⚡️ Franklin Templeton has launched Franklin Crypto after acquiring digital asset firm 250 Digital.
The new division will focus on bringing more crypto products and services to institutional investors.
INSIGHTS:
🇺🇸 Three liquidity injections. Same week.
Fed injected $5,058,000,000 before market open. Treasury released $90,000,000,000 via TGA.
Now the largest Treasury debt buyback in history. $15,000,000,000.
Governments don't inject this much liquidity for no reason.
They inject it when something is breaking.
Or when they're preparing for something big.
The U.S. Digital Asset Reserve announcement is coming within weeks.
Connect the dots.
Between 2005 and 2019, U.S. electricity demand grew at 0.1% per year. Utilities planned around it. Regulators priced it. The whole system optimised for predictability.
That assumption is no longer valid.
@ERCOT is now forecast to grow at 10% annually through 2027. Potentially 15% if data center demand runs hot.
For context: Large load interconnection requests in Texas jumped 270% in 2025 alone. The @EIAgov's numbers show a 79% wholesale price spike at ERCOT if demand runs ahead of forecast by 2027.
This what we get when the infrastructure layer doesn't keep pace with the demand layer.
The answer lies in the flexibility stack.
> Batteries
> Peer-to-Peer trading
> Demand response.
Energy will be the most defining infrastructure opportunity of this decade.
💥 BIG BREAKING: US President announces New Crypto Structure Bill
🇺🇸 President Trump: "Under this bill, the ancient system will be eligible for 21st century upgrade using the state-of-the-art crypto technology."
Trillions will move on-chain into RWAs 🚀
LATEST: 🏦 Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says "an enormous number of people at the firm" are highly focused on tokenization and stablecoins
2026 is the year tokenization and RWAs will skyrocket! 🚀
HAPPENING NOW: President Donald J. Trump delivers a special address to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"The United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in country's history." 🇺🇸
INSTITUTIONS AREN'T WAITING ANYMORE 👀
$90B Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says big banks at Davos see crypto as an opportunity, their lobbying arms and trade groups are already coming in to fight the competition.
HERE WE GO 🚀
In the Marshall Islands, Stellar powered the first ever onchain UBI disbursement.
"Delivering the first blockchain-powered instance of nationwide Universal Basic Income is what the Stellar network was built to power." -@DenelleDixon
https://t.co/cHyTXOuRFm
THE TradFi FLOODGATES JUST SMASHED OPEN 💥
CEO of $6.6T Bank Sergio Ermotti says: "I believe that Blockchain and that kind of technology is the future for the traditional banking business, and you will see a convergence of that."
BIG BANKS LOVE Real World Assets. 🚀
🚨 Crypto Regulation Update: The Senate just made its huge counter-move to the House-passed "Clarity Act."
Think of it like a high-stakes negotiation.
House Bill: "Here, CFTC, take broad power over crypto!" Senate Ag Bill: "Okay, but we’re shrinking the definition of what you regulate, and we want way tougher rules for customer safety."
The Senate agrees on the direction but wants a tighter leash. The real battle for the final rules just started. ♟️⚖️👇