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CRYPTO HAPPENINGS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS:

1️⃣ MSCI keeps digital asset treasury firms in its index for now; broader review coming.

2️⃣ MARA deposited 519.46 BTC ($48.3M) to FalconX.

3️⃣ Tempo launched the TIP-20 token standard for stablecoins and payments.

4️⃣ IPOR confirmed a $336K hack on Fusion’s old USDC vault; users fully compensated.

5️⃣ Discord is reportedly preparing for an IPO.

6️⃣ CZ: opBNB mainnet hard fork completed; block time cut to 250ms.

7️⃣ xAI raised $20B in Series E to expand computing power.

8️⃣ Upbit listed Brevis (BREV) with KRW, BTC, and USDT pairs.

9️⃣ SharpLink earned 438 ETH in staking rewards last week; total now 10,657 ETH.

🔟 Ripple says it has no IPO plans and will remain private.

TODAY IN CRYPTO: Top Stories
1️⃣ South Korea considers a “payment freeze” system for virtual assets

2️⃣ ETH staking exit queue cleared; 1.18M ETH now queued to stake

3️⃣ TD Cowen: US crypto market structure bill may pass in 2027, live in 2029

4️⃣ US Solana spot ETF sees $16.24M net inflow in one day

5️⃣ Bitmine adds 186K ETH, total staked now 779K ETH

6️⃣ USMS may sell seized BTC in the Samourai Wallet case

7️⃣ Uniswap’s Hayden Adams: AMMs still shine across volatility regimes

8️⃣ New wallet deposits $5M USDC on HyperLiquid to long LINK & DOGE

9️⃣ Polygon CEO: 2026 = POL revival year

🔟 Trust Wallet teams up with Binance for fast user verification after extension v2.68 issue

US Representative Ritchie Torres is preparing to introduce legislation aimed at curbing insider trading on prediction markets.

Torres plans to introduce the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026, which will prohibit federal elected officials, political appointees and executive branch employees from trading prediction market contracts linked to government policy or political outcomes when they have nonpublic information through their official duties.

The restriction applies to buying, selling, or exchanging prediction market contracts tied to government policy, government action, or political outcomes on platforms engaged in interstate commerce. The bill mirrors existing insider trading standards in traditional financial markets but would extend them to the prediction market sector.

The broader cryptocurrency market has signaled its first revival signs of the year after the last quarter of 2025, in which many assets posted double-digit declines, pushing analysts to question the overall industry state.

The biggest gainers come from the meme coin niche, which could signal a significant change in investor behavior. Coins like Pepe and Shiba Inu performed well into the greens and became big gainers from the larger-cap alts. The Official Trump (TRUMP) token has performed even better today (a 7% surge), perhaps due to the most recent actions undertaken by the US President.

The House of Representatives of the Philippines will transition to a fully paperless system and integrate blockchain technology starting 2026 to enhance legislative transparency.

The initiative, undertaken in partnership with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), aims to secure the integrity of congressional processes, particularly the preparation of the National Budget.

This administrative pivot aligns with the recent legislative progress of the CADENA Act (Citizens Access and Disclosure of Expenditures for National Accountability), authored by Sen. Bam Aquino with a similar version currently pending in the House. This bill mandates the creation of a blockchain-powered “Digital Budget Portal” to ensure public funds are trackable and tamper-proof.

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Kim Byung-kee, floor leader of South Korea’s Democratic Party, is facing scrutiny following a report alleging that he sought to pressure Dunamu, the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, as his son secured a position at a competitor.

Kim, a member of the South Korean National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee, allegedly helped to secure a job for one of his sons at crypto exchange Bithumb while simultaneously raising concerns in the National Assembly about Upbit, a competitor crypto exchange operated by Dunamu.

Stablecoin supply has climbed to a record $314 billion in 2025, with $69 billion now parked on centralized exchanges.

The scale and concentration of this liquidity, have sharpened focus on whether the market is primed for its next major move once sentiment flips. Analysis also revealed a striking gap between venues, with OKX following with around $10 billion, while Bybit holds close to $3 billion. Together, the top three exchanges control about 94% of exchange stablecoin reserves.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged three entities that claimed to operate crypto asset trading platforms, along with four so-called investment clubs, for allegedly running a large-scale fraud that targeted retail investors through social media.

The SEC alleges that the defendants first attracted victims using advertisements on popular social media platforms, and promised easy profits and advanced, AI-generated investment advice. Interested users were then invited to join WhatsApp group chats, where scammers posed as experienced financial professionals and slowly built trust by sharing what they claimed were successful AI-powered trading tips.

Once investors were convinced, they were encouraged to open accounts and deposit money on purported crypto trading platforms run by Morocoin, Berge, and Cirkor. These platforms allegedly claimed to be properly licensed and regulated, including making false statements about government approval. When investors later attempted to withdraw their funds, the defendants allegedly demanded additional upfront fees, a tactic often used to extract even more money from victims. According to the agency, all investor funds were ultimately misappropriated and funneled overseas through a complex network of bank accounts and crypto wallets.

Trust Wallet is urging users to update its Google Chrome extension to the latest version following what it described as a "security incident" that led to the loss of approximately $7 million. Users are advised to update to version 2.69 as soon as possible.

Trust Wallet also ensured all affected users will be refunded and that supporting affected users is their top priority, as they are actively finalizing the process to refund the impacted users.

Trust Wallet is also urging users to refrain from interacting with any messages that do not come from its official channels. Mobile-only users and all other browser extension versions are not affected. Further analysis has revealed that the attacker has leveraged an open source full chain analytics library named posthog-js to harvest wallet user information. The digital assets drained so far include about $3 million in Bitcoin, $431 in Solana, and more than $3 million in Ethereum. The stolen funds have been moved through centralized exchanges and cross-chain bridges for laundering and swapping.

A senior promoter who helped orchestrate a multimillion-dollar crypto Ponzi scheme targeting working-class Spanish-speaking investors was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison. The promoter received a sentence for his role in IcomTech, a purported crypto-mining and trading company that launched in mid-2018 and collapsed by the end of 2019.

The scheme falsely promised guaranteed daily returns from crypto trading and mining; instead, it operated as a classic MLM-style Ponzi scheme that recycled new investor funds to pay earlier participants, while promoters siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal use.

Former Ako Bicol Party-list Representative Zaldy Co allegedly siphoned approximately ₱5 billion out of the country using cryptocurrency while evading arrest in Portugal, according to Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla.

Despite the liquidity provided by the alleged crypto transfers, Remulla remarked that Co’s world is shrinking due to mounting international legal pressure. “He is a poor man with a lot of money,” Remulla said, noting that “not all the money in the world” can resolve his legal troubles as a fugitive.