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Today's Issue ⬇️
☀️ Need to Know: New SEC Boss Paul Atkins takes the stage.
✍️ Cheat Sheet: Coin Swappin' Opps, reads, yields, and airdrops.
🇺🇸 Senate Confirms Paul Atkins as New SEC Chair. The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Trump nominee Atkins as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
📱 Jack Dorsey's Block Settles for $40M with NYDFS over AML 'Gaps'. The company behind Square and Cash App settled with New York's top financial regulator over an alleged shortage of anti-money laundering safeguards.
🚔 SEC Approves Options Trading for BlackRock's ETH ETF. The SEC has finally signed off on options trading tied to ether ETFs.
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Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto prices walked back much of their tariff pause surge in major fashion Thursday as Wall Street discovered Trump has deeper intents for his China tariff kerfuffle.
Prices as of 7pm ET
24hr
7d
Crypto $2.53T
↘ 4.3%
↘ 4.5%
BTC $79,648
↘ 4.1%
↘ 3.6%
ETH $1,524
↘ 8.4%
↘ 15.7%
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CHEAT SHEET
Coin Swappin'
Every Thursday, Citizens get access to the top Market Plays, Hot Reads, Farming Opps, and Airdrop Hunts that our analyst team is tracking! Don't miss out! 👇
While BTC is down 15%, ETH has cratered 53%, and SOL has slumped 40% over the last 90 days, a handful of tokens have managed to go the other way — not just surviving the chop but outperforming nearly every major.
These aren’t random moonshots, either. Each comes tied to a growing sector narrative, funding from prominent VCs, and traction that hints at something more durable beneath the surface.
So while most of the market bleeds, these five tokens are putting up green candles — and telling us something important about where capital is quietly flowing 👇
The Fraxtal ecosystem is expanding at lightning speed—this month’s biggest highlight is IQAI.com, the newest Agent Tokenization platform from IQ and Frax. IQ is building autonomous, intelligent, tokenized agents launching on Fraxtal in Q1. Empower on-chain agents with built-in wallets, tokenized ownership, and decentralized governance—all within a fast-growing Fraxtal ecosystem.
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