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Crypto markets traded higher on average today, supported by incremental signs of real-world adoption after Visa Direct moved USDC prefunding into commercial production with Inyo Global, reinforcing the stablecoin rails narrative that tends to lift broader risk sentiment. The sharp outsized gains in Injective and NEAR suggest a rotation into higher-beta smart-contract and infrastructure names as traders leaned into that constructive backdrop, while CoinDesk’s report on new event-style markets tied to Coinbase, Robinhood, and Marathon highlights a growing derivatives toolkit that can amplify short-term flows into liquid crypto proxies. Against that, more cautionary commentary around Bitcoin’s longer-term competitive landscape (including the AI-related critique) appeared to have limited immediate market impact relative to the day’s pro-adoption and positioning signals.

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