🇬🇧 JUST IN: UK Gambling Commission to explore allowing crypto payments for bets.

JUST IN: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says "it feels like sentiment has shifted on crypto." In February, he called #Cardano $ADA a "real altcoin," and predicted that crypto is near "the end of a full-blown winter that began in January 2025."

Paradigm Raising $1.5B For AI, Robotics Investment Fund: WSJ

Bitcoin company Fold pays off $66M debt, frees up BTC collateral

Vitalik Buterin argued that with Ethereum’s upcoming ePBS upgrade, centralization risks could shift to the block building pipeline, raising concerns around transaction censorship and toxic MEV. He proposed FOCIL, where randomly selected participants require certain transactions

WATCH: @Grayscale CLO @CraigSalm says that, in the CLARITY Act’s 400 pages, the key debate centers on stablecoin yield. #LONGITUDEHK

Nasdaq stays out of prediction markets amid CFTC oversight

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we have a lot of great integrations like LayerZero and USDCx. We have to grow DeFi: $NIGHT gives the private option, Bitcoin DeFi opens us up to the largest market in crypto, where Bitcoin can still be the root of security."

Nasdaq Files for ‘Outcome-Related Options’ Product in Bid To Siphon Market Share From Kalshi and Polymarket

Russian rail freight drop deepens in February as economy slows