BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK: I WANT THE SEC TO RAPIDLY APPROVE THE TOKENIZATION OF BONDS AND STOCKS

BINANCE LABS REBRANDS TO YZI LABS

Senator Cynthia Lummis tweets: ₿ig things are coming at 10 A.M

*SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON SEN. CYNTHIA LUMMIS BECOMING CHAIR OF DIGITAL ASSETS SUBCOMMITTEE AT 10AM ET MARKUP

TRUMP MENTIONS CRYPTO IN WEF ADDRESS

TRUMP SAYS US WILL BE WORLD CAPITAL OF AI AND CRYPTO

*TRUMP SAYS WILL DEMAND LOWER INTEREST RATES

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S WEF ADDRESS ENDED

*TRUMP SIGNING ORDER RELATED TO CRYPTO: RTRS

*TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO CREATE CRYPTOCURRENCY WORKING GROUP: RTRS

*TRUMP ORDER ON CRYPTO TO DEVELOP NATIONAL DIGITAL ASSET STOCKPILE: FOX

*TRUMP SAYS WOULD CONSIDER TALKING TO POWELL ON INTEREST RATES: RTRS

Details of Executive Crypto Order: FOX News (Eleanor Terrett)

Important lines from The Crypto Order: WH

*The Working Group shall evaluate the potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile and propose criteria for establishing such a stockpile, potentially derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully seized by the Federal Government through its law enforcement efforts.

*Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Working Group shall submit a report to the President, through the APEP, which shall recommend regulatory and legislative proposals that advance the policies established in the order.

Vitalik Buterin: Politician coins are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively — This is all risky to democracy.

*TRUMP: I WOULD LIKE TO SEE INTEREST RATES COME DOWN ‘A LOT’

*BOJ RAISE RATES TO HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2008

*BOJ HIKES OVERNIGHT CALL RATE BY 25BPS TO 0.5%; EST. 0.50%

*BOJ DECIDES ON RATES WITH 8-1 MAJORITY VOTE

*BOJ: TO KEEP RAISING INTEREST RATE IF OUTLOOK IS REALIZED

*BOJ: EASY FINANCIAL CONDITIONS WILL BE MAINTAINED

ICYMI: ^THEIR ARE NO SOL ETF DEADLINES

*SEC didn't acknowledge filings so they basically denied them outright.

*There is no active SOL ETF 19b-4 filing.

ISHARES BITCOIN ETF FILES FOR IN-KIND REDEMPTIONS: FILING

GRAYSCALE FILED 19B-4 FORM FOR SOLANA SPOT ETF WITH NYSE

MUSK EXPLORING BLOCKCHAIN USE IN US GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY PUSH: BBG

*People affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains to evaluate their technology

There’s been talk of using a blockchain to track federal spending, secure data, make payments and even manage buildings, the people said: Bloomberg

*BTC DOWN 7%
*GOLD DOWN 1%

*PRE-MARKET MOVES:
META DOWN 4.5%
TESLA DOWN 3.5%
NVIDIA DOWN 8%
GOOGLE DOWN 3.2%
AMAZON DOWN 3.5%
MICROSOFT DOWN 3.5%
BROADCOM DOWN 8%

Likely Reasons:
*China's AI Fear, China developing AI despite huge sanctions by US on GPUs
*China's deepseek has surpassed ChatGPT in App store rankings, Meta in panic mode, fear deepseek is better than upcoming Llama 4..
*BOJ raised interest rates to 17 years high
*First FOMC meeting under Trump & Major Tech Earnings coming this week....