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Markets
Prediction Market Open Interest Crosses $1B as Super Bowl Boosts Bets
Volume across Polymarket and Kalshi hit $400 million for the first time, with sports and political markets drawing nearly all the liquidity.

Blockchains
Provenance Blockchain TVL Hits All-Time High of $1.2 Billion
HELOC provider Figure Markets accounts for the network’s entire TVL.

Blockchains
ZRO Soars 40% After Unveiling Layer 1 Blockchain
LayerZero announced its Zero blockchain yesterday, built in collaboration with Citadel, ICE, and Google Cloud.

DeFi
Ondo Global Markets Taps Chainlink for US Stock Price Feeds
Ondo Global Markets has teamed up with Chainlink to utilize its Data Feeds, enhancing onchain pricing for tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, reinforcing the integration of traditional securities into DeFi.

TradFi & Fintech
Intercontinental Exchange Unveils Polymarket Signals Tool to Enhance Trader Insights
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched the Polymarket Signals and Sentiment Tool, integrating prediction market data into its services to provide traders with enhanced market insights.

Markets
Bitcoin Falls Below $67,000 as Losses Broaden Across Crypto
Major crypto assets traded lower on Wednesday morning as total market capitalization shed almost 4%

DeFi
UNI Soars 30% Amid Strategic Investment from BlackRock
Uniswap and Securitize have announced a strategic partnership with BlackRock to provide DeFi liquidity for BlackRock's tokenized fund.

Podcast
Robinhood’s Crypto Head Johann Kerbrat on Why Public Blockchains Will Win
Robinhood is opening the testnet for its Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer 2. In this episode, we sit down with the fintech’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to discuss the strategic move to build on Ethereum. He believes institutions can get the privacy and compliance guarantees they need on public chains like Ethereum, so building on private chains doesn’t make sense as they are just a “fancy database.”

CeFi
Franklin Templeton and Binance Launch Tokenized Collateral Program
Eligible clients can now use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange trading collateral.

DeFi
Spark Launches Institutional Lending Products in Off-Chain Expansion
The new offerings are Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending.





