🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!

🚨 Sony doubles down on Soneium with additional $13M investment through Startale partnership, signaling long-term commitment.

🔥 Trump-linked stablecoin USD1 reaches $5B market cap, ranking as the 5th largest stablecoin.

🔥 Strive adds 334 $BTC, bringing total holdings to 13,132 $BTC ($1.17B), making it the 10th largest corporate Bitcoin holder, surpassing CleanSpark.

🔥 Ethereum leads all networks in stablecoin supply with usage accelerating, both transfer volume and monthly active senders hit all-time highs, per Token Terminal.

🇯🇵 Metaplanet targets a $137M raise to buy more $BTC.

🇺🇸 President Trump says, "Jerome “Too Late” Powell should lower rates", arguing current policy is unnecessarily restrictive.

🚨 Spot gold prices dropped 5.45%, sliding from $5,500 to below $5,200.

🚨 The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee passed its portion of the Clarity Act out of committee on a 12–11 party-line vote, with no Democrats in favor.

🇺🇸 Paul Atkins said the SEC and CFTC are preparing coordinated crypto oversight, including an expected MOU, per the WSJ.

🇸🇻 El Salvador has purchased $50 million worth of gold.

🚨 OpenAI is planning a Q4 2026 IPO, per WSJ.

🇺🇸 The White House and Senate Democrats reached a spending deal to avert a partial government shutdown.

🇺🇸 President Trump says he will be announcing the new Fed Chair tomorrow morning.

🚨 Kevin Warsh sees the highest odds at 87% to be nominated as Fed Chair by Trump, followed by Rick Rieder at 6.3%, on Polymarket.

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🔥 INTERESTING: Gold becomes the top global reserve asset as US Dollar holdings decline, while Bitcoin has just begun appearing in reserves.

We’re still very early!

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🚨 JUST IN: Spot gold fell over 5% on the day, now trading near $5,096/oz.

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🚨 UPDATE: Bitcoin is no longer in the top 10 global assets by market cap, currently ranked 11th.

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⚡️ UPDATE: During Bybit’s first 2026 Keynote, CEO Ben Zhou announced the launch of MyBank in February 2026.

MyBank will allow users to obtain personal IBANs for payments and transfers through a compliant KYC process, expanding Bybit’s role beyond trading.

Major gaps remain in today’s global financial system, with 1.4 billion people still unbanked. Bybit’s move toward becoming more “bank-like” aims to address these structural shortcomings.

With 82 million users across 181 countries and regions, Bybit is positioning itself as a new global financial platform.

[Brought to you by @Bybit_Official]

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🚨 UPDATE: Bitcoin OG insider is deep in the red, sitting on over $110M in unrealized losses across $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL after aggressive long positions.

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