🚨NEAR UP 8.6% AFTER THE ETF LAUNCH!
near:native is at $5.30, up 8.58% on the day after hitting $5.35.
Bitwise’s solana:7ukDd3E3PSupATuK4yvJ49jyZr8nNrkXKcq8pioiq98F opened yesterday with $35.5 million in first-day inflows.
Confidential $APT is LIVE on Aptos mainnet.
What that means: Encrypted balances. Encrypted transfer amounts. Addresses remain visible. Fully opt-in by design.
Validators verify a transaction is valid while those amounts stay confidential.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The CFTC has sent its crypto rules to the White House for review.
Congress failed, but the SEC and CFTC are still delivering pro-crypto regulation.
🚨NEAR POWERS FIRST MAJOR QUANTUM-RESISTANT CRYPTO PILOT!
Banks and regulators are testing post-quantum wallets and on-chain transfers on a quantum-resistant NEAR testnet.
The Responsible Fintech Institute and Safeheron initiative uses NIST’s ML-DSA-65 standard with MPC, bringing in Bison Bank, DK Bank and observers from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta.
A whitepaper and full open-sourcing of the tech are planned.
GM. 4 year cycles are intact but this cycle's downwards draw has been much reduced. Today Bitcoin is down 38% from it's ATH. Exactly 4 years ago we were at 68% with a further draw down to 77% at the low in November, 2022. Will we go lower from here? Everyone is now bullish so we will probably go down. Take profits. Protect your downside. Look on the bright side - If you take profits here, you did a better job than Strategy who sold the absolute (for now) bottom.
In partnership with @Mastercard
After months of exploring how financial institutions actually evaluate blockchain infrastructure
The foundations of institutional blockchain adoption drop next week
NEAR AI Cloud now runs confidential inference verified by @intel Trust Authority.
Intel is already a NEAR AI confidential hardware partner, supplying the isolation that protects your data.
Now every workload returns an Intel-signed proof you can check yourself.
📊Some Web3 stats to keep an eye on
$ONDO Global Markerts passes $500 Mil TVL
$INJ Jan buyback totals to 52,766 INJ tokens
$AERO PGF buys & locks 453K more AERO
$LINK reserve accumulates 1.58 Mil total LINK
$AVAX stablecoin transfer vol up 250% YoY
$SUI hits 4.6 Mil transactions in 1 day
$SEI Takara Lend now #2 EVM lending app
$NEAR Intents crossed $8 Bil volume in 2025
$MORPHO w $500 Mil deposits on Arbitrum
These metrics will be key to watch as we begin seeing capital and liquidity begin shifting back to crypto🔑
🚨UPDATE: Grayscale has amended its $AVAX ETF S-1 to include STAKING REWARDS, becoming the third issuer, to add staking provisions in filings with the SEC.
NEAR’s strategic priorities for 2026:
✦ Grow NEAR Intents into top trading venue in crypto
✦ Expand NEAR AI to enable AI-Intents convergence
✦ Position $NEAR at the center of the next growth era
✦ Ensure the AI economy is user-owned