At the recent Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, Jack Mallers, Strike CEO, and Miles Suter, Bitcoin Product Lead at Block, Inc. and Cash App, are pushing the same idea from different angles: Bitcoin isn’t just something to hold, it has to function as money.

In the recent interview for The Network State Podcast, Sean Neville, Circle and Catena Labs co-founder and CEO, frames stablecoins not as a product, but as foundational infrastructure.

In a conversation with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, the trajectory of crypto comes into focus: from fringe experiment to foundational financial infrastructure.

Institutional capital is concentrating around infrastructure that directly runs financial systems and enterprise workflows.

This week overview (March 16 - March 20,2026)