Ondo Finance Unveils Tokenization Platform to Bring Stocks, Bonds, and ETFs Onchain Ondo takes steps to accelerate the onboarding of traditional assets to the blockchain rails.

Equities-Crypto Relationship Is Likely to Weaken in the Long Term, Citi Says The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market is expected to weaken as the adoption of digital assets grows, the report said.

Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.

XRP Ledger ‘Self-Healed’ After Brief Downtime “One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something’s wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations,” the Ripple CTO explained.

Bullish Global Weighs IPO as Early as This Year Amid Crypto Market Optimism: Bloomberg The crypto exchange whose parent company is backed by Peter Thiel revived its public listing plans shelved in 2022.

Bitdeer Buys 101 MW Gas Power Plant in Alberta, Canada for BTC Mining The $21.7 million cash deal would give BitDeer the ability to mine BTC at some of the lowest costs in the industry.

Acting SEC Chair Uyeda Names 3 Appointees to Agency’s New Crypto Task Force Landon Zinda, former policy director for crypto think tank Coin Center, is the task force’s new senior advisor.

Bitcoin OP_CAT Proposal Gets Boost From Taproot Wizards’ $30M Fundraise Taproot Wizards will use the funding to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Lays Out 10 Priorities for New Crypto Task Force Peirce also urged crypto companies to be patient as the agency decides how to “disentangle” itself from litigation initiated under former Chair Gary Gensler.

Bitcoin Extends Losses to Below $97K Following David Sacks Press Conference It was mostly a wonky discussion from Sacks and four Senate/House committee chairs.

Regulation By Enforcement Is Out at CFTC, Acting Chair Pham Says The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement is being reorganized to “refocus” on fraud prevention.

Trump’s Crypto Czar Sacks Says ‘Golden Age’ Coming David Sacks and the leaders of the congressional committees that will handle crypto legislation outlined their plans at a press conference.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: UNI Falls 4.2% as Index Trades Lower From Monday Polkadot (DOT) joined Uniswap (UNI) as an underperformer, declining 4.1%.

Coinbase Users Are Losing $300M a Year to Social Scams, ZachXBT Says ZachXBT advised Coinbase to enhance security by making phone number inputs optional, creating a restricted account type for new users and improving community education on scam prevention.

Ether Worth Nearly $1B Left Exchanges Monday as Trade War Fears Sent Prices Crashing Data shows investors likely bought the dip, snapping up ETH at lower prices.

Blockchain Firm Neptune Digital Assets Adds DOGE to Its Bitcoin Accumulation Strategy The publicly traded company plans on accumulating other cryptocurrencies through its Sygnum credit line..

U.S. Senate’s Effort on Stablecoins Revealed in New Bill from Hagerty The Senate has pushed stablecoin bills before, but the chamber is now led by Republicans who want to make Hagerty’s latest effort happen.

Ethereum’s New Cheerleader on Wall Street: A Q&A With Vivek Raman Vivek Raman, the founder of Etherealize, spent 10 years on Wall Street. Now he’s trying to market Ethereum to big banks.

Sol Strategies Bolsters Solana Holdings to Near 190,000 SOL Worth More Than $40M The Canadian investment company, led by former Valkyrie Investments co-founder Leah Wald, has also acquired validators on other blockchains and holds some BTC.

The DeepSeek-R1 Effect and Web3-AI Unlike most advancements in generative AI, the release of DeepSeek-R1 carries real implications and intriguing opportunities for Web3-AI.