@coinbase has launched stock trading and prediction "markets". Stock trading will be available for traders 24 hours a day, 5 days of a week, with zero fees, calling themselves an “everything exchange.” $COIN $BTC $SPX

UPDATE: Charles Hoskinson says "how do #Cardano $ADA dApps compete in a world of SOL and ETH? Bitcoin DeFi, XRP DeFi, new things like privacy enhancement, then suddenly you can have an anonymous DEX, prediction market, and intents so that people can't trade against you." $NIGHT

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TermMax Launches Fixed-Rate DeFi Market

JUST IN: Ouroboros Leios surpasses 677,000 lines of code. The CIP is finalized and merged, advancing closer to mainnet integration in 2026, to bring a 60x improvement in the throughput of #Cardano $ADA.

UPDATE: Altcoin Daily says "is $250,000 $BTC too bullish? What are those demand factors?" Charles Hoskinson says "supply is relatively constrained, you have institutional purchasing, so you naturally have a push up, just by Fortune500 and nation states taking positions." $ADA

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis introduces the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, which "establishes clear federal standards for when crypto developers and service providers are exempt from money transmitter regulations." $ADA $NIGHT

ALERT: Altcoins saw a roughly $40B outflow as speculative risk unwound, with median bull runs shrinking to just 20 days in 2025, according to a report by Wintermute.