Seven crypto facts that, read together, stop sounding strange and start revealing a parallel system running in real time. Stablecoins moving more volume than legacy card networks, exchanges surpassing century-old stock markets, and rules shaping decisions all the way to 2140. This isn’t theory—it’s infrastructure, power, and access being reshaped as the board shifts.

A walk through the week’s most unsettling crypto signals: from Argentina’s AL30 turned into a token to massive Bitcoin outflows from Binance, Visa’s fiat→USDC bridge, IBM’s quantum leap, and new global tactics for seizing Bitcoin. Between infrastructure shifts, regulation pressure, AI trading on its own, and markets that behave like living systems, the landscape stops being “news” and becomes a symptom. A map to read what moves while no one’s looking.