CME adds more crypto futures 🔮, Ingenico partners w/WalletConnect 🤝, Open Networks 🥅

CME Group will list futures for Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar starting February 9 to broaden its regulated crypto derivatives ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR Crypto 2026-01-16 📈 Markets & Business CME Adds Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar Futures to Derivatives Suite (2 minute read) CME Group will list futures (standard and micro contracts) for Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar starting February 9 to broaden its regulated crypto derivatives offering beyond Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and Solana. Clients are looking for trusted products to manage price risk, even as overall crypto derivatives volumes cooled into year-end. The move also ties into CME's longer-term push toward "always-on" continuous trading for round-the-clock global markets. Generic Launches GUSD: a Private, Yield-Routing Meta-Stablecoin (2 minute read) GUSD is the first natively private stablecoin built on Morpho. It is a meta-stablecoin that aggregates dollar assets like USDC, USDT, and USDS, offers opt-in privacy, is non-custodial, and routes onchain yield back to the distribution layer (applications, networks, and end users) rather than to an issuer. GUSD will have risk and deployment support from Steakhouse Financial. Its early partners include LayerZero, Aragon, Status, and Tempo. 🚀 Innovation & Launches Ingenico partners with WalletConnect Pay (3 minute read) Payment terminal giant Ingenico has integrated WalletConnect Pay to enable crypto payments at physical retail locations through its existing POS infrastructure. The partnership allows merchants using Ingenico terminals to accept stablecoin payments without additional hardware or significant integration work. This marks a significant expansion of crypto payment rails into traditional retail, leveraging Ingenico's global network of 40M+ payment terminals. Celestia Vision 2.0: Every Market Onchain (5 minute read) Celestia's Vision 2.0 pivots the data availability layer's mission toward enabling high-volume financial markets to operate entirely onchain. The roadmap targets blockspace products capable of supporting trading volumes comparable to traditional exchanges, requiring 10-100x improvements in throughput and latency. Celestia aims to become the settlement layer for a new generation of onchain order books and derivatives markets currently constrained by blockchain performance limitations. 💡 Guides & Tutorials The Decentralized Renaissance (5 minute read) The original 2014 Web3 vision of permissionless decentralized applications is now achievable due to infrastructure maturation. Fileverse, a decentralized Google Docs alternative, is evidence that dApps have reached usability parity with Web2 as it passes the "walkaway test," where users can retrieve data even if the company disappears. 2026 will be an inflection point where the technical prerequisites for competing with centralized platforms are finally in place. Why Open Networks Win (5 minute read) History's greatest breakthroughs came not from new inventions but from removing friction, and open networks like blockchain represent the next major friction reduction. Permissionless systems lower barriers to participation and enable innovation at the edges without gatekeepers. Crypto's value proposition isn't speculation but fundamentally restructuring how economic coordination happens at scale. 🦄 Miscellaneous Inside the First Autonomous Agent Economy on Solana (4 minute read) t54.ai has launched what it claims is the first fully autonomous agent economy on Solana, where AI agents independently transact, negotiate, and allocate resources using the x402 protocol infrastructure. Drawing lessons from Microsoft Research's Magentic Marketplace and Stanford HAI's agent society experiments, the system enables agents to discover services, execute payments, and form emergent market structures without human intervention. The project explores economic coordination between AI systems using blockchain as the trust and settlement layer. Introducing $GWEI: ETHGas governance token (4 minute read) $GWEI is the governance token for ETHGas' real-time Ethereum gas optimization protocol. It enables holders to vote on fee distribution mechanisms and protocol upgrades. The token captures value from the platform's gas prediction and bundling services. Stakers earn a portion of protocol fees. $GWEI is essential infrastructure for MEV protection and transaction cost optimization. ⚡ Quick Links A Year in Bera - Berachain EoY Update (4 minute read) Berachain's end-of-year retrospective highlights its mainnet launch, novel Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism adoption, and ecosystem growth across DeFi protocols built on the chain. BitMine Bets $200M on MrBeast's Beast Industries (1 minute read) Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies has agreed to invest $200 million in Jimmy Donaldson's Beast Industries. Ethereum Hits New All-Time High in Daily Transactions (1 minute read) Ethereum processed a record 2,595,176 transactions in a single day, marking a new all-time high and signaling accelerating onchain demand. USDC Supply Growth Tilts Toward Polygon (1 minute read) Polygon recorded the largest percentage increase in USDC supply since late November, outpacing other major chains. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/40d1adc2/6 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of crypto investors and builders, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here, create your own role or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! TLDR is one of Inc.'s Best Bootstrapped businesses of 2025. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Esham Macauley & Lincoln Murr Manage your subscriptions to our other newsletters on tech, startups, and programming. Or if TLDR Crypto isn't for you, please unsubscribe.