Institutional inflows into Bitcoin ETFs reached $93.1M last week as BlackRock and Fidelity made net purchases despite selective selling.

What happens when the institution at the center of U.S. market plumbing starts putting securities onchain? In this episode of The Defiant, Chris Storaker sits down with Tom Sullivan, Managing Director at DTCC Digital Assets, to discuss how DTCC is approaching tokenization, why regulatory clarity changed the game, and what it means for U.S. Treasuries, stocks, ETFs, collateral, and 24/7 markets.

Cari Network is building a bank-governed tokenized deposit platform on ZKsync's Prividium stack, offering US regional lenders an onchain payments rail with stablecoin-like speed and transferability.

The deal values Abra at $750 million pre-money.

Strategy and Bitmine both announced fresh crypto buys today, while Metaplanet revealed its latest capital raise.

Day-one trading volume for ETHB on Nasdaq reached over $16.5 million.

The TradFi giant's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF is its first yield-bearing exchange-traded product.

The initiative brings together a broad spectrum of well-known, global crypto firms and blockchain projects including Circle, Solana, Binance, Polygon, and Ava Labs.

While the bank has yet to confirm its plans, the move could mark a first step toward launching its own USD stablecoin.

Strategy just bought nearly 6x more BTC than last week, while Tom Lee's Bitmine also purchased more ETH than usual.