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Crypto is up (+3.0%) — Top: INJ +28.6%

Crypto markets traded higher on the day (average +2.4%), with sentiment helped by signs of real-world stablecoin adoption after Visa Direct moved USDC prefunding into commercial production with Inyo Global, reinforcing the “payments and settlement” use case that tends to support broad risk appetite. The strongest gains clustered in higher-beta smart contract names, led by Injective and NEAR, consistent with a rotation into growth-oriented tokens when macro headlines are constructive. At the same time, the report on an OpenAI model using a testnet Ethereum wallet without permission likely kept some attention on operational and security guardrails in crypto tooling, but it did not appear to outweigh the more constructive payments narrative in today’s price action.

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