📢 Trump has ordered a 5-day pause on strikes against Iran following what he described as “productive” talks. Around $269M in short positions were liquidated within an hour.

📢 Polymarket has introduced new market integrity rules across its U.S. exchange and DeFi platform.

📢 Telegram Clears Debt, Turns Profitable

Big milestone for the platform

• Fully repaid its 5-year bonds
• Reached profitability in 2024
• Latest bond sale was oversubscribed

📢 Crypto markets bounced back after Trump announced a 5-day pause on Iran strikes, with Bitcoin seeing a sharp rise in social activity up 38%, while several altcoins also moved higher, according to Santiment.

📢 Bitcoin has been outperforming both gold and the S&P 500 since the U.S.–Iran conflict began, according to River.

📢 Addresses holding between 100 and 100,000 ETH have added 756,950 ETH over the past two days, according to Santiment.

📢 Delaware has proposed a bipartisan stablecoin banking bill that mandates full 1:1 reserves, monthly audits, and strict AML/KYC compliance under its state banking system.

📢 A whale has opened a $46.09M short position on BTC using 40x leverage, with a liquidation level set at $71,711.

📢 New small businesses are growing in number, but hiring is slowing as more spending shifts toward technology, according to a16z.

📢 Retail traders now make up just 8.1% of market activity, down from 15%, the lowest since Q3 2024, as risk appetite cools, according to The Kobeissi Letter.

📢 L1 networks just reached 18M daily active addresses, with BNB Chain at the top, according to Token Terminal.

📢 Hyperliquid topped 24-hour fees at $1.4M, followed by EdgeX and Ethereum.

📢 Bitcoin experienced a rare two-block reorg after competing mining pools like Foundry USA, AntPool, and ViaBTC briefly split the chain.

📢 The 30-year mortgage rate in the U.S. housing market has risen back to 7% for the first time since August.

📢 About $1B was wiped from tokenized commodities after gold fell from $5,600 to $4,350, according to Arkham.

📢 Shopify Expands Into AI-Powered Shopping

• Shopify rolls out agentic storefronts for merchants
• Sellers can now list and sell directly through AI platforms like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini
• Opens a new sales channel for millions of businesses online

$BTC FALLS BACK UNDER $69,000.

📢 Anchorage Digital Boosts $STRC Holdings

• Anchorage Digital adds $STRC to its balance sheet
• Expands its custody partnership with Strategy
• Signals growing institutional confidence in $STRC