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Banks' Spot Crypto Holdings Continue to Collapse as Firms Move to ETPs

Global banks held $367 billion in crypto assets under custody in Q2 last year, data from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision showed.

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Markets

Bitcoin Rally Reverses Despite Supposedly Bullish GameStop News

At least one analyst questioned why GameStop's plan to buy bitcoin was necessarily a good thing.

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Policy

Trump-Tied World Liberty Financial Pitches Its Stablecoin in Washington With Don Jr.

The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., connected to a Washington crypto event via video to talk up crypto and to back the family's link to World Liberty.

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Markets

99% of Crypto Tokens Are Going to Zero: Fund Manager

Money managers in crypto are able to use trading strategies that stopped working in TradFi more than a decade ago.

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Markets

HyperLiquid Delists JELLY After Vault Squeezed in $13M Tussle

HyperLiquid ended the dispute by delisting JELLY and forcibly closing all positions.

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CoinDesk Indices

Unlocking Private Credit’s Potential: How Tokenization Brings DeFi Innovation to Traditional Finance

DeFi’s ethos — permissionless access, composable assets and real-time settlements — are a perfect solution to private credit’s most significant pain points.

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Tech

Ethereum’s Final Pectra Test Goes Live on Hoodi Network

The upgrade is the last of three tests, and developers previously agreed they would schedule Pectra 30 days from Wednesday if the test ran smoothly.

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Finance

LatAm Exchange TruBit Taps Crypto Lending Platform Morpho for DeFi Earn Offering

A better user experience can be created by having fintech at the front and DeFi at the back, also known as a “DeFi mullet.”

Policy

U.S. House Stablecoin Bill Poised to Go Public, Lawmaker Atop Crypto Panel Says

Rep. Bryan Steil told the DC Blockchain Summit that the House's stablecoin bill is seeking to "close the gap" with the Senate's that already moved through committee.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitso Launches Stablecoin Business, Eyeing LatAm Cross-Border Payments

The newly established subsidiary, Juno, will first issue a Mexican peso stablecoin on Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum.

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CoinDesk Indices

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Polygon (POL) Gains 7.4%, as Index Trades Flat

Sui (SUI) was also a top performer, gaining 6% from Tuesday.

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Markets

Bitcoin Market Could Heat Up as BTC Price Approaches $90K

The level will remain a potential area of volatility following Friday's quarterly options settlement.

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Markets

A Contentious Ukraine Bet Leads to Clash Between Polymarket, UMA Communities

BornTooLate.Eth has accumulated over 1.3 million UMA tokens to attack a Ukraine-themed market — but nobody has appeared to have made much money.

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Finance

Fidelity Investments Prepares to Unveil Its Own Stablecoin: FT

A Fidelity stablecoin could fill the role of cash in the blockchain-based version of its U.S. dollar money market fund

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Markets

Bitcoin Hovers Above $87K, Dogecoin, SHIB Surge 11% as Traders Monitor Tariffs

“Call skew hasn’t meaningfully shifted toward calls, with call skew only emerging from June onwards, suggesting traders are waiting to see how the tariff situation develops,” one trading desk said.

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