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🚨 TODAY: The IMF released a note on tokenized finance, highlighting its potential to transform banking, capital markets, and payments. Without proper policy frameworks and global coordination, however, it warns tokeniza…

🚨 LATEST: Tether is making a final push to close a fundraising round at a $500 billion valuation, per The Information. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Elon Musk's SpaceX is targeting a valuation of more than $2 trillion for its upcoming IPO, which would make it bigger than all but five companies in the S&P 500, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

🇨🇦 NOW: Canada's new stablecoin framework will require issuers to maintain 1:1 reserves, register with the Bank of Canada, and offer at-par redemption. Full regulations expected to come into force in 2027. News | Marke…

⚡️Token2049 Dubai has been cancelled. The spring blockchain calendar just shifted, and Paris is where the industry is heading. ParisBlockWeek 2026 runs April 15–16 at the Carrousel du Louvre. Coinbase, Binance, BlackRock…

⚡️ JUST IN: Circle just announced cirBTC, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed token with onchain-verifiable reserves built to move seamlessly across DeFi.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: U.S. 30-year mortgage rates rose for a fifth straight week to 6.46%, the highest since September 2025. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Arthur Hayes questions whether native multisig on Solana could have prevented the Drift hack. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 KULECHOV: “We want to expand from a lending protocol into a credit protocol and tap into real-world opportunities.” Stani Kulechov of Aave at Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 INSIGHT: Cointelegraph CEO Yana Prikhodchenko opens Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes, highlighting AI-era startup challenges. “As AI makes it faster than ever to launch a startup, the real challenge is no longer building…

🚨 LATEST: Ledger CTO suspects $280M Drift Protocol hack linked to North Korea threat actors. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NEW: CFTC Chair Michael Selig says, “Current financial systems are outdated, and blockchain networks are exactly what we need to bring it into the 21st century.” News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 JUST IN: Gold plunges 2% to $4,687 per ounce as Trump's Iran war escalation triggers a sharp reversal of the two-week safe haven rally. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 TRUMP: “We’re on track to complete all of America’s military objectives very shortly.” News | Markets | YouTube

🚨JUST IN: WTI crude oil surged above $101 per barrel during Trump's national address on Iran, a $3 spike from the $98.30 level earlier today. News | Markets | YouTube

🇮🇷 LATEST: Iran's IRGC is charging ships in yuan or crypto to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reports. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 UPDATE: Bitcoin buying is failing to offset a wave of selling by large holders, with $BTC trading at $68,217 and down 22% year to date, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ JUST IN: Binance leads all crypto entities with $136B in onchain holdings, followed by Coinbase ($88B) and Satoshi Nakamoto ($72B), according to Arkham data. News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 JUST IN: SpaceX reportedly files confidential IPO application, per market sources. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: $1.6T Franklin Templeton to acquire a CoinFund spinoff as it expands deeper into crypto. News | Markets | YouTube

🇦🇺 BIG: Australia passes the Digital Asset Framework Act, defining digital tokens and platforms, applying tailored financial rules, and granting regulators new oversight powers. News | Markets | YouTube

🇲🇹 NOW: Malta warns that if the EU pushes ahead with centralizing crypto oversight under ESMA, firms will simply pack up and move to Dubai, Asia, and the US. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Arizona's crypto bills clear the House Rules Committee, putting them on a fast track to a full House vote. SB1042 would allow state funds to invest up to 10% in crypto, while SB1649 would establish a digital asse…

🚨 JUST IN: Foreign central banks have sold US Treasury holdings to their lowest level since 2012 amid the Iran War, per Financial Times. News | Markets | YouTube

🇦🇪 NOW: The UAE is preparing to join the US and allies in forcibly reopening the Strait of Hormuz and is pushing for a UN Security Council resolution to authorize it, WSJ reports. News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BIG: Brent crude oil closed March 2026 with a 60% monthly gain, its largest since the futures contract launched in 1988, per The Kobeissi Letter. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 LATEST: New Hampshire's Bitcoin-backed municipal bond scores a Ba2 rating from Moody's, marking an unprecedented first in public finance, per Bloomberg. News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Trump to address the nation on the Iran war at 9PM ET Wednesday per White House Press Secretary Leavitt. News | Markets | YouTube