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

🇺🇸 US Senate confirms pro-crypto Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary.

🚨 Cboe files for 19b-4 to allow in-kind creations and redemption for both ARK’s 21Shares Bitcoin and 21Shares Core Ethereum ETFs.

🔥 Trump-backed World Liberty Financial bought another 3,247 $ETH worth $10M at the dip!

🚨 CNBC’s Jim Cramer says, “I own Bitcoin, you should own Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a great thing to add, to have in your portfolio."

🚨 Venice AI newly launched token $VVV hits a fully diluted value of $1 billion within two hours after its launch.

🚨OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praises DeepSeek’s R1, saying it’s “an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price.”

🇺🇸 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the crypto industry should work together to achieve many common goals instead of tearing each other down.

🚨 $156M in short positions liquidated as the crypto market rallies over the past 24 hours.

🔥 Japanese firm Metaplanet secures $745M to invest in more #Bitcoin.

🎙️ Rise'n'Crypto: Bitcoin slips 7% as DeepSeek shakes markets, Arizona advances a state Bitcoin reserve, and MicroStrategy doubles down on BTC.

🇺🇸 Ripple and the civil actions against it have been removed from the SEC’s records.

🇺🇸 Arizona has advanced the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act, allowing public funds to invest up to 10% in Bitcoin and other digital assets, setting a potential precedent for other states.

🇺🇸 Trump's executive order promoting USD-backed stablecoins has raised concerns in the EU about increasing dollar dominance, with USD stablecoins already accounting for 97% of the global market.

🇦🇷 Coinbase secures regulatory approval to expand services into Argentina.

🚨 Bitwise submits S-1 filing for a $DOGE ETF.

🇫🇷 Binance is disappointed by the French prosecutor’s decision to escalate its investigation into money laundering and tax fraud, despite its investment in compliance.

@Cointelegraph