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🚨 VISA ADDS USDC VIA SOLANA! Visa will allow U.S. institutions to settle transactions using Circle’s $USDC on the Solana blockchain.

⚡️ JUST IN: Singapore's StraitsX will launch its SGD and USD-backed stablecoins on Solana.

🔍 MOST CRYPTO SECTORS UNDERPERFORMED BTC IN PAST 3 MONTHS! Data from Glassnode shows that nearly every crypto sector has underperformed $BTC over the past 3 months. While BTC fell 26% to ~$86K, the crypto total market cap fell 27.5%. Key laggards include ETH (-36%), AI tokens (-48%), Memecoins (-56%), RWAs (-46%), and DeFi (-38%).

👀 $ASTER WHALE BUYS HIGH, SELLS LOW, LOST $35.8M Lookonchain spotted this whale sending 13.44M ASTER back to Binance ($11.67M now vs. $13.04M bought), locking in a $1.37M loss. Earlier, he round-tripped 64.53M ASTER, losing $34.54M. His total loss is now at $35.9M.

🚨BITCOIN SHORT-TERM HOLDERS AT LOSS Since Oct 30, $BTC has stayed below the $104K short-term holder cost basis, putting recent buyers in unrealized losses. During this period, STH have also been selling at realized losses averaging -12.6%, signaling active capitulation.

🧐 BITCOIN HEADED FOR $81.3K? $BTC at $86.4K is below the Active Investors Mean ($87.9K) and far under the STH cost basis ($101.8K). If weakness continues, the next major “pain zone” sits near the True Market Mean at $81.3K.

📈 INVESCO AND GALAXY LAUNCH SOLANA ETP ($QSOL) Invesco and Galaxy Asset Management have launched a Solana ETP, expanding beyond their Bitcoin and Ethereum products to offer regulated institutional access to Solana. QSOL not only offers spot price exposure to Solana but also generates potential yield by staking its SOL through Galaxy Digital Infrastructure, with staking rewards treated as income for the trust.

🚨BREAKING: CRYPTO JUST DUMPED ANOTHER $23B IN 1HR. The crypto market now lost $127B in the last 24 hours.

🛒ARK DUMPS $59M OF TESLA, LOADS UP ON CRYPTO EQUITIES Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest sold over $59 million worth of Tesla shares on Monday, rotating capital into a basket of crypto-linked assets. ARK added $17M in BitMine, $16.26M in Coinbase, $10.8M in Circle, $5.9M in Block, $5.2M in Bullish, and $1.24M in ARK-21Shares Bitcoin ETF, highlighting the firm’s continued conviction in the crypto sector.

⚡️ JUST IN: NASDAQ SEEKS TO EXTEND TRADING HOURS Nasdaq is planning to submit paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to extend stock trading from 16 to 23 hours on weekdays. This will mark its first formal step towards rolling out round-the-clock trading, five days a week by H2 2026.

🚨 JUST IN: 🇯🇵Japan's banking giant SBI is set to launch a yen-denominated stablecoin in Q2 2026.

👀 KEVIN WARSH OVERTAKES KEVIN HASSETT Polymarket odds now show Kevin Warsh as the lead choice to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair. This comes after reports suggest high-level Trump allies, Wall Street executives, and policy insiders are pushing back against Hassett’s candidacy. On the other hand, Warsh is seen as a more balanced, "market-friendly" candidate with actual Fed experience. This contributes to his lead over other candidates.

🚨 JUST IN: PayPal applies to become a bank in the U.S.

🚨 METAMASK ADDS NATIVE SUPPORT FOR BITCOIN MetaMask users will now be able to buy $BTC directly with fiat, make onchain transfers on the Bitcoin network, and swap to and from BTC using EVM-native assets and SOL

👀 BITWISE'S HYPE ETF NEARS LAUNCH Bitwise updated its Hyperliquid ETF filing with the 8-A form, a 0.67% fee, and ticker "BHYP". These steps usually mean the $HYPE ETF is launching very soon.

🚨 DBS BANK HAS $500 MILLION IN ETH! On-chain data shows Singapore’s largest bank, DBS, received 2,000 ETH ($6.27M) from Galaxy Digital today. DBS now holds 158,770 ETH ($499M) and 7,861 BTC ($706.5M), per The Data Nerd.

🚨 DOHA BANK GOES PRIVATE BLOCKCHAIN Doha Bank has completed a $150 MILLION digital bond using Euroclear’s regulated DLT, marking that big institutions still prefer permissioned, compliant ledgers over public blockchains for tokenized debt.

‼️ BITTENSOR HALVING DAY: EMISSIONS SLASHED FROM 7,200 TO 3,600 $TAO/DAY! Bittensor just underwent its first major supply shift since launch. The halving will see less TAO issued into subnet liquidity pools, squeezing low-utility subnets & boosting real value creators.

🚨 BREAKING: CIRCLE ACQUIRES INTEROP LABS Circle has signed an agreement to acquire the team and intellectual property from Interop Labs, the initial developer of the Axelar Network. The Interop Labs team will join Circle, while the Axelar Network, Axelar Foundation, and AXL token will remain independent, open-source, and community-governed.

⚡️ JUST IN: CME GROUP TO LAUNCH SPOT-QUOTED XRP AND SOL FUTURES The launch expands CME's cryptocurrency offerings, complementing its existing Spot-Quoted Bitcoin and Ether futures.