This U.S. politician suspiciously bets big on Bitcoin amid market dip

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Adoption: @Ripple executive @reece_merrick says Dubai @Land_Department has launched Phase Two of its real estate tokenization project, enabling controlled secondary trading of tokenized properties on the XRP Ledger.

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JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "LayerZero opens up the possibility of 8 major stablecoins as well, and it's really just a question of when and how. That integration is going to take a little bit longer because it's a very significant one."

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Fourth-quarter U.S. GDP up 1.4%, badly missing estimate. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for a 2.5% gain. For the full year in 2025, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.2% pace, down from the 2.8% increase in 2024.