📢 The U.S. government’s cash balance has climbed to around $1T for the first time since April 2021, jumping by $300B in just three weeks.

However, the debt situation is expected to worsen again as tax season inflows begin to fade.

📢 McKinsey & Company notes that China controls a large portion of the humanoid robotics supply chain, including about 90% of permanent magnets and 40% of precision bearings and encoders.

📢 Tron recorded the biggest stablecoin inflows in the past 24 hours, adding $1.5B, according to Artemis.

📢 Kraken Steps Into U.S. Derivatives Market🇺🇸

Kraken just made a big move in the U.S. space

• Acquired Bitnomial, a CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform
• Now able to offer regulated futures, options & margin products
• Expands access for eligible U.S. users into advanced trading

📢 Western Union Goes Live on Solana

Big step for stablecoin payments

• Western Union’s stablecoin $USDP is now live on Solana
• Brings faster and cheaper blockchain transactions
• Another strong signal of growing real-world crypto adoption

📢 Binance now holds about 41% of the market among exchanges offering TradFi-style perpetuals. Centralized platforms still dominate overall trading, with volumes split roughly 70% on CEXs and 30% on DEXs.

📢 The DeFi Education Fund and the Solana Institute are calling for clearer guidance on how the GENIUS Act should be implemented, following the USOCC’s recent stance.

📢 Around $522M was liquidated across the crypto market in the past 24 hours, with roughly $360M coming from short positions.

📢 Binance has introduced Withdraw Protection, a feature that can pause withdrawals for up to 7 days to help safeguard users under physical pressure.

📢 Ondo Joins Wall Street Tokenization Push

Big names moving deeper on-chain

• Ondo joins DTCC’s tokenization working group
• Working alongside firms like BlackRock & JPMorgan
• Focus is building onchain rails for U.S. capital markets

📢 A Solana co-founder cautioned that AI could potentially undermine post-quantum cryptography, pointing to unknown risks and encouraging the use of multi-wallet setups like Fuse Wallet or native PDA integration.

📢 Offshore U.S. dollar deposits have reached a record of around $14.5 trillion, rising roughly 220% since the early 2000s, highlighting the continued global dominance of the dollar.

📢 Inflation keeps eating into the value of cash, over the past 30 years, $1 has lost close to half its buying power, while that same $1 invested in the S&P 500 would be worth roughly $20 in real terms.

📢 Donald Trump claimed he generated about $45 billion for the U.S. within eight months.

📢 Baby boomers hold roughly $110 trillion in wealth, but the expected “great wealth transfer” to younger generations may take longer than many expect, according to the WSJ.

📢 The seven largest token unlocks this month add up to $639.45M, with $RAIN leading the pack at $397.51M.

📢 Coinbase Opens Door to Aussie Retirement Funds

Quiet move, big implications

• Coinbase now supports SMSFs in Australia
• Unlocks access to over $1T AUD in retirement savings
• More traditional capital finding its way into crypto

📢 According to Fidelity Digital Assets, adding just a 3% Bitcoin allocation boosted the annual returns of a traditional 60/40 portfolio from 9.4% to 14.6% over the past decade.

📢 Digital asset investment products recorded $117.8M in inflows, extending their streak to five consecutive weeks of gains.

📢 Polygon Brings Privacy to Stablecoin Payments

A step forward for on-chain privacy

• Private stablecoin transfers now live on Polygon
• Uses zero-knowledge tech to hide sender, receiver & amount
• Built to keep transactions compliant while protecting user data