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Regulation & Politics
DOJ and CFTC Open Insider-Trading Probes of George Santos Over Kalshi Bets on His Own State of the Union Appearance
Kalshi flagged the trades, froze the account, and referred the case to federal authorities — the first known criminal-and-civil enforcement track against a named individual on a CFTC-regulated US prediction market.

Regulation & Politics
160 Officials Tell Senate to Pass CLARITY Act as Floor Talks Resume
A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.

TradFi & Fintech
Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps
The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.

Blockchains
Sui Blames Triple Mainnet Halt on Gas-Charging Bug and a Known-Risk Patch That Backfired
The Sui Foundation's post-mortem ties two of three outages to an edge case in the v1.72 address-balances feature, and the third to a randomness-state bug exposed by an interim fix the team shipped knowing it carried halt risk.

Regulation & Politics
US Treasury Adds Nobitex and Three Other Iranian Exchanges to OFAC SDN List Under 'Economic Fury'
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, along with their leadership, naming the exchanges as the digital-asset rails for Iran's central bank and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

TradFi & Fintech
Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade
A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.
Podcast
Bad Sentiment, Strong Fundamentals: the Institutional Turn | Chris Perkins, Franklin Crypto
Crypto is entering a new phase — and institutions, not retail, are driving it.
As regulatory clarity arrives, the largest institutions in the world are moving from the sidelines into the market. The thesis from our guest: sentiment is poor, but fundamentals are improving; a coiled spring.

DeFi
Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal
The exchange's venture arm bought ENA tokens directly on the open market rather than through a private round, the first such disclosed purchase, alongside a partnership to push Ethena's onchain dollar and savings products into Coinbase's userbase.

DeFi
US Court Lifts Circle Freeze on Zama's $12.5M cUSDC Contract After Three-Day Lockout
A federal judge in the Northern District of California reversed the temporary restraining order that had pushed Circle to blacklist the privacy protocol's wrapper, restoring funds to depositors caught in a civil dispute they were not party to.

TradFi & Fintech
Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network
The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on a network with 383 million accounts and roughly $90 billion in circulating stablecoins.





