JUST IN: CME Group says its expanded crypto suite with $ADA futures "serves as the foundation for our Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures coming March 16th, pending regulatory review," highlighting a growing range of institutional-grade financial products including #Cardano.

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."

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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

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."

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we have a great partner, NexiFuse, and we're already in discussions about how we bring medical records into the blockchain space. We want to create portability and economic agency with these records." $NIGHT

The infrastructure gap in digital assets is getting filled. @DuncanTrenholme, Managing Director and Global Co Head of Digital Assets, announced @TPICAPGroup’s next milestone for Fusion Digital Assets at @Consensus_HK. Fusion is transitioning to a Matched Principal model in March,