Digital Identity Startup Holonym Acquires Gitcoin Passport The cash and token deal scales up a Worldcoin “alternative.”

North Carolina Joins Growing Number of States Pursuing Crypto Investments Nineteen U.S. states are weighing bills to put public money into digital assets, some of them similar to the federal pursuit of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

European Payments Giant Klarna Says It Will Look To Integrate Crypto The “buy now, pay later” company is backed by venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, which has a 22% stake.

Gold-Backed Tokens Set to Benefit as Wall Street Goes Even More Bullish After Record Rally Major financial institutions are raising their gold price forecasts due to growing trade war fears and central bank accumulations.

Odds of Kanye West Launching Token Plummet After He Says ‘Coins Prey on Fans’ The rapper denied plans to launch his own cryptocurrency after saying he turned down a $2 million offer to do so.

Why Is Ether Down Today? Market Fears and Growing Supply Help Fuel 5% Slide Despite the bearish performance, analysts note a potential setup for a price bounce as bearish sentiment impacts ETH.

Brazilian Stock Exchange B3 Reportedly Launching Bitcoin Options, ETH and SOL Futures The move builds on its successful bitcoin futures trading and is set to strengthen Brazil’s cryptocurrency market.

As One State Gets Closer on a Crypto Reserve, Others Jump Into the Fray Utah cleared its digital assets bill through the state house, and Kentucky and Maryland introduced their own efforts, making it 18 states working on such bills.

RWA Tokenization Is Going to Trillions Much Faster Than You Think A new report from Security Token Market forecasts $30 trillion in asset tokenization by 2030, led by stocks, real estate, bonds and gold.

Startup Founded by Citi Alumni to Launch XRP-Backed Securities Receipts Depositary Corp. already offers bitcoin and ether-backed securities and is now looking to expand its product suite by adding XRP.

Bitcoin Tops $100K After U.S. Added Fewer Than Forecast Jobs in January The unemployment rate fell to 4%, rather than holding steady at 4.1%.

U.S. Regulator Pursuing Tokenization Pilot to Tap Stablecoins as Collateral Caroline Pham, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief tapped by President Donald Trump, is hosting a CEO summit on one of her longstanding policy aims.

Weekly Recap: Crypto Debanking in the Spotlight Plus: news on stablecoin legislation, Ondo, Berachain, (Micro)Strategy and Ethereum’s future.

Ether May Be Ready for a Bull Run as Price Action Mirrors August Bottom Ether’s price action mirrors the August bottom amid signs of strong dip demand for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

KBW Starts Strategy Coverage With Outperform, Says Firm Offers Leveraged Bitcoin Exposure The stock could be eligible for S&P 500 index inclusion once it adopts updated FASB accounting standards, the report said.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: LTC Gains 4.9% as All Assets Trade Higher Polkadot (DOT) joined Litecoin (LTC) as a top performer, gaining 4.8%.

U.S. Added 143K Jobs in January, Fewer Than Forecast The unemployment rate stood at 4%, compared to an expected 4.1%.

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Be Released From Jail to Prepare for Appeal Last May, Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.

Ethereum Faces ‘Intense’ Competition From Other Networks: JPMorgan The blockchain’s native token ether has underperformed bitcoin and other altcoins in recent months, the report noted.

Riot Platforms Bucks Trend of Weak Bitcoin Production in January Riot mined 527 bitcoin in January, the highest amount since December 2023.