☕️ US Mandates Strategic Bitcoin Reserve The US government formalized a strategic reserve to hold forfeited Bitcoin, while Tether pushed into tokenization and a legacy MakerDAO contract lost 200 ETH.
1. US Mandates Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile — An executive order halts ad-hoc sales of forfeited government $BTC, designating it as a national reserve asset and directing Treasury to evaluate budget-neutral acquisition strategies. 2. Payment Consortium Launches OUSD Stablecoin on Solana — Backed by Coinbase, Mastercard, Stripe, and Visa, Open Standard launched the $OUSD stablecoin natively on $SOL with $1 billion in committed liquidity and zero-fee minting and burning. 3. Tether Introduces Hadron Asset Tokenization Platform — Tether launched Hadron, a platform designed to tokenize stocks, bonds, and loyalty rewards across multiple blockchains with integrated compliance and transaction surveillance tools. 4. Tether Agrees to Study Tenge Stablecoin with Kazakhstan — Tether signed a pact with the National Bank of Kazakhstan to formulate a trial pilot for a tenge-pegged stablecoin and an asset tokenization pilot in Alatau. 5. Attacker Drains 200 ETH From Legacy MakerDAO Auction Keeper — A legacy 2020 auction-keeper contract lost 200 $ETH after an unauthenticated function allowed an attacker to settle and claim zero-bid lots from the Black Thursday crash. 6. Securitize Expands in South Korea With KB Securities and LG CNS — Securitize signed agreements to launch tokenized money market funds on $OP Mainnet and develop stablecoin infrastructure with licensed South Korean partners.
📊 Bitcoin sits at $83,392, Ethereum is at $2,572, total market cap stands at $2.83 trillion, and the Fear & Greed index is at 71.
