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CeFi
Coinbase and Better Launch Crypto-Backed Mortgages With Fannie Mae Backing
Borrowers can pledge Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral without triggering a taxable event.

DeFi
Tether Gold Expands to BNB Chain as Tokenized Gold Market Approaches $5 Billion
The integration connects the dominant gold-backed token to BNB Chain's RWA ecosystem amid a volatile stretch for spot gold prices.

Markets
Bitcoin Slides Below $69,000 as Iran Stalemate Fuels Global Selloff
Major altcoins plunge, with ETH, SOL, and XRP dropping 5%.

Infrastructure
LayerZero Goes Live on Institution-Focused Canton as Its First Interop Protocol
The LayerZero integration gives assets tokenized on Canton access to over 165 public blockchains.

TradFi & Fintech
Argentina's State-Backed Energy Giant YPF Launches Tokenization Initiative on XRP Ledger
Enertoken, developed by Justoken for YPF Luz, launched with over $800 million in tokenized energy assets on XRPL.

Research & Opinion
DeFi Generated $8 Billion in Onchain Yield in 2025: Analysis
A breakdown of DeFi's yield sources reveals that borrowing demand, trading fees, and funding rates drove the bulk of returns, while more than half of stablecoin deposits in the Ethereum ecosystem are earning less than U.S. Treasuries.

Markets
Bitcoin Holds $71K as ETF Flows Reverse
Spot BTC ETFs had $74 million in outflows on Tuesday as traders await Friday's PCE data.

DeFi
Obex Starts Deploying $1B in USDS Into Mortgages, AI Hardware, and Solar Energy
The Sky-backed stablecoin incubator's inaugural class of eight projects marks the protocol's biggest push yet to diversify beyond crypto-native yield sources.

DeFi
Ondo Tokenizes Five Franklin Templeton ETFs
The partnership brings growth, large-cap, fixed income, equity income, and gold ETFs onchain through Ondo Global Markets.

DeFi
Coinbase Brings Exchange Data Onchain via Chainlink's DataLink
The integration gives DeFi protocols direct access to institutional-grade order book, spot, and futures data from the largest US crypto exchange.

