📢 Steak ’n Shake Adds $BTC to Its Reserves

Steak ’n Shake has purchased $5M worth of $BTC as part of its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

• $5,000,000 allocated into $BTC
• Move signals long-term balance sheet strategy
• Another brand adopting Bitcoin as a reserve asset

📢 Ethereum active wallets have reached a record 175.5M, driven by growing staking interest and falling exchange balances. Santiment notes that 5.16M wallets have been added in 2026 alone.

📢 Ripple Launches Its Treasury Management Platform

Ripple’s GTreasury has launched Ripple Treasury, a platform built to manage both traditional cash and digital assets in one place.

• Combines fiat treasury tools with crypto infrastructure
• Designed for institutions managing complex balances
• Expands Ripple’s push beyond payments

📢 Tether Becomes a Major Gold Holder

Tether is now the largest known gold holder outside banks and governments, according to Bloomberg.

• Over 140 tons of gold held by Tether
• Worth roughly $23B at current prices
• Stored in a secure Swiss bunker

📢 South Dakota Moves Toward $BTC Investment

South Dakota has introduced a bill that would allow the state to invest in $BTC.

• Bill proposes adding $BTC to state investments
• Signals growing state-level interest in Bitcoin
• Still early, but worth watching as it moves forward

📢 Santiment data shows Filecoin, Chainlink, and Dfinity leading AI and Big Data development activity in crypto, with Near Protocol, Oasis Protocol, and Livepeer following behind.

📢 Polygon has outpaced Base in x402 agentic payment transactions for the eighth consecutive day.

📢 Bitwise has registered a Uniswap ETF in Delaware, signaling that a formal filing could be coming soon.

📢 BitMine has staked another 113,280 ETH (about $340.7M), lifting its total staked balance to 2.33M ETH worth roughly $7B, which now represents around 55% of its total ETH holdings.

📢 Fidelity to Launch Its Own Stablecoin

$5.9T Fidelity Investments is launching its own stablecoin.

• One of the world’s largest asset managers entering stablecoins
• Signals deeper institutional push into crypto rails
• Adds more pressure on traditional finance to adapt

📢 JustLend DAO’s total value locked has climbed past $6.71B, with its user base exceeding 480K, according to its latest weekly report.

📢 The crypto industry saw $33T in stablecoin transaction volume throughout 2025.

📢 Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg notes that Bitcoin has gained 429% since 2022, significantly outperforming gold, silver, and equities, a fact many tend to overlook.

📢 XRP wallets holding at least 1M tokens have increased for the first time since September, adding 42 new millionaire wallets, which Santiment sees as a positive long-term signal.

📢 The SEC has issued new guidance explaining how federal securities laws apply to tokenized securities, including clearer distinctions between issuer-led and third-party tokenization models.

📢 Ondo’s USDY tokenized U.S. Treasury product has officially gone live on the Sei Network.

📢 Ethereum now leads all networks in stablecoin supply, with usage picking up sharply as both transfer volume and monthly active senders reach new all-time highs, according to Token Terminal.

📢 Corporate Bitcoin holdings reached 1.1M $BTC valued at $94B in Q4 2025, as 19 new public companies added Bitcoin to their balance sheets, according to a Bitwise report.

📢 Total real-world asset issuance on Avalanche has surpassed $1.3B.

📢 The market value of tokenized U.S. Treasuries has climbed past $10B.