Bitcoin plunged after U.S. President Donald Trump announced 100% tariffs on China, with BTC briefly crashing to $102,000 on Binance perpetual futures and spot prices hitting $107,000 on Coinbase. The escalation—tied to China’s planned export controls on rare earth minerals critical for semiconductors—sparked fears of a broader trade war, recession risk, and a crypto market sell-off.

As the AI market accelerates toward a projected $1T by 2031, the next wave centers on autonomous, agentic systems that browse, negotiate, transact, and collaborate. Many argue that Ethereum—not corporate clouds—offers the most neutral, verifiable substrate for this machine economy. With over $550B secured on-chain and millions of smart contracts, Ethereum’s public ledger serves as “trustware,” giving AI agents a censorship-resistant place to anchor identity, memory, and proof

Jupiter, Solana’s leading DEX aggregator, is launching a new Solana-based stablecoin called JupUSD in partnership with Ethena Labs, slated for mid–Q4 2025. Per the announcement, JupUSD will integrate across Jupiter’s ecosystem as collateral on Jupiter Perps, a core liquidity asset in lending pools, and a primary trading pair—positioning it as the backbone for Solana DeFi users.