YouTube's decision to offer creator payouts in PayPal USD (PYUSD) marks a practical inflection point for stablecoin use in mainstream payments. This article examines how PYUSD payouts work, implications for fiat rails and strategy, tax and merchant issues for creators, RWA/tokenization trends through 2026, and the key risks product and payments teams must manage.

Firedancer and Jupiter's Breakpoint upgrades injected fresh technical momentum into Solana, but mixed NFT and liquidity signals raise questions about whether the network’s narrative is recovering or simply repriced. This analysis breaks down validator improvements, JUPUSD’s DeFi implications, the NFT downturn, adoption critiques, and an investor framework to decide the next move.

A technical investigation into two recent incidents — the $2.7M drain affecting Ribbon/Aevo and the Zerobase front-end takeover — with practical defensive guidance for DeFi teams and advanced users.