📊 According to data from Artemis, deposits across major crypto lending protocols have declined from $125 billion to $79.6 billion since October 2025, a drop of about 36%.

Most of the decline came from a few protocols, including Aave (−$27.6B), Spark Protocol (−$5.4B), Euler Finance (−$2.6B), Fluid Protocol (−$2.4B), and Compound (−$2.0B), accounting for roughly $40B of the $45B total decline. link

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🗣 Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open to all countries except the United States and Israel.

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🕵️ Erik Voorhees, the early Bitcoin supporter and founder of ShapeShift, has started buying gold again after a one-month break.

Since January 31, he created 28 new wallets and spent $23.76M to buy 2,834 $XAUT ($13.78M) and 2,019 $PAXG ($9.97M) at an average price of $4,896.

He is now up $513K. link link link link

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🤝 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin emphasized the need to keep the ecosystem open to revisiting the separation between beacon and execution clients. He pointed out that managing two daemons complicates the experience for users operating their own nodes. In the short term, standardized wrappers, such as Docker-based tools, could ease client deployment, while Ethereum may reassess its architecture as the “Lean Ethereum” consensus evolves. link

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😱🤑 Fear & Greed Index for #BTC

📊 According to data from Ultrasound Money, the circulating supply of Ethereum has increased by more than 1 million ETH since the Merge. This brings the total supply to around 121.53 million ETH, with an annualized inflation rate of about 0.24%. #macro link

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🗣 Elon Musk says AI will make jobs "optional" in the future due to "universal high income."

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🐳 The whale loracle.hl has increased its $HYPE (5x) long position to 196,353 $HYPE, valued at $7.37M.

On the other side, loracle’s $CL short position is now showing a floating loss of over $600K, but he’s still up more than $23.57M overall. link

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🐳 After holding $TRUMP for 8 months, whale 2sBcbh sold 211,343 $TRUMP for $847K, realizing a $1.29M loss.

He initially purchased 211,343 $TRUMP for $2.13M at $10.

Additionally, he bought 18,787 $SOL for $3.29M at $175 and is now down $1.62M. link

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🔝 Top 10 Perps DEX by Monthly Trading Volume

The decentralized derivatives sector continues to gain traction, with several platforms already processing tens of billions in monthly trading volume.

Hyperliquid leads the market by a wide margin, while Aster, EdgeX, and Lighter also rank among the largest perps DEX by activity.

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💰 Michael Saylor hints at buying more Bitcoin.

"Stretch the Orange Dots."

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📊 On-chain data shows Venus Protocol was suspected to suffer a flash-loan attack.

The attacker address 0x1a35…6231 obtained about 20 #BTC, 1.5 million CAKE, and 200 BNB, totaling over $3.7 million, after using a large amount of THE as collateral on Venus to borrow CAKE, #BTCB, and BNB.

Tens of millions of THE used as collateral are currently being liquidated. #hack link

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🇺🇸📈 Average US gas prices rise to $3.70 for the first time since April 2024.

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📊💼 #BTC Corporate treasuries are buying bitcoin at 2.8x the rate new coins are being mined.

194 publicly traded companies now hold bitcoin on their balance sheets. Collectively, over 1.15 million BTC, roughly 5.5% of the total 21 million supply. Worth over $82 billion.

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📈 Crypto token count surpasses 37.8 million since 2023 as new projects flood the market.

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🤝 Forensic probe finds draft of alleged $5M deal tied to Javier Milei’s promotion of the Libra token.

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🗣 Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says his AI team "will release a true breakthrough this coming week."

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🏦 Regulatory uncertainty is delaying banks from launching stablecoin infrastructure. Meanwhile, crypto firms continue to expand, according to Colin Butler. #regulation

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🤔 #AAVE Aave and CoW Swap have published conflicting analyses regarding a transaction where a user exchanged 50.4 million aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE valued at $36,000.

Aave attributed the losses to an "illiquid market" and introduced the "Aave Shield" feature, which blocks swaps that affect the price by over 25%.

In contrast, CoW Swap's analysis highlighted issues such as outdated gas limits rejecting more profitable offers, the best solver winning two auctions but failing to execute them on the blockchain, and data suggesting the transaction originated from a private mempool. link

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🇺🇸🗽 US Energy Secretary says there are "no guarantees" oil prices will drop anytime soon, NYT reports.

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