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Daily Edition · Page 6

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

RLUSD TO POWER MASTERCARD SETTLEMENTS ON XRP LEDGER

Ripple partnered with Mastercard, WebBank, and Gemini to pilot RLUSD stablecoin settlement for credit card transactions on the XRP Ledger, potentially marking the first time a regulated US bank settles fiat card payments via stablecoin on a public blockchain. RLUSD launched in December 2024 under a New York Trust Charter with full cash backing and surpassed $1 billion in circulation, aiming to replace traditional 1-3 day settlement rails with near-instant blockchain settlement while maintaining compliance. WebBank, issuer of the Gemini Credit Card, will explore settling Mastercard transactions using RLUSD, with onboarding beginning in the coming months, pending regulatory approvals.

coindesk.com · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

MONAD SETS NOV. 24 FOR MAINNET LAUNCH AND MON AIRDROP

Monad will officially launch its Layer 1 blockchain and native MON token on November 24 at 9 AM ET, marking one of the most anticipated network debuts of the year. The launch includes a massive airdrop designed to reward thousands of early community members and ~225,000 verified users across major crypto protocols, including Aave, Uniswap, Hyperliquid, Morpho, Pump.fun, and Virtuals, as well as long-term NFT holders and DAO participants.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

TLDR Crypto

ETHEREUM ECOSYSTEM HITS 19,000 TPS AS ZK ROLLUPS GO LIVE

Ethereum's ecosystem just reached a record 19,083 transactions per second (TPS), driven primarily by high-performance ZK rollups like Lighter, which alone contributed 4,782 TPS. Other major contributors include Base (139.8 TPS), Arbitrum (75 TPS), and Unichain (35.7 TPS), bringing total live throughput to over 5,100 TPS at press time. What was once dismissed as “ETH maxi fantasy” - scalable, secure ZK rollups - is now a reality in production, marking the arrival of Ethereum's high-throughput era.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

ASYMMETRY IN CRYPTO

Asymmetric outcomes in crypto are disappearing due to four structural problems - 90%+ of assets are speculative with no compounding, October 10's $40 billion in OI liquidations exposed market structure risks deterring institutions, daily token launches fragment liquidity, and high launch valuations price perfection - leaving minimal upside for public market investors. The optimal strategy is no longer narrative chasing, but instead new asymmetric plays: farming, acquiring equity stakes in blockchain-enabled businesses, buying exchange tokens as the "only investable assets" positioned for power-law returns, and gem hunting for dirt-cheap assets with genuine value accrual mechanisms. Everyone knows the current meta is broken, but they continue repeating failed strategies. True asymmetry now requires completely different positioning than the crowd.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

EMERGENCE: LET A BILLION APIS COMPOSE

Agentic emergence requires the long tail of APIs with x402 that enable LLMs to compose thousands to billions of addressable, payable building blocks. Current bottlenecks include human-gated API keys and billing that force platforms like OpenAI to curate a few integrations while ignoring the long tail, but x402's protocol for attaching stablecoin payments to any web request removes this constraint by letting intelligence do the composition instead of developers writing glue code. Merit Systems is building three components to foster emergence: The Terminal (turns open-source TODOs into funded work), Echo (model router with user-pays metering), and x402/x402scan (standard for addressing/paying web resources plus discovery index), with ecosystem support from Coinbase, Cloudflare, Vercel, Visa, and Stripe.

threadreaderapp.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

OPENFX HITS $34B TPV AS CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS SURGE

OpenFX has reached an annualized $34B in total payments volume (TPV) after adding $14B in October alone, more than its previous five months combined. The firm's rapid growth is fueled by its Latin American expansion, including corridors in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, where 86% of transactions now settle in under 10 minutes despite volatile FX and regulatory conditions. OpenFX distinguishes its platform from “instant settlement” competitors by proving real institutional-scale settlements in minutes, not hours. Next, the company is expanding into Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines) in Q1 2026, applying its deep liquidity, local rail integrations, and automated treasury model.

openfx.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

SOLANA'S VALIDATOR COUNT FALLS SHARPLY AS ETHEREUM EXPANDS

Solana's validator count has dropped over 60%, falling from roughly 2,500 in early 2023 to under 900 today, raising fresh concerns about the network's decentralization and security. The decline, down 33% year-to-date, reflects rising hardware costs, high bandwidth demands, and limited economic incentives for smaller validators. In contrast, Ethereum continues to grow its validator base, now nearing 1 million active validators, securing billions in real economic activity and attracting new entrants daily. While some chains scale by compromising decentralization, Ethereum's modular architecture allows it to scale through L2s without sacrificing security, reinforcing its position as the world's trusted settlement layer.

threadreaderapp.com · 3 min

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