🏛️ Regulation / Policy (1/6)
• 🏦 Stripe subsidiary Bridge received preliminary U.S. approval for a national bank trust charter, enabling stablecoin issuance under federal oversight
• ⚖️ Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig warned states against interfering in prediction markets, asserting federal jurisdiction over event contracts
• 🏛️ A U.S. federal appeals court rejected Kalshi’s request to pause Nevada enforcement actions
• 💰 The Internal Revenue Service reduced crypto AML oversight staffing to its lowest level since 2017
#CryptoRegulation #Stablecoins #Policy
🏦 Institutional Activity (2/6)
• 🇦🇪 Mubadala & Al Warda increased holdings in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), surpassing $1B combined exposure
• 📊 BlackRock and Coinbase plan to retain 18% of staking rewards in the proposed iShares Staked Ethereum ETF
• 🏛️ Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund exited its ETHZilla position by end-2025
• 💼 Dragonfly closed a $650M crypto venture fund
• 🎓 Harvard Management reduced Bitcoin ETF exposure ~21% and added ~$86.8M in Ethereum ETF exposure
#Institutions #BitcoinETF #Ethereum
⛓️ On-chain / Protocol Updates (3/6)
• 🌐 Zora expanded to Solana, launching “attention market” tokens tied to social traction
• 🪙 Elemental Altus Royalties to offer dividends in Tether’s tokenized gold asset
• 🤖 Ethereum Foundation evaluating AI tools for governance tasks, including proposal drafting and moderation
#OnChain #Web3 #Tokenization
🔐 Security Incidents (4/6)
• ⚠️ Moonwell recorded $1.8M in bad debt following an oracle malfunction
• 🎣 An Ethereum user lost $600,000 in an address poisoning scam
#CryptoSecurity #OnChainRisk
🌍 Macro Events Impacting Crypto (5/6)
• 🏛️ White House held a second meeting on stablecoin yield policy, urging compromise by March 1
#Macro #Stablecoins
#MarketStructure 🧠 Daily Summary (6/6)
Stablecoin regulation and ETF positioning dominate.
Institutional capital active across BTC and ETH.
AI integration expanding into governance and creator markets.
Isolated security risks persist.
Data > narratives.
#CryptoPulse #Blockchain #MarketContext