EP#11-Reverse(non-)WeeklyWizardwithBoxer,DanningandHildobby

Arc is now live on Dune

Arc network, the Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built to support the world's financial markets, real-time settlement, and agentic economic activity, launches mainnet today. Arc data is on Dune from the first block.

Real-time payments are already here. So what do onchain payments add?

Instant payment schemes now match onchain payments on speed and cost, so this issue asks what onchain actually adds. The answer is access: crypto card spend nearly quadrupled to $492m a month and agent payments reached 15.3 million, both funded without a bank account.

Hyperliquid priced WTI while futures were shut

Oil futures close for 49 hours every weekend. Perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid do not. Across 30 weekend closures this year, the WTI perpetual called the direction of the Monday reopen every time oil moved more than a percentage point.