What happened in Crypto in the last 12h:

- Harris Advocates US Leadership In Crypto

- Visa Launches Tokenized Asset Platform

- Paypal Enables US Accounts Crypto

- Binance Launches Pre-Market

- $HMSTR Roadmap + Expansion Plans

- $WLD OpenAI Ends Non-profit Control

- $CHZ Additional $PEPPER Airdrops

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‱ Kamala Harris has expressed her support for protecting the crypto industry, emphasizing the importance of the United States maintaining its leadership in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technology sectors.

‱ Visa has introduced a new tokenized asset platform that aims to help financial institutions test fiat-based tokenized assets and smart contracts. The initial pilot of this platform is expected to take place on the Ethereum blockchain in 2025.

‱ PayPal announced that it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts. PayPal also allows US merchants to transfer crypto to external wallets.

‱ Binance is launching Binance Pre-Market, a new service for pre-market spot trading. This new service will allow customers to buy or sell tokens before they are listed on the spot market.

‱ $HMSTR - Hamster Combat has released more information about its upcoming development roadmap. In addition to announcing Season 2, the developers also announced several other plans, including a strategy to use ad revenue to buy and redistribute tokens. $HMSTR is scheduled to be listed today at 12 UTC.

‱ $WLD - According to Reuters, OpenAI is planning to restructure into a for-profit model valued at $150 billion, with CEO Sam Altman taking a 7% stake in the company.

‱ $CHZ - In addition to $CHZ holders, Chiliz also announced that it will be airdropping $PEPPER to Fantoken, NFT holders. $CHZ was pumped on the news of Upbit's airdrop support, but it's back.