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US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds still hold about $53 billion in cumulative net inflows despite recent heavy redemptions, according to Eric Balchunas.

Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse confirmed that the company’s chief legal officer attended a White House meeting between cryptocurrency and banking representatives to discuss a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate.

ProShares has launched the ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF, trading under ticker IQMM, designed to qualify as an eligible reserve asset under the GENIUS Act for potential use by stablecoin issuers.

A transaction-level study by KlariVis found that customers at 92 US community banks moved a net $78.3 million in deposits to Coinbase over 13 months, with $2.77 flowing out for every $1.00 returning across banks where direction could be determined.

Bitcoin-backed lender Ledn has sold about $188 million of bonds tied to Bitcoin-collateralised consumer loans in what Bloomberg described as the first securitisation of its kind in the mainstream asset-backed securities market.

Crypto executives at Cointelegraph’s LONGITUDE conference in Hong Kong warned that Bitcoin’s quantum computing risk must be addressed while calling for clearer US regulation to unlock the industry’s next growth phase.

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $133.3 million in net outflows on Wednesday, pushing weekly losses to $238 million as Bitcoin briefly fell below $66,000 amid persistent negative sentiment.

The Trump family’s crypto venture gathered leading Wall Street executives, regulators and digital asset figures at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for its inaugural World Liberty Forum.

The Aptos Foundation has proposed a sweeping tokenomics overhaul including a 2.1 billion APT hard cap, lower staking rewards and a tenfold gas fee increase to drive long-term deflation.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has urged US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell not to use taxpayer funds to support the crypto industry amid Bitcoin’s recent price decline.

Three researchers affiliated with the US Federal Reserve argued in a Feb. 12 paper that prediction market platform Kalshi could better measure macroeconomic expectations in real time than traditional tools.

US Senator Bernie Moreno said the CLARITY Act could pass “hopefully by April,” as lawmakers and industry leaders push to finalise crypto market structure legislation.