🇺🇸 NEW: FOMC minutes reveal Fed cut rates by 25bps in split 9-3 vote, with inflation at 2.8% and rising downside risks to employment. Projections show inflation reaching 2% by 2028.

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "the Pentad structure gets to get all these commercially critical integrations and Cardano's no longer an island: Talks to everything, works with everything, liquidity, TVL, users, all that stuff can just flow freely." $NIGHT

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "people ask me "how will Cardano DeFi be competitive?" It's not going to be competitive being slightly better, faster, or cheaper than Ethereum or Solana. You gotta do new stuff, interesting things, new experiences." $NIGHT

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we want real world adoption, RWAs, real world utility, every business and ecosystem on a blockchain, and it's got to get done. Full stop. Just gotta get done." $NIGHT

Tom Lee said Bitmine needs approval from 50.1% of outstanding shares to raise its authorized share cap, warning that without passing Proposal 2, its ETH accumulation would slow as the current 500M-share limit is nearly reached.

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Midnight is just an incredible project. We got an amazing series of workshops next week, everybody's getting ready for it." $NIGHT

JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "the KPIs have been set in stone, we told everybody this is the standard. Gotta grab the boat, carry the boat, no excuses. I'm not sleeping much but I don't care. We got places to go, things to do. 2026 will be a good year."

MSCI’s emerging markets index gained 30% in 2025, outpacing the S&P 500 and even the Magnificent Seven, despite the threat of US tariffs hanging over several key emerging economies. Watch the latest edition of Sectors Up Close to find out what’s driving the markets

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️ INSIGHT: Long-term Bitcoin holder selling has slowed, with net outflows retreating from extreme levels, per @Glassnode.