Three stories in under five minutes. The Trump administration is weighing a push to promote dollar-backed stablecoins overseas, aiming to reinforce the dollar's reserve status and boost demand for US Treasuries. Bitcoin Lightning has landed formally inside the x402 payment standard after PR #2861 merged into the x402 Foundation's spec, with Cloudflare, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and American Express among the companies now participating in the Linux Foundation-governed project. And Raiffeisen Bank International is expanding its Bitpanda partnership group-wide, giving subsidiary banks in 11 countries and roughly 18 million customers the infrastructure to launch Bitcoin trading. Stay humble and keep on stacking those sats. https://www.btcbreakdown.com/p/issue-659