising custody or selling their BTC.
Clean app, solid docs, and a vision built to last decades. @ZestProtocol
The $DOT / $ETH chart is incredible
Trading against $ETH drawdown like a beast
$DOT @usedotai is the best hedge in the market right now and there’s nothing you can say to sway me otherwise
Price discovery soon…
DotCode soon….
The time is coming